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Alexander Meek
A Meek 
 

Number of games in database: 13
Years covered: 1855 to 1857
Overall record: +3 -10 =0 (23.1%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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ALEXANDER MEEK
(born Jul-17-1814, died Nov-01-1865, 51 years old) United States of America

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Alexander Beaufort Meek was born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1814. He grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1833, where he was first in his graduating class. He settled in Mobile, Alabama and became a member of the State Legislature, Attorney General for the Southern District of Alabama (1836), probate judge, and district attorney. In 1845, he was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in President Polk's administration. In the spring of 1855, he met and played a few games of chess with Paul Morphy at Spring Hill, Alabama. In 1857, he became president of the 1st American Chess Congress (1857) and was a participant. In round one of the First American Chess Congress, he defeated William James Appleton Fuller with 3 wins and 2 losses. In round two, he lost to Paul Morphy with 3 losses. During the American Chess Congress, he lost a chess game to Amalie Paulsen, the sister of Louis Paulsen. He died of a heart attack in Columbus, Mississippi on November 1, 1865.

Wikipedia article: Alexander Beaufort Meek


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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A Meek vs NN 1-071855Odds game (Ra1)000 Chess variants
2. A Meek vs Morphy 0-1251855Casual gameC44 King's Pawn Game
3. Morphy vs A Meek 1-0181855Casual gameC38 King's Gambit Accepted
4. A Meek vs Morphy 0-1211855Casual gameC44 King's Pawn Game
5. Morphy vs A Meek 1-0121857New YorkA43 Old Benoni
6. Morphy vs A Meek 1-0331857New OrleansC52 Evans Gambit
7. A Meek vs W Fuller 1-02618571st American Chess Congress, New YorkC20 King's Pawn Game
8. A Meek vs W Fuller 0-14118571st American Chess Congress, New YorkC38 King's Gambit Accepted
9. A Meek vs W Fuller 0-12418571st American Chess Congress, New YorkC02 French, Advance
10. A Meek vs W Fuller 1-01518571st American Chess Congress, New YorkC44 King's Pawn Game
11. A Meek vs Morphy 0-12918571st American Chess Congress, New YorkC65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
12. Morphy vs A Meek 1-03018571st American Chess Congress, New YorkC00 French Defense
13. A Meek vs Morphy 0-13118571st American Chess Congress, New YorkC44 King's Pawn Game
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jul-24-05  The 3 Gambiteers: Meek, a good strong name. A good virtious new family name for our daugther. So what do you think, will Mr. Meek be a good fit for our daughter?
Jul-24-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  tpstar: Blessed are the Meek/For they shall inherit the earth.
Jul-24-05  Cecil Brown: There will be little left when everyone else has finished with it.
Jul-24-05  Appaz: "The meek shall inherit nothing." (Frank Zappa)
Jul-24-05  mymt: ...not after the superhuman crew rounds up everyone who knows more than they do...
Jul-24-05  Anatooly Homedepotov: Judge Alexander Beaufort Meek, born 1814 in Columbia, South Carolina; President of the First American Chess Congress. He moved to Alabama as an infant, and became a political figure and judge who helped promote public education in that state.

Poor guy must have really had to compensate for his wimpy surname with some ugly decisions from the bench!

Apr-02-06  tripleneck: Hi, I'm looking for the game that Louis Paulsen's sister played against Judge Meek at the 1857 Congress. She won! Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,TN
Apr-02-06  Calli: <tripleneck> Amalie Paulsen
Apr-02-06  Calli: also check
http://batgirl.atspace.com/familyac...
Feb-12-08  Karpova: Article on Meek:
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/spinr...
Jan-14-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: < The 3 Gambiteers: Meek, a good strong name. A good virtious new family name for our daugther. So what do you think, will Mr. Meek be a good fit for our daughter? >

I don't think so, he's dead.

Mar-02-09  WhiteRook48: he was very Meek and Humble
Apr-12-09  Dredge Rivers: He was a Southerner who died in November of 1865? Did he kill himself like Edmund Ruffin?
Nov-07-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Two books that Meek wrote can be read on Google books:

http://tinyurl.com/22l3x5k

http://tinyurl.com/2a4z847

Here is an excellent summary of his life:

http://www.alabamaliterarymap.org/a...

Sep-28-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  wwall: I don't think he died on Nov 30, 1865. The Nov 7, 1865 issue of The New York Times said he "died recently in Columbus, Mississippi." They got their news from a New Orleans newspaper dated Nov 4, 1865. My guess is that he died on October 30, 1865.
Sep-28-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: November 1, methinks:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/f...

Sep-29-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  wwall: Good job Stonehenge. I'll have to use findagrave more often.
Apr-06-17  Abdel Irada: ∞

Am I mistaken in thinking this is the Judge A.B. Meek who was instrumental in inventing the Göring Gambit?

Apr-15-21
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  fredthebear: Tartajubow gives background information and provides a photo of Judge A.B. Meek: https://tartajubow.blogspot.com/201...
Jul-26-21
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  MissScarlett: The <New York Daily Tribune> of October 7th, p.5. in its report of the opening day of the 1857 Congress, called Meek, who assumed the Presidency of the Committee of Management, <a splendid specimen of a man, six feet four in his stockings.> How big he would have been in his wife's stockings is anyone's guess.

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