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| Jul-02-10 | | Antiochus: [Event "Des Moines"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1950.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Weaver Adams"]
[Black "NN"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B03"]
[PlyCount "27"]
1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. f4 dxe5 6. fxe5 g6 7. Be3 Bg7 8. Nc3 c5 9. d5 Qc7 10. d6 exd6 11. Nb5 Qe7 12. Nxd6+ Kf8 13. Nxc8 Nxc8 14. Bxc5 1-0 |
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| Sep-22-10 | | myschkin: . . .
Bio:
http://boylston-chess-club.blogspot... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver...
Trivia:
"The History of Gay"
http://www.impalapublications.com/b... (by Raymond Keene) Random source: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php... |
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Sep-22-11
 | | perfidious: <Nezhmetdinov: 2 things:
1)......(Was he also the one who came up with 6.h3 in the Najdorf?)>Indeed he was. |
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Sep-22-11
 | | HeMateMe: Another Weaver (Dirty Harry studied him):
<The Weaver Stance was developed in 1959 by pistol shooter and deputy sheriff Jack Weaver, a range officer at the L.A. County Sheriff's Mira Loma pistol range. At the time, Weaver was competing in Jeff Cooper's "Leatherslap" matches: quick draw, man-on-man competition in which two shooters vied to pop twelve 18" wide balloons set up 21 feet away, whichever shooter burst all the balloons first winning the bout. Weaver developed his technique as a way to draw a handgun quickly to eye level and use the weapon's sights to aim more accurately, and immediately began winning against opponents predominantly using unsighted "hip shooting" techniques.
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| Apr-28-12 | | LoveThatJoker: Today on the date of your birth, you are remembered, W.W. Adams! LTJ |
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| Sep-17-12 | | Conrad93: "And Black wins...
Of course White can always play differently, in which case he merely
loses differently. (Thank you, Weaver Adams!)"
-- A Bust to the King's Gambit
Why is Fischer thanking Weaver? |
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Sep-17-12
 | | Phony Benoni: <Conrad93> It's a joke. Yes, from Fischer. Weaver Adams made much the same statement about Black in his analysis "proving" that White wins by force. |
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Dec-17-12
| | perfidious: < Hanada: ....In 1939 Weaver Adams wrote a book entitled, "White to play and Win". At his next tournament he lost all of his games as White and won all his games as Black....> This is one for the books-as the saying is, you can't make that s**t up. <....His thesis, as expounded in this and other books by Adams, was that White has a winning position on the very first move....Adams would often publish collections of his games....and of them he would say: "There are no annotations, because every move is crystal clear."....> The reconciliation of Adams' dogma and cold reality had to be a Sisyphean burden for him. <....Adams won 49th US Open, in Baltimore.> In the late 1970s, a friend gave me some back numbers of Chess Review. One of the earliest was the August 1948 issue with Adams on the cover. The title was 'Apostle of Aggression'. That issue also had a piece on the first Massachusetts championship won by John A Curdo. There would be not a few others in his career, and it could hardly have happened to a nicer man, or more ferocious opponent. The Chess Review cover title above was certainly appropriate for John as well. |
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Dec-17-12
| | Phony Benoni: <perfidious> The Weaver story is just about true. The tournament in question was the Championship Section of the 1940 US Open in Dallas. Adams did squeak out one draw with White while going 4/4 as Black. Game Collection: US Open 1940, Dallas Unfortunately, only the game W Adams vs Fine, 1940 is available. The original source is a tournament report appearing in the October 1940 Chess Review, p. 146. It was written by USCF President George Sturgis, and if you can't believe a chess politician, who can you believe? |
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| Dec-18-12 | | waustad: In looking at the posts here, it seems that some strange stuff got posted before, but the topic of the Vienna game came up often. I've been looking into present day Austrian chess and I haven't seen anybody there using it, perhaps except for as a way into a KIA setup. My exploration is in no way exhaustive, but Dutch players are much more likely to play the Dutch, and English are much more likely to start with c4. Just saying. |
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Jul-19-13
 | | GrahamClayton: Adams would often perform at chess clubs in the United States exhibition games known as the "System Demonstration". He would play two games simultaneously, and describe to the players and spectators how to use his "System" to analyse a position. He would describe his general plans and strategy, along with any upcoming tactical threats or combinations. |
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Apr-28-14
 | | offramp: <Please observe our posting guidelines:
No Secret, Profane or Sugarcane language.>
♫ We'll never know what Harry was Wirth ♫ |
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May-23-14
 | | dorsnikov: I have an original copy of Weaver's "Simple Chess." It was given to me by an old timer who bought it at one of Weaver's demonstrations in the late 1940's. |
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| Apr-28-15 | | andrewjsacks: Makes one wonder what noted player had the lowest percentage of drawn games... |
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| Apr-28-15 | | Karposian: <andrewjsacks: Makes one wonder what noted player had the lowest percentage of drawn games...> Historically, I have no idea. But this Swedish GM may have the lowest drawing percentage(29%) of Grandmasters that are still active today: Jonny Hector |
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Apr-28-15
| | Phony Benoni: Leaving aside trivial cases like Gioachino Greco (+79 -0 =0), Colonel Moreau, (+0 -26 =0), and NN (2.5% draws), then Adolf Anderssen at 8.1% and Paul Morphy at 9.8% look like reasonable choices. However, the problem with players like them is that so many of their games were informal rather than serious tournament / match games. An offhand game that ends in a draw is rarely preserved, thus skewing the numbers. Adams is at 13.2%, but he was strictly a national-level player. If we want an international player with mostly "serious" games, <Karposian>'s selection of Jonny Hector with 23% might not be tood bad. Even a wild and crazy guy like Rashid Gibiatovich Nezhmetdinov was all the way up to 24% draws. |
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| Jan-06-16 | | TheFocus: Rest in peace, Weaver Adams. |
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Apr-03-16
| | Phony Benoni: The following game was published in the <American Chess Bulletin>, July/August 1951, p. 77 Adams - Quillen
<1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Bc5 3.f4 d6 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.Na4 Bb6 7.d3 Qe7 8.Nxb6 axb6 9.0-0 f6 10.f5 0-0-0 11.c4 g6 12.g4 h5 13.Nh4 gxf5 14.gxf5 Be8 15.Kh1 Qh7 16.Qa4 Nge7 17.Be3 Rg8 18.Qa8+ Nb8 19.a4 Rg4 20.Ng2 Nec6 21.a5 Nb4 22.axb6 c6 23.Ra7 Nc2 24.Ba4 Nb4 25.Ra1 N4a6 26.Bd1 Rg7 27.b4 h4 28.b5 cxb5 29.cxb5 Bxb5 30.Rc1+ Nc5 31.Bxc5 dxc5 32.Rxc5+ Bc6 33.Rxb7 Rxb7 34.Rxc6+> 1-0 The game follows the results table for the 1951 US Open in FOrt Worth, and precedes several pages of games from the tournament. In his notes, Sanatsiere explicitly states that White was Weaver Adams. The problem is that Weaver Adams -- or, for that matter, any player named Adams -- played at Fort Worth. (Paul Quillen did. And we have the scores of all his losses, none of which resemble this game except the one Vienna he lost as White.) Since Adams was from Massachusetts and Quillen from California it is not likely they had many chances to face each other. Both were at the 1950 US Open in Detroit, but did not olay in the tournament. If you have any insights about the background of this game, I'd appreciate hearing them. |
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| Apr-28-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Weaver Adams. |
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| Dec-27-16 | | knightmare51: I am the Chess great grandson of Weaver Adams! He was the king of the Log Cabin and Independent CC in New Jersey. Fischer occasionally played there and was influenced by him - the great debate was where the KB goes in the Sicilian - Fischer opted for the 'dangerous' Bc4, whereas Weaver wanted h3, g4, Bg2. But Fischer did play h3 a few times. My chess teacher played at those clubs and got me a copy of 'White to Play and Win' which I used effectively for many years. Other notable disciples of those clubs are Leroy Dubeck and Mike Valvo. The attraction in his system is that it was a system of thought. As Hans Berliner said in his book 'The System' Weaver was on the right path but 1.d4 is the way> |
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| Dec-27-16 | | knightmare51: Weaver vacillated between the Bishop's Opening and the Vienna. His main problem was the 3. ...Ne4 against the Vienna. This became known as the 'Frankenstein-Dracula' Variation. Weaver went back to the Vienna when he discovered the Adams Gambit - 4. Qh5 Nd6 5. Bb3 Nc6 6. d4?!?. It is thought to be insufficient but newer analysis is needed beyond M.C.O. |
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| Apr-28-20 | | Caissanist: Batgirl (aka User: sbc) has dug up the Chess Life column that Larry Evans wrote about Adams, along with a couple of the pieces that Adams wrote which Evans was responding to. Evans was, shall we say, less than kind: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/ge... . |
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Jan-24-21
 | | FSR: Adams didn't do too well in attempting to prove his <White to Play and Win> thesis: Repertoire Explorer: Weaver Warren Adams (white) |
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| Aug-14-21 | | Bartleby: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Qh5 Nd6 5.Bb3 Nc6 6.d4!? is the "Adam's Gambit" of the Vienna, as <knightmare51> mentioned. It is not looked at as sound as 6. Nb5, the start of the highly theoretical Frankenstein-Dracula. IM Andrew Martin, chess scribe and contributor to probably more opening videos than any player alive, penned an article on it years ago on the now defunct www.chessville.com years ago, which I'm glad I saved, called "Vienna Backwaters." Martin dusted off the old Adam's Gambit and thought it had some merit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Nxe4 4.Qh5 Nd6 5.Bb3 Nc6 6.d4!? Nxd5 7. Nd5! With nasty threats of both Qxe5 and Bg5. A) 7. ...Be7 8. Qxe5 Ne6 9. Bh6! As played in Santasiere-Pekhneck USA 1955 (a game apparently not in the chessgames database). Martin says: "Many a Black player would crumble from the shock effect alone. Objectively it may be that White is not winning but he certainly holds the psychological initiative." He also recommended 9. Nf3! (instead of 9. Bh6) 0-0 10.0-0 b6 11.Re1 Bb7 12.Qh5, and thought white, with active piece play and king-side pressure vs. black's cramped morass of pieces, had compensation for the pawn. B. 7. ...Ne6 8. Qxe5 c6 9. Nf4! Qe7 10.Be3 f6 (10...Nxf4 11.Qxf4 and Black's pieces are very awkward. Just Nf3 0-0-0 and Rhe1 is the upcoming plan.) 11.Qh5+ Nf7 12.Nxe6 dxe6 13.0-0-0 g6 14.Qh4! e5 15.Nf3 Bf5 16.Rhe1 g5 17.Qc4 with compensation for the material. He also covers 6. ...g6 and 6. ...exd4, the later which he considered dubious and lets white open up the game too much. i.e. 7.Nd5! Be7 (7...b5 8.Bg5 Ne7 9.0-0-0 c5 10.c3) 8.Bf4 0-0 9.0-0-0 Ne8 10.Nf3 Nf6 11.Nxf6+ Bxf6 12.Ng5 Bxg5 13.Bxg5 Qe8 14.Rhe1+- By the way, if you want to treat yourself to an amusing rare exhibition Fischer loss that happens to be in the Adam's Gambit (on the white side that is) you can see it here: Fischer vs H Dondis, 1964 Where Bobby played 9. Nc3 (instead of Martin's recommended 9. Nf4) |
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Aug-30-21
| | perfidious: <offramp: <Please observe our posting guidelines: No Secret, Profane or Sugarcane language.>> Dang it, there goes the neighbourhood! |
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