| Mar-23-09 | | kramputz: Take a look at game #2, only morons play like that. You've got to be kidding if this guy has a 2300 FIDE rating. Waste of space on CG |
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Mar-27-09
 | | ray keene: we shd not forget that louis de veauce later won the british under 21 championship--meanwhile in 1975 he came 2nd= in the british championship behind bill hartston but defeating jon speelman and drawing with tony miles. |
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Feb-01-11
 | | perfidious: Whatever happened to this player? It's a pity none of his games from that outstanding result in the 1975 BCF championship at Morecambe aren't in this DB. |
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| Sep-08-13 | | Prugno: Nigel Short has some amusing remarks on this Baron's play and appearance in his latest New in Chess column. |
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| Dec-23-13 | | jerseybob: I dimly remember reading about an incident at a British Swiss in the late '60's involving De Veauce and Walter Browne, where WSB, about to play DeVeauce, took out the the bulletin of a recent tourney and began playing over DeVeauce's games from that tourney, loudly critiquing them. The psych job had its intended effect, although I believe De Veauce later won a game from Browne. |
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| Dec-30-13 | | jerseybob: Since I brought up this boring, obscure incident in the first place it's only fair that I update it: it occurred at Whitby 1968(BCM 1968 Annual, p.259). The game score Browne-DeVeauce can be found in CHESS August '68 p.359. The game DeVeauce won from from Browne, oddly, according to CHESS May 1968 p.270, occurred BEFORE the Whitby game, at Bognor Regis, in the spring of '68. Since DeVeauce already had a win against WSB under his belt, why was he so cowed by the psych job at Whitby? Maybe a British reader like Ray Keene can answer that? |
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Dec-30-13
| | perfidious: Browne and psych job in the same paragraph.
Imagine that. |
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Dec-30-13
 | | Phony Benoni: <perfidious> As it happens, the games from the 1975 BCF Championship at Morecambe are available at http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/bri..., and I'm sort of itching for something a little different to do. It's only 187 games. |
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Feb-08-14
| | Phony Benoni: <perfidious> British Championship (1975) |
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| Jan-31-18 | | Cibator: <Since DeVeauce already had a win against WSB under his belt, why was he so cowed by the psych job at Whitby?>
I remember kibitzing de Veauce during a tournament at Teesside in 1973 - a thin, nervous little chap whom I suspect would have been quite vulnerable to mind-games of any kind. |
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Jan-31-18
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi Cibator,
I too played at Teeside 1973 and also had chat with Louis De Veauce, thought he was rather odd. Liked him right away. PLayed in a Simul v Adorjan and lost, my then girlfriend also played and was losing when he offered her a draw. I thought what a smoothie. Then onto Eastbourne for the British Championship. It was me who threw the dog into the indoor swimming pool for a laugh (the dog was OK but they shut down the pool for hygienic reasons) this resulted in a pre round announcement that all the chess players free passes for swimming pool had been revoked. All eyes in the room then went onto me. (I just knew I was going to make a splash in the chess world.) Slightly recall having another chat with Louis at Eastbourne. Can remember someone hid his plastic bag (he always carried one), he was getting flustered but I saw where they hid it and gave it back to him. Odd but very likeable, good player. |
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Feb-01-18
| | perfidious: <Geoff>, Adorjan was doubtless playing White and felt that <Black Was OK!>. |
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| Feb-01-18 | | Cibator: Sally/Geoff: I watched that simul by Adorjan. He blundered a piece in one game (well, that's how it looked to this poor mortal, anyway). In less than half a dozen moves he'd made the material deficit look like a positive advantage. |
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Feb-05-18
| | Sally Simpson: Hi Cibator,
These days everyone would there with I-Phones taking pictures. All I have from then is a signed score sheet, a name to drop at the bookstall "I've played him" and a Dear John letter. I get a mention in one of his 'Black is OK' books, so he is name dropping me! I've no idea which one, it was pointed out to me by a friend. I do not need a book to tell me Black is OK. You can only win if your opponent blunders.
Your opponent can only blunder if it is their move. So by having White and the first move the odds are White will be first to blunder. (that is my theory and I'm sticking to it.) |
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Jul-08-24
 | | John Saunders: There was a post on the English Chess Forum earlier today (from 'SororLudovici' - presumably his sister - https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopi...) to say that Louis de Veauce died "with health problems" on 15 December 2022. R.I.P. |
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