Jul-18-04
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| iron maiden: Apparently Dake was playing practically at the national championship level only a year after learning the moves. He learned to play at nineteen; who knows how good he might have become if he had started earlier? |
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| Nov-26-04 |
| kostich in time: Dake was a terror for the US Olympiad teams in the thirties. Some of his best games arent even included here, but then again, the US Olympiad triumphs of the thirties-some of the glories of US chess- are underepresented in this data-base. |
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| Jan-01-05 |
| Tennyson: Is anybody familiar with a book titled _Grandmaster From Oregon the Life & Games of Arthur Dake_ by Casey Bush? I just purchased it at a used book store and so far it's pretty entertaining and illuminating. It's even signed by the GM himself: "Portland, Oregon, July 8th. 94 Best wishes to 'B--- D---' for further improvement. Enjoy my chess games with Capablanca, and Dr. Alekhine, plus the 32 pictures. Sincerely Arthur Dake." Pretty cool, yeah? He even hand corrected some of the text below one of the pictures, scratching out Leningrad and writing Moscow so it reads, "1946 - American Chess Team in Moscow." The best part is the details preceding his game with Alekhine: Dake vs Alekhine, 1932 when he approached Alekhine while he was playing bridge and spoke of his desire to see Reshevsky draw his adjourned game with Alekhine (apparently a social faux pas). Everybody playing bridge suppressed "an expression of shock at Arthur's brazen statement...Alekhine turned with a slight movement towards Arhtur and addressed the young Oregonian, 'For that, I will defeat you in our chess came.' Arthur turned pale as he heard the World Champion's threat" (31). The incident ends hapily enough with Alekhine congratulating and offering toasts to Drake after his win. |
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| Apr-08-06 |
| Eastfrisian: Arthur Dake died on 28.04.2000 in Reno/Nevada. He was born in Portland/Oregon and changed later his name from "Dakowski" to Dake. From 1936 until 1975 (Lone Pine) he did not play on International Tournaments. |
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Apr-08-06
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| whiskeyrebel: when I was only about 14-15 and playing a lot in the Northwest Dake played in some Swiss events. I gave up the game for a long time and one day when I was digging through my old games and mags I found a picture I had clipped from the local newspaper. It showed Dake playing at the board next to me (I was being destroyed by Canadian great Bob Zuk). Me in the same photo with Dake..and I had forgotten about it! One of lifes little surprises I guess. |
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| Apr-08-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Arthur William Dake DAKE, Arthur William
http://www.bidmonfa.com/dake_arthur...
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| Apr-08-07 |
| Eastfrisian: Chessgames.com should update his bio above. |
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| Apr-08-07 |
| atripodi: And ban BIDMONFA while they're at it. |
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| Apr-08-07 |
| DutchDunce: What exactly is bidmonfa? A bot that creates a wiki about players and then posts the link on CG? I don't like it, but neither do I believe it is against any of the posting rules. Unless I'm missing something... |
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Apr-08-07
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| gambitfan: PLOD 08/04/2007 Payer of the Day!
Happy Birthday! |
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| Apr-08-07 |
| Warrush: Agreed on banning bidmonfa, he is only posting because noone will go to his site. Its just plain annoying. |
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May-06-07
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| ganstaman: I think I've once seen <BIDMONFA> make a post that showed he's human and not robot. I don't know how good an excuse this is, but his site links back to chessgames.com all over, so it's maybe a mutually beneficial arrangement. And since his site seems harmless enough, I guess they let him stick around. Maybe if someone could get him to talk right now we could sort things out... |
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Sep-22-07
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| whiteshark: Trivia
Arthur Dake (Darkowski) who scored so well at the Warsaw Olympiad 1935 sailed back to America as he met Ms. Helen Gierwatowski at the ship. She had Polish ancestors as well and she was just visiting her forefather's land. He immediately fell in love, proposed and married her soon upon their arrival in New York. Their marriage witnesses were Marshall and Horowitz, members of the winning Olympic team. They have been married for almost 60 years until Helen's death in 1994, in case any of you had doubts whether this was too hasty move! |
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| Oct-26-07 |
| sfm: A book gave the below as an example of fine sportsmanship: During an Olympics game Dake's opponent was brought a telegram, and turned pale upon reading it. Dake asked "Bad news?" to which his opponent could only nod. Without inquiring further Dake instantly offered a draw. The news were indeed bad: the death of the chess player's fiancée from falling when climbing a mountain in the Dolomites. |
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Apr-08-08
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| brankat: A very fine Master and a true gentleman, Mr.Dake. Had enjoyed a good, productive and long life. |
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| Nov-20-08 |
| mjmorri: Dake is one of a hand-full of American born players to defeat a reigning world champion. Dake vs Alekhine, 1932
He was certainly a very formidable speed player, perhaps second only to Capablanca, in the 1930's. |
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| Nov-20-08 |
| AnalyzeThis: Let's not get excited. There was Capablanca, sure. Dake doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as him. That's certainly how Reuben Fine, no slouch himself, felt. |
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| Nov-20-08 |
| mjmorri: <AnalyseThis> Capa, of course, was in a class by himself. Dake's prowess, though, makes one wonder if he too was primarily an intuitive player, like Capa. |
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Apr-08-09
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| talisman: happy birthday GM Dake! |
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| Apr-08-09 |
| Shams: in addition to his win over Alekhine, Dake also had Capablanca on the ropes. I recommend his memoir, "Grandmaster from Oregon". |
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| May-02-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: He takes the Dake! |
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| Jun-12-09 |
| myschkin: . . .
"... Mr. Dake had a brilliant although abbreviated career as a chess player. He learned the game at 17, very late for someone who would later become a top player. By the time he was 28, his career was essentially over as family responsibilities compelled him to look for a more stable and better-paying job. In that short time, however, Mr. Dake had established himself as one of the country's best players, and he helped the American chess team win three world team championships. ..." (source http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/11/a...) |
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| Jul-10-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: I'm strong to the finish,
cause I eats me spinach,
I'm Dake the sailor man! |
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