Great story Blake.
What is the most SURPRISING incident happen with you while playing OTB tourney?
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Very nice Blake. Very nice.
more stories please.
that was exellent!
wish I was there,
you made it so real.
poo bear.....
I beat one of the best chess players around my town, and qualified for nationals, he is a otb 1600+ player and made sloppy moves and 1 big mistake and said F*CK, and after I beat him, he almost cried!...I was soo lucky when I won my match because I played only my pawns in my first 10 moves, and he is a d4 player and neeearly killed me playing positional and developing his pieces with power and attacking and attacking and attacking (especially attacking my king)...and now he desperately wants he's revenge!
Dec 11, 2012
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#127
I'm rated 2089. Twice in the past year, I have been playing A-players who succumbed to touch move, i.e. they attempted to make an illegal move with their queen, which forced them both to make an immediately losing legal move with their queen instead. And in neither case were they in significant time pressure. Very strange.
Dec 11, 2012
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#128
This happened to my my friend, not me. But is funny.
He was in a dead-even endgame. Coming back from the restroom, he sees that his opponent had cheated, and made two moves. But he decided not to say anything. Because by cheating, his opponent was now in a lost position!
A gm resigned to me. 
My opponent lost by time forfeit coz he had to drop his bomb in the toilet.
Yes, when it actually happened. Although I had done a little combo on him about the 50th move, it had been a long game.
Dec 12, 2012
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#135
For me, the weirdest thing to ever happen was an arrest of the player sitting next to me.
This happened in the 2002 Southeastern Open, which was in South Carolina, I believe Columbia. Chris Mabe, back then an upper-1800s player, now a master, and I face in the first round, and we draw. So we are on side-by-side boards for round 2, backs to the wall, so we could see the whole room basically because we were on the last row farthest from the doors.
A guy by the name of Scott Gru-Bell, who moved into the area around 1998 or 1999, I happened to notice peeked in the door to the tournament hall. Just happened to look up at the time. Thought nothing of it. Scott started out looking like a legit business man. Clean shaven and everything. I even went to a few of his 1-day tournaments in 2000. However, he had major issues. He was supposedly the leader of the Patriot Party, which based on what others told me, I haven't done the research, was some type of White Supremicist group. He was out to basically steal players from local chess club to try to run competing clubs specifically at the same time. He did this throughout the Northern South Carolina and Charlotte North Carolina areas. Then, anybody that tried to fight what he was doing, he would put up lies on message boards of the North Carolina Chess Association and South Carolina Chess Association Websites. The North Carolina one wasn't secure at the time, and he would even put up posts under another person's name. He put up a derogatory post with MY NAME on it, and occurred during the week, during the day, and weeks later, I get called in my by manager being asked why I'm putting up derogatory comments at work, and was about to write me up and give me a stern warning until I told him it wasn't me, and to have them do research on the IP address. Turns out it wasn't me, it was this fool Scott Gru-Bell.
So anyway, he would also send annoying emails to people, and he sent one to Chris Mabe. Chris responds with "Leave me the f*** alone", or something of that nature with the f-word in it. Supposedly, at least in 2002, in South Carolina, all you have to do is say that someone harassed you and they arrest you. Well, about an hour or two into the round, maybe 30 to 45 minutes after I noticed the peek in, police are coming thru the room, and proceed to arrest Chris sitting right next to me. Everyone in the room has a "What the f***" reaction. I mention I saw Scott peek in and he might have something to do with it, and the director gets him out of the cell during round 3. Chris had to take a loss for round 2, and a half point bye for round 3. He did play rounds 4 and 5.
Since then, this fool Scott grew his gray hair out really long, and he ran some stupid chess show on local TV in Charlotte where he was the chess wizard for a few years in the mid-2000s. He is one of a very short list of people that I actually would not miss if he was dead!
That event/arrest in late October 2002 in South Carolina has got to be the weirdest and most surprising thing to ever occur at a chess tournament that I've attended, and I've seen plenty of hoopla and drama at chess tournaments!
Was Kane a South Carolina scholastic champ or class champ ? What kind of champ ?
Dec 12, 2012
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#137
Ok, slight correction. It wasn't in Columbia, it was in Rock Hill, which is just over the state line from Charlotte, about 20 miles south of Downtown Charlotte.
Dec 12, 2012
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#138
FirebrandX wrote:
Well I hope that Scott character got arrested for making a false accusation, and then got the crap sued out of him. There should be a law against that.
I never really saw much of anything exciting in my tournaments, other than witnessing an IM sending signals to one of his students during the game. The other player reported him to the TD, but nothing was done because the TD always bent over backwards for titled players.
OMG, where was this? This way I know where never to go! If the TD just let that slide after being reported, especially if I'm the one that reported it, I'd be chewing the TD's ear off, and so as to avoid being expelled, I'd be giving him explitives to the end of eternity after the last round!
As for those on my list of Organizers and/or TDs that I would avoid, and highly recommend all others avoid, that list is very short right now, but it looks like it will have a 3rd added to the list. The worst ones are:
- Frank Berry - He's just an absolutely obnoxious human being. I've had the misfortune of playing him twice, once in SC, once in Fort Lauderdale at the US Open (a win and a draw, respectively). I understand he runs tournaments in Oklahoma
- The Cajun Chess Association - I went to 2 of their events. The first one, in Orlando in October 2003, the guys that ran it were off and busy drinking or doing whatever else. Nobody was there to direct. In 2006, In Charlotte, after they changed management, the woman who did registration and book sales was nice, and appeared to be intelligent, but they bring only 1 director for a 120 player weekend tournament, and he f'ing plays in it! You should NEVER have a tournament over 50 players without a NON-PLAYING Director! Small little 10 or 20 player tournaments where the director plays, fine! 120 player tournament with 3 directors, one of which playing, fine! But NOT 120 players, 1 director, and he plays.
So those are two organizers I won't play in tournaments at again. I don't support jacka$$e$, and I surely don't support an organization that failed miserably twice, both due to things that were very much under their own control, not extenuating circumstances!
Reb. to answer your question 3 wins over current GMs no losses or draws.
However two of the GMs were close to being GMs but not quite there when I won from them.
I don't know about IMs but it has to be plus.
whoa. COOL.