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Jun-29-06
 | | Poisonpawns: The "final" word on the Frankenstein-Dracula variation
O Ekebjaerg vs G Timmerman, 1991
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Jun-29-06
 | | Caissanist: <mack> I can't say as I blame the chessgames admins. After cleaning up after the A.J. Goldsby flame wars (in which this topic figured prominently), it's quite understandable that they would want to limit future outbreaks. Though I happen to think that the topic is well worth discussing, <IMlday> is right--once discussion on this gets started, everything else gets wiped out, and I honestly would like to learn more about the Vienna. Stuff like this is one of the reasons they created the personal message board feature--should you decide to open up your own board and discuss this topic there, then the admins won't touch it. For that matter, if anyone cares to post something worthwhile about it on my own (largely unused) board then I wouldn't mind. |
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| Jul-02-06 | | WMD: <Oh goody, one of my messages seems to have disappeared as well. As far as I'm aware, none of the stuff which has been deleted today has been obscene, racist, sexist or profane; they've not been trying to sell anything; no personal attacks on members of this site have been made; and unless it's illegal to discuss homosexuality in the US, we've not violated guideline 4), either.> I am hated for loving
I am hated for loving
Anonymous call, a poison pen
A brick in the small of the back again
I still don't belong
To anyone - I am mine
And I am hated for loving
I am haunted for wanting
Anonymous call, a poison pen
A brick in the ... ah ...
A brick in the small of the back again
I still don't belong
To anyone - I am mine
I am falling
With no-one to catch me
I am falling
And there's still
No-one to catch me
Ah ..
Anonymous call, a poison pen
A brick in the ... ah ...
A brick in the small of the back again
I just don't belong
To anywhere
I just don't belong
Mmm ...
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Jul-02-06
 | | RookFile: Well, you managed to include the word "I" ten times in the above poem. Silly me - I came here to read about Weaver Adams, or his book "White to Play and Win", or the latest developments in the Frankenstein - Dracula variation. |
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| Jul-02-06 | | WMD: Silly you. |
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Nov-30-06
| | Resignation Trap: In the late 1940's, Adams ran some ads in Chess Review, promoting his book, <Simple Chess> in his own unique manner: _____________________________________
SIMPLE CHESS
THE GAME OF CHESS SOLVED!!!
11 pages of closely typed analysis
showing more than one hundred win-
ning variations for White against all
standard Black defenses. Also win-
ning lines for Black against innacurate
opening play by White and a two page
summary of the Adams Chess System.
<Do not expect your friend who owns a
copy of this book to tell you about it. He
won't, but he'll play it against you!>
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WEAVER W. ADAMS
U. S. Open Chess Champion
Dedham, Mass.
Please send me a copy of your
analysis "Simple Chess." After five
days free examination I will send you
$ 1.00 or return the book at your ex-
pense.
Name____________
Address_________
City____________ State __________
______________________________________ |
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Dec-22-06
 | | Phony Benoni: An autobiographical essay by Adams, from 1949: http://boylston-chess-club.blogspot... |
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| Jul-01-07 | | CaptainEvans: You've got to admire this chap for his undiminished belief in the invinciblity of the Vienna Opening - in spite of his results with it. |
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Apr-28-09
| | DarthStapler: I always get this guy confused with the guy who played that crazy back rank queen sacrifice game against Torre |
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| Apr-28-09 | | Raisin Death Ray: The Notorious WWA! |
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| Apr-28-09 | | WhiteRook48: <DarthStapler> do you mean Carlos Torre Adams? |
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Apr-28-09
| | MaxxLange: <CaptainEvans> I absolutely do admire him - I get the idea he was a little crazy, but in a good way |
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Apr-29-09
| | DarthStapler: E Z Adams vs Carlos Torre, 1920 |
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| Sep-29-09 | | Raisin Death Ray: Gomez's long lost brother! |
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Jan-12-10
| | Nezhmetdinov: 2 things:
1) I thought that Adams believed the Bishop's opening to be a forced win by white - I think I read this in a book on Fisher I no longer own but I may be wrong (Was he also the one who came up with 6.h3 in the Najdorf?).
2) WMD's "poem" is in fact the lyrics to a Morrissey song (after he'd lost it, mind you...) |
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| Jul-02-10 | | Antiochus: [Event "Des Moines"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1950.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Weaver Adams"]
[Black "NN"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B03"]
[PlyCount "27"]
1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. f4 dxe5 6. fxe5 g6 7. Be3 Bg7 8. Nc3 c5 9. d5 Qc7 10. d6 exd6 11. Nb5 Qe7 12. Nxd6+ Kf8 13. Nxc8 Nxc8 14. Bxc5 1-0 |
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| Sep-22-10 | | myschkin: . . .
Bio:
http://boylston-chess-club.blogspot... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver...
Trivia:
"The History of Gay"
http://www.impalapublications.com/b... (by Raymond Keene) Random source: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php... |
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Sep-22-11
 | | perfidious: <Nezhmetdinov: 2 things:
1)......(Was he also the one who came up with 6.h3 in the Najdorf?)>Indeed he was. |
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Sep-22-11
 | | HeMateMe: Another Weaver (Dirty Harry studied him):
<The Weaver Stance was developed in 1959 by pistol shooter and deputy sheriff Jack Weaver, a range officer at the L.A. County Sheriff's Mira Loma pistol range. At the time, Weaver was competing in Jeff Cooper's "Leatherslap" matches: quick draw, man-on-man competition in which two shooters vied to pop twelve 18" wide balloons set up 21 feet away, whichever shooter burst all the balloons first winning the bout. Weaver developed his technique as a way to draw a handgun quickly to eye level and use the weapon's sights to aim more accurately, and immediately began winning against opponents predominantly using unsighted "hip shooting" techniques.
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| Apr-28-12 | | LoveThatJoker: Today on the date of your birth, you are remembered, W.W. Adams! LTJ |
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Sep-17-12
 | | Conrad93: "And Black wins...
Of course White can always play differently, in which case he merely
loses differently. (Thank you, Weaver Adams!)"
-- A Bust to the King's Gambit
Why is Fischer thanking Weaver? |
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Sep-17-12
| | Phony Benoni: <Conrad93> It's a joke. Yes, from Fischer. Weaver Adams made much the same statement about Black in his analysis "proving" that White wins by force. |
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Dec-17-12
| | perfidious: < Hanada: ....In 1939 Weaver Adams wrote a book entitled, "White to play and Win". At his next tournament he lost all of his games as White and won all his games as Black....> This is one for the books-as the saying is, you can't make that s**t up. <....His thesis, as expounded in this and other books by Adams, was that White has a winning position on the very first move....Adams would often publish collections of his games....and of them he would say: "There are no annotations, because every move is crystal clear."....> The reconciliation of Adams' dogma and cold reality had to be a Sisyphean burden for him. <....Adams won 49th US Open, in Baltimore.> In the late 1970s, a friend gave me some back numbers of Chess Review. One of the earliest was the August 1948 issue with Adams on the cover. The title was 'Apostle of Aggression'. That issue also had a piece on the first Massachusetts championship won by John A Curdo. There would be not a few others in his career, and it could hardly have happened to a nicer man, or more ferocious opponent. The Chess Review cover title above was certainly appropriate for John as well. |
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Dec-17-12
| | Phony Benoni: <perfidious> The Weaver story is just about true. The tournament in question was the Championship Section of the 1940 US Open in Dallas. Adams did squeak out one draw with White while going 4/4 as Black. Game Collection: US Open 1940, Dallas Unfortunately, only the game W Adams vs Fine, 1940 is available. The original source is a tournament report appearing in the October 1940 Chess Review, p. 146. It was written by USCF President George Sturgis, and if you can't believe a chess politician, who can you believe? |
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Dec-18-12
 | | waustad: In looking at the posts here, it seems that some strange stuff got posted before, but the topic of the Vienna game came up often. I've been looking into present day Austrian chess and I haven't seen anybody there using it, perhaps except for as a way into a KIA setup. My exploration is in no way exhaustive, but Dutch players are much more likely to play the Dutch, and English are much more likely to start with c4. Just saying. |
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