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| Jan-11-06 | | morpstau: Keep in mind larry Evans is old here and is not near his prime. |
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| Jan-11-06 | | sciacca khan: The same is true of Ray, man! |
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| Mar-01-07 | | Dr.Lecter: This is kind of messed up. Ray is blind and Evans plays against him without any compensation or handicap? |
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| Mar-01-07 | | syracrophy: <Dr.Lecter> Don't understimate Mr. Ray. He was a great player and he never needed any handicap. Blindness never takes you far away from a good chess level. I think that the only thing that aparts us from a top goal is our fears |
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| Mar-01-07 | | sergeidave: Doesn't 17.fxc or 17.Nxc make it at least possible to draw?? |
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| Sep-07-07 | | Cactus: Was Ray still on drugs at this time? |
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| May-10-08 | | Billy Vaughan: <This is kind of messed up. Ray is blind and Evans plays against him without any compensation or handicap?> Would Ray have needed a handicap? Would Ray even have wanted Evans to play with a handicap? |
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| Aug-06-08 | | dumbgai: 20. Kc1 just loses a tempo for no reason. |
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| Aug-06-08 | | JG27Pyth: Is the win from the final position so obvious? I don't see it. |
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| Aug-06-08 | | JG27Pyth: Hey... Ray is NOT playing fully blind... he's got a touchy-feely chess set and can refresh the position mentally with a braille-like examination of the board. |
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| Aug-06-08 | | JG27Pyth: Toga II gives RC +0.50 after the simple 17.Nxe4 -- his 17.Rd1 loses a pawn for no good reason. I don't think this Charles fellow has a future as a chess professional ;) |
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| Aug-06-08 | | HannibalSchlecter: the win is as follows: Black uses his 3 to 2 pawn majority on the kingside to create a passer. White must chase it down, then black goes pawn munching with his king. Ray knew this was coming, and resigned. |
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| Dec-13-08 | | amadeus: Not this one... |
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| Dec-31-08 | | blacksburg: i think it says something about ray charles's strength as a chess player that he resigned in the final position. that he understood it was lost for him means that he knew a thing or two about endgames. ray charles was obviously better than sting. |
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| Dec-31-08 | | RookFile: <HannibalSchlecter: the win is as follows: Black uses his 3 to 2 pawn majority on the kingside to create a passer. White must chase it down, then black goes pawn munching with his king. Ray knew this was coming, and resigned. > I don't think it's this simple. The move 25. a4!! creates remarkable problems in this position, and was well worth playing. |
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Dec-31-08
 | | Stonehenge: What's the problem after 25.a4 c5? Even after 26.b3 black will play c4+ bxc4 Kc5 somewhere. Black always has more tempi at the King side. If white doesn't play b3 then black has c5-c4 and again ...c5. |
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| Mar-12-09 | | pleutman: Blind sight:The phenomenon in which a patient has no concious visual experience in some direction,yet functions effectively in various tasks involving temporal location of objects. |
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Mar-12-09
 | | moronovich: Did Ray ever recieve an invitation to Amber ? |
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| Feb-06-10 | | ruelas007: dood that's too harsh and meanie |
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Nov-20-10
 | | Richard Taylor: I played chess with a Blind player there times in the 60s as a teenager in NZ - he had the (dark?) Squares) elevated also. Once I got him with knight fork and he said: "Oh, I didn't see that.! " Every one watching laughed. My score with him ( a Mr Terry Free) was = i.e. it was -
1 loss, 1 win, 1 draw.
He played in the World Blind Champs later. I read via Oliver Sachs; books that blind people get quite used to being blind and when one person had his sight restored after years being blind, he was very disorientated and upset - it almost destroyed his life, that had been reasonable until then. He had got so accommodated to being without sight and responding to the world in non visual ways. |
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| Jul-15-11 | | ColeTrane: Coltrane & Monk & co. |
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| Jul-23-11 | | Shams: Great pun! Step forward, author. |
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| Jul-23-11 | | goodevans: The ending after 25 a5 c5 26 b3 is non-trivial. White should have played on. Perhaps he was more interested in playing the next game than trying to fight out a draw. |
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| Jul-23-11 | | mack: I played a blind chap at Bury St Edmunds in 2006. I rather cruelly thought that it would be to my advantage to get him out of his comfort zone as soon as possible, so after his 1.d4 (with Colle intentions) I played 1...Na6. We drew. |
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Jul-23-11
 | | scormus: I'm impressed by Ray. Something I didnt understand was 20 Kc1. Ke2 looked obviously right (to and endgame klutz like me anyway) and the rest of his game makes me think he would have realised that |
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