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>I would never get to this position in the Damiano: 3.d4 or 3.Bc4.
> 3.Nxe5 allows 3...Qe7. I ran through my MSA tournament results, and
> I'm fairly sure I lost more games to players under 1800 than you did.
> Mitigating factor: I played in 91 tournaments.

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> May I gently suggest that you are a person of integrity, and that
> Taylor Kingston is a person of integrity.

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> ;-)

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> <politikalhack@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1120498150.476533.238810@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> that's a lot! I remember as a kid being so nervous I would knock over half
> the pieces with the first trembling move. We didn't play much tournament
> chess in Cornwall, but a weekly club to club game of about 90/game, and then
> weekend inter-county games slightly longer after a 2 hour car-ride in
> pipe-smoke, the driver playing all others blindfold, so to speak. And I
> remember Michael Adams as a 'squeeker' eg. of no particular account then,
> and who could not be swindled but could be out-manoevred, in fact I am not
> sure he even played board one for his club
>
> what do you personally remember as the most enjoyable aspect of playing in
> all those tournaments? - that is, as a consistent theme?
>
> this Damiano game is a weird position anyway - when I saw f4 instead of h4 I
> knew we were on strange ground, and Sam played as if responding to h4,
> however, I often find myself in the wilderness. I once played a guy who is
> old enough to have beaten Frank Marshall in a full length game,

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> than the daunting task of playing against 50+ years of opening theory,
> played an invention, The Great Crab, featuring b4 AND g4! It was a very
> strange game, and the only one I ever played against a master where, after
> 40 moves, neither King had moved, and in the final position they still
> hadn't moved [ROFL!] he was a very cool older gentleman and didn't buy any
> of my crappy traps, so we slogged this thing out as an open game, open on
> all fronts
>
> Your turn for old-fart weird chess position anecdote, said Innes, who is 52
> this week
>
>
> We are both import-Vermonters, except he is a flatlander, and I incidentally
> just wrote to Taylor, to his [!]
>
> And it is my surprise that you too are a gentleman, but said like that is
> demeaning, which was not my intent, only the extent of my poor wits this
> afternoon.
>
>
> Now, unless we can think of other things on which to disagree we are forced
> to agree on... <already a bad scene> the character of Lawrence H. Parr, but
> as the children say, let's not go there.
>
> Phil

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> Chess One wrote:
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> How many decades after he beat Frank Marshall did you play him?

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> <<what do you personally remember as the most enjoyable aspect of
> playing in
> all those tournaments? - that is, as a consistent theme? >>
>
> That's easy--the post-mortems.

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> Like many players from the Midwest, I have happy memories of analyzing
> with two friends now gone--Bill Colias and Dr. Eugene Martinovsky.

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> <<what do you personally remember as the most enjoyable aspect of
> playing in
> all those tournaments? - that is, as a consistent theme? >>
>
> That's easy--the post-mortems.
>
> Like many players from the Midwest, I have happy memories of analyzing
> with two friends now gone--Bill Colias and Dr. Eugene Martinovsky.

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> <<Bill, I've enjoyed the memorial book on Mr. Colias. I think it was a
> touching tribute on the part of the IL chess community. >>
>
> Afterword by Larry Parr.