The death of the Argentine IM at the age of 84 has been announced.
Was a regular in South American chess for decades, but his biggest achievement was winning the World Junior title in 1959.
And we can chalk off another name from the dwindling number of people still alive who played Fischer.
Carlos Bielicki IM
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Matt Mackenzie
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"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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Nick Ivell
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Re: Carlos Bielicki IM
Mar del Plata 1960. One of many Sozin victims.
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Matt Mackenzie
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Re: Carlos Bielicki IM
The recently deceased Andreas Dueckstein was another name crossed off the "played RJF" list.
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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John Collins
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Re: Carlos Bielicki IM
Bielicki won the World Junior by beating David Rumens in the last round (he had White against DRs Dutch Defence). Had Rumens won he would have been World Junior champ instead.
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James Plaskett
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Dave would have become World Junior Champion had he won his last game!
Crikey. I never knew he came that close!
R.I.P both gentlemen.
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Crikey. I never knew he came that close!
R.I.P both gentlemen.
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John Collins
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Re: Carlos Bielicki IM
As runner-up Dave won an expensive Swiss watch - which was impounded by British customs on the return journey ! (He later got it back).
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James Plaskett
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I thought it was played in The Hague ?!
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John Clarke
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Nope, that was the next one in 1961, won by Bruno Parma.
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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David Mabbs
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Re: Carlos Bielicki IM
And ... here's another Cedars voice, joining colleague John Collins to mark and honour Dave Rumens's near miss, and humbly to praise Carlos Bielicki.
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James Pratt
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Re: Carlos Bielicki IM
Please, David, no more tempting circulars or tiddly-winks!
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David Mabbs
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Replying to James Pratt ... I appreciate the old joke, dating back to November 1964 when I first gave up chess forever and got rid of all my chess possessions including game scores. "What a mistake-a to make", to quote Captain Alberto Bertorelli. I owe immense thanks to John Saunders, who has rediscovered masses of my old games (and newer ones), transcribed them into algebraic and put them into BritBase. Such is my memory, that most of these games surprised me "did I play him ? did I play that ?" ... and among them all, there's even an occasional win - it doesn't get much better than that !