On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:42:51 -0700 (PDT),
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Turns out he is foreign, so no great mystery. I like to see what
happens when a player inactive for dozens of years turns up. I
encountered one such in a tournament (he was playing in the memorial
tournament for his old chess mentor after abandoning chess for 20
years); he seemed to play at almost exactly the level of his ancient
rating. Have people seen other examples of this?


In about 1976, I played my last USCF tournament game until December of
2005. After a few mixups, they found my old rating. Since then I've
played in seven USCF tournaments and lost all of three rating points.