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| Oct-27-05 | | Eastfrisian: Dr. Ricardo Calvo Minguez was born on 22.10.1943 in Alcoy (Alicante) and died on 26.09.2002 due complications of gulletcancer. He had a doctorate degree of medicine. Calvo was fluent in Spanish, Catalanian, English, German and Latin.
He was a high rated chess historian.
In 1987 he had some problems with the FIDE, which declared him to "persona non grata". That was the end of his professional chess career. For a few years Dr. Calco played in the German Chess-Bundesliga (as I remember for the Munich-team). He played for Spain on five chess-olympiades.
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| Oct-27-05 | | NakoSonorense: Is Ricardo Calvo calvo? |
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| Oct-27-05 | | WMD: <In 1987 he had some problems with the FIDE..> Yeah, I think someone punched him in the face and broke his glasses. |
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| Oct-27-05 | | mynameisrandy: <Yeah, I think someone punched him in the face and broke his glasses.> WHA-?? No seriously, what was the deal? |
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| Mar-23-06 | | Autoreparaturwerkbau: <nako> Ricardo Calvo isn't calvo! Dddduh. :) |
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| Sep-26-06 | | BIDMONFA: Ricardo Calvo
CALVO, Ricardo
http://www.bidmonfa.com/calvo_ricar...
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| Oct-22-06 | | I3illieJoe: Why would chessgames.com have this person as player of the day? If he really said those racial comments, then he was a disgrace for the world of chess, and for the world itself. |
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| Oct-22-06 | | trickyfish75: The article for which Calvo was condemned by Fide is One Bridge Too Far, and can be found here:
http://wcn.tentonhammer.com/modules... |
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| Oct-22-06 | | Rocafella: Chelsea reject! |
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| Oct-22-06 | | Morales: I am from Latin America and have read Calvo`s article. There is nothing racist in it. |
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Oct-22-06
 | | fm avari viraf: Please keep aside dirtyyyyyyyyyyyy politics from this noble game of chess. But is it ever possible? Never. Can we eradicate virus from the globe completely? Not possible. So we must try to live with them & politics together. |
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Oct-22-06
 | | al wazir: <Morales: There is nothing racist in it.> You're right. Here's the article: http://www.samsloan.com/one-brid.htm The only thing wrong with chess is chess politics. |
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Aug-18-07
 | | Fusilli: <al wazir: <Morales: There is nothing racist in it.> You're right. Here's the article: http://www.samsloan.com/one-brid.ht...; Unbelievable! I just read it. It's true: there is absolutely nothing racist about it. What you can see instead is a man who was committed to removing Campomanes from the conduction of FIDE. His becoming "persona non grata" must have been simple retaliation. |
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| Oct-22-07 | | whiteshark: Quote of the Day from the Player of the Day:
<The greatest weapon of our enemies is that people will tire of fighting them. <<<<>>>>> --- Ricardo Calvo |
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| Oct-22-07 | | whiteshark: Calvo translated Emanuel Lasker's philosophical writing "Kampf" i.e. "struggle" into Spanish: <Lucha> If you are interested in it, the Spanish version has the ISBN 84-932593-0-6 or you can order the German version directly via the Lasker Society. to view it: http://www.lasker-gesellschaft.de/p...
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May-20-08
 | | keypusher: Here's another link to the article: the ones below seem to be broken. http://www.anusha.com/one-brid.htm
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| Sep-04-08 | | ToTheDeath: What a bizarre and shameful action, trying to destroy a man for an <opinion>. Calvo had a biting wit as this excerpt from his article "On the Nature of FIDE Legitimacy" (http://www.goddesschess.com/chessto...) shows: <FIDE declared me "persona non grata" in 1987. The committee endorsing this decision was headed by USCF representative Arnold Denker [...] Anyway, I want to say a nice word about Denker´s play. When he obtained a certain notoriety by losing a match against a computer, I never believed that Denker could have been bribed. On the contrary, I have reasons to believe that bribes may have played a role in other victories of machine versus man. In the case of Grandmaster Emeritus Denker, I am sure that the machine was much stronger.> Ouch! |
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| Sep-30-08 | | whiteshark: Quote of the Day:
<The greatest weapon of our enemies is that people will tire of fighting them. <<<<<>>>>>> --- Ricardo Calvo
... you've lost already before
... fear is a bad adviser
... tired? |
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| Oct-22-10 | | Oceanlake: I remember that there was a cloud over FIDE during those times. The charge of racism is unsupported by this article. |
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| Dec-08-11 | | Olavi: Calvo beat Campomanes in a pretty game at the 1966 Havanna olympiad. It can be found in other online databases. |
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| Mar-08-12 | | whiteshark: Quote of the Day:
<The greatest weapon of our enemies is that people will tire of fighting them. <<<<>>>>> ~ Ricardo Calvo
or as Sun Tzu put it some 2,500 year ago: "
The best victory is
when the opponent surrenders of its own accord
before there are any actual hostilities...
It is best to win without fighting." |
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| Oct-26-12 | | Karpova: Edward Winter discussing the matter in his feature article <Ricardo Calvo: 'Persona non Grata'> from 1988: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... That's what Arnold Denker said about it: <Let me also commend you on your report on the Calvo matter, which I found to be the fairest and most objective I have seen so far. I say this in spite of the fact that some of your conclusions differ from mine.> |
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Sep-24-16
 | | saffuna: Unless it happened twice, the time Calvo was punched was at Linares in 1992, by a Uruguayan chess writer offended at an article claiming a South American writer was "corrupting" young players. |
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| May-17-22 | | Z free or die: In the Bio...
<In 1987, Dr. Calvo was wrongly condemned by FIDE and declared persona non grata by a vote of 72-1.> I don't agree with the characterization <"wrongly">. This doesn't seem to be a universally held opinion on the matter, at least on a cursory look. And only citing Calvo's rebuttal is insufficient. I don't see the wiki article condemning FIDE's decision as being <wrong> either. Wiki's treatment is far superior. |
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| May-17-22 | | Petrosianic: <Wiki's treatment is far superior.> I'll take Phrases I've Never Heard Before for $500, Alex. Actually, Wiki's treatment isn't really better. They say Calvo was censured for "a racial attack", but don't bother to point out that no such attack actually occurred. They also reproduce quotes saying it's wrong to ban players for their ideas, without bothering to point out that Calvo wasn't banned from play, only censured. But the bio here is unclear at best. It states specifically that Calvo was wrongly condemned, but doesn't bother to say why it was wrong, or what it actually was, beyond "a racial attack", which it obviously wasn't. So, was Calvo wrongly condemned? Well, the racial claim is bogus, but he might arguably have been guilty of the same thing Karjakin was banned for: Bringing chess into disrepute. Calvo's article wasn't about race, but it did make chess politicians look pretty dirty. Deservedly so, to be sure, but that may not be a valid defense. |
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