May-12-04
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| Benzol: Robert Graham Wade
Born 10th April 1921 Dunedin |
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Dec-14-05
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| Caissanist: The contents of Bobby Fischer's storage locker went up for sale today on EBay; among the items are the carefully prepared opening notes that Wade did for Fischer in preparation for his 1972 matches. Reportedly Wade acted as kind of a human openings database for Fischer and many other western players, in the pre-PC days. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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Dec-14-05
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| Benzol: <Caissanist> I may have the chance to meet Bob Wade in January, if so I'll ask him about it. |
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Dec-14-05
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| Richard Taylor: <Benzol> Is Wade playing at the Queenstown Classic? |
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Dec-14-05
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| Benzol: <Richard> He's going to stay with Tony Booth for a night or so and then going to see his sister who still lives in Dunedin. From what Tony said to me I believe he will play in the tourney. However, Paul Spiller would be the best one to ask about that. Are you attending the club dinner on Tuesday? If so you could ask Paul then. |
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Dec-15-05
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| Caissanist: <Benzol> Thanks, it would be very interesting to hear his thoughts on Fischer and the work he did for other GMs as well. |
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| Feb-01-06 |
| Mac3: Bob Wade did play in the Queenstown Classic tournament scoring 6/10 with only one loss. What an amazing result! In Bob's game against Murray Chandler (the tournament's eventual winner), Bob played a queen sac and Murray had to dig deep, the game eventually ended in a draw. Here are complete details of the tournament including some pgn games that should be included in this site! http://badbishop.com/queenstownches...
Speaking personally it was a highlight to be able to talk Bob (a distant relative on Dad's mother's side of the family). It has been 57 and 1/2 years since Bob has been back to NZ and what an honour to have had him back after all that time! |
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| Apr-10-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Robert Wade WADE, Robert Graham
http://www.bidmonfa.com/wade_robert...
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Apr-10-07
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| gambitfan: PLOD Tu 10/04/2007
Player of the Day! |
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Apr-10-07
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| technical draw: His most famous game of all time was against:
Simon J Roe
Thus is born Roe vs. Wade |
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Aug-19-07
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| Benzol: The book Bob Wade - Tribute To A Chess Master compiled and edited by Ray Cannon with an introduction by Ray Keene is definitely on my must purchase list. It was an honour to meet him in person. As my father commented at the time "Being with him is like being in the presence of Yoda". Has anybody seen any review of the book anywhere? |
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Nov-10-07
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| Benzol: I've got hold of "Bob Wade - Tribute To A Chess Master". It's a good book with 27 annotated games, 213 unannotated ones, 22 puzzle positions, a tactical test section and an introductory biographical article by Ray Keene.
Wish I'd been able to read some of it and been a bit more informed before I met him personally. Oh well, if wishes were horses... |
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Feb-18-08
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| Eric Schiller: Since Ray Keene hasn't posted this I will: Bob Wade will play in the 2008 GM Staunton Memorial, it seems this will be a record for the oldest participant in a GM-norm Round Robin. So I guess I'll be handling all the arbiter duties and someone else will do game commentary. It will be a fascinating event, as always. |
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Feb-23-08
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| Benzol: A nice simple puzzle
A Nacimento vs R G Wade, Zimbabwe Invitational Open Tt 1983 
click for larger viewBlack to play
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| Feb-23-08 |
| MichAdams: Happy now, Bob, that white rule ended and the country ended up in the toilet? |
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Mar-16-08
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| Benzol: Solution to the problem I posted in February.
1... xb3+ 2.axb3  a1+ 3. c2  c6+
and it's over 0-1.
<MichAdams> <Happy now, Bob, that white rule ended and the country ended up in the toilet?> <MichAdams> Bob Wade wasn't the only International player in the Zimbabwe Open See for instance this game :
R Byrne vs Gurgenidze, 1983 |
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Apr-10-08
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| brankat: Good to hear R.Wade will participate in the Staunton Memorial. At the age of 87! This will have to be a record. Happy Birthday Mr.Wade! |
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| Apr-10-08 |
| jamesmaskell: The ECF has the full press release.
Im guessing this is the Wade who has a variation of the QGD Slav named after him? |
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Apr-10-08
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| Benzol: Happy Birthday Bob.
:) |
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