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| Oct-18-15 | | grasser: I read he defeated 80 GM's in his career. How many do you have to beat in order to be a GM yourself? |
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Oct-18-15
 | | FSR: <grasser> You have to get a certain number of GM norms and have a FIDE rating of at least 2500. http://bit.ly/1KhvPrm A lot of Tate's wins against GMs were in open tournaments where GM norms weren't possible. |
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| Oct-18-15 | | grasser: <FSR> I see. A Great loss no matter what the title. We are all precious. |
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Oct-18-15
| | FSR: http://www.thechessdrum.net/drummaj... |
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Oct-18-15
 | | wwall: I knew Emory in my Air Force days. He won the Air Force championship 5 times, dominating the Armed Forces in the 1980s. Always a nice guy and spent time going over my games or Bobby Moore's games, even if he wasn't playing in the tournament. My friends are dying off this year. First Browne, then Tate. |
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| Oct-18-15 | | TheFocus: Rest in peace, Emory Tate.
Thank you for the games. |
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| Oct-18-15 | | Gregor Samsa Mendel: Too damn young. RIP. |
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Oct-18-15
 | | kingscrusher: RIP Emory Tate
I have done a tribute video here today:
RIP Emory Tate: A tribute to International Master Emory Tate - notable game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otT... |
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| Oct-18-15 | | Mating Net: A player who showed us the value of the initiative, well done Emory. I hope you are playing some games against Tal and Fischer right now. |
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Oct-18-15
 | | WannaBe: Wow, so sad! I've seen Tate a few times, but never got the chance to speak to him. =( |
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Oct-18-15
| | WannaBe: The last time I saw Tate, was in Chicago, when he played Seth, aka <Phoenix>. S Homa vs E Tate, 2007 |
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Oct-18-15
 | | chancho: Rest in Peace Emory.
The stress of playing hours of classical Chess is bound to affect a player's health. Even more so if they suffer from things like hypertension and so on. But in the end it was his time to go.
We all face that journey sooner or later. |
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Oct-18-15
| | FSR: http://www.chess.com/news/emory-tat... |
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Oct-18-15
 | | Ron: Wow. Back in the '90s, there was a major chess club in my hometown in Chicago, and I saw Emory Tate play in a tournament there. Rest In Peace. |
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| Oct-18-15 | | Marmot PFL: <The stress of playing hours of classical Chess is bound to affect a player's health. Even more so if they suffer from things like hypertension and so on.> Think you may be right. Sort of glad I quit when I did, as a lot of players seem to cash out in their 50s or 60s. I remember the old Chessman comics - Chessman is playing an elderly GM who makes a brilliant rook sacrifice. Chessman thinks and thinks, and is just about to shake hands and resign when the old master has a heart attack and dies. A spectator shakes his head and says "Poor old guy was down a rook too". |
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Oct-18-15
 | | perfidious: <Marmot....Think you may be right. Sort of glad I quit when I did, as a lot of players seem to cash out in their 50s or 60s.> Not for nothing did Korchnoi, in referring to the death of Stein, aged 38, style a heart attack the chess player's occupational disease. As you say, same as in poker, a good many players call it a day relatively early in life: the combination of a sedentary activity and the necessity of concealing all signs of strain behind a wall of inscrutability is bound to tell. |
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Oct-18-15
| | perfidious: RIP
I well remember the only time we met at the board: the World Open blitz in 1991. We followed an old-fashioned line in the Taimanov line vs the Modern Benoni, featured in A H Williams vs Mecking, 1974. Got a won position and let him off the hook. |
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| Oct-18-15 | | perfessor: I met Tate at a club in Evanston back in the 70's. We played speed all night, and even though our ratings were about the same, I don't think I won a single game. It was clear to me he was advancing rapidly. Nice guy, very sorry to hear the news. |
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Oct-18-15
 | | SteinitzLives: Emory Tate was a man who knew how to transfer his enthusiasm and love for chess not only as a coach, teacher and camp counselor, but as a player too. RIP Emory, take some GM scalps in heaven, and teach the amateurs with them there. |
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| Oct-18-15 | | savagerules: Tate was an interesting guy but had his shortcomings that most likely led to his shortened life. Anybody who knew him at any length knows about this but anyway the guy lived life his way and on his terms and that's a good way to go out and he was playing chess to the very end. |
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Oct-18-15
 | | offramp: That's a great shame. |
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Oct-18-15
 | | Joshka: Been reading about how he was a linguist! Spoke fluent Russian and had a good command of many other languages. Saw him once at the US OPEN. When you play over his games, he just goes all in! I'm sure many of his sac's are unsound, but that only counts if you are playing computers. Defending as a human is much more difficult;-) |
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| Oct-18-15 | | Riverbeast: RIP E.T.
An incredibly talented player...The joke we used to have is that in the Soviet Union, they called Mikhail Tal "the white Tate" |
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| Oct-19-15 | | andrewjsacks: Very dangerous player, even to those rated higher. Talented. |
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| Oct-19-15 | | Moszkowski012273: Close to 20 years ago I was fortunate enough to be able to watch yourself and Tom Murphy terrorize the DC chess scene....One of my idols for sure.....RIP sir.... |
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