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| Nov-29-05 | | Swapmeet: Conspiracy! They obviously paired him against Grischuk to knock him out early and give the rest of the GMs a better chance of winning. |
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| Dec-06-05 | | malakaboy: can you change the can of tuna into a can of chili beans i am alergic to tuna |
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| Jan-05-06 | | Karpova: <vampiero: the point of the spaghetti article was to critisize the catholic church, saying that "He" created everythign we touch and feel and that they have "overwhelming proof" of this.> no, they are not criticizing the catholic church but the creationists who are probably in large part not roman-catholic (catholics are outnumbered in the usa). http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005... i don't want to start a debate on evolution (and indeed didn't issue a statement). i just want to rectify a small detail. |
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| Jun-03-06 | | BIDMONFA: Gaston Needleman NEEDLEMAN, Gaston
http://www.bidmonfa.com/needleman_g...
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| Oct-23-06 | | PhilFeeley: Nice win by Needleman over Felgaer recently:
[Event "Buenos Aires ARG, Closed GM-A 2006"]
[Site "Buenos Aires ARG"]
[Date "2006.10.11"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Needleman, G."]
[Black "Felgaer, R."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "2427"]
[BlackElo "2591"]
[PlyCount "169"]
[EventDate "2006.10.02"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "ARG"]
1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 c6 4. a4 Nbd7 5. Nf3 e5 6. Bc4 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Qe2
a5 9. Rd1 Qb6 10. d5 Nc5 11. Be3 Bg4 12. b3 Kh8 13. h3 Bh5 14. g4 Bg6 15. Ne1
Nfd7 16. Nd3 h6 17. f3 Rad8 18. Nxc5 Nxc5 19. Qf2 Qc7 20. Bxc5 dxc5 21. Rd3 Bh7
22. Rad1 Bg8 23. Kg2 Kh7 24. h4 g6 25. dxc6 bxc6 26. Kh3 Qc8 27. Ne2 Rxd3 28.
Rxd3 h5 29. Ng3 Rd8 30. Qd2 Rxd3 31. Qxd3 Kg7 32. Qd2 hxg4+ 33. fxg4 Qd8 34.
Qxd8 Bxd8 35. g5 Bh7 36. Kg4 Be7 37. Nf1 Bd8 38. Nd2 Bc7 39. Nf3 Kf8 40. Kg3
Ke7 41. Kf2 Bd6 42. Ke3 Bc7 43. Kf2 Bd6 44. Ke3 Bc7 45. Kd3 Bd6 46. Nd2 f5 47.
Nf1 Kf8 48. Ne3 f4 49. Ng4 Bg8 50. Bxg8 Kxg8 51. Ke2 Kf7 52. Kf3 Ke6 53. Nh2
Bc7 54. Kg4 Kf7 55. Nf3 Kg7 56. c4 Bb8 57. h5 Bc7 58. hxg6 Kxg6 59. Nh4+ Kf7
60. Kf5 Kg7 61. Ke6 Bd8 62. Kxe5 Bxg5 63. Nf3 Kg6 64. Kd6 Kh5 65. e5 Kg4 66.
Nxg5 Kxg5 67. e6 f3 68. e7 f2 69. e8=Q f1=Q 70. Qe3+ Kg4 71. Kxc6 Qf8 72. Qxc5
Qf3+ 73. Kb5 Qxb3+ 74. Kxa5 Qb8 75. Qb6 Qa8+ 76. Kb4 Kh3 77. c5 Qe4+ 78. Ka5
Qe1+ 79. Ka6 Qe2+ 80. Qb5 Qe6+ 81. c6 Kh2 82. Kb7 Qe4 83. a5 Qe7+ 84. c7 Qe4+
85. Kb8 1-0 |
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| Oct-23-06 | | ConLaMismaMano: On this recent torunament Needleman was 0.5 points shy of becoming Argentinas youngest GM ever (16 yo), he needed 7.5, but came up second behind Ricardi with 7 points out of 10 rounds (i think). |
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| Nov-22-06 | | Caissanist: Spanish-language article on the Buenos Aires tournament: http://www.chessbase.com/espanola/n.... |
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Jun-28-07
 | | WannaBe: Just saw on the FIDE web-site, he is an IM, (his father just recently joined him as IM too!) Don't recall when the younger Needleman got his IM title. |
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| Jul-10-08 | | siggemannen: what happened to this guy? |
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| Jul-10-08 | | myschkin: http://ratings.fide.com/hist.phtml?... |
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| Jul-10-08 | | zoren: probably ELO leveled off |
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| Jul-10-08 | | myschkin: some more games 2007:
http://www.365chess.com/players/Gas... |
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| Jul-20-08 | | 0o0o0o0o0: <siggemannen> Puberty. |
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| Dec-08-08 | | siggemannen: hehe, that's the downfall of all men! |
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| Dec-08-08 | | Augalv: This guy seemed promising. |
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Aug-26-09
| | WannaBe: Been a while, what's going on with with (this/the) kid?? Any tournment updates?? |
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| Oct-14-09 | | tibone: what happened to him? |
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| Feb-06-10 | | Billy Vaughan: The only way to beat Needleman is with <Gemini Man>'s powers! |
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| Jul-19-10 | | Augalv: <what happened to him?> He quit chess. |
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| Aug-14-11 | | wordfunph: his last tour was in 2007, hope he makes a comeback. |
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| Dec-17-20 | | thegoldenband: <Billy Vaughan: The only way to beat Needleman is with <Gemini Man>'s powers!> Underrated joke, that! |
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Oct-21-23
 | | FSR: On this page there was much discussion of an incident in 2005. I found it hard to follow. In brief, the top seven finishers at the American Continental Championship (2005) would qualify for the 2005 World Cup. Bruzon finished first. Seven other players tied for second, half a point behind. They were Gata Kamsky, Julio Granda, Alexander Onischuk, Giovanni Vescovi, Ruben Felgaer, Gilberto Milos, and Gaston Needleman. All were GMs rated over 2600, except Needleman, a 15-year-old boy rated just 2242, who had just had the tournament of his life. Since only six of the seven could qualify, there was a rapid playoff to determine which would be odd man out. As explained at https://en.chessbase.com/post/-chec... the GMs mostly played quick draws among themselves and fought hard only against poor Needleman. He finished last in the playoff with a win, a draw, and four losses, thus failing to qualify for the World Cup. Apart from Needleman's games, there was only one decisive game in the playoff. The playoff result generated a lot of outrage at how the GMs had seemingly ganged up on young Needleman. However, FIDE President Kirsan Ilzhuminov extended a wild card invitation to the World Cup to Needleman. He was eliminated in the first round, losing 2-0 to No. 4 seed Alexander Grischuk. |
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| Oct-21-23 | | Caissanist: He does play occasionally. All his tournaments are in the province of Mendoza, an isolated area on the Chilean border. I guess if you live there it's not so easy to get a game, especially at his level. |
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| Oct-21-23 | | stone free or die: Please not the following chessbase pre-script intro to the main story(*) - the same story given in <FSR>'s, wiki's, and the bio above: <Before the somewhat dramatized account that follows, a quick update. In a brief conversation with young Gastón he said he didn't believe there was any conspiracy against him. We also found out from him that the progression of the tiebreak tournament makes any such collusion very unlikely. Needleman had the bye in the first round and beat Milos in the second round while Felgaer lost to Granda. It would have been crazy to agree to short draws while behind. Gastón added that Kamsky and Granda played a full game at the start. We thank him for his honesty and congratulate him on his tremendous result.> https://en.chessbase.com/post/-chec... (*) The source of the "main" story - as given by <CB> is an article <La Nación> by Iarlos A. Ilardo. * * * * *
Given the counter-story and disavowal by Needleman himself, I would suggest editing the <CG> bio above. What do other biographers think?
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Oct-21-23
| | FSR: <stone free or die> I changed the text to make it more equivocal, and to add Needleman's denial that there was a conspiracy. Is it OK now? |
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