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| Maroczy: What does Byrne know? And I don't care what Byrne thinks; I like players with jajki:). |
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Jan-08-07
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| notyetagm: Any Janowski fan know the game in which he played a beautiful mating combination with a final mating position similar to this one?
click for larger viewThis position comes from a variation of the game Kasparov v Epishin 1995. I believe that Janowski played his version in a famous tournament from early last century. I solved it once but don't remember all the details. Thanks. |
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| May-21-07 |
| sadmadbadcad: <notyetagm> The game you refer to is, I think Janowski vs Schlechter, 1899 |
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| Jun-06-07 |
| wolfmaster: Question: Does Janowski have a plus or even score against any of these early 20th century masters?
1. Marshall
2.Maroczy
3.Nimzowitsch
4. Capablanca
5. Alekhine
6. Schlechter
7.Vidmar
8.Ahues
9.Bogoljubow
10.Burn
11.Tartakower
12.Pillsbury
13.Charousek
14.Tarrasch
15.Samisch
16.Gruenfeld
17. Rubinstein
18.Reti
19.Spielmann
20.Euwe
Thanks! |
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Jun-06-07
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| keypusher: Courtesy of gypsy's post on the page for the Lasker-Janowsky WC match, here are Janowsky's results against a bunch of players: <J-Steinitz 5:3 =0
J-Chigorin 13:5 =6
J-Gunsberg 3:1 =1
J-Winawer 5:0 =0
J-Burn 10:3 =2
J-Blackburne 6:2 =4
J-Marco 12:4 =6
And he also faded rather fast
J-Tarrasch 6:9 =3
J-Lasker 4:24 =7
J-Pillsbury 4:6 =2
J-Maroczy 5:10 =5
J-Schlechter 12:20 =9
J-Marshall 24:34 =16
J-Duras 1:3 =0
J-Bernstein 0:2 =2
J-Rubinstein 3:5 =0
J-Spielmann 2:4 =1
J-Nimzowich 0:3 =2
J-Capablanca 1:9 =1
J-Alekhine 2:4 =2
J-Reti 0:4 =1 > |
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| Jun-07-07 |
| blackburne: Article in spanish of David Janowski in the section of romantic chess players, in the web "Ajedrez de ataque" JANOWSKI:
http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/04%2... OTHER PLAYERS:
http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/04%2... - |
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Jun-07-07
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| Peligroso Patzer: <fred lennox: That he said he didn't like endgames i take with a grain of salt. Maybe he didn't love endgames but he was quite good at it.> Interestingly, the first game listed among his "Notable Games":
Janowski vs Gruenfeld, 1925 features a half-point swindle in an endgame. |
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| Aug-18-07 |
| get Reti: I like watching Janowski's games because he develops all of his pieces (including both rooks and queen) before starting an attack. For example, in the queen's gambit, he plays both Rac1, Rfd1, and Qe2 before playing a move such as Ne5. |
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| Oct-04-07 |
| DanielBryant: According to Soltis, his first name is Dawid, not David. |
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| Jan-03-08 |
| Manic: <DanielBryant> I think it's the same name, just different spellings. Lawrence points out that Janowski and Daniel Yanofsky have the same surname but are just spelt differently. Janowski's surname is also sometimes spelt Janowsky. |
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Feb-26-08
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| Knight13: <Janowski's surname is also sometimes spelt Janowsky.> That's how Silman spelled it in one of his books. |
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| May-15-08 |
| MUNGOMYERS: hi was wondering if anyone has the book janowski artist of the chessboard and if so what is the book like thanks |
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May-16-08
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| Knight13: Chessmetrics Player Profile: David Janowski
Born: 1868-Jun
Died: 1927-Jan
Best World Rank: #1 (5 different months between the May 1904 rating list and the September 1904 rating list ) Highest Rating: 2776 on the July 1904 rating list, #1 in world, age 36y1m Best Individual Performance: 2811 in London, 1899, scoring 15.5/22 (70%) vs 2674-rated opposition |
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| Jun-07-08 |
| sneaky pete: It isn't particularly attractive, to write about the representative of France. (...) Why is it no pleasant task, to introduce you to Janowski? Because the odds are ten to one, that the new acquaintance will not particularly please you! Janowski, although tiré à quatre épingles(1) dressed, is not highly regarded by his colleagues and with the public as well his popularity reaches not much highher than his high hat and his gold-rimmed spectacles. The reason of this is the unpleasant arrogance that he permits himself towards everyone. In each game, that Janowski loses, he has vollständig überspielt(2) his adversary, and only in the end, when the game really had been won already, verpatzt(3). (See kibitz on page Tarrasch vs Janowski, 1895) But the funniest moment was, when Janowski in the penultimate round had won a most miserable "quickie" against Tschigorin (see Chigorin vs Janowski, 1895). "Jetzt will", Georg Marco said, "der ekelhafte Mensch nicht einmal mehr mit mir reden. Er denkt sich da etwas riesiges geleistet zu haben und außer dem Brilliancy-Preis noch die Unsterblichkeit gewonnen zu haben. Was wollen Sie dagegen erfinden, bitte?"(4) Janowski is still very young and a player of undoubtedly great and original talent. If only he wouldn't imagine to be a master of the first rank already, there could be no reason, why in time he couldn't become one. (1) immaculately
(2) completely outplayed
(3) botched up
(4) "Now the horrible fellow won't even talk to me. He thinks, he has pulled off something big and has, in addition to the brilliancy prize, gained immortality. What do you have to say to that, please?" Norman Van Lennep in Tijdschrift van den Nederlandschen Schaakbond, 1895. |
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| Jul-18-08 |
| myschkin: Chess master and addicted gambler. In 1901 he won an international tournament at Monte Carlo and lost all his first place money in the casino the same evening the tournament ended. The casino management had to buy his ticket home. In another event he handed his money to a friend and made him promise not to return it until after the chess tournament. However, the lure of gambling proved too strong and he begged for the return of his money. His friend refused. Janowski was so infuriated that he sued his friend. Janowski had a chess patron, the Dutch painter Leo Nardus who, for many years, supported him in chess. He lost his support when Janowski called Nardus a chess idiot when Nardu suggested an alternate move during an analysis of one of Janowski's games. Janowski was famous for his complaints which served as alibis when he lost. At one tournament every one of his requests was granted and for the first he had nothing to complain about. When he lost the tournament he said, "You have deprived me of any alibi. How did you expect me to play good chess?" Janowski died penniless in a nursing home in Hyeres, France. A subscription was raised to prevent his being buried in a pauper's grave. |
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| Aug-19-08 |
| TheNige: The book that "Resignation Trap" mentioned is called "David Yanovsky" and has 175 games of the Polish-French player. The authors of the book, which was published in 1987, were S. Voronkov and D. Plisetsky. The notation is long algebraic. |
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| Sep-03-08 |
| GrahamClayton: Janowski was one of only 2 players (Tarrasch was the other) to defeat the first 4 world champions (Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca & Alekhine) |
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| Oct-09-08 |
| Petrosianic: <I find it sad that Janowski could always rely on Mr. Nardus for his operations on and outside the chessboard, whereas the likes of Schlechter and Rubinstein were barely capable of holding their heads above the water level.> Not always. At some point Janowski and Nardus parted ways, after Janowski called him an idiot or something for asking a dumb question about a game. I have no idea when that was, exactly. |
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| Oct-10-08 |
| FHBradley: <Petrosianic:> "Janowski had a chess patron, the Dutch painter Leo Nardus,
who supported him in chess for many years. One day Nardus
suggested an alternate move during a postmortem of one of
Janowski's games. Janowski called Nardus an idiot in front
of a crowd of people. Nardus never gave Janowski any
financial support after that." from http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVal...; I don't know if this source is reliable or not. |
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Oct-23-08
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| keypusher: Classic Janowski: I just got the London 1899 tournament book (the Hardinge Simpole facsimile reprint of the original). The book lists the games submitted for consideration for the brilliancy prizes. Lasker, Blackburne and Bird submitted two each; Showalter submitted one; Pillsbury, Schlechter, Chigorin, etc. didn't submit any. Janowski submitted six! But I have to admit, there are some very attractive games in there. Janowski vs Schlechter, 1899
Janowski vs W Cohn, 1899
Janowski vs Chigorin, 1899
Janowski vs Pillsbury, 1899
W Cohn vs Janowski, 1899
Janowski vs Maroczy, 1899
No doubt to Janowski's disgust, the brilliancy prizes went to Lasker and Blackburne. Steinitz vs Lasker, 1899
Lasker vs Blackburne, 1899
Bird nominated this game for a prize, though there is nothing to commend it that I can see, other than the identity of the loser: Janowski vs Bird, 1899 |
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| Jan-04-09 |
| WhiteRook48: <wolfmaster> can't you just put "Janowski- (other player)" in the main chessgames page? because I think that works. |
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| Jan-21-09 |
| Cactus: Janowski is #1 according to chessmetrics, around 1904. Personally, I don't think that could be true, believing him more of a top-ten range sort of player. |
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| Feb-14-09 |
| WhiteRook48: Maybe Janowski is #5 |
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| Mar-20-09 |
| masterwojtek: He had to be jewish |
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Aug-03-09
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| Chessical: Janowski's patron, the art dealer Leo Nardus, was accused of selling misattributed or even forged works to wealthy Americans. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/... Born Leo Salomon, he had his surname legally changed to Nardus. Perhaps he did this wrap himself in the cachet of famous Dutch artists such as: Salomon <Leonardus> Verveer,(1813-1876), and Johannes Hubertus <Leonardus> de Haas (1832-1908)? Nardus was reputably a technically capable artist, and also a proficient swordsman who was an Olympic fencer for Holland (1912). He painted portraits of several grandmasters, including Emanuel Lasker and Frank Marshall. Some of them are reproduced here: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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