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May-11-09
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| vonKrolock: Yes, <"Edited by HC Allen, assisted by G Reichhelm and JN Babson. Despite the quality of the writing and the contributors (including Falkbeer and Dufresne, and some superb drawings by GR Halm, the curtain came down after 16 months."> Actually, the cover name was <"Brentano's Chess Monthly">, and in fact I see not enough reason to shorten it... I'm recalling of reading somewhere that he was related to the poet Clemens Brentano http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemen... |
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May-11-09
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| Calli: I misspelled it! The name refers to Brentano Brothers publishing. A very familiar name to New Yorkers, Chicagoans and many others in the US. Still exists, see http://www.brentanos.fr/pages/whoar... |
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May-22-09
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| Benzol: <Calli> I've already left a note at <keypusher>'s forum but regarding
http://picasaweb.google.com/Caissa1... I'm having trouble trying to read all the fine print. Is there anyway of blowing it up to make it more readable? |
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May-23-09
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| Calli: <Benzol> Just click the magnifying glass button on the upper right. |
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May-23-09
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| Benzol: <Calli> Thanks. I finally managed to get it to work. My mouse went on strike. LOL. :) I've linked the article to the Hastings 1895 collection. Great that you found it so thanks for that. |
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Jun-05-09
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| vonKrolock: <Calli> Maybe You know the source of Fiske three-mover on-line in Brian Stephensons database: D. W. Fiske
"??" FEN " 
click for larger view" #3 thanks in advance (ps: sorry for my new avatar - I was searching something very chessical and very sober - hope this was not associated already to another kibitzer, in any case the mag-glass is already Your trademark! |
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Jun-05-09
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| Calli: VonKrol - Here is a surprise for you: G Cheney vs T Lichtenhein, 1857 Discovered by John Hilbert in the Syracuse paper. I recall seeing a Fiske problem or two but not a source. Will think about it |
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Jun-05-09
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| vonKrolock: <Calli> Really a wonderfull surprise, and a moving game, with King march and mate in the middle of the board!!... Congratulations for the discovery and many thanks for leting we have the honour of sharing this here Another possible discovery that would be sensational would be some game or even a position from a game, or at least some moves by Robert Schumann <!!!> http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten... After seeing that article we even started a thread in a namesake's page here Schumann - also searched via e-post to contact that House in Zwickau, currently no news (in this case BAD ones...) Maybe someone nearer to the place... |
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Jun-05-09
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| Calli: The D W Fiske problem is in American Chess-Nuts, number 317. See http://books.google.com/books?id=ny... Daniel's brother, William O. was the composer and has many problems in the book. |
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Jun-05-09
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| vonKrolock: You searched already <Calli>, that's really very nice, thank you again... Yes, I see - quite a good number of W. O. Fiske's in the "Nuts" - still lacking in the databases ... |
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Jun-05-09
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| Calli: Not much of a search, Chess-Nuts is the first place I looked. It has almost every American problem before 1868. For more brothers, the book also has problems by Isaac and Thomas Loyd. |
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Jun-09-09
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| keypusher: <Calli> Wow, thanks for Pillsbury heads-up. Did you just add all those other articles too, as well as the Rhoda Bowles article? |
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Jun-22-09
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| Bridgeburner: <Calli>
My interest is historical. To be precise, what I can historically infer from Rubinstein's games. There are plenty of fans on this site who have researched and discovered all sorts of facts about Rubinstein's life. But there is so much that's not known about this man, and so much that can never be known. He never wrote a book, left diaries, or notes or anything much on the documentary record. Except his extraordinary games, both in and of themselves and their continuing contribution to theory. As I work through his games, I'm increasingly amazed at the body of work he's bequeathed. Only Alekhine and Lasker ever bettered him in the course of his career, notwithstanding his extraordinary pathological shyness and self effacing modesty. I began to wonder whether he would have been the greatest ever if it hadn't been for his infirmities, but realized that the issue is a sterile line of inquiry. Why? Well, IMV, arguments about who was the best ever chess player are inherently useless and boring anyway. But more subtly, it's the entirety of the person that's involved in their work, and I don't think it's valid to peel off an important, if unfortunate aspect, of a person's life to speculate on what might have been. Rubinstein was what he was, and subtracting anything from that, even his infirmities, may have made him a lesser chess player, not a greater oine. Or maybe not,.
But the issue is I think unknowable.
So I happily immerse myself in the discovery of a wonderful, complex and checkered life and games of a unique human being. What I'm striving to do is to understand Rubinstein through his play, within the context of his life as we know it. I analyze his games to the best of my somewhat limited ability, and try and work out the psychological byplay between him and his opponents, and some of the reasons for his moves. |
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Jun-22-09
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| Calli: More has been discovered recently through the tireless efforts of user Anyi. Her site is rubina.yfw24.de . Of late, with the help of Etienne Cornil of the Belgian club, I added a bio for AR's son, Samy . Soon to be a POTD, but check it out. It will give you an idea about the family. |
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Jun-22-09
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| Bridgeburner: I saw that. Did Samy have any kids? |
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Jun-22-09
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| Calli: None are mentioned in anything that I read. |
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| brankat: <Calli> Hello my friend. Long time no see :-) Anita directed me to Rubinstein Jr. site yesterday, and it was a very pleasant surprise. Thank You for the very fine work you did. |
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Jun-22-09
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| Calli: Bio was done by Anyi with the help of Etienne Cornil and edited by me. I was writing the previous post in a rush and didn't mean to take too much credit! We have more games for Samy including some in New York, but not sure when I will get around to entering them. |
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| wrap99: I looked at your forum after u responded to my Kashdan post. I have mentioned at least some of this elsewhere and maybe since you are interested in chess history, it will interest you. I have met or corresponded with Ed Lasker, Euwe, Reshevsky, Tal, Petrosian, Polugaevsky (who would not shake my hand until GM Lein asked him to); I spoke with the youngest Polgar when she was 11 and could have, but did not, play blitz against her. I spoke also with Koltanowski and E. Schulyer Jackson. In all of these cases, I look at who they in turn played and see a direct line all the way back to players who were born before 1800. Interestingly, Morphy is really remote while Steinitz who played Lasker doesn't seem that far away. |
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Aug-16-09
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| Phony Benoni: <Calli> Could I ashk you to look into this game? Mieses vs G Marco, 1921
User: mandy64 noticed that the <0-1> result seemed illogical as the final position is clearly won for White. User: whiteshark and I did some looking around, and found conflicting information both online and in print sources. The name index to Jeremy Gaige's crosstables available http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJE... indicates that Mieses finished 6th and Marco 7th, which would mean that Mieses did win the game. Can you add anything? |
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Oct-15-09
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| martin moller: Hi Calli. I have had a break from chess research for a while, but now i´m back. Do you know if Deutsche schach zeitung 1862 i avaliable on google books ?? |
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Oct-27-09
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| vonKrolock: And finally the Tolush vs Aronson, 1957 game is briefly reviewed... |
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Nov-01-09
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| tpstar: Game Collection: They were surprised Stoltz vs H Steiner, 1952
<Calli> Do you want these submissions, or would you rather find them yourself? |
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| sneaky pete: <Calli> Here's another one:
Spassky vs D Ciric, 1970. |
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Dec-08-09
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| keypusher: Bit of a stretch -- OK, it's a ridiculous stretch -- but we saw Lasker's secret weapon, the e4-f5 pawn formation, in Carlsen-Kramnik and McShane-Short today, with White of course winning both. Admittedly Carlsen used the English Opening, while McShane didn't play f4-f5 until move 80. After 39.Bf4:
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