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Sep-06-12 Jose Raul Capablanca    WilhelmThe2nd: <TheFocus> Thanks for the kind words. I put the site together because I felt there was a gap in the literature concerning Capablanca's speed chess. I hope more information comes to light, especially concerning the two events at St. Petersburg in 1914. ...      Nov-14-09 Prince Andrey Dadian of Mingrelia    WilhelmThe2nd: There are some more great photos of Prince Dadian and his home in Kiev at these links: Andria Dadiani Gallery http://burusi.wordpress.com/2009/08... Andria Dadiani Palace in Kiev http://burusi.wordpress.com/2009/10...      Jun-01-08 Kibitzer's Café    WilhelmThe2nd: <Calli> Are you sure that's Kholmov? I thought the guy in the photo looked like Boleslavsky. Check my post at Dus-Chotimirsky's page for another possible solution to a photo mystery. Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky      Jun-01-08 Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky    WilhelmThe2nd: In the discussion of the San Sebastián, 1911 photo here: http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp... I am pretty sure the unidentified man to the left of Leonhardt in this photo is Dus: http://chessbase.com/news/2008/wint... He writes in his book of games (page 88, Fyodor ...      Oct-17-07 Calli chessforum    WilhelmThe2nd: <Calli> Sergei Voronkov has done an article that solves the loose ends about the St. Petersburg 1909 Masters Tournament photo for us at chesspro.ru: http://chesspro.ru/_events/2007/vor... Here is a link to the group photo only: http://chesspro.ru/_images/material...      Oct-08-07 Cochrane vs Mohishunder, 1848    WilhelmThe2nd: <Calli> If you go here http://search.clevnet.org/ & search 'Loose Indian chess leaves' the two entries for the Cochrane scores come up. I suppose if you live in the US they'll lend it through inter-library loan. You can purchase copies of the microfilms but it takes a ...      Sep-09-07 Smitten vs Prince Dadian, 1896    WilhelmThe2nd: M.A. de Smitten was one of the strongest amateur players living in Tiflis when Prince Dadian was stationed there while serving in the Tsar's army. According to 'The Chess Monthly' (vol. 13, #154-155, June-July, 1892): "In 1888, at Tiflis, he beat M.A. de Smitten in a set match      Jul-15-07 Reuben Fine    WilhelmThe2nd: Reuben Fine was interviewed in 'Blitz Chess' magazine of July-September, 1992 (Vol.4, Issue 2). Here are a few of the more interesting Q&A's: <BC: Who did you look up to most when you were growing up? RF: Emmanuel [sic] Lasker- I even wrote a book about him and his games. ...      Jul-14-07 Mikhail Chigorin    WilhelmThe2nd: <a.nugent> Thanks. Grekov had a few versions of his book on Chigorin. The first one had some annotations and an essay by Bohatirchuk that were taken out of the second edition because of his defection. The second edition was the largest with many interesting essays like ...      Jul-12-07 Alexander Alekhine    WilhelmThe2nd: Here is a link to an article about Alekhine by Pyotr Romanovsky where he describes their encounters prior to Alekhine's emigration in 1921. Thanks to <SBC> for putting all this material on her great website. http://sbchess.sinfree.net/Encounte...

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