[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Mark Dvoretsky and Hikaru Nakamura: Happy Birthday!

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
Mark Dvoretsky and Hikaru Nakamura: Happy Birthday!
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1197230638.shtml


   Today marks 60 revolutions around the sun for famed übertrainer Mark
   Dvoretsky, and 20 for American talent Hikaru Nakamura (HT: [1]Chess
   Today). Both are worthy of commemoration, but the celebrations seem
   incommensurable. To mark Nakamura's birthday in a chess-appropriate
   way, one ought to play a bunch of 1-minute games. A proper Dvoretsky
   celebration would involve setting up some impossibly complicated
   tactical positions and spending 30-60 minutes trying to work it all
   out, only to find that you saw about 1/10 of what was there. (And
   that's for the grandmasters!) Whatever you decide, it's worth
   remembering them and their contributions to our game - they have made
   the chess world richer in their distinctive ways.

References

   1. http://www.chesstoday.net/