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Apr-15-14
 | | perfidious: <Paul> That would not be at all surprising, though so far I have found nothing to confirm this. My guess is that the Buckeye Open was held in Ohio, as implied by the name, but this is another uncorroborated assertion. Eight rounds over three (or possibly four) days. Reminds me of an event or two I played, ca 1972-73, with a Friday evening round, three on Saturday and two Sunday. |
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| Jun-06-14 | | Conrad93: I have seen certain sites claim that Byrne had an IQ over 170+, but the claims were never substantiated. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-... |
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Jul-06-14
 | | Phony Benoni: I'm preparing games from the 1966 uS Open in Seattle, and just came across this beauty: Richard Verber - Robert Byrne
US Open, Seattle, 1966, round 12
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.f4 Bd7 7.Nf3 g6 8.Bd3 Bg7 9.0-0 0-0 10.Kh1 Nb4 11.a3 Nxd3 12.cxd3 b5 13.Qe1 a5 14.Nd1 Qc7 15.Ne3 e6 16.Qh4 Qd8 17.g4 Ne8 18.g5 f5 19.gxf6 Nxf6 20.f5 exf5 21.exf5 gxf5 22.Nd4 Ng4 23.Qxd8 Raxd8 24.Ndxf5 Nxe3 25.Nxe3 Rxf1+ 26.Nxf1 Rf8 
click for larger viewSort of la-di-da. At this point, <White resigns>. No it wasn't a time forfeit or some other weirdness. Just look again at the position, and try to get out of it as White without losing decisive material. Black's domination of the board with no piece beyond the second rank is reminiscent of the finish of R Byrne vs Fischer, 1963. |
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Jul-06-14
| | perfidious: <PB> Another picturesque example of all Black's pieces near the edge of the board producing a won position is: O Neikirch vs Botvinnik, 1960
click for larger viewBelieve Botvinnik's comment was something to the effect that, from the compositional point of view, it would have been aesthetically more pleasing to have his bishop at a8 instead of b7. |
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| Apr-20-15 | | NBAFan: Happy birthday Robert Byrne. You are remembered. |
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| May-22-15 | | TheFocus: <Robert Byrne was a pillar of US chess. In the middle of his career he switched from playing 1.d4 to 1.e4 which was tantamount to the driver of a Ford switching to a racing car. This, however, helped him to get closer to the top of the chess world> - Anthony Saidy. |
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| Apr-12-16 | | TheFocus: Rest in peace, Robert Byrne. |
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| Apr-20-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Robert Byrne. |
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| Apr-20-16 | | Marmot PFL: <Very interesting the discussion about the couple of male sibling who are the strongest all time in chess? I would like to mention another couple: the Bolbochan brothers, they could be above Byrne brothers because, if you see chessmetrics they were 13 and 18 of the world at his best and, the Byrne brothers were : 11 and 38. Other side, Is clear the advantage for the Lasker brothers first and seventh in the world at his best !!> The Byrne's are one of the few cases I know of where the older sibling was the stronger player. Most of the time it's the youngest: the Laskers, Polgars, Finegolds, and Nakamuras for example. |
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| Dec-15-16 | | Swedish Logician: In the seventies and eighties I read Byrne's lucid columns with pleasure and was happy today to discover that some of the columns were collected in book form.
I was also surprised to learn from Wikipedia that he was a professor of Philosophy at Indiana. Using JSTOR to search for philosophy articles by his hand I could not find any. I would be interested if anyone knows of philosophy articles by Byrne. Today it would not be possible to hold a professorship without any professional writings. |
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| Jan-31-18 | | RookFile: I think his philosophy was: "play chess". |
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| May-16-18 | | Senk: https://de.chessbase.com/post/zum-9... |
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| Jun-12-20 | | jith1207: < Everett: <wordfunph: "I learned that the ones who frown and squirm are the ones who are the most dangerous." GM Robert Byrne>
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If he said this before the arrival of Kasparov, it could be argued that he had some scrying device...>Well, he said that before the arrival of Carlsen. |
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Apr-18-21
 | | Gottschalk: Robert Byrne played at Mar del Plata international
tournament, 1961. He shared the second place with Matanovic, Filip and Rossetto-1,0 pt behind the winner: Miguel Najdorf.! Crosstable and games
http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/ti1961... |
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Apr-21-22
 | | HeMateMe: a classy man who played a lot of great chess and did a lot of writing about the game he loved. Viktor Korchnoi: "Byrne is that most curious animal that comes to Russia to play in our tournaments, eat our bad food, get paid low prizes, but his tournament results immediatley improve after having played for 3 weeks against players here [in the USSR]." |
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| Apr-21-22 | | Granny O Doul: Interesting that Byrne feared players who squirm, when that was just what Fischer loved to see. Maybe that's why Byrne was never Fischer's second; too different in approach. |
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Apr-21-22
| | perfidious: <Marmot....The Byrne's are one of the few cases I know of where the older sibling was the stronger player. Most of the time it's the youngest: the Laskers, Polgars, Finegolds, and Nakamuras for example.> Was Mark Finegold older than brother Ben? |
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| Apr-21-22 | | Swedish Logician: Robert Byrne was a Professor of Philosophy, I have heard; does any know at what university? Did he have a doctorate in Philosophy? |
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Apr-21-22
 | | keypusher: <Swedish Logician: Robert Byrne was a Professor of Philosophy, I have heard; does any know at what university? Did he have a doctorate in Philosophy?> According to the internet (an unimpeachable source) he taught at the University of Indiana. He got his undergraduate degree at Yale. I don't think he had a Ph.D. <He majored in philosophy at Yale and earned an M.F.A. from Indiana University, where he became a lecturer in philosophy.> https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/... |
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| Apr-21-22 | | Swedish Logician: <key.pusher> thank you so much. I think I once saw the article you point to, and then tried on the net, without success, to find a Ph.D. dissertation by Byrne. |
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| Apr-21-22 | | Swedish Logician: <key.pusher> looking back at earlier posts, I now, embarrassingly enough, discover an earlier post by MYSELF Dec-15-16, where I had found out about the Indiana connection. The COVID pandemic must have impaired my memory. |
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Apr-22-22
| | HeMateMe: you mean a guy couldn't make a living playing chess in the USA? Had to become a college professor? I remember when Gary Kasparov took the world title out of FIDE and started something called the Professional Chess Players Association, ("PCA"). This was supposed to be a sort of union, or league of grandmasters, that could exhibit might and somehow accumulate enough extra money from deep pocketed corporate chess patrons to produce pensions for the best, most active grandmasters. yep, professional chessplayers, the best ones, were supposed to be receiving a pension after putting in a certain number of years, under the auspices of the PCA. You CAN'T make this stuff up! They said chess could get you a PENSION! Well, those dreams sort of came and went (like Kasparov's PCA). But, it was a fun fantasy while it lasted. I hope Byrne got himself a teacher's pension from Indiana. BTW, is that the same Indiana where Bobby Knight coached (IU) or was this a different campus? |
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| Apr-22-22 | | Granny O Doul: Yes, Mark Finegold is a year or two older than Ben. Likewise, Jay Whitehead and Greg DeFotis surpassed their older brothers. On the other hand, Alexandra Botez seems to be keeping her lead on her younger sister. The Costigan twins had both an older and younger brother, both of whom I played (but neither twin). That probably makes me pretty special. |
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| Sep-25-23 | | Caissanist: There is a Wikipedia page of chessplaying siblings: Ton Timman . It does seem that, in 90+% of the cases, the younger is the stronger. Of siblings where both are strong enough to get titles, the only ones I know of where the older is stronger are the Portisches and van Foreests. I'm sure there are a few others, but not many. |
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| Sep-25-23 | | Caissanist: The Wikipedia page of chessplaying siblings is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o... . |
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