| Dec-04-04 |
| kostich in time: According to Kmoch, Chajes was born in Vienna, but spent most of his chess career in New York. He had wins over Capablanca and Nimzowitsch, and played in the great Carsbad Tournaments of 1911 and 1923. |
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| Dec-07-05 |
| vampiero: in his only european tournament, he finished last, but his best performance was at new york in 1916 when he got 3rd and gave capablanca his only defeat of 1914-1924 |
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| Aug-22-06 |
| Mibelz: Oscar Chajes was born in Brody, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine). |
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Dec-20-06
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| biglo: Hans Kmoch told the story that an inebriated Frank Marshall gave a speech at a meeting held to honour Oscar Chajes. On that day at the Marshall club, Marshall concluded his speech by saying: "I think it is good that the man died, because we couldn't pronounce his name anyway." |
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Nov-08-07
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| Karpova: He won a Three-cornered masters' tournament in New York, July 1919. 1. Chajes 1.5/2
2. Jaffe 1.0/2
3. Kostic 0.5/2
This tournament took place after the Capablanca-Kostic match and before Kostic went to play at Hastings. Source:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
(I already submitted all the games there) |
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Oct-03-08
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| Karpova: That's the whole story about the pronounciation of Chajes' name told by Hans Kmoch: <Marshall liked to drink, and although he never got drunk like Alekhine or
Stoltz, he did have one too many now and then. On one such occasion, at his
own chess club in New York City, he gave a speech at a meeting to honor
Oscar Chajes, who had died in 1928. Chajes, who was born under the Austrian
monarchy but lived in New York and was a member of the Marshall club, had
one of the most often mispronounced names in chess history. It is correctly
pronounced KHAH-yes (a form of the Hebrew word for "life"). Réti reported
how amusing it was at the Karlsbad tournament of 1923 to hear the wild
variety of attempts to get the name right. I had noticed the same thing when
Chajes once visited Vienna. It seemed to be especially difficult for English-
speakers. On that day at the Marshall club, Marshall concluded his speech by
saying: "I think it is good that the man died, because we couldn't pronounce
his name anyway.">
Told in "Grandmasters I Have Known" about Marshall - a manuscript which hasn't been published but was owned by Burt Hochberg.
That's it: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kmoch...
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