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| Dec-13-12 | | happyjuggler0: Here is some more info on her. It is the English translation of what looks like a German wikipedia page. http://translate.google.com/transla... |
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Dec-13-12
 | | perfidious: <happyjuggler0> Seeing the photograph from Lucerne 1982 brings back memories. Diana Lanni, playing second board, is someone whom <Phony Benoni> likely remembers, as I believe she also hailed from Michigan. Seems to me she got as high as ~2100 in the early-mid 1980s, though fell back at the end of her playing days. Crotto's game with Kasparov is from a simultaneous held during the women's event in Poland 1980s. Time for a correction. |
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Dec-13-12
 | | HeMateMe: I vaguely remember her playing in womens olympiads. |
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| Jan-19-20 | | SBC: some clarification:
"She was a three-time US Women's Champion (1977, 1978, 1979)"
There was no tournament in 1977. She and Savereide shared the title in 1978 and Crotto won it in 1979 "In 1979, she won with an eye-popping 10½-½ score, though apparently she was the only one in the tournament with an Expert's rating "
She beat out both Diane Savereide and Ruth Haring in 1979 - the two strongest women players for a significant period of time. |
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Jan-20-20
 | | sakredkow: I can't find a list of US Women's Championships online with the year, location, and winner(s). Frustrating. |
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| May-01-20 | | SBC: <sakredkow>
While not exactly a list, here's a series of 7 articles detailing the U.S. Women's Chess Championship from 1937-1990 (at this point in time): https://www.chess.com/article/view/... |
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May-02-20
| | sakredkow: Thanks, SBC. I appreciate it. I'm still looking for a list that would tell us where the championships were held and the result - at least the winner.
Specifically one of the US Women's was held in Rochester, NY in the late 1970s (probably one of those championships from 77, 78 or 79). I'd love to know the dates and, if possible, the participants.
It just seems a single list that organized this information would be readily available. I think it's a real shame and a little disrespectful that it's not.
I don't want to necessarily get on a high horse about it, but I would like the information. |
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| May-02-20 | | Granny O Doul: <In 1979, she won with an eye-popping 10½-½ score, though apparently she was the only one in the tournament with an Expert's rating (2051 as of 12/78).> I admit I was skeptical about this, but apparently Savereide's rating bounced from 2130 to 1997 to 2262 during 1977-79 days. @sakredkow: SBC's linked site records that the 1978 championship was in Rochester, and includes a crosstable in the report. |
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May-02-20
 | | FSR: I was briefly a Facebook friend of hers. Dumped her when I discovered she was a Trump lover with very limited spelling and reasoning abilities. |
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May-02-20
 | | OhioChessFan: I bet she cried for a week straight after that. |
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May-02-20
| | FSR: <OCF> No doubt. |
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| May-02-20 | | Granny O Doul: Yes, I saw her posts on some friend's threads. Being a chess player myself, though, I didn't have many illusions to be shattered. |
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May-02-20
| | perfidious: Nah: Crotto doubtless said to herself, 'that wretched <FSR> is just another godless lib who will brook no opinion but his own!' and went on her merry way to oblivion. (laughs) |
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| May-03-20 | | SBC: <sakredkow>
That would be in Part VII:
https://www.chess.com/article/view/... The championship was played at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY in June, 1978
Rachel Crotto and Diane Savereide tied for first with 7.5 pts apiece. followed by Kate Gasser,7 pts.; Ruth Haring 5.5 pts, Gisela Gresser and Susan Sterngold, 5 pts.; Pam Ford and pts., Hedvig Olsson, 4.5 pts.; Mary Conlon, 4 pts.; Ruth Donnelly, 3 pts. and Karen Street, 1.5 pts. |
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May-03-20
| | FSR: <perfidious> I greatly doubt that she noticed that I had defriended her. If she had, and had known my reasons, her reaction probably would have been much as you describe. |
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May-03-20
| | HeMateMe: < I bet she cried for a week straight after that.> chessers are pretty good at analytical reasoning. I wonder why a strong chess player would support a white collar criminal and pervert for president of the united states? |
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| May-03-20 | | diceman: <HeMateMe: chessers are pretty good at analytical reasoning.> Is that why you're rated -3157 ? |
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| May-03-20 | | Absentee: <HeMateMe: chessers are pretty good at analytical reasoning.> Playing chess involves pattern recognition, memory and spatial perception. Analytical reasoning has little to do with it, and even less with confusing personality with large-scale political processes. <I wonder why a strong chess player would support a white collar criminal and pervert for president of the united states?> Plenty of possible reasons. They might even be related to domestic or international politics rather than irrelevant personal traits. |
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May-03-20
| | FSR: <HeMateMe> Boris Avrukh <loves> Donnie. He said when Trump was elected, it was the greatest night of his life. |
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May-03-20
| | HeMateMe: Absentee--trumps flaws before becoming president are exactly what brought him down now. If you choose to call it "personality traits", fine. I call it incompetence. You imply that chessplayers are just trained monkeys that have learned a game. I would have to disagree. Most of the strong chess players i knew growing up went to college and did well for themselves. They were good thinkers and chess was just one representation of that talent. BTW, I dont think trump plays. |
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May-03-20
| | FSR: <HeMateMe> According to Trump, he is only a year or two away from becoming a GM. https://en.chessbase.com/post/trump... You can't make this stuff up. |
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| May-03-20 | | Absentee: <HeMateMe: Absentee--trumps flaws before becoming president are exactly what brought him down now. If you choose to call it "personality traits", fine. I call it incompetence. You imply that chessplayers are just trained monkeys that have learned a game. I would have to disagree. Most of the strong chess players i knew growing up went to college and did well for themselves. They were good thinkers and chess was just one representation of that talent.> You can call it whatever you want. Being "a pervert", whether that's true or false, is irrelevant to the issue of either competence or political direction, because it has no relation to politics at all.
That playing chess uses that set of skills doesn't imply that chess players are idiot savants who possess only those skills and nothing else. |
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May-03-20
| | HeMateMe: Is he really a 'stable genius'? Your thoughts? |
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| May-04-20 | | Absentee: <HeMateMe: Is he really a 'stable genius'? Your thoughts?> Who, Trump? I have no idea if he's stable. I don't think he's a genius. |
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May-04-20
| | HeMateMe: Well, I certainly won't bleach your comments. |
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