Time in Kaluga, Russia

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Richard Bates
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Time in Kaluga, Russia

Post by Richard Bates » Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:49 pm

Gone midnight so Feb 8th.
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Re: Time in Kaluga, Russia

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:58 pm

Happy birthday, Yuri.
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Re: Time in Kaluga, Russia

Post by David Sedgwick » Mon Feb 07, 2022 10:38 pm

I attended Yuri Averbakh's 80th birthday lecture to ARVES in Belgium. Was that really 20 years ago?

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Re: Time in Kaluga, Russia

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Mon Feb 07, 2022 10:44 pm

Wikipedia still says Averbakh is 99 as it calculates ages using UTC timings. Is Averbakh the first GM to reach the grand old age of 100? The Wikipedia page has a photo of him at his 80th birthday party.

Nice photo here of Averbakh and Bronstein in 1963:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... 4-6981.jpg
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Re: Time in Kaluga, Russia

Post by Mick Norris » Tue Feb 08, 2022 8:04 am

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Yuri Lvovich Averbakh is now the first ever Grandmaster to become 100 years old. The specialist has applied the most famous of endgame principles to his own life: Do Not Hurry!
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Re: Time in Kaluga, Russia

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:01 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 07, 2022 10:44 pm
 Wikipedia still says Averbakh is 99 as it calculates ages using UTC timings. Is Averbakh the first GM to reach the grand old age of 100? The Wikipedia page has a photo of him at his 80th birthday party.

Nice photo here of Averbakh and Bronstein in 1963:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... 4-6981.jpg
Not just that, but I think the first FIDE title holder of any sort.
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Re: Time in Kaluga, Russia

Post by Joey Stewart » Tue Feb 08, 2022 2:48 pm

Even if he isn't the first he is the first player of real noteworthiness to get there - and the best part is he still plays a little bit too, I always have extra admiration for players who don't give up.
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