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I am the 4th person from the far end in the row behind Keres, thinking about my 7th move. I checked my scoresheet against the position on the board just to be sure.
Does any one remember the result of this simul? I have a recollection of the last game: I think Peter Nurmi was the last holdout.
Also, I know there were other pictures taken -- does anyone know who has one?
Last edited by Rod Hill; Wednesday, 6th March, 2013, 03:02 PM.
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I am the 4th person from the far end in the row behind Keres, thinking about my 7th move. I checked my scoresheet against the position on the board just to be sure.
Does any one remember the result of this simul? I have a recollection of the last game: I think Peter Nurmi was the last holdout.
Also, I know there were other pictures taken -- does anyone know who has one?
I was told once that readers could not see my posted pictures when they were at the chesstalk album
and as I am saying to many - there are a lot of readers and a little bit of writers :p
The clock simul was on Adelaide at the TCC. Keres scored 4.5/6 playing at 40/2.5, then the classical time control but with six games at once.
Nickoloff won a long 2Nvs2B endgame, I drew and (I think) Vranesic, Amos, Nurmi, Dobrich lost. Then we spent a few days analyzing the games. It was very instructive and I used that same format a few years later for an OCA training event for top juniors.
Recruited by John Prentice, Keres had started analyzing with the Canadian team at the Nice 1974 Olympiad.
Can somebody confirm that Paul Keres gave a simul with clocks too? Later it transformed into a coaching/training session by analyzing those games. Where did I read it?
Keres did a 5-board clocked simult and post-analysis in Toronto against Nickoloff, Day (60 move draw linked below), and probably Nurmi? and ? and ? A little more detail might be in Day's book on Nickoloff.
Great photo! I remember watching that event. I think I am at the far left in the photo, next to the guy with the fu-manchu moustache. I was new to tournament chess then and thus too bashful to sign up for the simul. But I did buy a copy of "How to Open a Chess Game" and got Keres (one of several co-authors) to autograph it.
Let's try to identify the photos on the wall. The left one is obviously Queen Elizabeth II - who is on the right? Was it Jules Leger (the Governor-General at the time)? Was it Vincent Massey (who provided the funds for building Hart House)? Was it Hart Massey (his grandfather - for whom he named the building)? Someone else?
More trivia: Massey had a budget of $300,000 for the building. It ended up costing $2,000,000 (in 1919).
Massey's donation stipulated that the building was to be used only by men, as he felt that a coeducational facility would ruin the sense of collegiality that he hoped to create. Beginning in the 1950s, this restriction created much controversy as women demanded admission. Massey stood by his original conditions, however. After his death the Stewards and administrators of Hart House had Massey's deed of gift altered to allow women to become members. Since 1972, women have been able to fully participate in the House's activities.
Let's try to identify the photos on the wall. The left one is obviously Queen Elizabeth II - who is on the right? Was it Jules Leger (the Governor-General at the time)? Was it Vincent Massey (who provided the funds for building Hart House)? Was it Hart Massey (his grandfather - for whom he named the building)? Someone else?
More trivia: Massey had a budget of $300,000 for the building. It ended up costing $2,000,000 (in 1919).
Massey's donation stipulated that the building was to be used only by men, as he felt that a coeducational facility would ruin the sense of collegiality that he hoped to create. Beginning in the 1950s, this restriction created much controversy as women demanded admission. Massey stood by his original conditions, however. After his death the Stewards and administrators of Hart House had Massey's deed of gift altered to allow women to become members. Since 1972, women have been able to fully participate in the House's activities.
The second photo was Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. It was Abby Hoffman, the Canadian track and field star, who began working out at Hart House and broke the sex barrier. Prior to allowing women, legend has it, that men would swim in the Hart House pool without bathing suits. I also understand when Lenoid Shamkovich stayed at Hart House for a tournament in Toronto in the 1980's, he upheld this tradition.
At least one woman played in the 1968 Canadian Open (in which I played), which was held at Hart House. Were women allowed in for special events?
(Vincent Massey died Dec. 30, 1967. Was his "deed of gift" altered immediately upon his death?)
This picture was taken by Vlad Dobrich and given to me to aid in promoting any Hart House Chess Club activities. The chess club was broken into and items stolen. I took this picture home and an old 6th edition of MCO that had been owned by Frank Anderson, to protect them. As the years went by we never really resolved the club's security issues. Even later on my house eventually turned into one of those horror stories involving hording. Well the house was cleaned up and sold and I moved to Newmarket. Fortunately these items survived. I was always intending to have the Hart House Chess Club donate them to a Canadian Chess hall of fame, but the status of the CFC never made that feasible.
Forgive my spelling, but starting from the lower left (with the help of the other posters) we have. Gary Burk (is his position cement enough?), Phil Haley, Kerns, B. Campbell, Larry Hammick (Won the Ontario High School Championship over Peter Matsi), Dimytriev. Top left to right, Martin Davenport (just behind Keres back), Jonathan Schaeffer, David Lavin. I am not 100% sure that is Zoltan Sarosy behind them. "Chess Canada" former employee.. Rubinstien in the far top left? Most of the people behind and to the right of David Lavin are Keres' countrymen or at least I got that impression at the time. I'm under the coat of arms at the back. Ian Kilgour's eyes are near the top right. The half seen roundish face in front of him is a chess player, but I can't remember his name. F. Bergeron starts off the bottom right. Now where is the KGB?
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More trivia: Massey had a budget of $300,000 for the building. It ended up costing $2,000,000 (in 1919).
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A $300,000 budget with $1,700,000 in cost overruns?? Too bad we don't have have time machines: Massey could have been a star in Dalton's cabinet during the McGuinty Reign of Error.
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