I was thinking in chess one degree of separation was to beat the guy who beat the world champion. But your way is fine also. Who was the world champion?
What Records or Achievements Have You Done in Chess or nonChess?
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ponz111 wrote:
I was thinking in chess one degree of separation was to beat the guy who beat the world champion. But your way is fine also. Who was the world champion?
The clue is in the city she is from: http://www.newinchess.com/Koren_Izrailov__Inna-ip-23205.html
As for the GM that knew Bobby, that would be Pal Benko.
As for beating any such player, maybe Inna, she was "only" an expert. I actually don't recall playing her even at skittles, just saying that at my level it's more in the realm of possibility than me ever beating Benko.
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markgravitygood wrote:
I was the Captain of the My Junior High School Chess Team that won the US National Team Championship in 1975 by tiebreak over Great Neck, NY., in New Haven, Conn. I'm sure there is some butt-hurt from that team still. Ha ha.
That vaulted my chess career into an abyss of inconsequential tournament results over the past 35 years, on and off play and dedication, and various other mistakes. I would later (30+ years?) date the daughter of the then current councilman whom we had a team photo taken with that May, in 1975, for the local paper. Super Weird. We met offchance in a bar one Saturday evening in the same hometown. Sparks flew. She did not play chess, however, so it was doomed.
She later cheated on me and married the stiff. Good riddence. Her dad really liked me.
What a long, strange ride it's been.
:)
I may have shared too much...
Isn't your rating kind of low for that?
Huh? I was 15. It qualifies as an accomplishment, no matter how meager.
Today, My OTB is 1871, went 2.5-2.5 in my last tournament (U2000 class event), drawing the eventual winner, but falling apart in my final game, famously. This after a 6-year semi-retirement from chess. I will not play in 3-day events again. It took its toll on day 3.
I'm now 53 years old.
You are what your rating says you are.
To answer your question:
No. I was Captain because I was the Senior member. it has nothing to do with ratings. I was probably the second best player on our team at the time, an possibly the only surviving member that still plays.
Good Times, Good times.
Did I say it was meager? No.
A 4:19 mile is excellent! I am impressed :)
I hold a record of living longer than a doctor said I would live. About eleven years ago a specialist MD asked my wife and I to sit down in an empty room as he wanted to discuss what would happen to me healthwise in the nearby future.
He told both of us that I would be in a nursing home in a year and in two years I would be dead.
Now it is about 11 years later, I do not have that particular wife as she believed him. However I am still alive and have a loyal wonderful different wife.
Wow thats a wonderful and amazing achievement ! ponz11
There was one chess player, I forget who it was, who was told he would die young, probably before he reached the age of 20. He died recently at the age of 103...
ponz111 wrote:
I hold a record of living longer than a doctor said I would live. About eleven years ago a specialist MD asked my wife and I to sit down in an empty room as he wanted to discuss what would happen to me healthwise in the nearby future.
He told both of us that I would be in a nursing home in a year and in two years I would be dead.
Now it is about 11 years later, I do not have that particular wife as she believed him. However I am still alive and have a loyal wonderful different wife.
JMB was it a doctor who told him that?
In my case being told what would happen to me was not the worst thing.
When my wife decided she could not remain in the situation this was worse. I had had knee replacement surgery that had gone bad [not the reason the doctor said what he said] and was confined to one bedroom.
About 2 weeks after the news from the doctor the police came and told me I must leave my home immediately. I told them I was due for knee surgery and could hardly walk. but that did not matter... My wife [now ex] had made up a story to a judge that I was a danger to her. This way she could file for divorce with me out of the home.
When I went to contest being taken out of my home the charge had been dropped and I was served divorce papers. and then things got worse for a while...
I'm a software engineer and with just 100 lines of code I developed a rough prototype of an equivalent of Adobe AIR on which I'm sure they spent 10s of millions of dollars. I did it by finding about a half dozen open source projects and tying them together with "glue code"
blumzovitch that is great! Though I really do not understand what you are saying!
Adobe AIR lets you create desktop applications (such as a word processor, or a chess engine, for example) by using web programming technologies (HTML, Javascript).
I guess Adobe could have saved themselves a lot of money had I worked for them. Their software is now moribund, but maybe it wouldn't be if they hadn't spent so much unnecessarily early in the project lifecycle.
Speaking of software engineering, time to leave for work -- have a great day!
Here is something from my college days. [see my photo from when I was a college freshman]
First, I invented an "Olympics" for my fraternity to have fun and events with the local sororities. [I know this has probably been done before]
But then there was a special event which was my invention. It was called the fish swatting event. We bought some large frozen fish from the grocery store and let the fish thaw. Then there were 14 fraternity brothers who had an egg tied to the top of their heads. This was done by using a nylon stocking and the stocking would go from under the chin to the top of the head with the egg firmly in place.
Then a sorority girl would ride piggy back on each contestant. She would hold the large thawed fish and would try to swat the eggs off the heads of the other contestants. When this worked the egg would smash all over the top of the head of the loser and dribble down unto his face.
14 guys each with a girl piggy back running around in an arena. I was the last man standing! All the other 13 had their eggs smashed. This was a very grueling contest as it lasted about 15-20 minutes and you had to run around with a girl piggy back.
post note the girl became my girl friend and we were "lavaleered" which means engaged to be engaged to be married. One time, however she stopped contacting me. It turned out she had gone home on Christmas recess and had gotten back together with her old boyfriend. [she could have at least told me]
ponz111 wrote:
Here is something from my college days. [see my photo from when I was a college freshman]
First, I invented an "Olympics" for my fraternity to have fun and events with the local sororities. [I know this has probably been done before]
But then there was a special event which was my invention. It was called the fish swatting event. We bought some large frozen fish from the grocery store and let the fish thaw. Then there were 14 fraternity brothers who had an egg tied to the top of their heads. This was done by using a nylon stocking and the stocking would go from under the chin to the top of the head with the egg firmly in place.
Then a sorority girl would ride piggy back on each contestant. She would hold the large thawed fish and would try to swat the eggs off the heads of the other contestants. When this worked the egg would smash all over the top of the head of the loser and dribble down unto his face.
14 guys each with a girl piggy back running around in an arena. I was the last man standing! All the other 13 had their eggs smashed. This was a very grueling contest as it lasted about 15-20 minutes and you had to run around with a girl piggy back.
post note the girl became my girl friend and we were "lavaleered" which means engaged to be engaged to be married. One time, however she stopped contacting me. It turned out she had gone home on Christmas recess and had gotten back together with her old boyfriend. [she could have at least told me]
About the game that you designed:
I guess that I need at least a drawing or picture to figure it out.
I´m not even sure about which words I don´t understand, I think about some guys running with girls in their shoulders, they have the eggs attached to their heads.
But I´m not sure where to put the giant fish 
About the girl:
She didn´t told you anything, in case her new (old) relationship didn´t work, she could return and say that she was abducted by ufos or something like that.
socialista wrote:
She didn´t told you anything, in case her new (old) relationship didn´t work, she could return and say that she was abducted by ufos or something like that.
One of five Americans has a friend or familiy member who has been abducted. I'm one of the four.
The girls were piggyback on the guys. The fish were used to swat [hit] the eggs on top of the heads of the guys.
One egg on top of each head of each guy. We used nlyon stocking to wrap around from under the chin top of the head of each guy. The egg was held firmly in place as it was in the nylon stocking and then tied securely
girls not on shoulders they were "piggyback" Thankfully mine was light.
Being a frat boy is an achievement?
I have played quite a few very strong players. 3 of them are now grandmasters. Playing "real chess" [not simuls]. Won from all three. My percentage score of over-the-board USCF masters is approximately 58% My score vs Correspondence masters is approximately 78%
That was in the past, now I am back to much lower.
Have one degree of separation from a world champion. [I think his name was Fischer]
I too have one degree of separation from a WC. I was playing in a weekend swiss in NYC and at home on Saturday night read a Chess Life article on "Women in Chess" or some such.
I get onto the train to go into Manhattan the next morning and one of the featured women was in the car I got on, so I struck up a convo and we became friends. As it turns out, she had been the best girl player in her city when a future WC was the best boy player.
Actually come to think of it I have one degree of separation from two WC's, I'd forgotten Bobby, but I met and interacted with (not just saw them) with at least one GM that knew him, when I played in those tourneys in NYC