Dec-08-08
 | | Stonehenge: His biggest rival was Zakamura. |
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| Dec-08-08 | | paavoh: Didn't he lose to Mellington at the famous Materloo tournament? Or was it Zimzovich, I forget... |
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Dec-08-08
| | Stonehenge: Heh, always nice, some punfun. |
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Dec-08-08
 | | Phony Benoni: The New York event seems to be the only touramaent where we find Zapoleon, but he had an interesting result. Besides drawing the second-place finisher in Marshall, he defeated Jaffe (who finished third and beat Capablanca), and also drew with Rubinstein. Unfortunately, those were the only points he scored on the way to a last-place finish with a total of 2/13. (And before the Historical Police get all over me, it was Solomon Rubinstein.) |
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Dec-08-08
 | | alexmagnus: <Benoni> Are you sure it was Solomon? I just found a crosstable of that event, and there there is a certain J.Rubinstein. CG DB knows oly one J.Rubinstein, and that one has a game much latr, in 1971. Solomon has a game from the same tournament here, but does it surely belong to him? Is my crosstable mistaken? 1 Capablanca * ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11.0
2 Marshall ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 10.5
3 Jaffe 1 ½ * 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 0 9.5
4 Janowsky 0 ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 9.0
5 Chajes ½ 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 8.0
6 Stapfer 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.0
7 Kupchik 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 6.5
8 Tenenwurzel 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 5.5
9 Whitaker 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 * ½ 0 1 1 1 5.5
10 Kline 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ * 1 ½ 0 1 4.5
11 J.Rubinstein 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 * 1 1 ½ 4.5
12 Morrison 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 * 1 1 4.0
13 Liebenstein 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 * 1 2.5
14 Zapoleon 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 * 2.0 |
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Dec-08-08
| | alexmagnus: To answer my own question, it was indeed Solomon. Here S.Rubinstein is mentioned (hehe, never though one could find NY Times articles from 1913 in the net): http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archiv... |
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Dec-09-08
| | Phony Benoni: <alexmagnus> That crosstable matches what I found in Di Felice's <Chess Results 1901-1920>, p. 201, which definitely identifies Solomon Rubinstein. But it never hurts to check up on these old facts. The confusion may have arisen from another New York 1913 tournament a few months later that included a J. Bernstein. Capablanca swept that one 11-0. |
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Dec-12-08
| | Phony Benoni: It just hit me. I wonder if his first name was "Led". |
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Dec-12-08
 | | Calli: "It just hit me."
You've been Zapped. I have this guy as Louis B. Zapolean from Wash, DC., but no source noted. Louis is a good French name, so it at least fits. |
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Dec-14-08
| | Calli: Found my reference, Soltis in his Marshall book (p.208) says "the obscure last-place finisher Louis B. Zapolean of Dayton, Ohio". Sometime later I must have found that he moved to DC, probably in some write-up to the tournament. |
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| Dec-14-08 | | I Like Fish: 2 in 1...
Zapoleon... |
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Apr-23-12
| | Phony Benoni: At least we have some idea what he looked like: http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%... |
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Apr-23-12
 | | HeMateMe: He was a french artillery officer who listened to Led Zeppelin? |
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May-22-12
 | | technical draw: The last of the Napoleons. |
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| May-22-12 | | offramp: <Phony Benoni: It just hit me. I wonder if his first name was "Led".> "Oh! The humanity!"
Good one, though! |
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May-22-12
| | Stonehenge: There's also a Louis Zapoleon, born in 1886, to make things easier. Anyway:
<She met her husband, Louis B. Zapoleon, at Brookings Library in Washington. After World War II, they purchased land on Sidling Hill Mountain near Berkeley Springs, WV where they built a cabin and spent weekends there until retiring to Ft. Lauderdale, FL. > http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/20... |
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