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Claude Frizzel Bloodgood
Number of games in database: 63
Years covered: 1955 to 1976
Highest rating achieved in database: 2250
Overall record: +53 -5 =5 (88.1%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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CLAUDE FRIZZEL BLOODGOOD
(born Jul-14-1937, died Aug-04-2001) Mexico (citizen of United States of America)

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Claude Frizzel Bloodgood (born Klaus Frizzel Bluttgutt III) was born in La Paz, Mexico on July 14, 1937 (some sources say he was born in 1924). He was the author of "The Tactical Grob," "Blackburne-Hartlaub Gambit" (1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 d6), and "Nimzovich Attack: The Norfolk Gambits." In the late 1950’s, he was editor of the Viriginia Chess News Roundup and the rating statistician for the Virginia State Chess Association. In 1958, he started the All Service Postal Chess Club (ASPCC). In 1970 he was sentenced to death for killing his stepmother by strangulation in 1969, apparently in a fight about an inheritance and bad-check charges. While on death row, he played over 2,000 postal games simultaneously. The postage was paid by the State of Virginia. He was scheduled for execution 6 times, but received a reprieve each time. His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1972 and the state stopped paying postage. He was allowed to play in chess tournaments outside the prison, accompanied by a guard. In 1974, Bloodgood escaped after he and another chess player (Lewis Capleaner, a murderer inmate) overpowered a guard (George Winslow) who was escorting them to a chess tournament. When Bloodgood was recaptured after several weeks, his correspondence privilege was taken away from him. His escape led to the resignation of Virginia's director of prisons, and the Virginia Penitentiary Chess program was dismantled.

In 1996 he was the 2nd highest USCF ranked player in the country (2702), just behind Gata Kamsky. His actual strength was much less, as he learned to exploit the rating system by organzing chess tournaments and matches in prison, and consistently beat the other weaker players. From 1993 to 1999, he played 3,174 rated chess games, winning over 91 percent of his games.

He participated in the 15th U.S. Correspondence Championship, which began in June, 2000, scoring 3 wins and 9 losses (he died before finishing his last game). He passed away in the hospital of the Powhatan Correctional Center near Richmond, Virginia on August 4, 2001.


 page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 63  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. NN vs C Bloodgood 0-121 1955 CausualA45 Queen's Pawn Game
2. C Bloodgood vs E Winterfield 1-018 1957 Norfolk, VAA00 Uncommon Opening
3. C Bloodgood vs R W Christy 1-014 1957 Norfolk OpenA00 Uncommon Opening
4. C Bloodgood vs A Acevedo 1-021 1958 Virginia Open, NorfolkA00 Uncommon Opening
5. C Bloodgood vs R Halley 1-035 1958 Washington D.C.A00 Uncommon Opening
6. C Bloodgood vs G Trefzer 1-032 1958 VA OpenA00 Uncommon Opening
7. C Bloodgood vs A Cacalano 1-019 1959 Eastern Virginia Chess League, NorfolkA00 Uncommon Opening
8. C Bloodgood vs S Branson 1-046 1959 Norfolk USO InvitationalA00 Uncommon Opening
9. P Sternberg vs C Bloodgood 0-121 1959 Norfolk, VAC82 Ruy Lopez, Open
10. C Bloodgood vs K Amirjahed 1-025 1959 Norfolk Chess Team - DePaul, Board #1A00 Uncommon Opening
11. C Bloodgood vs R McSorely 1-023 1959 Norfolk USO Inv.A00 Uncommon Opening
12. C Bloodgood vs R Porter 1-021 1959 Peninsula Open, Newport News, VAA00 Uncommon Opening
13. C Bloodgood vs A Hall  ½-½26 1959 Norfolk USO Invitational,A00 Uncommon Opening
14. C Bloodgood vs W Waymire 1-010 1960 ?A00 Uncommon Opening
15. C Bloodgood vs D Casteen 1-037 1960 Norfolk USO InvitationalA00 Uncommon Opening
16. C Bloodgood vs K Stevens 1-030 1960 Eastern Virginia Chess League, NorfolkA00 Uncommon Opening
17. C Bloodgood vs W Waymire 1-018 1960 Norfolk USO Monthly InvitationalsA00 Uncommon Opening
18. C Bloodgood vs B Evans 1-021 1961 Norfolk USO Inv.A00 Uncommon Opening
19. C Bloodgood vs R Lewis 1-039 1961 Norfolk, VAA00 Uncommon Opening
20. C Bloodgood vs J McKay 1-022 1961 Norfolk USO InvitationalA00 Uncommon Opening
21. C Bloodgood vs A Cacalano 1-021 1961 Eastern VA Chess LeagueA00 Uncommon Opening
22. C Bloodgood vs L Bostic 1-042 1964 New Castel, Delaware InvitationalA00 Uncommon Opening
23. C Bloodgood vs E Meyerhofer 0-134 1967 New Castle, DelawareA00 Uncommon Opening
24. C Bloodgood vs L Lundy 1-031 1968 New Castle, DelawareA00 Uncommon Opening
25. C Bloodgood vs B Brown 1-018 1969 Richmond, VAA00 Uncommon Opening
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Oct-31-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  technical draw: Here's the picture....Boooo!

http://hk.geocities.com/goodchesscl...

Oct-31-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Swapmeet: <How many people are out there how would kill their mother for a rating jump? :)>

How many points are we talking here?

Oct-31-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  YouRang: I suppose it would be hard to top this guy as a Halloween player-of-the-day (or at least I HOPE he can't be topped -- did Jeffrey Dahmer play chess?)
Oct-31-06   Maatalkko: <cg.com> Good choice for PoTD! Why don't you use the picture suggested by <technical draw> for Bloodgood's profile? It's really frightening and appropriate. I'd be freaked out if I met him in prison like JC Hallman did. Move over Anthony Hopkins, this guy's the real Dr. Lecter.

Maybe he would be 2700 in OTB play, if he could stare down his opponent like that.

Nov-29-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Wonder if Moon have any relation to Claude. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1291227/
Mar-02-07   Autoreparaturwerkbau: The "funny" thing about Bloodgood's main opening line (1.g4) is, that it is called The Grob.

Namely, "Grob" means The Grave in my (Slovenian) language. How astonishingly fitting for C. Frizzel Bloodgood!

Mar-03-07   drukenknight: The bad check charges mentioned in the bio sheet were completely untrue. What he actually was trying to do was to deflect the queen away from the main attack. Okay so maybe it wasnt a very good check, but it wasnt all that bad either.
Mar-09-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Thrajin: <drukenknight: The bad check charges mentioned in the bio sheet were completely untrue. What he actually was trying to do was to deflect the queen away from the main attack. Okay so maybe it wasnt a very good check, but it wasnt all that bad either.>

Wow. I can only hope and wish that someday I will be able to achieve that level of corniness. ;-)

Seriously, funny stuff.

Mar-09-07   setebos: He should have had the chance to marry Lizzie Borden :-)
Apr-07-07   PAWNTOEFOUR: damn,he does look like uncle festus!! lol....hahahaha
Apr-24-07   Dr.Lecter: Wuh. I looked at the picture <td> posted and I thought I was looking at a mirror. Then I realized that I was typing and knew I wasn't looking at myself.
Apr-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Phony Benoni: Just for the record, you're thinking of Uncle Fester from the Addams Family: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_...

Festus was a deputy on Gunsmoke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festus...

And, just for the sake of completeness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus

Apr-26-07   Dr.Lecter: If I was looking at a mirror, it would look more like this;

http://hometown.aol.com/rufflife362...

Apr-26-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  technical draw: <Dr.Lecter> That's the ugliest thing I've ever seen. Yuck!
Apr-26-07   Dr.Lecter: <td> lol. That was the point. Here's my real picture

http://www.facade.com/celebrity/pho...

Apr-26-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  technical draw: Hey, Dr.Lecter! We're twins!
Apr-26-07   Dr.Lecter: You're that long lost brother who got kidnapped when I was seven?! Long time no see, brother!
Apr-27-07   Dr.Lecter: So this must be your pic:

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/20...

Apr-27-07   Sularus: <drukenknight: The bad check charges mentioned in the bio sheet were completely untrue. What he actually was trying to do was to deflect the queen away from the main attack. Okay so maybe it wasnt a very good check, but it wasnt all that bad either. >

LOL !

and perhaps it wasn't strangulation... but rather triangulation (to those who don't know, triangulation, as far as i know, refers to achieving exactly the same position but this time with the aim that it is the opponent's turn to move once the triangulation is complete)

corny i know. =)

Jul-24-07   pawnofdoom: How did this guy get white in so many games? He has it in 60 of the 63 games in the database
Jul-24-07   Judah: <pawnofdoom>, the database means nothing. Perhaps it came from a collection of his Grob games, for instance.
Aug-02-07   savagerules: There was a guy who won the U.S. youth championship as a teenager and he ended up killing his parents when he was in his early twenties. He was released from the nuthouse a few years ago and for all I know he's playing in tournaments, anybody know who I'm talking about, also there was a New York City master named Weinstein who was convicted of murder in the sixties or seventies.
Nov-12-07   arnaud1959: <technical draw>. Very ugly but the professionnals know how to give the impression that someone is bad. The face that covers all the picture, a spotlight over the head etc. And if you want him to be a "good" person, you show him with his family, you avoid sharp lines and shadows on the face.
Jan-25-08   jovack: <90% win rate.... his bio explains it all.

nonetheless his (modified) last name is pretty cool. still he was a lowlife; (on top of murder) his method of raising his chess rating is analogous to someone going to pogo.com and continuously playing noobs until you reach master level.

Feb-22-08   DrGrobb: He was a big fish in a small pond!!!
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