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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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