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| Sep-04-09 | | abcpokerboy: The connection may also have some financial implications. Henley made a fair amount of money stock trading, and that gives him access to such opportunities. Henley was also a second to Walter Browne when Walter was in Interzonals. (Walter's a friend of mine) Henley produced some videos with top players in the mid to late 90's of their best or favorite games. Shirov, Karpov, Browne, as well as an analysis of the second Kasparov-Deep Blue match done with Seirawan. |
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| Sep-04-09 | | MaxxLange: <HeHateMe> is referring to the same idea as me - San Antonio in '72 speculation <abcpokerboy> I have heard it said that Karpov's main interest when he came to America was to make money, which was actually kind of reasonable, for a man in the social elite of the USSR. allowed to travel and to acquire foreign currency |
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Sep-05-09
 | | HeMateMe: Just a guess, but Henley may have been the go-between in getting Karpov an endorsement deal with 'Excaliber', or one of the other stand alone chess machines that were popular before computers became lighter and much cheaper. I don't know if it was Excaliber, or some other chess machine, I do remember both Karpov and Kasparov both separately endorsed competing products. Fischer turned down a bundle to endorse one. There is no reason to assume that Henley speaks Russian, Karpov speaks English well enough, and probably reads it better then he speaks it. There was a movie, I think called "The Great Chess Game" that detailed the Lone Pine Tournament of the mid 70s, in California. Karpov was at this particular year of that tournament, and was interviewed, and was speaing english ok. |
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Mar-09-11
 | | GrahamClayton: Here is a Henley victory not in the database:
[Event "?"]
[Site "New York"]
[Date "1983.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Henley, Ron W"]
[Black "Dlugy, Maxim"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 e5 4. ♘c3 exd4 5. exd4 ♘f6 6. ♗xc4 ♗e7 7. ♘f3 O-O 8.O-O ♗g4 9. h3 ♗h5 10. g4 ♗g6 11. ♘e5 c6 12. f4 b5 13. ♗b3 b4 14. f5 bxc3 15.fxg6 hxg6 16. bxc3 ♘d5 17. ♕f3 ♗f6 18. ♗a3 ♖e8 19. ♖ae1 ♗xe5 20. ♕xf7+ ♔h8 21.♖xe5 ♖xe5 
click for larger view22. ♕f8+ ♕xf8 23. ♖xf8+ 1-0
23...♔h7 24.dxe5 ♘b6 25.e6 ♘a6 26.e7 ♘c7 27.g5
Source: Bill Wall, "500 Queen's Gambit Miniatures", Chess Enterprises Inc, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, 1985 |
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| Jul-14-11 | | bartonlaos: This guy virtually dropped out of the scene in the mid-80's only to reappear in the late 90's. Now, in 2011 he's playing again - a few tournaments in Florida - which should be uploaded here - and a blitz at the National Open. He's still about 2500. Back in the day he made Videos with GMs such as Karpov - and he's just come out with a new one: http://shop.chesscafe.com/Foxy_Open... |
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| Sep-05-11 | | wordfunph: from the book The Spanish Exchange! by Ron Henley & Paul Hodges.. <"Confidence is the key. Confidence and preparation. I knew I had a chance. I had done my homework, and I was ready. Everyone was surprised when I won the tournament except me. Of course, you can't know you're going to win a tournament, but it's important to
believe you have a chance.">
- GM Ron Henley (after a surprise first place finish with 17.5/25 and a tie with GM Walter Browne in Surakarta-Denpasar 1982) |
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Dec-05-11
 | | Penguincw: Hmm. He beat Keene. Not bad. |
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| Dec-05-11 | | Caissanist: Oh, he was better the Keene, at least when he was having his best results in the early eighties. As with many American players, his peak was high but short. |
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| Sep-09-12 | | Llawdogg: Great stories guys! Thanks. |
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| Sep-09-12 | | Everett: Looks quite slim in his youth. |
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| Dec-27-12 | | Morphischer: Should add this game against Judit Polgar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?featur... |
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| Oct-10-13 | | tjipa: I must say, I have a bit of a delicate dilemma. I play Sicilian Alapin, I know (have learned the hard way) I lack knowledge of many variations therein, and I want to improve, and I just noticed GM Henley is offering a 5 DVD set of lessons on it, AND I like the preview of it on Youtube, BUT here, on chessgames.com, I find just one Henley game with this system, a draw against not quite an elite opposition. SO - any suggestions, experiences? Does GM Henley knows what he is talking about in his lessons? |
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| Oct-10-13 | | zoren: <tjipa:> I'm sure Ron knows his stuff in the Alapin, but my personal opinion is that you should heed advice from someone who has spent their entire career utilizing it, analyzing it, and beating world class players with it, because it shows their knowledge as well as confidence in the system. GM
Tiviakov is a known specialist and you can definitely look at his scalps here on chessgames. I'd recommend checking out the reviews for both Ron's DVD's and Sergei Tiviakov's DVD's before making a decision. On a side note, Alapin depends a lot on "feel" I think, since many positions that appear very equal have loads of venom. It has less of a fisticuffs flavor compared to Open Sicilian and it can often peter out into nothing if you are not skilled at those types of positions. It might make some sense to not put too big priority on the theory, vs learning/studying to play out small advantage/dynamically equal positions if you are going to make the Alapin a mainstay. Good luck. |
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| Oct-10-13 | | tjipa: Thanks, zoren! I am aware of Tiviakov as an expert of this system. Actually, I turned to it, being fascinated by Sveshnikov games that are so full of interesting tricks. For me, what is more frustrating than losing in complications that sometimes happens, is getting totally drawn positions early on. Well, sometimes it works to draw against higher rated opponents, I even recently drew against Shirov with this in an informal blitz game (with huge time odds, though, he had 1 min.), yet one generally wants more with white, and I am looking around for instructions to avoid the drawish lines without having to study all the Dragons and Naydorfs! |
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Aug-03-14
 | | Fusilli: He's currently playing the US Open in Orlando, making a come back. GM James E Tarjan is too! |
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Aug-03-14
 | | James Demery: Isn`t his brother a member of the Eagles? ;) |
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Oct-06-14
 | | Joshka: <fusilli> So how did Tarjan and Henley do at the Open?? |
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Oct-07-14
 | | perfidious: Tarjan finished with 7/9, one-half point behind a seven-way tie for first, same as <Fusilli>, while Henley scored 6.5. |
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Oct-07-14
| | Joshka: <perfidious> hey thanks for that info, and I didn't know you were a National Master!! |
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Apr-02-16
| | HeMateMe: I suppose a current photo isn't possible?
Ron Henley, an unlikely second for no less than...Anatoly Karpov? Ron made more money in the private sector:
<As President of RWH Advisors, Henley acts as Special Consultant to Ultra High Net Worth Individuals and Family Offices.[4]From 1985 through 2001, Henley was an American Stock Exchange Member, as a trader, market maker and specialist.[5] Henley traded extensively in Phillip Morris, Wells Fargo and Teva Pharmaceutical. From 2001 to 2005, Henley was a founding partner and Head Trader of a statistical arbitrage family of hedge funds, with clients such as Bank of America, Gottex Fund of Funds and Aegon USA Insurance Company.[6] Henley is an International Registered Financial Consultant, and went into business consulting where he joined the Board of Directors of several private companies including Quantum Genomics.[7] Henley is currently a member of the financial trading industry.[8]> I wasn't aware that he had also worked with a young Irina Krush, or that he had dealings with Kasparov: "Henley was appointed by Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov as President of the World Chess Champions Council Inc, a New York nonprofit organization that promotes chess in schools.[12] Champion Chess Trainer[edit]
Henley has been a second, analyst and trainer for former World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov in several matches in the 1990s.[13][14] Henley has served as a chess trainer and promoter of leading young women chess players, including Three Time US Women's Chess Champion Irina Krush.[15]" Interesting fellow, multitalented. |
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Apr-02-16
 | | MissScarlett: <<As President of RWH Advisors, Henley acts as Special Consultant to Ultra High Net Worth Individuals and Family Offices.[4] <snip>>
Is that his Wikipedia page or a press release? |
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Feb-04-21
 | | DrNyet: Earlier in this Henley "page", there were two or three mentions of the Church's Fried Chicken international tournament in San Antonio in late 1972. Yes, Fischer visited as a spectator and I believe I recall that he commiserated with the players after a round (or *the* round?) he observed (this was per a San Antonio master I became acquainted with much later). Somewhere I have a newspaper photo of Fischer sitting at the rear of the spectator area and looking through binoculars (observing his code of respect for not bothering participants). Church's also sponsored an open tournament the first weekend of the GM event. It was my first OTB event and my first live exposure to chess since I lived in the boonies (I was in high school and didn't even have a club). It was very memorable for many reasons, including that one of my opponents was Bill Church (Jr. I think) himself. Koltanowski directed that tournament I believe, or at least he was involved and often seen up front. He asked me to carry his suitcase or some bundle while Mecking seemed to be haranguing him about something (not in English IIRC). Such liminaries as David Levy and the head of the Icelandic federation (can't quite recall that name right now) also both played in the open. This was just a a couple of months or so after the Fischer-Spassky match -- magical times. I believe three Russians played in the GM tournament, Karpov, Petrosian, and Keres I think; also Ken Smith (legendary chess and poker player and owner of Chess Digest), Portisch, Kaplan, but the participants are easy to look up. I was able to observe the up and coming Henley in Houston in June 1976 when he would have been about 20, and another tournament or two, and the thing that stood out was his extreme intensity at the board -- just totally absorbed and almost looking like he was in agony. I'm away from my library at the moment, but I believe I have a DVD of Henley and Karpov (yes, speaking English) presenting Fischer games. |
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Feb-04-21
 | | monopole2313: Who won the Open tournament? Was a crosstable of this event ever published, or were any of the games? |
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Jul-06-22
 | | OhioChessFan: Interesting discussion of the Anti-Grunfeld.
https://www.ichess.net/blog/beginne... |
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Feb-22-24
| | OhioChessFan: Interesting court case for his namesake.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eagles... <Don Henley's attempt to reclaim stolen Eagles lyrics to "Hotel California" was thwarted by defendants, prosecutors say> |
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