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Feb-13-17
 | | offramp: <sfm: "The rest of us were lucky that Basman played those weird openings. When he played something sound he was really dangerous! - Keene (as per my memory)> That is funny! It makes me think of
Sam Sloan and his constant adoption of the Grob as White and the disastrous Damiano Defence as Black. He is a strong player but handicaps himself from the first move. |
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May-04-17
 | | keypusher: From across the Atlantic it seems very strange. VAT is not new. Entry fees are not new. Aren't there established methods for collecting one from the other (or demonstrating that you are exempt)? |
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May-04-17
 | | MissScarlett: <
Let me tell you how it will be,
There's one for you, nineteen for me,
'Cause I'm the Basman, yeah, I'm the Basman.
Should five per cent appear too small,
Be thankful I don't take it all,
'Cause I'm the Basman, yeah I'm the Basman...> |
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May-05-17
| | MissScarlett: <
Case Name MICHAEL JOHN BASMAN
Court County Court at Kingston-upon-Thames
Type Bankruptcy
Number 0000100
Case Year 2016
Order Date 08 August 2016
Status Currently Bankrupt : Automatic Discharge will be 08 August 2017 See FootNote
Case Description MICHAEL JOHN BASMAN SELF-EMPLOYED CHESS TEACHER OF 7 BILLOCKBY CLOSE, CHESSINGTON, SURREY, KT9 2ED>https://www.insolvencydirect.bis.go... |
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| Oct-27-17 | | posoo: now dis - DIS - is da true best playor of all time. he wod win ALL TORNAUES if da PSS were adopted. LOOK at da imagination! da petience! DA AGRESS. INCREDABLE. HUNDRED PERCENT berst player in da mold of DA OLD POSOO. |
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| Nov-21-17 | | Octavia: Could anyone upload this game: Sowray-Basman, Exeter 1980 ? It's in Basman's St George book. <Scarlett> did you loose a lot & badly to Basman? |
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Nov-22-17
| | MissScarlett: <<Scarlett> did you loose a lot & badly to Basman?> It's Basman who lost the lot. But, as ever, it's nothing personal - Chernev highlighted the <bright side of chess>; my themes are darker. |
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Mar-16-19
 | | redlance: Happy Birthday!!! |
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Mar-16-19
 | | woldsmandriffield: Social media giants pay paltry amounts in tax & contribute to a mental health epidemic among young people, treatment for which is paid for by ordinary taxpayers. Michael Basman ran a non-profit chess tournament to improve children’s thinking skills. HMRC went after him & showed no mercy. |
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| Mar-17-19 | | JimNorCal: "Government is another word for things we do together..." |
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Mar-17-19
| | MissScarlett: <You can only apply for bankruptcy online. It costs £680.> https://www.gov.uk/bankruptcy |
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Mar-23-19
| | woldsmandriffield: Perhaps Michael Basman should have changed his name to Lorraine. |
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Mar-23-19
| | MissScarlett: £300,000 for a one-year sabbatical sounds quite reasonable remuneration to me. Unless he got booted from his home, in which case he might end bumming a kip on Leonard William Barden 's sofa. |
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| Mar-24-20 | | Caissanist: In 2017 the Delancey event was purchased out of bankruptcy by Sarah N Longson and Alexander Longson, who now run it: https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-w... . |
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Oct-27-22
 | | Chessical: https://www.delanceyukschoolschessc... have just reported: <"It is with the utmost sadness that we have to report the death of International Master Michael Basman - the founder of the UK Chess Challenge. Our thoughts go out to his family and close friends. The chess world has lost an amazing person" > |
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Oct-27-22
 | | Stonehenge: I'm not seeing that message. |
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Oct-27-22
| | MissScarlett: Try https://twitter.com/Delancey_UKCC/s... |
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| Oct-27-22 | | Olavi: Very sad to hear. Some amazing games he played, and wrote inspirational books. |
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| Oct-27-22 | | Olavi: This was a near miss: Botvinnik vs M Basman, 1967 |
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| Oct-27-22 | | Brenin: Such sad news. He was the most original UK player of my generation. |
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| Oct-27-22 | | ZoboBear 000000001: <I [John Upham] was contacted early this morning with this news and am still in shock. Pancreatic cancer was the horrible disease that took him from us. Tserendorj and Anuurai stayed with Mike in St. Helier Hospital in Carshalton for the last three days and looked after him to the last although, typically, Mike refused to admit that he was in pain or unwell and hospital was most inconvenient. His contribution to English (and Surrey / Wey Valley) junior chess is huge and must surely never be forgotten. Botvinnik spoke very highly of Mike at Hastings and predicted great things for him. His chess was very imaginative: the obvious thing to talk about are his bizarre openings but his middle game skills were top notch. I licensed Mike to Duncan Suttles stylistically. Perhaps best known for founding UKCC, Mike was at heart an educator and an innovator. His work with Audio Chess was way ahead of its time. The idea of using audio cassettes to analyse students games (to and fro) was truly modern in the 1970s. I was official photographer for UKCC for at least five years and Mike was an absolute pleasure to work for, he simply trusted me to get on with it. My thoughts go out to his family and to his huge pre-HMRC fire sale UKCC family especially Pat Armstrong and the throngs of helpers that made Gigafinals and Terafinals run so smoothly. Mike leaves behind his ex-wife, his sister Rose and his son Antranig. Robert Moore (Addlestone Chess Club), his brother, passed away in June 2022. Farewell my friend: you will be missed: truly one of life's good guys. I will write further when I can get my thoughts together.> https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopi... |
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Oct-28-22
 | | perfidious: RIP to a highly creative, original thinker and player whose influence reached far beyond his games and ideas. |
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Oct-28-22
 | | moronovich: A great player who used his brain and invented many interesting and original opening ideas. May you rest in peace. |
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Oct-28-22
 | | kingscrusher: RIP Michael Basman
Positional genius and very original in his thinking. Also a fantastic tournament organiser for young player chess. He has done so much for British Chess. |
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Oct-28-22
| | takchess: It would be nice to have him as player of the day, the grob be the opening of the day and a game of his be the game of the day in his memory. A creative player ! |
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