MY BIO

CALL ME, "RICH" Thanks for dropping in!

FOR MY PROFILE CLICK ON MORE!

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Can I offer you Coke with real sugar?

Out of Coke, sorry . . .

Oops. I don't have diet coke. How about cool water? . . .

How about a cold PEPSI? With real sugar?

Or If you'd like a cold ROOT BEER instead

 Get it from my refrigerator!

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Hey listen to one of my favorite tunes. i know you'll like it . . .

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

I watch, read, analyze chess and read anecdotes of old time master.

I play RATED group team chess games. . .

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My "CRAZY GIRL" CHIHUAHUA . . .

I LIKE BOBBY FISCHER STYLE OF PLAY

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS TO HAVE OR READ!

Great books to have and re-read the

For all Fischer games click on the following link . . .

Then sort how you want it . . ..

https://www.chess.com/games/bobby-fischer

Silman's endgame course is the best book to learn, it will serve you your whole chess life . . . 

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Alekhine's proclivity for complex attacking positions took the chess world like a wrecking ball in his heyday. Many consider Alekhine decades ahead of his time, and his attacking spirit lives on in the best chess of today.

. . . . . it's your move now! . . . . .

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MY CHESS PLAYING ABILITIES ARE DISAPPEARING,

THEY ARE GOING AWAY FROM ME AND I BLAME IT ON MY AGE!

I MAKE BLUNDERS THAT I SEE AFTER I MAKE THEM.

I LOSE GAMES TO LOWER RATED PLAYERS.

But I'm still having some fun playing the CHESS games!

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I belong to the following groups and play team matches. Join one!

The GEEZER GROUP

https://www.chess.com/club/geezers

WOMAN AND MEN MUST BE 50 YEARS OLD!

Team Colorado

https://www.chess.com/club/team-colorado

If you live or we're from Colorado and are rated. You can join this group. They have matches vs other states! 

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The Pi Group:

https://www.chess.com/club/314159-26535-89793-23846-26433

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I was born in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, Central America.

December 14, 1937.

Migrated with family to the USA in 1946.

I was raised in San Francisco, California.

I went To Lowell High, on Hayes Street.

Became a USA citizen . . .

Chess for me, began seventy twoyears ago in 1951, when I was 13, on a boring foggy San Francisco summer day. Six friends and I got several chess books at the library and learned to move the pieces.

We used a red and black checker board and cheap plastic hollow pieces that always fell over all the time. They came in a forty game box. Only Bill my best friend took to playing chess regularly.

I played in a playground tournament and won my matches easily because they barely knew how to move the pieces.

In the semi-final games at the 19th avenue park, I lost badly.

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 RICH at 14 YEARS OLD IN MY SUNDAY BEST

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George Koltanowski, the greatest showman and promoter that chess has ever known. Koltanowski will be best remembered as an exhibitor, writer, promoter and showman. Possessed with an incredibly powerful memory. Koltanowski would often give exhibitions, playing several games blindfold simultaneous.

What wowed the spectators the most was he would recite the complete moves of the games without looking at the board, something which any competent master can do.

Being an exhibitor giving blindfold exhibitions is what he was best known for. He was also a top level player. He defeated grand master Flohr and Rubinstein and drew Alekhine, Fine, Kotov and Keres in tournament games. One day in the 1950's I watched Master George Koltanowski performed a blindfold 30 game presentation at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California.

 I was impressed when he performed the Knights tour. I became a member of his Chess Friends Association and joined his chess club. We became friends.

At that time I was a rookie at chess. I used to play in any tournament that Kolty would run and I would always win my round robin matches. They were groups of four and we played six games against each other three games as black and white.

I got tired of winning and I would receive a book from Kolty as the first prize.

In his exhibitions KOLTY loved the Max Lange Attack and Pushed the Colle System Opening. . .

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The Turk Knights Tour

It was a favorite of George Koltanowski's.

It's fairly easy I've colored so that you can follow the sequence easier.

Just copy it if you want to.

Start at H8 with Black moving the knight!

Change on D8 to Blue

Change on F8 to Red

Change on D4 to Green

Start with one color on the board.

Eventually with no board.

Good Luck!

This is the Turks tour that Kolty used.

DENVER DURING ROCK & ROLL DAYS

I USED TO PLAY THE PIANO AND MY FAVORITE PIECES WERE

"IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT" by The Satins

"AIN'T THAT A SHAME?" by Fats Domino

"HONKY TONK 1 AND 2." by Bill Doggett

"BLUE MONDAY." by Fats Domino

"BLUE BERRY HILL." by Fats Domino

"EARTH ANGEL." by the Penguins

"JOHNNY BE GOODE" BY CHUCK BERRY!

AND MANY DO WOP SONGS.

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When I was 21 year old I used to play blindfold chess with another employee. We learned because if they caught us playing while working we would be fired. I learned using descriptive notation.

How to play blindfold right now . . .

https://www.chess.com/variants/blindfold

OR

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/blindfold-chess-play----memoir

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I have over two dozen chess sets, a demo board and some clocks. I carry a complete chess set and clock in my car. You never know when a chess game might start..

I like to teach beginners the game of CHESS. Sometimes at the library . . .

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 I have a chess set that is played with cards. The moves are determined by the card that you draw. So when I play a beginning chess player or even a grand master "CARD CHESS" anyone can win. 

I like the happiness in the eyes of beginners when they learn something and execute it in a game. I teach them that it doesn't matter if they win or if they lose. I teach them to love the game.

People think I'm a good chess player. I'm not. In reality everyone I play casually aren't good players, because they only know how to move the pieces. When I play a good player, I lose.

Above are my four kids, now grown men. They play chess, bowling and soccer and I was their coach on all three sports.

My grown sons have families now. Two have beaten me at chess several times. Four of my six grandchildren play chess.

DENVER was my pen name

DENVER AT 86 YEARS OLD @ PRESENT

I am retired now.

Chess is old and I'm older than dirt! 

My 2 1/2 year old grandson moves the horsey to Nf3.

Notice that he moved the other horsey twice to NC3 and NB5.

That was 23 years ago, now he's a UCLA GRADUATE . . .

 KAI 2 1/2 & I ARE PLAYING A REAL GAME he is screaming "ATTACK!

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 MY TIME AT SAN QUENTIN PRISON

Oh no. Looks like San Quentin Prison!

I wrote some memoirs and if the piece is fiction, I hope you read one at least.

"My Time in San Quentin Prison"

click on it

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/fun-with-chess/my-time-at-san-quentin-prison-in-california-6352375

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My profession used to be a Scale Technician also a Mechanic on Brunswick and AMF bowling equipment.

I taught Soccer for 27 years I have a United States Soccer Federation License . . .

I also taught bowling since 1961 I am a Silver Level Bowling Coach. I have been teaching chess to youths while bowling in a Adult . Jr league.

Here is a photo, each player had to make a chess move or more before they took their turn at bowling. This is at Double Decker lanes in Rohnert Park, California.

Here is a group of bowlers watching a game while they also bowled.

Woah

Thats tuff