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Jul-17-05
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| Knight13: <It was the first match of any importance in the history of chess and is still referred to today as the World Championship of 1834> A mistake. Wikipedia must've had the wrong information or I copy-and-pasted from another page by accident. La Bourdonanis was the champ, though. |
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| Jul-23-05 |
| Darklight: Is his last name "MacDonnell" or "McDonnell?" If I'm not mistaken, one spelling is Irish and the other is Scottish. |
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Jul-23-05
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| Calli: <Darklight> The answer is both. Thats because two players have games listed here. The earlier player and Labourdannais opponent is Alexander McDonnell. The later games after 1835 are played by George Alcock MacDonnell. |
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Nov-06-05
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| biglo: Technically he was born in Ireland rather than Northern Ireland as Northern Ireland did not appear for some 85 years approximately after his death. |
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| Nov-07-05 |
| nikolaas: The games from 1961 and later might be played by George Alcock MacDonnell. |
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Nov-07-05
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| Chessical: <Biglo> By citizenship he was British; by locality he was born in the North of Ireland; and this area became known as Northern Ireland after the negotiated partition of Ireland following the Civil War. |
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Nov-15-05
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| biglo: I know Chessical I am Northern Irish :)
My point is that I would not say that the Roman emperors were from Italy. |
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| Dec-03-05 |
| WMD: <I think both he and LaBourdonnais are buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. I really should go down there and take some pictures because it is not far for me.> Did you? |
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| Jan-05-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Alexander MacDonnell McDONELL, Alexander
http://www.bidmonfa.com/mcdonnell_a...
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Jan-29-06
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| Knight13: The man who lost to Bardonnais in the unoffical world championship. But played well enough! |
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| Jan-29-06 |
| Steppenwolf: "La Bourdonnais". Like MacDonnel, not Donnel. |
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Jan-29-06
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| Benzol: I wish <chessgames.com> would alter his name to McDonnell which is what it should be. |
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Jan-29-06
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| Calli: <Benzol> You are right, however, I am just happy to see the games of George Alcock MacDonnell moved out of this page. It only took three years :-O |
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| Jan-29-06 |
| offramp: <WMD: <I think both he and LaBourdonnais are buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. I really should go down there and take some pictures because it is not far for me.>
Did you?>
It's hareder than it sounds. I have even lost track of relatives' graves. I think I might need one of those Geosat things to help me find them. WMD you are a one! |
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| Feb-03-06 |
| Cogano: Hi <Benzol>. I surely hope chessgame.com heeds your advice, lest the clan McDonnell take offence. You sure don't want to piss off a clan! LOL! Take very
good care and have a great day. Cheers mate! |
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Apr-08-06
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| Knight13: I'm trusting Benzol on this one. :) |
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Apr-22-07
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| Knight13: McDonnel is nothing but a mad attacker. You'll probably beat this guy if you play an opening where attacking your opponent's king is not good. Try his patience, make his psychological thinking messed up. This guy has a "have-to-attack" disease. |
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May-07-07
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| sleepyirv: Umm... if he died in 1835, how does he have games from 1837? |
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May-08-07
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| SwitchingQuylthulg: The 1836 game is just a duplicate of a 1834 game (with slight, and apparently erroneous, changes in the game score). The 1837 game most likely just has wrong year, too. |
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| Jun-26-07 |
| blackburne: Alexander McDonnell, the preromantic. Article in spanish with best games, biography, results in the web "Ajedrez de ataque". Article of McDonnell:
http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/04%2... Other romantic players:
http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/04%2... ---------------
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Jun-26-07
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| keypusher: <Alexander McDonnell, the preromantic.> You can say that again!
--Mrs. McDonnell |
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| Jul-18-08 |
| myschkin: e.g. Mikhail Bulgakov, the twentieth-century Russian author of the classic novel <The Master and Margarita> (Tip!), as well as various other novels and plays, died of Bright's Disease. |
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| Sep-19-08 |
| Cactus: Watching his games, he certainly doesn't seem like a player 'of GM strength' as the bio says. Most games he'll have all kinds of moves that I can see at a glance are obviously bad, and this is especcially strange seeing as he sometimes took <hours> for one move (there were no time controls at the time). |
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| Nov-15-08 |
| Fanacas: you do not now for wich move he thought long and for wich move he did not ^^ |
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Jul-23-09
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| Knight13: I'm celebrating my 10000th kibitizing right here! |
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