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Bruce Altschuler

Number of games in database: 8
Years covered: 1983 to 2001
Overall record: +1 -6 =1 (18.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.


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BRUCE ALTSCHULER
(born Oct-25-1946, 78 years old) United States of America

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. B Altschuler vs R Delaune  0-1401983Canadian OpenB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
2. W Boctor vs B Altschuler  1-0411983Canadian OpenB30 Sicilian
3. J Burstow vs B Altschuler  1-0391983Canadian OpenB23 Sicilian, Closed
4. B Altschuler vs D Hess 1-03119867th US CC Championship preliminary roundB81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack
5. B Altschuler vs K Grivainis  0-1341987Lucius Endzelins MemorialA22 English
6. W J Aramil vs B Altschuler  1-0292000101st US OpenD85 Grunfeld
7. L Kwartler vs B Altschuler  1-0272001New York State ChampionshipA05 Reti Opening
8. B Altschuler vs C Kharroubi  ½-½252001New York State ChampionshipB07 Pirc
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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-27-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Dr Bruce Altschuler was a member of the political department of the State University of New York in Oswego:

http://www.oswego.edu/academics/col...

He has also written several books on US politicians as well as the US political process:

http://us.macmillan.com/actingpresi...

May-01-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Here is an Altschuler victory that I have just uploaded to the database. This game won the Dr Ronald Hames Prize for the best non-master CC game of 1986, as judged by Alex Dunne through his "The Check is in the Mail" column of the US Chess Life magazine.

[Event "7th US CC Championship preliminary round"]
[Site "USA"]
[Date "1986.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Bruce Altschuler"]
[Black "Dean Hess"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 c5 2. ♘f3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. ♘xd4 ♘f6 5. ♘c3 d6 6. g4 h6 7. ♗g2 ♘c6 8. h3 ♗d7 9. ♗e3 a6 10. f4 ♗e7 11. ♕e2 ♖c8 12. ♘xc6 ♗xc6 13. O-O-O ♕c7 14. h4 h5 15. gxh5 ♘xh5 16. ♕f2 b5 17. a3 ♖b8 18. ♖hf1 b4 19. axb4 ♖xb4 20. e5 ♗xg2 21. ♕xg2 d5 22. ♕f3 g6


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23. f5 ♕xe5 24. fxe6 fxe6 25. ♕f7+ ♔d8 26. ♖fe1 ♕f5 27. ♗b6+ ♔c8 28. ♕xe7 ♖xb6 29. ♕c5+ ♔b7 30. ♘xd5 ♖c6 31. ♕xc6+ 1-0

Source: Alex Dunne, "The Complete Guide to Correspondence Chess", Thinkers Press, Davenport, Iowa, 1991, p.94

Nov-04-12  wordfunph: on Bruce Altschuler..

<During the years that the U.S. championship was held in New York, wallboarders were often chosen at the last minute. Bruce Altschuler, who was in the U.S. Army, had just returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam in 1968 and was enjoying a 30-day leave before his next assignment at Fort Hood. He decided to drop by the playing site, the Henry Hudson Hotel. “They were short of wall boys and asked if I could help out,” recalled Altschuler, now a political science professor at the State University of New York at Oswego.

He handled a drawn game between Bill Lombardy and Sammy Reshevsky and what he remembered most was the postmortem: “Lombardy used some very unpriest-like language in complaining that Reshevsky was never willing to admit making a mistake,” Altschuler recalled.>

Source: Chess Life 2012 November

Sep-14-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <....(Altschuler) handled a drawn game between Bill Lombardy and Sammy Reshevsky and what he remembered most was the postmortem: “Lombardy used some very unpriest-like language in complaining that Reshevsky was never willing to admit making a mistake,” Altschuler recalled.>

In view of the controversy surroundong E Mednis vs Lombardy, 1978, this precedent is not at all surprising.

Bruce and I met in a correspondence event in the late 1990s; believe it was a Winawer French and I booked a win on the Black side. He was decent to correspond with during the game.

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