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| Aug-21-05 | | sitzkrieg: I highly recommend his book STAR Chess. Nice chessgames, nice comments and ideas, and some original puzzles and jokes make a good book for the not too serious chessplayer. |
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| Jun-13-06 | | BIDMONFA: Paul Motwani MOTWANI, Paul
http://www.bidmonfa.com/motwani_pau...
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| Jun-13-09 | | wordfunph: GM Jonathan Rowson once asked GM Paul Motwani, "If you were a chess piece, which would you be?" Paul replied that he'd be a knight because it can get everywhere albeit slowly. Happy Birthday GM Paul Motwani!!! |
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| Jun-13-10 | | wordfunph: "A wise player does not move his king into a corner without good reason, because apart from one precious tempo being spent, the king may well be required later near the middle of the
board to play a central role in the struggle."
- GM Paul Motwani
happy birthday Paul! |
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Jun-13-11
 | | ketchuplover: He likes his chess H.O.T and C.O.L.D. |
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Jun-13-11
 | | fm avari viraf: He is a very good gentleman GM. I met him a couple of times during my participation in the International Chess Tournaments at Hastings. I won a Prize [a chess book by Motwani] in the International Blitz Chess Tournament at Hastings, U.K.
<ConLaMismaMano> His last name Motwani comes from the Indian origin. |
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| Jun-28-11 | | wordfunph: "Do you remember your first-ever game of chess? In my case, I still enjoy thinking back to 1973, when, as an 11-year-old schoolboy, I faced a classmate named Ann Fraser. After
1.e4 d6, she played 2.Bb5+ and announced 'Checkmate'! I was stunned and asked for an explanation, to which she replied, 'It's check and your king can't move.'" - GM Paul Motwani (from his book H.O.T. Chess) |
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| Dec-31-12 | | Abdel Irada: <Becoming Scotland's first GM in 1992 he later moved with his family from Dundee to Belgium.> Aye. It would never do to let Scotland have a GM of its own for a second longer than necessary. ;-) |
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| Dec-31-12 | | Abdel Irada: <After 1.e4 d6, she played 2.Bb5+ and announced 'Checkmate'! I was stunned and asked for an explanation, to which she replied, 'It's check and your king can't move.'"> There was a teenage girl in Santa Cruz who occasionally liked to challenge into blitz rotations at a local café, in spite of her vast inexperience. On one memorable occasion, she sat down across from a B-player and played about thirty moves. Then, capturing a pawn in directly front of his king with her bishop, she grandly proclaimed "Check and *mate*!" and stalked triumphantly from the room before anyone could explain that her opponent wasn't in check. |
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Jun-13-14
| | ketchuplover: Pleasant birthday Paul :) |
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| Aug-05-14 | | Octavia: <Aye. It would never do to let Scotland have a GM of its own for a second longer than necessary. ;-)> another 2 come to mind: J Rowson who now lives in England & Jacob Aagard who got his GM title living in Sco & now plays for Denmark. However Sco also has 2 'foreign' GMs who play for Sco - does that even it out? |
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| May-25-15 | | TheFocus: <Tenacity is a very important quality for a chess player to develop. For example, it may mean stubbornly defending a difficult position for a long time… (or) you may be sitting with an advantageous position, but meeting resistance from your opponent. Then you need to be tenacious in order to nurture your advantage patiently, keep your opponent under pressure, and finally break down his resistance> - Paul Motwani. |
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Jun-13-15
| | ketchuplover: May your chess always be hot and cool :) |
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Jun-13-15
 | | eternaloptimist: Happy Birthday to 1 of my favorite chess book authors/players! I'm reading H.O.T. Chess again now, & I bought C.O.O.L. Chess about 3 weeks ago. I plan to buy some of his other books eventually. The quote that <wordfunph> pointed out where the girl thought that she checkmated him is 1 of my favorites. There were actually 5 ways to block the check after she played 2)Bb5+. The "tenacious" quote that <TheFocus> pointed out is at the beginning of chapter 2 of H.O.T. Chess & is also a good quote. H.O.T. Chess is his 1st book & like some of his other books, uses mnemonics to help ppl remember principles that should be used when playing chess. He's 1 of the most creative chess book authors/players that I've ever seen.
<ketchuplover> Amen! :) |
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| Aug-27-16 | | diagonal: H.E.R.O. of the month, Self-Portrait by Paul Motwani:
http://www.chesspublishing.com/cont... Paul Motwani (then IM, later GM, the first ever of Scotland) won the inaugural <Watson, Farley, Williams> tournament at London in 1988 ahead of shared Sadler, Levitt and Arkell; twelve players including Hodgson, Hebden, King, Evans, Fedorowicz, and Westerinen; maybe Motwani's biggest success: http://www.365chess.com/tournaments... The 1989 and 1990 <WFW> editions (always with a bunch of brits and some guest stars from abroad) both saw the Danish Dynamite Bent Larsen carry off first prize, a feat he repeated the same year at an additional WFW held in New York as a curtain raiser side event of the 1990 WCC match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov which was split, with the first 12 games played in New York, USA, and the final 12 in Lyon, France. In the <WFW> 1991 at London again, Alexander Khalifman and William Watson won, triple WFW winner Bent Larsen tied for sixth to eight with Mihai Suba and Robert Byrne. |
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| Jun-13-17 | | rea: Scots, wha hae wi' Motwani bled,
Scots, wham Rowson has aften led;
Welcome to your gory bed,
Or to victory! |
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| Jun-13-17 | | AlastairMarston: Really nice bloke. Met him at the Isle of Man tournament in the early 90's. He was a Maths Teacher (like myself) but was on a years sabbatical with the aim of qualifying as a GM. Good to see that he managed it! |
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Jun-13-17
 | | Sally Simpson: Happy birthday Paul.
You once noted up one of my early games in 'Scottish Chess' by saying "Chandler has never played a boring game in his life." I tried to live up to that. Can I stop now. I'd like to win a few. |
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Jun-13-17
 | | offramp: <Sally Simpson: Happy birthday Paul.
You once noted up one of my early games in 'Scottish Chess' by saying "Chandler has never played a boring game in his life." I tried to live up to that. Can I stop now. I'd like to win a few.> Bravo! That is a lovely testament from Motters, you must be happy with that! |
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Jun-13-17
| | eternaloptimist: Happy birthday to GM Paul Motwani! I have enjoyed & still enjoy his chess books & playing over his games. <Sally Simpson> lol 😃 |
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Jun-13-17
| | Sally Simpson: Hi eternaloptimist,
Yes I have them all including an autographed 'Hot Chess'. Chatty, Instructive, humorous and thought provoking. You can not ask more from a chess book. Excellent. Today he just started his own blog.
https://paulmotwani.com/ |
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Jun-14-17
| | eternaloptimist: Hi <Sally Simpson>
😎 So u have an autographed copy of Hot Chess! I love that book! I also have Cool Chess & I'm thinking about buying some of his other books. Btw which book of his is your favorite? If u can't narrow it down to 1, which books r your favorites? Actually I saw on his Facebook wall where he mentioned his new blog. I plan to read some of it soon. |
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Jun-12-20
| | Sally Simpson: Happy Birthday G.M. Paul Motwani. |
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Dec-23-22
 | | GrahamClayton: Has Paul explained why the titles of his books are acronyms, eg H.O.T Chess, C.O.O.L Chess, S.T.A.R Chess? |
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| Dec-23-22 | | pazzed paun: Yes
He
Has if you read his books |
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