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Sep-04-07
 | | Benzol: One of the positions Stuart Conquest demonstrated last night at the HPCC.
click for larger viewFrom the good old days when we had adjournments. Stuart playing white is to seal his move. His first question to those gathered around was "Who is better here?" I myself favoured white but after some discussion it was generally agreed that overall black's chances were better. So if you are white "What do you play and how do you proceed to try and draw?" Stuart sealed his move and then went off to have dinner and generally relax whilst his opponent choose to forgo dinner and spent the two hours before the resumption on the analysis of this position. A number of moves and ideas were proposed by our group of players but most of us missed the idea that transpired over the board. To his credit only Edward Tanoi of Papatoetoe Chess Club found Stuart's amusing and quite elegant solution. 1.♗xe8+ ♔xe8
2.♕b5+ ♖xb5 stalemate!
Stuart's poor opponent had looked at just about everything except this for two hours and his faced apparently dropped when Stuart uncorked 2.♕b5+.
Stuart himself was quite amused. |
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| Sep-04-07 | | strifeknot: Excellent, <Benzol>, thanks for posting that! |
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Oct-02-07
| | Benzol: Stuart Conquest was the winner of the 2nd George Trundle NZ Masters Tt. He finished on 7 points ( 9 Rounds ) with Darryl Johansen and Stephen Solomon 2nd= half a point behind. |
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| Mar-01-08 | | whiteshark: To your health, Stuart!
http://www.koenig-plauen.de/Metache... |
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Aug-09-08
| | Benzol: Congratulations Stuart on becoming British Champion for 2008. :) |
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Aug-09-08
 | | chancho: Congrats to Stuart Conquest on winning the British Championship. I remember this photo of Conquest with the great Gazza: http://www.freemag.ir/wordpress/wp-... And here's the game from the simul:
Kasparov vs Conquest, 1983 |
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| Aug-19-08 | | myschkin: . . .
“I’ve never ordered tomato juice in a pub before in my life”
(Interview + Video)
http://tinyurl.com/5egom5
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| Dec-22-08 | | WhiteRook48: he beat Kasparov once but lost a game with 87...Ke6???? 88. Bf5# easy conquest. |
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| Mar-03-09 | | WhiteRook48: have a merry Conquest! |
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| Mar-31-09 | | Dredge Rivers: I prefer his brother, Norman! :) |
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| Mar-31-09 | | Jim Bartle: Unfortunately his rating was only 1066. |
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| Jan-04-10 | | JaneEyre: Stuart makes an appearance at a chess boxing bout:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/20... |
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| Feb-05-10 | | TheFocus: I thought this was a nice quote:
In the former Soviet Union a cleaning woman (with mop and bucket) once pointed out how I could have defended better in a rook ending - GM Stuart Conquest (New In Chess, inside back cover of issue 8 of 2009. |
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Jan-19-11
 | | GrahamClayton: Here is a game not in the database:
[Event "1988 British Championship"]
[Site "Blackpool, England"]
[Date "1988.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Conquest, Stuart"]
[Black "Wall, Tim"]
[ECO "A02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
1. e4 e5 2. ♘f3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. ♘xd4 ♘f6 5. ♘c3 ♗e7 6. ♗d3 0-0 7. 0-0 ♖e8 8. ♔h1 ♘c6 9. ♘xc6 bxc6 10. f4 ♗f8 11. e5 dxe5 12. fxe5 ♘g4 13. ♗f4 ♕d7 14. ♕e1 ♕e6 15. ♕h4 h6 16. h3 g5 17. ♗xg5 hxg5 18. ♕h7# Source: "Learn Chess from the Greats", Peter J. Tamburro, Courier Dover Publications, 2000 |
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| Mar-01-11 | | newzild: Mr. Conquest once beat me in a simul (Hamilton, New Zealand, about 11 years ago). I remember it well, because it's the only time I've ever played a grandmaster. Happy birthday, Mr. Conquest. |
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Mar-01-11
 | | ketchuplover: ditto |
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| Mar-01-12 | | wordfunph: on GM Stuart Conquest..
<2002 Bled Chess Olympiad:
GM Stuart Conquest had been held up literally in England for some days. On his way to the Olympiad, he was robbed of his computer, baggage, and his passport at London's Victoria Station and had been unable to fly with the rest of the team. His belated appearance galvanized his team and helped England to brush Chile aside 4-0.> happy birthday GM Conquest! |
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Aug-05-15
 | | WannaBe: Stuart is not related to Robert Conquest(?), correct? |
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| Mar-01-16 | | waustad: Someday I hope to play in one of the amateur sections of the main tournament he directs. |
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| Mar-01-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Stuart Conquest. |
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| Mar-01-17 | | Marmot PFL: I know the site has to make money but instead of a photo of the GM i'm seeing a tire ad. |
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Aug-21-20
 | | technical draw: A phony name if I ever heard one. Wasn't there a cartoon called Johnny Conquest? |
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| Jan-05-21 | | lentil: It was "Johnny Quest". |
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| Jan-05-21 | | Z4all: To be accurate, "Jonny Quest" (~1964). A fantastic kid's cartoon, with one of the best kick-ass music themes ever (by Hoyt Curtin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gN...
Alex Toth did the character designs, so you know it's gotta be good (plus it's one of Joseph Barbera's favorites too). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkD... (Barbera)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2m... (Curtin) . |
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Jan-05-21
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
Yes <Race Bannon>, <Hadji> and the gang I loved that cartoon. |
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