| Apr-30-06 | | Jim Bartle: There's a reason for Moskow's lousy record. He's not really a serious player, more a fan. He's also well off financially, so he sponsored the 1992 Reshevsky tournament on the condition that he be allowed to play. (He paid a $10,000 entry fee.) He had a great time, and had some good positions, before losing every game. Looking at the list above, it seems he sponsored at least one other tournament as well. |
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| Apr-30-06 | | Appaz: He is currently playing on Gausdal http://home.online.no/~eirikgu/gaus... and won his first game today, against Romanishin (2552). 1.5 of 8 is not bad considering he is by far the weakest player in the field. He is playing the second lowest ranked player in the last round tomorrow, IM DWORAKOWSKA with only 100 elo-points more than Moscow, so he has chances to improve. |
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Apr-30-06
 | | lostemperor: Stranger in Moscow? |
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| Apr-08-07 | | buzztd19: now the guy, beats rominishen so he sighs up to play magnus carlsen, dreev, rosentalis and portish balls he got for sure. another upset maybe????? |
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| Apr-19-07 | | aragorn69: Did this guy buy his way into Gausdal A 2007 ?? He's more than 200 points lower than any of them (and 433 lower than Carlsen)... |
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| Apr-19-07 | | aragorn69: Apparently he had already done it (at least) for Gausdal A 2006 (where the victory over Romanishin - I can't find the score anywhere BTW - took place). Any solid information on this "exceptional guest" in Norway anybody? |
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| Apr-19-07 | | Tomlinsky: <aragorn69> 'Ere ya go... [Event "Gausdal Classics GM-A"]
[Site "Gausdal"]
[Date "2006.04.23"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Moskow,Eric"]
[Black "Romanishin,Oleg M"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A28"]
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.a3 g6 5.g3 d5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.d3 Bg7 8.Nxd5 Qxd5
9.Bg2 0-0 10.0-0 Qb5 11.a4 Qb4 12.Bd2 Qxb2 13.Ng5 a5 14.Bxc6 bxc6 15.Qc1 Qxc1 16.Raxc1 h6
17.Ne4 f5 18.Nc5 Rd8 19.Rc2 Bf8 20.f3 Rd5 21.Rfc1 Kf7 22.Kf2 h5 23.Rc4 Be7 24.R1c2 Rd8
25.f4 exf4 26.Bxf4 Bd6 27.h4 Bxf4 28.gxf4 Rb8 29.e3 Ke7 30.Ke2 Rd6 31.Kd2 Rb6 32.d4 Bd7
33.R4c3 Rb4 34.Rb3 Rxb3 35.Nxb3 Be6 36.Nxa5 Bd5 37.Nb7 Rf6 38.Nc5 Rf8 39.Kc3 Kd6 40.Rb2 Re8
41.Kd2 Ra8 42.Kc3 Re8 43.Re2 Rb8 44.Re1 Ke7 45.Rg1 Kf7 46.Ra1 Be6 47.a5 Bc8 48.a6 Ra8
49.a7 Ke7 50.Kb4 Kd6 51.Kc4 Ke7 52.Ra5 Kd6 53.Ra3 Ke7 54.Kc3 Kd6 55.Ra5 Ke7 56.Nd3 Bb7
57.Nc5 Bc8 58.Ra1 Kd6 59.Nd3 Bb7 60.Kc4 Bc8 61.Ne5 Be6+ 62.Kc3 c5 63.Ra6+ Kd5 64.dxc5 Bc8
65.Ra5 Ke4 66.Kd2 g5 67.hxg5 h4 68.Ra4+ Kd5 69.c6 h3 70.Nf3 Kxc6 71.Ke2 Bb7 72.Ra1 Kd6
73.Kf2 c5 74.Kg3 c4 75.Nd4 Be4 76.Kxh3 Kc5 77.Kg3 c3 78.Kf2 Kb4 79.g6 c2 80.Kg3 Kc3
81.Kh4 Kb2 82.Nxc2 Kxc2 83.Kg5 Kd2 84.Ra3 Bd3 85.Kf6 Kxe3 86.g7 Ke4 87.Ra4+ Ke3 88.Kf7 Bb5
89.g8=Q Rxa7+ 90.Rxa7 Bc4+ 91.Kf6 1-0
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| Apr-19-07 | | buzztd19: @#$% he almost beat krasenkow, fritz gives em a wn if instead of bc2 he plays g4, not bad for an amteur no matter how he got in |
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| Apr-24-07 | | Rubion: Looks like he's got himself into peak physical condition for this one: http://www.sjakk.net/images/IMG_699... |
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| Apr-24-07 | | Caissanist: Moskow has been inviting himself to tournaments that he sponsors for years--I remember that he did that with at least one New York tournament in the early nineties. If he's got the money to do it, and the "real" participants don't mind, then I don't see anything wrong with him doing that. |
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| Apr-24-07 | | chessamateur: <Caissanist> I wish I had the money, lol. |
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Oct-11-08
 | | GrahamClayton: Moscow is a physician and businessman in his late 40's from Florida. He co-wrote a book with the English GM Tony Miles on the Dragon Variation of the Sicilian Defence back in the late 1970's. He scored his first IM norm in Argentina in early 2008. Source: Yochanan Afek "Gausdal Lives!", "CHESS", June 2008. |
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| Nov-18-08 | | chessperson13: Man, what a joke! This guy has to pay his way into tournaments! Hahaha I guess that's one way to do it :) He should also pay players to lose to him that way he gets the recognition too :) Why would you pay all that money to look like a loser? |
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| Nov-18-08 | | chessperson13: On the other side chess can use all the sponsors it can get. So, I guess as long as this guy keeps shoveling out $10,000 entry fees, he will be accepted :) |
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| Nov-18-08 | | savagerules: < Rubion: Looks like he's got himself into peak physical condition for this one:
http://www.sjakk.net/images/IMG_699... >
This Moskow guy is a physician? Exercise Schmexercise. Eat, drink and play chess. |
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| Nov-18-08 | | Riverbeast: I don't see anything wrong with it...He is helping to support chess, and in return he wants to play some games against the world's best....What's wrong with that? I admire his courage, actually...A lot of guys would be afraid of playing, and possibly going 0 - for the field |
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Sep-19-14
 | | SteinitzLives: Moskow was featured with others in a Chess Life article called "Innocents abroad?" in the 1970s featuring a trip Moscow and other teenage players took to Sweden. Though Moscow was the lowest rated player, he seemed to have had the best time. Dr. Moskow personifies what chess is all about: having fun regardless of your rating, giving back to chess, and taking a shot at the top players for the glory whenever you can! He sponsors tourneys, helps with prize funds, promotes chess, and shows his love for the game by placing his money where his mouth is. We could use a lot more like him, instead of the typical (but not always) money-grubbing chess penny-pincher one encounters among very active players. So what about his won-loss record! Any body else playing "up" as much as he has, would score the same. In the immortal words of Chico Marx when his brother Groucho lambasted him for never settling down, Chico replied:
"Hey, whoosa havin-a-more fun!" |
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| Jan-01-25 | | whiteshark: He is co-author with Tony Miles of the opening book <Sicilian Dragon: Yugoslav Attack> published by Batsford in 1979. On the spine of the book the only sentence about him is: <”Eric Moskow, a New Yorker, is one of America's leading young players."> |
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Jan-01-25
 | | perfidious: <whiteshark>, I remember the work on the Dragon being published and being surprised by Moskow as co-author. At the 1976 US Junior Open, held on the campus of UConn in Storrs, Moskow was the top seed at 2199 (yes: there were <no> masters), although future GM Joel Benjamin and IM Mark Ginsburg were in the field. <Chess Life & Review> had a write-up of the event, and one incident did not make its pages. Moskow and a group of other players lifted a vehicle from its parking-place onto a green. The morning of the eighth and final round, we were treated to a lecture by a university official, who was, not surprisingly, most unhappy over this act. As to: <Jim: There's a reason for Moskow's lousy record. He's not really a serious player, more a fan. He's also well off financially, so he sponsored the 1992 Reshevsky tournament on the condition that he be allowed to play. (He paid a $10,000 entry fee.) He had a great time, and had some good positions, before losing every game....>, I believe FIDE changed the rating rules for events in the aftermath of the above-named tournament, stipulating that a player would thenceforth need to score at least a win or draw for the tourney to be rated. The only other time I encountered Moskow was at the US G/10 in New York, 1992, when we met at the board. |
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