I Challenged the Men that Play at the Golden Gate Park . . . (memoir)

Thanks for the coment and read. 

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               Bye for now.    Denver

Great Story! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for the read and comment. That was about sixty years ago. 

Great memories of great game thank you fot sharing!

Every now and then somebody on this site manages to find a mummy of a topic and resurrect it. Much more rare are the great topics they find. This happens to be one of them.

Fantastic read and as I've always though, the only reason I would ever move to a bigger city (I live in urban Central Wisconsin) would be for the chess that you can still find scattered all over.

It is something that I find when I go to San Francisco to play at the pan handle on a nice cool sunny summer day. I will play some other gentleman that looks as old as me and surprise me with a  easy openning and I get into trouble when it is my turn to play Black.

I will go down this week have lunch and play two games. i will post one of the games I play. I will also post his photo now that I have a Kindle HD7 with a camera.

                                        Oops. . . . My tie is crooked!

Hey Denver, What a story. In 1990 or so, I joined the Kolty chess club in Campbell. We played in the old high school, (that I attended years before). By then, it had become the community center. No, I never got to meet George, just OTB games with mostly older men. I do miss the face to face games. People control their emotions better OTB. Will you take a seat at the park now? Later, Jim

Hi there.

I did receive another note from a former Kolty club member from Campbell. I had a brother that lived in Cambell and I used to go to Campbell to bowl in tournament at the 4th street Bowling lanes.

I just bought two Kolty books. Of course one is in the old descriptive notation but I can read both. The best is "Adventures of a Chess Master" from 1955.

I wanted to do a translation into Algebraic but someone already did it. I bought the copy for $8.00 with free shipping from Oregon.

It is now called, "In The Dark" an it inclubes more photos of Kolty, newer games added at the end, How to learn the Kights tour and blind fold chess. I have read this book several times and never tire of reading his stories of chess during world war two in Europe. I got it through Amazon.

Bye for now. Thanks for the comment. Hey another you might enjoy is:

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I was hooked from the beginning to the end! you could write a book and I would read all of it! 

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Thanks for bumping it. It was a good read. We also had the same kind of thing at Hampstead when I lived in Longdon England. Don't know if they still play there .... I played some regulars there a couple of times, back when chess didn't mean much to me, in the 70s. Maybe I once played on a big board with two foot high pieces in Vancouver or somewhere, but it's a blur.

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