zanzibar: Another player associated with that opening is Ken Smith, whose games seem completely missing from <CG>.There's a funny entry about the opening, and not having the Smith game or player page to write the anecdote in, it goes here:
<n 1972, Church's Fried Chicken sponsored an international chess tournament in San Antonio. Petrosian, Karpov, Keres, Larsen, Portisch, Gligorich, Hort, and Mecking took on many of North America's best, Browne, Suttles, D. Byrne, Evans, Saidy, Campos-Lopez, and Kaplan.The surprise entry was Chess Digest's Ken Smith, a national master, a local favorite, and, of course, the namesake and chief exponent of the Smith-Morra Gambit. 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Nxc3>
The setup, and now the delivery:
<Smith tried the gambit three times in San Anontio, losing all three times. In his notes to Smith's game against Mario-Campus-Lopez after 1.e4 e6, Larsen wrote: "Stronger is 1...c5, which wins a pawn." >
Which is rather hilarious, in a chessical way.
http://www.queensac.com/tourn3.html