| Aug-12-15 | | wrap99: This was a player who was active in Los Angeles probably beyond the 1970s. An expert in the pre-rating inflation days. |
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| Dec-04-15 | | yiotta: I'm sure he was active at least into the early nineties. |
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Dec-04-15
 | | Stonehenge: I have uploaded some more games. |
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| Dec-26-16 | | wrap99: <Stonehenge> I guess you added the 2003 games? I wonder if he is still around. He would be in his 80s at least. A very nice guy. |
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| Dec-26-16 | | yiotta: Until perhaps a year ago I saw Sid almost daily at the market I work at, frugally buying his daily needs. We talked when we had the chance, more about baseball than about chess. Sadly, it's been a long time since I've seen him. Thanks for adding games, Stonehenge. |
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| Dec-27-16 | | andrewjsacks: Lovely, gentle man. True lover of chess. |
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Dec-27-16
 | | perfidious: From the selection of games, Rubin seems to have had an aggressive style, in contradistinction to the pleasant person away from the board as attested to by some posters here. In that respect, he would be like some strong players I have known. |
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| Dec-27-16 | | wrap99: <yiotta> It's good to know he was still around so recently. I first met him in 1974 and I would guess he was in his 30s or 40s then. I believe he worked for the postal service. The tournament I played him at was the open section of a Fresno tournament that attracted the then 15-year-old Marcel Sisniega who I think may have won 6/0 or 5/0. |
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| Nov-02-18 | | activitesfshwc: Hello, anyone interested playing with chess master Sidney Rubin? He is always looking for a challenge and always ready to win. Hmu for more info. |
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Oct-28-21
 | | NMABQjmgChess: IF this is the Sid Rubin I think it is, and from your posts, it is, Yes he is a very nice guy. I played him in a lot of casual games at the Friday night meetings of the Santa Monica Bay Chess Club back in the early 80s. I do not play well and lost often to him but, again, he is a gentlemen and always a pleasure to speak with. He was always nice to me. I hope he is still alive. |
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Oct-29-21
| | Stonehenge: Findagrave has a Sidney Joseph Rubin.
Birth Date 11 Dec 1930
Death Date 31 Jan 2021
Cemetery: Riverside (CA) National Cemetery.
I don't know if he's the chess player Sid Rubin. |
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| Mar-10-22 | | wrap99: The age is about right, I think he would have been in his 40s in 1975. |
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| Nov-14-22 | | 47pitch: Sid composed beautiful chess studies. He and I were CSULA Math grad students in early 70’s. We worked together on math problems. Later his work was published in a math journal. IMO, his work was the forerunner of the technique used to solve the 4 color problem |
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| Sep-25-23 | | wrap99: @47pitch: interesting but not surprising that sid was a math guy -- had he been born a little later I bet he would have become a software developer. |
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