Aug-05-07 | | D. M. Walles: The greatest chess author of all time hands down. His works are hard to find but I beg of you: try. You will be rewarded. |
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May-31-08 | | whiteshark:
<Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess!> -- Stephan Gerzadowicz
An axiom! |
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Apr-09-09 | | Octavia: his books are easy to find in Amazon - & amazing they are! |
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Apr-09-09 | | parisattack: I concur, excellent books! Journal of a Chess Original, Journal of a Chess Master and Stephen Gerzadowicz - Correspondence Chess Master. I believe they are all by Thinkers Press (Chessco.com). |
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Aug-01-09 | | myschkin: . . .
"Such people are immoral, unethical, and I hope they do it!" (Stephan Gerzadowicz , on players who use a computer to generate moves in CC games) ;) |
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Jun-18-11 | | parisattack: I just pulled Gerzadowicz's books out for a research of 1. g3. Does anyone have an update on him? If a chess book is supposed to be both educational and entertaining, his certainly hit the mark, IMHO. |
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Jun-18-11
 | | perfidious: Haven't talked with Stephan in years-last I knew, he'd moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. |
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Jun-25-11 | | parisattack: <perfidious: Haven't talked with Stephan in years-last I knew, he'd moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.> He certainly seems off the radar. :( Love his books, actually rereading/studying them now. Correspondence chess was a wonderful thing! Computers put the kibbutz to it. 'Something gained something lost' - although to be perfectly honest I am still looking for the something gained from computer chess... |
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Jun-25-11
 | | DrNyet: Hmmm... no wins by Gerz posted?! |
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Sep-12-13 | | parisattack: <DrNyet: Hmmm... no wins by Gerz posted?!> A shame not. His games are very interesting especially for students of hypermodernism. Annotations in his three books are extremely readable, entertaining. Perhaps I will grab some of my favorite Gerz wins, submit to CG.com. |
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May-29-15 | | TheFocus: <Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess!> - Stephan Gerzadowicz. |
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Jun-06-16 | | parisattack: <perfidious: Haven't talked with Stephan in years-last I knew, he'd moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.> http://www.uschesstrust.org/the-u-s... |
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Jun-06-16
 | | perfidious: <parisattack> First got to know Stephan when playing major New England events in the mid-late 1970s, which he would frequently direct, along with George Mirijanian. Stephan was the quieter personality, while George was on the voluble side and reasonable, though not to be provoked, as a GM discovered who tried to pull rank--do not recall who that unlucky soul was or which event. Stephan had a farm in N Templeton, Massachusetts into the 1990s--sent on a case of garlic once! It was sometime after this that I lost touch. Good man. |
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Jun-10-16 | | Howard: If I remember correctly, he was the one who sent me a column from some Massachusetts-based chess publication back in early 1988, about issues that Chess Life while under the editorship of (the late) Larry Parr. The column was dead-on-target, in my opinion. The magazine was way too political, while Parr was in charge. |
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Sep-27-21 | | parisattack: Stephen annotated most of the games in the 'The 7th U.S. Correspondence Chess Championship' book. I was happy to add this gem to his other three books. |
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