Author: margolies,marc
Date: 22:23:13 09/16/03
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was this the guy whose son is also a ccf player--and sent in some final sets of moves for dad post-mortem so that the dead guy can finish and win-- or am i thinking of another dead player? n September 16, 2003 at 21:40:23, Mike Byrne wrote: >Dead Man Wins Chess Tournament >=============================== > >Robert Ilderton has won the 1994 Golden Knights (Correspondence Chess) with a >perfect 18-0 score that was just completed this year. > >Robert completed the match early ( by the end of 1999) and was waiting it out >see if any was able to tie him. No one did. However , there was no celebration >by Robert. He had died March 6,2001. > >Source : Chess Life's "Check is in the Mail" column by Alex Dunne.
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