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| Aug-31-23 | | spudweb: He is pretending to be dead at https://www.forevermissed.com/micha... |
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| Mar-23-24 | | idesofmodernity: Can't seem to post to comments from areas in Europe. Might be even more widespread. |
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Mar-23-24
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| Apr-02-24 | | idesofmodernity: That's a spineless comment MissScarlett for those that know what your acronym stands for. Reported! Spudweb, how can you be so sure he's pretending to be dead? Did you know him off the Internet? And perhaps he's doing another classey version of Bobby Fischer's move to Anonymous, in which case you shouldn't be so loud, one chess player to another. |
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| Apr-07-24 | | idesofmodernity: Chess players or managers who played or managed Michael J R White who are now deceased and died in exaggerated circumstances: Richard Almond
Ian Ponter
Peter Poobalasingam
Ian Cowen
Geoffrey Taylor
Igors Rausis / Isa Kasimi (a GM at time of playing)Chess players deceased in exaggerated circumstances who MJR White had some connection with other than playing: Arianne Caoili
Sue Maroroa Jones
Jessie Gilbert
Vugar Gashimov
Igor Kurnasov |
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| Apr-10-24 | | spudweb: His youtube account is here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2... |
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| Apr-11-24 | | idesofmodernity: A few other chess player names to add to the deceased in exaggerated circumstances list, passing away long before the national average, that Michael was something to. I am sure a diligent reader can read between the lines: Graeme Mutton ( https://www.lincsonline.co.uk/stamf...)
Nick Mitchem
John Naylor
James Worthen (https://www.cherwell.org/2009/05/21...) :) A joy chess playing has made possible... ever since the likes of Peter Poobalasingam died: Michael (and his fans) would increase the amount of times he would go over the games played between them on chessgames, by a factor of 8 or more times as many as the games of those that are still alive. Sipping on expensive whiskey and coke and feeling very happy while going over said games is something Michael and a few others are mining from this world. :))))))
Spudweb - be careful. Your posts are obviously not for Michael J R White and we feel this. |
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| Apr-14-24 | | mrlager: Another one would be Steve Boniface. Michael and I spoke privately how upon hearing the news on the English Chess Forum website, a feeling of Euphoria overcame him.
Boniface and Michael having had previous interaction that Michael wasn't happy with.
And they say that's all it takes with a mind that was as powerful as Michael's to have Death roll into motion. All it takes being some incident and for Michael to think something of it. |
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| Apr-23-24 | | mrlager: Interesting fact: Michael was a Fischer 2.
Bobby Fischer, arguably the most interesting chess player there was, reference the epilogue to the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer. The grown ups believing something different - that Fischer had been a hitman, given a position in the crowd as his friendly Drug Lord orders his cartel to unleash automatic fire on their prisoners. That Fischer was working on the assumption that the Blade Runner universe was more real than fiction. |
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| Apr-23-24 | | JedwardDance: And with jumping off the Clifton Suspension Bridge at the age he did, his suicide note read, "I lived as long as I did to ensure that James Worthen (and all the others) (https://cherwell.org/2009/05/21/bra...) died as short as they did".
I believe he was making out that we are all somehow born into Heaven and then times gradually turn our lives into a Hell. |
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| Apr-23-24 | | JedwardDance: That there is some generally ideal time to go, which could be mid-thirties. In any case, James Worthen died far before it, and Michael died only slightly after it, therefore winning this and other rubber band encounters. |
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| Apr-23-24 | | JedwardDance: Idesofmodernity, there's another player you're missing who is now six feet under and that would be Eva Moser. |
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| Apr-25-24 | | mrlager: And there's Robert Richmond dying early at 63: https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopi... Once again, there was some ill-feeling with Michael as there was this rather shocking attempt to rush Michael in as FD after Richmond of the ECF. Michael having to use his better judgement to stand down before it was too late. Even so, White was annoyed Richmond tried it, so to speak. And it seems that has triggered another early death. |
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| May-01-24 | | HonoraryFriend: I knew Michael from growing up. Other interests besides chess. Top bloke and I had his back. |
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| May-03-24 | | JedwardDance: Aside from chess player deaths, Michael was a force to be reckoned with at work and at school.
A number of colleagues in nearby teams dying or suffering miscarriages during hid professional career when he juggled chess playing responsibilities.
At school, three people (students or brothers and sisters of) have died in early adulthood too. Their names in anagram form:
Jackal web sMell
moral hate woBBle
any KiLler thee
It's thought Michael's honing his thinking power playing chess has caused this powerful defense, that are deaths. |
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| May-06-24 | | mrlager: Reporting in another one who died in their 20's having referred to Michael as "weak opposition", thereby angering him and unleashing his paranormal ability.
His name in anagram form: tHeir a*se Po*n |
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| May-06-24 | | HonoraryFriend: Michael told me of another event too. In the late 90s, he went to the chess club that had previously had Aitken through its doors.
On one night, Michael offered some post game analysis to a couple of retired men playing. One man, having looked at the solid analysis told Michael to "b*gger off", much to the annoyance for Michael. Within a month that potty mouth was dead! Make your own mind up! |
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| May-13-24 | | idesofmodernity: Fact about MJRW was that they were a Fischer 2, beating someone who beat Bobby Fischer. |
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| Jun-01-24 | | whiteshark: <idesofmodernity> Long time ago User: Ziggurat created a
<List of premature chess deaths>. This list was continued by User: MissScarlett for a while, but has now disappeared from his profile. I created a somewhat bizarre game collection about this a long time ago: Game Collection: yy_Early Passer Meeting - The Morbid Collection |
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Jun-02-24
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| Jun-02-24 | | whiteshark: <MissScarlett> Thanks! A great compilation! |
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| Jun-08-24 | | idesofmodernity: <whiteshark>, <MissScarlett> Many thanks! |
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| Jun-11-24 | | mrlager: Michael had something very important to tell his chess playing friends and ordinary friends. He didn't just "leave" without saying anything. |
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| Jun-22-24 | | mrlager: Just to add, alongside chess, Michael was a proficient runner, scoring an impressive 1hr 35m in the Great North Run:
https://www.greatrun.org/results/22...
His ascendancy to his highest chess rating was acknowledged together with keeping fit.But, yes, Michael had something else important to say other than just being an achiever in life. |
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| Jun-22-24 | | idesofmodernity: Of course he had something important to say. Other than that, his name also made hardback chessbooks, see link: https://books.google.co.uk/books?re... They say that the Internet is slowly but surely getting deleted. Therefore, if you want to be remembered, having your name in print is the way to go. |
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