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Nakamura at Detroit Institute of Arts - Friday, August 21
Re: Nakamura at Detroit Institute of Arts - Friday, August 21
I think this is a super-interesting thread. I remember someone (maybe Deen Hergott) telling me that he was chatting with Shirov at North Bay. Shirov was due to play in some Russian Round Robin right after (Novosibirsk?) featuring a bunch of elite players. Shirov was worried that the "weak" chess in NB would have a negative impact on his latter event.
I haven't done hundreds of simuls, but I've certainly done dozens. They are pretty tiring and it does seem like strange time and a strange choice to make just before such a prestigious event and when the US pecking order (Nakamura, Caruana, So) is so up in the air.
"Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.
... Then again I shouldn't be too surprised I never got more than a couple of issues of the promised subscription for beating you in that simul. ...
Interesting. As a teenager I had a similar bad experience with Walter at a simul at the former Wellington Square Mall in London. :)
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Why is everyone missing the points of my argument? I suspect none of you have read closely my initial post - blind men gasping the tail of the elephant!
And to address your comments, Mr Prez, I never said that exposing inner city school kids to a top GM was a bad thing - I merely questioned the timing of the simul. And yes, I know the level of players that join a simul. I had given hundreds of simuls when I was an active player in the early 70's - I know how physically tiring they can be. And didn't my friend Walter Browne die just recently a few hours after giving a strenuous simul in Las Vegas?
And I see by your comment>>>>> "I suspect the chess will not be as bad as you expect." and I agree that from your perspective the chess may not be so bad. But here we are considering the level of the chess in the ensuing Sinquefeld Cup where Naka will be faced with nine players who are all either in the top ten in the world or who could be in the top ten once the live ratings are posted after the event.
We'll just have to wait to see what effect Naka's 'unprofessional' approach has on his performance in the tournament. I expect there's a good chance he will lose his plus 2800 status in the live ratings.
And none of the 'gentlemen' who jumped on my comments in the initial post above seemed to recognize the harm done in Naka's skipping the player's reception where the sponsor Mr Sinquefeld will no doubt notice Naka's absence. You especially Mr Prez, seem to not concern yourself with individual sponsors. The likes of Mr Sinquefeld only come around perhaps once in a generation.
And I would guess that Mr Sinquefeld is currently the world's No 1 individual sponsor for chess.
So as you say >>>> "Only on ChessTalk......"
You're being presumptuous. You're presuming that you know best (i.e. better than Nakamura himself) how a super GM deals with the pressure of preparing for an elite event. And you're presuming that you know what Mr. Sinquefield's (note the correct spelling of his surname) reaction will be to N's simul.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Before you know it, Brian Hartman will be putting up $10,000 for a Dobrich-McKillop match! :-)
Or better still, Vlad giving a simul with Peter McKillop, Vlad Drkulec and Aman Hambleton on the other side (to start with; the simul is filling up fast)
Re: Nakamura at Detroit Institute of Arts - Friday, August 21
I see Naka introduced and first handshake by Kevin Fite in first video.
His stepdad Sunil Weeramantry leans in for a chat at beginning of 3rd video.
3 "bad" beards.
Re: Nakamura at Detroit Institute of Arts - Friday, August 21
Nakamura Simul
From the Detroit News, Aug, 21
Francis X. Donnelly
Chess champion plays 50 young people simultaneously
Detroit — Imagine pitching to Miguel Cabrera. Or catching a pass from Matthew Stafford. Or stealing the puck from Henrik Zetterberg.
Some 50 young chess aficionados got a chance Friday night to play the best player in the U. S.: Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura.
They would likely be whupped, to be sure, and few entertained the notion of winning. After all, some of the youngsters, members of the Detroit City Chess Club, have been playing for just a few years.
Still, it was just exciting to rub shoulders with such a luminary, said the players.
Kamauri, 13, an eighth-grader at University Prep Science and Math in Detroit, also was pretty resplendent in a purple shirt and tie and white pants and vest.
The object of his and other players’ affection, Nakamura, entered the Great Hall of the Detroit Institute of Arts to a thunderous standing ovation from the players.
The chess prodigy, 27, who is ranked fourth in the world, knows something about overachieving youngsters. At 10, he became the youngest American chess master in history and, at 15, he was the youngest American grandmaster.
Who was the youngest grandmaster before him? The fabled Bobby Fischer.
Waiting for Nakamura to arrive at the DIA, the players, sitting around a rectangular table, mulled over their opening gambits. Others, being kids, used their smartphones to play video games.
“I wonder if anyone else is like me? Can you feel the excitement? ” asked Sherman Redden, the former executive director of the chess club.
Nakamura smiled and shook the hand of each player before the first move. He used two types of opening moves, alternating them with the players.
The grandmaster made every move in a split second.
The youngsters dutifully jotted down every move made by the master, and how they responded.
Redden had told them before the match that they would long treasure their yellow score sheets from Friday because Nakamura is such a luminary in their world.
The players’ cloth chess boards sat on white linen atop the table. The walls were lined with glass display cases that held suits of armor. Fittingly, a game involving knights was surrounded by knights.
As they played, a crowd of 70, mostly parents, snapped photos or took videos of the contest.
Unlike most players, Kamauri refused to concede anything to his daunting foe. Despite playing for just 2 1/2years, the youngster said he believed he could win.
“I’ve been studying for two weeks, ” he said.
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Sunday, 23rd August, 2015, 11:12 PM.
Of course the Detroit media were out in full force beginning on Friday morning, which included TV and radio with one being international. Lunch at iconic Sweetwater Tavern in downtown Detroit is reputed the best wings in world! Since Nakamura was once in a wing-eating contest, he may have had a bit of nostalgia.
After lunch Nakamura was taken to play 50 of the Detroit City Chess Club scholastic players. Perhaps he was pleasantly surprised when he got a rip-roaring, two-minute ovation after he was introduced. While the DCCC has invited other chess luminaries, Nakamura is the highest profile chess player to visit the city.
According to a news report by modeldmedia, Fite (the organizer) made a wager with Nakamura that he could not beat his students in under three hours. In fact, the simul lasted more than four hours and the four-time champion was nicked for a draw and a loss. The player who defeated Nakamura was Bryan Wilson, Jr., an 8th grader from University Prep Science & Math Middle School. By his father’s count, “has won every state title there is.”
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