wrap99 has kibitzed 319 times to chessgames   [less...]

Jun-25-22 Abe Turner   wrap99: Interesting to read of Turner being in the obscure film A Bowl of Cherries (obscure at least to me but suspect few have heard of this 60 year old flick). It just goes to show you how many chess players had other interesting aspects to their lives. I hope when you play live events you      Jun-25-22 Dennis Fritzinger   wrap99: <JimNorCal> Greetings from 2022 -- Donald Trump will be elected president and u can't believe what happens then. As for Fritzinger's thoughts on the Philidor, I am not up on the latest but it seems to me the superhuman chess minds of the the AIs have probably led to many ...      Jun-25-22 Felix Sicre   wrap99: I have seen it. It is quite interesting to see not just the how close to morphy the people were but implicitly the links to the 19th century. I saw Reshevsky once and because he was fairly old when I saw him and of course started very early, here in 1980 or so was a man who had ...      Jun-22-22 Theodore Bullockus   wrap99: <perfidious> no, his name was dave kittinger iirc.      Jun-22-22 G Small vs Hannibal, 1977    wrap99: Maybe the computer was in the u2000 section. Interestingly, given there were exceedingly few woman and fewer who could be described as old, I think I remember that woman who would be well over 100 now, I suspect. How far computers have come, hard to imagine that humans could beat ...      Jun-18-22 Boris Siff   wrap99: I remember my first and possibly only LERA event from 1975, perhaps Siff was there. I for sure met a very young Jay Whitehead, already and expert at 12. Dennis Waterman was there, Nick Maffeo and probably some other masters whom I did not recognize. Ted Yudacufski used to direct in ...      Jun-17-22 M T Mora Iturralde vs Taimanov, 1955   wrap99: Did white have chances for perhaps a draw at some point? Not too many times in those days that a female player (if indeed white had chances for a win or draw) did so well against a GM. But I can't judge whether what she did was sound.      Jun-16-22 Morphy vs J Freeman, 1858    wrap99: <KingG> Greetings from 2022 -- u will be amazed by what occurs. Buy something called Bitcoin as soon as you can in 2010 and hang onto all of it until it reaches 69k. As far as GM blindfold play, I would suggest that the stronger the GM, the less he loses in rating points when ...      Jun-08-22 Albert Sandrin   wrap99: What a strange way to become blind -- I do not believe this was watching a solar eclipse. I think this staring at the sun might have been a competitive activity in those days when kids "made their own fun" before they watched a bunch of TV. Joseph Heller goes into the very ...      Jun-08-22 Robert G Konkel   wrap99: He is referred to as a 17 year old schoolboy here: https://www.milibrary.org/chess-roo... (history of Mechanics' Institute Chess Room) in 1949 or 1947 and so despite these games being almost 80 years old, could still be around.      Jun-08-22 Walter R Lovegrove    May-31-22 Jacques Mieses     May-26-22 Nick Maffeo    May-22-22 Charles C Crittenden    Mar-30-22 Mark A Orfalea     Mar-10-22 Sidney J Rubin    Mar-03-22 David Blohm    Jan-19-22 Edward Lasker    Nov-25-21 James Maki    Nov-18-21 Max Euwe     Nov-02-21 Roger Bowen    Nov-02-21 Nick de Firmian    Nov-01-21 Kibitzer's Café     Oct-13-21 Tarrasch vs Euwe, 1928    Aug-19-21 David Janowski     Aug-16-21 Adolf Herzog    Aug-02-21 Walter John     Jul-23-21 M Weiss vs B Lasker, 1911    May-28-21 Samuel Reshevsky     May-24-21 Giri vs V S Gujrathi, 2021    Apr-19-21 Arthur R Spiller    Feb-16-21 Lewis Cohen     Jan-30-21 Larry Remlinger    Jan-23-21 N Whitaker vs J Frankle, 1974    Aug-08-18 Richard Chess    Aug-07-18 Ron Frasco     Aug-07-18 Mike Chess     Jul-29-18 Topalov vs S Zhigalko, 2008     Jul-29-18 James A Thinnsen     Jul-03-18 Emanuel Lasker     Jun-28-18 Samuel Factor     Jun-26-18 Calvin Blocker     Jun-26-18 Z Harari vs M Rodshtein, 2017    Jun-26-18 Zaki Harari     Jun-25-18 William Mark Duckworth     Jun-25-18 Maurice Schippers    Jun-23-18 Perry Youngworth     Jun-23-18 E Formanek vs D Fritzinger, 1976    Jun-20-18 Solomon Gotthilf     Jun-20-18 Jung    Jun-16-18 Fritz Riemann     Jun-10-18 Capablanca vs M Karff, 1941     Jun-10-18 Jacqueline Piatigorsky     Jun-05-18 Gabor Nagy     May-27-18 Dejan Tasev    May-06-18 Larry Nezhni     May-05-18 Frank Street     Apr-22-18 Douglas Root    Apr-17-18 0     Apr-07-18 Orlando Husbands    Mar-15-18 Roy Ervin    Feb-10-18 Philipp Meitner     Nov-28-17 Zineb Dina Abdi    Nov-02-17 Haridas Pascua     Apr-04-17 M A Schapiro vs Reshevsky, 1920    Mar-20-17 M Shapiro    Mar-18-17 Anatoly Lein     Mar-04-17 Jay R Bonin     Feb-20-17 Gisela Gresser    Jan-18-17 Edwin Ziegler Adams    Jan-14-17 Alexander Alekhine     Jan-07-17 Aleksandar Matanovic     Dec-30-16 Henri Baucher    Dec-18-16 Rajan Ayyar     Dec-07-16 Kibitzer's Café     Nov-26-16 Robson vs Y Vovk, 2015     Nov-23-16 Aronian vs Rapport, 2016     Nov-20-16 Carlsen - Karjakin World Championship Match (2016)     Oct-15-16 Chigorin vs Winawer, 1901     Aug-06-16 Philip Stuart Milner-Barry     May-30-16 Alan Turing     May-28-16 V Babula Sr vs Giri, 2015     May-08-16 Harry Golombek     May-07-16 Evgeny Zagoryansky     Apr-15-16 Herman Steiner     Mar-04-16 Cyrus Lakdawala     Feb-06-16 Carlsen vs Li Chao, 2015     Feb-02-16 E Hearst vs Evans, 1961    Jan-07-16 Peter Prohaszka    Dec-14-15 Bronstein vs Socrates, 1992     Nov-29-15 David J Strauss    Nov-16-15 Koltanowski vs W Windom, 1960     Oct-27-15 Arnold Denker     Oct-26-15 P Biyiasas vs F Street, 1976     Oct-22-15 Graf-Stevenson vs Stahlberg, 1944    Sep-15-15 Paul Morphy     Sep-09-15 Edwin M Faust     Sep-09-15 Kim Commons     Sep-08-15 Joseph Platz     Sep-03-15 George Krauss     Aug-28-15 Eugene Znosko-Borovsky     Aug-28-15 Topalov vs Pomar Salamanca, 1992    Aug-23-15 Paul Koploy     Aug-22-15 Ignas Zalys     Aug-20-15 Pal Benko     Aug-19-15 Bent Larsen     Aug-18-15 A Lein vs Tal, 1955     Aug-17-15 Levon Aronian     Aug-14-15 Reshevsky vs Chernev, 1921    Aug-11-15 Walter Browne     Aug-10-15 Isaac Kashdan     Aug-09-15 Anthony Wayne Conger     Jul-19-15 Beliavsky vs L Christiansen, 1973    Jul-19-15 Adolf Jay Fink     Jul-16-15 M Sebag vs J Moussard, 2015    Jul-14-15 Louis Bernard Zapoleon    Jul-13-15 R O'Kelly vs J Penrose, 1973    Jul-13-15 Capablanca vs Menchik, 1929     Jul-11-15 Keres vs F Olafsson, 1959    Jun-26-15 E Formanek vs Browne, 1967    Jun-26-15 Kavalek vs Suttles, 1974     May-25-15 Norman Tweed Whitaker     May-25-15 Arturo Pomar Salamanca     May-21-15 Tibor Weinberger     May-08-15 V McCambridge vs L D Evans, 1981    May-08-15 V McCambridge vs J Whitehead, 1977    Apr-30-15 E Formanek vs M Sisniega, 1976     Apr-28-15 Carlos Torre Repetto     Apr-28-15 E S Jackson vs Reshevsky, 1944     Apr-25-15 Fedorov vs Morozevich, 2015     Feb-22-15 B Blumenfeld vs Nimzowitsch, 1903     Jan-01-15 Flohr vs Alekhine, 1931    Feb-23-14 R Byrne vs Evans, 1965     Feb-23-14 Allan Troy     Feb-22-14 Browne vs R Byrne, 1977     Jul-11-13 Janowski vs Steinitz, 1895    Jul-11-13 Reshevsky vs W S Tevis, 1921    Dec-29-11 Tarjan vs J Peters, 1977     Dec-31-10 Marshall vs Burn, 1912     Jul-16-10 Humphrey Bogart     May-30-10 Spassky vs K Darga, 1962     May-23-10 Saidy vs Fischer, 1960     May-21-10 Francois Philidor     May-04-10 Janowski vs Reshevsky, 1922     Apr-21-10 F Schubert vs H Saunders, 1928     Apr-07-10 Ratmir Kholmov     Sep-23-09 Beliavsky vs Yudasin, 1981     Sep-15-09 Fischer vs S Rubin, 1964     Aug-14-09 Risto Nevanlinna     Jul-27-09 Calli chessforum     Jul-26-09 Tom Braunlich     Jul-10-09 Miles vs F Ullrich, 1984     Jun-06-09 Rubinstein vs Lasker, 1909     May-26-09 C Bauer vs Korchnoi, 2003     May-26-09 G Agzamov vs Anand, 1986     May-24-09 Polugaevsky vs Lilienthal, 1967     Apr-05-09 Tomashevsky vs G Meier, 2004     Mar-14-09 Igor Ivanov     Mar-01-09 Imre Koenig     Mar-01-09 Blackburne vs Lasker, 1914     Jan-05-09 Paul Vinogradov     Dec-24-08 Kamsky vs S Atalik, 1993     Dec-23-08 Kashdan vs J L Sheets, 1932     Dec-23-08 Bogoljubov / Allies vs Alekhine / Frank, 1941     Nov-28-08 Tseitlin vs Tal, 1971     Nov-06-08 Polugaevsky vs Lobron, 1982    Oct-16-08 Ditlevsen vs Lasker, 1919     Sep-06-08 Benko vs Fischer, 1962     Sep-02-08 Paulette Schwartzmann     Aug-17-08 Liu Wenzhe     Aug-14-08 N Grigoriev vs F Duz-Khotimirsky, 1923    Jul-01-08 Aronian vs Kramnik, 2007    Jun-23-08 Dubois vs Count Kushelev-Bezborodko, 1858     May-20-08 Fischer vs Geller, 1967     May-18-08 Janowski vs Lasker, 1909     May-15-08 Phony Benoni chessforum     May-13-08 Yuri L Averbakh     Apr-29-08 Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander     Apr-23-08 S Andriasyan vs D Harika, 2006     Apr-17-08 Reshevsky vs L Christiansen, 1984     Apr-17-08 K G Shirazi vs J Peters, 1984     Mar-28-08 Euwe vs Lasker, 1934     Mar-09-08 Reshevsky vs S Factor, 1917     May-03-05 Tal vs Averbakh, 1954     May-03-05 A Trefler vs Rohde, 1975

indicates a reply to the comment.

You are not logged in to chessgames.com. If you need an account, register now; it's quick, anonymous, and free! If you already have an account, click here to sign-in.