| Sep-12-05 | | RookFile: Solid master. Student of Steinitz.
Bill believes in the importance of the e5
and e4 squares (more so then d5 and d4). Possessed a fantastic chess library of thousands of books. Also, a national tournament director (including events like the US championship) and organizer (US Open). Helped organizing Mikhail Tal coming to Boston. Inactive for a while now. |
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Jul-01-13
 | | perfidious: Bill passed on in 2012; just came across a piece on the USCF website, which is the first I had heard of it. http://www.uschess.org/content/view...
RIP, Bill. You were a good man. |
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| Jul-01-13 | | RookFile: Thank you for that. Sorry to hear that. |
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| Jul-03-13 | | RookFile: <Tim Redman: My friend Bill Lukowiak was once directing a large tournament in Atlantic City when a hurricaine struck that part of the mid-Atlantic seacoast. "Can't you do anything about that noise?", one player complained. > http://www.uschesstrust.org/wp-cont... |
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| Jul-03-13 | | RookFile: 1981 US Chess championship:
<In round nine Lev Alburt fell victim to a resurgent Walter Browne, who had risen from the ashes and put himself back into contention after an appalling start. Browne left his Hershey bar en prize while sealing, but TD Bill Lukowiak alertly placed it in another envelope. Upon resuming, Browne opened both envelopes, fished off the chocolate and then finished off Alburt for his second consecutive win.> http://chessantiquarian.com/index.p... |
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| Aug-10-15 | | zanzibar: Oh no, the man who threw away Fischer's Game #1 scoresheet, <Fischer--Sherwin (1957)>. From <perf>'s USCF link. |
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| Aug-10-15 | | zanzibar: An anecdote, which I'll leave unreferenced for the moment: <Unlike Curdo and Peters, both cool and emotionless over the board, Lukowiak is somewhat of a nervous gadfly. He'll frequently get up from his chair after making a move, and come over to talk and make a little joke about the game he is playing. He stretches his neck to see whether his younger opponent has made his move."What are you doing here?" asked noted chess teacher Ben Landy of Lukowiak at a recent Boylston Chess Club tourney. "Oh, I'm playing," responded Lukowiak. "Oh, you're playing," shrugged Landy, bemused. "Yes, but I'm avoiding making a move," explained Lukowiak, his eyes bloodshot from reading H. L. Mencken all night. "If I don't make a move, I won't make a mistake." > |
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| Aug-10-15 | | RookFile: Sounds like something during the 1970's. Later Lukowiak helped bring Mikhail Tal to New England. |
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Dec-11-23
| | perfidious: <RookFile.... Possessed a fantastic chess library of thousands of books....> Calling that library 'fantastic' was an understatement; I have never seen anything, before or since, which could hold a candle to it. Even the old Boston Chess Studio, run by Gisbert 'Eric' Helmreich in Newbury Street, while then the best in this part of the country, was not in that class. In fairness, those times I have visited Cleveland, I have not yet managed to delve into that city's collection. Perhaps one day. |
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