| Jul-26-08 | | Madman99X: I actually played David Sprenkle (I think it was the same man) in a simul in Spokane, WA circa 2006. He took on the entire Spokane chess club, and Went something like 13-1-1. I lasted about 70 moves, but round about move 50, it ceased to be much of a simul, because mine and another board were the only two left. I resigned in a position which looked something like this, in light of the fact that his elo is is probably 1000 pts higher than mine.
click for larger viewThat and the position was hopeless. |
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| Sep-26-11 | | jackpawn: Anybody know what Sprenkle is doing nowadays? I drew a tournament game against him in the late 70's. I remember I had a lone queen against several pieces, but he couldn't avoid the checks. |
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Sep-27-11
 | | HeMateMe: Sprenkle sie Deutsch? |
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Sep-27-11
 | | FSR: I played Sprenkle twice, with White in F Rhine vs D Sprenkle, 1981, and with Black in the 1982 Midwest Masters. Both games involved pet openings of his: the Nimzowitsch Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6) and the Ponziani (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3). The former game is theoretically important, and was published in Chess Informant, where 18.Nxd6! was voted the 8th-9th most theoretically important game of the volume; and in ECO. A year or so after the game Sprenkle played in a tournament in South Africa. He remarked later, "I go to South Africa, and all anyone wants to know is who Fred Rhine is!" (In those days we didn't have databases, so the game in Informant might have been the only game of Sprenkle's that his opponents could find.) As it happened, Albert Chow and I had worked up a theoretical novelty for Sprenkle's Ponziani. He got worried that he was going to lose <another> theoretical game to me and deviated from the main line, whereupon I equalized easily. He was worried (rightly) that he stood worse, and offered a draw, which I accepted. My 1.5 out of 2 against him was a good result, since I was an expert both times I played him, while he was over 2300. Sprenkle was a strong player. I haven't seen him for many years. |
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Nov-12-11
 | | GrahamClayton: <jackpawn>Anybody know what Sprenkle is doing nowadays? <jackpawn>,
Sprenkle won the Spokane, Washington city championship in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, before moving to the US midwest region. |
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| Nov-23-11 | | Sprenk: GrahamClayton is correct. My wife and I have lived in Knoxville, TN, Jupiter, FL, and Spokane, WA. We have two daughters. We're now living in beautiful Traverse City, MI, teaching English at Northwestern Michigan College. I still try to play in a tournament or two a year, and I'm pleased that my rating hasn't settled down onto my rating floor (2200) quite yet. I've shed the eccentric opening repertoire which I was know for in the '80's (and which FSR exploited so adroitly twice), but I'm still an aggressive player. HeMateMe, Sprenkle is indeed a German name which means "speckle" or "freckle" (perhaps that explains my bad case of youthful acne). Apparently the Sprenkles I'm descended from came to the U.S. in the 1700's. I hear that half the Sprenkles in the U.S. still live in the same rural Pennsylvania county. |
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Nov-23-11
| | FSR: Hi, David. Good to "see" you again after all these years. |
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May-22-12
| | FSR: My other game with Sprenkle (a short draw) is at http://www.365chess.com/game.php?gi.... More of his games are at http://www.365chess.com/players/Dav.... |
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| Apr-01-16 | | luftforlife: Only a few may remember it now, but in his heyday, FM David Sprenkle was more than just a dynamic and successful chess player. He was also responsible for bringing to light and unleashing on the world (well, on Urbana, Illinois, anyway) the wit and wisdom of the one and only Miroseg Zog. Here is the opening salvo (I've cleaned up a few typos -- guess the old Royal manual down at Illinois Chess Bulletin headquarters was a bit jumpy): "Ask Miroseg"
"Good news certainly travels fast! Already numerous ICB readers have been pestering me with inquiries about the defection of that famed Albanian theoretician, Miroseg Zog. I am pleased to report that the 'Animal of the Adriatic' is already losing himself in the great ethnic melting pot that is Chicago, but he still fears retribution from the Albanian Secret Police. I'm sure you'll understand when I explain that at present only myself (and the State Department) know his whereabouts. So no more inquiries about simuls! "Already I've conducted an interview with our new arrival, which should be of some interest to the chess world." Before clicking the link below to read on (page 11), I suggest a take-out order from the Olympia Diner ("Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger . . . no Coke; Pepsi . . . ."): http://il-chess.net/icb_pdf/ICB_198... |
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Apr-01-16
 | | perfidious: <FSR....(Sprenkle) played in a tournament in South Africa. He remarked later, "I go to South Africa, and all anyone wants to know is who Fred Rhine is!"> Droll.
All these years on, and some of us continue to ask that question! (laughs) |
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