timur gareyev, igor kovalenko, artur neiskens, ben finegold, elshan moradi, melik khackiyan, uh i cant really remember anymore lol
Which GM's have you met in person?
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Jan 5, 2022
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#324
Astrapios wrote:
Angelo Karpov in 1997.
Angelo Karpov? Is that Anatoly Karpov's Italian cousin?
I did meet David Bronstein.
Jan 5, 2022
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#326
Optimissed wrote:
I did meet David Bronstein.
Bronstein is one of the unsung heroes of the game. I wish I had met him myself.
It wasn't a long meeting and very few words were spoken. He was staying at the home of someone who at the time was a friend of mine. At a tournament, I was at the bookstall, which was run by someone whom I knew. A few years later he used to pay me to run his bookstall for him when he was doing another one elsewhere. I noticed that D.B. was talking to my other friend and then when I was the only one left looking at books, he wandered over and picked up a book I'd just put down. It was on the QGA. All we really did was look at a few chess books. Then the next round was due to start and I quickly bought the QGA book and hid it from my opponent, I remember, because the opening was a QGA and I was black. Didn't want my opponent to think I knew any theory. He flew back to Russia a couple of days later. I slightly regretted not having visited them.
Jan 6, 2022
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#328
Recently got in touch with an old chess buddy of mine on Facebook, I not heard from in 30 years.
He informed me that since I last seen him, he has played - and beaten- both Nakamura and Caruana. (Though both were like 10 years old at the time)
Ha ... a lot of people in our local club had played and beaten Nigel Short, a little before I joined!
Jan 6, 2022
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#330
held gm hikaru nakamura to a draw during his simul at the 2000 national open in las vegas... also briefly chatted with gm joel benjamin.
I wish
Jan 16, 2022
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#332
Mark Hebden, met him in must have been very late 1980s at Leicester City Transport Chess CLub, played him once there and once at a Chess Club promotion thing in the Haymarket, lost twice miserably.
Alfred Lenton :-
Alf Lenton was a notable player immediately before WW2, playing in the first three Anglo-Dutch internationals and the last four pre-war British Championship tournaments.
He made his debut in the British Championship in Great Yarmouth in 1935, when he finished 3rd= (with Golombek, Michell and Tylor) behind Winter and Sir George Thomas.
In 1936 he improved to 2nd= with Ritson Morry, once again behind Winter. Had he taken a good chance to beat Winter he might have won the championship that year.
Not sure he was a Grandmaster, but he was much respected, I played him in the mid 1980's in his shop, his son Phillip was kind enough to let me interupt their game, I was whupped soundly by this jolly old man in a hat!!
Jan 17, 2022
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#333
I have a chess coach, he's just not a Grandmaster, and I haven't really seen any chess players
joselito_rivera2 wrote:
GMs Wesley So, Eugene Torre, and Mark Paragua. And the legendary Garry Kasparov accidentally met him year 2013 in a comfort room at Ayala Triangle Makati City, Philippines. In fact that made me start reading chess books after peeing beside the King.
What a way to meet a legend
GMs Wesley So, Eugene Torre, and Mark Paragua. And the legendary Garry Kasparov accidentally met him year 2013 in a comfort room at Ayala Triangle Makati City, Philippines. In fact that made me start reading chess books after peeing beside the King.