Like many eccentric chess players, he has resisted attempts at communication, but that is OK since he helped me gain over 200 USCF rating points without knowing it! I did not want to admit it due to my extremely competitive spirit, but the four or five games I lost to the dude forced me to retool my game!!
He and GM Kraai highly advocate taking paper notes in a real notebook and analyzing why one sometimes makes stupid moves at critical times in the game.
One of Perry's favorite sayings was this guy should not be able to get away with "this attack". He won a game against Amarillo Master Simms when he felt the Texan had overreached. The game you see above where Kuwait player unexpected launched a suspicious attack reminded me of the sage advice of Silas.
White's b2 Bishop is just oozing some latent potential as the second player's "attack" has created an uncountable number of weak squares around his Monarch. This is sometimes OK in the Dutch Defense but not in this case as White mopped the mess up quite handily with an Ne1-Nd3 repositioning of his f3 horse which was being attacked by overextended g4 pawn
Would you know Lior Lapid? If you know Silas, you probably know Lapid a very nice guy who I think once offended Chad Schneider by not giving a "gentleman's draw" in an event in NM organized by Chad. Chad apparently believed it was customary for the strongest player in tournament to give the organizer a draw! Kind of shallow and immature in my opinion since any player should not be proud of getting a draw that way.
ReplyDeleteMay have been friends with the weak player Steve Perea who somehow makes a lot of money in tutoring or coaching. He is a military guy who probably did not have that great a record serving our country. He is more of video game guy than chess strategist "I am the commanding officer of the Klingon Empire. Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war! chess.coach." He likes being in charge, but really is not a respected leader