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Oct-31-02
 | | Honza Cervenka: Chessgames.com, here is a link with some games from match Kieseritsky - Calvi 1842 in PGN format. Only one of them is in the database now. http://www.schach-datenbank.de/1800... Few days ago I have posted some other links in page of Gustav Neumann too. |
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Aug-07-03
| | Honza Cervenka: Chessgames.com, there are two Kieseritzkys playing chess. Lionel Adalbert Bargation Felix Kieseritzky, who is much better known, died in 1855. Full name of the second Kieseritzky I don't know, but his initials are R. K. He participated in 1905 Barmen Hauptturnier - A, in the Fifth All-Russian Tournament (Lodz 1907) and in the Second Winter Tournament of the St. Petersburg Chess Club (early 1912, A. Alekhine first 7/9). |
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| Mar-24-04 | | Kenkaku: This fellow had quite a name...and was a very strong player as well. |
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| Aug-06-04 | | tomh72000: Probably most famous for the "Kieseritsky Gambit". |
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| Aug-06-04 | | Calchexas: Well, probably MOST famous for his loss to Anderssen...what was that game called again? ;) |
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| Aug-07-04 | | tomh72000: I admit defeat :( |
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| Oct-12-04 | | Kean: This brief text, written by G.H. Diggle -a man who established a record in certain chess league by losing in 7 moves- gives some background on the good K. Lionel Kieseritzky
Of the four great French masters of his day (the other three being LaBourdonnais, St. Amant and Boncourt) Kieseritzky was by far the most learned player, and knew more about "book" than all the others put together. But his record does not show him a successful player in his own class, and though he has left behind some magnificent if isolated wins, he is best remembered for two famous losses, the "Immortal" against Anderssen and the one where he attempted to give Buckle "pawn and move" on one of the great historian's most brutal days at the chessboard. Kieseritzky was never the man for the big occasion - his "miserable want of nerve" doomed him at the outset. In the great 1851 Tournament he lost to Anderssen in 20 minutes by "not only playing away the only piece guarding his King from mate, but doing it in such a manner that his opponent (even if he missed the mate) could still have won his Queen instead - a sort of double-barrelled blunder" commented Staunton "that I have never seen equalled even among beginners of the game." He was also "the most wayward and crotchety of players," infatuated with "mostrous defences" such as 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Bd6, and "Irresistible Gambits" which crashed a few moves after take-off. In this respect he was a fantastic forerunner of Steinitz without the Austrian's solidity. A man of "livid complexion, with melancholic and afflicted appearance," he was nevertheless a cultured chess writer, as his brief period of Editorship of "La Regence" shows, and it is to his lasting credit that he (the loser) saved the Immortal Game for posterity by publishing it in the July 1851 number. Neither Anderssen nor anyone else, it seems, had bothered. Kieseritzky was completely hooked on chess and little else. An utter Bohemian, he once (during the 1851 Tournament) walked from the Strand to Soho Square in his dressing-gown and slippers. George Walker writes that the poor man "thought he was the Messiah of Chess - and died in a Paris workhouse." "The Messiah" and Horwitz were once breakfasting at a coffee house but found themselves ignored by the waiter. "Could he but know who we are!" cried K., "s'il pourrait savoir!" [sic]. Born on January 1st 1806, he died in 1853 after a brief mental illness. |
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| Jan-15-05 | | Backward Development: Damn! John Jacob Jinkleheimer Smith is shorter than this guy! Does anyone else in the DB have a name longer than this guy? |
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Jan-15-05
 | | Benzol: <Backward Development> You could try the mighty Baron,
Baron Tassilo Heydebrand und der Lasa |
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| Jan-15-05 | | karnak64: May I add that Monsieur Kieseritsky is the namesake of the Kieseritsky gambit? It was used by Boris Spassky to defeat Bobby Fischer in 1960 -- one of the few losses in "My Sixty Memorable Games." It's a KGA variation: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 ef4 3. Nf6 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 |
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| Jan-20-05 | | waddayaplay: Kean <In the great 1851 Tournament he lost to Anderssen in 20 minutes by "not only playing away the only piece guarding his King from mate, but doing it in such a manner that his opponent (even if he missed the mate) could still have won his Queen instead > Kieseritzky vs Adolf Anderssen, 1851 |
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| Jul-24-05 | | Orbitkind: Lmao, superb name. |
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| Jul-24-05 | | Montreal1666: The longest name I have ever seen. Is that what his documents would say as his name? |
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| Jul-28-05 | | Orbitkind: Is "Bagration" a verb? Is so what does it mean. Either way, cool name. |
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| Aug-15-05 | | Happypuppet: Bagration? Now that's a good name. |
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| Mar-28-06 | | EricCartman: During World War II, Operation Bagration was the general attack by Soviet forces to clear the Nazis from Belarus which resulted in the destruction of the German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest defeat for the Wehrmacht during the war. |
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| Mar-28-06 | | Javid Danowski: Information on the Russian General Bagration, after whom both Kieseritsky and Operation Bagration were named, can be found here: http://www.100megsfree4.com/rusgene... |
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Apr-15-06
 | | offramp: Why is it that the world never remembers the name of Lionel Adalbert Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern Schplenden Schlitter Crasscrenbon Fried Digger Dingle-Dangle-Dongle Burstein von Knacker Thrasher Apple Banger Horowitz Ticolensic Grander Knotty Spelltinkle Grandlich Grumblemeyer Spelterwasser Kurstlich Himbleeisen Bahnwagen Gutenabend Bitte Ein Nürnburger Brattwustle Gerspurten Mitz Weimache Luber Hundsfut Gumberamber Shönendanker Kalbsfleisch Mittler Aucher Bagration Felix Kieseritsky von Hautkopft of Ulm? |
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| Apr-16-06 | | twinlark: Just fickle if you ask me. |
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Dec-19-06
 | | Phony Benoni: <offramp> Oh, was there one from Ulm also? |
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| Dec-19-06 | | Amulet: <offramp:>
I guess you forgot the family name...Rumpeltstinkin. |
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| Jan-01-07 | | Happypuppet: New year's player of the day is the immortal loser and the guy with a long name. Odd. |
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| Jan-01-07 | | Tacticstudent: "EricCartman: During World War II, Operation Bagration was the general attack by Soviet forces to clear the Nazis from Belarus which resulted in the destruction of the German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest defeat for the Wehrmacht during the war." No, man, Wehrmacht greatest defeat happened in north africa, when the German forces there ( Afrika Korps) were completely dizimated by the American army. |
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| Jan-01-07 | | DutchDunce: What if he married Dr. Jana Malypetrova Hartston Miles Bellin? |
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Jan-01-07
| | Honza Cervenka: <No, man, Wehrmacht greatest defeat happened in north africa> With all respect to Allied Force's success in North Africa it was by far not a decisive moment for the outcome of the WW2. The matter of fact is that about 90% of total Wehrmacht's losses have occurred on the East front. |
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