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| Feb-12-09 | | Thorski: I thought Carlsen's page was the agreed upon home for the debasement of mathematics. |
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Feb-12-09
 | | JointheArmy: <Thorski> The Carlsen page is for the pseudo mathematicians. This is where the big boys play. |
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Apr-10-09
 | | sisyphus: Mainstream press article about Larry Kaufman, in the Washington City Paper: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/... |
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| Apr-11-09 | | drukenknight: If you have never seen a chess jerk in action then you should check out this guy. Saw him at the NOrthern Virginia club that mests at that church in Rosslyn playing blitz vs Adu (either an IM or GM, a nice guy from West AFrica, like Kauf. about 2500+). ANyhow they are playing blitz and Larry's clock is running down and he makes a series of checks chasing Adu's K around the board. Clock runs out, just before Larry yells "I call draw, I call perpetual check, I call..." TD comes over. Adu says "His clock ran out."
Kauf: "I called draw."
TD: "DId he call draw before the flag fell?"
Me: "Yes there was one sec. left when he called perpetual." So they push pieces around and it's not perpetual, and then Kauf. sez: "And so I just keep checking him.." T.D. Awards him the draw!
Adu's only comment: "When you've lost, you've lost." Too funny Look up the rules for blitz, there is no draw for "then I just keep checking him." |
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| Apr-12-09 | | Caissanist: The article cited by sisyphus makes the statement that "The Kaufmans are believed to be the only father-son pairing anywhere to ever reach the international master rank." This is not correct. There are at least three other instances of parent-child duos who both became IMs: Milan Vidmar and Milan Vidmar Jr., Alejandro and Gaston Needleman, and Thomas and Elisabeth Paetz. If anyone knows of any other instances, we have been posting these on the Raymond S Kaufman page. |
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Apr-15-09
| | sisyphus: <Saw him at the NOrthern Virginia club that mests at that church in Rosslyn playing blitz vs Adu> There is no chess club in Rosslyn, and there is no club in Northern Virginia that meets in a church. Mr. Drunkenknight must be, well, drunk. |
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| Apr-17-09 | | drukenknight: I dunno if its a club per say, I think the church is Central Methodist just before the Ballston metro on Stafford st. I will check it on google. Maybe they dont play there anymore this was about 2001, they used to meet one night per month probably on Friday. Passov an IM, was there and another guy who was on his level as well as Adu, Kaufmann, etc. I remember giving Adu a ride home to Greenbelt, he was working on electrical engineering degree. |
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| Apr-17-09 | | drukenknight: It is/was called the Arlington Chess club and met at Central United Methodist church across from Ballston metro, see this reference: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache... |
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Apr-17-09
| | sisyphus: <drunkenknight: ... this was about 2001> Can you remember that far back? |
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| Apr-18-09 | | drukenknight: WHy dont I ask you a question since you question my veracity? What made you say that there is no club in Rosslyn? There is Ballston, there is Rosslyn, there is Arlington there is another too. To me it is all Arlington I dont know all the neighborhoods which is what they are basically. I remember the guy forget his name who was from Lithuania (He had a son Alex) and would play Passov they were both about 2150. They would do closed sicilian e4 c5 2. c3 That same guy would play Adu for $20 a game. And he would actually win like 1 game every 3 or 4 it something to see him beat a GM once in a while. I had never played blitz before so I signed up to play in their blitz league. I lost every single game that first night and they gave me a Susan B ANthony dollar as the booby prize! |
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Apr-18-09
 | | keypusher: <sisyphus: <drunkenknight: ... this was about 2001>
Can you remember that far back?>
Of course he can! Anyone who isn't brain damaged (and plenty who are) can remember back eight years. Say, wasn't there some kind of terrorist attack in New York in 2001? |
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| Apr-18-09 | | drukenknight: Yes I recall it well. The monster broke buildings, breathed fire and they had helicopters and tanks try to attack it. I think he fell off the Brooklyn bridge when it was all over.. |
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| Apr-18-09 | | drukenknight: key: He was being facetious, I believe, now that I re read the post. Which is hard to convey sarcasm on the internet, that is one thign, but despite that his previous post was so serious that hard to tell the next post was not. Or so it seems to me. ANyhow, there is Clarendon, there is Ballston, there is Rosslyn and they all run together along Lee Hi way. I sure as hell cannot keep the all straight it is all Arlington. So I dunno just because there is no club in Ballston the guy calls me a liar... |
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Apr-18-09
| | sisyphus: <WHy dont I ask you a question since you question my veracity? What made you say that there is no club in Rosslyn? ...> Because I've playing in Northern Virginia for almost 30 years and there isn't one. You're awfully fuzzy on the details, which diminishes the credibility of your personal attack on GM Kaufman. As near as I can tell, there's only one tournament that comes close to matching your account: Arlington February Quick, 2/11/2000. In it, one previously unrated player lost all his games: Nikhil S. Shenoy, currently rated 764, and inactive since 2001. Is that you? Incidentally, the crosstable for that event indicates that Adu beat Kaufman in their game. |
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| Apr-18-09 | | drukenknight: We just established that there is an Arlington Club that used to meet at that methodist church on Stafford St. Do you have any recollection of that one? They played in hte basement and the blitz guy from the national blitz whatever would show up there and give you the pairings. The regular time control games were done in a ladder format and you'd look at a list and sign up with someone equivalent. I played a guy named Joe Harrington there at regular time controls in my only USCF rated game ever! I won quickly. I should find the score sheet. As for time frame, I think it would have been from 2001 as it wasnt until 2000 that I got back into chess, but Feb. is possible. We played each other twice each in that blitz tournament, the incident w/ Kaufman was maybe not that particular one where I lost all my games but it was from that league. I can probably get the date from old USCF card which might still exist. I do recall talking a long time to Adu and he told me was studying EE at Univ of Md. He wanted to give me lessons! (in chess not EE). He was from Nigeria I think and he told me had played in the Olympiads which really impressed me. I asked him if his game improved all of a sudden and I think he said he had been playing for a couple of years and then all of sudden he got real good. I drove him home all the way to Greenbelt. is this enuf detail for you? Do you recall Ted Covey? He used to be active there and I would play him alot. |
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| Apr-18-09 | | drukenknight: I know, why dont you ask Dan Heisman if he knows Ted Covey? He should they worked on some internet project or something together. Ted created a website called Economists for Bush or something (back in 2000, I know I know Ted has problems) Ted was my playing partner for several years back there...Go ahead I dare you. |
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Apr-18-09
| | sisyphus: Sure, I used to play at the United Methodist Church, and before that the Arlington Chess Club met at the Arlington YMCA. IM Adu and GM Kaufman play there often, quick tournaments or on DC Chess League teams. And they get paired periodically, inasmuch as they both play first board. I've never seen any difficulty with either of them. As for the others, for what it's worth, I seem to recall Covey (maybe it was from the Bush campaign), though he hasn't played in Arlington for three years. And Joe Harrington doesn't appear on the USCF rolls. |
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| Apr-19-09 | | drukenknight: Yeah Covey and me both stopped playing for awhile. He was in my wedding party and got me back into the game in 2000. He is a repertoire player, no matter what opening I play he plays some odd variation that is maybe sound. I open with Spanish he does the Marshall attack. As white he would do that Goring gambit which is so annoying so I went to Sicilian. Or he would do the Cunningham Kings gambit or the Cochrane. So I went to sicilian and he does Smith Morra gambit. So I play French, he plays the albin-chatard attack. I go d4 he goes Dutch; so I started playing the Staunton gambit. He was working on ALbin Counter Gambit when we stopped A couple days ago you said that there is no chess club in no. virginia that meets in a church. Now you say you played there. Whatever |
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Apr-19-09
 | | James Demery: sisyphus: You`re assuming his name is drunkenknight which it is not. I thought the same thing for a long time. You must look closely at the spelling. |
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Apr-19-09
| | James Demery: druken : Is Covey Larry Kaufman? Speaking of Larry Kaufman does anyone know how I can get my rating over 2400? |
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| Apr-19-09 | | MaxxLange: <"then I just keep checking him."> strategery! |
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Apr-19-09
| | sisyphus: <James Demery: ... You`re assuming his name is drunkenknight which it is not.... You must look closely at the spelling.> Ah, well, rhetorical shots about inebriation aside, messing up the factual details makes his eyewitness testimony dubious. <Speaking of Larry Kaufman does anyone know how I can get my rating over 2400?> This interview by Jim Eade details Kaufman's early steps: http://uschesstrust.com/2008/05/21/... |
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Apr-19-09
 | | Open Defence: <James Demery: sisyphus: You`re assuming his name is drunkenknight which it is not. I thought the same thing for a long time. You must look closely at the spelling.> well its a good test for sobreity... |
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Apr-19-09
| | sisyphus: Regarding the rules for blitz: the game nine years ago in which the disputed draw offer was made was probably played under the World Blitz Chess Association rules. WBCA is no longer with us, but the USCF rules then in effect state that a player may be awarded a draw in Blitz by demonstrating the ability to force a triple occurrence of position to a director. As in all such matters, the ruling of the tournament director is definitive. People who want to dispute the decision should take it up with the TD, not the player. |
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Apr-19-09
| | Open Defence: aaah so its <Technical Draw>'s fault!! I KNEW IT!!!!! |
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