Calli Member since Mar-28-03 · Last seen May-18-13 This forum is devoted to unraveling some of the mysteries of chess history. We are limited to chess history before 1948 when the FIDE began to control the World Championship. Featured Collection: Game Collection: Meine Besten Gefälschten Partien eBooks Deutsche Schachzeitung Game Collection: Deutsche Schachzeitung Wiener Schachzeitung Game Collection: Wiener Schachzeitung Tijdschrift Nederlandse Schaakbond Game Collection: Tijdschrift Nederlandse Schaakbond Matches at Google Books: Game Collection: Chess Matches at Google Books Tournament Ebooks: Game Collection: Chess Tournament eBooks Also Game Collection: Alekhine was sunk! Email: misterchess at sbcglobal dot net This a chess only subaccount which I don't check often. Patience may be required. click for larger view Hubert Knott (1854) White to move and mate in 4 ξ8כ╣§

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May-13-13 Daniel F M Starbuck    Calli: <Graham1973> Guess I was looking at <PB>'s link which didn't mention the blindfold part. As far as the paper goes, some things are easy, some are difficult, but generally things are way more accessible today.      May-09-13 John Cochrane    Calli: <Graham1873> See Cochrane vs Mohishunder, 1852      May-08-13 Biographer Bistro    Calli: Kudos to CG for quick work on a game uploaded a few days ago. <thomastonk> had identified the full name of Thomas Hewan Archdall and I found the game in the CPC. Think you'll enjoy his little swindle of Thorold at the end of this one E Thorold vs T H Archdall, 1873      May-06-13 Jeremy Lim    Calli: Joke that's going around: Who's the healthiest player on the Bulls? D. Rose      May-03-13 Burn vs T H Archdall, 1873    Calli: <Thomas> The same comment is in the CPC (February, 1874, page 17): "This brilliant and decisive little attack is not new to us. It was played by Mr. De Vere about two years ago, against Mr. Burn, the loser also on this occasion. The reader will find the game in Vol. II, p. 231 ...      Apr-29-13 Thomas Hewan Archdall    Calli: Good work! Richard Forster in the BBB (Big Book of Burn) also gives Thomas Hewan Archdall. There are a few more games for him in the CPC for 1873. I submitted this one: http://books.google.com/books?id=3P...      Apr-18-13 James Swain Mucklow    Calli: This is certainly "James Mucklow", the amateur from Manchester/Lancashire. The mystery is where the "R" in "J R Mucklow" came from. There seems to be no 19th century references to such a player. "J R" is in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Chess Games (1981), but they source his games back ...      Apr-13-13 R Byrne vs Larry Evans, 1965    Calli: Horowitz in the NYT says that Byrne hoped to play his prepared line against Fischer who often played the Najdorf Poisoned pawn, but Byrne drew Black against RJF in the tournament, Fischer vs R Byrne, 1965 so Evans had the headache of trying to figure out Byrne's prep over the board.      Apr-07-13 Alekhine vs V Petrov, 1936   Calli: Black had 72...Rd8! [DIAGRAM] And as far I can see, White could resign because Rg8 and the pawn queening can't be stopped.      Apr-05-13 Phony Benoni chessforum    Calli: Have reports for the '54 US Open from the NYT archive. Dates, rounds and maybe a full name or two. Can send a zip file via email. Are you still at the AOL address?

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 20 OF 23 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-09-09    Anyi: Have just added a Sami Rubinstein game on my website (go on Contemporary articles, scroll down to the last article). I've also enlarged the gallery... Mar-13-09    Calli: <Anyi> I wonder if "Opocensto" is actually Karel Opocensky ? He was Czech and the game was played in Prague just before Opocensky started his chess career. Opocensto is perhaps a different spelling - Maybe Croat? Just a thought! Mar-15-09    vonKrolock: <Konstantin Yegorovich's "The Death of Ivan the Terrible" includes a chess game> interesting, but every Death of Ivan should include chess - actually he died during a chess game... Mar-15-09    Calli: Good point! Here is a blurry copy http://picasaweb.google.com/Caissa1... Mar-15-09    Anyi: Yes, you are right <Calli>. It's most probably Karel Opocensky. I hope the e-mail I've just sent you clarifies the matter. Mar-16-09    Calli: <Anyi> I sent the PDF. Let me know if you get it. Mar-17-09    Anyi: Thank you very much, <Calli>. I received the pdf file and can also open it! Mar-18-09    Calli: <Anyi> Good, to answer your question, there is no problem submitting all the games to Chessgames. There is no copyright for gamescores. The photo is different and you should ask permission. Mar-18-09    Anyi: I have already asked and I can use Samy Rubinstein's photo on my website. I will ask, if CG.com can use it, too. Tomorrow is Samy Rubinstein's birthday (as I have found out in the article) - would be glad, if this could be somehow acknowledged officially here at CG.com already, e.g. by creating a CG.com page for him, but I guess more time is needed for such a thing... Mar-18-09    Calli: Still have two weeks because we can celebrate according to the old Russian calendar! Mar-19-09    Anyi: Hope then that we can make it in two weeks. Today, on Samy Rubinstein's birthday I have received the permission to use CREB's photo of him in 1991 here at CG.com as well. You can already have a look at it at picasa. The next step would be to turn the 30 games into pgn format. Perhaps several of us could do it. I can manage 10 games. And who writes the text about the players. Can I submit a text about Samy Rubinstein myself? As I am going to translate the interview with him in the CREB magazine into English, I can also write a short summary. Mar-19-09    Calli: <Anyi> I would be willing to enter some games. Do you have software? I assume everyone has, but Martin told me he typed in a game in order to submit it. For the player bio, email chessgames and ask for authority. They can grant your userid the power to edit the biography area. All the Bios here are user written. Mar-20-09    Anyi: Yes, I've got the software to produce the pgn format. I don't have much time though (as I work full-time now in an office), but I'll try to enter the first ten games in the next ten days. And I'll also e-mail CG.com. Have a nice weekend! Apr-10-09    Anyi: Wishing all chess historians here a wonderful holiday season! Anyi Apr-10-09    vonKrolock: <I wonder if any games were published.> Calli, some games by Cheney would be a great find, as his importance as composer is undisputable... - I searched in chessbase, NIC - only chesslab is still terra incognita... Apr-10-09    vonKrolock: No, the online sources are in essence the same matrix... in some instances the field research in libraries, attics, ancient collections etc can be more fruitfull (I spotted online a 1859 book on Morphy by Thomas Frere with a problem contest included - nothing new can arise from books on Morphy, of course - they're all quite known...) Apr-11-09    Calli: <vonKrolock> Here is trivial game by Cheney given in "Brevity and brilliancy in Chess" by Miron James Hazeltine Cheney,G - NN [C34] 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 Bc5 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.Ng5 0-0 6.e5 Ne8 7.Qh5 h6 8.Nxf7 Qe7 1-0 Mate in 2 Hardly worth mentioning! Apr-11-09    Calli: <Anyi> Fröhliche Ostern! Apr-11-09    whiteshark: Thank you, the same to you, <Calli>! :D Apr-12-09    Anyi: Thank you very much <Calli>! Of course the same to you! The sunshine is glorious here in the moutains where I'm spending four days of relaxation in midst of woods and valleys... May-08-09    vonKrolock: <Calli> Sorry, that message will self-delte in a few minutes lol - Spielmann did not included the Teichmann match in Schlechter table of results, I'm looking right now... May-09-09    vonKrolock: Thanks again... Well, three games is an odd number, 'odd' in both senses - the drawing for colours will give an immmediate advantage for some of the players - Teichmann's visit to Vienna was then really very fast, well, still it's a luck to have the games, they are a 'Leckerbissen' so to say Bigger problems for a research on Teichmann vs Caldas Vianna - It was a <postal game>, a <match> J Caldas Vianna - were the results, scores etc ??!! A lot of material maybe could be found in old papers in Brazil, laying in libraries - Or something appeared in Europe and North America, while a reserach on Teichmann's career was going on... May-09-09    Calli: Perhaps four games were planned. In such a lighthearted contest, the game on the off day may have been canceled for some reason. A party maybe :-D. I don't know anything about the Teichmann-Caldas Viana game. May-10-09    vonKrolock: Never mind... <Calli>: For me a good question is: Why some of the old sources refers to <"Brentano's Chess Monthly">, and today's always just <"Chess Monthly"> - The name changed in a certain point, it was always just "C M", other (or maybe more than one) C. M.s were known and now forgotten (etc) <The final award appeared in January 1883. H Leprettel of Marseilles won first prize. He died before the final award but did see the preliminary award.> I'll reprint here the #3s, for register and a comparison with Caldas Vianna's #3 M. Leprettel 1st Prize set "Chess Monthly" 1881-2 " click for larger view " #3 M. Leprettel 1st Prize set "Chess Monthly" 1881-2 " click for larger view " #3 May-10-09    Calli: There are many with "monthly" in the title. I refer to them as: CM - Chess Monthly 1879-1895, Hoffer and Zukertort editors, London TCM - The Chess Monthly, 1857-1861 Fiske and Morphy editors, New York Bret - Bretano's Chess Monthly 1881-1882 - H.C. Allen, New York Many people, unfortunately, say "American Chess Monthly" to refer to the Fiske/Morphy magazine. However, the original chess magazine in the United States was: "American Chess Monthly", 1847, Charles Stanley editor Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 23) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 20 OF 23 ·  Later Kibitzing>		Times Chess Twitter Feed

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