More About Chess

More about chess

My father was the Quebec Chess Champion in 1948. He learned to play chess when he was 3 years old, and played all his life. In fact, he continued to play long after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.  Some of the old timer chess players used to come to visit and play a game of chess with him.  He could still beat them, even after he no longer knew who they were!!!  I was told that was a function of learning how to play chess at a very young age, and then playing his entire life.

If you’ll forgive the name dropping, some of the friends with whom my father played chess on a regular basis were Samuel Reshevsky, Maurice Fox, Lionel Joyner, Abe (Daniel) Yanofsky, and Lawrence Day.

Besides Bobby Fischer, International Grandmaster Boris Spassky also came to Montreal and stayed at our house.   If memory serves, in later years, my parents hosted Anatoly Karpov and Gary Kasparov.

And here’s something just for fun: http://www.anusha.com/breasts.htm