(Sam Sloan) wrote in message ...
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:09:58 GMT, (Sam Sloan)
wrote:

Since several people have asked here is the game. My opponent was a
1900 player. His coach was Rusty Potter, a well known chess master.

In case anybody is wondering, Rusty Potter is listed as John Russell
Potter.

http://www.64.com/uscf/ratings/10199018

His current rating is 2216. He has been rated as high as 2355 and
never lower than 2200.

Sam Sloan

Sometime around 1970 my friend Roger Ramsey, since passed away, and I
met Rusty Potter, I believe in Raleigh. I think we might have been on
a city bus when he approached us. After asking us if those weren't
chess sets we were carrying, he told us that he was trying to learn
how to play chess himself and that he was glad to meet some
experienced players. (Roger and I were teenagers, not very
experienced, both rated around 1600.) He then asked us all sorts of
beginner questions about chess and eventually started a game with
Roger in which he made only pawn moves. When we got to the
tournament, which was at a shopping mall, we soon learned that he was
a chess master. He had just been having a little fun with us.

He was athletic and charismatic. I lost to him in the third, Saturday
evening round. During that game he kept gazing up at the second tier
of the mall and commenting on women's legs and undergarments. At one
point Charles Powell, who eventually won the tournament, walked past
our board and, in response to Potter's boasts, taunted Potter by
observing that my position was not bad. I remember later that night
Potter shouting in a parking lot, "I'm the best ****ing chess player
in the world!"


Danny Purvis