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capanegra: Happy birthday, and RIP, Master Noteboom. Very sad to pass away so early, indeed.

As tribute, I'm posting a position shown in a tactics book of Roberto Grau, from a game between Noteboom and Winter in which White won with a very cute combination.

White to play and win.

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1.Rxc5!! dxc5 2.Nxe5! Nb5 3.cxb5 Kxe5 4.Qc3+ Kd6 5.Qg3+ e5 6.fxe6+ Ke7 7.exd7 (1-0)

Grau doesn't mention the date the game was played, or the tournament. Does anyone know anything about it?

Also, he passed away after the Hastings 1931/1932 tournament, but in the database there figures only one game against Koltanowsky. Apparently, there are many Noteboom games missing.

Yes, a lot of worthy Noteboom games are still missing here. In the book I mentioned, the next game is a win, not in this database, against Salo Flohr, from the Premier Reserves of the 1929/30 Hastings tournament, giving Noteboom a total score of +2 -1 against Flohr.

They also played in the other Ramsgate congress, of that year, in March/April, but, again, in separate events.

Actually, Winser beat Noteboom, so there's no potential mix up there. Can't rule out the possibility they played elsewhere, though.

Yes, but White's a rook up. I'm guessing that's an omission.

<Obituary: The death took place in London, about a week ago, of the brilliant young Dutch expert, D. Noteboom, who was only 23 [sic] years of age. We regret to note that Dutch chess has suffered the loss of two such front-rank players as H. Weenink and D. Noteboom, within a few weeks of each other, and at so early an age. Mr Noteboom we met first at Scarborough, but he also played at Nice the same year, and won first prize there; and did well at “B.C.F." Congresses. At the recent Hastings Congress, he won third prize in “Premier” Reserves Tourney, although he appeared unwell. Noteboom was a very fine player, who evidently bore the heavy handicap of some physical weakness. His mastership was undoubted anyhow. For a young man his mien was unusually sombre and serious, and doubtless there was a good reason for the habitual sadness, which was noted by other players. John Keeble (who knew him well as anybody probably) specially remarked to us on this characteristic. We do not know the cause of his death, but the loss is a big one to Dutch chess, as also to British chess, for he was becoming a regular visitor to congresses here. Unlike H. Weenink, we think D. Noteboom’s fame did not extend to the problem world — at any rate, we knew of him only a player, and not as a problemist.>