Modesto Famous - chess

couple new things, and

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:49:22 -0400

I live downtown, and sometimes people catch me painting out on the front porch, like my mail man. This week, happened to have canvas and that box of acrylics I don't use too often, and .... well, they're new. So is the coffee mug cafepress.com spot I put up as I my sister needed some new geek friendly item at Stanford's HEPL lab, that isn't physics related. Chess player in family helps that along.

My brother Larry Christiansen into American Chess Hall of Fame, May 3

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:38:30 -0400

Larry is currently living in Cambridge, MA with my sister in law Natasha. Mom called him to tell him I was in the paper on Wednesday, catch up on the news with him in Boston area. Natasha mentioned this scoop, so I put in the modestofamous.com after posting on our myspace, as this is news in our area. 1995, Modesto hosted the US Closed Invitational Chess Championship, a title he's held three times, but did not play that year, though the second ranked player, as also missing, first ranked player Yasser Seirawan. However, Hall of Famer, six time US Champion Walter S. Browne of Berkeley, did play, as also Nick DeFirmian and Joel Benjamin, the grandmasters to be inducted with Larry at an event in Florida.

Chessplayer in town, what to do for your birthday, AARP and other items

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:30:10 -0400

My brother Larry, still in top ten of US Chessplayers, former US champ 3 times visiting here from Boston, to see mom, and my birthday, has been taking a bit of time out from his tournament schedule, to revisit hardly his hometown as some have claimed, but where we moved to from Riverside, now 30 years ago, and see mom. Some of his schedule involves playing Golf with my brother who works at the City's parks dept. and he was so damned excited, scored his first birdie out in Escalon. Use that course beginners, they have been trying to drag me out there all week, since the used clubs showed up for my birthday, year 2 of my AARP eligibility.