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- From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Washington Square Park (was harvard square speed)
- Message-ID: <24476@alice.att.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:16:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24476
- References: <1992Dec23.1528.9333@channel1>
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- In article <1992Dec23.1528.9333@channel1> "dale smoak" <dale.smoak@channel1.com> writes:
-
- > I saw this. 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.
-
- In a similar vein...
-
- I heard a story about a chessplayer -- oh, about 2200 or so -- who was
- in New York for a tournament. Walking through Washington Square Park
- he found a number of people playing chess. Thinking he would pick up
- some quick change, he accepted one of their offers of a game, only to
- be utterly destroyed. He was so demoralized that he went home again
- without playing in the tournament.
-
- Waiting for him when he got home was his copy of `Chess Life;' on the
- cover was the person who had beaten him so badly in the park. It was
- Roman Dzindzichashvili, who was in New York for the same tournament.
- --
- --Andrew Koenig
- ark@europa.att.com
-