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Nov-19-17
 | | Tabanus: <CG> Thanks. It should be called Chinese Chess League, and you still have rounds 19-22 (with Event = TCh-CHN) to put in there. But then you may have more requests ;) You can e-mail me any time on any matter. Probably best to my work mail (starting with r). |
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Nov-20-17
 | | chessgames.com: This look OK? Chinese Chess League (2016). |
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Nov-20-17
| | Tabanus: CG, yes! Also the last rounds are in.
I just replied to your mail. Sorry for the delay, but I managed to drive only 1 km this morning with one frozen wheel before I had to stop. |
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| Nov-20-17 | | gauer: A John MacDonald still posts here occasionally as http://forum.chesstalk.com/member.p... - but <I'm> not too sure about how to attribute the less (pid-)specific games to the J <Ken> McDonald entry. Chessgames Editor Guide still mentions to err on the side of caution when there is "uncertain"-ty (ie article 5). Not sure if the local club has many old "chess canada echecs" articles left (and I'm not sure how far back the local Quebec provincial chess newsletters go back, either...), but that might be a starting source if you're looking for an article instead of his possible personal reply - but I'll step back now though, as I'm from a different generation and don't know much about his personal info. |
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| Nov-21-17 | | Larryfyffe: I've not been following the discussion so I'm not sure if any of this is at all relevant. For example, I've seen John DeSoyres, deSoyres, de Soyres, De Soyres as spellings for that chessplayer of yore, and once had a copy of his actual signature but I've forgotten the form he actually used. J Ken Macdonald is from Toronto who had much to do with correspondence chess and I helped do research for 'The History Of Correspondence Chess in Canada' by him and Zehr. |
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| Nov-21-17 | | Larryfyffe: On page 81 of 'ICCF Gold' which I also did research for, his photo is captioned incorrectly as 'Ken McDonald,' |
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| Nov-21-17 | | Larryfyffe: Stop the presses!
Under Jonathan MacDonald (from Saint John who is a friend of mine) Chess Games, he is mixed in with the older
J Ken Macdonald of Toronto, a promoter of correspondence chess for whom I've done research! |
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| Nov-21-17 | | Larryfyffe: J Ken MacDonald, that is. |
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Nov-22-17
 | | Fusilli: Question for fellow editors. In USSR Championship (1955), the editor inserted ";" after each name link, but the semicolons don't show up on the page. What's wrong? |
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Nov-22-17
| | Tabanus: <Fusilli> It's always been like that. Colon and semicolon behind a link doesn't work. And not behind a parenthesed link either. I use to rewrite instead. Doesn't answer your question though ;) |
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| Nov-22-17 | | gauer: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... and http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... give: J McDonald (Correspondence: Australia); McDonald (London, not saying UK or Ont, but am guessing the former); Kenneth McDonald (tagged there as a USA citizen, born 1963); John A McDonald (tagged as New Zealand player, but perhaps likely not our previous CORR Aus person); MacDonald ; J S MacDonald (whose opponent Alexis Cartier (V-P of a Montreal Club, circa pre-WWII days) in their single mentioned game had other wins against Marshall, Alekhine; http://www.cccachess.ca/ - Cdn Corr chess Assoc player: http://cccachess.ca/k30.htm led me to that x-table from the http://cccachess.ca/tourna.archive.... archive pages); John MacDonald (again with a couple corr games, ~1950-1980s); Jonathan MacDonald (born 1970, but also a J Ken MacDonald (maybe the Jo(h)n(athan) Ken(neth) M(a)cDonald of Toronto) mentioned in the 34425 pid bio suggests another pid player, born 1945) - so in this case there are both a GTA (Toronto area) and Maritimer (New Bruswick) suspect. Doesn't seem that surprising that a number of such Canadians in the phone book may have chosen to play chess in Quebec or wherever else in the past century - or that one or more may have made "Master" status in a correspondence league to not necessarily lose to a young Fischer in the 1960s at the start of a continental simul tour. One may also wish to search some of the American league correspondence journal of chess (from say the 1925-75 period if there were these many players active in the non-regular-play-rate of time in those days) in that era - corr players in pre-computer days had quite a knack for picking up some of the latest opening novelties from what might be otherwise referenced in some article as an obscure game of any footnoted, published article from back then. Hopefully that provides a start for finding your pid who played Fischer, or maybe sorting out some of the other players... |
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| Nov-22-17 | | gauer: Starting shortly after page 50, http://wordpress.cvining.com/wp-con... talks about the Feb 1964 visit (although <not> the Biographer Bistro (kibitz #17212) game being questioned this time), with other sources on p 54 about <Canadian Chess Chat, 1964 March>. Paul Nadeau, Laszlo Witt and Moe Moss are mentioned as organizers of the visit or the local newspaper columnist's ghostwriting team who may have helped to promote the event. |
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Nov-22-17
 | | MissScarlett: My information is that J Ken MacDonald played all but the first game here: John MacDonald |
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Nov-22-17
| | MissScarlett: Regarding naming conventions, why are there two Bill L Pattesons: Bill L Patteson and Bill L Patteson ? I submitted a name change for the game Fischer vs B Patteson, 1964 from <Bill Patterson> to <Bill L Patteson>, assuming it would be subsumed into Bill L Patteson. Confusingly, the PGN in question retains the <Bill Patterson>: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/nph-... I appreciate there can be more than one player ID for a single name (witness Max Lange), but I thought that distinction was manually generated. |
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| Nov-23-17 | | Larryfyffe: If I catching the drift of the contention here correctly, you can be assured that Jonathan MacDonald of Saint John NB never played Fischer. My e-mail address that I have for J Ken MacDonald of Toronto unfortunately is no longer valid. |
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| Nov-23-17 | | Larryfyffe: In 1999, Canadian J Ken MacDonald is awarded the Bertl von Massow Gold Medal for 'fifteen years of faithful service to the International Correspondence Chess Federation. (ICCF Gold, 2002) In the section about Canada, the above mentioned book notes: Canada: 'Article provided by: 'Leonard Zehr with research from J.Ken MacDonald, David McLeod, Ken Kowal, Ralph P. Marconi, Michael Sharpe, Carlo Alberto Pagni(ITA) And Larry Fyffe.' |
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| Nov-23-17 | | Larryfyffe: I was able to e-mail J Ken MacDonald of Toronto, chess correspondence promoter....about the 64 Fischer simul. His reply:
HI Larry. Yes, that was me!
The game score, I am not sure of where it came from.
I am not sure that is the actual game.
I will try to find the game tomorrow. |
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Nov-24-17
| | Tabanus: <Larryfyffe> Perhaps he can also remember the four games listed under John MacDonald. |
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| Nov-24-17 | | Larryfyffe: The copy of the original game score card sent to me by Ken confirms the moves of the Fischer-MacDonald game given here. |
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| Nov-24-17 | | Larryfyffe: Tabanus- jkm@iprimus.ca is an open public email address to contact Ken about purchasing his book that I used to inquire about the Fischer Game. As far as I know, he does not play under the name 'John' but the correspondence games could well be his. |
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Nov-24-17
| | MissScarlett: <Tab>, could you try for a positive ID of the murderer of Frederick William Womersley? <
‘At the Sussex Assizes on Monday, Joseph James, 52, a chemist, described as of superior education, was found insane, and therefore unfit to plead in the indictment against him of murdering Frederick William Womersley, at Hastings on 13 September 1911. …“The order of the court is that the prisoner shall be kept in strict custody until His Majesty’s pleasure be known.”’ He was then taken away to an institution and forgotten.> http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... The DOB of Womersley would also be appreciated. |
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Nov-24-17
| | Tabanus: MissS, I'll try later. Joseph James may be too common name though. |
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Nov-24-17
| | MissScarlett: Yes, but with his age, profession and probable locale, I know I can rely on you. The 1911 census would be a good place to start. |
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Nov-24-17
| | Tabanus: http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/ind... I can't add much to that. Joseph Henry James, b. Jan-Feb-Mar 1860 in Gwennap, Redruth, Cornwall. His father was Abraham Trewartha James, a stockbroker who died 6 June 1885 in Redruth. Joseph was then a "Chemist and Druggist". Not sure when he died; family trees have 2 Dec 1859 - 28 Aug 1931. |
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| Nov-25-17 | | gauer: Fischer vs J K MacDonald, 1964 did make me wonder whether J S MacDonald vs A Cartier, 1943 was perhaps something like a Toronto - Montreal game of teams meeting in play (like a Habs-Leafs city rivalry) or just a game between local Montreal area players (or maybe even a corr match too...). Fischer though did play the 2 simuls in Quebec, along with the <Toronto> simul, as tagged previously in the pgn (does the <locale> match, too). Or is J S MacDonald some sort of immediate relative that he may have known or been visiting, not that Montreal is that far out of the way for an adolescent to visit. With Fischer exiting adolescence, visiting various cities, would he have been making various high school stops against most of his opposition? Or did he have other major halls (college campuses in California, etc didn't look out of the ordinary for school drop-out who later won the championship...) booked instead for the larger cities like Houston?! |
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