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The 36 photos are all in the recently published book titled LETTERATI. The author is Paul McCarthy of Colorado. The books is published by ECW Press of Toronto and is in brick and mortar stores as well as on line from Amazon, B & N and possibly others. All photos were taken by me except for the one of me with Adam Logan at the 1996 Nationals - which was taken by Larry Sherman. These are all under my copyright and "right-click" protected - so if you tried to print them you would only get the captions. Should anyone want a print or prints for any reason, email me annsan.nyc.rr.com. NOTE: the order of the photos here has nothing to do with their order in the book. Paul ordered photos from me of specific people and the "scenes" from the old days and I dug up what I could from my stock of over 30 years. Yes, you have seen some of them before - a number have been in other publications and some were in the film WORD WARS Techie note for photographers: Most photos were taken with Tri-X film, though a few were scanned from color prints or slides. only the photos at the 2007 BAT and the 2005 Nationals were shot with a Canon digital camera. The only editing done in photoshop was simple conversion to digital black and whites, "spotting" and some cropping. In otherwords, these are un-manipulated images.
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At the 2007 B A T  Awards ceremony, L to R Adam Logan, Jason Katz-Brown, Brian Cappelletto.  Adam won the premier Jason was 3rd, Brian, 7th.
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At the 2007 B A T Awards ceremony, L to R Adam Logan, Jason Katz-Brown, Brian Cappelletto. Adam won the premier Jason was 3rd, Brian, 7th.

Adam LoganJason Katz BrownBrian Cappelletto2008 Boston Area Tournament2008 BAT

  • Robin Pollock Daniel (l.) and Luise Shafritz play partners<br />
in a pick-up game before the start of the 1996 Nationals in Dallas.
  • Very soft focus snap shot of Jean Carol and Gordon Shapiro at the 1989 Smoky Mountain tournament in Gatlinberg, TN. Only shot I could find that I took of her.
  • Bob Watson, back to camera, versus Peter Morris in the 1988 Nationals in Reno. This is the penultimate game.
  • At the 2007 B A T  Awards ceremony, L to R Adam Logan, Jason Katz-Brown, Brian Cappelletto.  Adam won the premier Jason was 3rd, Brian, 7th.
  • Al Weissman at the game room - Game Room tourney Day 1 (prelim round) Dec, 1979.
  • David Gibson just after defeating Steve Tier in 1994 to win the Championship that year in Los Angeles.  The woman to his right is a reporter, directly behind David is Lester Schonebrun, then Martin Weisskoph, out of focus. On the right, hands on chair back, is<br />
Craig Atterbury.
  • Lisa Odom shows Robin Pollock-Daniel Her winning board in the last game of the Nationals in New Orleans in 2004 at table 13.  Lisa came in 21st of 173 with an 18-11 record. She was the highest finishing woman in the tourney.
  • It was smoking as usual... left to right, Roz Grossman, Steve Pfeiffer, Bernie Wishengrad, Arnie Alpert.  Bernie was one of the players who came out of the old Flea House in New York.  This was the finals of the NYC tourney in 1978, which Bernie won.  it was  a couple of months before the first NAI
  • Alan Frank takes the stage in Reno to get his 10th place finish money.  1988  nationals.
  • Foreground, Bob Schoenman at the Nationals in Reno - 1988. Bob developed PROTILES for tournament play. Blurry guy on the left is Lester Schonbrun.
  • Jim Neuberger at the 1983 Nationals in Chicago.<br />
Linda Sarnowsky is the annotator.  (Thanks to Mike Baron , pictured in another photo on the pages of the book and here, for  identifying her.)
  • Foreground, Shazzi Felstein ponders a move at the NAI in 1978.  Barry Patten is in the background.
  • "Show me the Money"  - Ron Tiekert ran the Game Room Tourneys in the late 70's and early 80's - This was <br />
1979 and Ron is giving all the marbles to Merrill Kaitz
  • Charles Goldstein accepting 5th place money from Johnny Nevarez at the 1995 Western Championship in Reno.
  • L to r , John Williams, David Wiegand with his kids, Panupol Sujjayakorn at the award ceremony for the Nationals in Reno, 2005. Dave won it... Panupol was runner up.
  • 2004, New Orleans.  Trey Wright, on closed circuit screen, is on his way to winning the Nationals.  Commentators are (13 year old Andre Ornish) , Robin Daniel, Chris Cree (back to camera) and Joel Sherman, standing far right.  Facing the stage is Andre's father.
  • Front cover of LETTERATI by Paul McCarthy. The cover design was done by    Dave Gee.  There is a different cover frequently seen with listings on the web (the listings were made before the book was actually printed. )  but this is the one that was used.
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