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Apr-25-16
 | | MissScarlett: Is that strictly legal? And where's the concluding section? |
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| Apr-25-16 | | zanzibar: <MissS> writes...
<Is that strictly legal?> If a published, pre-1963, non-renewed then yes:
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resour... Plus CMU allows the PDF to be freely downloaded.
But copyright law is complicated, and the above should not be construed as legal advice. <And where's the concluding section?> I would suggest cleaning off your glasses and giving it another look (if not a read). . |
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| Apr-25-16 | | zanzibar: BTW- can we get a margin call in?
Kashdan's photo looks chintzy⁽ยน⁾ with the top margin uneven like that (imo). I know that's how the wiki photo is, but can't we do better? Either crop it or even it out with photoshop ink-stamp, would be my suggestion. * * * * *
(1) <chintz (n.) 1719, plural of chint (1610s), from Hindi chint, from Sanskrit chitra-s "clear, bright" (compare cheetah). The plural (the more common form of the word in commercial use) became regarded as singular by late 18c., and for unknown reason shifted -s to -z; perhaps after quartz. Disparaging sense, from the commonness of the fabric, is first recorded 1851 in George Eliot (in chintzy).> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php...
(s->z transistions are z-approved, btw) |
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Apr-25-16
| | MissScarlett: <I would suggest cleaning off your glasses and giving it another look> Yes. I'd just rolled out of bed at an ungodly hour and was on my Ipad Mini. |
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| May-30-16 | | Marcelo Bruno: Did he have a profession besides his chess career? |
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May-30-16
 | | perfidious: The Wikipedia link above notes that Kashdan went into the insurance field to make a living. |
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| Nov-19-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Isaac Kashdan! |
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| Nov-19-16 | | Petrosianic: And many more! |
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| Nov-18-18 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: He was my tournament director in a California Junior Championship. I was a little bit awestruck. But I did tell him of agreeing to a quick "grandmaster draw". He did not seem to approve. :) It was perhaps a good strategy in retrospect. That tournament was a bit of an endurance slog, and I did wind up winning the prize for my age group. |
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Nov-18-18
 | | Diocletian: Happy Birthday, Isaac.
I remember this game Kashdan vs O Tenner, 1934 from my childhood. It appeared as a "chess movie" in one of I.A. Horowitz series of elementary opening books.
click for larger view You can also see Kashdan on you tube Groucho Marx show, "You bet your life." Someone on this page left a link. somewhere |
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Dec-14-18
| | Diocletian: WHITE TO MOVE
Diagram above is after 20...Qd6. |
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Dec-14-18
 | | moronovich: 21.Bc7 |
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| Dec-14-18 | | Cibator: <FSR: <zdigyigy: Very rare to see such a strong player become a TD.>
GM Lothar Schmid was the arbiter for the Fischer-Spassky World Championship match. I believe that Gligoric was the arbiter for their 1992 rematch.> Add to the above:
1960: Stahlberg (assisted by Golombek)
1966: O'Kelly de Galway and Filip
These are off the top of my head. It's proved surprisingly hard to find out quickly who was arbiter at other WCMs! |
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| Dec-14-18 | | Olavi: The strongest was perhaps Vidmar in 1948, he was World number 4-6 for some time in the 20', I'd say. |
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| Dec-15-18 | | Caissanist: Max Euwe was also a TD, though the only tournament that I know he directed was the 1956 Candidates. |
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Dec-15-18
 | | gezafan: According to Chessmetrics Kashdan was the number 2 player in the world in the early 1930s. |
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| Dec-15-18 | | Olavi: Yes. That highlights one problem with chessmetrics. Capablanca had dropped entirely due to inactivity, and if you look at Kashdan's results before those 1933 lists, I think it's clear that he wasn't number two. But he was considered a possible challenger. |
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| Dec-15-18 | | Caissanist: Kashdan's high ranking in the early 1930s is mostly a reflection of the fact that there were virtually no great players born between 1892 and 1911, unless Euwe counts. Most of the top players of the early 1930s had fallen back from the top by the end of that decade, never to returns. |
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Dec-15-18
| | perfidious: Had never really given that gap much thought, in contradistinction to the oft-mentioned period from 1936-1951 which featured the birth of no top-class player except Fischer (Spassky was born in 1937, it is true, but made his ascent before Tal). It was only when Botvinnik, Reshevsky, Keres, Flohr and Fine came into their own by 1935 that the old guard began to fade away. |
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| Dec-18-18 | | Caissanist: If you consider Flohr to be a great player, then I guess you'd have to move the date up from 1911 to 1908. I don't--his best days were already behind him by 1937, when he was only 28, so he seems to be another beneficiary of the lack of strong competition in the early to mid thirties. |
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Dec-18-18
| | perfidious: Flohr scored some fine results in the early thirties and Alekhine tipped him as a potential challenger in an interview ca 1932 (cf Sergeant). Does this make him great? I rather doubt that also, though possibly Flohr's best result came at Leningrad-Moscow 1939, shortly after having been all but written off as a title contender due to finishing as bottom marker at AVRO. |
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Apr-25-21
 | | Gottschalk: <fredthebear>
Thank you for mentioning my nickname. I am happy to know that someone has approved a collection that I have organized: so...my time not wasted! Cool, enjoy! |
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Jun-10-23
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Stunning but true--Isaac Kashdan once appeared on "Your Bet Your Life," Groucho Marx's TV game show from the 1950s. Groucho actually challenged Kashdan to a game for money. Groucho quickly backed down. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x... |
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| Jun-10-23 | | stone free or die: Forget Kashdan, that's Tony Curtis' mother (mama) up there with him! . |
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| Nov-05-23 | | djvanscoy: In Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual, Exercise 2/8 is this position with White to move:
click for larger viewDvoretsky cites the source as the game I.Horowitz, I.Kashdan, 1928. I don't see this position occurring in the sole 1928 game on this site between Israel Albert Horowitz as White and Kashdan as Black. As far as I can tell, it does not occur in any of the other 24 games between the two on this site. And I don't see a record of any other "I.Horowitz" who played Kashdan in 1928. Is this a misattribution by Dvoretsky or an omission from this site? Is the full game in which this position occurred available anywhere? |
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