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Uruk Senior Member Offline Posts: 351 Joined: 02/03/09	Re: Drunken GM falls asleep Reply #6 - 09/06/09 at 11:53:54	Post Tools	Print Post
	Holmov I think


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LeeRoth God Member Offline I love ChessPublishing.com! Posts: 1520 Joined: 10/22/05	Re: Drunken GM falls asleep Reply #5 - 09/06/09 at 07:12:18	Post Tools	Print Post
	Forget who it was, but a famous story of a GM who showed up drunk and, as Black, bashed out 1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 b6 3.d4 e5. Upon 4.dxe5 our hero stared at the board, then commented that he'd been playing the Gruenfeld his whole life and never before realized that it loses a pawn!!


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MNb God Member Offline Rudolf Spielmann forever Posts: 10778 Location: Moengo Joined: 01/05/04 Gender:	Re: Drunken GM falls asleep Reply #4 - 09/04/09 at 19:34:57	Post Tools	Print Post
	I once had an opponent who fell asleep during the game. His excuse was that it had been a long day. As I lived even farther away it had been a long day for me as well, but for some reason that was irrelevant to him. The man woke up every time I hit the clock after moving, so I complicated and he missed some tactics.

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TonyRo God Member Offline I'm gonna crack your skull! Posts: 1846 Location: Cleveland, OH Joined: 11/26/07 Gender:	Re: Drunken GM falls asleep Reply #3 - 09/04/09 at 19:19:15	Post Tools	Print Post
	When I played in the Ohio Championships in '04 (I think), GM Aleks Wojtkiewicz ("Wojo") arrived there a day early and got absolutely hammered before his first round game and lost to some kid (who was still quite strong, now over 2400). Then during round 2 passed out in his game with my friend about 13 moves in and remained that way for the entire first time control. When he woke up and my friend told him that he flagged, he was none too pleased, but just grabbed two glasses of wine from the bar and took them back to his room. So sad...


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Schaakhamster God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 650 Joined: 05/13/08	Re: Drunken GM falls asleep Reply #2 - 09/04/09 at 11:42:06	Post Tools	Print Post
	One of the funiest things I have experienced was when one of my clubmates drew a teamgame against a higher-rated player. His opponent was disillusioned by the draw and as a consequence ordered himself 2 Westmalle tripels (Belgian beer; 9,5% alcohol). During the post-mortem he kept ordering and drinking tripels muttering to himself constantly that he should have been beter and that he should have won. By the time his teammates were ready to leave he hardly knew where he was anymore.


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Girkassa Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 433 Joined: 04/07/07	Re: Drunken GM falls asleep Reply #1 - 09/04/09 at 11:40:32	Post Tools	Print Post
	I wasn't a first-hand witness, and it wasn't a GM, but I know someone who fell asleep at the board, quite far into the game. He lost the game on time and didn't hear his opponent say "time."


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notagmyet Junior Member Offline I heart the Caro-Kann Posts: 72 Location: Oldham Joined: 08/26/03 Gender:	Drunken GM falls asleep 09/04/09 at 10:51:36	Post Tools	Print Post
	Maybe it's a case of schadenfreude but this made me giggle this morning: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/sep/04/vladislav-tkachiev-drunk-kolkata Has this ever happened to you? I've known a few people play hungover but never seen anyone actually fall asleep at the board...

	"When I am White, I am because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov" (?!) - Efim Bogolyubov, noted chess player and optimist.
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