Re: chess tales from the real world


"Offramp" <alaneobrien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Oct 9, 8:17 am, SBD <DrD...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 8, 4:21 pm, "Chess One" <OneCh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Did you tell him about your summer in Europe where you would have
earned the IM title if you weren't stoned in the back of the van all
the time?

I played in the first Chess Festival in Avoine, France in 1985. In one
game I had a tricky ending the exchange down. I went and spoke to the
only other English players: can you guess?
Glenn Flear and Tony Kosten! Why did they play so much in France?

**It was cheap to nip across the channel and to get to Paris, all you needed
was a buddy there to put you up. I played in Paris in the early seventies
[stayed in the working class outskirts East of city on the Marne, and then
later lieved and played in Germany. Besides, where else to go? Holland or
Begium is easy by ferry, anywhere between Ostende and the German border at
Aachen - but school boy French argued for Paris since relying on
kind-hearted Dutch to speak English was uncertain.

I
showed them the ending. They were like my seconds. Flear said I was
going to get squeezed. Another player there was Dizdarevic. Flear
showed me and Kosten the well-known game Dizdarevic-Miles, where Miles
played Bb7-f3 and then Bxg2.

**Um, is that an English Defence? Keene Plaskett and Tisdall published their
title in 87, and they might have well as called it Tony's Defence [or
actually, attack! since it seemed to be the predominant pioneer] Did you,
BTW look at Keene's chess bio of Miles?

**I was in Europe some 10 years before your time, and when GMs, even IMs
were hardly yet invented - never went East across the border of course since
that was the Wall! though there was talk of it in the late 60's. Our
team-captain was P H Clarke and he got to play Ivkov - and there was an
absurd idea of taking seconds with him [in this case, thirds or fifths even,
for sure we would have been of no use to Clarke] though naturally nothing
came of it but good resolutions.

Kosten said that if he had black against
Dizdarebic he would play the Queen's Indian.
I had a really good time. Flear and Kosten are very nice blokes.

**I note a Flear-Plaskett game in the Brit Champ 82 in the Eng Def [p. 58]
where Glen uncorks 17. d5 !! "a brilliant solution that shatters Black's
dreams". Kosten doesn't seem to have messed with the Eng Def at that time -
even though he would 'mess' with the QI. Lots of annotation by Basman, and
who is this Huntingdon player, P. Dansey [for 16. Nf4!] and other moves, as
well as Leicester player Otto Hardy who seems like a major contributor to
this line of the Eng D? I also assume that Maggeramov is not an English
player.

**Strangest game I've played for a couple of years was on a park bench where
I was being presented with a chess set by a Russian master, previously used
by 5 world champs, and so i immediately proposed playing a game with it -
and because we didn't have a board we decided to play without one. Wasn't a
bad game, and we drew in about 30 moves wothjout too much disgrace to either
of us - he had won the exchange, then lost it back to me, and we gave up
before disgracing ourselves further.

Cordially, Phil


Alan


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