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| Apr-03-11 | | Caissanist: Not 100% sure that this is the same person, but ChessNinja is reporting that longtime chess journalist and former Chess Life editor Larry Parr has died in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt... |
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| Apr-03-11 | | BobCrisp: That's sad to hear. He was chess's most inveterate anti-Communist. |
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| Apr-03-11 | | Calli: Picture and Parr's article on Denker here: http://www.chessville.com/vignettes... |
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| Apr-07-11 | | Caissanist: My link to the ChessNinja story got messed up somehow, here it is again: http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt... |
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| Apr-09-11 | | wordfunph: rest in peace Larry Parr..
http://www.closetgrandmaster.blogsp... |
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| Jul-03-11 | | wordfunph: books by Larry Parr..
+ The Bobby Fischer I Knew and Other Stories (with Arnold Denker) http://www.amazon.com/Bobby-Fischer... + Viktors Pupols: American Master (with Yasser Seirawan) http://www.amazon.com/Viktors-Pupol... + Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters: Fundamentals of the Game Volume 1 (with Lev Alburt) http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Russi... + Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters: Beyond the Basics Volume 2 (with Lev Alburt) http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Russi... |
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| Nov-11-13 | | Caissanist: Does anyone know if Parr's collection of essays "The Kings of Chess: A 21 Player Salute" is any longer available anywhere? It was online for many years at World Chess Network (http://www.worldchessnetwork.com/En...), but that site is defunct and was never archived. I couldn't find anything when I googled it. |
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| Dec-25-17 | | zanzibar: I read a report that he died from tuberculosis. <Caissanist> some of his essays can be found on the net these days - in one kind or another archived form. I haven't tried to find all of them, as it appears somewhat fractured. |
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| Dec-25-17 | | Boomie: Back in the 70's, Larry hung out at the Last Exit in Seattle chatting with the chess players. That explains his interest in Pupols and Yaz who were regulars there. |
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| Dec-25-17 | | zanzibar: Always interesting to get some local flavor...
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I was wrong previously (thankfully), as it appears the wayback has the entire series: (Starting here...)
http://web.archive.org/web/20050308... |
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Mar-31-24
 | | FSR: Larry Parr died at the chessic age of 64, like Robert James Fischer, William Steinitz, Howard Staunton, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Vladimir Savon, Pedro Damiano, Albin Planinc, Vladimir Antoshin, Edmar Mednis, Vitaly Halberstadt, Giulio Cesare Polerio, Karl-Heinz Maeder, Octavio Troianescu, Maximilian Ujtelky, Solomon Gotthilf, Erwin Voellmy, Ivan Nemet, Paul Tautvaisas, Claude Frizzel Bloodgood, Larry Tamarkin, Gary Sanders, John Kalish, John Stopa, Leroy Jackson, Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson, Donald A Femmel, Ralph Hurttlen, Andrew Schoene, and Karl Marx. |
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Mar-31-24
 | | offramp:
Larry Parr has died
At his 8²th year.
He didn't bang, he sighed.
If you need a used car, Bothell Cars we gottem here. |
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Mar-31-24
 | | HeMateMe: I've read the denker and yaz books mentioned above. |
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Apr-04-24
 | | Fusilli: <FSR> Follow up question: how many games did these 64ers play against each other? And... did any of those games last 64 moves??
And just for mindless fun: Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, each with one game in this database, lived on average 23,669 days, which translates as 64.84 years. Ok, back to work. |
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Apr-04-24
 | | perfidious: <Fusilli: <FSR> Follow up question: how many games did these 64ers play against each other?> Without reviewing the DB:
Fischer and Mednis met numerous times; Savon may well have faced Planinc and/or Antoshin, and Fischer faced one of the Hurttlens in junior days. I believe he also played Troianescu once, in 1968, as well as Schoene. I actually met two players: Mednis and Stopa, the latter on nine occasions. This year, <FSR> and I both hit 64; do we see good ol' six-five? Time will tell. |
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Apr-05-24
| | HeMateMe: Ah.... but which of the above chess players was mentioned in a David Bowie song? |
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Apr-05-24
 | | Sally Simpson: ...all of them when they were 10; 'Young Americans.' |
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Apr-05-24
| | HeMateMe: Zzzzzzzzzt.
Sorry Sally. Revisit your 1970s Bowie. No Google cheating! |
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Apr-07-24
| | HeMateMe: Bowie and Che Guevera!
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM3...> Just for our Sally Simpson! |
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Apr-07-24
| | FSR: <Fusilli: <FSR> Follow up question: how many games did these 64ers play against each other?> Fischer and Mednis played nine times. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... Savon and Planinc had two games. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... Savon and Antoshin played twice. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... There is also A Planinc vs Antoshin, 1970. I doubt that there are many games between the others, though I'm not going to try every permutation. <And... did any of those games last 64 moves??.> Not that I've seen, but Savon and Antoshin's two games totaled 64 moves. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... <And just for mindless fun: Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, each with one game in this database, lived on average 23,669 days, which translates as 64.84 years.> That is an extremely random fact! |
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Apr-07-24
| | FSR: <perfidious> also correctly identified A Schoene vs Fischer, 1957 and O Troianescu vs Fischer, 1968. Impressive! |
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Apr-07-24
| | perfidious: Planinc getting to face off with Savon as well as Antoshin is a bit surprising in the latter matchup; after all, it is not as though Antoshin broke free of the mould of 'average' Soviet finalist, who could book a plus score in that tournament, but was scarcely a threat to the title, as Savon managed, which secured the latter some invitations outside the Soviet bloc, including perfect timing to reach an Interzonal. <FSR....Savon and Antoshin's two games totaled 64 moves....> Good grief.
Antoshin made this list by <one day>, taking his leave the day before his 65th birthday. |
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Apr-07-24
| | FSR: <perfidious> I forget the poor fellow's name, but a couple of years ago a chess coach, I think in NYC, missed the list by one day, dying at age 63 years and 364 days. |
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Apr-08-24
| | Fusilli: <FSR> <That is an extremely random fact!> Indeed. Well, they were both leaders of the Cuban revolution and they both faced Najdorf in a simul. Which does nothing to justify my bringing it up, but may tempt you into discovering a rule that does! |
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Apr-09-24
| | Sally Simpson: Hi HeMateMe,
I'll take your word for it. I was not much of Bowie fan, the wife saw him live a few times. In the 70's I was more T.Rex, Sex Pistols, Ramones and Jam (I saw both of the last two live.) |
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