Feb-08-06 | | BIDMONFA: Ilya M Gurevich GUREVICH, Ilya M.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/gurevich_il...
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Jun-21-07 | | nolanryan: If I knew where you lived BIDMONFA, I would egg your house. |
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Jun-21-07 | | Jim Bartle: If that's really you, Nolan, I suspect you'd throw him the high, hard one, and then grab his head and pound him with noogies. |
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Aug-18-07 | | wardvet: Bidmonfa lives in Spain...Barcelona I think. Anyway, his "Kibitzing" (and I use that term loosely) is very annoying. |
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Aug-31-07 | | lopium: Who is this player? He has played along the greatest player of our time! |
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Aug-31-07 | | Jim Bartle: Gurevich was world junior champion, then quit for good in 1994? |
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Dec-02-07 | | pawnofdoom: I believe he's the brother of Mikhail Gurevich and Dimitri Gurevich |
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Jul-28-08
 | | Fusilli: <pawnofdoom: I believe he's the brother of Mikhail Gurevich and Dimitri Gurevich> Really? He is a lot younger than them. Dimitri was born in 1956 and Mikhail in 1959. Ilya in 1972. Not impossible, though, but do you have a source? |
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Jul-28-08 | | RookFile: He isn't. I was acquainted with him when he was a teenager. He still plays chess in the icc, his handle is junior. |
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Jul-28-08 | | Strongest Force: Junior is very friendly. I talked with him all the time when i was playing at the ICC. |
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Jul-28-08 | | najdorfman: I recall Ilya telling me that when he won the World Junior Championship the USCF, in its journalistic organ Chess Life, put a picture of a bunch of people on a cruise ship, on the cover! The cruise ship had something to do with a U.S. Senior Open Championship. To say the least, he was not thrilled about it.
I asked him if he knew what "U.S.C.F" stood for? Sensing a sarcasm coming, he replied that he did not know. So I told him: UNALTERABLY STUPID CHESS FEDERATION |
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Nov-27-10 | | kramputz: Here is another great talent who quit chess. What is Ilya doing these days? |
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Jul-04-11 | | technical draw: Here's what he's doing these days:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/R... |
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Jan-09-12 | | King Death: < pawnofdoom: I believe he's the brother of Mikhail Gurevich and Dimitri Gurevich> None of these players are related to each other. There was an interview that Dimitri Gurevich gave a long time ago where he mentioned that. Gurevich is a common enough Jewish last name in the Ukraine if not on a par with Smith or Williams. |
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Jan-09-14
 | | perfidious: <pawnofdoom: I believe he's the brother of Mikhail Gurevich and Dimitri Gurevich> Not true.
Was well acquainted with Ilya in the eighties, as we played several times and were in numerous other events together. |
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Jun-12-21 | | Zugzwangovich: <najdorfman> This seems a bit of a bum rap on the USCF. With Chess Life back issues now available online, one finds with not too much difficulty that they covered Ilya's winning the World Junior Championship in the 12/90 issue of CL. The cover of that issue (and the next) was devoted to the Kasparov-Karpov WCC match. The cruise ship and U.S. Senior Open Championship graced the cover of the 2/91 issue, by which time the '90 World Junior was six-month-old news. |
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Jun-12-21 | | RookFile: I agree with Gurevich. I think a United States magazine could have featured an accomplishment by a United States citizen on the cover. |
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Jun-12-21 | | Zugzwangovich: <RookFile>I don't disagree with you; Gurevich rather than the two K's could have been on the cover of the 12/90 issue. But <najdorfman> indicates that what upset Gurevich was that he was not on the 2/91 issue cover, that honor being given instead to the U.S. Senior Open Championship. |
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Jun-12-21 | | RookFile: I actually remember this controversy from when it happened. Just a guess but I suspect that had they put him on the 3/91 cover it would have been ok, if a tad late. A cruise ship being worthy of a cover but not the world junior champion is probably what hurts him the most. Viewed from that angle I have to agree with him. |
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Jan-15-24 | | stone free or die: <perf> updates mentioned on Bistro: Biographer Bistro (kibitz #27785) FIDE notes GM title in 1985, which is incorrect - he got his first title, FIDE master (Byrne calls it "World Chess Federation master"), by winning the <U-14 Wch Lomas de Zamora, Argentina> tournament in 1985. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/08/... The GM title came later, though I don't have a contemporaneous source presently. |
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Jan-15-24 | | Granny O Doul: Over the years, Chess Life has tended to give disproportionate coverage to events that directly profit the USCF. |
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