Caroline Steinitz died 1892.05.27 in New York, NY, USA.

Further Information from Edward Winter's C.N. 4756 containing information from the British Census:

<1871 census: William Steinitz. Age: 33. Born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria. Address: 2 Princes Street, St Giles without Cripplegate, London. Occupation: Professor of chess. Married to Caroline Steinitz (age 25). Child: Flora Steinitz (daughter, age 4). The address was shared by several households.

1881 census: Wm. Steinitz. Age: 44. Born in Austria. Address: 11 Newton Street, Shoreditch, London. Occupation: Journalist. Married to Caroline Steinitz (age 35). Child: Flora Steinitz (daughter, age 14).>

Source: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

I find it interesting that in '71 census Steinitz declared himself a "Professor of Chess", and in '81 "Journalist" :-)

For sure, I also took that into consideration but I wouldn't have asked if the solution was that simple. Gaige doesn't include the whole family of chessplayers but only chessplayers (that still adds up to 14,000 entries). E. g. Jose Raul is the only Capablanca included. Alekhine's wife (and his cats) are also not mentioned. The only Laskers mentioned are Emanuel, Berthold and Edward (and Berthold probably wasn't included just because he was Emanuel's brother). And so on. So why does he single out Steinitz's wife or Menchik's sister but not one of Capablanca's ten siblings? The idea that Steinitz's wife and Menchik's sister were more deeply involved in chess than those ten Capablanca family members suggests itself, doesn't it?

From page 483 of the November 1932 "BCM".

<Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research.>

-- Steinitz

"He always sought completely original lines and didn't mind getting into cramped quarters if he thought that his position was essentially sound."

-- Bobby Fischer (<on Steinitz>)

Probably not. Nimzowitsch is genrally considered to be under the shadow of not one, but two legends, yet his contributions to the game have hardly made him a footnote.

Serious programmers who work with the goal of solving chess are basically providing proof of Steinitz's theory of chess. (I know programmers who quote Steinitz' theory when discussing tablebases and the distinct possibility that perfectly played chess is in fact 1.5-1.5)

Some of you may know that Dr. Emanuel Lasker wrote a book of philosophy titled "Struggle". This book has been out of print for many years, and getting a copy of it has been difficult (believe me, I have tried!)

Surprisingly, I am delighted to see that very recently the book has become available as a digital download at no cost! (Having been published in 1907, it is in the public domain in nearly all countries.)

Our own User: SBC has written a very good piece about it here:

http://blog.chess.com/view/laskers-...

It is indeed interesting to compare Dr. Lasker's philosophical thought to that of his friend and fellow genius Albert Einstein . (A good summary of Einstein's spiritual philosophy will be found here: http://www.100bestwebsites.org/alt/... )

For those who would like to download a complete copy of Dr. Lasker's philosophical book, you may do so from this link:

http://tinyurl.com/ntbk7n

with the specific download link being

http://dds.crl.edu/loadStream.asp?i...

The book is in PDF format, and the file size is about 1 MB.

I find the section titled "The Problem" (from pages 5-12) to be particularly interesting.

But be forewarned, you will look in vain for any Chess diagrams in it! But you will find much else that is worthwhile.

As I understand it, Dr. Lasker believed his book was a generalization of his Chess philosophy to life in the broadest sense. He attributed the great synthesis of Chess theory to Wilhelm Steinitz , and believe that that great Chess luminary had developed his theory after long study of the Chessgames of Paul Morphy . (See the last long quote on this page for details: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_M... )

If any of you happen to read all or a portion of this intriguing book, I hope you may share your thoughts here.

Hope you are all in good spirits....