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| Mar-21-08 | | MichAdams: Eric, truly you are the gift that never stops giving. |
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| Mar-22-08 | | aazqua: Mr. Schiller: Your chess is fantastic; your skill with a razor not so good! |
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| Mar-22-08 | | refutor: <Eric Schiller> Do they have many open tournaments in Hawaii? I'd love to visit Hawaii and if there was a tournament there i could kill two birds with one stone, so to speak :) |
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Mar-23-08
 | | Eric Schiller: <refutor> We have been trying to restart them, without success, alas. Maybe next year. |
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Mar-23-08
| | Eric Schiller: <aazqua> The amount of time most men waste with a razor is years of their life. I haven't shaved since I was 18. |
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| Mar-23-08 | | timhortons: eric thanks for answering...that means nip has a handle here, maybe kibitzing incognito? |
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Mar-25-08
 | | HeMateMe: Hi Eric. I was wondering if you had read Joel Benjamin's book "American Grandmaster"? Its kind of nice to see a chess bio of an american born player. The book has a lot of fun stories, and kind of fills in some gaps for those of us who grew up following chess in the 80s. I think he mentions at the 1981 World Student Games you were either a player or team captain, and the others referred to you as "Gerry's friend", because you speak Russian, and were able to communicate with the great one. This would be pre-world champion Kasparov. I was just wondering what thoughts you might have about those days, your first meeting with Kasparov, etc..Benjamin says that at the world junior championship the year before, Kaspy was playing Benjamin at odds 5--3 in five minute blitz, and taking some cash off of the western players. BTW, never heard of Kasparov being a college student--did the Kremlin just set him up somewhere with a basket weaving class (Tal and Spassky were "journalism" majors...) and how many languages are you able to speak? |
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May-04-08
| | Eric Schiller: <hehateme>
1. I haven't read it yet. On my summer reading list.
2. I met Kasparov before that, at the 1980 Olympiad in Malta where I was arbiter. Batsford asked me to speak to him, since I speak Russian, and we became friends. 3. I speak Russian, German and some Khmer (Cambodian) and Hawaiian Creole. But when I travel I try to pick up some of the local language, as it is very useful in pubs. I wish my Spanish was better, as it is useful in my neighborhood, but am limited pretty much to ordering in restaurants and greetings. And reading chess books. |
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May-09-08
 | | moronovich: right <Eric> "Dos cervezas" is the most important spanish phrase to know :) |
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May-10-08
| | Eric Schiller: <moronovich> I'm near San Francisco. So it is frequently "tres cervesas" or even "quatro cervesas" And sometimes you need a burrito on the side. We rely on the amazing site www.burritoeater.com |
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| May-10-08 | | MaxxLange: <never heard of Kasparov being a college student> AFAIK, he may hold honorary degrees, but was playing chess full-time as a youth and did not get a normal degree. He probably went to some University lectures, and had various tutors from the USSR sports school, and from his home, but they weren't paying for him to write term papers! |
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| May-25-08 | | kobesarmy: what is your method on teaching mr. schiller? eg. analyzing games, taking alook at weakenesses and focusing on those areas are you taking new students? |
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| Jun-07-08 | | Swifty31: Thought I would write a note thanking you for Killer Chess Tactics. Its a very thorough book on tactics and combinations. Are you going to write any more tactics training books? |
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Jun-17-08
| | Eric Schiller: <Swifty> Yes, but my new books will be for beginners. Frankly, I believe tactics practice is best done at www.chessmagnetschool.com. That's where all my students work out. Since I'm doing so much teaching now, I'm mostly writing materials to support that. It is had to keep up with the kids, they learn so fast! |
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| Jun-30-08 | | DrGrobb: Eric, will your Rubinstein Attack be in book form? Thanks for your hard work. |
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| Jul-26-08 | | Alphastar: Hi Eric - I was wondering about something in R Burnett vs E Schiller, 1990 You'll see my question when you click the link. |
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| Jul-27-08 | | vesivialvy93: Hi!
Only to know your opinions about training tactics on chess tactics server and chess tempo , is this good for tactics training? and wich one is best...i'm also training with the combinations encyclopedia for longer tacticals problems(no time limit too)
thanks (i am 1800us) |
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Jul-27-08
| | Eric Schiller: <Dr.Grobb> Rubinstein Attack has been out for some time: ISBN: 1581124546 Available online at many bookstores. |
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Jul-27-08
| | Eric Schiller: <vesiv> For over 1800 I use CT-art exclusively and below that www.chessmagnetschool.com exclusively. They are clearly superior to all other options, IMHO. |
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Aug-06-08
 | | ray keene: the staunton memorial starts tomorrow-games will appear the day after play on the website www.howardstaunton.com players include adams short timman speelman wade van wely sokolov-DR ERIC SCHILLER IS THE ARBITER AND HE IS HERE IN LONDON NOW ABOUT TO OFFICIATE AT THE OPENING CEREMONY AT SIMPSONS IN THE STRAND-AT 87 BOB WADE IS PROBABLY SETTING A WORLD RECORD FOR PLAY AT HIS LEVEL |
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| Aug-19-08 | | mack: <Eric> Remember yesterday in Simpson's when one of your crew in the bar spotted a hippo in action? And how you described it as something like 'the sort of opening you show children in order to demonstrate how not to play'? I found that mightily amusing, not least because I was one of those playing black! |
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| Sep-07-08 | | sallom89: I simply hate how the black bishop try to pin the e pawn. [Event "Lloyds Bank op"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1985.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Schiller, Eric"]
[Black "Flear, Christine"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "2205"]
[PlyCount "31"]
[EventDate "1985.08.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "ENG"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 Bg4 3. Qd3 Qd7 4. f3 Bh5 5. Nh3 Bg6 6. e4 Nc6 7. Be3 h6 8.
O-O-O e6 9. Bf4 dxe4 10. fxe4 Bh7 11. Qb5 g5 12. d5 gxf4 13. dxc6 Qxc6 14. Qe5
Bd6 15. Qxh8 O-O-O 16. Qxh7 1-0
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| Oct-07-08 | | wolfmaster: I just wanted to say how bad your book Encyclopedia of Chess Wisdom is! There are numerous typing errors, I'll probably never buy a book from Cardoza Publishing again. There are typographical errors on pages 331, 332, and many others! That's one baaaaaaaaaad book!!!!!!! |
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Oct-07-08
| | ray keene: <wolfmaster> why dont you give examples? i have never heard of this book by dr schiller being attacked like this before! i have invited dr schiller to edit my forthcoming book on the anand v kramnik world championship and i would only do this if i had faith in his abilities! |
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| Oct-07-08 | | sneaky pete: <ray keene> You must be kidding. We all have faith in Dr Schiller's abilities, except <wolfmaster> and that nasty Mr Winter.
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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