Feb-07-22 Bird vs Steinitz, 1866 
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| TheFocus: <Z free or die: Are we ever going to be able to get the Field chess articles to be available online, without a pay wall to go through?> I have Volumes 1-3: The Field columns 1873-1882: William Steinitz, editor. Also the 10 bound volumes: 1900-1909, each year individually ... |
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Feb-06-22 Breslau (1925)
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| TheFocus: <Z free or die: Shouldn't there be 66 games for a RR-12?> M Bluemich vs Nimzowitsch, 1925 should be added to the tournament (round 4). Saemisch lost to Nimzowitsch in the third round by default. <Also, since most games are here was there a tournament book?> I used the ... |
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Feb-04-22 Arthur Feuerstein
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| TheFocus: <Granny O Doul: He seemed like a pleasant guy when I met him, which seems to have been most people's experience, so let me just call him a pleasant guy. I had heard about the car accident mentioned in his Wikipedia article, but never was very clear about its actual effect on ... |
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Feb-03-22 Lasker vs V Thoresen, 1919
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| TheFocus: <MissScarlett: Which is correct - 25 or 18 boards?. I looked back into the <FocusSuperDuper LaskerDatabase>, and have no notation on where I got this score from. I will say that, until I find evidence otherwise, that I pulled the number out of my hat., or I just typed it ... |
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Feb-02-22 Biographer Bistro
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| TheFocus: <jessica> You are very welcome! |
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Jan-27-22 Lasker vs Tarrasch, 1916
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| TheFocus: 5. f3 is an odd variation. Lasker explained it thusly: <This odd move has a story. Just as I was considering which option I should choose under the circumstances, a light suddenly blazed on with a roar. Without my knowledge, events for photographing had been made. I was startled |
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Jan-25-22 R Loman vs Lasker, 1889
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| TheFocus: Steinitz's analysis in International Chess Magazine here reads: <For after 23. Rxf6+ Kg5, White cannot answer …Rxa6, on account of the reply …Rf8, and whatever else White may do, the advance of Blacks h-pawn is bound to win soon.> Shouldn't it instead read: <For after ... |
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Jan-24-22 Emanuel Lasker
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| TheFocus: <Olavi> <Apparently the source is The London Fortnightly 1892> This is often cited incorrectly as coming from "London Chess Fortnightly", it is not there. It is actually from<Süddeutsche Schach-Zeitung>, February 9, 1890, pg. 24. |
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Apr-27-21 Schlechter vs Tarrasch, 1896
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| TheFocus: The game-score as <Jean Defuse> offered is the correct one and agrees with Warren Goldman's game-score in <CARL SCHLECHTER! Life and Times of the Austrian Chess Wizard>; game #230, pg. 508, with Schlechter's annotations. Warren refers to this as an offhand game, played ... |
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Dec-14-20 Steinitz vs Cairns / Soffe / Wallace, 1881
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| TheFocus: <Stonehenge: It took one day :)> LOL! Big thank you. |
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