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Nov-22-04
 | | Chessical: <InfinityCircuit> I know of the following E. Cohn vs. Nimzowitsch games: Munich 1906
Carlsbad 1907
Ostende 1907
Carlsbad 1911
As I do not have a copy of "My System" the respective game lengths were: 65, 20, 29 and 100 according to my source. |
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| Nov-22-04 | | sneaky pete: <Chessical> <IC> is questioning about either the Munich 1906 game, in "My system" given from 39.Qe5 .. until the end (65... Kd3) or about an unidentified game (no date/event) starting with 16... Qd7 and lasting over 30 moves. The diagrammed position might have arisen from a Steinitz defence against the Ruy Lopez, with black having played Nf6-g4x(B)e3, leaving white with an isolated doubled pawn after fxe3 ... (theme: doubled pawn and "Hemmung"). AN writes "after ... 31.exf5 .. the win could be forced by 31... Kh8 (etc)", implying that he missed the win. I'm afraid this is the mystery game <IC> is looking for. |
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| Dec-17-07 | | Karpova: Erich Cohn (1884-1918) was a doctor of medicine. |
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| May-20-08 | | whiteshark: Bio: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_... (German)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_... (English)
He died in the western front, <as a field doctor>, at the end of World War I. |
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| Mar-01-09 | | brankat: Born 125 years ago, and left us so very much prematurely. R.I.P. Dr.Cohn. |
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| Mar-01-10 | | whiteshark: R.I.P. Schachmeister Cohn
†August 28, 1918 (supposably) |
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| Jan-24-11 | | Ken Chamberlain: I like this players games. |
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| Jan-24-11 | | Raisin Death Ray: Not as mean as his cousin Roy! :) |
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| Feb-09-11 | | BIDMONFA: Erich Cohn COHN, Erich
http://www.bidmonfa.com/cohn_erich....
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| Aug-19-11 | | whiteshark: Edward Winter's C.N. 7213 shows a picture and the booklet dedicated to him. <Scarce (many copies were destroyed by the Nazis because Cohn was Jewish). This was a little 18-page booklet dedicated to his memory since he was killed in action for Germany on 28 August 1918 after three years’ service.> Link: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
Photo: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Aug-23-12 | | Karpova: The 4-Masters double-round robin Tournament in Berlin in 1909* began November 18. 1-2. E. Cohn 3.5
1-2. Teichmann 3.5
3. Spielmann 3.0
4. Von Bardeleben 2.0
Cohn and Teichmann shared the combined 1st and 2nd prizes (500 + 300 Mark), Spielmann got 250 Mark and Von Bardeleben 150 Mark. From page 212 of the 1910 'Wiener Schachzeitung'
*Could the date in the Bio be mistaken (1910) as it was reported in 1910 but took place in 1909. |
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| Mar-01-13 | | Abdel Irada: The tragedy of this wide-ranging intellect (note the guitar and the shelves filled with books), constrained by ill health and destroyed at the age of 34 by a senseless war, underscores the larger social catastrophe: that it is not our talents, our skills, our hard strivings to advance, even our genius, that determine our fates, but the decisions made in our name and "for our own good" by a tiny cadre of self-appointed aristocrats deaf to the voice of conscience. |
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Mar-01-13
 | | perfidious: <Abdel Irada> For a later example of genius constrained by a petty mind, have a go at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Su... |
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| Mar-01-13 | | Abdel Irada: <perfidious>: That reminds me of something attributed to Stephen Jay Gould: <I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.> |
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Mar-01-13
| | perfidious: <Abdel Irada> That quote fits, right enough. |
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| Feb-15-14 | | Karpova: 30-board Simul in Berlin on October 9, 1909: +23 -4 =3 Source: Page 17 of the January 1910 'Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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| Jul-20-14 | | Marcelo Bruno: <Infinity Circuit> Can you provide me the position in Forsyth Notation, please? |
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| Aug-07-14 | | Marcelo Bruno: <sneaky pete> Can you provide me the position in Forsyth Notation, please? |
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| Aug-07-14 | | sneaky pete: <Marcelo Bruno> The Munich 1906 game is (now) in this database:
E Cohn vs Nimzowitsch, 1906
The position in the mystery game (diagram 145 page 197 of the German edition of My System)
click for larger viewBlack (Nimzowitsch) to make his 16th move.
I'm not sure I know what Forsyth notation means, but when I give the position in what I think it is, the thing is turned on this site into this funny picture. |
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| Mar-01-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Erich Cohn. |
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| Mar-01-19 | | Caissanist: Updated link to Winter's ChessNote 7213: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... . |
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Mar-01-19
 | | WTHarvey: Here are 7 mates and combinations from Erich Cohn's games: http://wtharvey.com/cohn.html Find the winning moves. |
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| Aug-14-21 | | Bartleby: Erich Cohn had a memorable vignette of the man described by Edward Lasker in his classic memoir/game collection "Chess Secrets I Learned From the Masters": "Erich Cohn was a highly gifted young man, of a family too poor to send him to the University. However, he had found a patron who offered to pay his way through college to enable him to get his degree of Doctor of Philosophy, so that he could obtain a teaching position in his favorite field, the History of Art. Cohn was as handsome as a "Greek God," withal very modest and serious, interested in every phase of intellectual endeavor. But chess proved his undoing. After winning the Master title he could not withstand the temptation to travel to the many master tournaments which were organized in Germany and the adjoining countries. He was not as lucky as I, who possessed three friends to help fight the demon, the habit-forming mental opiate which chess can be to young, impressionable, ambitious boys. Cohn gradually neglected his studies, he did not graduate in proper time, and his patron withdrew his support. Thus he was reduced to playing chess professionally. But without the driving energy of a Mieses and the towering strength of a Teichmann, Cohn drifted from bad to straitened circumstances, and when he was killed in the early days of the first world war, many of his friends thought of the proverb: "Whom the Gods love, they from the earth in his youth." Which reminds me of Carl Schlechter, also a victim of WWI, while not on the battlefield, but apparently himself drifted from "bad to straitened circumstances" upon the oubreak of the war to eventually end up dying penniless, starved, and alone shortly after it was over. |
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| Jul-23-23 | | whiteshark: https://www.chess.com/blog/kahns/a-... had Ed. Lasker's quote and still some, beyond that to report. |
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| Mar-01-24 | | Caissanist: <Bartleby>: Chess Secrets, though an entertaining read, is nothing close to reliable history, many of Lasker's mini-bios appear to be unsubstantiated gossip. His assertion that Cohn was killed early in WWI is of course wrong, it would hardly be surprising if some of his other assertions were also incorrect. |
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