Letsplaychess.com: The most talented player of all time?! - Sulthan Khan - Queens Indian Game

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Letsplaychess.com: Who is the most talented player of all time?!

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[Event "Hastings 1930"]
[Site "Hastings 1930"]
[Date "1930.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Sultan Khan,Mir"]
[Black "Capablanca,Jose Raul"]
[Result "1-0"]
[EventDate "1930.12.29"]
[ECO "E12"]
[MastersGameID "884652"]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.d4 b6 3.c4 Bb7 4.Nc3 e6 5.a3 d5 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bg5 Be7 8.e3 O-O 9.Bd3 Ne4 10.Bf4 Nd7 11.Qc2 f5 12.Nb5 Bd6 13.Nxd6 cxd6 14.h4 Rc8 15.Qb3 Qe7 16.Nd2 Ndf6 17.Nxe4 fxe4 18.Be2 Rc6 19.g4 Rfc8 20.g5 Ne8 21.Bg4 Rc1+ 22.Kd2 R8c2+ 23.Qxc2 Rxc2+ 24.Kxc2 Qc7+ 25.Kd2 Qc4 26.Be2 Qb3 27.Rab1 Kf7 28.Rhc1 Ke7 29.Rc3 Qa4 30.b4 Qd7 31.Rbc1 a6 32.Rg1 Qh3 33.Rgc1 Qd7 34.h5 Kd8 35.R1c2 Qh3 36.Kc1 Qh4 37.Kb2 Qh3 38.Rc1 Qh4 39.R3c2 Qh3 40.a4 Qh4 41.Ka3 Qh3 42.Bg3 Qf5 43.Bh4 g6 44.h6 Qd7 45.b5 a5 46.Bg3 Qf5 47.Bf4 Qh3 48.Kb2 Qg2 49.Kb1 Qh3 50.Ka1 Qg2 51.Kb2 Qh3 52.Rg1 Bc8 53.Rc6 Qh4 54.Rgc1 Bg4 55.Bf1 Qh5 56.Re1 Qh1 57.Rec1 Qh5 58.Kc3 Qh4 59.Bg3 Qxg5 60.Kd2 Qh5 61.Rxb6 Ke7 62.Rb7+ Ke6 63.b6 Nf6 64.Bb5 Qh3 65.Rb8 1-0

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[kingscrusher]

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[lucy6M]

Great stuff! Was the key factor in white allowing the exchange of queen for 2 rooks the potential for a closed position? I presume that's why Khan declined Qxd5+ just before this. I'm never quite sure when the exchange benefits me in games, so I tend to avoid it. To be so good, yet illiterate, speaks of great natural talent.

[fLowKnows]

As a positional player, I tend to force exchanges that give me a positional advantage - such as a strong pawn structure; a follow up attack (giving me a tempo); a better defensive position. Maybe a tactical player would prefer to exchange where there is a tactical advantage (I think computers do this).

[kingscrusher]

Maybe king-attacking players can be considered "positional" in the sense that they are working backwards to visualise strong attacking positions. They are using creativity and imagination, to imagine where they want their pieces to be, and working backwards to achieve that.

[KNIGHTSTALE22]

I have to be honest, i am finding it difficult to understand the working backwards theory, was does it mean and how does it work?

[kingscrusher]

It just means visualising positions you think would be good, and seeing how you can get there from the current position. In other words, creating a plan - then seeing how you can implement that plan.

[kingscrusher]

I think the Queen to win usually against two rooks as a generalisation, needs supporting pieces, and points of attack, as well as open lines to sweep around with in all directions.

So in this game, Khan, closed the pawn structure on both sides, and simply secured a win by invading with Rc6 later. The Queen was quite helpless in the game.

[CycklopsGT]

Another sign that Khan was a bad-ass, he made Kingscrusher look at this game from his perspective instead of Capablanca's...and Kingscrusher usually flips the board so he's seeing the stronger players point of view.

[KNIGHTSTALE22]

yes i agree, magnus carlsen is a natural talent, but you carnt really put a player to the list until the end of their career when you can see their achievements in camparison with that of the past players. Many players have been child prodogies but somehow never reached the dominance expected.

[krbhatti]

Noon family is the one who brought him to England.

[krbhatti]

First of all he is not a slave. He was a what is called in Pakistan a mazara which is equivalent term for Contract labour. Moreover, he played Indian chess which is as rightly said more rigid and less dynamic. So to move onto international version would have been like freeing of his hands. Once I met a Pakistani gentleman who himself was a very good player, and he told me that Mir's son owns a bookshop in city of Sargodha in Paksitan. Moreover, the Noon family which is well established business

[iliginjaili]

Hmmm....Bobby Fischer spent his entire childhood, adolescence and adulthood on chess opening theory though...

[SuperBunts]

Sir Umar then brought him back to his homeland, where he gave up chess and returned to his humble life. David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld call him "perhaps the greatest natural player of modern times". Although he was one of the world's top players in the early 1930s, FIDE, the World Chess Federation, never awarded him any title (Grandmaster or International Master).

[solzalez]

ur right thank u.

[haine920]

The "natural" talent doesnt exist anymore in our time (i speak about chess of course) because now, we have a very advanced learning process (especially with all of books and computer databases) wich makes all humans equal. The only thing that can separate from everyone, is the persevering hard work. Everyone can be a top master but everyone dont have the wish to be a top master.

[AlanWattParrot]

a GM wrote a good article on chess d ot com a year or so ago about this unique figure - i was amazed, still am - he often used to follow up e4 with 2. e5

has to be in everyone's top ten -and if Capablanca refers to him as a genius who's arguing? Takes one to know one...

Fischer, Capa, Morphy, Kasparov, Tal...hard to argue with tho Fischer described Morphy as the greatest genius of them all & some of Morphy's games more than any other greats leave me almost despairing as to why i bother

[Parouty]

Tal number one always!!!

[SeerTravisTruman]

Perhaps his differing style of play (and also was his games well known?) helped him against capa?