Exeter Chess Club: Trawled from the 'Net

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From: Michael Pollak 
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Subject: Re: Kasparov's Boycott Against Judit Polgar
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 23:03:03 -0500
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> ...
> It's also worth mentioning that the 1985 New York Open was Judit's
> coming-out party, chesswise. At the age of 8 (by VanUpp's figures, though
> I'd thought she was 9), she won the "unrated" section, beating some other
> foreign master-level players.
> 
> I drew with Zsuzsa at that tournament. Well into the game, tiny Judit
> stopped by, glanced at our board for less than ten seconds, looked at me,
> then wandered away. Her expression made it clear to me that she had
> understood more about my game with Zsuzsa in those ten seconds than I had
> in several hours. Good thing I'd never planned on being a chess pro ....

Yeah, she was cute back then.  I stopped by to watch one of her games in
the evening with a Hungarian friend of mine (who kept informed of the
conversation).  Her opponent, who had white, was a little bit late (the
starting time was 7:30pm) and she wanted to start his clock.  Her mother
said yes, it was her right, but it wasn't a nice thing to do, and didn't
she want to be a nice girl?  But I have to go to sleep soon! she whined. 
The guy showed up five minutes and probably wished he hadn't; she used
about 90 seconds to his hour, and spent her waiting time playing with her
toy lion. 

Michael

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Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak@panix.com

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