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Feb-08-09
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| suenteus po 147: <Benzol> A big one: Game Collection: USSR Championship 1991 |
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Feb-09-09
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| suenteus po 147: <Benzol> Another important historical tournament to add to the list: Game Collection: Moscow 1967 I'm sure the history there could also use some touching up too. |
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| nescio: <Benzol> <suenteus po 147> I think Groningen 1946 deserves a place in the list of important tournaments above and User: number 23 NBer has made a good effort in collecting the games (Game Collection: Groningen 1946) but I think there are two missing and he or she could use some help organizing the collection. I looked at the (premium) features but there doesn't seem to be a way to contact a member directly and in my opinion the Kibitzer's Café is too busy and cluttered to be of any use. |
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Feb-16-09
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| suenteus po 147: <nescio> I had always planned on getting around to building that collection, but it's pretty big (190 games is a solid 3-4 days work for me) and so left it by the wayside. I don't see that we could help him out at all without a direct forum to post info, so it's simply a matter of one of us making the collection himself. I try not to duplicate or overlap other kibitzers' work if I can help it, but occasionally a collection is left incomplete or sloppily done, and then I will horn in with my own collection. This may be what I end up doing here, no offense to User: number 23 NBer :) |
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| nescio: <suenteus po 147> Peter, I undestand what you are saying, but when we show <number 23 Nber> now how it should be done (in our opnion) he may get the hang of it and like it enough to assemble more tournaments which would mean less work for you. Let's hope he is still around and responds. If he doesn't want to open his forum I can open mine temporarily so yours or <Benzol>'s won't be snowed under. |
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Feb-16-09
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| suenteus po 147: <nescio> If <number 23 Nber> is interested in putting the finishing touches on the tournament, that would be great. I wonder if one of our forums is the best way to reach him? Anyway, if we contact him, I've got pages with crosstables, PGN, and historical information, if he's interested to include those things. |
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Feb-17-09
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| Benzol: <nescio> & <suenteus po 147> Thanks for pointing out Game Collection: Groningen 1946. <number 23 NBer> expresses a wish to hear from others to help improve the collection so I don't think you'll have to do the collection over again. From what you've said only two games are missing. The hardest thing at the moment is to contact <number 23 NBer>.
I've left a message where he/she last posted so perhaps there will be some feedback soon. |
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| Feb-17-09 |
| number 23 NBer: Hello. I could really use help with round numbers, as I have no real knowledge of those. Any help with those would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure which games are missing, although I believe one of them was played by Bernstein and Christoffel(unsure). The only problem is that since my trial premium membership expired before I noticed I had put it in the wrong collection, I couldn't add it as I am now technically limited to 101 games a collection. I have compiled a crosstable, although I have not yet found the time to place it in the collection. I'll try to get that done soon. |
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| Feb-17-09 |
| nescio: <number 23 NBer> We'll easily find out which are the missing games and you can put the links in the introduction for a while till you are ready for a premium membership again. I hope you can still edit your whole collection and renumber the games, for that is essential to have the separate rounds together. Don't worry about the rounds, <suenteus po 147> seems to have a lot of information and I have the tournament book somewhere. In order not to bother <Benzol> anymore than necessary I have opened my forum for this collection. You can leave your reply at User: jww and we'll figure everything out. |
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Feb-18-09
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| Richard Taylor: <Benzol> How are things going? I am back at ACC now - I had a struggle to get a draw with Andrew Michael (Maori fellow from the Papatoetoe Club) the other night in the B Grade Spring Cup. Did you know he survived a horrific a car accident happened last year? I played him at the start of 2008 Congress and nearly lost then also but drew. |
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Feb-18-09
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| Benzol: Hi <Richard>. No I didn't know that Andrew had had an horrific car accident last year. I'm glad he survived. Did he manage to come out unscathed? Dad seems to be handling most of his current problems reasonbly well. HPCC had Hans-Joachim Hecht as a guest lecturer recently. He seems a pleasant fellow just playing chess mainly for fun these days. Dad is intending to step down as president this year and I think that's a wise decision. I may play in the Latvian but I'm still undecided as yet. |
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Feb-19-09
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| Richard Taylor: <Benzol> He was good enough to nearly beat me! Someone crossed the road and he was terribly smashed about - he was in hospital for months I think he has problems still but will probably come right he is relatively young. He was very unlucky. Good to hear about your father. I go elsewhere on Tuesdays now...not to chess. I am at ACC. The Latvian I won last year - I mean the B Grade... but it was badly organised. Took ages for the prizes... Not sure if I will play in the Latvian. Yee is trying to ban me from everything but he is the one who should banned - bad news he is. |
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Feb-21-09
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| suenteus po 147: <Benzol> Thanks for looking into Moscow 1967 for me, Paul. Don't worry that nothing turned up. Some day some kibitzer will come along with just the right book and the collection can be updated then :) |
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Feb-22-09
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| Richard Taylor: <Benzol> I've been playing through various books - lately we are going through Lasker's games -in Rueben Fine and Reinfeld's book of his games - some great games by him - an sometimes Fischer. Also Rubinstein (and even Sarapu - I have never played through all his games)...seems strange to think Ortvin is not around anymore... He was a pretty likeable fellow. And he had a good sense of humour - he once said or me: " You play brilliantly when you are losing" !! |
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Mar-03-09
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| suenteus po 147: <Benzol> I've got another one for you here, Paul: Game Collection: USSR Championship 1963 |
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Mar-03-09
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| Open Defence: <Benzol> yes its 1975, however I did not want to put my full DOB on the internet :) |
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Mar-04-09
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| suenteus po 147: <Benzol> Update time! I currently have the following tournaments "in the works," which means that I am in the process of building (or waiting to upload remaining games for) the following collections: Frankfurt 1887, New York 1889, Monte Carlo 1902, Bad Nauheim 1936, New York 1948/49, USSR Championship 1939, USSR Championship 1951, USSR Championship 1971, USSR Championship 1979, USSR Championship 1985, and USSR Championship 1989. That means since the last update I have built and completed around 30 or so tournament collections. My current all-time total for game collections is 263 (counting everything, not just tournaments). But there's still more to build! Here is the list of remaining historical tournaments to build: New York 1857, London 1862, Vienna 1873, Breslau 1889, Dresden 1892, Leipzig 1894, Cologne 1898, Scheveningen 1905, Ostend 1905 and 1907 B, Breslau 1912, Havana 1913, New York 1915, Goteborg 1920, Hannover 1926, New York 1931, Bad Silac 1932, Leningrad 1934, Amsterdam 1936, Podebrady 1936, Ostend 1937, Margate 1939, Moscow 1947, Parnu 1947, Bucharest 1953, Moscow 1959, Zurich 1959, Bled 1961, Moscow 1964, Havana 1965, Yerevan 1965, Palma de Mallorca 1966-1969, Monte Carlo 1967-1969, Skopje 1967, Netanya 1968, Ljubljana 1969, Rovinj/Zagreb 1970, Buenos Aires 1970, and Moscow 1975. Also, the remaining USSR Championships (whenever I get round numbers for games + additional info) for the years 1931 (7th), 1933 (8th), 1933/34 (9th), 1937 (10th), 1940 (12th), 1944 (13th), 1945 (14th), 1949 (17th), 1950 (18th), 1954 (21st), 1955 (22nd), 1956 (23rd), 1961 a (28th), 1962 (30th), 1964/65 (32nd), 1965 (33rd), 1967 (35th), 1969 (37th), 1972 (40th), 1975 (43rd), 1977 (45th), 1980/81 (48th), 1984 (51st), 1986 (53rd), 1987 (54th), and 1990 (57th). That's only 26 championships, plus 44 historic tournaments makes 70 total, which is not too bad. Last, friends and colleagues deserve mention for the tournaments they have built. <number 23 NBer> and <nescio> deserve recognition for putting together Groningen 1946. <Phony Benoni> has built or is already building Karlsbad 1907, Vienna 1908, Prague 1908, Vilnius 1912, Lake Hopatcong 1923, and Syracuse 1934. <Resignation Trap> has built Bad Kissingen 1928, London 1932, Kemeri 1937, Moscow 1956, Dallas 1957, and the interzonal at Sousse 1967. <whiteshark> has put together Ostend 1907 A. <protean> is responsible for assembling Sverdlovsk 1943. <capybara> has built most of the interzonals, including Stockholm 1952, Gothenburg 1955, Portoroz 1958, and Stockholm 1962. <sneaky pete> is currently building Mannheim 1914, Berlin 1920, Margate 1938, and the interzonal played at Amsterdam 1964; while he has completed collections for Hastings 1937/38 and 1938/39 and for Noordwijk 1938. <Archives>, of course, put together St. Petersberg 1909, Bad Pistyan 1912, San Sebastian 1912, and Vienna 1922. Not to mention all the incredibly significant tournaments you've collected, Paul, including Hastings 1895, Nuremberg 1896, St. Petersberg 1914, London 1922, New York 1924, Baden Baden 1925, New York 1927, Bled 1931, Moscow 1935, AVRO 1938, the Absolute Soviet championship of 1941, and the first Piatigorsky Cup of 1963. All in a day's work, wouldn't you say? :) |
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Mar-04-09
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| Benzol: See you all when I get back from my stay in Auckland Hospital. Cheers. :) |
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Mar-05-09
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| chancho: Take care, and get better soon <Benzol>. |
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Mar-05-09
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| suenteus po 147: <Benzol> I hope everything is all right! Please get better soon before we all miss you. |
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Mar-05-09
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| Benzol: Back again.
:) <suenteus po 147> <chancho> Thank you both for your concern but I was only in hospital for overnight observation. During Christmas I fell asleep at the wheel and crashed the car. So I was assigned for a sleep study to determine if I suffer from sleep apnea.
I get the results in about six weeks.
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Mar-06-09
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| Richard Taylor: <Benzol> Hope all is going well with you and Peter. I'm playing at ACC but not HP for several reasons - one main one is I am back into reading live poetry etc on Tuesday nights. At ACC I have been playing quite bad chess - but still managing to win or draw! (last year I won the Spring Cup with only one loss) - I'm in the B but it's quite difficult - I'll tell you about those games when you are free maybe to come over one day. Give me a call. Cheers... |
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Mar-07-09
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| suenteus po 147: <Benzol> Glad to know it was nothing serious, and also that you were not seriously hurt in the car accident! I have a cousin and a good friend who both suffer from sleep apnea, and both had to go to sleep clinics after similar incidents to your own before they learned they had it. The good news is that once they can diagnose it, it is emminently treatable. |
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Mar-07-09
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| Open Defence: whooaa good to hear you are ok |
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Mar-09-09
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| suenteus po 147: I'm always forgetting somebody important. An addendum to my update above (or for some of you it's below?) is that <keypusher> put together the tournament collection for St. Petersburg 1895/96. If i'm still missing people, please give a shout out! |
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