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Date: 19 Jun 2005 22:08:29
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
Sam Sloan's Chess Peak

I believe that I reached my peak playing strength in chess in 1965-66.
I was only 21 years old but after that I discovered girls and went
straight downhill.

I got strong because in the Fall Semester 1965 I went to the National
University of Mexico in Mexico City to study Spanish. I spent all of
my spare time playing chess, priily at the Club Metropolitano,
which was a billiards parlor with a chess room upstairs located at
Tacuba 15, opposite the Zocalo.

I spent most of my time playing chess for money against a chess master
named Pollero, which means chicken dealer. His real name was A.
Redondo, but everyone called him Pollero.

The manager of the chess club was Alejandro Baez, a renowned chess
master, but he never played because he had had a heart attack and his
doctor had told him that playing again might prove fatal. However, I
saw him analyze and he was clearly a master. He could find deep
combinations nobody else could see.

I also played in serious tournaments. I did well and I played against
all of the top players in Mexico at one time or another.

I did not neglect my studies because while playing chess I also spoke
to my opponents in Spanish which improved rapidly. I came to Mexico
not knowing a single word of the language except for si and no and I
left fairly fluent. My ability to speak Spanish is something I have
put to good use almost every day for the rest of my life. I certainly
use it every day today.

Before going to Mexico I had been given the address of a
correspondence chess master there named Hector Jurado. Jurado had a
perfume shop located at 400 Insurgentes named Perfumera Ritz. He
helped me find a rented room right behind his shop in back of a
beautiful home located at Tlacultalpan 18. There were a bunch of young
Mexicans living in that home including two sexy girls that I realized
years later that I could have slept with if only I had asked. I was
such a nerd that I had not yet discovered the readily availability of
women at that time.

I qualified to the finals of a major chess tournament called Tourneo
de Tablero de Oro, which meant tournament for the Golden Chess Board.
Supposedly a golden chess board was to be awarded as first prize. I
qualified to the finals by defeating Alejandro Araiza Joven. His
father, Alejandro Araiza Senior, had been champion of Mexico for more
than 25 years. By then he was too old and although he came to the
tournaments he just watched. I was told that Baez had always been
stronger than Araiza anyway.

The masters I played in Mexico City were Armando Acevedo (three
tournament games), Willy De Winter, io Campos Lopez, Guillermo
Restrepo. Alfonzo Ferriz and Iglazias.

My best friends in Mexico City were Rubin Galicia, Jurocho from Vera
Cruz, and Escondrillas, who were all Class A players. I once played
three games blindfold chess simultaneously against all three of them
and won most of the games. This was a good result for me because
Escondrillas was still a boy and he later grew up to become a chess
master.

When I got back to EEUU, I discovered that I was much stronger than
before. I played in the Bay Area Chess League representing the
University of California at Berkeley and I scored 6-1 against
opponents averaging 2150. That gave me a performance rating of 2450.
Players I defeated included David Blohm, George Kane and Alan Bourke.
I believe that it was at this point that I reached my peak strength in
chess.

It was at about this time that I defeated three masters in a row in
the Mechanics Invitational Chess Championship in San Francisco I
defeated Rex Wilcox and Jim Schmidt and one other chess master at a
time when Wilcox and Schmidt were the two strongest players in San
Francisco, not counting William Addison who was vastly stronger than
them. I also defeated Aki Kanimori.

With a great future ahead of me at age of only 21, what happened to my
great chess career?

I discovered women, something I had not known about prior to my trip
to Mexico. I decided that the most fruitful and productive use of my
time was to organize sex orgies. I organized 42 of them, involving a
total of 1200 participants. Between October 1966 and December 1967 I
slept with 52 different women and I kept all of their names and other
details neatly recorded in a notebook (which I have since lost). I
remember most of their faces but only a few of their names. I played
almost no chess except that I did play in the 1966 US Intercollegiate
Championship in State College, Pennsylvania. The game I showed on my
chess TV show last week, Carl Wagner vs. Sam Sloan, where I forced a
draw in spite of being a pawn down in the endgame, was from that
tournament. I also played in the 1967 American Open in Pasadena where
I defeated Walter Browne (but immediately after that I lost to Walter
Harris and John Blackstone and did not have a good result.)

By then, I was already in the process of being run out of town in
Berkeley where my notorious sex orgies had reached the newspapers, so
I decided to vamoos and get out of town while the getting was still
possible. I moved to New York City and almost completely stopped
playing chess and when I did play my results were generally poor,
although I did finish clear second on the 1969 US Amateur Chess
Championship, defeating Michael Shahade (father of Greg and Jennifer)
in the last round. The game was published in the New York Times.

Since then, it has all been downhill. I have never studied chess
openings since but instead have made up my own openings. I do not
believe that I have ever gotten back to being as good as I was in
early 1966.

Unfortunately, I lost all my game scores when I abruptly had to leave
Berkeley at the end of 1967. I have only two games scores for the
entire period from 1965 to 1966 and the only reason I have those two
games is that Armando Acevedo, former Chess Champion of Mexico, was
kind enough to send them to me recently. I thank him for this and if
anybody else has any games I played from 1964 to 1968 please send them
to be because I do not have any of them.

Here are the only two games I do have.

Sam Sloan


[Event "open tournament"]
[Site "Mexico D.F."]
[Date "1965.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Sloan, Sam"]
[Black "Acevedo, Armando"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C18"]
[BlackElo "2235"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qc7 7.Qg4 f6
8.Nf3 Nc6 9.Bd3 f5 10.Qg3 cxd4 11.cxd4 Nge7 12.Be3 Bd7 13.Qxg7
O-O-O 14.g3 h5 15.Ke2 Rdg8 16.Qf6 Ng6 17.Rhb1 Nce7 18.Ng5 Rf8
19.Nxe6 Rxf6 20.Nxc7 Rff8 21.Nb5 Bxb5 22.Rxb5 h4 23.Rab1 hxg3
24.hxg3 b6 25.a4 f4 26.gxf4 Nxf4+ 27.Kd2 Nxd3 28.cxd3 Rh2 29.a5
Nf5 30.axb6 Nxe3 31.bxa7 Rfxf2+ 32.Kc3 Ra2 33.Rb8+ Kd7 34.a8=Q
Rhc2+ 35.Kb4 Rxa8 36.Rxa8 Rc7 37.Rh1 Nc2+ 38.Ka4 Rc3 39.Rh7+ Ke6
40.Ra6+ Kf5 41.Rf6+ Kg5 42.Rg7+ Kh5 43.e6 Ra3+ 44.Kb5 Nxd4+
45.Kc5 Rxd3 46.e7 Nb3+ 1-0

[Event "Torneo de Tablero de Oro"]
[Site "Mexico D.F."]
[Date "1965.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Sloan, Sam"]
[Black "Acevedo, Armando"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C19"]
[BlackElo "2235"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.a4 Nbc6
8.Nf3 Qa5 9.Qd2 Bd7 10.Ba3 cxd4 11.cxd4 Qxd2+ 12.Kxd2 Nf5 13.c3
Na5 14.Ke1 Rc8 15.Bb4 Nc4 16.Bxc4 Rxc4 17.Nd2 Rc8 18.Nb3 h5 19.f3
f6 20.exf6 gxf6 21.Kf2 Rg8 22.Rhe1 Rc6 23.Nc5 Bc8 24.Nd3 Kf7
25.g3 Rc4 26.Rab1 Ne7 27.Nf4 Nc6 28.Nxh5 a5 29.Bc5 Rh8 30.g4 Rxa4
31.Ra1 Rc4 32.Ra3 e5 33.Kg3 f5 34.h4 Rh6 35.Bb6 a4 36.dxe5 fxg4
37.Nf4 gxf3 38.Kxf3 Bf5 39.Nxd5 Rcxh4 40.Nf4 Ne7 41.Rxa4 Bg4+
42.Kg3 Nf5+ 43.Kf2 Rxb6 44.e6+ Kg7 45.e7 Rh2+ 46.Kg1 Rh8 47.e8=Q
Rxe8 48.Rxe8 Rb1+ 49.Kg2 Rb2+ 50.Kg1 Ng3 51.Ne6+ Bxe6 52.Rxe6
Ne2+ 1/2-1/2





 
Date: 20 Jun 2005 02:38:52
From: The Historian
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak


Sam Sloan wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:25:49 GMT, "Ray Gordon" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >Okay, who wants to go through the NY Times archives?
> >
> >When was the game published, Sam?
>
> The game was published in Mid-1969. However, I have been trying for
> years to recover the clipping. I asked Robert Byrne about this. He
> said that this was before he had the chess column and his records do
> not go back that far.

They have this wonderful invention called "microfilm", Sammy.



  
Date: 22 Jun 2005 08:51:24
From: Ray Gordon
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
>> >Okay, who wants to go through the NY Times archives?
>> >
>> >When was the game published, Sam?
>>
>> The game was published in Mid-1969. However, I have been trying for
>> years to recover the clipping. I asked Robert Byrne about this. He
>> said that this was before he had the chess column and his records do
>> not go back that far.
>
> They have this wonderful invention called "microfilm", Sammy.

Actually, most newspapers are kept on "Microfiche."

Before the internet, I used to have to spend one or two days a year in the
main branch of the Philadelphia Public Library going over the opening odds
lines for basketball games. Very tedious experience.





  
Date: 21 Jun 2005 03:11:55
From: Philip Feeley
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
The Historian wrote:
>
> Sam Sloan wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:25:49 GMT, "Ray Gordon" <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Okay, who wants to go through the NY Times archives?
>>>
>>>When was the game published, Sam?
>>
>>The game was published in Mid-1969. However, I have been trying for
>>years to recover the clipping. I asked Robert Byrne about this. He
>>said that this was before he had the chess column and his records do
>>not go back that far.
>
>
> They have this wonderful invention called "microfilm", Sammy.
>

I can't believe no one's commenting on the "orgies" story. I can't
believe someone
would admit to participating in one, let alone organizing them!

Only in America, I guess...

LoL,
Phil


 
Date: 20 Jun 2005 02:33:56
From: David Ames
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak


Ray Gordon wrote:
> >>Okay, who wants to go through the NY Times archives?
> >>
> >>When was the game published, Sam?
> >
> > The game was published in Mid-1969. However, I have been trying for
> > years to recover the clipping. I asked Robert Byrne about this. He
> > said that this was before he had the chess column and his records do
> > not go back that far.
>
> The NYC Public Library has most every paper ever published, dating back over
> 100 years.
>
> By the way, I would no sooner brag about your opening repertoire than I
> would about a 35 mph tennis serve.

I believe it is the New York Public Library, not the New York City
Public Library. If you live in Brooklyn or Queens, I believe you are s
erved by a different public library, right?

David Ames



  
Date: 22 Jun 2005 08:50:14
From: Ray Gordon
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
>> >>Okay, who wants to go through the NY Times archives?
>> >>
>> >>When was the game published, Sam?
>> >
>> > The game was published in Mid-1969. However, I have been trying for
>> > years to recover the clipping. I asked Robert Byrne about this. He
>> > said that this was before he had the chess column and his records do
>> > not go back that far.
>>
>> The NYC Public Library has most every paper ever published, dating back
>> over
>> 100 years.
>>
>> By the way, I would no sooner brag about your opening repertoire than I
>> would about a 35 mph tennis serve.
>
> I believe it is the New York Public Library, not the New York City
> Public Library. If you live in Brooklyn or Queens, I believe you are s
> erved by a different public library, right?

It's that BIG building on 42nd and Fifth in Manhattan with the statue of the
lion out front.





 
Date: 20 Jun 2005 02:25:49
From: Ray Gordon
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
Okay, who wants to go through the NY Times archives?

When was the game published, Sam?





  
Date: 20 Jun 2005 02:51:48
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:25:49 GMT, "Ray Gordon" <[email protected] >
wrote:

>Okay, who wants to go through the NY Times archives?
>
>When was the game published, Sam?

The game was published in Mid-1969. However, I have been trying for
years to recover the clipping. I asked Robert Byrne about this. He
said that this was before he had the chess column and his records do
not go back that far.

Here is the actual game. I also defeated near masters Matthew Katrein
and Myron Zelich in the same tournament. This is a nice game. You can
see why it was published. It ends in checkmate.

Sam Sloan


[Event "U. S. Amateur Championship"]
[Site "Philadelphia (USA)"]
[Date "1969.??.??"]
[Round "05"]
[White "Shahade,Michael (USA)"]
[Black "Sloan,Sam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B14"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.d4 cxd5 5.Nc3 g6 6.Bg5 Bg7 7.c5 Nc6
8.Bb5 O-O 9.Nf3 Bg4 10.Bxc6 bxc6 11.h3 Bxf3 12.Qxf3 Rb8 13.O-O-O
Qa5 14.a3 Rb3 15.Bf4 Ne4 16.Rd3 Qa6 17.Rhd1 e5 18.dxe5 Nxc5
19.Re3 Qc4 20.Kc2 d4 21.Qe2 Rxc3+ 22.bxc3 Qa2+ 23.Kc1 Nb3# 0-1



   
Date: 20 Jun 2005 06:04:40
From: Ray Gordon
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
>>Okay, who wants to go through the NY Times archives?
>>
>>When was the game published, Sam?
>
> The game was published in Mid-1969. However, I have been trying for
> years to recover the clipping. I asked Robert Byrne about this. He
> said that this was before he had the chess column and his records do
> not go back that far.

The NYC Public Library has most every paper ever published, dating back over
100 years.

By the way, I would no sooner brag about your opening repertoire than I
would about a 35 mph tennis serve.





    
Date: 22 Jun 2005 13:41:06
From: J�rgen R.
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 06:04:40 GMT, "Ray Gordon" <[email protected] >
wrote:

>>>Okay, who wants to go through the NY Times archives?
>>>
>>>When was the game published, Sam?
>>
>> The game was published in Mid-1969. However, I have been trying for
>> years to recover the clipping. I asked Robert Byrne about this. He
>> said that this was before he had the chess column and his records do
>> not go back that far.
>
>The NYC Public Library has most every paper ever published, dating back over
>100 years.

Horsefeathers. The NY Public Library is a joke. Nice building though
if you like the style of Alber Speer.


>
>By the way, I would no sooner brag about your opening repertoire than I
>would about a 35 mph tennis serve.
>
>



    
Date: 20 Jun 2005 06:31:51
From: John J.
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
I suspect that Sloan could beat you on his worst day, notwithstanding your
GM opening knowledge.

John



"Ray Gordon" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:Y%[email protected]...
>>>Okay, who wants to go through the NY Times archives?
>>>
>>>When was the game published, Sam?
>>
>> The game was published in Mid-1969. However, I have been trying for
>> years to recover the clipping. I asked Robert Byrne about this. He
>> said that this was before he had the chess column and his records do
>> not go back that far.
>
> The NYC Public Library has most every paper ever published, dating back
> over 100 years.
>
> By the way, I would no sooner brag about your opening repertoire than I
> would about a 35 mph tennis serve.
>
>
>




   
Date: 20 Jun 2005 03:00:11
From: Inconnux
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
> Here is the actual game. I also defeated near masters Matthew Katrein
> and Myron Zelich in the same tournament. This is a nice game. You can
> see why it was published. It ends in checkmate.
>
> Sam Sloan

is nearmaster a fide or uscf title? :)

J.Lohner


    
Date: 20 Jun 2005 06:05:10
From: Ray Gordon
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
>> Here is the actual game. I also defeated near masters Matthew Katrein
>> and Myron Zelich in the same tournament. This is a nice game. You can
>> see why it was published. It ends in checkmate.
>>
>> Sam Sloan
>
> is nearmaster a fide or uscf title? :)

Maybe it's a CCA title, given to those who win the u-2200 section.





 
Date: 20 Jun 2005 01:06:34
From: John J.
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
Didn't you play well in the 1969 San Juan tournament?

John
"Sam Sloan" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
>
> I believe that I reached my peak playing strength in chess in 1965-66.
> I was only 21 years old but after that I discovered girls and went
> straight downhill.
>
> I got strong because in the Fall Semester 1965 I went to the National
> University of Mexico in Mexico City to study Spanish. I spent all of
> my spare time playing chess, priily at the Club Metropolitano,
> which was a billiards parlor with a chess room upstairs located at
> Tacuba 15, opposite the Zocalo.
>
> I spent most of my time playing chess for money against a chess master
> named Pollero, which means chicken dealer. His real name was A.
> Redondo, but everyone called him Pollero.
>
> The manager of the chess club was Alejandro Baez, a renowned chess
> master, but he never played because he had had a heart attack and his
> doctor had told him that playing again might prove fatal. However, I
> saw him analyze and he was clearly a master. He could find deep
> combinations nobody else could see.
>
> I also played in serious tournaments. I did well and I played against
> all of the top players in Mexico at one time or another.
>
> I did not neglect my studies because while playing chess I also spoke
> to my opponents in Spanish which improved rapidly. I came to Mexico
> not knowing a single word of the language except for si and no and I
> left fairly fluent. My ability to speak Spanish is something I have
> put to good use almost every day for the rest of my life. I certainly
> use it every day today.
>
> Before going to Mexico I had been given the address of a
> correspondence chess master there named Hector Jurado. Jurado had a
> perfume shop located at 400 Insurgentes named Perfumera Ritz. He
> helped me find a rented room right behind his shop in back of a
> beautiful home located at Tlacultalpan 18. There were a bunch of young
> Mexicans living in that home including two sexy girls that I realized
> years later that I could have slept with if only I had asked. I was
> such a nerd that I had not yet discovered the readily availability of
> women at that time.
>
> I qualified to the finals of a major chess tournament called Tourneo
> de Tablero de Oro, which meant tournament for the Golden Chess Board.
> Supposedly a golden chess board was to be awarded as first prize. I
> qualified to the finals by defeating Alejandro Araiza Joven. His
> father, Alejandro Araiza Senior, had been champion of Mexico for more
> than 25 years. By then he was too old and although he came to the
> tournaments he just watched. I was told that Baez had always been
> stronger than Araiza anyway.
>
> The masters I played in Mexico City were Armando Acevedo (three
> tournament games), Willy De Winter, io Campos Lopez, Guillermo
> Restrepo. Alfonzo Ferriz and Iglazias.
>
> My best friends in Mexico City were Rubin Galicia, Jurocho from Vera
> Cruz, and Escondrillas, who were all Class A players. I once played
> three games blindfold chess simultaneously against all three of them
> and won most of the games. This was a good result for me because
> Escondrillas was still a boy and he later grew up to become a chess
> master.
>
> When I got back to EEUU, I discovered that I was much stronger than
> before. I played in the Bay Area Chess League representing the
> University of California at Berkeley and I scored 6-1 against
> opponents averaging 2150. That gave me a performance rating of 2450.
> Players I defeated included David Blohm, George Kane and Alan Bourke.
> I believe that it was at this point that I reached my peak strength in
> chess.
>
> It was at about this time that I defeated three masters in a row in
> the Mechanics Invitational Chess Championship in San Francisco I
> defeated Rex Wilcox and Jim Schmidt and one other chess master at a
> time when Wilcox and Schmidt were the two strongest players in San
> Francisco, not counting William Addison who was vastly stronger than
> them. I also defeated Aki Kanimori.
>
> With a great future ahead of me at age of only 21, what happened to my
> great chess career?
>
> I discovered women, something I had not known about prior to my trip
> to Mexico. I decided that the most fruitful and productive use of my
> time was to organize sex orgies. I organized 42 of them, involving a
> total of 1200 participants. Between October 1966 and December 1967 I
> slept with 52 different women and I kept all of their names and other
> details neatly recorded in a notebook (which I have since lost). I
> remember most of their faces but only a few of their names. I played
> almost no chess except that I did play in the 1966 US Intercollegiate
> Championship in State College, Pennsylvania. The game I showed on my
> chess TV show last week, Carl Wagner vs. Sam Sloan, where I forced a
> draw in spite of being a pawn down in the endgame, was from that
> tournament. I also played in the 1967 American Open in Pasadena where
> I defeated Walter Browne (but immediately after that I lost to Walter
> Harris and John Blackstone and did not have a good result.)
>
> By then, I was already in the process of being run out of town in
> Berkeley where my notorious sex orgies had reached the newspapers, so
> I decided to vamoos and get out of town while the getting was still
> possible. I moved to New York City and almost completely stopped
> playing chess and when I did play my results were generally poor,
> although I did finish clear second on the 1969 US Amateur Chess
> Championship, defeating Michael Shahade (father of Greg and Jennifer)
> in the last round. The game was published in the New York Times.
>
> Since then, it has all been downhill. I have never studied chess
> openings since but instead have made up my own openings. I do not
> believe that I have ever gotten back to being as good as I was in
> early 1966.
>
> Unfortunately, I lost all my game scores when I abruptly had to leave
> Berkeley at the end of 1967. I have only two games scores for the
> entire period from 1965 to 1966 and the only reason I have those two
> games is that Armando Acevedo, former Chess Champion of Mexico, was
> kind enough to send them to me recently. I thank him for this and if
> anybody else has any games I played from 1964 to 1968 please send them
> to be because I do not have any of them.
>
> Here are the only two games I do have.
>
> Sam Sloan
>
>
> [Event "open tournament"]
> [Site "Mexico D.F."]
> [Date "1965.??.??"]
> [Round "?"]
> [White "Sloan, Sam"]
> [Black "Acevedo, Armando"]
> [Result "1-0"]
> [ECO "C18"]
> [BlackElo "2235"]
>
> 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qc7 7.Qg4 f6
> 8.Nf3 Nc6 9.Bd3 f5 10.Qg3 cxd4 11.cxd4 Nge7 12.Be3 Bd7 13.Qxg7
> O-O-O 14.g3 h5 15.Ke2 Rdg8 16.Qf6 Ng6 17.Rhb1 Nce7 18.Ng5 Rf8
> 19.Nxe6 Rxf6 20.Nxc7 Rff8 21.Nb5 Bxb5 22.Rxb5 h4 23.Rab1 hxg3
> 24.hxg3 b6 25.a4 f4 26.gxf4 Nxf4+ 27.Kd2 Nxd3 28.cxd3 Rh2 29.a5
> Nf5 30.axb6 Nxe3 31.bxa7 Rfxf2+ 32.Kc3 Ra2 33.Rb8+ Kd7 34.a8=Q
> Rhc2+ 35.Kb4 Rxa8 36.Rxa8 Rc7 37.Rh1 Nc2+ 38.Ka4 Rc3 39.Rh7+ Ke6
> 40.Ra6+ Kf5 41.Rf6+ Kg5 42.Rg7+ Kh5 43.e6 Ra3+ 44.Kb5 Nxd4+
> 45.Kc5 Rxd3 46.e7 Nb3+ 1-0
>
> [Event "Torneo de Tablero de Oro"]
> [Site "Mexico D.F."]
> [Date "1965.??.??"]
> [Round "?"]
> [White "Sloan, Sam"]
> [Black "Acevedo, Armando"]
> [Result "1/2-1/2"]
> [ECO "C19"]
> [BlackElo "2235"]
>
> 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.a4 Nbc6
> 8.Nf3 Qa5 9.Qd2 Bd7 10.Ba3 cxd4 11.cxd4 Qxd2+ 12.Kxd2 Nf5 13.c3
> Na5 14.Ke1 Rc8 15.Bb4 Nc4 16.Bxc4 Rxc4 17.Nd2 Rc8 18.Nb3 h5 19.f3
> f6 20.exf6 gxf6 21.Kf2 Rg8 22.Rhe1 Rc6 23.Nc5 Bc8 24.Nd3 Kf7
> 25.g3 Rc4 26.Rab1 Ne7 27.Nf4 Nc6 28.Nxh5 a5 29.Bc5 Rh8 30.g4 Rxa4
> 31.Ra1 Rc4 32.Ra3 e5 33.Kg3 f5 34.h4 Rh6 35.Bb6 a4 36.dxe5 fxg4
> 37.Nf4 gxf3 38.Kxf3 Bf5 39.Nxd5 Rcxh4 40.Nf4 Ne7 41.Rxa4 Bg4+
> 42.Kg3 Nf5+ 43.Kf2 Rxb6 44.e6+ Kg7 45.e7 Rh2+ 46.Kg1 Rh8 47.e8=Q
> Rxe8 48.Rxe8 Rb1+ 49.Kg2 Rb2+ 50.Kg1 Ng3 51.Ne6+ Bxe6 52.Rxe6
> Ne2+ 1/2-1/2
>




 
Date: 19 Jun 2005 17:11:41
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
I've chased a few women during my time. My only boast would be that I
usually crossed the "finish line" last.

Old Haasie



 
Date: 19 Jun 2005 16:05:22
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
<<why is that both yourself, and that other lunatic who escaped the
asylum
have to make special points about your woman chasing antics >>

Chasing women is sacramental--I've devoted much of my life energy to
the quest.

But child prostitutes of junior high school age--this lunatic objects.



 
Date: 19 Jun 2005 22:54:49
From: Lee Harris
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak

"Sam Sloan" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
>
> I believe that I reached my peak playing strength in chess in 1965-66.
> I was only 21 years old but after that I discovered girls and went
> straight downhill.

why is that both yourself, and that other lunatic who escaped the asylum
have to make special points about your woman chasing antics.




 
Date: 19 Jun 2005 15:12:38
From: Mark Houlsby
Subject: Re: Sam Sloan's Chess Peak
So you're chickening out and presenting lame excuses already?

k Houlsby