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Eduard Jenay

Number of games in database: 16
Years covered: 1846 to 1860
Overall record: +4 -8 =4 (37.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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EDUARD JENAY
(died Mar-09-1880) Austria

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Wikipedia article: Eduard Jenay

Last updated: 2022-07-13 13:55:13

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. E Jenay vs von der Lasa  0-1151846MatchB01 Scandinavian
2. Harrwitz vs E Jenay  1-0401851Casual gameD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
3. E Jenay vs Szen  ½-½601852Vienna mC33 King's Gambit Accepted
4. E Jenay vs L Eichborn 0-1251853Casual gameC44 King's Pawn Game
5. K Hamppe vs E Jenay  0-1531855Vienna mC02 French, Advance
6. E Jenay vs K Hamppe  1-0321855Vienna mC41 Philidor Defense
7. E Jenay vs K Mayerhofer 0-1281855Casual gameC33 King's Gambit Accepted
8. E Jenay vs Kolisch 0-1481857ViennaC26 Vienna
9. Kolisch vs E Jenay  1-0461857ViennaC00 French Defense
10. E Jenay vs Kolisch  ½-½341857ViennaC44 King's Pawn Game
11. E Jenay vs Kolisch  ½-½531857ViennaC45 Scotch Game
12. E Jenay vs Steinitz 0-1351860Casual gameC44 King's Pawn Game
13. Steinitz vs E Jenay 1-0331860Casual gameD32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
14. Steinitz vs E Jenay 0-1321860Casual gameA13 English
15. E Jenay vs Steinitz 1-0221860Casual gameC53 Giuoco Piano
16. Steinitz vs E Jenay 311860Casual gameE22 Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann Variation
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Aug-02-15  thomastonk: Found a death notice: + 1880. Maybe more about this later.
May-09-18  Jean Defuse: ...

Fabrizio Zavatarelli - Ignaz Kolisch - The Life and Chess Career, p. 10:

Eduard Jenay (about 1820-1880) must have been an even stronger player than Heinrich Philipp Schlemm. We know very little of him; Falk­beer wrote these words in the Schachzeitung 1850 (pages 2-3):

'A long time before Löwenthal arrived in Vienna, Mr. Jenay used to be mentioned as the only rival of Mr. Hamppe; he is, however, one of the shrewdest chessplayers and has a usually aggressive play.'

The description given in the same magazine of 1846 (page 38), likely the longest about him, is discordant:

'Mr. Jenay, from Poland, has been in Vienna for some time; he is more interested [than Pereny] in the opponent's plans and avoids attacking not on principle, but only when he distinctly feels a disadvantage for his position. In both attacking and defending, he loses him­self in his own ideas, which fortuitously come to him, and his play (though careful) appears more eccentric than regular'

He played 68 games against Löwenthal, ending only eight down. From time to time, his wins or good results in Viennese events peeped out in the press. He was one of the leading players in the city until almost 1870; still in 1871, he was fifth in the Wiener Schachgesellschaft champi­onship. He also visited London in 1851, but arrived too late to take part in the tournament; anyway, he held his own in off­hand games; in particular, he obtained 3 wins and a draw out of 8 games against Anderssen (sources : DSZ 1847 page 47; REG 1851 page 200; DSZ 1853 pages 94-95; DSZ 1864 page 193; OS 1872 page 9; DSZ 1881 page 11).

However, the Pole's powers were not enough to avoid defeat in a match won by Kolisch:

'The new comer, Mr. Kolisch, is quite young, and has just ar­rived from Vienna, where in a late encounter with the strongest player of that city, Mr. Jene [sic], out of eight games he won six and drew the other two' (Illustrated London news 4 June 1859)'.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduar...

http://www.edochess.ca/players/p150...

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Aug-27-21  Z truth 000000001: Wonder why Harding prefers <Jeney> over <Jenay>?

He mentions both forms, but doesn't explain his preference.

Aug-27-21  Jean Defuse: ...

Many contemporary sources wrote Jenay, but Peter Anderberg found probably the correct spelling of Eduard's surname:

... Wiener Zeitung vom 15. März 1880, in der in einer Auflistung der am 9. März Verstorbenen unter anderen genannt wird:

<Jeney>, Eduard, Hausbesitzer, 67 J., IX., Wasagasse 29, Lungenausdehnung.

Sein Geburtsjahr müsste demnach 1812 oder 1813 gewesen sein.

see: http://caissa-journal.de/wp-content...

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Aug-29-21  Z truth 000000001: Thanks for that info <Jean D>.

I looked quickly at a google translation of Anderberg's article - and some biographical info about his residency is supplied. But there's no explicit mention of the two variants of the name, so I am inclined to view the choice of Jeney vs. Jenay to still be a matter of convention.

My personal tendency is to try to follow the convention (or majority preponderance) of the contemporaneous literature to make historical searching easier.

(I should also note the nice portrait provided by Anderberg, though it seems to have its source uncredited.)

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Aug-30-21  Jean Defuse: ...

Illustrirte Zeitung 23.05.1868, p. 371 - <Jeney> v Adolf Csank

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/...

Waldheims Illustrirte Zeitung 18.04.1863, p. 819 - <Jeney>

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/...

Österreichische Schachzeitung 1872, p. 9 - <Jeney>

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Aug-30-21  Z truth 000000001: <Jean> I might have to circle back on this one, you're getting me interested in researching again!

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