Mar-19-06
 | | Chessical: Thelen appears to been a strong Czech (or Slovak?) player who survived WW2 but little was heard of him after 1943. He played in Prague in 1945, but did he give up chess, or did he have problems with the post-war Communist government? |
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Mar-28-06 | | Gypsy: <Chessical> Thelen was Czech. The little I know of him generally comes from the positive role he played in the story of
Max Dietze. (More details there.) Thelen was a pre-WW2 member of Czechoslovak Communist Party and, it seems, a generally decent man. |
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Nov-05-10
 | | GrahamClayton: A Bedrich Thelen played on board 7 for Czechoslovakia against Belgium in 1954 in Brussels. Is this the same player? |
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Nov-13-13 | | Karpova: Dr. Thelen won the 1921 Breslau Championship.
From pages 348-349 of the December 1924 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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Apr-11-14 | | thomastonk: Is anything known that he played using a pseudonym? |
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Apr-11-14
 | | perfidious: <thomastonk> Never heard that about Thelen. |
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Apr-11-14 | | GumboGambit: Grammar Police: According to the Bio, he died twice. |
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Apr-12-14 | | GumboGambit: The Grammar Police appreciates the correction. Carry on. |
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Apr-12-14 | | thomastonk: <Karpova> Dr. Thelen from Breslau is most probably another player. The birth year of this Thelen made me curius, and then I found (among others) this article: http://schach.chess.com/blog/henry5.... |
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Apr-12-14 | | Karpova: <thomas>
thanks for the interesting article! It's also important with regards to Bedrich Thelen, as the authors gives this game B Thelen vs NN, 1930 as having been played by <H. Thelen>. This doesn't come unexpected, considering that the playing venue is Berlin. |
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Apr-12-14 | | thomastonk: <Karpova: Thelen/Berlin> The Czech Thelen was however related to Breslau by Walter Korn! Please, see http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/.... There is this sentence: "As corroborated by their compatriots Dobiáš, Hromádka, Pokorný, Thelen, and other Czechs who had also been to Breslau, what really happened was the paying of a bet." The part <"who had also been to Breslau"> seems to be meanigless for the assertion/whole story. |
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Apr-12-14 | | Karpova: <thomastonk>
They are probably still different persons, as Bedřich is the Czech version of Friedrich and not of a forename starting with H (e. g. Hermann = Heřman). Perhaps they were related to each other, though. In C.N. 6131 is a picture of <Bedřich Thelen> sitting next to Pirc: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Apr-12-14 | | thomastonk: <Karpova: They are probably still different persons> I didn't change my mind: they are different persons, of course. My point was to illustrate that any relation to a city for a selective event is rather arbitrarily, taking into account that one of them lived in Breslau, and the other one visited Breslau (according to these sources). It was just a remark. Another remark, again unrelated: I know a lot of Germans named 'Thelen', but the distribution of that name in Germany was rather surprising to me: http://www.verwandt.de/karten/relat.... (and tells you approximately where I live). <Karpova: In C.N. 6131 ...> When I saw this picture this morning I first checked Thelen's year of birth in Gaige's, because he looks there much older than 31, I would say. ;-) PS: <perfidious> Answering my own question of yesterday: B.Thelen tried to use a pseudonym once in a tournament in Prague, but he was uncovered. The story is known, and not quite interesting. |
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Jul-26-14
 | | Stonehenge: < thomastonk: Is anything known that he played using a pseudonym? > He used the pseudonym Linke to reflect his leftist political views: http://www.blog.praguechess.cz/?blo... |
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Sep-25-16 | | cro777: Bedøich Thelen was a Czech chess master and author. He worked on a three-volume book "A Comprehensive Treatise on Chess" (Zevrubné pojednání o šachu). Regrettably, only Part I. Fundamentals. Endgame technique. (Základy. Technika her konèících.) was published in 1929 in Prague. Part II on middlegame and Part III on openings, although announced, were not published. |
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Mar-01-24
 | | perfidious: Kavalek gives some reminiscences of Thelen in his posthumously published memoirs: https://www.newinchess.com/media/wy... |
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