Do you know his nationality?
You are not talking about Giri are you?
A Unknown Genius Tal Shaked
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If it was giri I would say giri wouldn't I ? I don't know his ethnic group.
Jun 6, 2011
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He's a bloody American. Google should help you, since that's the company Shaked works for
didn't understand that his name was "Tal Shaked". Thought it was a title referring to his style off play, or something like that. He doesn't seem to be an active player. I'm sure you allready found his own website. But here it is none the less
Can't find much info on him besides that and Wiki, if I stumble up on it I'll let you know
Artsew wrote:
didn't understand that his name was "Tal Shaked". Thought it was a title referring to his style off play, or something like that. He doesn't seem to be an active player. I'm sure you allready found his own website. But here it is none the less
Can't find much info on him besides that and Wiki, if I stumble up on it I'll let you know
thx Those are the only things I can find about him to andI know he wrote a rticle about his experiance in playing in the Tillburgtournament of 1997 but I can't seem to find that anywhere.
Jun 6, 2011
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I think the "disaster" at Tillburg in 1997, refers to Shaked "blundering his queen" against Kasparov.
Can you give a link and I already tried Tal Shaked Tillburg search.
Jun 6, 2011
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http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070944
If you read the comments to the games at this site, people give more information and links.
I think he became famous winning the 1997 World Junior Chess Championship where he beat Morozevich in the finals. Granting him to play in a strong tournament with the likes of Kasparov, Kramnik etc. He played Kasparov blundering his queen and losing in 20 moves. Shaked partipated in FIDE World Championship. He won his first match against Babula and later lost to Georgiev making it to the 2nd round. After that he retired his profession as a chess player. He is now working as a software engineer in Google.
Oh your talking about a guy named "Tal Shaked"?
I thought you ment A unknown genious that (Mikhail) Tal shaked..
*facepalm*
This is worse than "Who's on first".
Tal Shaked is from Tucson, AZ. I believe he is the first internationally titled player from AZ. I saw him many times at the Tucson Chess Club when I lived in there in 1993-1994. His coach was Ken Larsen, who (I believe) earned his IM since I left. He was friendly, accessable, and very, very tough. We never played, but he used to easily destroy players who easily destroyed me.
Remember Tal was short and Short was tall, and we have the germ of our skit.
Jun 6, 2011
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When I was playing high school chess in AZ in the early 90's we used to speak with what was practically reverence about the guy. It's too bad that h gave up the game.
dashkee94 wrote:
Tal Shaked is from Tucson, AZ. I believe he is the first internationally titled player from AZ. I saw him many times at the Tucson Chess Club when I lived in there in 1993-1994. His coach was Ken Larsen, who (I believe) earned his IM since I left. He was friendly, accessable, and very, very tough. We never played, but he used to easily destroy players who easily destroyed me.
Could I perhaps interview you on the matter from your experiances of what you saw of and other things.
Sure, but it would be a real boring interview--I met a lot of famous people, but they didn't meet one in me.
I was very fortunate to defeat Tal in a simul, at the Phoenix Chess Club, back in the mid-to-late 1990s. Yes, he was from Tucson, and I saw him a few times at a few local tournaments in the Tucson and Phoenix area.
He gave a great lecture or two on FICS many years ago, that I still have a transcript of somewhere. I also regret that he gave up tournament chess.
Estragon wrote:
Shaked was a promising young player who had one of the greatest all-time chess names.
But his talent was such that he would have been a contender for the US Championship, but not the World Championship. Even as a strong GM, the earning potential isn't great if you aren't a threat to the top 10 in the world. So like many other US GMs in recent decades, like Tarjan, Rogoff, Grefe, Rhode, Dlugy, and many more, he went into a more lucrative field. Many of them ended up in currency or stock trading, Rogoff was chief economist for the World Bank.
Ironically, as with many of the recent recipients of the Samford Fellowship, an endowment which pays a decent stipend and provides coaching to a promising player willing to devote full-time to chess for up to two years (the second year is a mutual option), their study reveals their limitations. Chess is like other top individual sports, those who can't approach the top will only keep playing if the money is right, and in chess it isn't right for very many.
How does one get the Samfford fellowship what does it take to qualify and who are some players that won the title before.
Can some tell me where the article is about this GM on his experiance in Tillburg. Just found out about this guy todaybut his level of progress amazses me more than most legendary GM's. Not just that article but any article where he talks about his chess carrer. I learned about hime from chessgames.com Please I want to know more about this guy as he seems very bright.