Sep-21-08
 | | whiteshark: Born 1840.
He was an Austrian chess player.
'Bio': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopol... |
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Aug-08-09
| | whiteshark: Any sources known that he's said:
<Also sprach Tarraschustra> (Thus spoke Tarraschustra) ? |
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| Aug-08-09 | | sneaky pete: I found a reference to <Also sprach der Tarraschustra> by a certain Löwy, no first name given, with probably Georg Marco as unnamed co-author, published in the Wiener Schachzeitung 1905 or 1906. Occasion was apparently Tarrasch's notes in the book of the match Tarrasch vs Marshall, 1905. Tarrasch won that match +8 -1 =8, and found it necessary to explain one of the draws with "An meinen Spiel sieht man ganz deutlich, wie - eine Folge der Influenze - die Ruhe der Überlegung gestört war." Löwy writes:
The many friends and admirers of the American matador lived in continuous fear for his health, seeing that he lost one game after another. I too prepared myself, when playing over the games, to find that Marshall might soon suffer a mild stroke or something similar. So imagine my great amazement, when not Marshall, but Dr Tarrasch was struck by influenza! Etc.
Unfortunately, or fortunately for some, I don't have the entire text in German, or I would copy it here. I just have a long quote in a Dutch publication, of which I translated some lines. |
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Aug-08-09
| | whiteshark: Thank you <sneaky pete>! Now I've found a reference for the quote in <Wiener Schachzeitung 1905>, too http://books.google.de/books?q=wien..., but w/o context. I also found the quote <Thus spake Tarraschustra> in the book <The World's Great Chess Games> by Reuben Fine. Here you can also find a review of 300 Schachpartien and s.th. more... http://books.google.de/books?id=rWY... |
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| Aug-30-09 | | jurado96: I am sorry this is the oldest man
not his son |
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| Apr-09-10 | | ILoveCrazyhouse: Jurado you stole my joke. |
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Apr-09-10
 | | TheFocus: Leopold Loewy, Sr. and Leopold Loewy, Jr. are NOT father and son. They were not related. Someone at CG should have done their research better. |
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Apr-10-10
 | | HeMateMe: Wasn't Leopold Loewy the killer from Chicago? |
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Apr-12-10
| | TheFocus: Yeah, he was known as "Lefty". |
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| Jan-02-12 | | sneaky pete: In defence of Leopold Loewy, Sr. it should be argued that, although his name may arouse suspicion, it's not really the same as Richard "Dickie" Loeb and Nathan "Babe" Leopold, his old mother can testify that he wasn't ever in or around Chicago, there is no proof that he ever studied ornithology and in 1924 he was probably dead anyway. |
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