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| laskereshevsky: HELLO
in the 1990 February i was in ROME for a tournament.....the winner was an enough tall and thin guy who was playng under AUSTRALIAN'S flag ( if i remember well...)Also he was usual almost at every game to drink a liter of milk, and to eat a banana...could he be ANTHONY?! |
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| Feb-11-07 |
| laskereshevsky: P.S. Was a red hair guy....... |
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| Feb-11-07 |
| laskereshevsky: <laskereshevsky: HELLO
in the 1990 February i was in ROME for a tournament.....> In that tourn. were were to: SMYSLOV, BRONSTEIN, OLL ( he suicide in the middle 90s or so), the very youngs ANAND, in one of his first european tournament...i was astonished to see that very young asian boy (he was 20, but looked like 17...), with an unknow flag ( at least for me, i discovered was the INDIAN one after same days...) on his side, to beat a lot of european grandmasters....for istance he won against FARAGO, using only 30/35 minutes, against the almost 2 hours of the UNGARIAN player and BAREEV ( very often i saw him, after the games, close to the very...very..BEAUTIFUL, yugoslavian player SANYA VURKSANOVIC....LUCKY GUY!!)... in that years she looked marvelous.....phhhfffiiiuu...i stil remember now, every time i fixed hers eyes my blood was in boiled... also IVKOV was there, and a lot of IM and FM...The guest star of the tournament was BOTVINNIK, in ROME to receive the GIOACCHINO GRECO price.... |
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Feb-25-07
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| Caissanist: It sounds very much like him. Chessmetrics confirms that Miles did in fact win a tournament in Rome in 1990 with the players you mention: http://db.chessmetrics.com/CM2/Sing.... This was also the time in his life when he was playing for Australia. |
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Apr-23-07
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| ianD: GM Miles was a great and colourful British GM. He will be rembered for many things particularily his great win against Karpov. |
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Apr-23-07
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| e4Newman: <particularily his great win against Karpov> i like the annotation provided by mr. miles himself - 1...a6! |
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| Apr-23-07 |
| schnarre: I had played 1...a6 previously with mixed results--this improved after reviewing the Karpov-Miles game! I've known quite a number of diabetics, & it's often surprising just how short lives can be cut by it. A great loss, & he will be missed! |
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Apr-27-07
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| suenteus po 147: For those of you who are big Miles fans, here is a tournament collection that I understand to be one of Miles' best performances in his career: Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1984 |
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Apr-28-07
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| MaxxLange: Miles had an internet column in his last couple of years, and one week he spent about half of it denouncing the USA for giving China "Most Favorite Nation" trade status permanently, which is hypocrisy since nations that violate human rights are not supposed to get MFN status. I emailed Miles, explaining that we had been renewing MFN for China every 3 years for the last 20 years, and that this was actually a step forward to admitting that we need Chinese trade too badly to make a stand on those things. I told him hat this was an Omnibus hypocrisy bill... Miles very graciously responded to me, thanked me for giving him a Yank perspective that he hadn't thought of, and gave me cheers. I lift my glass to him tonight: he was a great gentleman to me, a chess unknown |
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Apr-28-07
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| whiskeyrebel: OK, here's a Texas sized wee hours shot to him. Miles was my sort of guy. I have a copy of Chess Life from the 70's in which he's pictured sporting what appears to be a jaunty glam-rock look. He had just won the National Open in Las Vegas. He lived large and seems to have been the sort of guy you loved or hated. Good for him. |
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| Apr-28-07 |
| ughaibu: You transatlantic types do understand that "cheers" is used as a parting salutation without any connotations pertaining to booze(?) |
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Apr-29-07
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| whiskeyrebel: my goodness, what an odd custom. |
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Apr-29-07
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| WannaBe: So 'cheerio' doesn't mean the cereal either? =) |
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| Apr-30-07 |
| ughaibu: Brits also use "cheers" to mean thank you, one would need to review the context of the e-mail sent to MaxxLange in order to pronounce definitively on the usage in question. |
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Apr-30-07
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| Archives: Over here, "Cheers" is used as a substitute for "thanks" alot (actually I reckon that "cheers" is more commonly used than "thanks") |
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May-08-07
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| suenteus po 147: Another tournament collection celebrating a Miles victory, and with an interesting story to go along as well: Game Collection: Tilburg Interpolis 1985 |
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Jun-28-07
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| Karpova: Does anyone know where to find Nigel Short's obituary of Tony Miles?
Must have been in the Sunday Telegraph but the link doesn't work and google search didn't help me (just found someone else claiming he couldn't find the obituary). |
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Jun-28-07
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| Open Defence: <Karpova> the best I could find was http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/mai... its not the obituary but its the only thing remotely close that contains direct references and is written by Nigel.. I dont know if the Telegraph has taken off the old pages or if the links are merely dead.. |
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Jun-28-07
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| Karpova: <Open Defence>
Thanks! They really seem to have deleted it though even older pages and another obituary are still available. |
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Aug-24-07
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| Karpova: <I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
(George Chapman c. 1559-1634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910). Archbishop of Cologne, in Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany, act 1, sc. 2, l. 208-9 (1654). on the proposal to make Richard, Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor. The ascription of the play to Chapman has been questioned.)>
http://www.poemhunter.com/quotation... |
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Aug-27-07
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| notyetagm: Could some Miles fan please post <PGN> for the game <Miles-Martin Birmingham 1977>? Thanks. |
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| Aug-28-07 |
| Rook of chess: Nobody likes Miles. I haven't even heard of him. |
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| Aug-28-07 |
| counterproductive: <Rook of chess: Nobody likes Miles.> I like Miles! Thence you are wrong!! |
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Aug-30-07
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| notyetagm: <Rook of chess: Nobody likes Miles. I haven't even heard of him.> Miles was the first English GM.
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Sep-10-07
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| Cactus: <Rook> Then how are you posting on his kibitzing page? |
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