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The Tactical Grob
The Tactical Grob This book is on the chess opening known as Grob's Attack. This chess opening starts with 1. g2-g4 or, in Descriptive Notation, 1. P-KN4. Once thought of as a joke, the Grob Opening is a very dangerous opening to both the white and black sides in chess. The 1. g2-g4 opening was named after the true Renaissance man Henry Grob, a portrait painter, newspaper columnist, and international chess master. This book was written by Claude Bloodgood who became the second highest rated chess player in the United States with a rating of 2702 while playing this opening. However, the book is highly controversial because Bloodgood was in prison serving a sentence of life while writing this book
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78 pages, Paperback
First published December 17, 2007
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October 13, 2021https://www.theguardian.com/theguardi...
One of the most bizarre chess stories I've ever come across.
One of the most bizarre chess stories I've ever come across.
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October 10, 2024The late Claude Bloodgood http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain...
directed
http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmt...
and played in
https://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnm...
hundreds of tournaments while in prison from 1994-1999,
https://www.uschess.org/msa/AffDtlTnm...
winning thousands of games
http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMile...
earning a USCF rating in the 2700s
http://www.uschess.org/datapage/ratin...
starting from a USCF rating of 2386 in 1994.
Some of his fellow inmates had similarly high ratings, such as those in section 5 here
https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain....
Bloodgood doesn't have a FIDE record
https://ratings.fide.com/
The Cleveland, OH public library has Bloodgood's manuscripts:
https://archives.cpl.org/repositories...
chess.com
https://www.chess.com/blog/Rodgy/how-...
wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_...
Here's the 1999 Guardian article about him
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardi...
directed
http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmt...
and played in
https://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnm...
hundreds of tournaments while in prison from 1994-1999,
https://www.uschess.org/msa/AffDtlTnm...
winning thousands of games
http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMile...
earning a USCF rating in the 2700s
http://www.uschess.org/datapage/ratin...
starting from a USCF rating of 2386 in 1994.
Some of his fellow inmates had similarly high ratings, such as those in section 5 here
https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain....
Bloodgood doesn't have a FIDE record
https://ratings.fide.com/
The Cleveland, OH public library has Bloodgood's manuscripts:
https://archives.cpl.org/repositories...
chess.com
https://www.chess.com/blog/Rodgy/how-...
wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_...
Here's the 1999 Guardian article about him
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardi...
June 10, 2023
The best opening in chess, the tactical grob, played only by connoisseurs of chess. The book speaks for itself.
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