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GM Peter Svidler:
A new Carl Schlechter

CARL SCHLECHTER - GM Peter Svidler scored 7 draws out of the Morelia Super-GM tournament !... More recently, at the Aerosvit Chess Tournament (June 17-30 / 2007, Foros, Ukraine), Peter's final result was 9 draws and 1 win!... Also we are naturally conducted to ask the question: is Peter a new Carl Schelechter?

«Russian Grandmaster Peter Svidler at Home
At home he has real human twins:
Peter with a gift from chess fans
Peter Svidler - ©Photo: ChessBase.com»
Peter Svidler at Home
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If you don't remember exactly which was Cark Schlechter you may refer to the following page from the Christos Kefalis'Blog (notice that you will find again this internal link at the bottom of this page) :

«The Christos Kefalis'Blog
- Chess, Art & Philosophy -
"Carl Haffner love of a draw"»

Carl Schlechter Austrian master

«Carl Schlechter in Cologne
1911 - Schlechter vs Tarrasch»

«Grandmaster Peter Svidler -
An upward glance at the past»

A poem on the great Austrian master
by Sheenagh Pugh

STALEMATE
Carl Schlechter, 1874-1918

I want to stroll with Carl Schlechter
in nineteen-hundred, down a street of stone

the sun's turned to honey. From some window
a piano's playing slow, and Carl's sad eyes

kindle a little. I ask about his chess,
why he always offers a draw,

and he shrugs. White pigeons gurr
on the sills. "I hate that look in men's eyes

when they lose." I love him. We buy cherries
from a stall, morellos, dark, half-bitter,

and feed them to each other. I kiss him,
tasting them in his mouth. I want to tell him

"Carl, you die starving, at forty-four,
and you could be world champion. Play to win."

But then he wouldn't be who he is,
and I wouldn't come all the way

from the next century to hold hands
with the drawing master, watching

the light slant, hearing pigeons hush,
one by one, into sleep. Gentleman; gentle man.

«Carl Schlechter - Austrian
Master - ©Photo: Public domain»

Carl Schlechter - Austrian
Master - ©Photo: Public domain

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