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Nov-01-21
 | | FSR: <Z truth 000000001> No, I don't. I've been agitating for years to have a photo of Albert here, but it's never happened for some reason. I was told recently that chessgames hasn't added any new photos for years. I just sent an e-mail to Rob Eaman, our team captain, asking if he has any pictures of Chow. I suspect he does. |
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| Nov-01-21 | | Z truth 000000001: <FSR> thanks for the reply, and yes, let's hope that your captain does release a few pictures into PD. As far as <CG> goes, the lack of any new photos is mostly due to Daniel's death as he personally handled the additions (and he alone?). I know many of my submissions to him were added - though even he was often remiss and needed plodding on more than one occasion. https://zanchess.wordpress.com/2016... . |
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Nov-01-21
| | FSR: <Z truth 000000001> Rob sent me a couple of pictures, but they were team pictures where Albert is one of many players you see. Not very good. Google Images has some good pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=che... The FIDE one strikes me as the best. chessgames could ask FIDE for permission to use it. chessdrum has a couple of pictures. I'm a friend of Daaim Shabazz, its proprietor, and I'm sure he'd consent to using it. Chicago Chess Blog, to which I used to be a contributor, has a photo of Chow playing Bill Smythe. This was probably taken by Maret Thorpe, another friend of mine. I'm sure she'd consent to chessgames using it. Which do you like best? |
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| Nov-01-21 | | Z truth 000000001: The FIDE picture is good, of course - but I'm always a bit unsure if their pictures are PD (Public Domain) or not. I think SCID is using them as such, but I'm hesitant to do the same, least til I know the true status. I've always wished <CG> had a photo gallery for each player - especially for players whose careers we follow from childhood into adulthood. Or for other players, like Chow and John Watson, whose career also spanned distinct periods of different fashions. But if I had to pick one photo for Chow, the FIDE photo would definitely be a contender: https://ratings.fide.com/profile/20...
(What year is this from?)
Another, much earlier photo I like is this one from the now deceased Jerry Bibuld: https://new.uschess.org/sites/defau... Again, not sure the location or year, but it's definitely a different look for Chow (who's on the far left). USCF ran this photo for Schiller's obit. |
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Nov-01-21
 | | perfidious: My recollection of the one time I met Chow is of a look somewhere between the Bibuld image and that provided in Albert's FIDE profile, which is very clearly from later in life. |
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| Nov-01-21 | | Granny O Doul: The Bibuld picture is New York 1990, from the press room at the Macklowe Hotel during the first half of Kasparov-Karpov IV.
Widdershins from lower left it's Chow, Schiller, Billy Colias, Vince McCambridge, Adam Black. |
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| Nov-01-21 | | Granny O Doul: K-K V, not IV. I must have lost count somewhere. |
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| Nov-01-21 | | Z truth 000000001: <Granny O Doul> is it widdershins, or deosil? (Or is it deasil, deiseal, deisal, deisul)??
They're all new to me, to tell the truth. |
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Nov-02-21
| | FSR: 31 years later, and Colias, Schiller, and Chow are no longer with us. |
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| Nov-02-21 | | Z truth 000000001: To be a bit droll, one might admonish to not sit in the front row. On a more serious note, Colias was very young to have gotten cancer. Does anyone know what kind he had? |
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Nov-03-21
| | FSR: https://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/2... |
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| Nov-03-21 | | Z truth 000000001: Chessdrum generally does a good job bringing out the human side of chess, as it did the article <FSR> linked to. |
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Nov-09-21
| | FSR: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/1... |
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| Dec-12-21 | | Ron: It saddens me to hear that Albert Chow died.
I interacted with Albert Chow in the 1990s, usually at the (now defunct) Chicago Chess Club, which was located in my neighborhood. Every verbal interaction from Albert Chow to me was friendly and interesting. Sometimes I would give to Albert Chow the chess column by Robert Byrne, cut out from The New York Times, and he was always appreciative. I'd like to think he's playing chess in heaven with the great players in our great game. |
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| Nov-26-22 | | Honest Adin Reviews: RIP BUDDY! |
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| Nov-26-22 | | Honest Adin Reviews: Albert Chow (who said he beats experts all the time) played Lubek's CM-BY2K computer in July 1998 (400mhz Pentium 3 computer, 333 mhz bus), for the WCA closed championship (he was paid for this, signed agreement), he beat it in normal time control, due to software bugs... but in game 4, it was drawn: http://encyclopediasupreme.org/0000... However, Albert Chow lost rapid games to CM-BY2K but those were unofficial games! |
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| Nov-28-22 | | Honest Adin Reviews: we were not friends, but i wish repose for his soul as albert chow truly lived for chess. cm-by2k was originally chessmaster 2000, however engine code was changed! |
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| Dec-13-22 | | Honest Adin Reviews: J.P.L. Lubek's Trophy:
http://encyclopediasupreme.org/0000... |
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| Dec-18-22 | | Honest Adin Reviews: Game 4 switched to chessmaster 2100! Chessmaster 2000, except initial release has many bugs! |
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| Dec-20-22 | | Honest Adin Reviews: For Game 4 (above), I switched to chessmaster 2100! Chessmaster 2000, except for initial release has many bugs! Even original release makes stupid moves... when this game was released computers were very slow, that's why bugs could not be detected! |
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| Jan-03-23 | | Honest Adin Reviews: I had no idea guy had his own chess column, i wonder if he would do stories on lubek castle 2000, essential move chess needs! Hey, HERE YOU HAVE LUBEK'S UNIQ CHESS PUZZLES AND MORE, ALSO LINK COVERS CM-BY2K (CM 2000/2100/FRITZ 3) VS SENIOR MASTER ALBERT CHOW AND IM/GM PALOS OSMAN GAMES AND UNIQ, AMONG OTHERS:
APPRECIATE:
https://encyclopediasupreme.org/nad... |
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| Jan-03-23 | | Honest Adin Reviews: Correction: Only Ver 1 has few bugs, all other chessmaster 2000 versions are total joke just like its programmers kittinger, duffy, bilofsky! |
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| Jan-09-23 | | Honest Adin Reviews: courtesy of lubek castle 2000/0000 (aka game 2000, move 2000, move M.M) productions: THE LUBEK CASTLE IN AUDIO N VIDEO!!! https://encyclopediasupreme.org/mp3... |
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| Jan-11-23 | | Honest Adin Reviews: when Albert Charles Chow said chessmaster 2000 did not impress him, nor chessmaster 2100 (those were experimental programs i had (originally made in C language for DOS I still use, cant recompile original code (computer language) as it only gives binary data), he beat those programs, except for game 4) before final cm-by2k ver came on january 9 2023, also: archive.is/cmby2k), but im sure the great late (pretty much, chess wise great for sure) chow would appreciate the amazing, deep understanding chess power of cm-by2k today... here are analysis of caruana-carlsen game, last game, caruana could have been world champion... it's big mistake WCC is decided by blitz or rapid games... just paly 16 games match, if it's drawn, like in boxing, the chess champ keeps the title, no matter how many games, but at least 10 (schlechter-lasker 1910) is necessary for WCC!!! Caruana vs Carlsen, 2018 january 1 2023:
Analysis of play for Both Sides.
caruana / carlsen (1-0)
WHITE / BLACK
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1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6
5. Nc3 e5
6. Ndb5 d6
7. Nd5 Nxd5
8. exd5 Ne7
9. c4 Ng6
10. Qa4 Bd7
11. Qb4 Bf5
12. h4 h5
13. Qa4 Bd7
14. Qb4 Bf5
15. Be3 a6
16. Nc3 Qc7
17. g3 Be7
18. f3 Nf8
19. Ne4 Nd7
20. Bd3 O-O
21. Rh2 Rac8
22. O-O-O Bg6
23. Rc2 f5
24. Nf2 Nc5
25. f4 a5
26. Qd2 e4
27. Be2 Be8
28. Kb1 Bf6
29. Re1 a4
30. Qb4 b6
31. Rd1 Ra8
32. Qd2 g6
33. Qb4 a3
34. b3 Bd7
35. Rdc1 Rfc8
36. Nh3 Qb7
37. Ng5 Bd8
38. Bd4 b5
39. Rd1 Ba5
40. Qxa3 bxc4
41. Bxc4 Bc3
42. Qxa8 Rxa8
43. Bxc3 Bb5
44. Bxb5 Qxb5
45. Ne6 Nxe6
46. dxe6 d5
47. Be5 Re8
48. Rc3 Rxe6
49. Rc8+ Qe8
50. Rxe8+ Rxe8
51. Rxd5 Rc8
52. Rd6 Kf7
53. Rf6+ Ke7
54. Rxg6 e3
55. a4 e2
56. Bd6+ Kf7
57. Bb4 Kxg6
58. Be1 Rd8
59. Kc2 Rd1
60. Bd2 e1Q
61. Bxe1 Rxe1
62. b4 Rg1
63. b5 Rxg3
64. a5 Rh3
65. Kd2 Rxh4
66. b6 Rh2+
67. Ke1 h4
68. Kf1 Rb2
69. Kg1 h3
70. a6 Kh5
71. Kh1 Kg4
72. Kg1 Kg3
73. Kf1 h2
74. Ke1 -----
74. ----- h1Q++ Score 59.99 pawns; Line: h2-h1Q++.
Analysis completed. |
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| Jan-11-23 | | Honest Adin Reviews: Analysis of play for Both Sides: 1/2-1/2
caruana / carlsen
WHITE / BLACK
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1. e2-e4 c7-c5
2. g1-f3 b8-c6
3. d2-d4 c5xd4
4. f3xd4 g8-f6
5. b1-c3 e7-e5
6. d4-b5 d7-d6
7. c3-d5 f6xd5
8. e4xd5 c6-e7
9. c2-c4 e7-g6
10. d1-a4 c8-d7
11. a4-b4 d7-f5
12. h2-h4 h7-h5
13. b4-a4 f5-d7
14. a4-b4 d7-f5
15. c1-e3 a7-a6
16. b5-c3 d8-c7
17. g2-g3 f8-e7
18. f2-f3 g6-f8
19. c3-e4 f8-d7
20. f1-d3 e8-g8
21. h1-h2 a8-c8
22. e1-c1 f5-g6
23. h2-c2 f7-f5
24. e4-f2 d7-c5
25. f3-f4 a6-a5
26. b4-d2 e5-e4
27. d3-e2 g6-e8
28. c1-b1 e7-f6
29. d1-e1 a5-a4
30. d2-b4 b7-b6
31. e1-d1 c8-a8
32. d1-e1 e8-f7
33. b4-d2 a8-b8
34. e2-f1 f8-e8
35. e3-d4 f6xd4
36. d2xd4 c7-b7
37. f2-d1 b6-b5
38. d1-e3 g7-g6
39. c4xb5 b7-e7
40. f1-c4 e8-c8
41. c4-e2 f7-e8
42. d4-b4 c8-d8
43. e1-d1 c5-a6
44. b4-d2 e8xb5
45. d2-a5 e7-b7
46. d1-d4 b7-g7
47. d4-d2 b5xe2
48. d2xe2 a6-b4
49. c2-c7 g7-d4
50. c7-c3 b4-d3
51. b1-a1 d8-c8
52. c3xc8+ b8xc8
53. a2-a3 d4-h8
54. a5xa4 c8-c1+
55. a1-a2 c1-g1
56. a4-e8+ g8-h7
57. e8-d7+ h8-g7
58. d7xg7+ h7xg7
59. e2-g2 g1-e1
60. e3-c4 d3-c1+
61. a2-b1 c1-e2+
62. b1-c2 e1-c1+
63. c2-b3 e2-d4+
64. b3-b4 d4-c2+
65. b4-b3 c2-d4+
66. b3-b4 d4-c2+
67. b4-b5 c2-d4+
68. b5-b4 ----- Score -0.00 pawns; Line: b5-b4 d4-c2.
Analysis completed. Analysis of play for Both Sides: 1/2-1/2
caruana / carlsen
WHITE / BLACK
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1. e2-e4 c7-c5
2. g1-f3 b8-c6
3. d2-d4 c5xd4
4. f3xd4 g8-f6
5. b1-c3 e7-e5
6. d4-b5 d7-d6
7. c3-d5 f6xd5
8. e4xd5 c6-e7
9. c2-c4 e7-g6
10. d1-a4 c8-d7
11. a4-b4 d7-f5
12. h2-h4 h7-h5
13. b4-a4 f5-d7
14. a4-b4 d7-f5
15. c1-e3 a7-a6
16. b5-c3 d8-c7
17. g2-g3 f8-e7
18. f2-f3 g6-f8
19. c3-e4 f8-d7
20. f1-d3 e8-g8
21. h1-h2 a8-c8
22. e1-c1 f5-g6
23. h2-c2 f7-f5
24. e4-f2 d7-c5
25. f3-f4 a6-a5
26. b4-d2 e5-e4
27. d3-e2 g6-e8
28. c1-b1 e7-f6
29. d1-e1 a5-a4
30. d2-b4 b7-b6
31. e1-d1 c8-a8
32. d1-e1 e8-f7
33. b4-d2 a8-b8
34. e2-f1 f8-e8
35. e3-d4 f6xd4
36. d2xd4 c7-b7
37. f2-d1 b6-b5
38. d1-e3 g7-g6
39. c4xb5 b7-e7
40. f1-c4 e8-c8
41. c4-e2 f7-e8
42. d4-b4 c8-d8
43. e1-d1 c5-a6
44. b4-d2 e8xb5
45. d2-a5 e7-b7
46. d1-d4 b7-g7
47. d4-d2 b5xe2
48. d2xe2 a6-b4
49. c2-c7 g7-d4
50. c7-c3 b4-d3
51. b1-a1 d8-c8
52. c3xc8+ b8xc8
53. a2-a3 d4-h8
54. a5xa4 c8-c1+
55. a1-a2 c1-g1
56. a4-e8+ g8-h7
57. e8-d7+ h8-g7
58. d7xg7+ h7xg7
59. e2-g2 g1-e1
60. e3-c4 d3-c1+
61. a2-b1 c1-e2+
62. b1-c2 e1-c1+
63. c2-b3 e2-d4+
64. b3-b4 d4-c2+
65. b4-b3 c2-d4+
66. b3-b4 d4-c2+
67. b4-b5 c2-d4+
68. b5-b4 ----- Score 0.00 pawns; Line: b5-b4 d4-c2+ b4-b5 c2-d4.
Analysis completed. |
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