Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 09:15:45 06/03/99
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Please better define 'really top player'. In my opinion Michael Rohde is as 'really top player', as Joel Benjamin is. True, he hasn't yet won the US Championship, but he is a very tallented GM, with many past tournament victories against both GM's & Computer's. In fact, Mike has recently come out with a fantastic book on the Sveshnikov Sicilian, and is hard at work on a 'Gambit Guide' to the Bogo-Indian. He is featured monthly in game of the month in Chess Life (a post that no less a player then Svetozar Gligoric used to have), and runs a web site, www.infochess.com. That's a lot of accomplishment for any GM, much less one who because of the ways of the chess world, has also too have become a full time attorney in the corporate world. In fact Benjamin (a really top player?!), after graduating from Yale (Mike also graduated from Yale), has stated (some years ago),that now that he was done with college he was going to be a full time chess profesional. Yes, he has succeeded in that very well. Mike too has succeeded, but not to the same decree as Joel, being that he is (as mentioned before), a full time attorney. mrslug - the software addict! On June 03, 1999 at 02:33:40, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >On June 03, 1999 at 01:00:19, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>On June 02, 1999 at 21:56:36, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >> >>> >>>1. write in a guess for who this GM oponnent will be (& maybe why). My guess is >>>Joel Benjamin, winner of many Harvard Cups. (and Deep Blue helper). >>> >> >>This poll doesn't make any sense - there are hundred's of GMs in the world! >> >>Jouni > >You are right, who knows who it could be. I suppose the really top players would >not bother for the money being offered. They seem to be like that these days.
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