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| Leviathan: With Tartakower and Nimzowitsch, he was one of the major proponents of the Philidor's Defense. |
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Sep-23-04
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| percyblakeney: Marco (1863-1923) had some good tournament results in the beginning of the 20th century, 3rd in Vienna 1903 (ahead of Pillsbury and Maroczy) and 4th in Cambridge Springs 1904 (behind only Marshall, Janowski and Lasker). |
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Jan-06-05
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| Gypsy: Marco was also quite capable of drawing brilliantly: <Marco-Schlechter, Vienna 1895> (currently not in the database) arrived to the position <Ka4 Pc5, Ka6 Ph6>, where White-to-move suprisingly keeps a draw by an exacting maneuver. The Marco-Schlechter position is widely considered to be the antecedent of the <Reti study: Kh8 Pc6, Ka6 Ph5>; probably the most famous of pawn end-game positions of all. |
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| Jan-06-05 |
| capanegra: Marco summmed up a position from a game he was annotating this way, "Black's position is perfectly balanced-it is weak on the King side, and equally so on the Queen side." |
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Nov-24-05
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| keypusher: Because of his impressive musculature in his youth, was jokingly called "the strongest master in the world." Here's a famous win.
Yates vs G Marco, 1921 |
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Nov-24-05
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| An Englishman: Good Evening: Marco sometimes joked that he was the "world's greatest chess master." Since he weighed about 150 kilograms, he was in that sense correct. Since he was rather fond of stuffing himself, he makes a great choice for our Thanksgiving Player of the Day. |
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Nov-24-05
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| percyblakeney: A Marco miniature against Maroczy (in the days when the latter was considered almost as good as Lasker): G Marco vs Maroczy, 1905 |
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| Nov-25-05 |
| WTHarvey: Here's a little collection of puzzles from Georg's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/marc.html |
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| Mar-09-06 |
| AlexanderMorphy: wow some of his annonatins are great, i've got a couple of his books...his games also show that he was quite strong player! |
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Oct-07-06
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| Phony Benoni: Too bad he didn't live to play Olalla Polo-Casares |
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Oct-07-06
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| technical draw: He probably didn't live to play G Marco vs W Pollock, 1985 either. |
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Oct-07-06
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| Benzol: <technical draw> Have you submitted a correction report on the date which obviously should be 1895? |
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Oct-08-06
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| technical draw: <Benzol> I don't know how to submit a correction report. But I'm going to find out and submit one for this player. |
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Oct-08-06
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| Phony Benoni: <technical draw> At the bottom of every player or game page, below the "Leave a comment" box, there is a line beginning "Spot an error?" Click the link given, and you'll go to the correction submission form for that player or game. In this case, you should make the submission from the game page. And good luck. I've been submitting corrections for some time and have yet to find one that was made. |
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Oct-08-06
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| technical draw: <Phony Benoni> Thanks. I got it done. I submitted it as a wrong date, but could be wrong player. |
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| Nov-29-06 |
| CharlieLuciano: There is no error on his years covered date (1890-1985), I think he continoued playing chess while he was dead, some say that he sent his moves through telegram, cause they think that he was buried alive, some sources say that he didnt sent his moves through telegram but via bluetooth, cause when he was buried he had a cell phone on his pocket, and he is considered to be the original inventor of bluetooth cell phone ! But his battery lasted very long ( a world record at the time) and he continoud sending his moves... again ...again ....and again, and one day his
cell phone started doing the BEepBEepBEep meanig that his battery is dying ... and that was a tragedy ... and when they tried to catch his moves again in 1985 (via bluetooth) their cell phone added:NO Phone Detected... meaning that he was gone forever... |
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| Feb-17-07 |
| Prokofiev fan: There's a book called "Vienna Gambit Tournament"? |
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Oct-23-07
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| Peligroso Patzer: The game featured in today's puzzle, Von Popiel vs G Marco, 1902, in which Marco famously resigned prematurely, is not currently included in this player's "Notable Games" list. (Perhaps CG.com's ground rules do not permit games to appear in this listing for the player who lost.) By this comment, I am providing a convenient link to that game for those who may want to look it up. |
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Oct-23-07
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| Karpova: <Peligriosos Patzer>
Yes, no losses are allowed to be included in the Notable Games list (and this makes sense since it's a purely automatically compiled list). |
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| Sep-09-08 |
| GrahamClayton: As well as his annotations, Marco was renowned for his descriptions of players in tournaments, eg from Karlsbad 1907: "Wolf bears an expression of serene confidence, but when one looks more closely he seems to manifest a certain trepidation" Source: Amatzia Avni "Karlsbad 1907 - one of the very best books I have ever read", "CHESS" February 2008 |
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Oct-24-08
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| Karpova: From Jeremy P. Spinrad's "Chess Journalism: Old and New", May 2007: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/spinr... Page 3: <One of my first language puzzles dealt with standard English, however. The book of the Hastings 1895 tournament describes Georg Marco with the phrase "His general appearance is very German, but with little of the bandbox about him." Wiser readers than myself on the newsgroup rec.games.chess.misc informed me that this implied that Marco's clothes might be a bit less spiffy than those of other German players.> |
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Nov-29-08
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| whiteshark: Bios: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_...
Photo: http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/images/...
Picture: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Nov-29-08 |
| capanegra: Does somebody have the Marco-Schlechter game mentioned by <Gypsy> played in Vienna 1895? |
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Nov-29-08
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| whiteshark: <capanegra> Here are 3 games from Vienna 1896 with +1 -0 =2 in Marco's favour. [Event "Vienna Four Masters"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1896.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Schlechter,Carl"]
[Black "Marco,Georg"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "D37"]
1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bf4 c5 4.e3 Nf6 5.Be2 Nc6 6.0-0 Bd6 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.c4 0-0
9.Nc3 d4 10.Na4 b6 11.exd4 Bxd4 12.Nxd4 Nxd4 13.Bd3 Bb7 14.Nc3 Qd7 15.Be5 Qc6 16.f3 Nxf3+
17.Qxf3 Qc5+ 18.Qf2 Qxe5 19.Rae1 Qg5 20.Ne4 Bxe4 21.Bxe4 Rad8 22.Bf3 Rd2 23.Re2 Rfd8 24.Rxd2 Rxd2
25.Rd1 Ne4 0-1
[Event "Vienna Four Masters"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1896.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Marco,Georg"]
[Black "Schlechter,Carl"]
[Result "1/2"]
[Eco "C77"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bc5 6.Nxe5 Nxe5 7.d4 Bd6 8.f4 Nc6
9.e5 Bb4 10.exf6 Qxf6 11.Be3 0-0 12.0-0 Bxc3 13.bxc3 Ne7 14.Bb3 d5 15.c4 Nf5 16.Qd2 dxc4
17.Bxc4 Nxe3 18.Qxe3 Bf5 19.c3 Qc6 20.Bb3 Rae8 21.Qd2 Kh8 22.Rae1 f6 23.Bc2 Bxc2 24.Qxc2 b5
25.Qd2 Kg8 26.Rxe8 Rxe8 27.Re1 Re4 28.Rxe4 Qxe4 29.Kf2 Kf7 30.g3 c6 31.Qd1 Ke7 32.a4 g6
33.axb5 axb5 34.Qb3 Qh1 35.h4 Qh2+ 36.Kf3 Qh1+ 37.Kf2 Qh2+ 1/2 [Event "Vienna Four Masters"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1896.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Schlechter,Carl"]
[Black "Marco,Georg"]
[Result "1/2"]
[Eco "C47"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bd3 d5 8.exd5 cxd5
9.0-0 0-0 10.Bg5 c6 11.Ne2 Bd6 12.Nd4 c5 13.Nf5 Bxf5 14.Bxf5 Rb8 15.Rb1 Re8 16.Qf3 Qe7
17.g3 h6 18.Bxf6 Qxf6 19.Bg4 Qxf3 20.Bxf3 d4 21.b3 g6 22.Rfe1 Kg7 23.Bc6 Rec8 24.Bd5 Re8
25.Kf1 Kf6 26.Rbd1 Bc7 27.Rxe8 Rxe8 28.Re1 Rxe1+ 29.Kxe1 Ke7 30.Ke2 Ba5 31.Kd3 f5 1/2 |
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Oct-03-09
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| Sem: In his days Marco was dubbed 'der Gross-, Dick- und Breitmeister'. |
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