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Ross Sprague

Number of games in database: 25
Years covered: 1957 to 1996
Last FIDE rating: 1979
Highest rating achieved in database: 2290
Overall record: +12 -10 =3 (54.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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ROSS SPRAGUE
(born Oct-10-1940, died 2018, 77 years old) United States of America

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Ross Frederick Sprague won the Ohio Chess Championship in 1958, 1975, 1976, and 2005. In 1968, he won the Mid-Central Open in Indiana.

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 page 1 of 1; games 1-25 of 25  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. R Sprague vs D Byrne 0-129195758th US OpenB72 Sicilian, Dragon
2. Santasiere vs R Sprague  1-045195859th US OpenB20 Sicilian
3. A Saidy vs R Sprague  1-048195960th US OpenA52 Budapest Gambit
4. R Simpson vs R Sprague 0-117195960th US OpenA51 Budapest Gambit
5. O Ulvestad vs R Sprague  1-017195960th US OpenA45 Queen's Pawn Game
6. R Sprague vs G E Hartleb  0-135195960th US OpenC77 Ruy Lopez
7. R Sprague vs G Ramirez  0-124195960th US OpenB57 Sicilian
8. L Gilden vs R Sprague  0-145195960th US OpenE75 King's Indian, Averbakh, Main line
9. R Sprague vs L Evans  ½-½42196061st US OpenB57 Sicilian
10. N Leopoldi vs R Sprague  0-151196061st US OpenD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
11. R Sprague vs C Brasket  ½-½31196061st US OpenB32 Sicilian
12. R Sprague vs E Macskasy 1-022196061st US OpenA07 King's Indian Attack
13. H Davis vs R Sprague  0-122196061st US OpenC55 Two Knights Defense
14. R Sprague vs A Bisguier  0-157196061st US OpenC63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense
15. O Popovych vs R Sprague 0-129196061st US OpenC30 King's Gambit Declined
16. R Sprague vs M Senkiewicz 0-13919678th US Armed Forces chA07 King's Indian Attack
17. Ken Morrisey vs R Sprague  0-125196970th US OpenB32 Sicilian
18. R Sprague vs Bill Wheeler  1-032196970th US OpenB32 Sicilian
19. B Crane vs R Sprague  0-126196970th US OpenB23 Sicilian, Closed
20. R Sprague vs K Dybvig  1-0211975Dayton, OHB02 Alekhine's Defense
21. R Sprague vs E Winslow  0-1351977National Chess LeagueB25 Sicilian, Closed
22. R Sprague vs T Ward  1-0151980Ohio-ch qualC04 French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line
23. R Sprague vs J Harkins  1-0361982Parma OpenA07 King's Indian Attack
24. Deep Thought vs R Sprague 1-0771988PittsburghB22 Sicilian, Alapin
25. R Sprague vs Ray Downs  ½-½351996Queen of HeartsB14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
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Kibitzer's Corner
Aug-06-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  LIFE Master AJ: Ross Sprague was a two or three time champion of the state of Ohio. He is also a "Senior LIFE Master." <original>

<I know Ross, because for about 5-7 years, he lived in this area and attended the Pensacola Chess Club. <(He whomped me in many games.> >

Last I heard, he had moved back to Ohio.

May-16-10  MKalafatas: I wasn't aware that he attended the club in Pensacola. He lived in Cleveland for many years and moved to Dayton some years ago. He is a regular at the Dayton Chess Club. His rating has fallen off over the years, down to near his floor at 2200 now, probably because he plays so often, even when he isn't that motivated.
May-16-10  MKalafatas: AJ, you know me as Mark Chiminiello. Changed my surname 8 years ago (to my birth name). Hope you're well.
May-17-10  I play the Fred: Weird. One of my first grade classmates was a girl with the last name Chiminello. Only time I've heard the name until now, almost 30 years later.
Nov-14-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: This is typical, I suppose: While, so far as I recall, I never met this player, I remember him as being very strong-he had to be ~2400 US in the late 1980s, but represented by only the one game in the DB, as is often the case with masters whose careers played out in the pre-DB era.

<LMAJ> Was 'Senior LM' one of the myriad titles USCF created in their norm-based frenzy some years back, when all one had to do to attain Life Master was make several norms, besides the traditional alternative of earning one's way with 300 games at master level?

Jan-21-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Lets double the number of Ross Sprague games in the database!

[Event "?"]
[Site "Dayton, OH"]
[Date "1975.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Sprague, Ross"]
[Black "Dybvig"]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 Ne4 4. d4 Nxc3 5. bxc3 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Bb5 Qc7 8. O-O Bg4 9. h3 Bxf3 10. Qxf3 e6 11. c4 O-O-O 12. Bxc6 Qxc6 13. cxd5 Qxd5 14. Qxf7 cxd4 15. Bg5 Rd7 16. Qe8+ Kc7 17. Rab1 g6 18. Qa8 Bg7 19. Qxa7 Bxe5


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20. Rxb7+ Qxb7 21. Qc5+ 1-0

Source: Bill Wall, “500 Alekhine Miniatures”, Chess Enterprises, Moon Township, Pennsylvania, 1994

Apr-15-18  reztap: I knew Ross very well when we both lived in the Cleveland Oh area the only Time I played him he shredded my French Defense.
Dec-09-20
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  GrahamClayton: Ross Sprague (1940-2018). Sprague learned to play in Cleveland, the city that would be his home for most of his life. A promising junior player, he made plus scores in the 1957 to 1959 U.S. Opens before a major improvement in 1960, when he tied for seventh at 8½–3½.

Sprague was never a professional player, but that didn’t stop him from being one of the best players in the Midwest for three decades.

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