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Nov-27-20
 | | beatgiant: <perfidious>
I could post a "tip of the iceberg" joke, but it's no laughing matter for Sherwin. He was cleared of all wrongdoing, a rare event in such kind of federal prosecutions. |
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| Feb-24-21 | | Petrosianic: I wonder if Jimmy has ever considered changing his middle name from Terry to Tiberius? No reason, it would just sound cool. |
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Feb-24-21
 | | Joshka: I always enjoyed the shows on PBS when Shelby Lyman, Edmar Mednis, and Jimmy were co-hosting doing the World Chess Championship coverage of the 1978 match between Karpov/Korchnoi, and in 1981. Amazing how they saw sometimes 5 to 7 moves deep in a combo that patzers like me were thinking allowing us to finally see the poison at the very end!! |
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| Apr-06-21 | | Ironmanth: Always respected this IM immensely. One of the stalwart tough old masters of the last age. Thanks, James T. Sherwin, for your determined play and contributions to our beloved game. Peace out, brother. |
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| Mar-21-22 | | Nosnibor: James is playing in a tournament in Bristol, England next month. At the present time he is the third highest rated player within the event. Best of luck to the 88 year old veteran. |
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| Mar-21-22 | | Nosnibor: I should also mention that this is a blitz tournament which makes it amazing considering his age. |
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Jul-20-22
 | | Dionysius1: Amazing: he scored 6/9 https://twitter.com/elgransenor1/st... |
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Jul-21-22
| | Joshka: Jimmy was always very entertaining and funny, correcting mistakes by Shelby on World Chess Championship shows hosted by Lyman, Jimmy, and Mednis. Sometimes Lyman would have 3 bishops or 2 kings for the white or black pieces when using the demonstration board to educate the public on the Royal game. |
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| Apr-18-23 | | howardb86: Stunning info regarding his age; believe me I knows how hard it is in your 80's to play well at all- but 88 yrs of age has me mainly teaching my grandchildren. And not playing like I did in college. So my comment is to play with vigor as long as you 'like' this wonderful game. Eh? |
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| Apr-18-23 | | savagerules: Does he still slide the Rook with his pinky as Fischer noted in the first game of My 60 Memorable Games book? "Sherwin slid the Rook here with his pinky, as if to emphasize the cunning of this mysterious move." |
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Jun-14-23
 | | fiercebadger: check out the perpetual chess broadcast about James Sherwin 89 great stories about Bobby etc. |
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Oct-21-24
 | | FSR: I think Sherwin and Saidy are the last living prominent players from the U.S. in the late '50s. Unless you count Raymond Weinstein, possibly still "alive," drugged up in a psychiatric hospital. |
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Oct-21-24
 | | paulalbert: Very ancient history ( about 50 years ago ), I was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and Jimmy Sherwin as Executive Vice President at GAF was a client . He was also at that time President of the American Chess Foundation and I was a Foundation Trustee. On one GAF business assignment we spent a fair amount of time flying around together both in the U.S. and to Europe and we played a lot of skittles chess games together. He was an IM and I not very highly rated and certainly no chess title, but occasionally play well, and actually I won a few games, but no scores kept of the games. At least my draw against GM Roman Dzindzihashvili I still have the score, and also my losses to GM Lev Alburt ( final mistake in R and P endgame threw away a draw ) and Magnus ( no hope against his Grand Prix attack against my Sicilian ). |
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Oct-22-24
 | | HeMateMe: Paul, a lot of gifted chess players seem to find their way into finance. Is it quick wits (be on the trading floor) or perhaps being a programmer? Perhaps a guy/gal working in research or in the macro 'big picture' department? Investment banking? In your opinion what area of finance best suits GM/IM level chess stars? |
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Oct-23-24
| | paulalbert: To: HeMateMe
Many years ago some of the banks oriented towards recruiting chess players for the trading area, mostly fixed income which has some complex mathematics and trading strategies. If i had to pick a financial area especially suitable to strong chess players that would probably be the area. I note that chess players are also now very attracted to poker playing and some have had some success, both men and women chess players. There is a recent article about Almira Skripchenko's and Jennifer Shahade's poker playing. GM Michael Rhode who won my U.S. Championship Brilliancy Prize several times many years ago I think still is an active poker player and even Magnus plays for money. I never had much interest in cards and gambling, never playing chess for money. When i would play the chess hustlers in the parks in NY, I would just pay them a fixed fee for playing, not wanting any money even when I won. My wife and I are still very active stock and bond market investors including using option strategies, but not doing short term trading. Emanuel Lasker was a very strong bridge player.My parents, particularly my mother who was the better player, wanted me to focus more on bridge, deeming chess not being very socially oriented, but I never had much interest. |
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Oct-24-24
| | HeMateMe: Magriel seems to embody the idea of the chess player who can master many pursuits <Paul David Magriel Jr. (pronounced Ma-grill) (July 1, 1946 – March 5, 2018) was an American professional backgammon player, poker player, and author based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Magriel became New York State Junior Chess Champion (January 1967) at the age of 20, while a student at New York University.> I read somewhere online that he was already known as a hardcore poker/backgammon/chess gambler at the age of 16. <Magriel had several notable finishes in poker tournaments from the mid-1990s in Europe, playing in London, Paris and Vienna in Omaha, hold'em and seven-card stud events. He won the €2,000 no limit hold'em event at the Aviation Club de France in September 2002, defeating a field including Pascal "Triple P" Perrault, Patrick Bruel and Simon "Aces" Trumper on the way to the €48,600 first prize. In March 2003, he made his first World Poker Tour (WPT) final table, finishing 4th in the $5,000 no limit hold'em World Poker Challenge event in Reno. Magriel finished in the money eight times at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), which includes one cash in the Main Event in 2010, he has also made the final table on the Professional Poker Tour and Ultimate Poker Challenge.> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_...> I own his book <backgammon> which was considered the best work on the game, at it's time. People who play feel that he was eclipsed as a writer and player by Bill Robertie. Robertie was also the winner of the USA speed chess championship when the tournament existed, which I'm guessing was five minute chess with no increments. |
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Oct-24-24
| | paulalbert: Another very well known multiple games person is Asa Hoffmann, who essentially has made his living by playing games for money, not only chess. Asa and I are the same age 81. Asa's card as I remember it had the title "Master Gamer " Unfortunately since I have been living in Texas the last 5 years, I no longer get to mingle with the numerous colorful characters at the Marshall Chess Club. Another is IM jay Bonin who also was an active poker player. |
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| Oct-24-24 | | stone free or die: <<PA> Unfortunately since I have been living in Texas the last 5 years, I no longer get to mingle with the numerous colorful characters at the Marshall Chess Club. > <PA> not to mention, as gleamed from your profile, your " anti-chess spouse"! (I'm afraid to ask if that was tongue-in-cheek or not) |
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Oct-24-24
| | HeMateMe: I imagine 5here are some 'anti poker' spouses out there... |
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Oct-26-24
| | paulalbert: To stone free or die:
My reference to "anti-chess spouse" was not entirely tongue in cheek. My wife actually knows how play chess so likes it as just a frivolous amusement, but not as an obsession, regarding many top level chess players as eccentric, nerdy, unkempt, anti social individuals unable to make a living, certainly true in some cases many years ago. In those days mothers wanted their sons to be athletes, not GMs. Chess is very different now, both more popular and more respectable to be a professional player.
As to serious amateur players who are married especially with children, going to big open tournaments held over Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Easter, etc. is what spouses find objectionable about chess. I seldom did and have managed to remain married for 57 years.
I taught our son chess starting at 5, but he never had a serious interest, and instead was a varsity athlete, honor roll student with an engineering degree, and now a successful businessman, so my wife has few current complaints related to what is now regrettably my limited chess activity. |
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| Oct-26-24 | | stone free or die: <paulalbert> thank you for that charming reply. I hope that you and your wife celebrate many more anniversaries together, going beyond your diamond celebration. I'd mention the oak anniversary, but that might be a bit hard to get to. https://www.caketoppers.co.uk/page/... Cheers. |
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Oct-27-24
| | HeMateMe: Paul Albert, have you ever met Texas Grandmaster Ron Henley? I read somewhere that he was working in the options sector of investments in the '80s or '90s. I think he was also some sort of advisor or chess second to Anatoly Karpov for a few years. |
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Oct-31-24
| | paulalbert: I met Ron Henley (that I specifically remember but possibly some other times ) ) in 1992.
Bob Rice, then a law partner in NY at prestigious firm Milbank Tweed, I , and a few other members of the so-called Wall Street chess club put up a fair amount of money to create a demo video tape with the idea of creating a televised chess league to be called the American Chess Challenge. We had a sportscaster from TV , Bob Beck, as announcer , and GMs John Federowicz and GM Maurice Ashley as game commentators and 8 players including Ron, Judith and Sofia Polgar and 5 other GMs ( I cannot recall the 5 others ) playing in a knockout , sudden death 5 minute blitz, format. This is all before the internet, increment clocks, etc. Ron won against Judith and as I remember was the event winner. We had a studio audience including me, the other investors, and other invited chess fans.
Unfortunately Bob was unable to get any TV network to pick up our idea.
I do not have a copy of the tape. Maybe Bob still has a complete version
I found the portion of Ron's game versus Judith on Utube. How it was attained I have no idea, but it is worth watching to see the concept of the American Chess Challenge idea. |
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| Oct-31-24 | | stone free or die: The oldest version of the game was put on youtube twelve years ago(*): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ_...
I would have put it on the game page if <CG> had one. (*) There are other versions out there, but it appears they just ripped off the content. . |
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Nov-01-24
| | paulalbert: To: stone free or die
Thanks for posting the youtube game between Ron and Judith which I mentioned seeing. I also had seen it years ago. I noted there is a reference to it coming from Ron Henley's private collection. Perhaps he has a copy of the complete tape. The sports announcer was Bruce Beck, not Bob as I wrote. Also showing how long ago this was, Maurice was not yet even an IM. I remember the game very well particularly the threat of the chimney mate. |
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