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- From: pad8499a@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Phil Dorsey)
- Subject: Re: harvard square speed.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.170811.10148@cs.rit.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:08:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.1528.9333@channel1> "dale smoak"
- <dale.smoak@channel1.com> writes:
- > A man walked up to Murray Turnbull, the Harvard Square
- > master, with his "nephew" in tow, and said, here, why don't you play
- > him. So Murray gave his usual odds of three minutes to five, or maybe
- > it was two to five, and got wiped off the board. Hmmm, he said, they set
- > up again, and again the nephew wiped him out. Then the "uncle"
- > introduced Short. Murray was thrilled, as it was the first time he'd
- ever
- > played a grandmaster (he's played one or two since, as Dzindzichashvili
- > has come through occasionally).
-
- I believe it was (May or June) in 1985 that I saw Murray playing
- Dzindzichashvili when I visited Cambridge to attend an old friend's
- graduation ceremony at Harvard. There was a hugh crowd around Murray's
- board in Harvard Square. Murray later explained that Dzindzichashvili
- would spot him time on the clock (a reversal of roles) and would pay
- Murray win or lose (ordinarily the challenger gets a refund upon winning a
- game) on the theory that Murray could have been making money playing
- others if Dzindzi hadn't come by. It is hard enough to get experience
- playing a GM without paying a lot of money, but Murray did even better --
- he got the GM to pay him for the privilege. Perhaps it is true that all
- things come to those who wait.
-
- Phil Dorsey
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- American Video Institute
- Interactive Media Laboratory
-