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Jul-31-02
 | | Sneaky: A fascinating and infamous character. Bloodgood was a Nazi, and later a convicted killer, who died in the Virginia slammer in 2001. He achieved a phenominal rating by fiddling with the rating system. If you played the same patzers day in and day out, you too could have a 2600 rating! There was a possibility that he would be eligible to play in the US Championship, and technically there is no rule that prohibits convicted prisoners from playing! But the USCF patched their rating system and reset Bloodgood's down to 2250, which was probably more accurate. |
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| Oct-18-03 | | dippel: Have a look here: http://home.adelphia.net/~dwedding/... |
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| Oct-18-03 | | Diggitydawg: Jeez, the guy looks like Uncle Fester. He was put in prison for murdering his mother. Because he played chess, the guards let him out of prison occasionally until the day he overpowered a guard (at the guard's own house!) while preparing for a chess tournament. He died in 2001. I have a collection of his games (not the games he CLAIMS he played against Einstein, John Dos Passos, and Jimmy Hoffa). He invariably opened with the grob and won a majority of times with it (if you look at the opening explorer, grob has the highest percentage of wins for white). Another interesting website is: http://pkchess.bizland.com/correspo... In this link is a game he CLAIMED he played against Humphrey Bogart. |
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| Oct-19-03 | | dippel: I have made a small collection with some of Bloodgoods games. You can find it here: http://home10.inet.tele.dk/dippel/S...
And you can download a lot of his games here:
ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/PGN/Players/bld-pg.zip
Here is an article about Bloodgood:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/A... |
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| Jan-28-04 | | sleepkid: ...this collection should be called "Claude Bloodgood plays the white keys" - makes me want to take up the Grob. By the way C Bloodgood vs M Brenneman, 1973 doesn't seem to load. |
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| Jan-28-04 | | sleepkid: ...also C Bloodgood vs H Erwin, 1972 doesn't load either. |
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| Jan-28-04 | | Resignation Trap: Apart from the Grob, Bloodgood also played the Norfolk Gambit. It goes 1. Nf3 d5 2. b3 c5 3. e4!? dxe4 4. Ne5. The trap here is 4...Qd4 5. Bb2! Qxb2 6. Nc3 Qa3 7.Bb5+ Bd7 8. Nc4 Qb4 9. Bxd7+ Nxd7 10. a3. Bye-bye Queeen! |
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| Jan-28-04 | | strobane: Why does this guy have white in every game? |
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| Jan-28-04 | | clendenon: because if you triedd to play white he'll kill you. |
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| Jan-28-04 | | clendenon: also because he was a racist. |
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| Jan-28-04 | | PinkPanther: <strobane>
Because his career would have Frizzeled out otherwise :-) |
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| Jan-28-04 | | Bitzovich: the last name is also pretty telling.. no wonder everyone lost to him... If I were to play him I'd just resign quickly and go hide under my bed :) |
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| Feb-04-04 | | mack: Are there any other GMs in prison? |
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| Feb-04-04 | | Lastdance: <Are there any other GMs in prison?> Alex Sherzer came very close to going to prison for his attempt to pick up a 15 year-old-girl. Norman Whitaker , who once beat Lasker in a simul (and almost beat Capablanca) spent some time in jail for his involvement in the Lindbergh kidnapping case. |
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| Feb-04-04 | | clendenon: I went to jail once for loitering. of cousre i'm no GM. they got some cute writings on jailhouse walls."he who writes on jailhouse walls, rolls his... |
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| Feb-04-04 | | square dance: when i first saw this guys middle name i was starting to think snoop dogg ran this site. |
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| Feb-04-04 | | actual: fa shizzle... |
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| Feb-08-04 | | patzer2: While Bloodgood may have been an infamous chess character of interest, and was certainly not a bad tactician, I think perhaps too many of his games are included in the database. For example, his weak trap variation of Grob's opening is way over represented in his game collection. It includes no games against masters using theoretically correct lines and leads to a distorted impression in the Opening Explorer, from the resulting inflated win statistics against weak opposition, that the dubious 1. g4?! is actually a strong opening move. Grob's opening with 1. g4?! against strong opposition is weak. Best play following M Basman vs Keene, 1981 and P Elger vs M Brent, 1990 provide a more realistic assessment of the weakness of Grob's opening, and the refutation of much of Bloodgood's uncontested wins against weak opposition. I personally think some of the games here against weak opposition need to be weeded out, if for no other reason than to provide a more realistic assessment of Grob's opening. White has no where near a 77% chance in that opening, especially against a strong and well prepared opponent. |
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| Feb-08-04 | | Benjamin Lau: Actually patzer2, he may not even have been a good tactician. There are many games where he and his opponents miss 2 ply knight forks. It's really pathetic. I think in "Bloodgood's" case the games may have been included for purely historical reasons. |
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| Feb-08-04 | | patzer2: <Benjamin Lau> Who did he play to get such a high rating? I understand Bloodgood was rated number 2 in the U.S.A. in 1996. How was that possible? |
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| Feb-08-04 | | Benjamin Lau: patzer2, the answer is probably the same as that to another question- why did he get to play as white in like 95% of the games? Either he is luckiest tournament player in history or he pulled some sort of trick a la Azai what's his face (Zurab Azmaiparashvili) |
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| Feb-08-04 | | Benjamin Lau: C Bloodgood vs Taylor, 1973 is a particularly ludicrous game. "Correspondence." Yeah right. |
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Feb-08-04
| | Sneaky: "Correspondence" is this case probably means they were passing notes back and forth between the prison cells after lockdown. |
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| Feb-10-04 | | patzer2: For a good analysis of the accepted line in the Grob, paste the following site to your browser: chessworks.com/analysis/Openings/Unorthodox/UCOdraft/UNO_gi.htm#Heading1 This site is actually the foundation of a book on unusual chess openings, and currently is available free online. Also, go to Chesslab.com and search for the game Elfert (2247) vs. Nemet (2425) played in 2003 in Davos SUI. Black demonstrates how to accept the pawn (2...Bxg4)and then give it back with a winning advantage. The Bloodgood's gambit line of the Grob may well be busted in this gambit accepted line. |
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| Feb-10-04 | | patzer2: Another idea for beating the Grob is to play it something like a King's Indian or Sicilian Dragon with a Kingside Fianchetto. Go to Chesslab.com and look up the game Mollina Monsilla (2320) vs. Gonzalez Diaz (2267) to see a game in which the lower rated master wins a decisive vitory with this strategy. |
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