Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:05:26 12/14/01
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On December 13, 2001 at 22:43:01, Steve Maughan wrote: >Dann, > >>Which is kind of ironic, because Ed is a very strong chess player. > >While I don't want to do Ed an injustice, I think I remember him saying that he >was only abut 1800 ELO OTB. He split this into 2200 ELO positionally and 1400 >ELO tactically. If this is the case I wouldn't say Ed is a particually strong >player. Could well be. I just remember seeing some brilliant moves that he made in some games he played. And he did beat Gata Kamsky once. OK, so Kamsky was wearing a blindfold! ;-) [Event "Compuserve Blindfold"] [Site "Compuserve Blindfold"] [Date "1996.05.31"] [Round "?"] [White "Kamsky, Gata"] [Black "Ed Schroder"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2735"] [ECO "C52"] [Opening "Evans gambit"] [Variation "Alapin-Steinitz variation"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.O-O d6 7.d4 Bg4 8.Qb3 Bxf3 9.Bxf7+ Ke7 10.Bg5+ Nf6 11.gxf3 h6 12.Bxf6+ gxf6 13.Qxb7 Qd7 14.Bd5 Rhg8+ 15.Bxg8 Rxg8+ 16.Kh1 Qh3 0-1
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