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> Peter Manetti has died
>
> Chess Master Peter Manetti died in Guerneville, Sonoma County,
> California on March 8, 2006 of prostate cancer. He succumbed after a
> long illness. Two years ago he was given six months to live. He
> outlived his prognosis.
>
> Manetti rarely played tournament chess but he played in the first
> great master's tournament at Lone Pine 1972. His performance there,
> where he drew grandmasters Denker and Evans, established him as a
> master strength player. He had a USCF rating of 2158. His specialty
> was blitz chess, where he was a master and a 2300 player. He often
> held chess parties at his house high on a hill above the Russian River
> in Guerneville, to which he would invite San Francisco masters and
> experts and provide them with food and drink.
>
> Manetti was about 66 years old. Originally from New Jersey, he served
> in the US Marines. He came to California in about 1965. After living
> for several years in Oakland, he moved to the remote village of
> Guerneville, where he made his living as an agriculturist, growing and
> distributing agricultural products to the local communities. Manetti
> also worked as an artist, selling his woodcuttings, paintings and
> other works of art in San Francisco. He also taught chess to several
> promising young players in the Santa Rosa area.
>
> Late in life, Manetti revealed that his real original name was not
> Manetti. It was Schumbacher or something similar. In the aftermath of
> World War II there had been discrimination against Germans, so either
> he or his father had changed his name from a German name to an Italian
> name.
>
> He is survived by his devoted wife, Genarosa Manetti, who has made a
> name for herself as a philanthropist, for her free donations of feline
> animals, and by his three daughters, Diana, age 41, a performing
> artist, Barbara, 36, of Guerneville and Xhana, of Windsor, California.
>
> Sam Sloan
>
>
> [Event "op"]
> [Site "Lone Pine"]
> [Date "1972.??.??"]
> [White "Manetti, Pete"]
> [Black "Evans, Larry Melvyn"]
> [Result "1/2-1/2"]
> [ECO "A94"]
>
> 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 d5 5.Bg2 c6 6.O-O Bd6 7.b3 O-O
> 8.Ba3 Bxa3 9.Nxa3 Nbd7 10.Qc1 Qe7 11.Ne5 Qd6 12.Qb2 g5 13.e3 a5
> 14.Rac1 Qe7 15.Nc2 Qg7 16.Ne1 Kh8 17.N1d3 g4 18.Nf4 Nxe5 19.dxe5
> Ne4 20.Bxe4 fxe4 21.Nh5 Qg6 22.Nf6 Kg7 23.Qa3 Rxf6 24.exf6+ Qxf6
> 25.Qd6 Qf8 26.Qxf8+ Kxf8 27.Kg2 Bd7 28.h3 gxh3+ 29.Kxh3 Be8 30.f3
> exf3 31.Rxf3+ Ke7 32.Rcf1 Bg6 33.g4 a4 34.cxd5 axb3 35.axb3 exd5
> 36.R3f2 Kd6 37.Kg3 Ra3 38.Rb2 Kc5 39.Rf4 Be4 40.Rf7 Ra7 41.g5 Kb4
> 42.Kf4 Kc3 43.Rh2 Kxb3 44.Rhxh7 Bxh7 45.Rxh7 Ra1 46.Rxb7+ Kc4
> 47.g6 Rg1 48.g7 c5 1/2-1/2

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> Peter Manetti has died

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> I have no source. It's my words against yours.
>
> Sam Sloan

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> Peter Manetti has died
>
> Chess Master Peter Manetti died in Guerneville, Sonoma County,
> California on March 8, 2006 of prostate cancer. He succumbed after a
> long illness. Two years ago he was given six months to live. He
> outlived his prognosis.
>
> Manetti rarely played tournament chess but he played in the first
> great master's tournament at Lone Pine 1972. His performance there,
> where he drew grandmasters Denker and Evans, established him as a
> master strength player. He had a USCF rating of 2158. His specialty
> was blitz chess, where he was a master and a 2300 player. He often
> held chess parties at his house high on a hill above the Russian River
> in Guerneville, to which he would invite San Francisco masters and
> experts and provide them with food and drink.
>
> Manetti was about 66 years old. Originally from New Jersey, he served
> in the US Marines. He came to California in about 1965. After living
> for several years in Oakland, he moved to the remote village of
> Guerneville, where he made his living as an agriculturist, growing and
> distributing agricultural products to the local communities. Manetti
> also worked as an artist, selling his woodcuttings, paintings and
> other works of art in San Francisco. He also taught chess to several
> promising young players in the Santa Rosa area.
>
> Late in life, Manetti revealed that his real original name was not
> Manetti. It was Schumbacher or something similar. In the aftermath of
> World War II there had been discrimination against Germans, so either
> he or his father had changed his name from a German name to an Italian
> name.
>
> He is survived by his devoted wife, Genarosa Manetti, who has made a
> name for herself as a philanthropist, for her free donations of feline
> animals, and by his three daughters, Diana, age 41, a performing
> artist, Barbara, 36, of Guerneville and Xhana, of Windsor, California.
>
> Sam Sloan
>
>
> [Event "op"]
> [Site "Lone Pine"]
> [Date "1972.??.??"]
> [White "Manetti, Pete"]
> [Black "Evans, Larry Melvyn"]
> [Result "1/2-1/2"]
> [ECO "A94"]
>
> 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 d5 5.Bg2 c6 6.O-O Bd6 7.b3 O-O
> 8.Ba3 Bxa3 9.Nxa3 Nbd7 10.Qc1 Qe7 11.Ne5 Qd6 12.Qb2 g5 13.e3 a5
> 14.Rac1 Qe7 15.Nc2 Qg7 16.Ne1 Kh8 17.N1d3 g4 18.Nf4 Nxe5 19.dxe5
> Ne4 20.Bxe4 fxe4 21.Nh5 Qg6 22.Nf6 Kg7 23.Qa3 Rxf6 24.exf6+ Qxf6
> 25.Qd6 Qf8 26.Qxf8+ Kxf8 27.Kg2 Bd7 28.h3 gxh3+ 29.Kxh3 Be8 30.f3
> exf3 31.Rxf3+ Ke7 32.Rcf1 Bg6 33.g4 a4 34.cxd5 axb3 35.axb3 exd5
> 36.R3f2 Kd6 37.Kg3 Ra3 38.Rb2 Kc5 39.Rf4 Be4 40.Rf7 Ra7 41.g5 Kb4
> 42.Kf4 Kc3 43.Rh2 Kxb3 44.Rhxh7 Bxh7 45.Rxh7 Ra1 46.Rxb7+ Kc4
> 47.g6 Rg1 48.g7 c5 1/2-1/2

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>Peter Manetti has died
>
>Chess Master Peter Manetti died in Guerneville, Sonoma County,
>California on March 8, 2006 of prostate cancer. He succumbed after a
>long illness. Two years ago he was given six months to live. He
>outlived his prognosis.
>
>Manetti rarely played tournament chess but he played in the first
>great master's tournament at Lone Pine 1972. His performance there,
>where he drew grandmasters Denker and Evans, established him as a
>master strength player. He had a USCF rating of 2158. His specialty
>was blitz chess, where he was a master and a 2300 player. He often
>held chess parties at his house high on a hill above the Russian River
>in Guerneville, to which he would invite San Francisco masters and
>experts and provide them with food and drink.
>
>Manetti was about 66 years old. Originally from New Jersey, he served
>in the US Marines. He came to California in about 1965. After living
>for several years in Oakland, he moved to the remote village of
>Guerneville, where he made his living as an agriculturist, growing and
>distributing agricultural products to the local communities. Manetti
>also worked as an artist, selling his woodcuttings, paintings and
>other works of art in San Francisco. He also taught chess to several
>promising young players in the Santa Rosa area.
>
>Late in life, Manetti revealed that his real original name was not
>Manetti. It was Schumbacher or something similar. In the aftermath of
>World War II there had been discrimination against Germans, so either
>he or his father had changed his name from a German name to an Italian
>name.
>
>He is survived by his devoted wife, Genarosa Manetti, who has made a
>name for herself as a philanthropist, for her free donations of feline
>animals, and by his three daughters, Diana, age 41, a performing
>artist, Barbara, 36, of Guerneville and Xhana, of Windsor, California.
>
>Sam Sloan
>
>
>[Event "op"]
>[Site "Lone Pine"]
>[Date "1972.??.??"]
>[White "Manetti, Pete"]
>[Black "Evans, Larry Melvyn"]
>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>[ECO "A94"]
>
>1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 d5 5.Bg2 c6 6.O-O Bd6 7.b3 O-O
>8.Ba3 Bxa3 9.Nxa3 Nbd7 10.Qc1 Qe7 11.Ne5 Qd6 12.Qb2 g5 13.e3 a5
>14.Rac1 Qe7 15.Nc2 Qg7 16.Ne1 Kh8 17.N1d3 g4 18.Nf4 Nxe5 19.dxe5
>Ne4 20.Bxe4 fxe4 21.Nh5 Qg6 22.Nf6 Kg7 23.Qa3 Rxf6 24.exf6+ Qxf6
>25.Qd6 Qf8 26.Qxf8+ Kxf8 27.Kg2 Bd7 28.h3 gxh3+ 29.Kxh3 Be8 30.f3
>exf3 31.Rxf3+ Ke7 32.Rcf1 Bg6 33.g4 a4 34.cxd5 axb3 35.axb3 exd5
>36.R3f2 Kd6 37.Kg3 Ra3 38.Rb2 Kc5 39.Rf4 Be4 40.Rf7 Ra7 41.g5 Kb4
>42.Kf4 Kc3 43.Rh2 Kxb3 44.Rhxh7 Bxh7 45.Rxh7 Ra1 46.Rxb7+ Kc4
>47.g6 Rg1 48.g7 c5 1/2-1/2
>
>

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> I have finally been able to reach a family member and I have some
> corrections in my obituary of Peter Manetti.
>
> Peter Manetti died at 2:47 AM on Friday, March 10, 2006 (not on March
> 8 as I originally reported). He died in a home for assisted living in
> Sebastapol, California, not in his own home in Guerneville. He has
> been cremated. He was born in 1939 not in 1940 in Germany not in New
> Jersey and his original name was Schilling not Schumbacher. His mother
> changed his name from the German name of Schilling to the Italian name
> of Manetti after they arrived in America.
>
> One person contested my statement that Manetti lived high on a hill.
> This person said that Manetti lived next to the river. I have found
> out that both statements are true. He lived high on a hill which was
> next to the river. This is important because the Russian River often
> floods but Manetti's house was high enough that the flood waters never
> reached there..
>
> There has been a big debate on a private e-mail group as to whether
> Manetti was an expert or a master. Peter always said that he was a
> master but his rating was generally expert. Consensus seems to be that
> he nosed above 2200 just before Long Pine 1972 which had a minimum
> rating of 2200 as a requirement.

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> Grandmaster Larry Evans reported that he could not remember playing
> the game against Manetti which was found in the databases.
> Unfortunately and rather surprisingly, nobody has been able to find a
> cross table of the great Masters Tournament in Lone Pine 1972, so this
> question has not been resolved conclusively.

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> John Donaldson is
> researching this subject and now believes that Manetti played that
> game against Roy Ervin, not against Grandmaster Evans. Incidentally,
> Roy Ervin is most famous for having been reported dead and then
> showing up to play in the Roy Ervin Memorial Tournament. Let us hope
> that Peter Manetti does the same thing.

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> Sam Sloan wrote:
>
> The twelve monthly issues of the 1972 Chess Life & Review show
> several rating lists, some full, some partial. Just flipping through
> quickly, I find these ratings for Manetti:
>
> Jan 1972: 2150
> Jun 1972: 2143
> Sep 1972: 2183
> Dec 1972: 2183
>
> The 1972 Lone Pine Open was held March 12-18. It looks unlikely that
> Manetti was 2200+ at that time. Either he had some unusual activity in
> early 1972, or the TD did not strictly enforce the 2200 minimum.
>
>
> A report on Lone Pine 1972, by Isaac Kashdan, is on pages 334-335 of
> the June CL&R. Oddly, it has no crosstable, nor any full list of the
> players and/or standings. It mentions that Gligoric won, and that
> 20-year-old Kim Commons made a strong impression. It also mentions that
> Larry Evans' wife suffered a traffic accident the day of the last
> round, wrecking her car but escaping "with only a few bruises."
> Using ChessBase, I was able to create a crosstable, but I'm not sure
> how valid it is, if the database does not contain all the games. It
> will not be very legible here, but I append it below for what it's
> worth. It shows Manetti scoring +0 -2 =3D4. With a full-point bye in
> round 2 giving him a final score of 3 out of 7, he finished =3D22-28th
> out of 35. His results, round by round, per ChessBase:
>
> 1. draw with Cleghorn
> 2. BYE
> 3. loss to Karlkins
> 4. draw with Costa
> 5. draw with Denker
> 6. loss to Berry
> 7. draw with Evans
>
>
> There was also a Roy Ervin playing, so Parr and Donaldson may be
> correct that Manetti played him, and not Evans. Databases often have
> this kind of mistake.
>
> Lone Pine op 1972
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
> 1 Gligoric,Svetozar +1 -=BD +1 +1 -=BD -1 +1 6.0/7
> 6 14 24 17 2 3 7
> 2 Tarjan,James Edward +1 -=BD +1 -1 +=BD -=BD +=BD 5.0/7
> 7 20 22 16 1 8 3
> 3 Saidy,Anthony Fred +1 -1 +=BD -1 +1 +0 -=BD 5.0/7
> 30 33 10 14 8 1 2
> 4 Karklins,Andrew +1 -0 +1 -=BD +1 -=BD +1 5.0/7
> 21 18 25 7 16 9 6
> 5 Brandts,Paul +=BD -0 +=BD -1 -1 +1 +1 5.0/7
> 9 15 23 34 22 20 14
> 6 Commons,Kim S -0 +1 +=BD -1 -1 +1 -0 4.5/7
> 1 19 28 15 17 10 4
> 7 Fritzinger,Dennis -0 +1 -1 +=BD +1 -1 -0 4.5/7
> 2 32 13 4 14 18 1
> 8 Brasket,Curt Justin +=BD -1 +1 -1 -0 +=BD +=BD 4.5/7
> 16 28 15 18 3 2 9
> 9 Martz,William E -=BD +=BD -1 +1 -=BD +=BD -=BD 4.5/7
> 5 12 30 33 10 4 8
> 10 Martinovsky,Eugene -=BD +1 -=BD +1 +=BD -0 +1 4.5/7
> 29 23 3 12 9 6 15
> 11 Cleghorn,Peter +=BD -0 +0 -1 +1 -1 +1 4.5/7
> 25 22 29 31 23 21 19
> 12 Christiansen,Larry Mark +=BD -=BD +1 -0 +0 -1 -1 4.0/7
> 15 9 34 10 19 32 26
> 13 Denker,Arnold Sheldon 2285 +=BD +1 +0 -0 -=BD -1 -1 4.0/7
> 22 34 7 19 25 23 16
> 14 Binet,Laszlo T -1 +=BD -1 +0 -0 +1 -0 3.5/7
> 19 1 20 3 7 27 5
> 15 Browne,Walter S 2500 -=BD +1 -0 +0 -1 +1 -0 3.5/7
> 12 5 8 6 29 24 10
> 16 Berry,David A -=BD +1 -1 +0 -0 -1 +0 3.5/7
> 8 27 26 2 4 25 13
> 17 Bisguier,Arthur Bernard 2440 -1 +1 +=BD -0 +0 -=BD +=BD 3.5/7
> 27 26 18 1 6 19 20
> 18 Evans,Larry Melvyn 2550 -1 +1 -=BD +0 -=BD +0 -=BD 3.5/7
> 31 4 17 8 20 7 25
> 19 Hay,Trevor +0 -0 -1 +1 -1 +=BD -0 3.5/7
> 14 6 31 13 12 17 11
> 20 Waterman,Deniss L -1 +=BD +0 -1 +=BD -0 -=BD 3.5/7
> 34 2 14 29 18 5 17
> 21 Ervin,Roy C -0 +1 +0 -1 -1 +0 -=BD 3.5/7
> 4 31 33 30 36 11 27
> 22 Stoutenborough,Ross -=BD +1 -0 -=BD +0 +0 +1 3.0/7
> 13 11 2 24 5 26 32
> 23 Pollowitz,Michael +=BD -0 -=BD +1 -0 +0 +1 3.0/7
> 24 10 5 26 11 13 31
> 24 Loftsson,Julius H -=BD +1 -0 +=BD -=BD -0 +=BD 3.0/7
> 23 29 1 22 27 15 28
> 25 Manetti,Pete -=BD +1 -0 -=BD +=BD +0 +=BD 3.0/7
> 11 36 4 32 13 16 18
> 26 Gilden,Lawrence C +1 -0 +0 -0 +1 -1 +0 3.0/7
> 32 17 16 23 28 22 12
> 27 Ramirez,Hermogen +0 -0 +1 -1 +=BD -0 +=BD 3.0/7
> 17 16 35 28 24 14 21
> 28 Weber,Joseph V -1 +0 -=BD +0 -0 +1 -=BD 3.0/7
> 36 8 6 27 26 30 24
> 29 Koploy,Paul +=BD -0 -1 +0 +0 -0 +1 2.5/7
> 10 24 11 20 15 31 34
> 30 Savage,Allan G -0 +1 +0 +0 -=BD -0 +1 2.5/7
> 3 35 9 21 32 28 36
> 31 Goichberg,William +0 -0 +0 +0 -1 +1 -0 2.0/7
> 18 21 19 11 34 29 23
> 32 Flacco,Rick -0 -0 -1 +=BD +=BD +0 -0 2.0/7
> 26 7 36 25 30 12 22
> 33 Berner,George -1 +0 -1 -0 2.0/4
> 35 3 21 9
> 34 Costa,M +0 -0 -0 +0 +0 +1 -0 1.0/7
> 20 13 12 5 31 36 29
> 35 Davidson,C +0 -0 -0 +1 1.0/4
> 33 30 27 36
> 36 BYE +0 -0 +0 -0 +0 -0 -0 0.0/7
> 28 25 32 35 21 34 30

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> "Taylor Kingston" < Looking a bit more carefully in the CL&R article, I see
> it reports
> that because of his wife's accident, Evans did not even play the last round
> at Lone Pine 1972. Therefore Manetti could not have played him, contrary to
> what CB records.>
>
> Maybe he had played before the accident, or came back and played later. If
> the wife did not suffer injuries, it is possible he did play the game though
> maybe not when everyone else was playing.

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> Is Kashdan still alive to verify what happened? Or Roy Ervin?

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> suggest contacting GM Evans at chesstours.com.
>

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>A QUICK CORRECTION
>
> <Mr. Sloan thank you so very much for this terrific summary...> -- Jude
> Acers.
>
> Welcome to this forum, Jude.
>
> Black was Roy Ervin (not GM Evans) In this game cited by Sam
> Sloan.
>
> [Event "op"]
> [Site "Lone Pine"]
> [Date "1972.??.??"]
> [White "Manetti, Pete"]
> [Black "Evans, Larry Melvyn"]
> [Result "1/2-1/2"]
> [ECO "A94"]
>

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> Another example of Sloan's legendary inability to research and report. I
> guess I also missed one of his legendary retractions and apologies for the
> screw up.

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> No doubt, some chess database will now list this as an Evans
> game.

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>
> Randy Bauer wrote:
>
> Randy, as you know I am not often given to defending Sam Sloan, but
> in this case the mistake is probably the database's, not his.