KEG Member since Nov-12-16 · Last seen Aug-01-25 Profession: Litigating attorney for more than 40 years. Chess: Began playing in the early 1950's and have enjoyed playing and studying chess ever since. My biggest chess thrills have been (in no particular order): (a) seeing Bobby Fischer in action live at the US Championship; (b) attending the Kasparov-Karpov 1990 World Championship match; (c) private lessons from Grandmaster Susan Polgar (a great teacher); (d) playing over great games, especially those with excellent annotations; (e) endgames. Other interests: (A) Piano: I have been an amateur pianist for nearly 60 years. Perhaps the greatest thrill of my life (next to the day I married my wife and the day my daughter was born) was the time I had a private master class on Schubert's A-Major Piano Sonata from the great Ruth Slenczynska. B) Ballet: I have been attending ballet performances for about 65 years, and have been lucky enough to see many of the greatest dancers. My wife and I have sponsored new ballets, including pieces for the wonderful ballerina Teresa Reichlen. I still take ballet classes. (C) Tennis: I have been a fan for many decades, and attended the US Open for many years, usually attending every round. D) Bridge Until my work schedule became too brutal, I played in tournaments frequently, winning a number of "B" events and occasionally prevailing in short "swiss" matches against some of the all-time greats. (It is much easier to win a short swiss team bridge match against world champions than to defeat a chess grandmaster. My teams have prevailed on occasions against some of the all-time greats, but I have yet to win a chess game on even terms against a player rated 2300 or above). E) Biblical Studies I study the Bible nearly every day and have taught various sorts of Bible classes, at one point at least once a week for about 12 years. I seem to have the unique ability to offend people of nearly every religion and belief, probably because of my mania for textual issues (always a good idea to know what was actually written before dashing off to proclaim or denounce it) and vigorous and unrelenting close readings of controversial texts. F) Mountain and wall climbing My daughter and I climb (top-rope) walls at the gym once a week, and I am training to attempt a climb of Mount Washington. G) Misc. In my younger days, I was a marathon runner and before that a wrestler. I love almost every sort of food (with a few notable exceptions) and have never lost an eating contest.

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Jul-29-25 Schlechter vs Janowski, 1902   KEG: Post V 50... Kd6 Pretty much forced. 51. bxc5 bxc6 52. Rb8! This penetration should have been decisive: [DIAGRAM] 52... Rc7 Once again, Janowski had little choice, and now looked to be on the verge of defeat: [DIAGRAM] Now 53. Rc5 ties up the Black forces and should have led to ...      Jul-20-25 Janowski vs Schlechter, 1902   KEG: Post III 27... Rd2?! [DIAGRAM] There is a clear refutation of this move, as Janowski quickly demonstrated. Did Schlechter miss it? Perhaps. But there is another possibility. Being two pawns down and probably lost on any reckoning, it has occurred to me that Schlechter likely also saw ...      Jul-16-25 Schlechter vs Janowski, 1902   KEG: Post VI 55... Kf7? 55...Kd5 looks like the only chance. But matters soon took a strange turn even after this error. 56. g5 Consolidating his apparently clearly winning position. 56... Rc8 [DIAGRAM] 57. Rf6+? An incredible mistake by the usually precise Schlechter. 57. a4! looks ...      Jul-06-25 W Adams vs A Kevitz, 1936   KEG: Post IV 35. Rb8+? Adams must have been in dreadful time pressure to have played this. He trades off a powerful Rook for one that was locked in the corner and doing little but defense. By contrast, if 35. Rd6 [35. Ke4 also appears to win] would have created problems for Black that ...      Jul-06-25 H Steiner vs H Morton, 1936    KEG: <stone free or die> Yes, I should have mentioned Rubinstein in my pantheon.      Jun-12-25 Janowski vs Schlechter, 1902   KEG: Post IV Schlechter now had three choices: (A) reduce to a Rook and pawn ending down a pawn with 30...Bc5; or (B) counter-attack and go after the White c-pawn with 30...Re3; or (c) target the White a-pawn with 30...Ra5. To make matters tougher for him, this was his last move before the ...      Jun-04-25 Schlechter vs Janowski, 1902   KEG: Post III 18. Re4? A rare occurrence: Schlechter missed a key potentially saving combination for Black. This involves: (i) a possible grab of the White h-pawn; and (ii) a discovered attack on the White d1 Rook (based on a pin on the f3 White Knight). These problems could have been ...      May-30-25 Janowski vs Schlechter, 1902   KEG: Post VI 50. e7? As previously noted, 50. Re1 was the only (perhaps forlorn) hope. Perhaps Janowski thought he would still be able to protect his passed e-pawn with a later Re1. But Schlechter soon disillusioned him of such notion: 50... Rxh4+ 51. Kg1 Qe5 [DIAGRAM] The game was now ...      May-21-25 Janowski vs Schlechter, 1902   KEG: Correction: In my first post on this game, I erroneously stated that in Games 5, 7, and 9 (the other times in the match in which Janowski was on the White side of a double King's pawn opening) Schlechter played the Ruy Lopez, winning Game 7 and drawing the other two. This is wrong. In ...      May-18-25 Schlechter vs Janowski, 1902   KEG: Post III 21. NxN Was Schlechter playing for a draw? If not, why not play the much stronger 21. Qg3 which would have maintained the edge Schlechter had enjoyed for most of this game. The text seemingly let Janowski off the hook: 21... NxN 22. Qg3 Nowhere nearly as strong as if this ...

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