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Elliott E Stearns
Number of games in database: 13
Years covered: 1921 to 1957
Overall record: +3 -8 =2 (30.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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D60		Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense (2 games)
C12		French, McCutcheon (2 games)

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ELLIOTT E STEARNS (born Oct-07-1891, died Jun-23-1969, 77 years old) United States of America [what is this?]

page 1 of 1; 13 games    Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Reshevsky vs E E Stearns   ½-½ 35 1921 Simul, 20b B30 Sicilian 2. E E Stearns vs H H Hahlbohm   0-1 23 1921 22nd Western Championship D02 Queen's Pawn Game 3. Ed. Lasker vs E E Stearns   1-0 50 1921 22nd Western Championship A46 Queen's Pawn Game 4. E E Stearns vs J T Beckner   1-0 32 1921 Western Championship D60 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense 5. L Stolzenberg vs E E Stearns   1-0 39 1921 Western Championship C02 French, Advance 6. E E Stearns vs S H Shapiro   0-1 49 1921 22nd Western Championship D60 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense 7. E E Stearns vs N Whitaker   ½-½ 90 1921 Western Championship D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense 8. Capablanca vs E E Stearns 1-0 60 1922 Simul, 103b C12 French, McCutcheon 9. Capablanca vs E E Stearns   0-1 38 1922 Simul, 43b C12 French, McCutcheon 10. Capablanca vs E E Stearns 1-0 32 1926 Simul, 34b D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 11. Koltanowski vs E E Stearns   1-0 53 1942 Simul blind 1/? E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto 12. E E Stearns vs W Shipman   0-1 47 1957 58th US Open C25 Vienna 13. S Van Gelder vs E E Stearns   0-1 38 1957 58th US Open A16 English

Sep-19-10    GrahamClayton: Stearns represented Yale University against Pennsylvania University in 1913. Sep-04-13    DoctorD: Elliot Stearns, Chess Life 1957 White to play and mate in 3 click for larger view Sep-04-13    DoctorD: Interesting story about Stearns playing in 1948 Tri-State Championship and looking like a hero despite an off-form 0-6 showing: http://wvchess.org/docs/bulletin/Bu... Sep-04-13    DoctorD: Stearns played Capablanca three times in exhibitions. In addition to the loss given here (and in the cited article), he lost once in February 1922, but beat him "later that year": http://www.chessarch.com/archive/00... Sep-09-13    DoctorD: More on one of Stearn's simul efforts versus Capablanca: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... Apr-10-16    reztap: Stearns was a corporate attorney who resided in Shaker Hts,Oh.

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