Originally posted by AjuinI see. Short would have been a strong player when he was ten, I would guess that he wasn't too far off 2000 FIDE strength. He drew with Portisch in a simul that year. Norwood, on the other hand, would have been just out of nappies (he was a late developer).
The game is genuine.My source is Burgess' mammoth book,page 131 in the notes to a Petroff defense trap.
Short was 10 years old,Norwood 6 so it was played in some junior event in 1975.
I beat Short when he was 10. He was about 180 ECF then (c.2100). It was in a National Clubs match. I beat him nicely when he was 12 too, by which time he was 215 (2300) and toppling big names. When he was 14, we met again on top board for our regional teams, and I'd really prefer not to revisit that game 😲 My last game against him was too dreadful to mention. He was 15, maybe 16, already an IM I think, and I had the flu. I'd like to think that explains why I got slaughtered very quickly, but it had nothing to do with the matter. So 2-2 it is - and stays 🙂
Originally posted by atticus2Equal score vs Short!
I beat Short when he was 10. He was about 180 ECF then (c.2100). It was in a National Clubs match. I beat him nicely when he was 12 too, by which time he was 215 (2300) and toppling big names. When he was 14, we met again on top board for our regional teams, and I'd really prefer not to revisit that game 😲 My last game against him was too dreadful to menti ...[text shortened]... laughtered very quickly, but it had nothing to do with the matter. So 2-2 it is - and stays 🙂
Feeling jealous.The only 'name' I ever beat was the 10-fold clubchampion.
when he was 73
and last won the title 30 years prior
😞
Originally posted by atticus2I got repeatedly pounded at my old club, and it didn't matter if they were young or old the guys there would spank me and keep pounding me. I learned to take most of them in pretty deep but their experience would be my undoing and I would become completely undone. In the beginning I would fight as long as I could before being mated.
I beat Short when he was 10. He was about 180 ECF then (c.2100). It was in a National Clubs match. I beat him nicely when he was 12 too, by which time he was 215 (2300) and toppling big names. When he was 14, we met again on top board for our regional teams, and I'd really prefer not to revisit that game 😲 My last game against him was too dreadful to menti ...[text shortened]... laughtered very quickly, but it had nothing to do with the matter. So 2-2 it is - and stays 🙂
Originally posted by Traveling AgainBeating a computer chess progam
Guess I should take this game off the "Best Games of 2009!" list I have posted on my refrigerator.
Game 6307472
Originally posted by Daisy1990some very unfortunate choice of words there! 😵
I got repeatedly pounded at my old club, and it didn't matter if they were young or old the guys there would spank me and keep pounding me. I learned to take most of them in pretty deep but their experience would be my undoing and I would become completely undone. In the beginning I would fight as long as I could before being mated.
Originally posted by atticus2Looks like some RHP players hold their own against the world's elite.
I beat Short when he was 10. He was about 180 ECF then (c.2100). It was in a National Clubs match. I beat him nicely when he was 12 too, by which time he was 215 (2300) and toppling big names. When he was 14, we met again on top board for our regional teams, and I'd really prefer not to revisit that game 😲 My last game against him was too dreadful to menti ...[text shortened]... laughtered very quickly, but it had nothing to do with the matter. So 2-2 it is - and stays 🙂
atticus2 beat Short (though the latter was a child)
David Tebb beat Kasparov (though it was a simul)
Weyerstass beat Gert Timmerman
any other examples?
I got repeatedly pounded at my old club, and it didn't matter if they were young or old the guys there would spank me and keep pounding me. I learned to take most of them in pretty deep but their experience would be my undoing and I would become completely undone. In the beginning I would fight as long as I could before being mated.
lol!!!!!
I wonder whether he did that on purpose?
Originally posted by Fat Ladyatticus2 beat Short (though the latter was a child)
I beat the British Champion in two blitz games. She was the British Under 8 Girls Champion, and I resorted to claiming a win when she made an illegal move in the second game because I was losing!
David Tebb beat Kasparov (though it was a simul)
Weyerstass beat Gert Timmerman
Fat Lady beat the British Champion (though the latter was under 8, the game was blitz, and the win came after the girl made an illegal move) 😵
Behave now! I dine out, occasionally with Nigel, on my 2-2. I even thought of writing a piece on how to beat a World Championship contender. Friedel of Chessbase encouraged me. But two truths cannot be refuted. First, I beat a kid, albeit a genius kid but still emergent. Second, of the four games, only one (the 2nd) is publishable. The first was blundered by Short; the third was just my incompetence; the fourth was an IM mashing a strong amateur. The publishable game was genuinely quality. But alas, I won it. It hardly fits to publish that, alone, as a true record of the series; the others being too 'ugly' to publish. I thought about it but decided not. I don't need a boost to my self-esteem; and Nigel doesn't deserves any of his subsequent achievements to be remotely diminished.