Tate on norm hunt in Spain!
Emory Tate has been on the chess scene for the past 30 years cutting a swath of memorable wins into his historic journey. The journey has been a challenging one, but the famous tactician continues toward his goal. He is currently competing in the Benidorm International and is battling amongst the likes of GMs Julio Granda Zuniga, Boris Avrukh, Victor Mikhalevski and the legendary Ulf Andersson.
After winning the King’s Island Open with Grigory Kaidanov and Carl Boor, his U.S. activity has declined as GM norm opportunities are rare and conditions are meager stateside. This puts chess professionals as the mercy of personal funds and private sponsors. Thus, Tate has gone abroad for more opportunities and more hospitable conditions. Tate told The Chess Drum that the window of opportunity is closing for attainment of GM norms, but it is apparent that his will is everstrong.
(Note: While Tate was snubbed in Chess Life’s coverage of King’s Island back in Febuary, he certainly deserves mention. Jerry Hanken spent a bit of time writing of his own experiences and half of the article was on Carl Boor. Meanwhile he only gave a cursory mention of Tate’s 4-1 score and never associated this score with joint first. This is a horrible and egregious omission in journalism.)
Daaim, please help. Is there anyway we can setup a fund to aid Tate in his quest? There are so many who would like to donate to
our brother.
I think it all has to start with a set down of serious chess people/players who want to continue to aid in the growth of African/African American chessplayers as a whole, as for tate who is on the map as an active I.m/G.m and really deserves more support for “creating the “Audacity to Hope” at the highest level of chess , lets go now for corporational donors such as Black enterprise, Music Moguls Jet, Harpo , Ariel fundation…etc , lets really look at what it takes to create a foundation that will support the efforts of our great minds in chess forever. Keep the beat going!!!
When and where do we start?
Lets form an inner circle of chess advocates through out the usa and continue to branch off from there, this group wouldstart the disccussion and put are resources on the table. lets start to talk online and build a database of like minded people who want this happen .
I saw Tate won again! I hope he keeps it up for the rest of the tournament.
Do you have the game? Its not online with the others
Thanks for letting me know
Great work Daaim! I don’t know where I would be without the
beating drum. Almost like reading a daily newspaper… I look
forward to my next issue. Good to know John is still active.
Yes I’m still at Georgia Tech…finishing up this summer…I’ve taken a long break from chess besides the occasional blitz game but I’m starting back training this summer…so I’m definitely looking at collecting games to look at like Tate’s games
You really do deserve a lot of credit for keeping the beat going…it has really been a connection between people from the Diaspora all over the world and is commendable indeed and a trip around the Diaspora to highlight current chess players would be an inspiring undertaking as well!
About Kayin, I’m not afraid of a challenge and if he wants to play I’m game anytime….but I’m taking a year to train & start back competiting next year…with the overall costs of travelling to tournaments I want to make sure I can at least break even.
Let me know if you make it for the GA championships & I’ll stop by.
Peace.
A thought occurred to me…if Tate (or someone else) brought out a book of his best games (especially games where he cracked GM’s like the famous Tate-Yudasin…can’t remember who was white or black) would that raise the capital for him to continue his GM quest? I know I for one would line up for an autographed copy of that book!
Like when I was back at Howard I bought a copy of Charles Covington’s book on his best games (autographed)…it wasn’t expensive but it is a piece of history…even in his introduction he says…when he looked at the chess books on his shelf there weren’t any written by players fromt he Diaspora and he decided to fill that void…
Daaim,
When you get that book of games by Tate. I would like to buy a few copies.
Ed Mark
How do we find out about international tournaments? Is there a listing somewhere?
EM
Ed, usually I go to the FIDE site online calendar to learn about
upcoming international events.
An annotated book by Tate would sell. Wilbert Paige was still
a great tournament with or without Tate. The key is just to
arrange another Wilbert Paige event and on an annual basis. In
this way, we as black players could help to promote and sustain
our own talent pool.
I agree with Kimani…and not just Tate’s games analyzed by Fritz like certain other books that are currently selling…I mean with the Tate humor and his OWN insight..
Attack With Emory Tate makes a good title (I think) I would definitely buy a couple of copies
Mr. Tate is 50 years old and rated 2378. To become a GM he needs 3 norms (doesn’t have any yet?) with performance of 2601, and to increase his rating to 2500+. This is quite a challenge.
I hope he realizes that doing the same old thing that has kept his chess exciting and fun for 30 years is just not good enough for this task. He has to re-think and change his approach and knowledge base.
It will need far more study, far more stability, far more hard-headed GM level practical playing. It’s a great thing to try to become a different and stronger player at 50. But there is no prospect of success (defined as becoming a GM) without willingness to make fundamental changes.
Let me know where to sign up. It is time we get together and get this thing started. stop talking and start doing it. (Where do I sign up.) 😈
Go ahead David! Btw I’m coming to DC next weekend. U’ll be at Dupont Saturday?
Photo of Tate right after playing 8.Rxh5 against Pastor… click here.
At 2386, Tate is ranked #18 in the Limburg Open A group in a field of 186… click here!
Tate is currently playing in the Limburg Open: https://www.limburgopen.nl . He is ranked #18 in the field of 186, and is the only American in the A group.