Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:12:42 09/30/00
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On September 30, 2000 at 17:23:20, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Bob: >I asume that Edward Lasker you met is the same that wrote "Chess for Blood and >Chess for Fun", the very best chess book I have ever read not because its >technicalities, but because of its human warm. It seemed to me this Lasker was a >real gentleman, the kind of sportman you ever would like to meet. Tell me >something about him yo knew meeting him, If is him.. >Cheers >Fernando That was him. He played a game vs chess 4.x at one of the late 70's ACM events. I actually don't remember how the game turned out (I think he might have lost in fact). But of course, at the time, he was already very old and way past his prime for playing chess. No really good stories about him to tell. Quite friendly. "plain" (ie no wild antics like George Koltinowski [not sure that is spelled right], etc.) Was nice to get to meet some of these guys. Best story has to be one about Botvinnik. He came to the 1983 WCCC event ready to crown Belle the WC since it had won in 1980 and was considered the favorite. He brought two ceremonial 'horns' (tiny animal horns used to drink some sort of alcoholic beverage in the Soviet Union). One was to be given to Ken Thompson, the other to Joe Condon (the Belle team). We upset the apple- cart as you probably know... and at the awards banquet he did some fast thinking (We had three team members, Hyatt, Gower and Nelson) and said "here is one horn for Cray Blitz and one for the team." :) quick thinking. :)
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