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| Mar-26-15 | | zanzibar: He's also listed as a European Jr. Ch. in a Times Daily - Oct 14, 1988 newspaper account. |
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| Mar-26-15 | | zanzibar: His obituary lists him as born in Coatian, and a teacher of chess at UNA and Florence State Teachers College. He was Alabama's first Master, and first liver transplant patient. The article says he retired from Reynolds Metals in 1962, which is pretty good - he wasn't even 30 years old! https://news.google.com/newspapers?... |
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| Mar-26-15 | | zanzibar: A little more info from yavolimte at aol.com forwarded by Brian Wall: <Unfortunately, Mr. Momic suffered a catastophic work-related injury in which he was hit in the head by a crane hook and forced to retire from the game. In 1997 Mr. Momic was interviewed by Mr. Edwards from his Muscle Shoals,AL home.The epilogue on page 6 of the aforementioned chess pamphlet states: "Milan wishes everyone to know that it was he, and not Pal Benko , who was first to use what is now called the Benko Gambit.He met and played Benko in Atlanta and it was during the next round that Momic used it against a high rated player. He (Momic) calls it the Volga Gambit. ' Benko saw me make the first move and said it was not a good opening;after that he started using it, and everyone called it Benko Gambit! If you are going to call it Benko Gambit, why not Momic Gambit , because he saw me use it first!" [...]
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http://www.taom.com/pipermail/brian... |
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| Mar-26-15 | | zanzibar: So I have to amend my previous comment, maybe the early retirement wasn't so good. |
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| Mar-26-15 | | zanzibar: He was also a writer:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?... In this case, describing the Fischer-Spassky matchup. |
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| Mar-26-15 | | zanzibar: Can this be true?
<Ha! You think that's bad. Back in the 60's Milan Momic, a Yugoslav master,
moved to Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He quickly dominated Alabama chess. After a
few years of this the frustrated Alabama players got the Alabama state chess
association to ban players rated 2200 and up from the Alabama state
championship!>
http://www.chessbanter.com/rec-game... |
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| Mar-26-15 | | cro777: <zanzibar: ...lists him as born in Croatia> Milan Momiæ was Croatian chess champion in mid-50's and a junior champion of former Yugoslavia. From Zagreb, Croatia he emigrated to the United States and lived in Muscle Shoals, Alabama since 1960. Momic worked in the steel industry and died in a work place accident. Milan Momiæ: "Once we are nailed to the chessboard, we must paint our chess picture." Brian Wall: "I had the privilege of playing Milan as a younger man and witnessed first hand his extraordinary chess skills." |
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Mar-26-15
 | | perfidious: <Ha! You think that's bad. Back in the 60's Milan Momic, a Yugoslav master, moved to Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He quickly dominated Alabama chess. After a few years of this the frustrated Alabama players got the Alabama state chess association to ban players rated 2200 and up from the Alabama state championship!> lmao |
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| Mar-26-15 | | zanzibar: < Momic worked in the steel industry and died in a work place accident.> I saw this as well, but I think it's not true. He probably was injured in an industrial accident when he was about 30 years old, but lived to be 62. See previous posts... with obit + Benko |
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| Mar-26-15 | | cro777: <Milan wishes everyone to know that it was he, and not Pal Benko , who was first to use what is now called the Benko Gambit. He met and played Benko in Atlanta and it was during the next round that Momic used it against a high rated player. Momic calls it the Volga Gambit.> The original name of the opening was the Volga Gambit, named after the Volga River because the pawn sacrifice 3...b5 was introduced in practice back in 1940's by B. Argunov who lived in Kuibyshev town on Volga. His article "Notes on the Volga gambit" was published in the second 1946 issue of the magazine Schachmaty in USSR (Шахматы в СССР 1946 №02) In this article he analysed the variation
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. bxa6 e6
click for larger viewThis line is less popular than 5...g6 and is reminiscent of the Blumenfeld Counter Gambit (which is considered to be a strategic predecessor of the Volga gambit). Beginning in the late 1960s, this opening idea was promoted by Pal Benko ... and Milan Momiæ. |
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| Mar-26-15 | | zanzibar: I really hope FSR posts as many of his games as he can... I could only find one on the entire net, and even that took some doing in finding: <
[Event "Mid-South Open 9e"]
[Site "Memphis TN, USA"]
[Date "1968.11.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Nahas, Majeed"]
[Black "Momic, Milan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteUSCF "1787"]
[BlackUSCF "2278"]
[ECO "E80m"]
[EventDate "1968.11.29"]
[Source "TCN-January1969Vol11No1Pg7.pdf"]
[Notes "Milan won 5/6, Nahas tied 4-6th with 3.5/6, game really was R1 on 11/09/68"]1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.c4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.f3 c6 6.Be3 Na6 7.Qd2 Nc7 8.
O-O-O a6 9.Kb1 b5 10.Rc1 Bd7 11.h4 Rb8 12.g4 bxc4 13.Bxc4 d5 14.Bb3
dxe4 15.g5 Nfd5 16.fxe4 Nxe3 17.Qxe3 Nb5 18.Nge2 a5 19.Nxb5 Rxb5 20.
Rhf1 O-O 21.Nc3 Rb4 22.Rcd1 Bg4 23.Bxf7+ Rxf7 24.Rxf7 Bxd1 25.Rxg7+
Kxg7 26.Nxd1 Qxd4 27.Qc3 Rc4 28.Qxd4+ Rxd4 29.Nc3 Rd2 0-1
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Black's 22th and 24th moves were noted as being good. http://www.memphischess.com/files/T... Mimoc finished 1st with 5/6 in <Mid-South Open 9e, Memphis> held over 3days, 1968-11-29 -> 12-01. De Felice also shows Momic playing in NYC, March 29-April 6, 1975 in 8th "Goldwater" Invitational. He didn't do so well though, finishing 7-9th with 3.5/9 (CL&R 1975 p342) |
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| Mar-26-15 | | zanzibar: One more photo... maybe of him living in America?
http://sah.hr/forum/index.php?PHPSE... http://sah.hr/forum/index.php?topic... |
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| Apr-15-15 | | zanzibar: OK, I submitted his obit photo for <CG>. Still hoping for more of his games from <FSR>. |
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Apr-15-15
 | | FSR: <zanzibar> I submitted his games against Hurt, Coveyou, and Timmel, which are all the games in the little pamphlet I have. Those games and the Browne game are also the only games of his in ChessBase's Mega database. So it looks like those games, and the one you submitted, are probably all we're going to get. Sad. |
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| Apr-16-15 | | zanzibar: Thanks <FSR>. At least we have a few of his games (bit surprising that your pamphlet has so few). I'll keep my eye peeled whenever I'm doing research in the region, but as you point out, it unlikely that we'll find more. Another parallel between jazz and chess, the lost art of the under-represented/under-recorded. |
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Feb-11-19
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[Event "Southern Open"]
[Site ""]
[Date "1963.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Momic, Milan"]
[Black "Hurt, John F"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "2290"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "1963"]
[EventType "Game"]
[EventCountry "USA"]
1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. g3 dxe4 5. dxe4 e5 6. c3 c6 7. Bg2 Qd3 8. Qe2
Qxe2+ 9. Nxe2 Be6 10. Nb3 Nbd7 11. f4 Bxb3 12. axb3 Nc5 13. Be3 Nd3+ 14. Kd2
O-O-O 15. Kc2 Ng4 16. Bh3 h5 17. Bxa7 Kc7 18. Bxg4 hxg4 19. Be3 Bc5 20. Rad1
Nb4+ 21. cxb4 Bxe3 22. Rd3 exf4 23. Nxf4 Bxf4 24. Rxd8 Kxd8 25. gxf4 Ke7 26.
Rg1 Rxh2+ 27. Kc3 Re2 28. Kd3 Rxb2 29. Rxg4 Rxb3+ 30. Kc4 Re3 31. Kd4 Rb3 32.
Kc4 Rf3 33. Kc5 g6 34. Rh4 Kd7 35. Kb6 Rb3 36. Kc5 b6+ 37. Kc4 Rf3 38. Kd4 Ke6
39. Kc4 b5+ 40. Kd4 Rb3 41. Kc5 Rc3+ 42. Kb6 Rc4 43. f5+ gxf5 44. exf5+ Kxf5
0-1
There are two more Momic-Hurt games at http://www.memphischess.com/johnhur... if anyone is interested. |
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| Apr-01-22 | | jerseybob: <zanzibar: Can this be true?
<Ha! You think that's bad. Back in the 60's Milan Momic, a Yugoslav master, moved to Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He quickly dominated Alabama chess. After a few years of this the frustrated Alabama players got the Alabama state chess association to ban players rated 2200 and up from the Alabama state championship!>> If that's true - and I've no way of knowing for sure and the link doesn't work - it's an insight into why U.S. chess has so often not lived up to its potential. But I say "if". Doesn't the USCF oversee tourneys like that? |
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| Apr-01-22 | | Granny O Doul: ...and if so, was the ban ever properly repealed? Or are there a lot of phony "former state champions" walking around? |
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| Apr-01-22 | | Z free or die: <jerseybob> Try this archived version of the link instead: https://web.archive.org/web/2015083... (https://web.archive.org is a good place to try and see if stale links can be revived) |
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| Apr-01-22 | | jerseybob: <zanzibar: He was also a writer:In this case, describing the Fischer-Spassky matchup> What I could read of the article was intriguing. Unfortunately a lot of old newspaper articles posted on the web are truncated, but I'm grateful for what's there. |
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| Apr-01-22 | | jerseybob: <Z free or die: <jerseybob> Try this archived version of the link instead:
https://web.archive.org/web/2015083..> Thanks. |
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Apr-01-22
 | | HeMateMe: The Milan Momic March was a mass protest to bring light to the duress that moms everywhere were being subjected to. thank you. |
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| Apr-01-22 | | jerseybob: <zanzibar: [Mid-South Open 1968][White "Nahas, Majeed"]
[Black "Momic, Milan"]
1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.c4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.f3 c6 6.Be3 Na6 7.Qd2 Nc7 8. O-O-O a6 9.Kb1 b5 10.Rc1 Bd7 11.h4 Rb8 12.g4 bxc4 13.Bxc4 d5 14.Bb3 dxe4 15.g5 Nfd5 16.fxe4 Nxe3 17.Qxe3 Nb5 18.Nge2 a5 19.Nxb5 Rxb5 20. Rhf1 O-O 21.Nc3 Rb4 22.Rcd1 Bg4 23.Bxf7+ Rxf7 24.Rxf7 Bxd1 25.Rxg7+ Kxg7 26.Nxd1 Qxd4 27.Qc3 Rc4 28.Qxd4+ Rxd4 29.Nc3 Rd2 0-1 >
Black's 22th and 24th moves were noted as being good.>Good work in finding this game, and it stands in stark contrast to black's play in Spassky-Evans Varna 1962. Of course Evans' disaster in that game paved the way for lots of analysis on this line. I like the way black holds off on castling, and the preparatory maneuver Na6/c7. Very nice. This game should be in the database. (hint, hint) |
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| Aug-06-23 | | ADmightywarriorIN: Yo....
MILAN MOMIC, THE GREAT ALABAMA MASTER!!! |
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Aug-07-23
| | perfidious: Have looked round, but found nothing to corroborate Edwards' claim cited in the bio that either Keres or Larsen played in the Goldwater-Marshall event in 1975. It is difficult to imagine either of those players being invited to what, for them, would have been a minor tournament; the appearance fees alone would break a budget. |
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