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William Henry Kraus Pollock
Number of games in database: 82
Years covered: 1886 to 1895
Overall record: +30 -35 =15 (46.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      2 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Evans Gambit (7) 
    C51 C52
 Giuoco Piano (6) 
    C53 C50
 King's Pawn Game (5) 
    C44 C20
 Two Knights (4) 
    C55 C56 C58
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (17) 
    C77 C83 C67 C62 C68
 Vienna Opening (9) 
    C29 C28 C27 C26 C25
 Ruy Lopez, Open (5) 
    C83 C80
 King's Pawn Game (4) 
    C40 C20
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   W Pollock vs E Hall, 1890 1-0
   Max Weiss vs W Pollock, 1889 0-1
   W Pollock vs D G Baird, 1889 1-0
   W Pollock vs N MacLeod, 1889 1-0
   W Pollock vs Showalter, 1889 1/2-1/2
   W Pollock vs J W Baird, 1889 1-0
   Steinitz vs W Pollock, 1895 0-1

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WILLIAM HENRY KRAUS POLLOCK
(born Feb-21-1859, died Oct-05-1896) United Kingdom

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William Henry Krause Pollock was born on the 21st of February 1859 in Cheltenham, England. A player of IM strength he was Irish Champion in 1885 and 1886 and came 1st at Belfast in 1886. He also wrote a tournament booklet with James Mason on the St. Petersburg 1895/96 tourney. He passed away in Clifton in 1896.

 page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 82  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Burn vs W Pollock 0-135 1886 Irish CA Congress 2ndA04 Reti Opening
2. Taubenhaus vs W Pollock 1-036 1886 NottinghamC39 King's Gambit Accepted
3. R Barnett vs W Pollock 0-158 1886 BelfastC29 Vienna Gambit
4. Blackburne vs W Pollock  1-022 1887 London BCAC40 King's Knight Opening
5. Blackburne vs W Pollock 1-017 1888 ?C40 King's Knight Opening
6. E Delmar vs W Pollock  1-057 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC48 Four Knights
7. D M Martinez vs W Pollock  1-027 1889 USA-06.Congress New York (31-2)C40 King's Knight Opening
8. Gossip vs W Pollock 1-049 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC25 Vienna
9. Showalter vs W Pollock 0-133 1889 New York m/7C30 King's Gambit Declined
10. W Pollock vs E Delmar  1-072 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC50 Giuoco Piano
11. W Pollock vs Blackburne  0-149 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC53 Giuoco Piano
12. Chigorin vs W Pollock  ½-½45 1889 USA-06.Congress New York (23-1)C51 Evans Gambit
13. W Pollock vs D M Martinez 0-150 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC52 Evans Gambit
14. W Pollock vs Chigorin 0-124 1889 New YorkC47 Four Knights
15. Blackburne vs W Pollock  1-055 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC28 Vienna Game
16. W Pollock vs M Judd  0-167 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC51 Evans Gambit
17. W Pollock vs J W Baird 1-025 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC52 Evans Gambit
18. D M Martinez vs W Pollock  ½-½50 1889 USA-06.Congress New York (31-1)C77 Ruy Lopez
19. W Pollock vs Max Weiss 0-146 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkD00 Queen's Pawn Game
20. J W Baird vs W Pollock 0-136 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC83 Ruy Lopez, Open
21. Lipschutz vs W Pollock  1-030 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC29 Vienna Gambit
22. Showalter vs W Pollock 1-030 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC80 Ruy Lopez, Open
23. W Pollock vs Taubenhaus ½-½57 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC58 Two Knights
24. W Pollock vs Lipschutz  1-086 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC66 Ruy Lopez
25. Taubenhaus vs W Pollock 0-126 1889 USA-06.Congress New YorkC83 Ruy Lopez, Open
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Jun-26-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: Does anyone read the bios before they post? Just curious.
Jun-27-05   offramp: He read it and it obviously sank in.
Jun-27-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  Knight13: <Benzol> I didn't read the bio before I posted. I found the bio in another website and I just simply posted few facts on. I couldn't believe the fact that the few facts I posted are in the bio above! Darn it.
Jun-27-05   THE pawn: Knight13, since you're good at searching for infos on players, could you tell me if he's affiliated in any way to creg pollock, Jacques Villeneuve's manager?
Jun-27-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  Knight13: <THE pawn: ... could you tell me if he's affiliated in any way to creg pollock, Jacques Villeneuve's manager?> Sorry but I don't know the answer to that question. :(
Jun-29-05   offramp: Here is a huge pair of Pollocks http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/aut...
Nov-28-05   lopium: Died at 37 years old... Young, what did he catch to die so early?
Feb-21-06   BIDMONFA: William Henry Kraus Pollock

POLLOCK, William H. K.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/pollock_wil...
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Aug-04-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Calli: This sad notice in the BCM 1896, page 352

"We greatly regret to find that owing to ill-health Mr. W. H. K. Pollock is obliged to resign the editorship of his able chess column in the Baltimore News, and to come to his paternal home at Bristol for complete rest. His farewell notice to his readers appears in the issue of the above paper for August 8th, and reads—"

'With very great regret I have to announce that I am obliged to abdicate the chair of chess editor of this column. Serious and prolonged trouble of (at least) a bronchial nature has compelled my severance from my many delightful chess associations in this country; and I am due to sail for my paternal home in Bristol on this day, if, perchance, complete rest and home treatment may effect a restoration. Farewell !'

Aug-06-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  vonKrolock: His score in the Belfast 1886 Tournamenst was +8=0-0, the field there included Burn and Blackburne. For our modern patterns, this would be a GM performance - Some of the qualities of his play at Chess are not chessmetricable, though - the obituary in BCM, one of the most moving in record (a true elegy) exalted his qualities. It can be seen in Edward Winter's on-line featured article "A Chess Idealist" http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
Aug-06-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Calli: Pleased to report that the book "Pollock Memories" is available on google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=9S...

Interesting enough, the digital copy is from a book owned by Frank Marshall who gave a large number of volumes to the NYC public library in the 1930s.

Aug-07-07
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  vonKrolock: <Calli> Excellent! Surelly a lot of valuable chessical contents still not in the games or compositions bases are there. Maybe the book arrive to help clarifying the Hall-miniature question too!?
Aug-07-07
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  whiteshark:
Here you find a four page review on <Pollock Memories>: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/revie...
Aug-07-07
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  vonKrolock: <whiteshark> Wonderful stuff too!

From the above mentioned congress in Belfast 1886, and not yet here in cg.com (PGN opportunelly following), the position after 11...Qg6 in the Burn vs Pollock game:


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Burn played 12.Nd3 ? and Pollock had the opportunity for a very nice combination (a good puzzle too...)

Aug-07-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Calli: Many of the games in "Memories" do not appear on CG which is currently almost limited to NY1889, NY1893 and Hastings1895. <VonKrolock>, its sounds like you are entering and submitting some of these forgotten games. Thank you very much!
Nov-01-08   Xeroxx: people likes to annotate his games.
Feb-21-09   WhiteRook48: don't you mean people like to annotate his games?
Feb-21-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  artyom2008: happy birthday
Feb-21-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: "Krause" is correct, not "Kraus." Pollock is a fish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock And he sure looks like one in Blackburne vs W Pollock, 1888
Feb-21-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Chess historian John S. Hilbert concludes his above-cited four-page review by calling "Pollock Memories" "a curious and intriguing volume that deserves a place on the history shelf of any chess book reader." Indeed. I printed mine out from Google Books, got it spiral-bound at the local copying place, and voila! A new chess book almost for free.
Aug-21-09
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  whiteshark: "It is no easy matter to reply correctly to Lasker's bad moves."

(William Pollock )

Emanuel Lasker beat William Henry Kraus Pollock 4 to 0. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

Aug-21-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  vonKrolock: Is following a Composition?! - Looks more like a position from a game !?

<?>Pollock
"The Chess Amateur" 1907


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Mate in Five

<en passant, we find also this in <<<Meson>>> online base>

W. Pollock
"Baltimore Sunday News" 1889


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Mate in Two

Aug-21-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Phony Benoni: <vonKrolock> It's from a game: W Pollock vs Allies, 1893. For a similar example, see M Corden vs NN, 1970. You'd think one of the Allies would have remembered to warn NN about it.
Aug-21-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  vonKrolock: <Phony Benoni> Thanks! Strangely enough, that position found it's way to one of the online CP-databases <"quandoque bonus dormitat etc">

On the other hand, this would never arrive in a real game - with all the pieces on the board, the PPs should never move to another column

Pollock
"Baltimore News"
27-vi-1890


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Mate in Two

Aug-21-09
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  Phony Benoni: <vonKrolock> That second problem is devilishly difficult to visualize. Looks like Pollock was the guy who gave everybody headaches down at the club with his crazy problems.

I think it's 1.Nd6, but I'm still not completely sure.

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