L.Gerzhoy at the Chicago Open

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

http://www.chicagoopen.net

L.Gerzhoy, a National team member, has 4.5/7

FM Michael Dougherty plays too - 3.5/7

[Vlad Dobrich]

Re: L.Gerzhoy at the Chicago Open

GM Anatoly Lein 3 - 4 !!! He used to be a top GM.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: L.Gerzhoy at the Chicago Open

GM Anatoly Lein 3 - 4 !!! He used to be a top GM.

Just for the record: born - March 28, 1931 (age 79) Before starting a triple-loss series, he had 3/4 ;)

(now please explain your !!! meaning

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: L.Gerzhoy at the Chicago Open

Round 8 win by Leonid:

[Event "19TH ANNUAL CHICAGO OPEN"]
[Site "Wheeling, Illinois"]
[Date "2010.05.31"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Homa, Seth"]
[Black "Gerzhoy, Leonid"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "2295"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackELO "2469"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[Source "MonRoi"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.Nge2 cxd4 7.exd4 d5 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.a3 Bd6 10.O-O O-O 11.Bc2 Qh4 12.h3 Nxc3 13.bxc3 e5 14.Qd3 Re8 15.dxe5 Bxe5 16.Rb1 Be6 17.Bb3 Rad8 18.Qf3 Bxb3 19.Rxb3 Rd7 20.Nf4 Bxf4 21.Bxf4 Qf6 22.Qg4 Qe6 23.Qxe6 Rxe6 24.Rfb1 b6 25.Be3 Re4 26.Rb5 Rc4 27.Kh2 f6 28.g4 Rxc3 29.g5 fxg5 30.Rxg5 Rxa3 31.Rc1 Ne7 32.h4 Rad3 33.Rcg1 g6 34.h5 R3d5 35.hxg6 hxg6 36.R5g4 Kf7 37.Ra1 Nf5 38.Rga4 Nxe3 39.fxe3 a5 40.Rb1 R7d6 41.Ra3 Ke6 42.Rab3 a4 43.Rxb6 Rxb6 44.Rxb6 Rd6 45.Rb1 Ra6 46.Rg1 Kf5 0-1

[Hans Jung]

Re: L.Gerzhoy at the Chicago Open

He's also over 80 yrs old. That he is playing tournament chess at all (even that he is alive!) is amazing. I recall a story from New in Chess where van Riemsdyk the IM suffered through a more than 100 move game with GM Lein - the suffering came from not so much the moves but the seven complete packs of cigarettes (each one smoked to the nub) that GM Lein consumed at the board during the game! New In Chess has some great stories. This one was in a letter to the editor reply to GM Sosonko's article on famous smokers in chess. Can someone help me out with the exact issue # of New IN Chess?? It really is a fabulous story.

[Vlad Dobrich]

Re: L.Gerzhoy at the Chicago Open

Just for the record: born - March 28, 1931 (age 79) Before starting a triple-loss series, he had 3/4 ;)

(now please explain your !!! meaning

I did not mean it is a good thing. I meant its a shock.

[Hans Jung]

Re: L.Gerzhoy at the Chicago Open

OOps - pardon me. He is only 79.

[Vlad Dobrich]

Re: L.Gerzhoy at the Chicago Open

There was an American master aged 90 plus (Whitaker?) playing a youngster from Canada (Coudari??). The Canuck complained to the TD that the old man was wheezing the whole game.
The old master replied " I have been playing chess 63 years - no one has ever asked me to stop breathing before!" :o

[Francis Rodriguez]

Re: L.Gerzhoy at the Chicago Open

http://www.chicagoopen.net

L.Gerzhoy, a National team member, has 4.5/7

FM Michael Dougherty plays too - 3.5/7

Toronto 5th grader Michael Song placed 12th in
the U-1900, collecting $50.00. Aquino Inigo, yet
another Ontario schoolboy (remember him?) placed
3rd in the U-2100, and walked off with $1075.00!

[Hans Jung]

Re: L.Gerzhoy at the Chicago Open

The article in New In Chess (Issue 3, 2009, pg 9)about GM Lein and smoking was actually a letter to the editor by Herman van Riemsdijk about a game of his with Lein in Brazil in 1979 (Lein was almost 50 at the time). He states that the game was played at a time control of 40 moves in two and a half hours followed by subsequent time controls of 16 moves in one hour. The game lasted 13 hours and 108 moves!! At least 150 cigarettes were consumed by GM Lein!! Amazing letter.

[Jonathan Berry]

Re: L.Gerzhoy at the Chicago Open

Lein tied for first place (with Yasser Seirawan) at the 1984 Grand Manan (New Brunswick) tournament, which was the first tournament ever in Canada at which a Canadian might earn a GM norm. None of the three Canadians in the field did earn that norm, but it was a start. Magazine #71, pp 32-35. Lein was a tough cookie, and a mere babe of 53 years at the time.