| Jan-23-12 | | King Death: This player's games should be combined with this page, Gina Linn was her maiden name: G Linn. |
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May-14-14
 | | WannaBe: Sister of Ben? Or no relation? |
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May-14-14
 | | perfidious: <WannaBe> His ex-wife. |
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May-15-14
 | | FSR: <perfidious> He's got a few of those. See also Kelly Cottrell. He's becoming the male Jana Malypetrova Hartston Miles Bellin. |
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May-15-14
| | perfidious: <FSR> Jana Wotsit has more business competing in the British Championship as she closes in on seventy than Kelly Cottrell has ever had of playing in the American female counterpart. |
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May-15-14
| | FSR: <perfidious> Can't argue with that. The notion of Kelly Cottrell at 1700-something IIRC playing in the invitational U.S. Championship (a spot that could have gone to a real player) and losing every game in ludicrous fashion is stomach-turning. |
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May-15-14
| | perfidious: <FSR> Of course, the event Cottrell played in was a swiss, but seeing players I have beaten getting there in that format is something of a joke. |
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| Oct-28-20 | | cameosis: does anybody know her age/year of birth? |
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Oct-28-20
| | perfidious: Her age is roughly in her early sixties; I met her at the 1984 Toronto International, when she was then Gina Linn. |
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| Oct-29-20 | | cameosis: thanks, <perfidious> -- i'm trying to add the exact birth dates to my database. would you know if she has a middle name? i was initially confused about her representing belgium, but then found an interview with b. whinegold, where he mentioned that they moved there because she was working for kasparov's grandmaster association in brussels. |
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Oct-29-20
| | perfidious: To fall back on the favourite response during the Watergate hearings, on the question of the middle name: I do not recall. Gina was a New Yorker and part of the chess scene there at the time we met; never saw her other than the one time in Toronto. Till reading this page, I had never realised she went to Belgium at any time. |
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| Oct-29-20 | | cameosis: there was a second-rate actor during the iran-contra hearing who took that response to levels never before seen or heard … he lifted it quite literally to the stars, for years and wars to come. XD however, see what i dug up: she is now married to that langan dude and has a phd in neuropsychology: https://www.facebook.com/gina.langa...
her maiden name is losasso
an article that describes her as quite a difficult character: https://www.esquire.com/news-politi... whinegold isn't mentioned by name, but here's the juicy part: »Her second husband, an international master whom she married when she was thirty-two, was fourteen years her junior. […]
As soon as she played in her first chess tournament, she realized two things. First: This was what she wanted to do with her life. Second: Her marriage to her first husband--a construction worker from the old neighborhood in Brooklyn--was over. She felt the same way when she was accepted into her doctoral program. The night after she received her degree, she informed her second husband that she wanted a divorce. Gina has never had a problem letting go, forging ahead, concentrating on her own needs, making tough decisions, like leaving her daughter behind to pursue her dreams of playing chess. She abhors hanging around.« |
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| Oct-29-20 | | cameosis: oh, and lynne is her middle name, linn was the surname from her first husband. her facebook page (including a picture):
https://www.facebook.com/gina.langa... |
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Oct-30-20
 | | Stonehenge: United States Public Records, 1970-2009: born March 13, 1956. |
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| Oct-30-20 | | cameosis: awesome sauce, thanks <stonehenge>! |
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| Oct-30-20 | | cameosis: by the way, how and where do i submit a player picture? |
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Oct-30-20
| | WannaBe: <cameosis> Email it. chess@chessgames.com |
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| Oct-30-20 | | cameosis: <wannabe> thanks and cheers for the info. |
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