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May-03-16
 | | Phony Benoni: <luftforlife> I've been working on the U.S. Open chronologically, and have only gotten up to 1969 so far. Right now I'm in the middle of some clean-up and catch-up work. Once that's finished, it's on to 1970 and beyond. I'm rather ambivalent about submitting my games from the US Open, as the quality is generally not very high. On the other hand, history is history, and I do have a personal commitment to finding all the game available. Well, I've still got until 1975 before I have to make a decision about that. The game with Mirijanian is a good example of why I'm ambivalent. It's mainly interesting as an upset, as both players blunder throughout. It was good fight, though. George just had the misfortune to catch me during what was probably my best US Open. [Event "78th US Open"]
[Site "Columbus, OH USA"]
[Date "1977.08.15"]
[EventDate "1977.08.07"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Mirijanian, George"]
[Black "Moody, David"]
[ECO ""]
[WhiteElo "1813"]
[BlackElo "1557"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.d4 d6 9.c3 Bg4 10.d5 Na5 11.Bc2 Nc4 12.h3 Bh5 13.b3 Nb6 14.Nbd2 Qd7 15.Nf1 Kh8 16.Ng3 Bg6 17.Be3 Ng8 18.Nf5 f6 19.N3h4 Bf7 20.g4 Rae8 21.Ng2 Nc8 22.h4 Bd8 23.c4 Nce7 24.Ng3 Nc8 25.h5 Nge7 26.Nh4 Rg8 27.Qf3 Nb6 28.cxb5 axb5 29.g5 fxg5 30.Bxg5 Nexd5 31.Bxd8 Qxd8 32.exd5 Qxh4 33.Qxf7 Ref8 34.Re4 Qxg3+ 35.fxg3 Rxf7 36.Rb4 Nxd5 37.Rxb5 c6 38.Ra5 g6 39.hxg6 hxg6 40.Be4 Ne7 41.Ra7 d5 42.Bd3 Kg7 43.Kg2 Nf5 44.Rxf7+ Kxf7 45.Rf1 Ke6 46.Rc1 Kd6 47.Be2 Ra8 48.a4 Nd4 49.Bd1 Rb8 50.Rb1 c5 51.Kf2 Rb4 52.a5 Kc6 53.a6 Kb6 54.Ra1 Ka7 55.Ra5 Rb5 56.Ra3 e4 57.Ke3 Ne6 58.Bg4 Nc7 59.Bc8 g5 60.Bb7 Rb6 61.Bxd5 Nxd5+ 62.Kxe4 Rxa6 63.Rxa6+ Kxa6 64.Kxd5 Kb5 65.Kd6 g4 0-1 <30...Nexd5> was a good idea, but the follow-up <30...Qxd8> was simply a blunder; Black could save the piece by 30...Nb4 or 30...Nf4 31.Bg5 Nh3+. Luckily for me, he blundered right back with <34.Re4>. I can't remember what I was planning had he just move the queen away. It might even have been a wild sac on f2. By move 60 we were both getting a bit punchy -- the game was nearly six hours long by then. His piece sacrifice with <61.Bd5> is desperation, trying to find a draw through lack of pawns. My counter sacrifice with <62...Rxa6> was a miscalculation. Then came White's fateful 65th move: 
click for larger view65.g4! would draw, but <65.Kd6 g4> wins for Black. After 66.Kd5 Kxb3 67.Kc5 Kc3, the kings race to f5 and f3 when Black wins because he protects his pawn while attacking White's. After <65.g4>m Black would have to repeat moves on the queenside since the capture-and-race line wins for White with the pawns on g4 and g5. But I'm giving this game more attention than it deserves. Back to submitting games from 1956! |
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| May-03-16 | | luftforlife: <Phony Benoni>: Thank you so much! This is wonderful. I'm really excited to play through this game and to learn from the moves, and from your annotations. I am deeply grateful to you for sharing this slugfest with me, and I bet others will really enjoy it too. Right now, I'm watching the red-hot Red Sox at the white-hot White Sox (I watch every Red Sox game live, no matter what), but as soon as the baseball game is over, I'll be sitting down at my board to play through this epic chess game. I admire your competition in the U.S. Open through the years, and all your contributions to its history, as a player and as a historian, and I admire you for all you do here, every day, including your helping those of us who are inexpert, but who sincerely want to learn. I really appreciate your taking the time and making the effort to share this victory, complete with your own recollections and annotations. Thanks for the inspiration, and for your generosity of spirit. More soon; all the best. :) |
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May-03-16
 | | WannaBe: Interesting play, Ucla at Long Beach State, man on first, 3-2 count to the batter. Runner takes off on the pitch, it was low in the dirt, but caught by the catcher. The catcher then decided to throw the ball into center field... Man on first and third. Weird play. |
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| May-03-16 | | Jim Bartle: <Runner takes off on the pitch, it was low in the dirt, but caught by the catcher. The catcher then decided to throw the ball into center field... Man on first and third.> That had to be with two out, so he should have just thrown to first. The catcher wasn't thinking. |
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May-03-16
 | | perfidious: <PB....Unfortunately for (Nick) Willhite, he was a pitcher. And with the 1965 Dodgers, it doesn't matter if your OBP is .538 when your ERA is 5.36.> As Bill James wrote of Joe Hesketh, then with Expos, in the eighties: 'and all scouts know it is bad luck to have the ERA of a jetliner'. With that ERA in that era, it is surprising Willhite ever saw game action. |
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May-03-16
| | WannaBe: <JB> it was zero outs. Now 7-0 top first, Ucla still batting. They also ran a "jailbreak" play with 2 outs, and got credit for 2 SBs. It was first and third, two outs, runner takes off to second, stops halfway, throw to second, run down, man on third breaks for home. Man safe at home, runner on first took third on the throw to home... One of the strangest inning ever, the game started at 6:03, and 38 minutes later, Long Beach State gets their first at bat. And Long Beach already brought in a reliever after the 6th Ucla batter. |
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| May-03-16 | | Party Animal: Hey Phony, Cubs Ace Jake Arrieta gets the win tonight against The Pirates for a 6-0 start. The first Cub pitcher to do that since 3 finger Mordecai Brown. ; P http://baseballhall.org/hof/brown-m... |
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| May-03-16 | | Jim Bartle: <it was zero outs. Now 7-0 top first, Ucla still batting. They also ran a "jailbreak" play with 2 outs, and got credit for 2 SBs.> With no outs the batter is out on third strike automatically with a man on first. No need to catch the pitch, or tag or throw out batter if the pitch hits the ground. |
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May-03-16
| | WannaBe: <Jim Bartle> I never wrote the batter swung at it, the pitch was low in the dirt, but it was caught, it was ball four... Please re-read my post... |
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| May-03-16 | | Jim Bartle: Sorry, I thought it was strike three. So the catcher was a dummy for throwing to second, and the infielders probably weren't ready. |
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May-03-16
 | | Penguincw: Woo, Blue Jays rally to win 3-1. Much needed win. However, Raptors lose after miraculously forcing OT. However, Toronto is like 1-9 in Game 1s of playoff series, so I'm not too worried. Blues up 4-1 over Stars at least.
Guys, does anyone know the answer to this question (I don't): Phony Benoni chessforum (kibitz #19742). |
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May-03-16
| | WannaBe: <Penguincw> I'll see what I can find out about that announcer question. =)) 1/3 of an inning, and get a save:
http://espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gam...
Now, I also have a question, but it's about announcer(s) and baseball runners on base... This Ucla announcer, describes it clock-wise, e.g. Runners on third and second. For as long as I've listened to play-by-play, it's always anti-clock-wise. (Or Counter-clockwise) for my fellow Americans. e.g. Runners on second and third, or runners on first and third... Or in the order of the progression of the runners as they go from base to base. Can anyone remember a radio announcer that does it clock-wise? |
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May-04-16
| | WannaBe: Oh, that Ucla-Long Beach baseball game, 11-9 Bruins ahead; end of 5 full innings, and it's now 9PM Pacific, the game started at 6PM. I think that Portland - Golden State game will end before this baseball game. |
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May-04-16
| | Phony Benoni: <luftforlife> Red Sox, eh? Well, we've also got Blue Jays, Dodgers, Giants, Tigers, Cubs, and probably others. We've even had fans express support for the Yankees! It takes all kinds. Glad to post the game. When people help me out with the US Open Quest, I like to help them when I can. |
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May-04-16
| | Phony Benoni: <Penguincw> Here's a Wikipedia list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_... Frankly, it's a bit confusing to read -- but you may be looking for Scott, Franzke, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott... |
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May-04-16
| | WannaBe: More MLB suspension(s) coming!
http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_... |
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| May-04-16 | | luftforlife: <Phony Benoni>: I played through your victory over George Mirijanian from U.S. Open Columbus 1977, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks again. I know you're busy uploading games from U.S. Open Oklahoma City 1956. When you're ready, here's a game (via 365Chess) from U.S. Open Boston 1956, featuring the well-known Massachusetts player and FIDE Master John A Curdo with White against one R. Iappini with Black, that is not in your game-collection: [Event "65th US Open"]
[Site "Boston, MA USA"]
[Date "1964.08.??"]
[EventDate "1964.08.16"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Curdo, John A"]
[Black "Iappini, R"]
[ECO "C24"]
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nf3 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. O-O Be7 7. Re1 Nc6 8. Nxd4 O-O 9. Bxd5 Qxd5 10. Nxc6 Qxd1 11. Nxe7+ 1-0. I suppose this low-quality game may be spurious, but it was listed in the incomplete, twenty-five-game, nine-round collection for this tournament hosted on 365Chess, and so I wanted to pass it along. More soon. |
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May-04-16
| | WannaBe: Some interesting stats for Joe DiMaggio, yesterday was 80th anniversary of him breakin' into the league: http://espn.go.com/blog/statsinfo/p... However, here's the interesting thing (last item in the article), Joe was elected to the HoF on his <THIRD> try, 1955. So, who were in the classes of '53 and '54? Below is the list (players only, not listing Umpires or Executives...) 1953: Chief Bender, Dizzy Dean Al Simmons, Bobby Wallace 1954: Bill Dickey, Rabbit Maranville, Bill Terry
Now, '55 had a rather 'large' class of inductees (6, all players): Frank Baker, Joe DiMaggio, Gabby Hartnett, Ted Lyons, Ray Schalk, Dazzy Vance. Further diggin', you see that in '52, '53 and '54, BBWAA voted in D. Dean, A. Simmons, B. Dickey, R. Maranville and B. Terry. All others were voted in by Veterans Committee. In '55, BBWAA voted in J. DiMaggio, G. Hartnett, T. Lyons and D. Vance. In the '53 voting, J. DiMaggio received 44.3%, then in '54, he received 69.4%, then in '55 he received 88.8%, most of that class year. http://www.baseball-reference.com/a... Interesting to note, this link gave Year on Ballot as second year, even though you don't find the name Joe DiMaggio on the 1952 ballot. |
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May-04-16
| | Phony Benoni: <luftforlife> Never to busy to take in a possible game from Boston 1964 -- and especially from a player as strong as Curdo. <chessgames.com>'s "official" standard is that at least one player be of Master strength, so any game by Curdo qualifies. (Of course this standard is constantly bent - not least by <cg> itself -- to the point where it's often ignored.) However, I have to question whether this game was actually played at the US Open in Boston, 1964. Admittedly the records are fragmentary, but I have found no other games by Curdo from the tournament, or even a mention that he was there. For ordinary players, I would be more inclined to accept the game at face value. But Curdo would almost surely have been mentioned in the reports (fragmentary as they are), or had other games published. QUite often, games in database will be lavelled "USA Open", simply meaning any Open tournament held in the USA, not necessarity THE U.S. Open. Because of this, I've made it a practice to check every single game against the crosstable to be sure the players were at the tournament and did play each other. This is not possible with Boston 1964, of course, so I have to make judgments. Right now, I don't think Curdo played, but I could be wrong. So I've added the game to my files, but pending further information won't submit it as an U.S. Open game. But I still thank you for finding and sending it to me. Always feel free to do that. |
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| May-04-16 | | luftforlife: <Phony Benoni>: Thanks a lot for your comments. Like you, I questioned whether this game was played at the US Open in Boston 1964 ("spurious"). I agree that John Curdo, as a legendary Massachusetts player, would certainly be mentioned in the reports, or have had other games published. I found this game amidst others you have from the tournament, but that doesn't mean it was properly classified there. I'll keep digging. |
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| May-04-16 | | luftforlife: <Phony Benoni>: Actually, the game is in <cg's> database: J A Curdo vs Robert Iapinni, 1964. Black was played by Robert Iapinni, not by "R. Iappini." Hope that helps. |
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| May-04-16 | | luftforlife: <Phony Benoni>: Here's are the PGN moves from the other game hosted on 365Chess purportedly played by John Curdo at the U.S. Open Boston 1964, William Goichberg v. John A Curdo: 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bc5 4. f4 d6 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. d3 a6 7. f5 Na5 8. Bg5 Bb4 9. O-O Bxc3 10. bxc3 Nxc4 11. dxc4 b6 12. Qe1 Bb7 13. Rd1 Qe7 14. h3 h6 15. Bh4 Qf8 16. Bxf6 gxf6 17. Qh4 Ke7 18. Nh2 Qg7 19. Rf3 Rag8 20. Rd2 Qg5 21. Qxg5 fxg5 22. Re2 h5 23. Kf2 a5 24. Ke3 f6 25. Kd3 Ba6 26. Nf1 c6 27. Ne3 d5 28. exd5 Rd8 29. Kd2 cxd5 30. Nxd5+ Kf7 31. Re4 b5 32. cxb5 Rxd5+ 33. Rd3 Rxd3+ 34. cxd3 Bxb5 35. c4 Bd7 36. g4 hxg4 37. hxg4 Rh2+ 38. Re2 Rh4 39. Rg2 Bc6 40. Rg1 Bf3 41. Rb1 Rh2+ 42. Ke3 Bxg4 43. Rb7+ Ke8 44. Ke4 Re2+ 45. Kd5 Bf3+ 0-1. This game is hosted here on <cg>: W Goichberg vs J A Curdo, 1964. Unlike the previous game, J A Curdo vs Robert Iapinni, 1964, which is attributed on <cg> to U.S. Open Boston 1964, this game is attributed on <cg> to Christmas Tourney 1964. Please note that I printed and retyped the PGN moves for the previous game from 365Chess, and I manually created the PGN header; I did not download the PGN header and moves from 365Chess, for I don't have a membership there. The game-moves above I cut-and-pasted from 365Chess. |
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May-04-16
| | Penguincw: <PB>, <WannaBe> Not Scott Franzke, but I did some more research, and I found it was Tom McCarthy. Thanks though. :) |
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May-04-16
| | Phony Benoni: <luftforlife> Well, I wonder who submitted that. First, though, I must admit I misread Black's name. My eyesight is very poor, which is another reason I have to be extra careful. Robert Iapinni was an active player in Massachusetts in the 1960s. His name appears in USCF rating lists through 1963, but then there is a break; he doesn't reappear until 1967. In particular, his name does not appear in the October 1964 supplement which included results from the U.S. Open, or in the 1964 annual list published in "Chess Life" in January, 1965. This would indicate he did not play at Boston 1964 either. Since he was also from Massachusetts, he and Curdo may have played on any number of occasions. Believe me, I'm not being bull-headed about this merely to justify my point of view. I'd rather be accurate than win an argument. |
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May-04-16
| | perfidious: Never heard of Iapinni--he was probably out of things by the time I first played an event in Massachusetts (1973 NE Open). By then, I believe the larger tourneys were regularly held in the cafeteria on the third floor of the Prudential Centre. Windows all round, but nothing like the view one got from the tower, much less the John Hancock building. Boston was a fine place to play chess in the 1980s. |
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