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| Oct-20-14 | | Caissanist: According to the Wikipedia article on the subject (yes, there really is one), playing Bisguier gives you a Morphy number of 4, thanks to our buddy James Mortimer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphy...
http://chesscafe.com/the-skittles-r... . |
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Nov-25-14
 | | Phony Benoni: Coming soon to a database near you from Bisguier - Kenneth Ray Smith, US Open, St. Louis, 1960:
click for larger view<20.?>
Yes, 20.Ra1 (and no doubt other moves) win as well, but it only delays the amusing clincher. |
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| Dec-04-14 | | zanzibar: <Oy vey ist mir>, all of Bisguier's 1954 Hollywood games are tagged as Blindfold. No, they all were from <2nd Pan-American Open, Hollywood (1954)>, and were classic games. Wow, even ChessTempo seems to make this same mistake. |
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| Jun-16-15 | | dumbgai: Is Bisguier the lowest rated GM? He's 2170 FIDE now (2200 USCF with rating floor). I imagine that a lot of GMs would be rated similarly if they actively played into their 80s like Bisguier is still doing. |
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| Aug-10-16 | | zanzibar: http://www.intelius.com/people/Arth... He was manager at Burlington Coat Factory.
I never knew that! |
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| Oct-08-16 | | Ironmanth: Many happy returns of the day, Arthur! Treasure our meetings at the World Opens in the early 2000s. Live long and prosper, Grandmaster. |
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Dec-18-16
 | | offramp: The U in his surname serves a dramatic linguistic purpose, it prevents yahoos from pronouncing the central G as a J. The French do this in names such as GELFAND, which they spell as GUELFAND so that parvenus and malcontents won't accidentally say his name as JELFAND. Evidently Bisguier's ancestors came from a town called BIZGI somewhere in Eastern Europe and had the surname BIZGIER to show their origins. Then I reckon they moved to France and were disconcerted that some French nitwits and lunatics said their name as BIZJI. So some wise old ancestor changed the name to include that all-important U, so that the name retained its town-of-origin etymology. |
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Jan-30-17
| | offramp: <offramp: ...Evidently Bisguier's ancestors came from a town called BIZGI somewhere in Eastern Europe and had the surname BIZGIER to show their origins. ...> Once again Offramp was proved mostly right. Bisguier's ancestors came from Turkey. There is a small village called Bizgi in the Erzincan region of that enigmatic country.
https://www.worldweatheronline.com/... They were better off out of it. |
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| Jan-30-17 | | Retireborn: I have been saying Jelfand for years! Had no idea it was wrong :) |
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Jan-30-17
 | | perfidious: <Retireborn>, I actually know someone whose surname is Gelfand, a Belarusian émigré, which would have saved me even if I had not known better--those Eastern European names can be tough, though. Without having met Bisguier very early on in my career, I might have butchered his name as well. He was always one of the good guys. |
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| Jan-30-17 | | Retireborn: <perfidious> I suppose Geller isn't pronounced Jeller either? Jolly embarrassing for me. I used to have a Polish boss called Jan. Had no idea it was pronounced Yan, so I called him Jan. No wonder he gave me a few funny looks. |
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Jan-30-17
 | | keypusher: <offramp: The U in his surname serves a dramatic linguistic purpose, it prevents yahoos from pronouncing the central G as a J. The French do this in names such as GELFAND, which they spell as GUELFAND so that parvenus and malcontents won't accidentally say his name as JELFAND.> In the United States Art would have a better chance of having his name pronounced correctly if it was spelled BISGUIRE. |
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Jan-30-17
| | offramp: <Retireborn: I have been saying Jelfand for years! Had no idea it was wrong :)> Yes, you would do. That is normal for English-speakers. Almost always a G in front of an I or an E is pronounced like a J except for really old German/Saxon words like GET and FINGER. So you did the natural thing. And that's why the French sometimes alter the name.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris... |
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Jan-30-17
| | offramp: Another example is the site of Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship (1978), Baguio, pronounced Baggy-o.
If there were no U, people might say BAJIO. |
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Jan-30-17
| | perfidious: Try this one for size: the late Mark Izrailovich Dvoretsky, pronounced vore-YET-ski. |
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| Apr-05-17 | | Resignation Trap: It is with heavy heart that I am reporting on the death of Arthur Bisguier today at the age of 87. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/... |
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Apr-05-17
 | | ketchuplover: R.I.P young man |
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Apr-05-17
| | perfidious: It is most unfortunate that, for many players, Bisguier's reputation rested largely on his record against Bobby Fischer; for he was so much more than that. When Art was awarded the GM title in 1957, per his obituary, he was the 39th player to be so named. While Bisguier's taste for the byways of theory and disdain for well-trodden lines in the first half of his career probably was responsible for his coming in for the occasional defeat at the hands of a much weaker player, he could also take off a stronger opponent with such an unorthodox approach. By the time I came to know Art, his tastes had shifted to fairly rock-solid stuff, he being the only GM to regularly employ the Berlin Wall for a good many years, long before Kramnik's advocacy spurred it to tremendous popularity at the very highest levels. Art's greatest contribution to the game here in USA was undoubtedly as a roving ambassador for USCF. In this capacity, he visited numerous schools and clubs. Most of all, by friend and foe alike, Art will be remembered as a decent man, for all his aggression at the board. |
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Apr-05-17
 | | Penguincw: R.I.P. Arthur Bisguier. |
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| Apr-05-17 | | zanzibar: Bolyston CC has a notice with a couple few later photos: http://boylston-chess-club.blogspot... The passing of both Dondis and Bisguier marks the end of an era for Boston area chess. |
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Apr-06-17
 | | HeMateMe: art played a simul against my college team years ago. I couldn't play because I had to work that afternoon. He pretty much mowed everyone down, I was told. |
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| Apr-06-17 | | zanzibar: <Ten Tips to Winning Chess by International Grandmaster Arthur Bisguier (2007)> https://www.chess.com/article/view/... |
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| Apr-06-17 | | Infohunter: I saw him at the US Open in Pasadena in 1983. R.I.P. GM Bisguier. |
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| Apr-06-17 | | RookFile: <perfidious: By the time I came to know Art, his tastes had shifted to fairly rock-solid stuff, he being the only GM to regularly employ the Berlin Wall for a good many years, long before Kramnik's advocacy spurred it to tremendous popularity at the very highest levels. > That was my impression as well. I watched him play from a nearby board at a US Open once. He knew his rock solid openings, and banged out the moves like he was on auto pilot. His goal seemed to be to get some random endgame position against his opponent, and then just find a way to win. It seemed to work out for him in the rounds I watched. It's possible he was taking a long term view of the tournament and saving up his creative energies for when he needed to play the tough guys. |
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Apr-06-17
 | | piltdown man: Farewell to another legend. |
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