Who Here Has Met a Titled Player?

What cracks me up is puny Webster Univeristy, a nowhere'sville, unknown good-fer-nothing campus, which has, by sheer virtue of being in St. Louis, students in GM So and GM Robson right on their campus, but yet, instead of recognizing the top 7th player in the whole friggin world and one of the top 10 in all the whole friggin states . . . lol, yeah, and get this: instead of handing them instantly honorary doctorates and giving them a whole department to run which would attract the top chessers in the freaking world, bringing in unknown prestige and wealth, these administrative nincompoops, not only merely have them matriculated with the rest of the communcations majors and rocks-for-jocks, they didn't even give them their own dormroom!  They shared one!   L-o-friggin-l.  Talk about waste of reSources, wow!

Relax dude; to the rest of the world they are just good at shifting wooden figurines on a square board.

I have met an IM that played in the 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal.

Besides that some IMs and GMs, but the only other one with international significance was GM Julio Granda, but I didn´t talk with him, I was just listening to him explaining his finished game.

Met a lot at castle chess camp :)

Seriously?

when you say brisk pace

does that mean he was walking fast

beat 2 FMs, beat 1 NM, drew 1 GM, beat 1 IM, drew one IM, everyone else thats titled i lost to

Over the years I have met and interviewed (and sometimes played)

GM Joel Benjamin (US Open 1977 in Columbus, OH when he was a kid), Hans Berliner (National Open), GM Peter Biyiasas (US Class Ch in LA), GM Walter Browne (played chess and tennis with him in NC, World Open, American Open, National Open, World Class Ch in Vancouver), GM Robert Byrne (World Ch in New York in 1990), GM Larry Christiansen (2 simuls in Dayton), Jack Collins (US Open), GM Arnold Denker (Space Coast Open), GM Maxim Dlugy, IM John Donaldson (good friends in my Palo Alto days), GM Roman Dzindzihashvili (Dayton tourney), GM Eduard Gufeld (Seattle and Palo Alto simul), GM Johann Hjartarson (candidates with Karpov in Seattle), IM Igor Ivanov (stayed in my house several times - drank up all my liquor), GM Anatoly Karpov (candidates in Seattle and 1990 World ch in NY), GM Isaac Kashdan(American Open 1969 - he got me playing in USCF tourneys) GM Garry Kasparov (1990 World Ch in NY), GM Paul Keres (Vancouver Open 1975 - played some ping pong and he went over my games), HGM George Koltanowski (friends for years and visited him many times in his SF apartment), GM Viktor Korchnoi (Charlotte simul), GM Bill Lombardy (US Open in 1977), GM Miguel Najdorf (NY 1990), GM Susan Polgar (San Francisco International), GM Lajos Portisch (NY 1990), GM Sammy Reshevsky (NY 1990), GM Ian Rogers (San Francisco - had dinner with him), FM Eric Schiller, GM Yasser Seirawan (Seattle), NM Ken Smith (Texas), GM Andy Soltis (NY 1990), GM Mikhail Tal (ran his wallboard at SF International), GM Eugenio Torre (Palo Alto simul), IM Milan Vukcevich (Ohio), GM Patrick Wolff (SF).  Non-titled players but good friends with Ed Edmondson (beat him in golf), Martin Morrison (Berkeley), Bob Karch (Okinawa and Seattle) and Frank Brady.  Also several visits to Joan Targ's house (Fischer's sister - I never met Fischer, but wife did on the one occasion I didn't go visit - played at LERA instead).  Two Internet games with Howard Stern.

Who can beat that, LOL?

With Keres, no score, he just wanted some exercise.  I felt bad because he died a few days later of a heart attack on his way back to Estonia.  With Browne in tennis, he lost 6-0 first set, and he quit due to injury on his foot the second set (didn't want to get hurt for the rest of his upcoming simul tour through the country in 1975). 

Of masters that I have played include Steve Spencer (2270), Walter Cunningham (2225 - draw), Elvin Wilson (2220 - one win, one draw in USAF championships), Robert Sferra, Kerry Lawless, Jordy Mont-Reynaud (I was his coach when he became the youngest USCF master), GM Vinay Bhat, Charles Meidinger (a few wins, more losses), Brian Lankey, Liz Neely, Tom Mazuchowski, Hans Multhopp, Vera Frankel, Borel Menus, Charlie Unruh, Emory Tate, Bobby Moore, Eugene Curtin (2410), Charlie Powell (2390), Jim Gallagher, Tom Dorsch, Shelby Anderson (2230), Steve Andrews (2229), Alexey Root, Don Urqhart, Peter Dyson, Greg Vitko, Ira Pohl, and probably a few others.

I have met/played an NM and a USCF CM, and played both. I actually did pretty well! In the coming weeks, I will attend a simultaeous exhibition with an FM and an NM.

I am just curious to see how many people have met titled players, that's all.  

My coach says he saw some GM in a hallway after a simul, and he had said to him, "Wow, you played some incredible games", only to recieve an unpleasant "climb-back-into-your-UFO" look" from the GM. He also drew against Kasparov.

@Luftwaffles: You drew the great Tal? I am impressed. 

The strongest player I've played was Magnus Carlsen in an online simul (quick loss)...

How did he do?

I beat Stockfish a few times.

I'm guessing not as well as Magnus.

I live in St. Louis and I attended a lecture by GM Susan Polgar (2577). I got to meet her afterwards. She coaches the 2 time National Champion Webster University chess team and one member of the team, GM Ray Robson (2714) was also there. He played in the recent US Chess Championship in St. Louis.

They had a room full of chess boards set up and after the lecture members of the Webster team were there to play anyone who wanted to play. I played Ray Robson. It was brutal. LOL. I played the Ruy Lopez exchange variation. The game lasted more than 20 moves so I was pleased. 

I actually played Susan Polgar even before she was World Champion.

Well, it was simul and I tried the Budapest. She played an opening move that was new to me. I lost.

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I've never met any GM personally, but the most famous player I've played against is Nakamura.