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Oct-09-09
 | | Phony Benoni: This is the position to which <morphy58> referred:
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The game is given as <MacDonnell - Lewis> with White to play, and proceeded: <1.c4 c6 2.g4? d5? 3. 3.c5 b6 4.b4 d4 5.Re5 bxc5 6.bxc5 h6 7.Kf2 Re7 8.Ke2>, winning the d-pawn and the game easily. Lasker prefers 2.b4 to maintain White's grip, and 2...a5 to eventually break it (2...a5 3.a3 a4). |
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| Oct-09-09 | | WhiteRook48: how does that break the grip on the rooks? |
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Oct-09-09
| | Phony Benoni: Black must break the pin, else White will make a passed pawn on the kingside, advance it, and promote after trading everything on e6. The only way to break the pin is by playing ...d5 and ...Kd6. So White starts <1.c4>. Black can't play 1...d5 2.cxd5 immediately, so must prepare with with <1...c6>. Now, according to Lasker, White should play 2.b4, eventually reaching a position resembling the game. Once the c-pawn gets to c5 it is supported by the pawn on b4, which can be in turn supported by moving the a-pawn to a3. After the inaccurate <2.g4?>, Black can stall White's queenside support with 2...a5!, immediately stopping 3.b4. If White tries to support the advance with 3.a3, then 3...a4! gives Black the chance to take en passant. By the time White could support the b-pawn, Black would have time for ...d5 and ...b6, undermining the c-pawn and enabling him to play ...Kd6. |
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| Oct-09-12 | | LoveThatJoker: Chess Master Lewis, today you are remembered!
LTJ |
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Oct-09-12
 | | ketchuplover: Your chessmen salute thee. |
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| Oct-09-12 | | jancotianno: He must be the only person i've looked up that has no losses on chessgames.com |
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Oct-09-12
 | | perfidious: < jancotianno: He must be the only person i've looked up that has no losses on chessgames.com> Here's another: Gioachino Greco. |
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| Oct-09-12 | | Oliveira: Only Greco's games on the database are likely to be compositions. |
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Oct-09-12
 | | juan31: chess is an art, if there is still doubt about it, the fieldwork Chess of Master William Lewis is an example, his work breaks the barriers of time and in 2012 even admire and discuss their games. |
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| Oct-09-12 | | TheTamale: Just call today's Player of the Day "The Man Who Never Lost." |
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Oct-11-13
 | | keypusher: <"The question has frequently been asked, whether and how Mr. Lewis played Labourdonnais? They played together on three different occasions, in all seven games, of which Labourdonnais won five and lost two> Lewis told von der Lasa that they played more than 70 games. The score is unknown. See Murray's article at <SBC>'s amazing site. http://www.chess.com/blog/batgirl/w... |
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| Oct-12-13 | | thomastonk: On Lewis vs Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais one can read Lewis' own words in a letter published in the very first volume of the "Chess Player's Chronicle", 1841, p 9 (where he also reports on his games with Alexandre Louis Honore Lebreton Deschapelles and Alexander McDonnell). I hope the following link works for everyone:
http://books.google.com/books?id=K3... |
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Oct-12-13
| | keypusher: <thomastonk> Do you know the identity of the "designing person" with bad English and worse taste that Staunton writes about in the succeeding paragraph? |
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| Oct-12-13 | | thomastonk: <keypusher> No, I don't. The "Sporting Newspaper of Sunday last", to which Lewis refers, is probably "Bell's life", and if so, the replies to the inquiries are due to George Walker. Lewis and Walker were long-term enemies (based on mutual price reduction for every new chess book, if I recall this correctly; some years later the conflict escalated even more). But if Lewis is right, then already the inquiries are faked. I will try to get the relevant issues of "Bell's Life", but this may take a while. |
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Oct-05-15
 | | wwall: Gentleman's Magazine for 1855, page 442, 1st column, states that a William Lewis, age 66, died at New Cross. The Dictionary of National Biography for 1893, p. 199, says William Lewis the chess player died at New Cross on Feb 8, 1855. Perhaps another case of a premature obituary. |
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Oct-03-16
 | | Sally Simpson: Re: Lewis v George Walker and the rift thomastonk: mentions above. There was some rivalry between Lewis and Walker as to how cheaply a chess
book could be produced:-
Lewis brought out ‘Chess for Beginners’ at 5/-, Walker followed with ‘Chess Made Easy’ in 1837 for 3/6 and Lewis came back with ‘Chess Board Companion’ at 2/6. Walker gave in at this point, for, “it was clear”,he said, “that if I carried on the war with ‘Chess for the Masses’, at a single shilling, my competitor would rejoin with ‘Chess for the Millions at sixpence”. http://www.cs.unibo.it/~cianca/wwwp... |
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Jun-16-20
| | Sally Simpson: B.C.M. November 1986 in an interview with Gedeon Barcza the chess playing machine by Farkas Kempelen is mentioned. Barcza thinks it may have been operated by Lewis because Lewis was known to be 'small and hunch-backed. ' More on chess machines here.
The Turk vs A Zerega, 1845 (kibitz #1) |
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Feb-23-25
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[Event "London Casual Games"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1817.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Lewis, William"]
[Black "Keen, Eric"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C53"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "1817.??.??"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 d6 5. O-O Nf6 6. d4 exd4 7. cxd4 Bb6 8. h3
Nxe4 9. Re1 d5 10. Bxd5 Qxd5 11. Nc3 Qd8 12. Rxe4+ Ne7 13. Qe2 Be6 14. Bg5 Qd6
15. Bxe7 Kxe7 16. d5 Rhd8 17. Ng5 c6 18. Nxe6 fxe6 19. Rxe6+ Qxe6 20. Qxe6+ Kf8
21. d6 Re8 22. Qf5+ Kg8 23. Ne4 Rf8 24. Qe6+ Kh8 25. Ng5 Bxf2+ 26. Kh2 Rae8 27.
Nf7+ Kg8 28. Nh6+ Kh8 29. Qg8+ Rxg8 30. Nf7# 1-0 [Event "London Casual Games"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1818.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Lewis, William"]
[Black "NN"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C33"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "1818.??.??"]
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 d6 5. c3 Nc6 6. d4 Qe7 7. Nf3 Nf6 8.
Bxf4 Nxe4 9. Nbd2 Bf5 10. Nxe4 Bxe4 11. Qb3 Nd8 12. Re1 f5 13. Ng5 b6 14. Bd5
c6 15. Bxe4 fxe4 16. Rxe4 Qxe4 17. Nxe4 Be7 18. Nxd6+ Kd7 19. Qd1 h5 20. Nf5 g6
21. Nxe7 Kxe7 22. Bg5+ Kd7 23. d5 c5 24. g3 b5 25. Qd3 c4 26. Qxg6 Rf8+ 27. Kg2
Kc7 28. Qg7+ Nf7 29. Rf1 Kb6 30. Rxf7 Rxf7 31. Qxf7 1-0 |
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Feb-23-25
 | | MissScarlett: Eric Keen? <Eric> was a very rare name in 19th century Britain, especially the first half. |
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Feb-23-25
 | | Stonehenge: Years: 1817 - 1996:
https://www.365chess.com/players/Er... |
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Feb-25-25
| | Gottschalk: <MissScarlett> <Stonehenge> Lewis' opponent maybe's a homonym, but how can it also be an unknown who has been given a name, so let he remains as NN.
I believe that sources should be considered not guilty until someone can prove otherwise.
I appeal for "suspect games" to be left inside online database. That way more people will be able to discuss about his authenticity, fragility or falsification - and not only discuss, but also bring factual elements that elucidate the case. Games left out are in danger of disappearing. So if you rejected them, save them in a cloud or other form of file.
Take the case of Karl Marx's "Chess Manifesto", later verified as a deception. Marx was not the most famous Marx.
However, the game remains interesting. It seems that the same can be said of the games falsely attributed to Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen |
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Feb-25-25
| | Gottschalk: Still about the two games that I submitted and that I left in PGN on the forum In the first game - the one in 1817 - there is doubt.
However, it is safe to say that the player on the white side is a master and that plays in the romantic style, there is no room for discussion. As for the second game it is in fact William Lewis, who was in the
command of the Automaton 'The Turk'. The game is already in your database |
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Feb-28-25
| | Stonehenge: <Gottschalk>
I know you use ChessBase a lot but it's actually crap. It's a completely unreliable database, especially for the older games. |
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Feb-28-25
| | MissScarlett: If <Gottschalk> is really interested in this period, he should acquaint himself with George Walker's <Chess Studies> (the full title is something of a mouthful) from 1844: https://play.google.com/books/reade... Even so, to put many of these games in their proper historical context would require a vast investment of time and erudition. |
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Feb-28-25
| | keypusher: <MissScarlett: If <Gottschalk> is really interested in this period, he should acquaint himself with George Walker's <Chess Studies> (the full title is something of a mouthful) from 1844> Can't imagine who Mr. C**h***e and Capt. Ev**s could be. |
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