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Jun-03-11
 | | Phony Benoni: <crawfb5> I've heard that story as well. Classic example of the butterfly effect. I suspect such events are more common than we realize. I know of a couple of doozies here in the Michigan state championship. One year, a player who had been up past 2:00 AM three nights in a row offered a draw in a winning position rather than continue another long game. Another time, a Class A player missed an elementary mate-in-two (not in time pressure!) and allowed his opponent to escape with a draw. In both cases, the dropped half-point decided the title. |
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| Jun-03-11 | | crawfb5: I had somebody resign a dead-drawn ending in the last round of a tournament that gave me a piece of class money. Not quite the championship breaker of the other stories, but it's what I have. I did influence one state championship. It wound up as a three-way tie and I played all three of them in a five-round event. I beat one of them, had another busted but most resourcefully found a way to lose, and just outright lost to the third. Man, did I have one <killer> tiebreak for 4th place. |
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Jun-03-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Big> great article thank you! And written by <Rossolimo> himself, that's gold. And a fine new photo of him. No photo of him accepting keys to the Buick in the article? You are aware that I actually used a photo of <Rosso> accepting keys with the Buick in the background in the documentary <WE> made? Possibly you may have fallen asleep whilst watching that segment- the film isn't really a 'page turner' per se. Thank you for that CLEAR explanation of how <Michael Bolton> indirectly helped <Rosso> win the US Open. I had read a "version" of that story by <Koltanowski> in which <Kolty> tries to blame <Sammy Davis Reshevsky> of some kind of unethical behavior in the incident. However, <Kolty>'s account was so garbled that I did not understand the logic. So I decided not to put it in the film because frankly I didn't understand it, and I didn't want to slander <Sammy's> character without knowing what happened exactly. There was an even darker rumor about the notorious <Koltanowski>- that he was overheard saying this at the 1955 US Open: "Sammy never gets that part." |
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Jun-03-11
| | Phony Benoni: Probably my worst experience with tiebreaks was a small three-round event with a single trophy for first place. Eventually, I was awarded the trophy on the seventh tiebreak, most Blacks. The bad part was that the guy I beat out had driven me to the tournament. Uncomfortable trip back home. |
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Jun-03-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Phony Benoni>
Was that man George Koltanowski?! |
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Jun-03-11
| | Phony Benoni: <jfq> I have made it a rule to not ride with blindfold experts. |
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| Jun-03-11 | | crawfb5: <You are aware that I actually used a photo of <Rosso> accepting keys with the Buick in the background in the documentary <WE> made?> From my favorite Lone Ranger joke: "What's this <we> business, Kemo Sabe?" <Possibly you may have fallen asleep whilst watching that segment- the film isn't really a 'page turner' per se.> I blame it on the alcohol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k44...
<I had read a "version" of that story by <Koltanowski> in which <Kolty> tries to blame <Sammy Davis Reshevsky> of some kind of unethical behavior in the incident. However, <Kolty>'s account was so garbled that I did not understand the logic.> I could see Reshevsky complaining it was an inappropriate application of the tiebreak rules and Kolty sticking to a "rules are rules" position. Now I haven't directed a tournament since Reconstruction, but I think giving Bolton the forfeit in the first place was a mistake. He already won the game. That should be it. Well, I <would> enthusiastically support taking Bolton's opponent into the alley behind the tournament hall and smacking him around until time for the next round to start, but that's just me and my creative solutions. |
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| Jun-03-11 | | crawfb5: <I have made it a rule to not ride with blindfold experts.> An even better rule is to not ride with blindfolded drivers. |
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Jun-03-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Big> I applaud your vigor. As the Mafia has long held, "even the president has to get slapped around once in a while." <WE>
well yes <I> put the movie together in the form of a narrative, but <YOU> found half of the actual information about Rosso and half of the Rosso photos I used. <I> + <WE> = <YOU>, unless I've cocked up the maths again. |
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| Jun-03-11 | | Travis Bickle: Jess you weren't informed about that Kim Carnes song because I'm afraid you were either a youngster or not born yet when it was a hit lol! That's the only major hit I remember that she had, but this DJ could be wrong. ; P P.S. Jess in case you didn't see this video on my forum check it out here. Beatlemania but you can hear them really well anyway! ; P Kansas City - The Beatles
http://youtu.be/RwAqncaQWzQ |
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| Jun-03-11 | | crawfb5: <<I> + <WE> = <YOU>, unless I've cocked up the maths again.> <WE> - <YOU> = <I> <I> + <YOU> = <WE> I suggest you consult your barrister.
I rechecked the video. It's the same Rossolimo photo, although it might have been taken from a different source. I'm not sure. The sun was in my eyes. It was that way when I found it. It's all a blur. I just found out that Bolton was from two towns up the freeway! Even <then> people around here were insane... |
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Jun-03-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: How could <Bolton> be from two towns at the same time? Might <Sammy Davis Reshevsky> have figured out he was a doppelganger and this would have accounted for all the confusion, making him the winner? <Reshevsky> may have had the "personality of a cooking pan" but he was nobody's fool. |
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| Jun-03-11 | | crawfb5: At the one US Open I attended, I had the room next to Kolty. I found this out when I heard the management banging on his door in the middle of the night trying to get him to put his phone back on the hook. |
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Jun-03-11
| | Phony Benoni: Cooking up openings with Reshevsky: Bastrikov vs L Shamkovich, 1958 |
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| Jun-03-11 | | Mozart72: <jessicafischerqueen> You are welcomed to my chessforum. |
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Jun-03-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Big> what place did you finish in? Did you get a chance to talk to <Kolty>? Was he as big a tool as everyone says, or just a misunderstood pathological liar? Who else did you meet there? Did you take photos?
I want to see photos. |
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| Jun-03-11 | | Mozart72: Lets say that 2.f3 is the "Offertoire" of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem. |
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| Jun-04-11 | | benjinathan: <hms123> I suggested I take the boys to a hotel for the night- I got quite an evil look... 15 1/2 hours to go. 24 hours from now I am going to need some moral support. My kid is a doing a contious 5 board sim. tomorrow at his school's june fair. It is a way to keep the dad's busy while their children are doing june fair things. Bad for the dads' morale to be crushed though. |
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| Jun-04-11 | | Travis Bickle: Jess I just happened to run into a Gligoric Najdorf Sicilian game on a forumm discussion that has an interesting endgame by Gligo from 1959. B Milic vs Gligoric, 1959
P.S. I can make a game collection of Gligoric games that I think are great games. |
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Jun-04-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Travis> that would be a fantastic help to the project- and you've already supplied a bunch of resources from before. So we'll list me and you as co-producers if we ever get the film made. It takes so long for me to "translate" the photo captions from these Russian books. But it's worth it, and we need the information.
I got a bunch of rare photos of <Gligo> today from a Yudovich book about all of the RUSSIA v YUGOSLAVIA matches. Took me a long time though. Eight hours and counting, and I'm not even all the way through yet. <Travis> also, if you wrote your own comments and opinions on the game pages from a <Gligo> collection you make, then we'd have even more material at hand. I suspect you are probably a stronger chess analyst than I am. |
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| Jun-04-11 | | crawfb5: <Jess> At the time, I was only rated in the low 1700s and at this tournament I played even weaker than that. I picked up a forfeit win in Round 1, so I fell into a pattern of strong opponent, weak opponent, strong opponent, weak opponent. I joked at the time that I seemed to be playing every expert having a bad tournament, not that having a bad tournament kept them from crushing the likes of me. F 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 = 0 = 0 <5/12> I did not talk to Kolty. I did go to his lecture, with the Knight's Tour and everything. He was quite the storyteller, but I could see him being opinionated and alienating some he clashed with. I rode the elevator with Shamkovich and at least one other Russian GM whose name escapes me at the moment. I seem to recall Browne playing backgammon in the skittles room. I had no camera at the time, so alas, no pictures. One of my many losses was against a guy from Bell Labs. They were going to arrange a Q vs R test with BELLE against Browne. I got to play a 10 minute game against BELLE. |
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Jun-04-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: So was BELLE a robot? Was he a strong program? Did you win? No wonder you are obsessed with chess history since you were actually part of it. What's my excuse? I'd give up everything I own just to "seem to recall Walter Shawn Browne playing backgammon in the skittles room." Your 5.5 score is an important part of American chess history now. |
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| Jun-04-11 | | crawfb5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_... I won the 10 min game. I might have the scoresheet around somewhere, but I'm sure it wasn't that impressive a performance. Actually I think I described it at the time as "Browne playing <speed> backgammon." It wouldn't surprise me to learn that money might have been involved. This is what <mal> posted some time back in <Woody's> forum to clarify my foggy memory: <"GM Walter Browne accepted a bet against some of the earlier computers (Insert: Ken Thompson, Bell Labs) that he couldn't win a 'Q vs R' ending in 5 minutes (with the 50-move rule in effect). Indeed Shawn only drew the first game (thus lost that bet). Then he worked it all out (since he'd just seen the <best defense> available) and now was able to score the win just in the 'nick of time' winning the Rook on move 50 in under 5 minutes!"> My <5/12> isn't even a minor blip on the radar of chess history. |
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Jun-04-11
| | Phony Benoni: We actually have the "games" from the Browne - BELLE Exhibition: Browne vs Belle, 1978
Browne vs Belle, 1978
The other Russian GM at Columbus was probably <Anatoly Lein>. At that time, he and Shamkovich were about the only Russian GMs around, and pretty much a package deal at big tournaments. |
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Jun-04-11
 | | chancho: <Jess> You may find this of interest: http://chess-bookcase.blogspot.com/... |
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