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Babytigrrr

Jan Timman I reckon.

batgirl

Jay Whitehead it is.

Very good!

batgirl

You smoke beer?

batgirl

Who is this gentleman?


fuzzbug

http://www.schlenkerla.de/indexe.html

batgirl

You can have that with your smoked salmon.

Commander_Crunchy

Jeremy Silman?

batgirl

This is Jay Whitehead's older brother FM Paul Whitehead. He's holding up the trophy, designed by Hans Poschmann, he won at the Fremont Open in 1977 in the expert category:

batgirl

Holy SmokePam Ford was one of the stronger women players during the 1970s:

Senior-Lazarus_Long

I thought Paul was an IM also?

batgirl

No, he never earned an IM title.

Senior-Lazarus_Long

I played in a tournament at the Paul Mason winery in 1980, He was listed on the tournament board as an IM. George Koltonowski was the TD.Not like him to make that kind of mistake.??

Senior-Lazarus_Long

Go fugure??

his highest rating FIDE 2350.

PAUL WHITEHEAD
(born Jun-20-1960, 55 years old) United States of America

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Paul A. Whitehead was born in 1960 in New York, New York, USA. He is a FIDE master. His younger brother was IM Jay E Whitehead.
ChessOfPlayer

Walter Brown

batgirl
Senior-Lazarus_Long wrote:

I played in a tournament at the Paul Mason winery in 1980, He was listed on the tournament board as an IM. George Koltonowski was the TD.Not like him to make that kind of mistake.??

I don't have anything about 1980 (yet), but here's a photo pf the Paul Masson Mountain Vineyards chess tournament from 1977.  Maybe it'll spark some nice memories anyway:




batgirl
ChessOfPlayer wrote:

Walter Brown


1977
batgirl

Paul Whitehead, 1974:

batgirl

Kim Commons won the Paul Masson tournament in 1973 - where the photo below was taken.

Senior-Lazarus_Long

Thanks.Yeah it was great.

batgirl

Paul Whitehead 1977



Jay Whitehead 1977