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Nov-05-18 | | SugarDom: He's been sick for many years. RIP. |
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Nov-05-18
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It was nice talking to you. |
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Nov-05-18 | | SugarDom: Sorry I scolded you for dumping Shirov in favor of Kramnik vs Kasparov. |
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Nov-05-18
 | | Keyser Soze: RIp.Sad news.
<SugarDom: Sorry I scolded you for dumping Shirov in favor of Kramnik vs Kasparov.> And wasn't even his fault on that episode. Garry simply could find sponsor for that match. |
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Nov-05-18 | | boz: Sorry to hear about Eric. |
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Nov-05-18
 | | WannaBe: Very sad to hear tge news =(( |
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Nov-05-18 | | whiteshark: RIP, Eric Schiller.
Thank you for the many books you have written... |
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Nov-05-18
 | | Penguincw: Just heard of his passing. RIP to you.
One of my favourite game collections is based on checkmate patterns he gave in a book, which I turned into a collection. Game Collection: Checkmate: Checkmate Patterns |
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Nov-06-18 | | zanzibar: Wiki updated (w/o source) then retracted the notice of his death. The wiki history contains this comment: <Family requests privacy until fully notified!!!!!> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.ph... |
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Nov-06-18 | | crawfb5: USCF's announcement:
https://new.uschess.org/news/eric-s... |
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Nov-06-18
 | | offramp:
<Better an end with horror than a horror without end.>
- Schiller. |
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Nov-06-18 | | zanzibar: Thanks <crawfb5>. That link should migrate up to the bio. |
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Nov-06-18 | | crawfb5: <zanzibar: Thanks <crawfb5>. That link should migrate up to the bio.> Done. If someone else wants to alter the format, they are welcome to do so. |
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Nov-06-18
 | | wwall: I wrote a bio on Eric on my chess page at
http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/a...Bill Wall |
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Nov-06-18 | | zanzibar: <Bill W> this is a gem! <In 1985, both Schiller and I were visited by the FBI because we subscribed to Russian newsletters and Russian magazines such as 64 and Shakhmaty Bulletin. Schiller said that all his packages and envelopes were opened twice, once by the Soviets and once by the Americans (FBI and CIA). He had a few postal games going against some Russian players. The FBI asked both of us for a listing of ranked Soviet players or contacts we had with Soviet chess players. <I was discrete, but Schiller wrote to FIDE and asked them to mail a list of all ranked chess players to the FBI.> <<>>> |
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Nov-06-18 | | zanzibar: This is pretty rich too...
<n 1995, he was a chess advisor for the music group Phish. > |
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Nov-06-18
 | | perfidious: <zed>, dang, FBI never contacted me back in the eighties--thought sure they would have! |
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Nov-07-18
 | | saffuna: <perf> They saw your openings, and said, "Nah, this guy's not in touch with the Russians." |
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Nov-07-18
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: RIP Eric. |
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Nov-07-18 | | epistle: His books made many strong grandmasters.
RIP |
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Nov-07-18 | | SugarDom: How come it didn't make you grandmaster? |
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Nov-07-18 | | zanzibar: Schiller's old website is archived on wayback - here's a link to the unorthodox openings section (which I think is more apropos than his Autolexical Theory section): https://web.archive.org/web/2002120... A photograph of him from 2016, in his electric wheelchair: https://chessmusings.wordpress.com/... along with a few other mentions over time. |
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Nov-07-18
 | | perfidious: <saffuna: <perf> They saw your openings, and said, "Nah, this guy's not in touch with the Russians."> No doubt--when they heard I tried 6.Bg5 against Browne's Najdorf in a simul as an 1100 player, I got written off, as they had no idea I would actually acquire some sanity, many years on, and open 1.d4 the other time I had White. |
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Nov-07-18
 | | Annie K.: RIP, Eric Schiller. Sad news... :( |
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Mar-03-19
 | | ketchuplover: May Eric trounce Mr.Miles via some crappy unorthodox openings :) |
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