Aug-08-18 Richard Chess
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| wrap99: <BigShot> Just noticed your remark about bughouse -- Mike taught me that you can in fact sometimes safely castle in BH -- I can't believe I arrogantly questioned such a strong player, having learned the game from in isolation in a small town. Getting out into the wide world ... |
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Aug-07-18 Ron Frasco
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| wrap99: A Los Angeles-area player in the 1970s. I think I played my first game of bughouse ever with him. |
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Aug-07-18 Mike Chess
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| wrap99: Mike and Rich were very nice guys who were either expert or low masters pre-rating inflation. Rich (I think) also played football at the college level. Always wondered what became of them. They are from Nebraska, as I recall. |
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Jul-29-18 Topalov vs S Zhigalko, 2008 
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| wrap99: <Absentee>: Sure, but I have to say that BH, which has a bad reputation among serious players often, seems to help certain areas of chess, at least for me. I think playing a lot of BH before a chess tournament is probably a bad idea but BH associated with studying standard ... |
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Jul-29-18 James A Thinnsen
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| wrap99: <JonathanSarfati> People change, he is no longer a teenager but a middle-aged adult. I am glad to hear you found him to be a nice guy now. He certainly was a very good player as a teenager, perhaps he applied those brains to something productive? |
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Jul-16-18 Max Weiss vs B Lasker, 1911
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| wrap99: why is this a draw? |
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Jul-03-18 Emanuel Lasker
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| wrap99: I first met Dennis in 1975. I would run into him repeatedly but he seemed to have no memory of me, perhaps because I was a youngster and changing in appearance. I ran into more than one chess player at poker, Walter Browne was someone I distinctly remember suggesting to that he ... |
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Jun-28-18 Samuel D Factor
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| wrap99: Caissanist: I am not sure but probably it was in Hilbert's Whitaker bio there are some excerpts from Lasker's correspondence which not only show that Lasker and Whitaker were apparently friends but I think Factor is mentioned. |
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Jun-26-18 Calvin Blocker
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| wrap99: This was a link within the article bismuth posted: https://www.clevescene.com/clevelan... |
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Jun-26-18 Z Harari vs M Rodshtein, 2017
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| wrap99: Damn, he will be thinking about Bd5 for the rest of his life! Not too many people beat 2700 players; I am not sure I have ever seen one in person -- that used to be a rare rating indeed. |
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