Aug-08-10
 | | LIFE Master AJ: Just out of curiosity, I went to the U.S. Chess Federation website. <<Current Published
Rating (August Supplement)
<Regular Rating 2341> 2005-08
(Current floor is 2200)
300 Games as a Master
(Original Life Master) Yes
National Master Certificate Yes
<Highest USCF Norms-Based
Title Earned
(in events since 1991)
<Life Master>>> |
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Aug-08-10
| | LIFE Master AJ: According to the U.S. Chess Federation, David has not played at all since 2005. |
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Apr-18-19
 | | Joshka: This guy beat Fischer in a simul. |
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| Apr-19-19 | | Granny O Doul: ...at the age of 5, before retiring for twenty years. |
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| Apr-19-19 | | Nosnibor: <Granny O Doul> He would have only been 4 years of age at the time the simul against Fischer was played. This is obviously not the same David Levin and should be removed from this section. I believe there was a Daniel Levin playing around this time but cannot be sure if this is the D. Levin in this game. |
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| Jul-10-20 | | FM David H. Levin: I just joined chessgames.com. AJ is correct about my not having played since 2005. I'm not the person who beat Fischer in a simul. I did draw Petrosian in a simul at the Westfield (NJ) Chess Club. I think it was around 1979. I probably still have the scoresheet, which I will look for if anyone is curious. As if there weren't enough confusion about players having my name, there's also a David Levin who plays or played in Chicago. At a different chess games site, many of his games are wrongly attributed to me. I let the administrators know, even though including his games improved my win/loss record. 8^) |
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Jul-10-20
 | | OhioChessFan: <I did draw Petrosian in a simul at the Westfield (NJ) Chess Club. I think it was around 1979. I probably still have the scoresheet, which I will look for if anyone is curious> Definitely. Any memories of the event, his demeanor, etc would be welcome. |
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Oct-22-20
 | | Stonehenge: <Improbable winner
The most improbable winner that night was David Levin, a 16-year-old Fortier High School student who’d been playing chess for barely more than a year. A friend had taught him the game so he could help Fortier compete against its biggest rival, Jesuit High School. “I had no expectation of winning” against Fischer, Levin recalled. “I just wanted to play against him.” Levin remembers that he’d planned out a defensive line that Fischer himself liked to play. “I figured it would be good psychology,” he said. “Everybody kept coming to my game, looking at me, wondering when I was going to fold. He played a real aggressive game against me, and once his attack wore off, I had the advantage. That’s when he resigned. He was friendly about it.” Levin’s game didn’t end until 2:45 a.m. His parents weren’t there, he recalls. He thinks he took the bus home. By the time the last game was over at the YWCA, it was 3:30 a.m.> https://www.nola.com/news/article_e... |
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| Jul-02-21 | | FM David H. Levin: <OhioChessFan> I never did find the scoresheet of my simul draw against Petrosian. I recall his being very businesslike. Our only interactions were shaking hands and his making sure to sign my scoresheet (without my asking). Curiously, even though the Westfield Chess Club was thriving, there were as I recall only 19 boards. The other two who drew (no one won) were IM Mike Valvo and FM Steve Stoyko. The latter's final position was interesting, involving Steve's king and knight against Petrosian's f-pawn, h-pawn, and light-square bishop. Steve's king was on h8 (blockading the protected h-pawn), and his knight controlled the square (f6 or f7, I forget which) in front of the f-pawn. This prevented the advance of the f-pawn without Steve's being able to sacrifice the knight for it to effect a stalemate. |
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| Jul-31-21 | | FM David H. Levin: Of the roughly 65 games that have been added to this page over the last couple weeks, I spotted 13 that weren't played by me. Their events are shown as 1990 USA Masters, 1992 Chicago Masters, and 1994 Chicago op2. Using the US Chess Federation website's Players and Ratings database, I determined that the games from the 1992 and 1994 events were played by a David M. Levine. I suspect that this applies also to the 1990 event, although I have been unable to verify this. I also had the 1964 simul game against Fischer removed because it involved a namesake of mine. The CG administrator created another David Levin to associate that game with. |
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Jul-31-21
| | Stonehenge: I have moved those games to David M Levine. He's the only David Levine with a rating. |
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| Jul-31-21 | | FM David H. Levin: Thank you, Stonehenge.
I've determined also that five of the games given as from the 1993 U. S. Open were actually from the 1993 World Open. I also have a couple name corrections. First, the game contestants as shown presently (all of which actually faced each other at the 1993 World Open): 30. K Addison vs D Levin
31. R K Delaune vs D Levin
34. D Levin vs J Fang
35. David Gonzales vs D Levin
36. W Kelleher vs D Levin
There are two name corrections. In game 30, K Addison should be "James Addison". This name isn't listed yet, and K Addison has no other attributed game, so there don't seem to be any conflicts. The other is game 35, in which "David Gonzales" should be "J Gonzalez Garcia" (who's given as having faced Aleks Wojtkiewicz at the 1994 N. Y. Open by both chessgames.com and the US Chess Federation tournament crosstable database, so I'm confident that this is the right name). |
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| Aug-03-21 | | FM David H. Levin: I see that the changes from "1993 U. S. Open" to "1993 World Open" for the five games I cited, along with the two name corrections, have been done. Thanks. |
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| Nov-14-21 | | FM David H. Levin: The game T Magar vs D H Levin, 1992 seems to be listed twice. |
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| Aug-20-23 | | FM David H. Levin: The games D H Levin vs M Ginsburg, 1992, D H Levin vs N Harris, 1992, and S Hobart vs D H Levin, 1992 seem to be duplicated (appearing on both page 1 and page 2). |
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Aug-21-23
| | Stonehenge: That's just a bug, no duplicates. |
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Mar-02-24
 | | perfidious: If the subject of this game page drops by, I have some questions. Just came across an <Atlantic Chess News> containing all 44 games of the 1986 Toms River Futurity (one unplayed game) and am curious about the identities of some of the participants. I am assuming 'Allen' is Ed Allen, but is 'Peterson' William Peterson? 'Colure' must be Sean Colure. The others are clear from either the games already in the DB, or from the article. |
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| Mar-02-24 | | FM David H. Levin: <<perfidious>: <...snip...> I am assuming 'Allen' is Ed Allen, but is 'Peterson' William Peterson? 'Colure' must be Sean Colure. The others are clear from either the games already in the DB, or from the article.> You're correct on all three players. I had to look up Peterson's given forename in a crosstable of an event in which we played each other in 1992. He generally went by "Pete." Since you have access to the ACN that covered the futurity, I was wondering whether you could post the final scores. I know my own (7), Koval's (6), and Popovych's (5.5), but I've long forgotten the rest. Also, would you by chance have access to the ACNs edited by Dave Burris? There was an article by John McCarthy, I believe in late 1995 or early 1996, that included a Budapest Gambit where he (as Black) sacked a knight at b4 and won a nice game as I recall. I would like to obtain the score of that game. |
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Mar-02-24
| | perfidious: Allen and Peterson each made 5, West, Colure and Epstein 4.5, Kaplan 2 and Krauss brought up the rear with 1. Far as other ACNs go, I do not have any to hand, so far I know; the only times I ever saw this publication were when I played the USATE, in Somerset, from 1985-1993. |
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| Mar-02-24 | | FM David H. Levin: <<perfidious>: Allen and Peterson each made 5, West, Colure and Epstein 4.5, Kaplan 2 and Krauss brought up the rear with 1.> Thanks. |
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