| Dec-28-08 | | heuristic: a strong amateur who either was sidetracked by war or chose not to have a dedicated chess career. chess:
1859: played casual games with Morphy (1-3-0)
1862-1890: Wilhelm Steinitz thought he was best player in the US Army
1882-1890: member of Order of the Mandarins of the Yellow Button
(membership required winning a game against a recognized master)
1882: played Steinitz (lost)
1883: played on Philadelphia team against New York (lost to John Ryan)
1884: won championship of Philadelphia Chess Club
1890: was playing White against Stone and Ware in a six game simultaneous correspondence thematic tournament with the Evans Gambit life:
1843: born, Germany
1862: graduated valedictorian from City College of New York 1862: joined Army (Signal Corp)
1876: medical forensics for Battle of Little Big Horn (two days after Custer's Last Stand) 1881: Mt Whitney, CA, (first overnight summit)
1883: established Mt. Whitney Miltary Reservation
1890: died, Maine
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| Oct-18-14 | | Karpova: Major Michaelis died in Augusta, Maine. The cause of death was probably a cold, which he contracted by unsuccessfully trying to save his children from drowning. (<[...], wahrscheinlich an den Folgen einer Erkältung, die er sich bei dem vergeblichen Versuche, seine Kinder vor dem Tode des Ertrinkens zu retten, zugezogen hatte.>) Source: 'Deutsches Wochenschach', 15 June 1890, issue 24, p. 202 |
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| Oct-31-15 | | paderamo: Two more games from 1869 can be found at: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/352... |
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Mar-17-19
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<Major O. E. Michaelis, who died Thursday at Augusta, Me., of spinal meningitis, was born in this State, and was graduated from the old free academy in this city. From the position of Assistant Actuary in the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company, he entered the Signal Service Corps during the war. Later he went into the regular army, and was with Gen. Sherman on his march to the sea.Major Michaelis was an expert and an authority on whist and chess, and was a member of the Manhattan Chess Club and the Engineers' Club of this city. In 1857, when only fifteen years of age, he played a series of games at chess with Paul Morphy, the famous player, at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Michaelis had the odds of one rook and won two games.> |
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| Aug-11-20 | | Nosnibor: He seems to have died some short time after winning the Philadelphia Club Championship. There are no games shown for this event in the existing collection. |
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Aug-11-20
| | MissScarlett: By 1890, the Franklin CC had arisen from the ashes of the Philadelphia club. No doubt Reichhelm's book has more on this: https://archive.org/details/chessin... |
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