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Aug-07-07
 | | 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! |
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| Nov-01-08 | | Xeroxx: people likes to annotate his games. |
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| Feb-21-09 | | WhiteRook48: don't you mean people like to annotate his games? |
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| Feb-21-09 | | artyom2008: happy birthday |
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Feb-21-09
 | | 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 |
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Feb-21-09
| | 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. |
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Aug-21-09
 | | 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... |
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| Aug-21-09 | | vonKrolock: Is following a Composition?! - Looks more like a position from a game !? <?>Pollock
"The Chess Amateur" 1907 
click for larger view Mate in Five <en passant, we find also this in <<<Meson>>> online base> W. Pollock
"Baltimore Sunday News" 1889
click for larger view Mate in Two |
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Aug-21-09
 | | 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. |
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| Aug-21-09 | | 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  s should never move to another column Pollock
"Baltimore News"
27-vi-1890
click for larger view Mate in Two |
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Aug-21-09
| | 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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| Jan-04-10 | | Raisin Death Ray: Any relation to Jackson? |
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| Jan-05-10 | | Petrosianic: Andrew Jackson? |
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| Jan-05-10 | | FHBradley: Jackson Pollock? |
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| Jan-10-10 | | Raisin Death Ray: <Petrosianic> <FHBradley> Jackson Pollock!!! I kinda thought it was clear whom I was referring to! |
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| Nov-24-10 | | bengalcat47: FSR "Pollock is a fish" It should be noted that Pollock had wins against Pillsbury and Tarrasch during his career, as well as also having had success against opponents such as H.E. Bird and I. Gunsberg. |
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Mar-10-11
 | | GrahamClayton: Here is a nice finish from Pollock:
Hvidenstahl-Pollock, London, 1885:
click for larger viewPollock looks to be in a bit of trouble - both his Rook and Queen are attacked. Pollock ignores the attacks and plays
1... xb1! 2. gxh4  xf3 3. xf3  f2+ 4. xf2 e4+ 5. g2 xg2 6. c3 xd2+
0-1 |
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Aug-30-11
 | | wordfunph: William H.K. Pollock: A Chess Biography by Urcan & Hilbert.. http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.... |
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Oct-24-11
| | whiteshark: Quote of the Day
< It is no easy matter to reply correctly to Lasker's bad moves. > -- Pollock |
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Feb-21-12
 | | brankat: So true :-) |
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Feb-21-12
| | FSR: <bengalcat47: FSR "Pollock is a fish" It should be noted that Pollock had wins against Pillsbury and Tarrasch during his career, as well as also having had success against opponents such as H.E. Bird and I. Gunsberg.> I was making a silly joke - pollock is a kind of fish, as my Wikipedia cite indicated. No player who played at Hastings 1895, and did respectably, as Pollock did, could be a weak player. From what I have read of Pollock, he was a charming and beloved person, and capable of playing great chess. |
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Feb-21-12
 | | OhioChessFan: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... Definitely rocking that moustache. |
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Feb-21-12
 | | WannaBe: Is he a dripper? |
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| Feb-21-12 | | Penguincw: R.I.P. Pollock. |
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| Feb-21-12 | | jurado96: A GOOD PLAYER |
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