wwall Member since Oct-10-04 · Last seen May-04-25 I live in Palm Bay, Florida. I retired as a senior scientist at L3Harris Corporation and worked there for over 23 years (1997-2021) as an Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE). I provided computer security for DoD, NASA, DOC, NOAA, NWS, and other government programs. I am a retired US Air Force officer (1970-1995) who spent 4 years in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war and spent 6 years at NASA Ames Research Center as an ISSE. I was an Intel officer and avionics engineer. I am a chess and tennis enthusiast. I have written over 50 books in the past. I have written 700 Opening Traps, Mate in Three, Chess Opening Blunders, Oddities in Chess (also Oddities in Science and Oddities in History), 600 Sicilian Miniatures, 600 King's Gambit Miniatures, 600 Queen's Gambit Miniatures, 600 French Miniatures, 600 English Miniatures, 500 Orangutan Games, 600 Ruy Lopez Miniatures, 800 Chess Traps, 500 Larsen's Opening Games, 500 Owen's Defense Games, 600 Italian Miniatures, 500 Grob Games, 600 Indian Miniatures, 600 Caro-Kann Miniatures and Bobby Fischer - 300 Winning Games. All available at Amazon, paperback or Kindle. Bill Wall's Chess Page: http://www.billwallchess.com/ Bill Wall's chess blog page: https://billwallchess.blogspot.com/ Bill Wall's personal blog page: https://billwallblog.blogspot.com/ My games and short bio at chessgames.com Bill Wall non-chess page: http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/b... twitter (chess): https://twitter.com/billwallchess twitter (non-chess): https://twitter.com/williamdwall Wall's books at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B00IZ30XSI Bill Wall's chess videos : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8... Bill Wall's archives (articles, news, etc): https://sites.google.com/view/billw... email: bill_wallbellsouth.net

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Feb-22-25 Eliskases vs Fine, 1936   wwall: Perhaps 28.Rb6 is the losing move. Maybe White should try 28.Rf4+ Rxf4 now 28...exf4 or 28...gxf4 may be good enough for a draw. 29.gxf4 Rxa2 30.h4 Rxa5 31.Kg2 e5 32.Kf3. 29.exf4 Rxa2 30.g4 Rxa6 31.Kg2 h5 32.g5+ Kg6 33.h4.      Feb-21-25 Avrukh vs J M Lopez Martinez, 2009   wwall: Perhaps 42...Qxb2 is the losing move. It looks like a poison pawn. Maybe better is 42...Re8 43.Rf1 Re7 44.Qd8 Qe6 and Black looks OK. After 42...Qxb2, White plays 43.Rf1 Rf8 44.Ne3 Nc5 (44... Nd2 45.Rf4 Qc3 46.Qe2 and 47.Ng4) 45.Ng4 Ne6 46.Qe7 Nd8 (46...b5 47.Nf6 and 48.Nd7) 47.Ne5 ...      Feb-19-25 J Bednarski vs T Georgadze, 1971   wwall: Perhaps 23...Bxh6 is the losing move. Black can try 23...Qd6 24.Nxf8 Qxf8 25.c3 Rd3 26.Be4, but White looks better. Instead of 26...Kxf8. Black can try 26...Rxf8, but still loses after 27.fxe7 Re8 28.Bxb7 Rd6 (28...Rd7 29.Bc6; 28...f5 29.Bc6 Rg4+ 30.Kf2 Rf4+ 31.Kg2 Rg4+ 32.Kf2) 29.Ba6      Feb-18-25 C Bauer vs Bacrot, 2012   wwall: Bauer wrote in his Candidate Moves book - 24.Rxa5?! Bxh3 25.gxh3 Qxh3 26.Rd1 Nf4 27.Ne1 h5 28.Rd2 h4 (28...Ng4 29.Bd1) Nf5 and White holds. But after 28...Ng4 29.Bd1, perhaps 29...Qh2+ 30.Kf1 Nf6 31.Bf3 (31.Qe3 g5) 31...g5 and ...h4 is good for Black.      Feb-16-25 Ivanchuk vs Bareev, 1998   wwall: After 20...Bxb2, then 21.Kxb2 f5 22.Nd6 Qb4+ 23.Ka1 Qc3+ 24.Kb1 and Black has a perpetual check.      Feb-15-25 Capablanca vs Spielmann, 1927   wwall: After 24.Ra5, White threatens 25.Bxc4 Rxc4 26.Re5+. In the NY 1927 tournament book by Alekhine, he writes that after 24...Ng4 25.Rb6 Bxf1 26.Rb7+ Ke8 27.Kxf1 and White has nothing more. But after 26...Ke8 White can play 27.Rxg5 Nf6 (27...Nh6 28.Kxf1) 28.Kxf1 Rc1+ 29.Ke2 Rac8 ...      Jan-20-25 Ian Wells    wwall: It was not during a rest day that he drowned. He had just finished 6th after leading most of the tournament at the new Brazilian "Golden Pawn" tournament for teenagers. He went for a final swim with a group of other players when he got caught in an undertow. Two lifeguards pulled him ...      Dec-21-24 L Steiner vs Bogoljubov, 1928   wwall: The story of Bogo spending 2 hours on a losing move was also published in the British magazine CHESS, vol 37, Oct 1971, p. 4. It also mentioned that Korchnoi took 1 hour 35 minutes in a move against Geller.      Apr-17-24 Kenneth Rogoff    wwall: The first concert I saw was Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention on Oct 17, 1975 at Duke University in Durham, NC. Lots of drugs at that one.      Apr-06-24 Gajdukevich vs Alekhine, 1907   wwall: After 23.Qe3, Black tried 23...Nf4, threatening 24...Nxg2. Safer may have been 23...Rh8 or 24.Nf6. Instead of 24.f3, White's best may be 24.Qd4+ Kg8 25.Ne4. After 24.f3 Black tries 24...Rh8? (threatening 25...Nxg2 26.Kxg2 Rxh2) instead of 24...Nh5 and 25...Nf6. Instead of 25.Ne4, best

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 7 OF 7 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-25-18    diceman: <wwall: He beat Lombardy on Jan 2, 1958 in the US championship, but Lombardy was not a GM yet.> Anyone know what the standard was to get a GM title back then? I know Fischer got his at Portoroz, but that was somewhat unique. May-25-18    wwall: The most common standard at that time was a list of possible candidates from each country (based on performance in international tournaments with other GMs), then a vote by a Qualification Committee at a FIDE Congress. You could also get a GM title if you qualified to play in the Interzonal or score at least 33.3 percent in a Candidates Tournament. Here is a list of early grandmasters by year. http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/a... May-25-18    diceman: Thanks! May-26-18    TheFocus: Mr. Wall, you might be interested in this: in the May 11, 2018 issue of the Mechanics Institute Library newsletter, the two tournament games played between Eliot Hearst and Bobby Fischer are presented with Hearst's annotations. https://chessclub.org/news.php May-27-18    wwall: I read the article and did not know about the Columbia University meetings. I will have to add that to my notes. Hearst was rated 2298 at the time of the two games. Fischer ended up with a 2321 rating in the Rosenwald tourney. Fischer also played Hearst on March 7, 1964 in a blitz event in Washington DC. May-28-18    TheFocus: I had never read anything about the Columbia University meetings either. It was a great kindness to me that Dr. Hearst annotated his games. I bought his book on blindfold chess from him so I could get an autographed copy and asked if he had ever annotated his games against Fischer anywhere. He replied in the negative, and very graciously agreed to annotate them for me. Jul-01-18    Phony Benoni: <wwall> I have been compiling game collections and information for US Opens, and am currently working on Columbus 1977. This one is difficult because I have no crosstable available, and have to compile what information I can from the tournament bulletins. The <cg> database has six of your games from that tournament, and I have three more from other sources. The opponents were: Mariano Acosta Jack Gersho Randall Hough Tim Kras (Andy?) Martin John Milton Sam Reisinger E Schroeder Mark Wintering Unfortunately none of these games appear in the tournament bulletins, so I have no idea in which round they were played. I realize it's a long shot to ask about games from forty years ago, but would you happen to have a record of if which rounds these and any other games from the tournament were played> Thanks for your time. Jul-02-18    wwall: Mariano Acosta - Rd 1 Jack Gersho - 5 Randall Hough 8 Tim Kras - 6 Andy Martin - 7 John Milton - 3 Sam Reisinger - 4 E Schroeder - 2 Mark Wintering - 9 All me games are in my Bill Wall's games (pgn file) from 1969 to 2017 at http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/. It has all the rounds and dates and games. US Open crosstables were in the 1978 USCF chess yearbook, p. 36. I won the putt putt championship, beating out Ed Edmondson in the final round. The tournament was over on the 19th of August and I got married the 20th back in North Carolina. I was a delegate representing NC. The biggest fight was which zone did each state belong to. Biggest news event was Elvis died on Aug 16 during the tourney. Sneaky Pete wasn't that strong of a computer there. 13-year-old Joel Benjamin got lots of attention there and became the youngest master after the event (now we have 12 year old GMs). Jul-02-18    Phony Benoni: Thanks for the information. Only those nine games were in the file, but the important the important oint was verifying there were indeed played in the US Open. Quite often, I find that online databases include games from the daytime side events, si I try to be careful. Unfortunately, I no longer have that yearbook issue. Columbus was one of my best US Opens results-wise, but I still regret losing a better position in round 1 against Hugh Tobin. At least I wasn't alone. Jan-03-20    wordfunph: hi Bill, received greetings card. Thanks my friend. Feb-04-20    jessicafischerqueen: Great success! Thanks to <Annie> processing our correction slip, the game you published on your web page so long ago has emerged at cg.com as well: M Lauberte vs Lidiya Paramonova, 1950 May-22-20    takchess: Bill. I hope you are well. Any chance of you publishing your Halloween Gambit Games? Regards, Jim Sep-18-20    OhioChessFan: Hello. Someone asked this at the Kibitzers Cafe. I figured you know. <Somebody knows why Owen Defense is called Greek Defense too?> Sep-19-20    wwall: Yup. saw it. Looks like it was coined by Johann Allgaier in the 1790s. Murray referenced Greek chess and Allgaier in his book A History of Chess, page 168. Allgaier got the term from Viennese chess players Apr-27-21    jessicafischerqueen: What the hell is wrong with you? You need to answer for this obscenity: Menchik vs E Pritchard, 1943 Jul-12-21    Deus Ex Alekhina: I read your article on the vices of chessplayers and you had the players listed alphabetically. I hurried to the end of the list to see what you had written about Zukertort. Zilch. Hmmm. I guess his cocaine usage was not worthy of inclusion. Aug-04-21    wwall: Will have to update to include Zukertort if I can source it. Feb-07-23    Caissanist: I'm curious about why you closed your chess.com account some years ago, when the owners had singled you out as helpful in getting it going in its early days. I enjoy that site, but many others seem to dislike it. Feb-15-23    MissScarlett: You submitted a game already in the DB: B Wall vs H Hensley, 1976 Feb-19-23    OhioChessFan: Hello sir. A bit of help? Per http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/... do you know if that Cosmopolitan Club was New York City, San Fransisco or somewhere else? Feb-21-23    MissScarlett: You submitted a game already in the DB: J de Wit vs L Gutman, 1984 Feb-22-23    MissScarlett: Your submitted game <City of London CC - Midland Union CC> with the source <American Chess Bulletin, Jan 1913>. Could you provide some more detail? May-11-23    wwall: My chess.com account (I was the first playing user and not developer there) was closed due to a name chess from Bill Wall to minichess after I took a break and was sent to the Middle East for several months. I was not active online. When I returned, I chose a new name and started all over again. The Cosmopolitan Club was the one located in San Francisco. I need to check the ACB source again. May-12-23    OhioChessFan: Thank you, sir. Sep-01-23    fredthebear: It's good to have you back Mr. Bill! Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 7) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 7 OF 7 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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