(60 Oldbury games and counting

[Bill Salot]

I received the following interesting e-mail this week:

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From: Slava Gorin [mailto:sl_ic@mail.ru]
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 2:25 AM
To: Bill Salot
Subject: My letter.

Dear Bill,
I am Slava Gorin, 37 years old, living in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. EDA life member since 2012.
Been playing checkers since 1998 with my dad Valeriy.
Since that moment I've been interested in any data about GM Derek Oldbury and want to publish
his biography as my project. Now a part of it at Jay's site: http://www.online-museum-of-checkers-hi ... /id76.html
and http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg ... =104324907 by Pal.
I'd like to collect all Derek games and now I've got around 960 ones in my bank. I hold Derek had over 1500 and many
ones were lost.
Could you help me with it, Bill?
Regards, Slava.
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In a followup message, Slava said he knows Richard Pask and has reviewed all the Oldbury pages on Bob Newell's Maven web site.

Feel free to help if you can, but I suspect he is already far ahead of us.

[Bill Salot]

The title should be "960 Oldbury games and counting".

[JR Smith]

DEO is his initials and nothing more. GM Richard Pask might comment on this, or other who actually knew him, but I've never heard anything about DEO referring to anything but his name. The abbreviation DEO may be applied to many words or even a stock traded on nyse or nasdaq but this wouldn't apply to Derek, just as Latin deo. Slava, I did enjoy your detail article about Derek Oldbury and I appreciate you sharing your research and interest.

[George Hay]

When I read modern articles about game theory (as appyled to board games like checkers, chess, go, & etc.) on the www,
my reaction is this:

The question is not could Olbury keep up with them, but could they keep up with Olbury?

--George Hay