Samuel D Factor
Number of games in database: 89
Years covered: 1916 to 1946
Overall record: +35 -37 =17 (48.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Queen's Pawn Game (9)      D02 A46 E10 A50 D04  Orthodox Defense (6)      D51 D63 D68 D55 D52  Ruy Lopez (5)      C84 C68 C88 C83  Semi-Slav (4)      D46 D45  Queen's Gambit Declined (4)      D37	With the Black pieces:  Ruy Lopez (6)      C80 C66 C79 C68 C83  Orthodox Defense (5)      D51 D52 D60 D67  Queen's Pawn Game (4)      E00 D05 A46

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Nietsche vs Factor, 1942 0-1
   Factor vs F M Currier, 1923 1-0
   Factor vs Alekhine, 1932 1/2-1/2
   Factor vs L Isaacs, 1937 1-0

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Atlantic City 1921 by crawfb5
   US Open 1922, Louisville = 23rd Western Champ. by Phony Benoni
   US Open 1925, Cedar Point = 26th Western Champ. by Phony Benoni

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SAMUEL D FACTOR (born Sep-22-1892, died Jan-11-1949) Poland (citizen of United States of America) [what is this?] Former Chicago and Illinois chess champion. He won the Western Championship (U.S. Open) in 1922 and 1930. He played Board 3 for the USA team at 1928 Chess Olympiad at The Hague. Wikipedia article: Samuel Factor

page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 89  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Factor vs Rubinstein 0-1 61 1916 Lodz C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange 2. Reshevsky vs Factor 0-1 26 1917 Lodz, Poland C22 Center Game 3. Reti vs Factor 1-0 23 1919 Rotterdam C30 King's Gambit Declined 4. Factor vs Reti 1-0 33 1919 Rotterdam D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 5. Factor vs C Jaffe   0-1 39 1921 8th American Chess Congress D51 Queen's Gambit Declined 6. V Sournin vs Factor   1-0 49 1921 8th American Chess Congress A85 Dutch, with c4 & Nc3 7. Factor vs S T Sharp   1-0 45 1921 8th American Chess Congress C42 Petrov Defense 8. S Mlotkowski vs Factor 0-1 36 1921 Atlantic City C48 Four Knights 9. Factor vs E S Jackson   1-0 46 1921 8th American Chess Congress C83 Ruy Lopez, Open 10. Factor vs J B Harvey 1-0 14 1921 Atlantic City C55 Two Knights Defense 11. N Whitaker vs Factor   1-0 46 1921 8th American Chess Congress D67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line 12. Factor vs J T Beckner   1-0 59 1921 Western Championship C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 13. Factor vs Marshall   ½-½ 51 1921 8th American Chess Congress C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 14. Factor vs N Whitaker 0-1 18 1921 Western Championship C88 Ruy Lopez 15. E W Gruer vs Factor   0-1 71 1922 Western Championship C80 Ruy Lopez, Open 16. Factor vs N Whitaker   1-0 39 1922 Western Championship E10 Queen's Pawn Game 17. Ed Lasker vs Factor 0-1 40 1922 Western Championship C83 Ruy Lopez, Open 18. I Spero vs Factor 1-0 72 1922 Western Championship C80 Ruy Lopez, Open 19. Showalter vs Factor   0-1 46 1922 Western Championship D60 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense 20. Factor vs F M Currier 1-0 17 1923 Western Championship C41 Philidor Defense 21. Factor vs N Whitaker   1-0 41 1923 Western Championship D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense 22. Factor vs S Mlotkowski   1-0 33 1924 Western Championship D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 23. Factor vs Reshevsky 1-0 22 1924 Western Championship D46 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 24. I Spero vs Factor   1-0 58 1925 Western Championship C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange 25. Factor vs M C Palmer   1-0 59 1925 Western Championship D02 Queen's Pawn Game  page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 89

Jan-28-04    Resignation Trap: Factor was a prominent figure in the Chicago area for many years. Nearly all of his chess career he was an American, but the best source of information on him is on a Polish website: http://www.astercity.net/~vistula/s... Apr-21-05    soberknight: "Fear Factor" (pun potential for games he won). Apr-05-08    biglo: Pity there are more than 10 wins of his in the database because you could have said he had the X Factor Sep-22-09    johnlspouge: When in doubt, ... ??? If you had taken math at my high school, you'd know what to do. Sep-22-09    cuendillar: He was a D Factor from Poland though. Sep-22-09    whiteshark: Does <D> stands for <decisive>? Jan-27-10    Phony Benoni: Factor appears here, in a group shot taken at the 8th American Chess Congress, Atlantic City, 1921: http://books.google.com/books?id=7R... Hope you can view it sideways. The key is on the next page, but most of the big names are seated in the second row, viewing from left to right: <Frank J. Marshall, Samuel D. Factor, Vladimir Sournin, David Janowski, Rev. B. M Neill, Norman T. Whitaker> (now you now why the Rev. is in there), <Charles Jaffe, Stasch Mlotkowski>. At the very end of this row is <I.S. Turover> Nov-03-10    technical draw: Samuel Factor was Max Factor's nephew not brother as some say in his games. Samuel's father Daniel was Max's brother. Sep-22-12    andrewjsacks: <TD> That relationship is correct: nephew, not brother. People better *makeup* their minds to understand it properly. Sep-22-12    Abdel Irada: I can only hope that "The Samuel D. Factor" will be a better show than "The O'Reilly Factor." At least it has better inbuilt rap potential. Sep-22-12    Abdel Irada: <Phony Benoni>: Great old image — especially after I downloaded it and rotated it 90 degrees. But where is Marshall's trademark cigar? He can't expect to do a proper job threatening Nimzovich without it. Sep-22-12    TheFocus: Wasn't one of the Factor brothers a notorious gangster? Sep-22-12    andrewjsacks: Yes, his half-brother John, I believe. Sep-22-12    perfidious: <andrew> cha-CHING!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F... Mar-06-13    Caissanist: Curiously, Edward Lasker's <Chess Secrets I Learned from the Masters> does not mention Factor at all, although Factor was obviously Lasker's main rival as leading player in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s. Perhaps there was bad blood between them, but it may just be that Lasker found his two losses to Factor a bit embarrassing. At one point he claims that "[I]n 1923 I had been acknowledged as the only serious contender for Marshall's title" as U.S. champion, which would not have seemed as credible were he to mention his loss to Factor (and resulting third place finish) in the 1922 Western Open.

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