Blunderprone's Magical History tour of great Chess tournaments

Blunderprone's game studies of classic masters:

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I decided to include my narratives from my other Blog on this study of historic games.

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Lone Pine 1975: Eugenio Torre, Philippine’s first GM

Submitted by Blunderprone on Sun Feb 7, 2010 1:54pm.

Eugenio Torre, born November 4, 1951, made him 23 at Lone Pine 1975. In 1972 he won over Anatoly Karpov in Skopje, Yugoslavia. In 1974, he became Asia’s first Grandmaster, by winning the silver medal in the World Chess Olympiad held in Nice, F... Read more »

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Lone Pine 1975 : Honorable Mentions: Suttles, Yanofsky and Parr

Submitted by Blunderprone on Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:50pm.

First my apologies for not keeping up but I’m also hitting a busy season as I picked up a part time teaching gig ( non-chess). Before I start in on the top tier finishers I thought it would be worth mentioning a couple Canadian GMs and unk... Read more »

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Lone Pine 1975: Kushnir, Tarjan and Denker, Noteworthy IM’s on the second shelf

Submitted by Blunderprone on Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:19am.

As I dig deeper into this tournament, more interesting nuggets turn up. This post will focus on a few IM’s who had a strong finish in this event. Alla KushnirAlla was the only woman IM at Lone Pines. She came over from Israel with her othe... Read more »

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Lone Pine 1975: Rohde, Silman and Weinstein : Upsets from the third shelf

Submitted by Blunderprone on Fri Jan 1, 2010 10:30am.

The Lone Pine 1975 had three major groups. The top shelf included the list of Grandmasters who I’ll be chronicling in the coming posts. The next layer includes the international masters ( Ratings below 2500 and above 2300). My next post will in... Read more »

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The Journey Begins: Lone Pine Masters-Plus Tournament of 1975

Submitted by Blunderprone on Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:33am.

The time machine has landed me in a small little remote town in the eastern part of California near the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The year is 1975 and 44 chess players are arriving in this town that is about 10 blocks long and three blocks wide. ... Read more »

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Twas the knight before Checkmate

Submitted by Blunderprone on Thu Dec 24, 2009 8:11am.

Twas the knight before Checkmate and across the boardThere were advancing pawns like a marauding hoardThe queen said “ What pests!”While the King replied “ I cannot rest”When in his finachettoThe Bishop said “ I’ll send them back to ... Read more »

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Taking out my frustrations over the board

Submitted by Blunderprone on Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:07am.

I was matched with yet another Class A player ( near expert strength). I knew I was going to have black against him and found a game in my database where we had played before. It was an exchange C-K and I like the line with 5…Qc7 as it sets up s... Read more »

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Inglorious Blunders ( at the Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial)

Submitted by Blunderprone on Sat Dec 5, 2009 3:38pm.

Tourney report: I like the Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial held every Fall in Massachusetts as it’s a recognized Heritage event and has been held annually for over 25 years! It’s a Grand Prix event as well but since I am not a master, t... Read more »

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