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| Jun-29-05 |
| FHBradley: Is there a picture of Herr Paulsen available anywhere? I would appreciate seeing his massive head. |
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| Jun-29-05 |
| WTHarvey: Here are some puzzles from Louis's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/paul.html |
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| Jun-29-05 |
| FHBradley: Smart as I am, I can reply my own question:
http://www.schachgemeinschaft-detmo... includes a picture of Paulsen and Morphy OTB |
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| Jul-13-05 |
| offramp: Rather a surprise to see him as best player in the world 1862-65 (at chessmetrics); but he ws a very good player. |
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Jul-30-05
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| chancho: Louis Paulsen is credited as the pioneer of the Kings Indian Defense, The Pirc defense, Sicilian Defense, Dragon variation ,as well as improvements in other openings.He was one of the few Masters of the time, who concentrated on improving many of black's defensive set ups. |
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Aug-16-05
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| BishopBerkeley: Remembrance of Louis Paulsen published in August 1891 (the year of Paulsen's death) in the New York Times: http://batgirl.atspace.com/Paulsen_...
(:  Bishop Berkeley :)
P.S. I note that Paulsen has a positive score against Adolf Anderssen based on games in our database: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Overall record: Louis Paulsen beat Adolf Anderssen 24 to 18, with 7 draws. He also has a positive score against Joseph Henry Blackburne : http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... and he tied overall with Johannes Zukertort : http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Significant accomplishments!
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| Jan-05-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Louis Paulsen PAULSEN, Louis
http://www.bidmonfa.com/paulsen_lou...
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| Jan-15-06 |
| FHBradley: Congratulations to Louis Paulsen on sharing the birthday with me! |
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Jan-15-06
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| vonKrolock: <"a splendorous table clock in black marmor"> made of MARBLE, of course |
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| Jan-20-06 |
| morphyvsfischer: A real genius; without him, Nimzowitch, Reti, other hypermoderns ect. ect. would probably not be famous for their work because they didn't invent their work! I believe Chigorin was inspired by Paulsen and Morphy the most, and of course Nimzo, Reti, and Alekhine modeled their styles after Chigorin's. |
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Apr-22-07
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| refutor: any books out there about paulsen? |
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May-26-07
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| chancho: Will the real Louis Paulsen....
http://www.endgame.nl/PAUL.JPG |
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May-26-07
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| chancho: Please stand up.
http://www.chessville.com/Espanol/N... |
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Aug-21-07
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| Benzol: Louis and his brother Wilfrid came from a chess playing family. To illustrate their importance to chess theory I offer the following quotes. "The only master to have had the slightest inkling of the correct way to handle fiachetto defences was Louis Paulsen. In this respect he was strangely ahead of his otherwise more gifted contemporaries - Anderssen, Zukertort, Steinitz, Blackburne and Tarrasch, to proceed from one end of the chronological scale to the other." - Ray Keene and George Botterill in 'The Modern Defence'. See Max Weiss vs Paulsen, 1883 as an example. "Paulsen discovered a larger number of opening ideas than any of his contemporaries. For the attack he contributed to the Scotch Game, the Goering Gambit, the Paulsen Attack, the Paulsen variations of the Vienna Game, and the Four Knights Opening. For the defence he discovered the Boleslavsky variation, the Paulsen Defence of the Kieseritzky Gambit, and the Paulsen Variation of the Sicilian Defence. He introduced the Pirc Defence and improved Black's chances in the Muzio Gambit and in several lines of the Sicilian Defence. His contributions were not confined to an odd move or improvement here and there: he also invented whole systems of play."
"Paulsen wrote no books, and none has been written on his theoretical contributions." - David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld in 'The Oxford Companion To Chess'. |
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Jan-26-08
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| Knight13: This guy is clearly better than his brother, Wilfried Paulsen. |
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May-16-08
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| Knight13: Chessmetrics Player Profile: Louis Paulsen
Born: 1833-Jan
Died: 1891-Aug
Best World Rank: #1 (39 different months between the April 1862 rating list and the July 1878 rating list ) Highest Rating: 2710 on the October 1862 rating list, #1 in world, age 29y9m Best Individual Performance: 2660 in Frankfurt, 1887, scoring 7.5/13 (58%) vs 2622-rated opposition |
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May-16-08
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| brankat: You are not feeling well today? |
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| Oct-24-08 |
| Karpova: From Jeremy P. Spinrad's "Chess Journalism: Old and New", May 2007: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/spinr... <Another example is this reprinted letter from the 'London Globe' describing a simultaneous blindfold exhibition by Paulsen in Düsseldorf:'New York Times', Oct 11, 1863: "Herr Paulsen, says the same letter, is a young man of 29, tall and lank, as Westphalians generally are, and with a cranium which would be the delight of phrenological science."> |
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| Mar-02-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: Is he any relation to Pat Paulsen? |
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| Jul-23-09 |
| myschkin: . . .
"The Father of Hypermodern Chess" P.1
'... Wilhelm Steinitz at least gave posthumous credit to Paulsen’s pioneer work - ...' http://www.chessclub.org/news.php?n...
by Imre Koenig |
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Nov-11-09
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| fred lennox: Calling Paulsen the father of hypermodern depends how much you want to consider the child father of the man. There's Staunton, Anderssen, Steinitz and a not so obvious Lasker, all forshadowed hypermodern. Father is a bit misused. Establisher is more the point, though less fluent. |
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Jul-06-10
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| David2009: <Dec-17-04 and Dec-05-04 vonKrolock: <SBC: Louis Paulsen's only chess problem.> only, so surely this one: 8-2B5-8-1n2Rp2-8-3bpkpB-4N3-4K3 #2 (5+6)- In American Chess Nuts, number 334. [snip]>
click for larger view Mate in 2. Nice problem! Thanks <SBC> and <vonK>. Nice to see Louis Paulsen getting recognition. He was one of Blackburne's motivators to take up chess: they met in 1861 during Paulsen's Manchester tour Paulsen vs Blackburne, 1861 (first recorded Winawer?); Paulsen vs Blackburne, 1861 (blindfold simultaneous). |
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Jul-06-10
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| vonKrolock: <David2009> Merci beaucoup, aussi pour le diagramme, très gentil - back then in 2004 there was not yet such facility here |
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Jul-31-10
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| GrahamClayton: Photo of a young Paulsen:
http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/... |
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Sep-09-10
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| GrahamClayton: A description of Paulsen from the "Hobart Town Daily Mercury", dated 17 November 1858: "...Paulsen is described in one of the Chicago papers as tall and muscular. His face smooth, hair light and cut short, grey eyes, compact facial muscles, and a head of prodigious size. His head is said to be the largest of any man in the country. He seems to perform his astonishing feats with ease, never experiencing the least headache, and feeling quite clear throughout. He declares that he can play better blindfold chess than in the usual manner, and had he always his choice would never play otherwise. While playing, he looks remarkably calm, and yet, if a bystander feel his pulse, he would count as many as 110 and more." |
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