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Jun-26-05
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| Benzol: Does anyone read the bios before they post? Just curious. |
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| Jun-27-05 |
| offramp: He read it and it obviously sank in. |
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Jun-27-05
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| 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. |
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| 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? |
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Jun-27-05
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| 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. :( |
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| Jun-29-05 |
| offramp: Here is a huge pair of Pollocks http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/aut... |
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| Nov-28-05 |
| lopium: Died at 37 years old... Young, what did he catch to die so early? |
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| 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
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| 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 !' |
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Aug-06-07
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| 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/... |
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Aug-06-07
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| 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. |
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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!? |
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Aug-07-07
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| whiteshark:
Here you find a four page review on <Pollock Memories>:
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/revie... |
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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... g6 in the Burn vs Pollock game:
click for larger view Burn played 12. d3 ? and Pollock had the opportunity for a very nice combination (a good puzzle too...) |
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Aug-07-07
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| 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
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| artyom2008: happy birthday |
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Feb-21-09
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| 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
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| 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
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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... |
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Aug-21-09
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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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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