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| RookFile: Hey, anybody who did something for 34 years was by definition successful. Especially in a climate like NY, where for a team like the Yankees, your average manager does well to last 5 years (Joe Torre being the exception lately). |
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| Nov-17-06 |
| MaxxLange: Brother against Brother:
R Byrne vs D Byrne, 1949 |
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Apr-20-07
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| keypusher: Stuart Wagman played Byrne in the 1946 New England championship. Thirty years later Wagman ran into Byrne in Italy and introduced himself. Byrne said, "Yes, I remember you. We played in 1946. It was a King's Indian. You played Nb5 and had a nice game." Here's to the player of the day! |
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Apr-20-07
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| gambitfan: PLOD 20/04/2007 |
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Apr-08-08
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| Resignation Trap: Some photos of Byrne taken at the Leningrad Interzonal of 1973:
http://www.e3e5.com/upload/articles...
http://www.e3e5.com/upload/articles...
and http://www.e3e5.com/upload/articles... . |
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Apr-08-08
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| WannaBe: Is he yawning or screaming for joy in that last picture?! =) |
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Apr-08-08
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| Benzol: I thought he was doing an impression of a Thylacine. :) |
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Apr-09-08
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| Resignation Trap: <Benzol> You're right, there is a high degree of similarity: http://www.eeb.ucla.edu/Faculty/Blu... . |
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Apr-19-08
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| Resignation Trap: Robert Byrne turns 80 tomorrow!
Happy Birthday, Bob! |
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Apr-20-08
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| brankat: 80 years young. Happy birthday Mr.Byrne! |
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Apr-20-08
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| talisman: what GM played a world champion from 1935 and from 1999? happy birthday Mr. Byrne! |
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| Jul-19-08 |
| Helios727: I noticed that Byrne and Reshevsky were the only Americans to play in the 1973 Interzonals. Does anyone know why America got chopped from 3 down to 2? In addition, why did the Soviets have at least 11 in those Interzonals? |
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| Jul-20-08 |
| RookFile: <talisman: what GM played a world champion from 1935 and from 1999? happy birthday Mr. Byrne! > Reshevsky is an answer, since Karpov was FIDE world champion from 1993-1999, and he played Euwe and Alekhine. Euwe vs Reshevsky, 1936
Reshevsky vs Karpov, 1976
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| Jul-20-08 |
| RookFile: And Keres too. |
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| Jul-23-08 |
| Helios727: Reshevsky and Keres were not alive in 1999. |
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Jul-23-08
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| Caissanist: <I noticed that Byrne and Reshevsky were the only Americans to play in the 1973 Interzonals. Does anyone know why America got chopped from 3 down to 2? In addition, why did the Soviets have at least 11 in those Interzonals?> America never had more than two spots in those days. In addition to those who qualified from their country, the interzonals automatically included the losers from the quarter and semifinals from the previous round of candidates matches, which in 1970 included Reshevsky and in 1973 3 Soviets out of 6. I believe that 1973 was the year when the interzonals were expanded to make room from players to be seeded directly by rating, who were of course almost all Soviet players. |
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Jul-23-08
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| Marmot PFL: <Helios727> The US had only 2 spots allocated, this was probably because more places were voted to Central America, South America and Asia. They did not have the playing strength to justify this but they did have the votes. Canada has an automatic place (Biyiasis)even though the US had many stronger players such as Lombardy, Kavalek and Benko. The Soviet players qualified as follows: 1971 Candidates (Geller, Korchnoi, Taimanov, invitation by committee (Polugaevsky, Smyslov, Tal, Keres, Stein, Bronstein), USSR ch. (Tal, Tukmakov, Kuzmin), and World Junior Ch. (Karpov). Stein was unable to participate due to his fatal heart attack. |
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| Jul-23-08 |
| RookFile: <Helios727: Helios727: Reshevsky and Keres were not alive in 1999. > The man they both played, Karpov, was alive in 1999. It's not like Byrne played Karpov in 1999. It's Karpov who you meant, isn't it? Or was it someone else? |
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| Jul-23-08 |
| Helios727: <RookFile> It would appear that Talisman's question could be interpreted your way. It was a little ambiguous. |
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| Jul-23-08 |
| Helios727: <Marmot PFL> Since Karpov was World Junior Champion in 1969, it would seem to make more sense to have him play in the 1970 Interzonal. Was he given that option and simply deferred to 1973? |
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| Jul-23-08 |
| RookFile: I never thought about that. I wonder why Karpov didn't play then. The Soviets obviously knew what they were doing with their future hope, so maybe he got further seasoning before he took his title shot. It sure worked out for him. |
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| Oct-01-08 |
| jerseybob: To piggyback on belgradegambit's post, I played in an 8-round tourney in D.C. in 1970 with the Byrne brothers, both heavy smokers. Robert, while on move, had the habit of just sitting with the ciggie in his fingers and only rarely taking a drag; the ash would get longer and longer and sometimes splatted on the table or board. |
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Jun-01-09
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| Marmot PFL: <RookFile> I was reading some old Chess Life mags, and one from 1971 has an article by Soltis on the World Student Ch. The US finished 2nd, way behind a Soviet team with Karpov on board 3! (behing Tukmakov and Balashov). The US team was no slouch either, with Soltis, Tarjan, Rogoff and Christiansen. |
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Jun-01-09
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| IMlday: At Mayaguez, not Christiansen but Martz and Grefe. |
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Jun-02-09
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| Marmot PFL: That's right, also Greg DeFotis, one of the first strong players I met when I started playing in the 70s. (Didn't get to play him, just asked for some advice.) The Canadian team finished with bronze, half a point back of the US and beat them in the final match. Good link- http://www.olimpbase.org/1971y/1971... |
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