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| RookFile: I guess progress means getting rid of a multi time United States Champion
who played the likes of Reuben Fine and Samuel Reshevsky, and was Fischer's second. |
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Jun-12-06
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| Mating Net: I think it shows a distinct lack of class to not mention that Evans' column is no more. |
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| Jun-13-06 |
| MrSifter: <Rookfile> I enjoy reading and hold your posts on this site in high regard; I would love to see you present some profile-like background on yourself (are you a strong player? Have you been involved in the chess world?) It's awkward to ask so blatantly but your knowledge of Fischer and US Chess is impressive to say the least. |
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| Jun-13-06 |
| Greginctw: <I could discuss those points with you Gregin but I choose not to since you moved from discussing chess to bashing me personally. While that seems to be the norm in political discussions it has no place when talking about the game I love. By the way you seem to trying to accuse me of wrongdoing for loving chess as though it is shameful. I think that is a very harmful attitude and proves in fact that you might be the loser in life, since you can't even appreciate what you devote your heart to. In fact I think that's the VERY attitude thats killing american chess-"Don't play chess unless you want to be a loser". In fact its simply that ignorant bigots such as yourself can't appreciate the fascination chess holds for some. Also I very highly DOUBT you are a 1900 player as you claim.>
Where did I attack you personally? I attacked your viewpoints, but that is not you personally. Chess is a game and the level of devotion which you believe it requires are far beyond what I feel is healthy. And you are right I am not a 1900 player. But luckily for me being a low 1800 still lets me call myself a Class A player which is all I ever claimed to be. |
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| Jun-23-06 |
| Trouble: Is drinking healthy? Is promiscuous sex healthy? Human beings don't necessarily do what is healthy, they do what they enjoy. I love you guys who somehow got it in their head that chess reduces you to the level of a heroin junkie or fanatic, and that every non chess player in the world is somehow continuing to persue their pristine and squeeky clean existence. Pardon me while I laugh at you. Were you one of those children that actually believed their passive father when he said 'it's not whether you win or lose its how you play the game' when you threw like a girl and couldn't catch a slow grounder? I would say 5 billion years of evolution demonstrates conclusively that to be a winner in life you need the same skills that get developed in chess. To name a few that would be competitiveness, desire to develop and learn, thinking ahead, ambition, caution, strong will power, and the will to succeed. The only reason chess ins't more popular in the United States is because A)the sterotypes already in place, B)people have other interests which is fine, C)people would rather lead a spoon fed existence rather than persue something as difficult as chess, which has no tangible benefits other than the joy of personal accomplishment. It seems to me that the real issue here is that you have a personal conflict in coping with the fact that you will never be a champion level player, and because of this insecurity you want to ensure that those that can rise higher are viewed as irresponsible. I don't have this personal conflict and I would never ever try to inhibit another person's development in chess. |
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| Dec-17-06 |
| madlydeeply: Hmmm...since Larry Evans is such an ultra materialist chess player...and he played the big boys...maybe a compilation of his losses against the big boys might be a good lesson on how to play with initiative and down material...eg: Rossolimo vs Larry Evans, 1949 |
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| Dec-17-06 |
| madlydeeply: er...
Rossolimo vs Larry Evans, 1949 |
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| Dec-17-06 |
| Rocafella: He looks so much like a guy I know it's not even funny... |
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Jan-18-07
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| Caissanist: You can find the weekly "Evans on Chess" column at http://wcn.tentonhammer.com/modules.... |
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| Oct-17-07 |
| Hafen Slawkenbergius: I think I saw in something by Evans the parable: "Chessplayers can be divided into two groups: those who play chess, and quarrel with their wives; and those who quarrel with their wives, and go to play chess".
Is it really his? |
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| Oct-17-07 |
| Hafen Slawkenbergius: One might update the parable to say:
"Internet chessplayers's wives can be divided into two groups: Those who are mad at their husbands, because they believe they are wasting their lives in chess sites and those who are mad at their husbands, because they don't believe they are wasting their lives in chess sites". |
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Oct-17-07
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| Domdaniel: Can anyone help me find the full score of an early Evans game? In one of his books (I forget which), Larry Evans gave part of a game he'd won against Marcel Duchamp in the 1940s (when he was a hotshot teenager and Duchamp was in his 60s). I think it was the New York State Championship of 1947, but the game isn't in the CG database, or any of the other main databases that I know of. If anyone knows it, I'd greatly appreciate the game score: post it here or in my forum, or send it to CG for inclusion in the database. Even the part-game details given by Evans, and their source, would be helpful. Thanks. |
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Oct-17-07
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| Strongest Force: When i was on Compuserve GM Evans had a beef with Carol Jerecki. Anyone know about this? Maybe it led to him being removed from CL&R. |
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Oct-18-07
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| Domdaniel: Do I have to shout? Okay.
*Anyone got the score of Evans-Duchamp, New York 1947*??? |
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Mar-22-08
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| suenteus po 147: Happy birthday, GM Evans! |
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| Jul-05-08 |
| sleepkid: Does anyone remember reading the Larry Evans Column in Chess Life where he talks about an Argentinian player named Laszlo Binane? If I remember correctly a reader writes in and the story goes that this young man shows up at a tournament one day and offers knight odds to people in blitz games for money, and starts beating everyone in sight. Then Walter Browne shows up and they play and it's finish roughly even. Then Larry Evans agrees, talks about how good Laszlo Binane was. Then shows two games where he (Larry Evans) beat this guy. I've always suspected that this was just a plant or work of fiction, because I have never found a single game by Laszlo Binane, or even any mention of his name anywhere else. Can anyone help out on this?
Laszlo Binane also has to be a fairly unique name, as it appears to be Hungarian-Irish. . . and on top of that he was supposedly from Argentina. The only other thing I think I recall about this, is that it may have been in a Chess Life from the last 10 years or so, and I think one of the tournaments he supposedly played Binane in was one of the Lone Pine tournaments. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. |
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Jul-05-08
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| Resignation Trap: <sleepkid> I suspect that the player you mention here is actually Laszlo Binet Tapaszto . Then check some of his other identities on our database. |
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| Jul-07-08 |
| sleepkid: Thanks. I knew someone would have some information for me, and I should have realised it would be you. Excellent. |
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Nov-16-08
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| ketchuplover: Was that an April Fool's column? |
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| Dec-31-08 |
| walker: Larry Evans is a five-time U.S. chess champion and nationally syndicated chess writer. Write to him at P.O. Box 1182, Reno, NV 89504. |
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| Dec-31-08 |
| WhiteRook48: I like the last few moves of that Evans-Reshevsky game.
47. h4!! Re2+
48. Kh1 (practically forced, but here comes)
...Qxg3?? wow what a blunder. See wikipedia for what might have won I'm too lazy to post it here.
49. Qg8+!! Kxg8?!
50. Rxg7+! what a draw!! Evans seems to win and draw a lot of games. |
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Mar-22-09
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| brankat: Happy Birthday GM Evans! |
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Mar-22-09
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| wordfunph: Happy Birthday GM Larry Evans! |
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Mar-22-09
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| suenteus po 147: Happy birthday, GM Evans! |
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Mar-22-09
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| talisman: happy birthday larry! |
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