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I just found the link http://www.chessgames.com/player/david_gedult.html
I have never heard of Gedult before,
but the games listened there are great.
Gedult (ok, written "Gedul" ) means "patience" in german.

Never have seen a bigger break of "nomen est omen"

Does anybody know anything about this great player?

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Originally posted by afx
I just found the link http://www.chessgames.com/player/david_gedult.html
I have never heard of Gedult before,
but the games listened there are great.
Gedult (ok, written "Gedul" ) means "patience" in german.

Never have seen a bigger break of "nomen est omen"

Does anybody know anything about this great player?
His OTB record seems to be as short and mysterious as our own Weyerstrass.

A pedant writes: You must mean 'Geduld' when referring to the German for patience. Incidentally 'geduld' also means patience in Dutch, though there it is neuter whilst in German it is feminine. Must have some significance.

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Originally posted by afx

Never have seen a bigger break of "nomen est omen"
Greco
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=72111

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Gedult's one of these cult figures like Claude Bloodgood who have astonishing performance statistics in the databases because they generally only published their wins. He was a swashbuckling chess player and a great wit to boot.

"Blackmar, Diemer & Gedult", a collection of Gedult's games in the Blackmar Diemer gambit annotated by the man himself, is that rarest of things, a genuinely entertaining chess book. I recommend it unequivocally.

http://www.bdgpages.com/pg004.html