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Gata Kamsky vs Joel Benjamin
United States Championship (2013), St. Louis, MO USA, rd 5, May-07
Indian Game: London System (A48)  ·  1/2-1/2

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May-07-13
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  ketchuplover: oh phooey :(
May-07-13  zoren: Mr. Hat deserved the draw.
May-07-13
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  SteinitzLives: So, no 64K for Kamsky this year. This game looked drawn for the last 15 moves, but can't blame Gata for hoping for a financially enlivening blunder.
May-08-13
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  HeMateMe: Maybe Rex S. will throw in some consolation cash. He's a good guy.

In his auto bio <American Grandmaster> Joel mentions he has a scoresheet framed, hanging on his living room wall. It's a game from Holland, Corus, where Benjamin was the only player to get a draw against Kasparov, with the black pieces. Everyone else lost. this bit of chess memorabilia is the only thing he has out on public display.

May-08-13  Mudphudder: At least this drawn game was a deserved draw. Not some retarded last round 5-mover (cough Wesley So cough cough).
May-08-13  andrewjsacks: Too bad Benjamin did not beat him.
May-08-13  andrewjsacks: Nobody active in the Southern California chess scene in the late '80s and early '90s could or should reasonably forget the quiet but excessively prideful young Kamsky and his overbearing and combative father/coach, and the joy and national pride we felt when Larry beat him in the 1993 American Open, or whatever tournament it was....
May-08-13
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  HeMateMe: Andrew, did you meet him as a young man? I hear he was hard to get near, because the father was such a strange animal.
May-09-13  andrewjsacks: <HeMateMe> No. His father was a hovering, menacing presence, believe me. The kid might be cut some slack because of that, I admit. However, the teenage Gata exuded haughtiness and kept to himself at all times when I saw him. Neither did he stick around much to analyze just-played games. He was whisked away.
May-09-13  dumbgai: Come on Gata, you must have better openings prepared than this.
May-09-13  Shams: <dumbgai> Kamsky said after the game that he had forgotten that Benjamin himself had played the London line with White. I don't blame you if you don't find that explanation satisfying, but there's no doubt Kamsky is good at mining dull-looking lines for niggling advantages.
May-09-13  RookFile: You don't play a move like 6....c5 unless you know what you're doing. Good for Benjamin.
May-10-13  Everett: <andrewjsacks: <HeMateMe> No. His father was a hovering, menacing presence, believe me. The kid might be cut some slack because of that, I admit. However, the teenage Gata exuded haughtiness and kept to himself at all times when I saw him. Neither did he stick around much to analyze just-played games. He was whisked away.>

I find it difficult to fault Gata with such an upbringing. Mine was not nearly so stressed, and my father was able to be caring and hands off at the same time, yet I still was rough around the edges until the age of 50 (this is about 10 years from now, but I intend to fully mellow out by then.)

May-10-13  TheFocus: Rustam is the Patriarch of helicopter parents everywhere.

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