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| Sep-23-14 | | Amarande: Another victim of 1932 ... Terrible, terrible year for chess genius. |
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Sep-23-14
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| Sep-23-14 | | whiteshark: such as Daniel Noteboom and Edgar Colle |
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Sep-23-14
 | | Fusilli: <capanegra> never provided the solution to that endgame problem. I looked at it for a little bit and didn't figure it out. Laziness, had I probed one more move or one more minute... ;) So, I asked Stockfish.
click for larger view1.Kd5 Kd7 2.a4 a5 3.Kc4 Kc6 4.Nc7!! (I missed this) Kxc7 5.Kb5 Bb6 6.Ka6 and black has to chose between letting the a-pawn go or stalemating white with 6...Kc6. What a beauty. |
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| Jan-01-16 | | john barleycorn: One of Mattison's finest.
white to move. draw
click for larger viewthe idea to draw for white is not obvious at all |
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| Dec-28-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Hermanis Mattison. |
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Apr-21-18
 | | Sally Simpson: The game Mattison (or Mattisons) won a few days before his 19th birthday against Capablanca in a simultaneous display at Riga in 1913 is not here. Hooper & Brandreth confirm Capa gave two simuls in Riga December 1913 (see 'Unknown Capablanca'.) 25th December W.21 L.1 D.6.
26th December W 18 L.1 D4
Tim Harding supplied further details and the full score of the game in the 'The Best of ChessCafe.com 1996-2001' (page 210) And the game was posted in full here in 2014.
Capablanca vs H K Mattison, 1929 (kibitz #26) Harding uses 'Mattisons' claiming it is correct way to spell the name adding all Latvian masculine names end in 'S'. |
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Aug-22-18
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
<Sally Simpson> <Harding uses <<<'Mattisons'>>> claiming it is correct way to spell the name adding all Latvian masculine names end in 'S'.> No.
Harding uses the correct form 'Matisons' as you can see from his actual text: <The Kibitzer by Tim Harding"He could have been a contender..."
I VISITED RIGA, home town of Mikhail Tal, in September for
the annual Congress of ICCF, the International Correspondence
Chess Federation. While I was there I learned a lot about some of
the great Latvian players who helped to build up the tradition from
which Tal benefitted. I was especially pleased to receive as a
present the handsome little book "Pari Savam Laikmetam" (by V.
Kirilovs, published by Sahs of Riga in 1994). This deals with the
tragically short career of <<<Hermanis K. Matisons,>>> the first FIDE
Champion who died of tuberculosis in 1932, shortly before his
38th birthday.> |
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Aug-22-18
| | Sally Simpson: Just the one 't' Matisons and not Mattisons.
OK. |
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| Nov-02-18 | | Jean Defuse: ...
An outstanding research on Mattison:
<Hermanis Matisons, a great Latvian master> https://www.chess.com/blog/introubl... <Two instructive twin endgame studies by Matisons> https://www.chess.com/blog/introubl... ... |
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| Dec-14-18 | | Jean Defuse: ...
. <'Chess is a small but independent republic.'> Hermanis Matisons
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[Event "Casual Game"]
[Site "Riga Chess Club"]
[Date "1913.11.16"]
[White "Capablanca, Jose Raul"]
[Black "Matisons, Hermanis"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Be7 5. Nc3 d6 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Bd7 8.
Nde2 O-O 9. Ng3 Re8 10. Re1 Bf8 11. Bg5 h6 12. Bxf6 Qxf6 13. Nd5 Qd8 14. Qh5 g6
15. Qd1 Bg7 16. c3 Ne5 17. Bxd7 Nxd7 18. f4 c6 19. Ne3 Nc5 20. Nc4 d5 21. exd5
Rxe1+ 22. Qxe1 cxd5 23. Ne5 Qb6 24. Qf2 Re8 25. Nf3 Qb5 26. Re1 Nd3 27. Rxe8+
Qxe8 28. Qd2 Qb5 29. b4 Qb6+ 30. Kf1 Qb5 31. Ne2 a5 32. bxa5 Qb1+ 33. Ne1 Nxe1
34. Qxe1 Qxa2 35. Nd4 Bxd4 36. cxd4 Qc4+ 37. Kf2 Qxd4+ 38. Qe3 Qb2+ 39. Kg3 d4
40. Qe8+ Kg7 41. Qe5+ Kh7 42. f5 Qb3+ 43. Kg4 Qd1+ 44. Kh4 Qh5+ 45. Kg3 d3 46.
Qd5 Qxf5 47. Qxf5 gxf5 48. Kf2 f4 49. Ke1 Kg6 50. Kd2 Kf5 51. Kxd3 Kg4 52. Kc4
h5 53. Kb5 h4 54. Kb6 h3 55. gxh3+ Kxh3 56. Kxb7 f3 57. a6 f2 58. a7 f1=Q 0-1 ... |
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Dec-02-19
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Jean Defuse>
I am wondering if you can let me know your source for the <Capa-Mattison> pgn you posted? I am looking at Hooper and Brandreth's <The Unknown Capablanca> and it seems that Capa was in Berlin from Nov. 15-20 1913. That's just going by their published games in the book. Capablanca was at the Riga Chess Club giving a simul on Christmas day, December 25, 1913, scoring +21-1=6. He gave another simul in Riga the next day, scoring +18-1=6 (Skjoldager and Nielsen "Aron Nimzowitsch On the Road to Chess Mastery," p.223) On December 30, 1913 Capablanca was still in Riga, and played this game: Nimzowitsch vs Capablanca, 1913 I think it more likely that the game score you posted was from Capablanca's simul on December 25. In his biography of Fricis Apsenieks, <Gedimins Salmins> reports that Capablanca lost his game against Mattison, and drew his game against Apsenieks at this event: <1913. gada 25. decembrī Rīgā notika jau šaha pasaules uzmanību ieguvušā šahista Hozē Raula Kapablankas simultānspēles seanss. 27 dalībnieku vidū bija abi jaunekļi - Hermanis Matisons un Fricis Apšenieks. Matisona uzvaru un Apšenieka miera līgumu. rakstot par kubieša viesošanos Rīgā. grāmatā Capablanka peimin autori Dr. M.Eive un L.Prinss.> p.7 Google assisted translation:
<On December 25, 1913, Jose Raul Capablanca, who had already gained the attention of the chess world, held a simultaneous exhibition in Riga. The 27 participants included both of the young players Herman Mattison and Fricis Apsenieks. Mattison won his game, and Apsenieks drew. From the book about Capablanca by Max Euwe and Lodewijk Prins.> Salmins must mean this book here: "Capablanca Het Schaakphenomeen Capablanca" by Euwe and Prins (1949). I don't have that book but I wonder if the scores of either or both games were published in it? Certainly the results must be, as it seems Salmins is listing this as the source of his information. What do you think? I would like to be more sure of the date of this game, as well as the type of event. There's quite a big difference between a simul game and a serious one to one game as you know. Beating Capa in such a game would be a much more difficult task. |
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| Dec-02-19 | | Cibator: <Amarande: Another victim of 1932 ... Terrible, terrible year for chess genius. <MissScarlett: Was it? You need to give us some more.whiteshark: such as Daniel Noteboom and Edgar Colle> > Don't forget Fred Dewhirst Yates. |
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| Dec-02-19 | | Cibator: Possibly the only chess master from outside the Anglosphere to have a London street named after him!! It's in N4, a few blocks to the north of Finsbury Park. (But will the authorities update what now seems to be the incorrect older spelling? See posts above by Sally Simpson and JessicaFischerQueen.) |
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Dec-02-19
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Cibator>
<Hermanis Karlovich Mattison> isn't really an "incorrect" older spelling, although it is indeed a hybrid of Latvian (Hermanis) and non-Latvian (Mattison), with a middle name inserted (Karlovich) which I've never seen in any other database. Since I made that post you refer to in response to the good <Sally Simpson>, Hermanis Karlovich Mattison (kibitz #22) I have been schooled in the Biographer's Bistro, and also by ongoing (very slow) research into Latvian chess history. Roughly speaking, in the years from the end of the 19th century to the early 20th century, the primary sources tend to use non-Latvian spelling. From the early 20th century to the beginning of the modern Chess Olympiad era, say up to the <Prague Olympiad 1931>, the spellings for Latvian players vary between non-Latvian and Latvian. After this date virtually all Latvian spelling is used for Latvian players. You can spot this easily because most male names have a letter "s" at the end of both the first and the last name. When I upload a game that has a player not in our database, I try to stick to the spelling from the source I got the game from. But it's trickier for players already in our database. Just one example <Karl Behting> <Karlis Betins>. In earlier sources you will always see the Germanic form of his name, but from the early 20th century you begin to see the Latvian form of his name more often. When I first began work on <Behting/Betins> I suggested changing his name to the Latvian form in this post Biographer Bistro (kibitz #19513) . But after reading the response from <Telemus>, I came to agree with his position on the matter: Biographer Bistro (kibitz #19515) Even in some modern cases, such as <Mikhail Tal> vs. <Mihails Tals> we use the non-Latvian spelling, simply because everyone else does. |
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Dec-03-19
 | | woldsmandriffield: White to play and win.
click for larger view |
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| Dec-03-19 | | Cibator: <Even in some modern cases, such as <Mikhail Tal> vs. <Mihails Tals> we use the non-Latvian spelling, simply because everyone else does.> Many years ago when I was boning up on chess history, I also saw (I forget where) the great Mikhail's name spelt "Talj". (This appears to be an over-pedantic transliteration from Russian - the "j" stands for the "y" sound that so many words and names in that language seem to contain.) Something else now occurs to me. In view of all the above, should we make yet another addition to the list of variant spellings for Nimzowitsch's last name? Or is it exempt through not being a true Latvian one? |
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| Dec-03-19 | | Olavi: The Latvians add the masculine and feminine endings to foreign names too. The current president of the USA is Donalds Tramps. I have always preferred non-Latvian forms of non-ethnic Latvians e.g. Shirov or Shabalov. |
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Jan-06-20
 | | mifralu: <jessicafischerqueen> <Jean Defuse> <I would like to be more sure of the date of this game, as well as the type of event.> Hermanis Karlovich Mattison (kibitz #26) Capablanca Simul 28b, +21 -1 =6
The game was played in Riga, 25 December 1913.
Source:
http://www.periodika.lv/periodika2-... |
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Oct-14-20
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<mifralu>, <Mattison buffs> The Capablanca simul game is published today!
Capablanca vs H K Mattison, 1913 -----
Thanks to <mifralu> for the accurate information from primary source on this game: Hermanis Karlovich Mattison (kibitz #33) |
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| Jan-02-21 | | Jean Defuse: ...
<jessicafischerqueen> I'm overlook your question (source was ChessBase), but not <mifralu> thanks for that! ... |
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Mar-13-21
 | | perfidious: <Fusilli>, that is a neat problem. |
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| Jun-27-22 | | lonchaney: Chess composer
Only 4 problems here!
http://www.bstephen.me.uk/meson/com... |
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| Oct-21-23 | | syracrophy: As this composer was on the GOTD Yates vs H Mattison, 1929, which had a king walk that was like an endgame study itself, I had his name in mind when I found a nice study on "Chessboard Magic!" by Chernev.
click for larger viewWhite to play and win
<*Hint*: an unusual Rook tour on so a short solution!> |
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Jan-17-24
 | | GrahamClayton: <john barleycorn> One of Mattison's finest.
white to move. draw
click for larger view<john barleycorn>
1. Rg8 Bxd6+ 2. Kc4 Rc3+ 3. Kxc3 f2 4. Rg4+ Ka3 5. Rg5 Bb4+ 6. Kc2 f1=Q 7. Ra5+ Bxa5 stalemate. |
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