Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

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Date: 13 Mar 2006 21:28:55
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Peter Manetti has died

Chess Master Peter Manetti died in Guerneville, Sonoma County,
California on ch 8, 2006 of prostate cancer. He succumbed after a
long illness. Two years ago he was given six months to live. He
outlived his prognosis.

Manetti rarely played tournament chess but he played in the first
great master's tournament at Lone Pine 1972. His performance there,
where he drew grandmasters Denker and Evans, established him as a
master strength player. He had a USCF rating of 2158. His specialty
was blitz chess, where he was a master and a 2300 player. He often
held chess parties at his house high on a hill above the Russian River
in Guerneville, to which he would invite San Francisco masters and
experts and provide them with food and drink.

Manetti was about 66 years old. Originally from New Jersey, he served
in the US ines. He came to California in about 1965. After living
for several years in Oakland, he moved to the remote village of
Guerneville, where he made his living as an agriculturist, growing and
distributing agricultural products to the local communities. Manetti
also worked as an artist, selling his woodcuttings, paintings and
other works of art in San Francisco. He also taught chess to several
promising young players in the Santa Rosa area.

Late in life, Manetti revealed that his real original name was not
Manetti. It was Schumbacher or something similar. In the aftermath of
World War II there had been discrimination against Germans, so either
he or his father had changed his name from a German name to an Italian
name.

He is survived by his devoted wife, Genarosa Manetti, who has made a
name for herself as a philanthropist, for her free donations of feline
animals, and by his three daughters, Diana, age 41, a performing
artist, Barbara, 36, of Guerneville and Xhana, of Windsor, California.

Sam Sloan

[Event "op"]
[Site "Lone Pine"]
[Date "1972.??.??"]
[White "Manetti, Pete"]
[Black "Evans, Larry Melvyn"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A94"]

1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 d5 5.Bg2 c6 6.O-O Bd6 7.b3 O-O
8.Ba3 Bxa3 9.Nxa3 Nbd7 10.Qc1 Qe7 11.Ne5 Qd6 12.Qb2 g5 13.e3 a5
14.Rac1 Qe7 15.Nc2 Qg7 16.Ne1 Kh8 17.N1d3 g4 18.Nf4 Nxe5 19.dxe5
Ne4 20.Bxe4 fxe4 21.Nh5 Qg6 22.Nf6 Kg7 23.Qa3 Rxf6 24.exf6+ Qxf6
25.Qd6 Qf8 26.Qxf8+ Kxf8 27.Kg2 Bd7 28.h3 gxh3+ 29.Kxh3 Be8 30.f3
exf3 31.Rxf3+ Ke7 32.Rcf1 Bg6 33.g4 a4 34.cxd5 axb3 35.axb3 exd5
36.R3f2 Kd6 37.Kg3 Ra3 38.Rb2 Kc5 39.Rf4 Be4 40.Rf7 Ra7 41.g5 Kb4
42.Kf4 Kc3 43.Rh2 Kxb3 44.Rhxh7 Bxh7 45.Rxh7 Ra1 46.Rxb7+ Kc4
47.g6 Rg1 48.g7 c5 1/2-1/2

Date: 23 Mar 2006 04:24:27
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

The reception for Peter Manetti will be this Saturday, ch 25, 2006
at 2:00 PM at 957 Crest Drive in Santa Rosa. California. It will be
pot-luck, but you don't have to bring anything to attend.

Sam Sloan

Date: 23 Mar 2006 06:41:20
From: Communist Stooge
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

"Sam Sloan" < > The reception for Peter Manetti will be this Saturday, ch
25, 2006
> at 2:00 PM at 957 Crest Drive in Santa Rosa. California. It will be
> pot-luck, but you don't have to bring anything to attend.
>

Will any of your wives and kids be there? Paula Rubin is looking for a date,
she might show up.

Date: 22 Mar 2006 05:41:08
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Nick wrote:
> Taylor Kingston wrote:
> > David Richerby wrote:
> > > John J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > "David Richerby" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >> Randy Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >>> By not attributing the information, he leads the reader to believe
> > > >>> that he knows this fact personally.
> > > >>
> > > >> So, er, if I tell you that the Battle of Hastings was fought in 1066,
> > > >> without telling you which book I read it in, you assume that I know
> > > >> this because I was there? Interesting.
> > > >
> > > > You mean....you weren't there?
> > >
> > > No, I got hurt at Stamford Bridge so I had to sit that one out.
> >
> > Yeah, same thing happened to me at Thermopylae,
> > so I missed out on Salamis.
>
> I did not know that Taylor Kingston's likely a Persian. :-)

Mr. Richerby and I are both reincarnations of General George Patton,
who as you may know was reincarnated many times in past ages, always as
a warrior. Recently he decided to branch out, into mathematics and bank
data processing.

> The Persians defeated the Spartans (who, according to their tradition,
> died fighting to the last man) and their Greek allies at Thermopylae,
> a land battle. The Persians were defeated by the Athenians and
> their Greek allies at Salamis, a sea battle. It seems unlikely that
> any Greek would have been in a position to fight both at Thermopylae
> and at Salamis.

What, you were there?

Date: 21 Mar 2006 16:56:24
From: Nick
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Taylor Kingston wrote:
> David Richerby wrote:
> > John J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > "David Richerby" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Randy Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>> By not attributing the information, he leads the reader to believe
> > >>> that he knows this fact personally.
> > >>
> > >> So, er, if I tell you that the Battle of Hastings was fought in 1066,
> > >> without telling you which book I read it in, you assume that I know
> > >> this because I was there? Interesting.
> > >
> > > You mean....you weren't there?
> >
> > No, I got hurt at Stamford Bridge so I had to sit that one out.
>
> Yeah, same thing happened to me at Thermopylae,
> so I missed out on Salamis.

I did not know that Taylor Kingston's likely a Persian. :-)

The Persians defeated the Spartans (who, according to their tradition,
died fighting to the last man) and their Greek allies at Thermopylae,
a land battle. The Persians were defeated by the Athenians and
their Greek allies at Salamis, a sea battle. It seems unlikely that
any Greek would have been in a position to fight both at Thermopylae
and at Salamis. It's worth noting that the Persians also had Greek
allies. Artemisia, the queen of a Greek city-state in Asia Minor,
fought for the Persians at Salamis, and afterward she was praised
for her courage by Xerxes, the Persian king.

In contrast to popular writing today that presents the Greco-Persian
Wars as a grand 'clash of civilisations', if not as a simple racial
war between Europeans (Greeks) and Asians (Persians), the
Greco-Persian Wars substantially involved changing assessments
of self-interests by the Greek city-states, which influenced their
choices of allies. It's worth noting that, in addition to the
Persians, both the Athenians and the Spartans practised
imperialism and could be ruthless in devastating any weaker
Greek city-states who dared to defy them. The leaders of some
Greek city-states decided that they could be better off in
submitting to the Persians (who often were content to collect
taxes, permitting much autonomy in local government) rather
than, say, to the Spartans (who enslaved other Greeks).

--Nick

Date: 21 Mar 2006 16:23:50
From: Nick
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

David Richerby wrote:
> John J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "David Richerby" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Randy Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> By not attributing the information, he leads the reader
> >>> to believe that he knows this fact personally.
> >>
> >> So, er, if I tell you that the Battle of Hastings was fought in 1066,
> >> without telling you which book I read it in, you assume that I know
> >> this because I was there? Interesting.
> >
> > You mean....you weren't there?
>
> No, I got hurt at Stamford Bridge so I had to sit that one out.

Was David Richerby there with Harald or with Harold? :-)

--Nick

Date: 22 Mar 2006 09:34:01
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Nick <[email protected] > wrote:
> David Richerby wrote:
>> John J. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> "David Richerby" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Randy Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> By not attributing the information, he leads the reader
>>>>> to believe that he knows this fact personally.
>>>>
>>>> So, er, if I tell you that the Battle of Hastings was fought in 1066,
>>>> without telling you which book I read it in, you assume that I know
>>>> this because I was there? Interesting.
>>>
>>> You mean....you weren't there?
>>
>> No, I got hurt at Stamford Bridge so I had to sit that one out.
>
> Was David Richerby there with Harald or with Harold? :-)

Yes.

Dave.

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Date: 21 Mar 2006 13:02:22
From: Ambassador
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

The Italians always change sides. In the end, the Italians are never
your enemy. World War I, World War II. They like to go with the winner.
In fact, around 1943, the Italians were taken OFF the enemy alien list,
so Italians suffered the least amount of discrimination of the Axis
powers. Also, the Italian mob strongly helped US forces invade Italy.
The story makes histortical sense.

cus Roberts

Date: 21 Mar 2006 04:29:39
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

David Richerby wrote:
> John J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "David Richerby" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Randy Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> By not attributing the information, he leads the reader to believe
> >>> that he knows this fact personally.
> >>
> >> So, er, if I tell you that the Battle of Hastings was fought in 1066,
> >> without telling you which book I read it in, you assume that I know
> >> this because I was there? Interesting.
> >
> > You mean....you weren't there?
>
> No, I got hurt at Stamford Bridge so I had to sit that one out.

Yeah, same thing happened to me at Thermopylae, so I missed out on
Salamis.

Date: 21 Mar 2006 13:56:54
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Taylor Kingston <[email protected] > wrote:
> David Richerby wrote:
>> John J. <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> "David Richerby" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> So, er, if I tell you that the Battle of Hastings was fought in 1066,
>>>> without telling you which book I read it in, you assume that I know
>>>> this because I was there? Interesting.
>>>
>>> You mean....you weren't there?
>>
>> No, I got hurt at Stamford Bridge so I had to sit that one out.
>
> Yeah, same thing happened to me at Thermopylae, so I missed out on
> Salamis.

I'd always suspected you might be a little older than me.

Dave.

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to use!

Date: 19 Mar 2006 04:30:17
From: Andrew Zito
Subject: Message to Bauer

Randy Bauer wrote:

> "Taylor Kingston" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> > Randy Bauer wrote:
> >> Another example of Sloan's legendary inability to research and report. I
> >> guess I also missed one of his legendary retractions and apologies for
> >> the
> >> screw up.
> >
> > Randy, as you know I am not often given to defending Sam Sloan, but
> > in this case the mistake is probably the database's, not his.
>
> Taylor,
>
> It is nice of you to defend Sloan, but the fault is still his. He doesn't
> attribute his knowledge that at the 1972 Lone Pine tournament Manetti "drew
> grandmasters Denker and Evans" to the Chessbase Mega Database. By not
> attributing the information, he leads the reader to believe that he knows
> this fact personally. It is just another example of Sloan writing as if
> something is fact first and checking later -- if he bothers to check at all.
>
> Randy Bauer

Sam Sloan checking facts? That's an oxymoron!

Date: 18 Mar 2006 08:31:32
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Randy Bauer wrote:
> Another example of Sloan's legendary inability to research and report. I
> guess I also missed one of his legendary retractions and apologies for the
> screw up.

Randy, as you know I am not often given to defending Sam Sloan, but
in this case the mistake is probably the database's, not his.

> No doubt, some chess database will now list this as an Evans
> game.

At least one already does. My copy of the ChessBase Mega Database
2005 gives the game as Manetti-Evans, not Manetti-Ervin.

Date: 19 Mar 2006 08:02:14
From: Randy Bauer
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

"Taylor Kingston" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Randy Bauer wrote:
>> Another example of Sloan's legendary inability to research and report. I
>> guess I also missed one of his legendary retractions and apologies for
>> the
>> screw up.
>
> Randy, as you know I am not often given to defending Sam Sloan, but
> in this case the mistake is probably the database's, not his.

Taylor,

It is nice of you to defend Sloan, but the fault is still his. He doesn't
attribute his knowledge that at the 1972 Lone Pine tournament Manetti "drew
grandmasters Denker and Evans" to the Chessbase Mega Database. By not
attributing the information, he leads the reader to believe that he knows
this fact personally. It is just another example of Sloan writing as if
something is fact first and checking later -- if he bothers to check at all.

Randy Bauer

Date: 20 Mar 2006 10:34:55
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Randy Bauer <[email protected] > wrote:
> It is nice of you to defend Sloan, but the fault is still his. He
> doesn't attribute his knowledge that at the 1972 Lone Pine
> tournament Manetti "drew grandmasters Denker and Evans" to the
> Chessbase Mega Database. By not attributing the information, he
> leads the reader to believe that he knows this fact personally.

So, er, if I tell you that the Battle of Hastings was fought in 1066,
without telling you which book I read it in, you assume that I know
this because I was there? Interesting.

Dave.

--
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www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ a roasted nut that you can put on your
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Date: 21 Mar 2006 05:43:01
From: John J.
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

You mean....you weren't there?

"David Richerby" <[email protected] > wrote in message
news:R1i*[email protected]...
> Randy Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It is nice of you to defend Sloan, but the fault is still his. He
>> doesn't attribute his knowledge that at the 1972 Lone Pine
>> tournament Manetti "drew grandmasters Denker and Evans" to the
>> Chessbase Mega Database. By not attributing the information, he
>> leads the reader to believe that he knows this fact personally.
>
> So, er, if I tell you that the Battle of Hastings was fought in 1066,
> without telling you which book I read it in, you assume that I know
> this because I was there? Interesting.
>
>
> Dave.
>
> --
> David Richerby Aquatic Laptop Peanut (TM): it's
> like
> www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ a roasted nut that you can put on
> your
> lap but it lives in the sea!

Date: 21 Mar 2006 10:26:50
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

John J. <[email protected] > wrote:
> "David Richerby" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Randy Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> By not attributing the information, he leads the reader to believe
>>> that he knows this fact personally.
>>
>> So, er, if I tell you that the Battle of Hastings was fought in 1066,
>> without telling you which book I read it in, you assume that I know
>> this because I was there? Interesting.
>
> You mean....you weren't there?

No, I got hurt at Stamford Bridge so I had to sit that one out.

Dave.

--
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Date: 17 Mar 2006 11:55:27
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Hymie Kravsner wrote:
> Is Kashdan still alive to verify what happened? Or Roy Ervin?

Ervin, I do not know, though it seems likely since he was born in
1951. Kashdan died in 1985, but we have what he wrote in 1972, and I
see no reason to dispute it, especially since he was the director of
the tournament. If you want to ask a living person about it, I would
suggest contacting GM Evans at chesstours.com.

Date: 18 Mar 2006 05:56:29
From: Hymie Kravsner
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

"Taylor Kingston" <If you want to ask a living person about it, I would
> suggest contacting GM Evans at chesstours.com.
>

I am not disputing anything, however sometimes the story that was written at
the time may have left out a couple of details due to any number of innocent
reasons.

If anyone else could verify one account or the other, it might make the
highlight of Manetti's career either better or worse but at least it would
be somewhat verified.

Date: 17 Mar 2006 05:55:45
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Hymie Kravsner wrote:
> "Taylor Kingston" < Looking a bit more carefully in the CL&R article, I see
> it reports
> that because of his wife's accident, Evans did not even play the last round
> at Lone Pine 1972. Therefore Manetti could not have played him, contrary to
> what CB records.>
>
> Maybe he had played before the accident, or came back and played later. If
> the wife did not suffer injuries, it is possible he did play the game though
> maybe not when everyone else was playing.

No such thing is reported by Kashdan, who was the tournament
director. I would think the TD knew who played whom, had records to
prove it. Also it is reported that Evans played only 6 games, scoring
3-3, instead of the full scheduled 7.
BTW, concerning eligibility for the tournament, an advertisement on
page 71 of the January CL&R says that in addition to "rated masters,
senior masters and grandmasters," it would be open to "all rated
experts who will be under 21 on ch 1, 1972." That still would not
explain how Peter Manetti qualified -- he was about age 30 then, and
not rated 2200+ as far as I can see from the CL&R rating reports.

Date: 17 Mar 2006 19:48:25
From: Hymie Kravsner
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Is Kashdan still alive to verify what happened? Or Roy Ervin?

Date: 16 Mar 2006 11:31:30
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Thank you.

Sam Sloan

Date: 16 Mar 2006 07:45:32
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Looking a bit more carefully in the CL&R article, I see it reports
that because of his wife's accident, Evans did not even play the last
round at Lone Pine 1972. Therefore Manetti could not have played him,
contrary to what CB records.

Taylor Kingston wrote:
> Sam Sloan wrote:
> > I have finally been able to reach a family member and I have some
> > corrections in my obituary of Peter Manetti.
> >
> > Peter Manetti died at 2:47 AM on Friday, ch 10, 2006 (not on ch
> > 8 as I originally reported). He died in a home for assisted living in
> > Sebastapol, California, not in his own home in Guerneville. He has
> > been cremated. He was born in 1939 not in 1940 in Germany not in New
> > Jersey and his original name was Schilling not Schumbacher. His mother
> > changed his name from the German name of Schilling to the Italian name
> > of Manetti after they arrived in America.
> >
> > One person contested my statement that Manetti lived high on a hill.
> > This person said that Manetti lived next to the river. I have found
> > out that both statements are true. He lived high on a hill which was
> > next to the river. This is important because the Russian River often
> > floods but Manetti's house was high enough that the flood waters never
> > reached there..
> >
> > There has been a big debate on a private e-mail group as to whether
> > Manetti was an expert or a master. Peter always said that he was a
> > master but his rating was generally expert. Consensus seems to be that
> > he nosed above 2200 just before Long Pine 1972 which had a minimum
> > rating of 2200 as a requirement.
>
> The twelve monthly issues of the 1972 Chess Life & Review show
> several rating lists, some full, some partial. Just flipping through
> quickly, I find these ratings for Manetti:
>
> Jan 1972: 2150
> Jun 1972: 2143
> Sep 1972: 2183
> Dec 1972: 2183
>
> The 1972 Lone Pine Open was held ch 12-18. It looks unlikely that
> Manetti was 2200+ at that time. Either he had some unusual activity in
> early 1972, or the TD did not strictly enforce the 2200 minimum.
>
> > Grandmaster Larry Evans reported that he could not remember playing
> > the game against Manetti which was found in the databases.
> > Unfortunately and rather surprisingly, nobody has been able to find a
> > cross table of the great Masters Tournament in Lone Pine 1972, so this
> > question has not been resolved conclusively.
>
> A report on Lone Pine 1972, by Isaac Kashdan, is on pages 334-335 of
> the June CL&R. Oddly, it has no crosstable, nor any full list of the
> players and/or standings. It mentions that Gligoric won, and that
> 20-year-old Kim Commons made a strong impression. It also mentions that
> Larry Evans' wife suffered a traffic accident the day of the last
> round, wrecking her car but escaping "with only a few bruises."
> Using ChessBase, I was able to create a crosstable, but I'm not sure
> how valid it is, if the database does not contain all the games. It
> will not be very legible here, but I append it below for what it's
> worth. It shows Manetti scoring +0 -2 =3D4. With a full-point bye in
> round 2 giving him a final score of 3 out of 7, he finished =3D22-28th
> out of 35. His results, round by round, per ChessBase:
>
> 1. draw with Cleghorn
> 2. BYE
> 3. loss to Karlkins
> 4. draw with Costa
> 5. draw with Denker
> 6. loss to Berry
> 7. draw with Evans
>
> > John Donaldson is
> > researching this subject and now believes that Manetti played that
> > game against Roy Ervin, not against Grandmaster Evans. Incidentally,
> > Roy Ervin is most famous for having been reported dead and then
> > showing up to play in the Roy Ervin Memorial Tournament. Let us hope
> > that Peter Manetti does the same thing.
>
> There was also a Roy Ervin playing, so Parr and Donaldson may be
> correct that Manetti played him, and not Evans. Databases often have
> this kind of mistake.
>
> Lone Pine op 1972
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
> 1 Gligoric,Svetozar +1 -=BD +1 +1 -=BD -1 +1 6.0/7
> 6 14 24 17 2 3 7
> 2 Tarjan,James Edward +1 -=BD +1 -1 +=BD -=BD +=BD 5.0/7
> 7 20 22 16 1 8 3
> 3 Saidy,Anthony Fred +1 -1 +=BD -1 +1 +0 -=BD 5.0/7
> 30 33 10 14 8 1 2
> 4 Karklins,Andrew +1 -0 +1 -=BD +1 -=BD +1 5.0/7
> 21 18 25 7 16 9 6
> 5 Brandts,Paul +=BD -0 +=BD -1 -1 +1 +1 5.0/7
> 9 15 23 34 22 20 14
> 6 Commons,Kim S -0 +1 +=BD -1 -1 +1 -0 4.5/7
> 1 19 28 15 17 10 4
> 7 Fritzinger,Dennis -0 +1 -1 +=BD +1 -1 -0 4.5/7
> 2 32 13 4 14 18 1
> 8 Brasket,Curt Justin +=BD -1 +1 -1 -0 +=BD +=BD 4.5/7
> 16 28 15 18 3 2 9
> 9 tz,William E -=BD +=BD -1 +1 -=BD +=BD -=BD 4.5/7
> 5 12 30 33 10 4 8
> 10 tinovsky,Eugene -=BD +1 -=BD +1 +=BD -0 +1 4.5/7
> 29 23 3 12 9 6 15
> 11 Cleghorn,Peter +=BD -0 +0 -1 +1 -1 +1 4.5/7
> 25 22 29 31 23 21 19
> 12 Christiansen,Larry k +=BD -=BD +1 -0 +0 -1 -1 4.0/7
> 15 9 34 10 19 32 26
> 13 Denker,Arnold Sheldon 2285 +=BD +1 +0 -0 -=BD -1 -1 4.0/7
> 22 34 7 19 25 23 16
> 14 Binet,Laszlo T -1 +=BD -1 +0 -0 +1 -0 3.5/7
> 19 1 20 3 7 27 5
> 15 Browne,Walter S 2500 -=BD +1 -0 +0 -1 +1 -0 3.5/7
> 12 5 8 6 29 24 10
> 16 Berry,David A -=BD +1 -1 +0 -0 -1 +0 3.5/7
> 8 27 26 2 4 25 13
> 17 Bisguier,Arthur Bernard 2440 -1 +1 +=BD -0 +0 -=BD +=BD 3.5/7
> 27 26 18 1 6 19 20
> 18 Evans,Larry Melvyn 2550 -1 +1 -=BD +0 -=BD +0 -=BD 3.5/7
> 31 4 17 8 20 7 25
> 19 Hay,Trevor +0 -0 -1 +1 -1 +=BD -0 3.5/7
> 14 6 31 13 12 17 11
> 20 Waterman,Deniss L -1 +=BD +0 -1 +=BD -0 -=BD 3.5/7
> 34 2 14 29 18 5 17
> 21 Ervin,Roy C -0 +1 +0 -1 -1 +0 -=BD 3.5/7
> 4 31 33 30 36 11 27
> 22 Stoutenborough,Ross -=BD +1 -0 -=BD +0 +0 +1 3.0/7
> 13 11 2 24 5 26 32
> 23 Pollowitz,Michael +=BD -0 -=BD +1 -0 +0 +1 3.0/7
> 24 10 5 26 11 13 31
> 24 Loftsson,Julius H -=BD +1 -0 +=BD -=BD -0 +=BD 3.0/7
> 23 29 1 22 27 15 28
> 25 Manetti,Pete -=BD +1 -0 -=BD +=BD +0 +=BD 3.0/7
> 11 36 4 32 13 16 18
> 26 Gilden,Lawrence C +1 -0 +0 -0 +1 -1 +0 3.0/7
> 32 17 16 23 28 22 12
> 27 Ramirez,Hermogen +0 -0 +1 -1 +=BD -0 +=BD 3.0/7
> 17 16 35 28 24 14 21
> 28 Weber,Joseph V -1 +0 -=BD +0 -0 +1 -=BD 3.0/7
> 36 8 6 27 26 30 24
> 29 Koploy,Paul +=BD -0 -1 +0 +0 -0 +1 2.5/7
> 10 24 11 20 15 31 34
> 30 Savage,Allan G -0 +1 +0 +0 -=BD -0 +1 2.5/7
> 3 35 9 21 32 28 36
> 31 Goichberg,William +0 -0 +0 +0 -1 +1 -0 2.0/7
> 18 21 19 11 34 29 23
> 32 Flacco,Rick -0 -0 -1 +=BD +=BD +0 -0 2.0/7
> 26 7 36 25 30 12 22
> 33 Berner,George -1 +0 -1 -0 2.0/4
> 35 3 21 9
> 34 Costa,M +0 -0 -0 +0 +0 +1 -0 1.0/7
> 20 13 12 5 31 36 29
> 35 Davidson,C +0 -0 -0 +1 1.0/4
> 33 30 27 36
> 36 BYE +0 -0 +0 -0 +0 -0 -0 0.0/7
> 28 25 32 35 21 34 30

Date: 17 Mar 2006 02:48:23
From: Hymie Kravsner
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

"Taylor Kingston" < Looking a bit more carefully in the CL&R article, I see
it reports
that because of his wife's accident, Evans did not even play the last round
at Lone Pine 1972. Therefore Manetti could not have played him, contrary to
what CB records. >

Maybe he had played before the accident, or came back and played later. If
the wife did not suffer injuries, it is possible he did play the game though
maybe not when everyone else was playing.

Date: 16 Mar 2006 06:54:09
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Sam Sloan wrote:
> I have finally been able to reach a family member and I have some
> corrections in my obituary of Peter Manetti.
>
> Peter Manetti died at 2:47 AM on Friday, ch 10, 2006 (not on ch
> 8 as I originally reported). He died in a home for assisted living in
> Sebastapol, California, not in his own home in Guerneville. He has
> been cremated. He was born in 1939 not in 1940 in Germany not in New
> Jersey and his original name was Schilling not Schumbacher. His mother
> changed his name from the German name of Schilling to the Italian name
> of Manetti after they arrived in America.
>
> One person contested my statement that Manetti lived high on a hill.
> This person said that Manetti lived next to the river. I have found
> out that both statements are true. He lived high on a hill which was
> next to the river. This is important because the Russian River often
> floods but Manetti's house was high enough that the flood waters never
> reached there..
>
> There has been a big debate on a private e-mail group as to whether
> Manetti was an expert or a master. Peter always said that he was a
> master but his rating was generally expert. Consensus seems to be that
> he nosed above 2200 just before Long Pine 1972 which had a minimum
> rating of 2200 as a requirement.

The twelve monthly issues of the 1972 Chess Life & Review show
several rating lists, some full, some partial. Just flipping through
quickly, I find these ratings for Manetti:

Jan 1972: 2150
Jun 1972: 2143
Sep 1972: 2183
Dec 1972: 2183

The 1972 Lone Pine Open was held ch 12-18. It looks unlikely that
Manetti was 2200+ at that time. Either he had some unusual activity in
early 1972, or the TD did not strictly enforce the 2200 minimum.

> Grandmaster Larry Evans reported that he could not remember playing
> the game against Manetti which was found in the databases.
> Unfortunately and rather surprisingly, nobody has been able to find a
> cross table of the great Masters Tournament in Lone Pine 1972, so this
> question has not been resolved conclusively.

A report on Lone Pine 1972, by Isaac Kashdan, is on pages 334-335 of
the June CL&R. Oddly, it has no crosstable, nor any full list of the
players and/or standings. It mentions that Gligoric won, and that
20-year-old Kim Commons made a strong impression. It also mentions that
Larry Evans' wife suffered a traffic accident the day of the last
round, wrecking her car but escaping "with only a few bruises."
Using ChessBase, I was able to create a crosstable, but I'm not sure
how valid it is, if the database does not contain all the games. It
will not be very legible here, but I append it below for what it's
worth. It shows Manetti scoring +0 -2 =3D4. With a full-point bye in
round 2 giving him a final score of 3 out of 7, he finished =3D22-28th
out of 35. His results, round by round, per ChessBase:

1. draw with Cleghorn
2. BYE
3. loss to Karlkins
4. draw with Costa
5. draw with Denker
6. loss to Berry
7. draw with Evans

> John Donaldson is
> researching this subject and now believes that Manetti played that
> game against Roy Ervin, not against Grandmaster Evans. Incidentally,
> Roy Ervin is most famous for having been reported dead and then
> showing up to play in the Roy Ervin Memorial Tournament. Let us hope
> that Peter Manetti does the same thing.

There was also a Roy Ervin playing, so Parr and Donaldson may be
correct that Manetti played him, and not Evans. Databases often have
this kind of mistake.

Lone Pine op 1972

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 Gligoric,Svetozar +1 -=BD +1 +1 -=BD -1 +1 6.0/7
6 14 24 17 2 3 7
2 Tarjan,James Edward +1 -=BD +1 -1 +=BD -=BD +=BD 5.0/7
7 20 22 16 1 8 3
3 Saidy,Anthony Fred +1 -1 +=BD -1 +1 +0 -=BD 5.0/7
30 33 10 14 8 1 2
4 Karklins,Andrew +1 -0 +1 -=BD +1 -=BD +1 5.0/7
21 18 25 7 16 9 6
5 Brandts,Paul +=BD -0 +=BD -1 -1 +1 +1 5.0/7
9 15 23 34 22 20 14
6 Commons,Kim S -0 +1 +=BD -1 -1 +1 -0 4.5/7
1 19 28 15 17 10 4
7 Fritzinger,Dennis -0 +1 -1 +=BD +1 -1 -0 4.5/7
2 32 13 4 14 18 1
8 Brasket,Curt Justin +=BD -1 +1 -1 -0 +=BD +=BD 4.5/7
16 28 15 18 3 2 9
9 tz,William E -=BD +=BD -1 +1 -=BD +=BD -=BD 4.5/7
5 12 30 33 10 4 8
10 tinovsky,Eugene -=BD +1 -=BD +1 +=BD -0 +1 4.5/7
29 23 3 12 9 6 15
11 Cleghorn,Peter +=BD -0 +0 -1 +1 -1 +1 4.5/7
25 22 29 31 23 21 19
12 Christiansen,Larry k +=BD -=BD +1 -0 +0 -1 -1 4.0/7
15 9 34 10 19 32 26
13 Denker,Arnold Sheldon 2285 +=BD +1 +0 -0 -=BD -1 -1 4.0/7
22 34 7 19 25 23 16
14 Binet,Laszlo T -1 +=BD -1 +0 -0 +1 -0 3.5/7
19 1 20 3 7 27 5
15 Browne,Walter S 2500 -=BD +1 -0 +0 -1 +1 -0 3.5/7
12 5 8 6 29 24 10
16 Berry,David A -=BD +1 -1 +0 -0 -1 +0 3.5/7
8 27 26 2 4 25 13
17 Bisguier,Arthur Bernard 2440 -1 +1 +=BD -0 +0 -=BD +=BD 3.5/7
27 26 18 1 6 19 20
18 Evans,Larry Melvyn 2550 -1 +1 -=BD +0 -=BD +0 -=BD 3.5/7
31 4 17 8 20 7 25
19 Hay,Trevor +0 -0 -1 +1 -1 +=BD -0 3.5/7
14 6 31 13 12 17 11
20 Waterman,Deniss L -1 +=BD +0 -1 +=BD -0 -=BD 3.5/7
34 2 14 29 18 5 17
21 Ervin,Roy C -0 +1 +0 -1 -1 +0 -=BD 3.5/7
4 31 33 30 36 11 27
22 Stoutenborough,Ross -=BD +1 -0 -=BD +0 +0 +1 3.0/7
13 11 2 24 5 26 32
23 Pollowitz,Michael +=BD -0 -=BD +1 -0 +0 +1 3.0/7
24 10 5 26 11 13 31
24 Loftsson,Julius H -=BD +1 -0 +=BD -=BD -0 +=BD 3.0/7
23 29 1 22 27 15 28
25 Manetti,Pete -=BD +1 -0 -=BD +=BD +0 +=BD 3.0/7
11 36 4 32 13 16 18
26 Gilden,Lawrence C +1 -0 +0 -0 +1 -1 +0 3.0/7
32 17 16 23 28 22 12
27 Ramirez,Hermogen +0 -0 +1 -1 +=BD -0 +=BD 3.0/7
17 16 35 28 24 14 21
28 Weber,Joseph V -1 +0 -=BD +0 -0 +1 -=BD 3.0/7
36 8 6 27 26 30 24
29 Koploy,Paul +=BD -0 -1 +0 +0 -0 +1 2.5/7
10 24 11 20 15 31 34
30 Savage,Allan G -0 +1 +0 +0 -=BD -0 +1 2.5/7
3 35 9 21 32 28 36
31 Goichberg,William +0 -0 +0 +0 -1 +1 -0 2.0/7
18 21 19 11 34 29 23
32 Flacco,Rick -0 -0 -1 +=BD +=BD +0 -0 2.0/7
26 7 36 25 30 12 22
33 Berner,George -1 +0 -1 -0 2.0/4
35 3 21 9
34 Costa,M +0 -0 -0 +0 +0 +1 -0 1.0/7
20 13 12 5 31 36 29
35 Davidson,C +0 -0 -0 +1 1.0/4
33 30 27 36
36 BYE +0 -0 +0 -0 +0 -0 -0 0.0/7
28 25 32 35 21 34 30

Date: 16 Mar 2006 04:32:52
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Re: The Sam Sloan Obituary?

Excellent idea! I like to be known as one who like to fuck minors. The
younger the better.

I like to make waves for attention. I'll attack and smear anyone I
don't like. I'll even lie if I have to.

My most famous story is "LEKO is dead".

I'm ried 12 times and have 21 known children. I like to eat pussy
and I teach all my wives how to give excellent blowjobs. This way, they
will have a lucrative profession to support me.

My dream is to be on the EB.

Sam Sloan

Date: 16 Mar 2006 02:57:08
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

I have finally been able to reach a family member and I have some
corrections in my obituary of Peter Manetti.

Peter Manetti died at 2:47 AM on Friday, ch 10, 2006 (not on ch
8 as I originally reported). He died in a home for assisted living in
Sebastapol, California, not in his own home in Guerneville. He has
been cremated. He was born in 1939 not in 1940 in Germany not in New
Jersey and his original name was Schilling not Schumbacher. His mother
changed his name from the German name of Schilling to the Italian name
of Manetti after they arrived in America.

One person contested my statement that Manetti lived high on a hill.
This person said that Manetti lived next to the river. I have found
out that both statements are true. He lived high on a hill which was
next to the river. This is important because the Russian River often
floods but Manetti's house was high enough that the flood waters never
reached there..

There has been a big debate on a private e-mail group as to whether
Manetti was an expert or a master. Peter always said that he was a
master but his rating was generally expert. Consensus seems to be that
he nosed above 2200 just before Long Pine 1972 which had a minimum
rating of 2200 as a requirement.

Grandmaster Larry Evans reported that he could not remember playing
the game against Manetti which was found in the databases.
Unfortunately and rather surprisingly, nobody has been able to find a
cross table of the great Masters Tournament in Lone Pine 1972, so this
question has not been resolved conclusively. John Donaldson is
researching this subject and now believes that Manetti played that
game against Roy Ervin, not against Grandmaster Evans. Incidentally,
Roy Ervin is most famous for having been reported dead and then
showing up to play in the Roy Ervin Memorial Tournament. Let us hope
that Peter Manetti does the same thing.

Sam Sloan

On Mon, 13 2006 21:28:55 GMT, [email protected] (Sam Sloan)
wrote:

>Peter Manetti has died
>
>Chess Master Peter Manetti died in Guerneville, Sonoma County,
>California on ch 8, 2006 of prostate cancer. He succumbed after a
>long illness. Two years ago he was given six months to live. He
>outlived his prognosis.
>
>Manetti rarely played tournament chess but he played in the first
>great master's tournament at Lone Pine 1972. His performance there,
>where he drew grandmasters Denker and Evans, established him as a
>master strength player. He had a USCF rating of 2158. His specialty
>was blitz chess, where he was a master and a 2300 player. He often
>held chess parties at his house high on a hill above the Russian River
>in Guerneville, to which he would invite San Francisco masters and
>experts and provide them with food and drink.
>
>Manetti was about 66 years old. Originally from New Jersey, he served
>in the US ines. He came to California in about 1965. After living
>for several years in Oakland, he moved to the remote village of
>Guerneville, where he made his living as an agriculturist, growing and
>distributing agricultural products to the local communities. Manetti
>also worked as an artist, selling his woodcuttings, paintings and
>other works of art in San Francisco. He also taught chess to several
>promising young players in the Santa Rosa area.
>
>Late in life, Manetti revealed that his real original name was not
>Manetti. It was Schumbacher or something similar. In the aftermath of
>World War II there had been discrimination against Germans, so either
>he or his father had changed his name from a German name to an Italian
>name.
>
>He is survived by his devoted wife, Genarosa Manetti, who has made a
>name for herself as a philanthropist, for her free donations of feline
>animals, and by his three daughters, Diana, age 41, a performing
>artist, Barbara, 36, of Guerneville and Xhana, of Windsor, California.
>
>Sam Sloan
>
>
>[Event "op"]
>[Site "Lone Pine"]
>[Date "1972.??.??"]
>[White "Manetti, Pete"]
>[Black "Evans, Larry Melvyn"]
>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>[ECO "A94"]
>
>1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 d5 5.Bg2 c6 6.O-O Bd6 7.b3 O-O
>8.Ba3 Bxa3 9.Nxa3 Nbd7 10.Qc1 Qe7 11.Ne5 Qd6 12.Qb2 g5 13.e3 a5
>14.Rac1 Qe7 15.Nc2 Qg7 16.Ne1 Kh8 17.N1d3 g4 18.Nf4 Nxe5 19.dxe5
>Ne4 20.Bxe4 fxe4 21.Nh5 Qg6 22.Nf6 Kg7 23.Qa3 Rxf6 24.exf6+ Qxf6
>25.Qd6 Qf8 26.Qxf8+ Kxf8 27.Kg2 Bd7 28.h3 gxh3+ 29.Kxh3 Be8 30.f3
>exf3 31.Rxf3+ Ke7 32.Rcf1 Bg6 33.g4 a4 34.cxd5 axb3 35.axb3 exd5
>36.R3f2 Kd6 37.Kg3 Ra3 38.Rb2 Kc5 39.Rf4 Be4 40.Rf7 Ra7 41.g5 Kb4
>42.Kf4 Kc3 43.Rh2 Kxb3 44.Rhxh7 Bxh7 45.Rxh7 Ra1 46.Rxb7+ Kc4
>47.g6 Rg1 48.g7 c5 1/2-1/2
>
>

Date: 16 Mar 2006 04:58:22
From: Hymie Kravsner
Subject: The Sam Sloan Obituary?

Sam, do you have an obit that you could post ahead of time so that everyone
could debate it while you are still alive and can make changes?

Date: 15 Mar 2006 01:05:57
From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

A QUICK CORRECTION

<Mr. Sloan thank you so very much for this terrific sumy... > -- Jude
Acers.

Welcome to this forum, Jude.

Black was Roy Ervin (not GM Evans) In this game cited by Sam
Sloan.

[Event "op"]
[Site "Lone Pine"]
[Date "1972.??.??"]
[White "Manetti, Pete"]
[Black "Evans, Larry Melvyn"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A94"]

Date: 18 Mar 2006 15:22:52
From: Randy Bauer
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Another example of Sloan's legendary inability to research and report. I
guess I also missed one of his legendary retractions and apologies for the
screw up. No doubt, some chess database will now list this as an Evans
game.

Randy Bauer

<[email protected] > wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>A QUICK CORRECTION
>
> <Mr. Sloan thank you so very much for this terrific sumy...> -- Jude
> Acers.
>
> Welcome to this forum, Jude.
>
> Black was Roy Ervin (not GM Evans) In this game cited by Sam
> Sloan.
>
> [Event "op"]
> [Site "Lone Pine"]
> [Date "1972.??.??"]
> [White "Manetti, Pete"]
> [Black "Evans, Larry Melvyn"]
> [Result "1/2-1/2"]
> [ECO "A94"]
>

Date: 14 Mar 2006 16:32:09
From: jacers
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Mr. Sloan thank you so very much for this terrific sumy, albeit
tragic news..Mr. Manetti was a prince.This is the real Sloan- operating
at his best. .... Jude Acers
Sam Sloan wrote:
> Peter Manetti has died
>
> Chess Master Peter Manetti died in Guerneville, Sonoma County,
> California on ch 8, 2006 of prostate cancer. He succumbed after a
> long illness. Two years ago he was given six months to live. He
> outlived his prognosis.
>
> Manetti rarely played tournament chess but he played in the first
> great master's tournament at Lone Pine 1972. His performance there,
> where he drew grandmasters Denker and Evans, established him as a
> master strength player. He had a USCF rating of 2158. His specialty
> was blitz chess, where he was a master and a 2300 player. He often
> held chess parties at his house high on a hill above the Russian River
> in Guerneville, to which he would invite San Francisco masters and
> experts and provide them with food and drink.
>
> Manetti was about 66 years old. Originally from New Jersey, he served
> in the US ines. He came to California in about 1965. After living
> for several years in Oakland, he moved to the remote village of
> Guerneville, where he made his living as an agriculturist, growing and
> distributing agricultural products to the local communities. Manetti
> also worked as an artist, selling his woodcuttings, paintings and
> other works of art in San Francisco. He also taught chess to several
> promising young players in the Santa Rosa area.
>
> Late in life, Manetti revealed that his real original name was not
> Manetti. It was Schumbacher or something similar. In the aftermath of
> World War II there had been discrimination against Germans, so either
> he or his father had changed his name from a German name to an Italian
> name.
>
> He is survived by his devoted wife, Genarosa Manetti, who has made a
> name for herself as a philanthropist, for her free donations of feline
> animals, and by his three daughters, Diana, age 41, a performing
> artist, Barbara, 36, of Guerneville and Xhana, of Windsor, California.
>
> Sam Sloan
>
>
> [Event "op"]
> [Site "Lone Pine"]
> [Date "1972.??.??"]
> [White "Manetti, Pete"]
> [Black "Evans, Larry Melvyn"]
> [Result "1/2-1/2"]
> [ECO "A94"]
>
> 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 d5 5.Bg2 c6 6.O-O Bd6 7.b3 O-O
> 8.Ba3 Bxa3 9.Nxa3 Nbd7 10.Qc1 Qe7 11.Ne5 Qd6 12.Qb2 g5 13.e3 a5
> 14.Rac1 Qe7 15.Nc2 Qg7 16.Ne1 Kh8 17.N1d3 g4 18.Nf4 Nxe5 19.dxe5
> Ne4 20.Bxe4 fxe4 21.Nh5 Qg6 22.Nf6 Kg7 23.Qa3 Rxf6 24.exf6+ Qxf6
> 25.Qd6 Qf8 26.Qxf8+ Kxf8 27.Kg2 Bd7 28.h3 gxh3+ 29.Kxh3 Be8 30.f3
> exf3 31.Rxf3+ Ke7 32.Rcf1 Bg6 33.g4 a4 34.cxd5 axb3 35.axb3 exd5
> 36.R3f2 Kd6 37.Kg3 Ra3 38.Rb2 Kc5 39.Rf4 Be4 40.Rf7 Ra7 41.g5 Kb4
> 42.Kf4 Kc3 43.Rh2 Kxb3 44.Rhxh7 Bxh7 45.Rxh7 Ra1 46.Rxb7+ Kc4
> 47.g6 Rg1 48.g7 c5 1/2-1/2

Date: 13 Mar 2006 19:54:01
From:
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

Sam Sloan wrote:
> I have no source. It's my words against yours.
>
> Sam Sloan

J. D.'s just making a pun.

Date: 13 Mar 2006 15:21:47
From:
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

In the aftermath of
World War II there had been discrimination against Germans, so either
he or his father had changed his name from a German name to an Italian
name.

But the Italians were our enemy in WW 2, also!

Date: 13 Mar 2006 15:19:17
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

I have no source. It's my words against yours.

Sam Sloan

Date: 13 Mar 2006 23:10:50
From: J.D. Baldwin
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

In the previous article, Sam Sloan <[email protected] > wrote:
> Peter Manetti has died

Please post a source for this story. I'd like to check it.
--
_+_ From the catapult of

Date: 13 Mar 2006 14:00:38
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: Chess Master Peter Manetti has died

That is sad news. I knew Peter slightly during the time I lived in
Sonoma County (1980-88). He used to play blitz each week with a small
group that met in Occidental, as I recall in a deli operated by a man
with the interesting name of Moses Moon. Peter had long hair and a
beard, and very much fit in with the area's hippie-style culture. I saw
a few of his woodwork projects -- quite impressive.
As I recall, he spelled his name Minetti, but I could be wrong on
that.

Sam Sloan wrote:
> Peter Manetti has died
>
> Chess Master Peter Manetti died in Guerneville, Sonoma County,
> California on ch 8, 2006 of prostate cancer. He succumbed after a
> long illness. Two years ago he was given six months to live. He
> outlived his prognosis.
>
> Manetti rarely played tournament chess but he played in the first
> great master's tournament at Lone Pine 1972. His performance there,
> where he drew grandmasters Denker and Evans, established him as a
> master strength player. He had a USCF rating of 2158. His specialty
> was blitz chess, where he was a master and a 2300 player. He often
> held chess parties at his house high on a hill above the Russian River
> in Guerneville, to which he would invite San Francisco masters and
> experts and provide them with food and drink.
>
> Manetti was about 66 years old. Originally from New Jersey, he served
> in the US ines. He came to California in about 1965. After living
> for several years in Oakland, he moved to the remote village of
> Guerneville, where he made his living as an agriculturist, growing and
> distributing agricultural products to the local communities. Manetti
> also worked as an artist, selling his woodcuttings, paintings and
> other works of art in San Francisco. He also taught chess to several
> promising young players in the Santa Rosa area.
>
> Late in life, Manetti revealed that his real original name was not
> Manetti. It was Schumbacher or something similar. In the aftermath of
> World War II there had been discrimination against Germans, so either
> he or his father had changed his name from a German name to an Italian
> name.
>
> He is survived by his devoted wife, Genarosa Manetti, who has made a
> name for herself as a philanthropist, for her free donations of feline
> animals, and by his three daughters, Diana, age 41, a performing
> artist, Barbara, 36, of Guerneville and Xhana, of Windsor, California.
>
> Sam Sloan
>
>
> [Event "op"]
> [Site "Lone Pine"]
> [Date "1972.??.??"]
> [White "Manetti, Pete"]
> [Black "Evans, Larry Melvyn"]
> [Result "1/2-1/2"]
> [ECO "A94"]
>
> 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 d5 5.Bg2 c6 6.O-O Bd6 7.b3 O-O
> 8.Ba3 Bxa3 9.Nxa3 Nbd7 10.Qc1 Qe7 11.Ne5 Qd6 12.Qb2 g5 13.e3 a5
> 14.Rac1 Qe7 15.Nc2 Qg7 16.Ne1 Kh8 17.N1d3 g4 18.Nf4 Nxe5 19.dxe5
> Ne4 20.Bxe4 fxe4 21.Nh5 Qg6 22.Nf6 Kg7 23.Qa3 Rxf6 24.exf6+ Qxf6
> 25.Qd6 Qf8 26.Qxf8+ Kxf8 27.Kg2 Bd7 28.h3 gxh3+ 29.Kxh3 Be8 30.f3
> exf3 31.Rxf3+ Ke7 32.Rcf1 Bg6 33.g4 a4 34.cxd5 axb3 35.axb3 exd5
> 36.R3f2 Kd6 37.Kg3 Ra3 38.Rb2 Kc5 39.Rf4 Be4 40.Rf7 Ra7 41.g5 Kb4
> 42.Kf4 Kc3 43.Rh2 Kxb3 44.Rhxh7 Bxh7 45.Rxh7 Ra1 46.Rxb7+ Kc4
> 47.g6 Rg1 48.g7 c5 1/2-1/2