Oh yeah, The Adams Gambit! lol No doubt it was all very creaky and kooky... 
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Aug 26, 2012
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Well I for one miss GM Larry Evans, years ago he had a fun column in " Chess Life ". Often his was the most interesting column in the whole magazine.
Although he often seemed to be engaging in private grumblings and feuds throughout it...say, sounds kinda like the forums. 
Yeah, I remember Mona Karff. She was part of the pre-Savereide era.
paulgottlieb wrote:
Weaver Adams wrote "Simple Chess" and "White to Play and Win" He was a good player but extremely dogmatic. He felt that White shad a forced win if he used the correct opening system (first the Bishop's Opening, latter the Vienna Game), but if White doesn't use the correct system, then Black can play for the win. No half-way measures for Adams!
Larry M. Evans (the "real" Larry Evans) got involved in a messy dispute with Anthony Santasiere, a friend and somewhat of a disciple of Adams. The starting point was Santasiere's advocacy of a gambit in the Vienna Game that he named "The Adams Gambit." Evans was rather sarcastic about the gambit, Santasiere took it personally and fired back. Evans got hot under the collar and returned fire, and the feud was on!
Yeah the "Adams Variation" is what is today called the Frankenstein-Dracula
And about "White to play and Win", adams is actualyy one of very fe top players who had a better career record with Black than with White.
That's all I know about Weaver Adams, I'll get my coat......
rooperi wrote:
And about "White to play and Win", adams is actually one of very few top players who had a better career record with Black than with White.
heehee!
batgirl wrote:
AllogenicMan wrote:
'Who' cares? ...
Apparently no one with allergies...
Yeah?! - so what's the big 'deal' here, with this plain Jayne then? - huh? ...
Uh-oh, looks like Sneezy is back...
AndyClifton wrote:
Yeah, I remember Mona Karff. She was part of the pre-Savereide era.
My first (or second -- I played two games that evening and I don't recall which was first) rated chess game ever, played at the Marshall Chess Club in Manhattan, was against an elderly Mona Karff -- she was rated somewhere between 1800 & 1900 at the time. She won. I played white -- some sort of out of book Queen's Gambit Declined where I made a premature push of my c pawn to c5. She graciously called the idea "interesting" in the post mortem.
AndyClifton wrote:
Uh-oh, looks like Sneezy is back...
He must have been one of the two that lost to her.
Plus they didn't even have Claritin back then.
andy are you a trolll
Aug 26, 2012
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AllogenicMan wrote:
batgirl wrote:
AllogenicMan wrote:
'Who' cares? ...
Apparently no one with allergies...
Yeah?! - so what's the big 'deal' here, with this plain Jayne then? - huh? ...
Gesundheit!
Aug 26, 2012
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cabadenwurt wrote:
Well I for one miss GM Larry Evans, years ago he had a fun column in " Chess Life ". Often his was the most interesting column in the whole magazine.
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Aug 26, 2012
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cabadenwurt wrote:
Well I for one miss GM Larry Evans, years ago he had a fun column in " Chess Life ". Often his was the most interesting column in the whole magazine.
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Evans playing Najdorf
Aug 26, 2012
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Nice photos of GM Larry Evans, Thanks Batgirl. Mind you most of us have a hard time recognizing him without his trademark beard lol.
Aug 26, 2012
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JG27Pyth wrote:
AndyClifton wrote:
Yeah, I remember Mona Karff. She was part of the pre-Savereide era.
My first (or second -- I played two games that evening and I don't recall which was first) rated chess game ever, played at the Marshall Chess Club in Manhattan, was against an elderly Mona Karff -- she was rated somewhere between 1800 & 1900 at the time. She won. I played white -- some sort of out of book Queen's Gambit Declined where I made a premature push of my c pawn to c5. She graciously called the idea "interesting" in the post mortem.
Mrs. Karff was born around 1910, give or take a year or two and was playing her best chess even before the rating system was created (Her obit in 1998 says she was 86, but I don't think that was ever established). Considering her engagements, other than simuls and occasional games, were played against women (who in those days were considerably weaker than men), she still attained strong chess skills, probably comparable to a WIM today. Even after the rating system was established she had a USCF of around 2100.
batgirl wrote:
electricpawn wrote:
I read the 2007 article. Very interesting, batgirl. btw, have you ever researched the first US Women's Championships?
I though no one would ever ask! :-)
See my web site on the First 17 years of Organized Women's Chess in America.
You and your friend Deb put in a lot of work on your blog. I haven't finished all of it, but what I've read is interesting!
And that Weaver Adams guy was quite a character, if I'm remembering right...some sort of fracas in print with Larry (not Larry D) Evans...and didn't he advocate some weird opening system or something?