| Aug-22-12 | | Karpova: The Tashkent Chess Club held a Winter Tournament around 1909 and E. Melngailis won the 1st prize by winning all of his 26 games! A. Nikitin came in 2nd on tie-breaks against A. Dimitrewski. From pages 253-254 of the 1909 'Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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| Oct-15-13 | | tjipa: I beg to remove the word 'Soviet' from the description of Melngailis - yes, besides being an avid chess player he was one of the most eminent Latvian composers and collectors of Latvian folk music for about 60 years, but he became 'Soviet' just in 1940, at the age of 66, upon the Soviet occupation of Latvia, which, I am sure, was not much to Melngailis' liking. So, please, he is a Latvian composer and folklorist, ok? |
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Oct-15-13
 | | Stonehenge: OK :) |
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Sep-17-18
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
Here is an <Emilis Melngailis> game from the 1932 Riga Championship: [Event "Riga Championship"]
[Site "Riga"]
[Date "1932.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Apsenieks, Fricis"]
[Black "Melngailis, Emils"]
[Source: "Val Zemitis, 'Encyclopedia of Latvian Chess Players Vol.II 1900-2000' pp.M-53 - M54"; 'Sahs' April 1974, pp.18-19"] 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Bg5 Nbd7 5.e3 c6 6.Nbd2 Be7 7.Rc1 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Nxe4 dxe4 10.Nd2 f5 11.c5 0-0 12.Nc4 b5 13.Na5 Nb8 14. d5 exd5 15.Bxb5 Qe6 16.Be2 Nd7 17.0-0 Ne5 18.Qd2 Rb8 19.b4 g5 20.f4 exf3 21.gxf3 Bd7 22.a3 Rf7 23.f4 gxf4 24.exf4 Rxg7+ 25.Kh1 Ng4 26.Bxg4 fxg4 27.Rce1 Qh6 28.Nb3 g3 29.Rg1 Bf5 30.Nd4 Rf8 31.Nxf5 Rxf5 32.Re8+ Kf7 33.Qe2 Qxh2+ 34.Qxh2 gxh2 35.Rxg7+ Kxg7 36.Re7+ Rf7 37.Rxf7+ Kxf7 38.Kxh2 d4 39.b5 d3 40.b6 axb6 41.cxb6 d2 42.b7 d1-Q 43.b8-Q Qe2+ 44.Kg3 1/2-1/2 |
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Sep-17-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
Photograph of Emilis Melngailis: https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1... |
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| Sep-17-18 | | whiteshark: <jfq> Your link doesn't work for me. :( |
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Sep-17-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
My good <shark> Thank you for reporting that. It should connect directly to my "google photos" internets folder, but if that has some kind of restriction I will move all of my photos over to another company server. You are currently living in Germany, or Antarctica? I can never remember which... There might be some kind of "geo blocking" going on. |
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Sep-17-18
 | | Tabanus: Here with me it says, "Log on. Use your Google account". Alas, I have none. Here with me it says, "Log <in>. Use your Google account". Alas, I have none. |
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| Sep-17-18 | | whiteshark: <jfq/Tab> This is what I get (my translation): "404. This is a mistake/error.
The requested URL was not found on this server. More information is not available." <geo blocking> It's either that or my restrictive basic settings on ggl ;) |
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| Sep-17-18 | | whiteshark: <Latvian composer and folklorist.> 1) You get a lot of his music on YT.
2) Well I (mis-)read it as <Latvian <chess> composer> but for obvious reasons, I could not find anything. 3) Btw, all of Emilis CB Megabase games belong to his son. |
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Sep-17-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<whiteshark> According to the "Encyclopedia of Latvian Chess Players Vol.II 1900-2000," Emilis achieved Latvian 1st category rating, and drew a game against <Fricis Apsenieks> in the 1932 Riga Championship. These Latvian 1st category players were no joke I can tell you. A salty contingent pounded <Alexander Alekhine> in a simul he held in Riga in 1935. <Alekhine> scored +9-15=16, remarking that "This is the first simultaneous of my life where I have scored below 50%... the Riga players are due for recognition." Anris Fride, "Vladimirs Petrovs- A Chessplayer's Story, from Greatness to the Gulag" (Caissa Editions, 2004), p.10. |
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Sep-17-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
Photograph of <Emilis Melngailis>: https://imgur.com/7XpzuOA |
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Sep-17-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
Until the time these games can be moved from this bio page, it should be noted that all of them were in fact played by Tenis Melngailis at the <Kemeri 1939> tournament: E E Book vs E Melngailis, 1939 Szabo vs E Melngailis, 1939 E Melngailis vs Koblents, 1939 W Hasenfuss vs E Melngailis, 1939 E Melngailis vs K Ozols, 1939 Photo of round dates and pairings from <Kemeri 1939>, courtesy of <hemy>: https://imgur.com/dlYz6WC |
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| Sep-20-18 | | hemy: Good quality photo of Emilis Melngailis and biography in Latvian language: http://www.lcb.lv/dziesmotalatgale/... His biography in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emili... |
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Sep-20-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<hemy> The <Top conductors of the VI-th Popular Song and Music Festival> is a Latvian Popular (folk) Song and Music Festival? I will put this photo in the bio. It was you who put the name key in the photo right? https://i.imgur.com/qpoiwZR.jpg |
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| Sep-21-18 | | hemy: <JFQ> <Latvian Popular (folk) Song and Music Festival?> This is a difficult question, my translation may be not the best. Google translator of "Visparejo dziesmu un muzikas svetku" returning "The general song and music festival". From the Latvian English dictionary "Visparejs" = "universal", "general".
I used word "popular" instead.
"The Festival was held from 18 to 22 June 1926. Many concerts and artistic events took place in different venues, some of them on a big open-air stage in the Riga Esplanade built specially for celebrated events. 6526 singers from 157 choirs participated in festival. The joint military orchestra, consisting of 16 orchestras with around 350 participants performed at the festival. The sixth Latvian song festival program was the first one, which, in contrast to the programs of the previous song festivals, consisted exclusively of the works of Latvian composers." (https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/VI_Vi...) <It was you who put the name key in the photo right?> I took the names from the text related to the picture and incorporated them as a name key. It is always possible to crop the image and remove the name key. |
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| Sep-21-18 | | hemy: One more photo of Emilis Melngailis - on https://www.discogs.com/artist/2368.... The same photo I found in "Latvis", June 19, 1926, p. 5: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e9kehaiu7... http://periodika.lv/periodika2-view... |
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Sep-21-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<hemy> I already had the <discogs> photo in my folder, but the resolution is terrible. But the resolution on your version is excellent!!! I will put "popular" instead of "folk" back into the photo link in the bio. |
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| Sep-21-18 | | hemy: <JFQ> The "secret" for getting better resolution: From "Latvis" is possible to download pdf file of the page and open it with Photoshop. The embedded in pdf image has bigger size and includes more pixels compare to image taken directly from the newspaper/magazine page. Processing with Photoshop will make the difference. |
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| Sep-22-18 | | hemy: This is the best I could get from the low quality pictures of Emilis and his family in "Atputa", May 1, 1930, p. 15: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zu9n8g1q4... On right of Emils - his wife Anna. On left - Tenis. Daughter Ruhte behind Emils and son Arulis behind Anna. https://www.dropbox.com/s/vp32n9cgc... Emils Melngailis composing.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5h61w0ooz... Emils playing chess with Tenis.
http://periodika.lv/periodika2-view... |
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| Sep-25-18 | | hemy: <Riga 1935-1936 (20 October 1935-23 February 1936)
Riga Championship. <Petrovs finished 1st> over F. Apsenieks,
M. Feigins, T. Bergs and others.>
1. V. Petrov 14/17
2. F. Apšenieks — 12.5/17
3. M. Feigins 12/17
15. E. Melngailis 5/17
[Event "Riga championship"]
[Site "Riga"]
[Date "1936.02.09"]
[Round "15"]
[White "Strautmanis, A."]
[Black "Melngailis, Emils"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B45"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[Source "'Rigasche Rundschau', February 29, 1936, p. 15"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. e5 Nd5 8.
Ne4 Qc7 9. f4 Qb6 10. a3 Ne3 11. Qd3 Nxf1 12. Rxf1 Ba6 13. c4 Be7 14. b4 O-O
15. Bb2 c5 16. Nf6+ Bxf6 17. exf6 Bb7 18. b5 a6 19. Qg3 g6 20. Qg5 Kh8 21. Qh6
Rg8 22. O-O-O g5 23. Rxd7 Rg6 24. Rxf7 Rxh6 25. Rxb7 1-0 http://periodika.lv/periodika2-view... Sources for date/round details:
"Brihwa Zeme", February 25, 1936, p. 10; "Rīts", February 11, 1936, p. 4. |
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| May-03-20 | | chesshistoryinterest: The game Apsenieks - Emilis Melngailis, 1932 Riga Championship (played in Round 1, 27 January 1932) is also in "Atputa", 12 February 1932, page 29 http://www.periodika.lv/periodika2-... This was probably the original source of the game. |
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Jun-21-20
| | jessicafischerqueen:
Tournament- Tashkent Winter 1909
http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour... |
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