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Max Burkett

Number of games in database: 24
Years covered: 1960 to 1999
Highest rating achieved in database: 2258
Overall record: +9 -12 =3 (43.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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C17 French, Winawer, Advance (2 games)


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MAX BURKETT
United States of America

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Max S. Burkett won the New Mexico State Championship in 1960, 1961, and 1963. In 1960, he won the New Mexico Open, held at Los Alamos, NM. He studied physics and mathematics at New Mexico State University. He received a B.A. in physics from the University of Montana in 1993.

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. M Burkett vs G Baylor  0-134196061st US OpenC19 French, Winawer, Advance
2. M Selensky vs M Burkett  ½-½21196162nd US OpenE00 Queen's Pawn Game
3. M Burkett vs S Lyman  0-125196263rd US OpenC56 Two Knights
4. M Valvo vs M Burkett 1-0121963US IntercollegiateB40 Sicilian
5. K Smith vs M Burkett 0-1231966Oran Perry OpenA04 Reti Opening
6. M Burkett vs P Herbers  1-014196667th US OpenC17 French, Winawer, Advance
7. A Saidy vs M Burkett  1-043196667th US OpenE46 Nimzo-Indian
8. M Burkett vs G LeCompte  0-133196667th US OpenC13 French
9. M Burkett vs D Fritzinger 0-1271969San FranciscoC23 Bishop's Opening
10. M Burkett vs M Diesen 0-132197172nd US OpenC17 French, Winawer, Advance
11. M Burkett vs W Boctor  1-0381983CalChess MastersB89 Sicilian
12. M Pecha vs M Burkett  1-0221996CM..0.00013C80 Ruy Lopez, Open
13. M Fahrbach vs M Burkett ½-½381996CM..0.00013C28 Vienna Game
14. M Burkett vs H van Kempen  0-1221996CM..0.00013B76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack
15. M Burkett vs R Dournes  1-0451996CM..0.00013C56 Two Knights
16. G Borg vs M Burkett  1-0361996CM..0.00013A90 Dutch
17. A Valverde Toresano vs M Burkett  ½-½301996CM..0.00012C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation
18. D J Sajkowski vs M Burkett 0-1221996CM..0.00012C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation
19. Z Kardkovacs vs M Burkett  0-1281996CM..0.00012C50 Giuoco Piano
20. M Burkett vs M Reijnen  1-0121996CM..0.00012C24 Bishop's Opening
21. M Burkett vs R Cunningham  1-0481996CM..0.00012B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
22. M Burkett vs D Blair  1-0431996CM..0.00012B76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack
23. J S Morgado vs M Burkett 1-0651998WC..F.00001C80 Ruy Lopez, Open
24. M Burkett vs K Rust  0-1411999IECG WC..F.00001 emailB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
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Kibitzer's Corner
Oct-08-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: "An Internet friend of mine, Max Burkett from Missoula, Montana, tends to say he played once in a tournament with Bobby Fischer and that he finished above him. Burkett finished 17th out of 25, Fischer 20th. It was the American youth championship in 1955, played in Lincoln, Nebraska, where the 16-year-old Max played for New Mexico, and the 12-year-old Bobby for New York. They took both 5 out of 10, but Burkett had better tie-break points. He remembers "proto-Bobby," which he never met again after that tournament, as a nice kid. They did not play against each other, but outside the official games they played blitz, and they also played table tennis. Burkett won five dollars from Fischer, but he had to give it back from the tournament director, Aleksandrs Liepnieks."

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Oct-08-13  Abdel Irada: I had the experience in 1989 of meeting Max Burkett in a blitz tournament in Berkeley.

If (as seems probable), this is the same Burkett, I'm a bit puzzled by his rating. When I played him, he was in the upper 2300 range; 2386, if I recall aright.

Jul-11-18  Gallicrow: The "highest rating" on this site is the FIDE rating (or estimate of it?).

The rating you're recalling would, I guess, be a USCF rating.

If a player has both USCF and FIDE ratings then their USCF one tends to be around about 100 points higher than their FIDE one. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_r...

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