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Jun-27-06
 | | keypusher: <Ironically loved the French and Spanish!>
<As well as the Sicilian and the Vienna!> One-quarter correct. According to the database, never played the black side of the French or the Sicilian. Played the white side of the Vienna five times. |
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| Jul-08-08 | | myschkin: Bertolt in <German>, therefore some Brrrrecht now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXJ... |
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Jul-08-08
 | | whiteshark: Even more confusing but Englisch, German Chess Champion 1879 was actually Austrian. Hotzenplotz* was located in Moravian Silesia (Mährisch-Schlesien) as part of the Austria-Hungary empire (1867-1918). *(<Der Räuber Hotzenplotz/The Robber Hotzenplotz <by Otfried Preußler>>) Thank you for sharing knowledge: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertho... |
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| Jul-08-08 | | faulenzer: From the NY Times, Oct. 20, 1897:
VIENNA, Oct. 19.--Berthold Englisch, the well-known chess player, is dead. The cause of death was brain affection.
Englisch withdrew from the recent tournament in Berlin, declaring that his head was not clear. At the time rumor accused him of accepting a bribe from a weak opponent to withdraw, but his death disproves that report. Death before dishonor, eh?
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archiv... |
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| Jul-08-08 | | myschkin: In memoriam I left <E Flower; |
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Jul-08-08
| | keypusher: Way to show 'em, Bertie! |
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| Jul-08-08 | | Jim Bartle: What ho! |
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Jul-08-08
| | keypusher: By the way, I think I managed to find an illustration of "brain affection." http://www.extrememortman.com/wp-co... |
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Jul-09-08
 | | Calli: The worst case of it that I have seen: http://blogs.smh.com.au/passport/20... |
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Jul-09-08
 | | Phony Benoni: <offramp: How do you get the surname Englisch? How do you get the surname Pope?> Generally, from your parents. |
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| Jul-09-08 | | Jim Bartle: "The worst case of it that I have seen:"
Here are a couple more, just as scary:
http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/uploa...
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/this... |
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Jul-11-08
 | | Honza Cervenka: Hotzenplotz is German name of Osoblaha in todays Czech Republic. It lies near the border with Poland in district of Bruntál and in the 19th century it was a nice little town with population about 5000 people, mostly German speaking Jews and Germans, but also Poles and Czechs. Osoblaha had mainly intact historical centre with well-preserved city walls still before WW2 but during fights in 1945 the city was completely destroyed and depopulated (Jews were victims of Holocaust, Germans were transferred to Germany after WW2). Now Osoblaha is a village with slightly more than thousand inhabitants. Jewish cemetery in Osoblaha is one of best cultural monuments of this kind in Central Europe. |
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| Mar-04-09 | | Dredge Rivers: Hey, speak Englisch! |
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| Mar-04-09 | | WhiteRook48: and play the Englisch opening already! Why not 1. c4 e5? |
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| Mar-05-09 | | vonKrolock: In the year 1892, Englisch introduced to the "Wiener Schachgesellschaft" (the most important chess circle from Austria-Hungary), a young and talented player who, until then, and being a boy that started to work very early as tipesetter aprentice, had only the chance for training and practice in the cafés for amateurs, during the evenings and weekends, and that became then a full member of the important Club, and soon also a columnist in a local paper and one of the leading chess players in the country - his name was Carl Schlechter |
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| May-01-09 | | vonKrolock: The Vienna 1896 match Englisch vs Pillsbury consisted of five games - all drawn, and all already here in chessgames.com Berlin 1897 was his last Tournament
<"BERLIN In September 13th 1897, the Congress started in the gala room of the Institute of Architecture - after some rounds, two players, von Bardeleben and Englisch, had to retire due to bad health - the later actually died in the following month, in Vienna, aged 46"> |
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May-01-09
 | | Pawn and Two: Englisch apparently never opened any of his tournament or match games with the English (1.c4) opening. However, when Englisch played his last tournament game, Englisch vs Schlechter, 1897, he concluded his chess playing career with the move 25.c4! |
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Apr-06-10
| | keypusher: Has anyone seen his match games against Lasker? They don't seem to be in the database. |
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Apr-06-10
 | | TheFocus: <keypusher> Unfortunately, the game-scores have never come to light. Ken Whyld, noted Lasker expert, was never able to find them. New Lasker games are found every year, so maybe someone will find them buried in some obscure magazine or journal; but I wouldn't hold my breath. |
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Apr-06-10
| | TheFocus: Lasker won the match with +2=3-0. |
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Apr-06-10
| | keypusher: Thanks, <TheFocus>. Wow. Hard to believe! |
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Apr-06-10
| | TheFocus: Englisch also played a five game match with Pillsbury. All five games were drawn. They are posted here in CG. |
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| Apr-09-10 | | reti: I agreed with TheFocus. Lasker beat Englisch in a five game match in Austria in 1890m but this games have never been found. |
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Nov-01-10
 | | amadeus: as she is spoke - http://www.exclassics.com/espoke/es... |
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Nov-28-10
| | Phony Benoni: From the "British Chess Magazine", June 1883, p. 207: <"The former> [Englisch], <who is a young man under thirty> [actually 32], <when it is his turn to move, unceasingly twirls a pencil between his fingers, and when it is not his move, he frequently walks up and down like a caged tiger."> |
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