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Jul-09-06
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| al wazir: <BishopBerkeley>: Phone phreaking! I haven't heard anyone mention that for ages. I recall reading the Esquire piece you cite, or something very much like it, when it came out. I was always struck by a great contradiction: phreakers made a big thing about calling free all over the world, but they never had much to say. As for the relationship between Bernay and Kashdan, which you never specify, well, you know, we're all related. |
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| Aug-24-06 |
| syracrophy: I remember a position taken from a game of Kashdan that doesn't appears in the database: Sif-Kashdan, New York, 1948
click for larger view1...Nhg3+ 2.Kh2 Nf1+ 3.Kh1 Qh2+!! 4.Nxh2 Nfg3++
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| Aug-24-06 |
| ForeverYoung: The mighty Isacc was a bus driver down in San Francisco. Up here in Portland one of our local experts drives a bus for TriMet. |
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| Sep-06-08 |
| DoctorD: Kashdan, Chess Review 1933
White to play and mate in 3
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| Oct-07-08 |
| wrap99: Mentioned that Kashdan was on Groucho's show. It seems to me that they bore a close physical resemblance and even, if I recall his voice from the 1970s, sounded similar. I wonder if this was mentioned on the show? |
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| Oct-07-08 |
| AnalyzeThis: <wrap99: Mentioned that Kashdan was on Groucho's show.> That's really interesting. Learn something new every day! |
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Oct-09-08
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| Resignation Trap: A transcript of Kashdan's appearance on <You Bet Your Life> can be found here: http://chessfun.free.fr/blagues/kas... .
It is in French, but I haven't been able to find a version in English (or in any other language, for that matter). |
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| Oct-09-08 |
| Jim Bartle: I can't imagine Groucho in any language besides English. I mean, would the "viaduct" routine be funny in German? |
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Oct-10-08
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| Calli: Warum nicht ein Huhn? :-> |
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Oct-10-08
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| whiteshark: Warum überrascht mich 'Frau Bärtlis' mangelnde Vorstellungskraft nicht? Nun die dünne Luft in den Anden läßt uns ihm Vieles Nachsehen. :D |
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Oct-10-08
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| Calli: Two ducks staying at a hotel. The male duck calls room service and asks for some condoms. The woman says, ''OK sir, would you like to put them on your bill?'' ''No,'' he says, ''I'll suffocate!'' |
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| Oct-14-08 |
| wrap99: <resignation_trap>
I looked at the French page. Interestingly, Richard Kashdan, the son, comments there that he was in the audience. He would surely have a strong opinion about the resemblance thing. |
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Oct-14-08
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| Calli: Hey <Resignation Trap>, the Kashdan show is apparently on DVD. Note the review by T. Fisher of Budapest, Hungary. He says that Kash plays Tony Curtis' mother! For $6, you can't go wrong. http://www.amazon.com/review/produc... |
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Oct-14-08
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| parisattack: Kashdan may be one of the most overlooked GMs of all time. Chessmetrics shows him #3-#5 in the early-1930s. His play was more like Rubinstein and Flohr than Capablanca, IMHO. |
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| Nov-19-08 |
| BIDMONFA: Isaac Kashdan KASHDAN, Isaac
http://www.bidmonfa.com/kashdan_isa...
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Dec-19-08
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| Karpova: Next year, Peter P. Lahde's book "Isaac Kashdan, American Chess Grandmaster. A Biography with 757 Games" will be published by McFarland: http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.... |
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Dec-19-08
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| whiskeyrebel: That's really good news. |
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Dec-19-08
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| Tessie Tura: <I can't imagine Groucho in any language besides English.> <Jim Bartle>His rhythms and intonations would translate very well into Yiddish, which he probably knew. Kashdan’s tournament book on the Second Piatigorsky Cup is terrific. |
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Dec-21-08
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| whiteshark: Quote of the Day
<In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good as being a queen ahead.> -- Isaac Kashdan |
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Apr-10-09
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| parisattack: <Karpova: Next year, Peter P. Lahde's book "Isaac Kashdan, American Chess Grandmaster. A Biography with 757 Games" will be published by McFarland: http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2....; That is very good news! The McFarlands are excellent tomes. I think Kashdan along with Flohr, Fine, Stein perhaps the most under-appreciated players of the modern era. |
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Apr-20-09
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| JaneEyre: I see a certain resemblance between the youthful Kashdan and Nigel Short: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... There's another photo (that I can't locate online) in which Kashdan is wearing glasses, where the likeness is even more pronounced. |
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Jun-15-09
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| Calli: The episode discussed earlier in the thread is now on YouTube. Kashdan plays You Bet Your Life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlSC... |
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| Jul-27-09 |
| wrap99: Calli, thanks for posting the video. I guess it is the mustache primarily that makes Groucho and him look similar -- does anyone else agree that they sound sort of similar? I thought it was interesting that Kashdan seemed to believe that the audience (and Groucho) could follow the moves of even the very simple game that he narrated in english notation -- I am sure very few had any idea what he was talking about. |
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Jul-27-09
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| Calli: Well, I think the writers were at a loss on how to demonstrate Kashdan's skills and asked him to do something like the blindfold chess he mentioned. The archival TV now available on the internet is full of little bits of business that make you scratch your head. On the other hand, there was tremendous talent on TV every night. Just like now ;-> |
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Sep-21-09
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| Ron: It seems that the book mentioned by <Karpova> came out; Lubomir Kavalek writes in The Washington Post: <Peter P. Lahde's book "Isaac Kashdan, American Chess Grandmaster: A Career Summary With 757 Games," recently published by McFarland & Co. (www.mcfarlandpub.com), is a beautiful tribute to one of America's chess giants. The work, 20 years in the making, meticulously weaves together Kashdan's life with his chess moves.> |
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