In 2005, I won 2 blitz games and drew one against a GM, achieving the overall score of 2.5:1.5 in 4 blitz tournaments
In 2003 I checkmated a CM with my 2 knights (using his pawn and bishop to block escape squares from his king)
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who was the GM?
I beat an IM in a simul over 25 years ago. I had a bishop and pawn and he had 3 pawns and he offered me a draw which I declined. Apparently he never forgot either because he went off on me when I posted the score on rec.games.chess.analysis. When he died everybody was like "what an awesome guy", yeah right.
ponz111 napisał:
who was the GM?
Radosław Jedynak, we played when he was a young progressing player knocking to Poland's top-10. Now he plays chess very little (he switched to poker where one can make much more money)
You played him before he was a GM but later he became a GM?
A lot of very good chess players switch to poker.
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BettorOffSingle wrote:
On two hours sleep, and a 100-mile train ride to the Manhattan Chess Club, I tied for first in a quad with 2508-rated Asa Hoffman, thanks to drawing with Black. Insted of the easy $50 prize Asa was expecting, we each got only $37.50. I had taken $12.50 out of the pocket of one of New York's best husttlers of the day. Not bad for an A-rated player.
My biggest accomplishment, however, was that I managed to figure out a way to get chess groupies who were often gorgeous, even as the geeks thought I was a loser none of *them* wanted to talk to. When geeks avoid you, and hoc chicks don't, you're doing something right.
Once I could no longer get women by acting like an aspiring world chess champion (the reason the geeks didn't like me), I quit the game altogether. I didn't fear failing, but becoming a 2650 player no one outside the game had heard of, a degenerate.
Chess is a test to see how old you have to become before you quit. The winners are the ones who retire first.
that is a very lame post.
i know people who everyone would consider winners and who care about chess... its really weird how people can write such posts, i mean maybe america is different, but i believe people who write that stuff only know the tv world and categorize people by what they know from tv.
ponz111 napisał:
You played him before he was a GM but later he became a GM?
A lot of very good chess players switch to poker.
He already had the GM title and was on the way towards his personal best rating. I beat him twice in the Nimzo-Indian with black, making use of the fact he was tired after a number of classical tournaments.
My blitz strength was quite good those days and so I was able to win despite the rating difference of 400 points. Had FIDE introduced the rapid and blitz ratings those days though, I think I could easily have 2300 or higher (that is 200+ above my standard elo). This makes the difference much lower and partially explains my unexpected success.
TetsuoShima the post is fine. It was a chess event in the life of a chess player. Also the rest of the post was interesting.
In america we can write what we want. What may not be interesting to you may be interesing to someone else. I thought the post interesting.
On Aug. 27, 2013, I reached a tactics trainer rating of 1394.
ponz111 wrote:
TetsuoShima the post is fine. It was a chess event in the life of a chess player. Also the rest of the post was interesting.
In america we can write what we want. What may not be interesting to you may be interesing to someone else. I thought the post interesting.
no i was rather thinking that in america people are brainwashed by media and watched to many shows like the big bang theory and lost touch to reality.
if you agree with this "Chess is a test to see how old you have to become before you quit. The winners are the ones who retire first."
than what are you doing on a chess server anyway??
TetsuoShima wrote:
ponz111 wrote:
TetsuoShima the post is fine. It was a chess event in the life of a chess player. Also the rest of the post was interesting.
In america we can write what we want. What may not be interesting to you may be interesing to someone else. I thought the post interesting.
no i was rather thinking that in america people are brainwashed by media and watched to many shows like the big bang theory and lost touch to reality.
if you agree with this "Chess is a test to see how old you have to become before you quit. The winners are the ones who retire first."
than what are you doing on a chess server anyway??
You seem to have been brainwashed into thinking you know all about Americans. Fortunately for me I've not been brainwashed into thinking that all non-Americans have been thus brainwashed.
ponz111 wrote:
Example: I won the broad jump in my 5th grade class at school in 1951. Example: in 1956 to 1957 I won 4000 chess games in a row.
Example: Someone wins their high school championship. Example: someone wins a rated game vs an expert or master or grandmaster.
Perhaps you should've been playing stronger opponents? 
JMB2010 I was employed at the age of 15 as the City of Decatur Illinois Chess Instructor and played kids who were given to me All of those games were simuls and while the strength of the players was not very strong--imagine winning 4000 games in a row without loss or draw playing all simuls? Even very few masters could do this. The ages of the kids was from about 7 years old to about 12 or 13 years old. This was about equivalent to winning 400 simuls with 10 players in each simul.
Actually I did not say I won 4000 games in a row but since you bought it up... [it was an example]
How did your rating go up so fast?
blumzovich wrote:
TetsuoShima wrote:
ponz111 wrote:
TetsuoShima the post is fine. It was a chess event in the life of a chess player. Also the rest of the post was interesting.
In america we can write what we want. What may not be interesting to you may be interesing to someone else. I thought the post interesting.
no i was rather thinking that in america people are brainwashed by media and watched to many shows like the big bang theory and lost touch to reality.
if you agree with this "Chess is a test to see how old you have to become before you quit. The winners are the ones who retire first."
than what are you doing on a chess server anyway??
You seem to have been brainwashed into thinking you know all about Americans. Fortunately for me I've not been brainwashed into thinking that all non-Americans have been thus brainwashed.
i said maybe. i mean i dont get why anyone would consider chessplayers different people. i thought maybe its just an american thing were people saw it on tv and automatically think chessplayers are different. it was just a guess....
america is cool but the chessplayer bashing is just crazy. i mean you have so many cool landscapes in america, the best food from every country, women from every country and some people have nothing better to do than to belittle chess and chessplayers???
Example: I won the broad jump in my 5th grade class at school in 1951. Example: in 1956 to 1957 I won 4000 chess games in a row.
Example: Someone wins their high school championship. Example: someone wins a rated game vs an expert or master or grandmaster.