| Apr-20-09 | | Jim Bartle: A better basketball coach than a chessplayer. |
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Apr-20-09
 | | stoy: I have met him. He was a Professor of Analytical Chemistry at CCNY in NYC. His highest USCF rating was 2300+, he had a passion for the game. |
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| Apr-20-09 | | MaxxLange: There was a character named Orest Popovych in Don Delillo's novel "White Noise". He was a friend of the narrator's son, who was training to beat the world record for being enclosed with venomous snakes.The son played correspondence chess with a guy in prison. I wonder if Delillo is a chess player? |
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| Apr-20-09 | | Jim Bartle: "He was a friend of the narrator's son, who was training to beat the world record for being enclosed with venomous snakes." Quite likely a posthumous record. |
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| Apr-20-09 | | Dredge Rivers: Stop, you're under Orest! |
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Sep-16-10
 | | GrahamClayton: Popovych was elected President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York in 2006. Popovych has also translated the Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno into English. |
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| Aug-25-11 | | Caissanist: My copy of <Title Chess>, Burt Hochberg's fine account of the 1972 U.S. Championship, lists Popovych as a Senior Master. So I would presume that his peak was 2400 at least. |
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Feb-10-13
 | | perfidious: <Jim> Quite likely indeed. |
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| Feb-10-13 | | ChemMac: <stoy> He was at Brooklyn College, not CCNY. I played him several times, losing only once by playing the moves of a forced mate in the wrong order!! (Embarrassing!) |
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| Nov-25-13 | | Granny O Doul: Back in the 70's, the Popovych-Asa Hoffmann rivalry (they played a series of sharp games) was the subject of "Lombardy's Column" in Chess Life one month. However, the author's attempted nickname of "Orest ye merry" Popovych really does not work, as the line in the Xmas carol goes "God rest ye merry, ...", not "O rest ye merry". |
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Nov-25-13
 | | FSR: <Jim Bartle> Not necessarily: <David Jones, a 45-year-old carpenter from Sussex, started taking an interest in snakes from the moment he caught his first grass snake on a railway line near to his home as a young boy.Before spending 121 days in a locked room with 40 black mambas, cobras, boomslangs and puff adders, however, he had never actually handled a venomous snake - making his world record even more impressive. Or barmy.
Surpassing the South African former world record holder Natie Swart's effort by eight days, Jones survived the four months, eating, drinking and sleeping in the same small enclosure as the reptiles without being bitten, and has now returned to Britain. "It was something that I've wanted to do for a long time, although I can't explain why - I just love snakes," says Jones, looking back on the experience. "Prior to this I used to enjoy spending the day looking for them under logs, catching them and then releasing them."> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/ex... |
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| Dec-22-16 | | john.owen: Being exposed and enclosed with venomous snakes. Sounds like a chess tournament. |
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Jan-16-21
| | louispaulsen88888888: So I put on the ice.The smile was gone. “You’re under Orest”! |
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Jan-16-21
 | | Messiah: <louispaulsen88888888: So I put on the ice.The smile was gone. “You’re under Orest”!> Thank you, I am plagiarizing this pun and submitting. Thank you once again. |
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Jan-16-21
| | louispaulsen88888888: No problem.. I plagiarized my line anyway. From a song called Lady Scarface. |
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Apr-22-23
 | | Stonehenge: Obituary:
https://www.unionfuneralhome.com/ob... |
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Apr-22-23
 | | monopole2313: May Orest rest in peace. |
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| Apr-24-23 | | FM David H. Levin: I'm sorry to hear of his passing, which I learned of only yesterday. Our interactions were always pleasant. I've since submitted four of our games (a win for each player and two draws), which I see are already posted. The earliest of these is from 1985. I seem to recall having lost to him at least once prior, but I was satisfied with finding four of our games. |
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