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Joseph L Shipman

Number of games in database: 25
Years covered: 1982 to 2010
Overall record: +9 -14 =2 (40.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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JOSEPH L SHIPMAN
(born Jun-07-1961, 64 years old) United States of America

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Joseph Lalor Shipman. Son of Walter Shipman.

Last updated: 2023-10-18 09:05:53

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A Shaw vs J Shipman 1-0341982Boston Met LeagueA19 English, Mikenas-Carls, Sicilian Variation
2. A Shaw vs J Shipman  1-0411983November MadnessD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
3. A Shaw vs J Shipman 1-0241984Boston College OpenD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
4. J Shipman vs Weber 1-0251985New York OpenC48 Four Knights
5. N Elkies vs J Shipman  1-0461987Harvard FuturityD07 Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense
6. J Shipman vs L Mercuri 1-0231987Harvard FuturityB21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4
7. J Shipman vs I Youssef  0-1301987Harvard FuturityB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
8. J Shipman vs A Shaw  0-1301987Harvard FuturityC15 French, Winawer
9. J Shipman vs C Chabris  0-1361987Harvard FuturityB00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
10. R N Bauer vs J Shipman  1-0281987Harvard FuturityD07 Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense
11. E Rosen vs J Shipman  0-1181987Harvard FuturityC64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
12. A Serotta vs J Shipman  0-1441987Harvard FuturityA29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto
13. F C Wang vs J Shipman  1-0391987Harvard FuturityA10 English
14. J Shipman vs P Carter 1-0261988National opB21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4
15. A Ivanov vs J Shipman  0-149198812th Harvard OpenC64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
16. J Shipman vs H Beutel  1-0381992USA-ch11 sf corrB21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4
17. G McAuliffe vs J Shipman 0-1401992USA-ch M corrC55 Two Knights Defense
18. A Dzwikowski vs J Shipman  1-0321997EM/M/GT/A005C60 Ruy Lopez
19. J Shipman vs E Roche Peris  0-1581997EM/M/GT/A005C49 Four Knights
20. J Shipman vs G Pukropski  1-0241997EM/M/GT/A005C48 Four Knights
21. J Shipman vs E Limayo  ½-½721997EM/M/GT/A005B21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4
22. M Hase vs J Shipman  ½-½361997EM/M/GT/A005E97 King's Indian
23. R D`Arruda vs J Shipman  1-0361997EM/M/GT/A005C60 Ruy Lopez
24. J Shipman vs T Brandhorst  0-1702008USA CC-ch18 SF03 emailC48 Four Knights
25. T Brandhorst vs J Shipman  1-0402010USA-ch19 sf09 emailD20 Queen's Gambit Accepted
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Jun-01-11  Strongest Force: His dad is IM Walter Shipman.
Jun-01-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Joe's best game isn't even in this DB; it was published in New In Chess, and if I ever find that volume, I'll submit it.
Jun-01-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: I played him in a Golden Knights Final (postal) game in 1995. He played a Black Knights Tango and we agreed to a draw after 26 moves. Nice guy. Oddly enough, I have his last postcard here as a bookmark to "tango!" by Richard Palliser. His sister Judee plays and coaches chess. Their father Walter Shipman might be the oldest person ever to earn an IM title. He was the only player to draw a game against Fischer (who won his other 21 games) in the 1971 Manhattan Chess Club blitz tournament.
Jun-01-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: <perfidious> Are you referring to the game he won in a Four Knights Game? I believe it was in the (usually) drawing line against the Rubinstein where his opponent grabbed the poisoned pawn (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Nd4 5.Nxd4 exd4 6.e5 dxc3 7.exf6 cxd2+?!) and Joe annihilated him. I remember him mentioning it to me during our game.

I'm looking at New In Chess Yearbook 6. It says that 7...cxd2+? was analyzed in Yearbook 4. Unfortunately I don't have that one.

Jun-01-11  Strongest Force: I am glad sister Judit teaches chess. Her dad gave me the dubious title of Park Master. :)
Jun-01-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <FSR> Have YB 4 somewhere, but no idea where it is at the moment. Lots of my books are still in mothballs, which forces me to recollect a whole lot of things. Can't complain about my memory for an old bugger, though.

The curious thing about that line in the Four Knights is that in the 1980s, he twice (that I remember) played into the line OTB against 2300+ players, both of whom went into the drawish queenless middlegame, and Joe bought the farm each time.

We met six times in all (I somehow won all six), and I took care to steer away from his favourite lines. Both Black wins were opening traps in the Winawer French line 4.Ne2 dxe4 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Nxc3 Nc6. Our first meeting was the nicest win of the lot, and a game I'll submit to CG if I ever turn up a copy.

As to Walter, I believe you're correct; he had an exceptional performance in one of the NY Opens, getting a draw with Larsen where the Dane was on the verge of defeat. Walter was very solid, favouring 1.d4 Nf6 2.g3 as White and always playing 1.e4 e5 as Black. Only time I saw him deviate was with the Fort Knox line of the French against Jim Rizzitano in 1985 at a Boylston CC tourney. Jim destroyed him.

Met Judee a few times in the late 1980s. She was 17-1800 strength then, and tall and slender like her brother, though both were unlike dad that way.

Jun-01-11  Strongest Force: I wonder if Joe was a student at MIT when IM Norman Weinstien was teaching there? Norman made hundreds of millions for MHT on Wall Street.
Jun-02-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: When did Weinstein teach at MIT?
Jun-02-11  Strongest Force: Norman was a grad of MIT and soon was a teacher, in the 70s. Norm was always a gifted student from the time I first met him when he was 14.
Oct-27-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <SF> Norman is someone whom I well remember; he travelled to Burlington, Vermont during my student days and gave displays at our junior high school. In 1976, he visited again for the bicentennial USA-Canada matches, where he lost to Kevin Spraggett on first board. Last time I saw him was at the 1983 New England Open, where he crushed me in an English. Nice guy.
Nov-25-20  cameosis: middle name is lalor
birthday is june 7

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