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| Jan-12-04 | | Coitis: who is this guy? |
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| Jan-12-04 | | ughaibu: He is considered to have been one of the best annotators. |
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Jan-12-04
 | | Benzol: He's also famous (infamous ?) for resigning a won game. See Von Popiel vs G Marco, 1902 |
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| Jan-12-04 | | Coitis: hmmmm... |
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| Jan-13-04 | | Banoboy: Georg Marco was a master of the "lesser rank," as they used to say in the pre-ELO rating days. He was primarily known as an analyst for the Wiener Schachzeitung (Vienna Chess News) in the 1890s and pre-WW1 1900s. He is considered to be one of the best analysts of all time. Most of his analyses have held up over the years, even in this age of computer analysis. |
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Apr-23-04
 | | Whitehat1963: He also lost my all-time favorite chess game: Marshall vs G Marco, 1904 |
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| Apr-23-04 | | capanegra: Here is another game in which he lost beautifully: G Marco vs Maroczy, 1899 |
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| Sep-23-04 | | Leviathan: With Tartakower and Nimzowitsch, he was one of the major proponents of the Philidor's Defense. |
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Sep-23-04
 | | 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
 | | 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
 | | 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
 | | 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
| | 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
 | | Phony Benoni: Too bad he didn't live to play Olalla Polo-Casares |
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Oct-07-06
 | | technical draw: He probably didn't live to play G Marco vs W Pollock, 1985 either. |
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Oct-07-06
| | Benzol: <technical draw> Have you submitted a correction report on the date which obviously should be 1895? |
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Oct-08-06
| | 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
| | 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
| | 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
 | | 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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