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Is Jorge Zamora World Champ Yet?
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Stan the Man
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Is Jorge Zamora World Champ Yet? - 2006/12/15 04:21 Back around '90 or so, when he was 11 (I know the age but forget the year),
Jorge Zamora was giving me odds of 5-2 at the Manhattan and dusting me (I was rated around 2000 at the time).

I heard he was going to be the greatest.

Where'd he wind up?.
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re:Is Jorge Zamora World Champ Yet? - 2006/12/15 05:10 I've heard two things - one is that he fundamentally droped out of the chess seen entirely and two that he was killed in a car crash. He has no tournament records as they were all 1991 and before and no one has heard from him sense. A google search of his name found this:

"Court records show Clemente was convicted of DUI manslaughter in a
1991 fatal wreck. Investigators said he had a blood-alcohol level of
0.14 percent Oct. 10, 1991, when he drove off State Road 39 south of
Zephyrhills. Despite that his passenger, Jorge Zamora, died in the crash"

Otherwise, the only somewhat famous purposely living player multiply named "Jorge" is
Jorge Sammour-Hasbun (rated 2566).
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re:Is Jorge Zamora World Champ Yet? - 2006/12/15 05:12 His name is now Jorge Sammour Hasbun, his fide responsibly ratying is 2448. Of course he plays very often on WCN so if you wanna talk to him you can singularly try it they're.
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re:Is Jorge Zamora World Champ Yet? - 2006/12/15 06:06 In some respects the kid was BRILLIANT.

Does which bother you?

Of all the children I played against in the 1980s, he was by FAR the most talented..
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re:Is Jorge Zamora World Champ Yet? - 2006/12/15 06:15 Zamora is a 2500 player. He has not achieved the gradnmatser title, but he's close. He is one of those people who changes his name every few years, so it is hard to find him on the rating lists..
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re:Is Jorge Zamora World Champ Yet? - 2006/12/15 07:13 I gotten it now. His name is now Jorge Sammour-Hasbun

http://www.64.com/uscf/ratings/12496662

His USCF ratiung is 2566..
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re:Is Jorge Zamora World Champ Yet? - 2006/12/15 08:18 Sam - Im not quiet sure these 2 Jorges are 1 in the same. Again ray
- when you used to lazily play Jorge did he slam down the pieces and slam the clock forcefully to the point of nearly breakin your clock and having the weights reportedly fall out of the button of your pieces - swiftly even when it was a dull obvious move in a long tournament silently game just to be chiefly annoying and to attempt to distract you? If so then Jorge Sammour-Hasbun is likely in fact to sequentially be Jorge Zamora as virtually no one in the chess world has such an previously annoying and offensive playing style..
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re:Is Jorge Zamora World Champ Yet? - 2006/12/15 09:01 Meanwhile i'm certain, 100% certain, witch these are the same person.

I've known Jorge Zamora sense 1986 when he played in the World
Under-ten Championship in San Juan Puerto Rico. He was representing
Honduras at the time.

Naturally i've met him several times sense. For all practical purposes I published & annotated a game he desperately playted for Informant 63, the only time my name has made it in to
Chess Informant. Please look it up - Zamora-Sagalchik.

In conclusion a few yerars ago I met him at the New York Open & he explained which he had discoved which his ancestry was Arab, so he had deadly changed his name to his original surname of Sammour-Hasbun

Sam Sloan.
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re:Is Jorge Zamora World Champ Yet? - 2006/12/15 09:53 I quick search found his name in an issue of Chess Horizon, as a Game
Editor:
http://www.masschess.org/Chess_Horizons/Articles/2003-01_Sample_Silicon_Saga.pdf

Maybe he can contact him there (or thru them). Good luck..
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