May-04-04
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| fred lennox: Deserves to be better known. A hard man to defeat who could beat anyone on any day and his opponents most likely knew it. |
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| Aug-28-04 |
| Whitehat1963: Ironically loved the French and Spanish! |
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| Aug-28-04 |
| Whitehat1963: As well as the Sicilian and the Vienna! |
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Sep-19-04
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| Knight13: Hmm... This guy plays not bad at all. |
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Dec-28-04
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| Benzol: Berthold Englisch
Born 9th July 1851 in Holtzenplatz
Died 19th October 1897 in Vienna
He was German champion in 1879 |
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| Mar-09-06 |
| LluviaSean: How come he doesnt start with 1 c4. ? |
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| Jun-27-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Berthold Englisch ENGLISCH, Berthold
http://www.bidmonfa.com/englisch_be...
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| Jun-27-06 |
| offramp: How do you get the surname Englisch? How do you get the surname Pope? |
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| Jun-27-06 |
| Sasportas: Born in "Holtzenplatz, Austria"? Such a place simply does not exist and probably never existed. Possible that English himself translated the name of his birthplace literally into German - from the Hungarian or the Czech language. Interesting problem! |
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| Jun-27-06 |
| offramp: <Holtzenplatz> sounds like part of a town rather than a town itself. |
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Jun-27-06
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| 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
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| 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
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| keypusher: Way to show 'em, Bertie! |
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| Jul-08-08 |
| Jim Bartle: What ho! |
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Jul-08-08
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| 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
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| Calli: The worst case of it that I have seen: http://blogs.smh.com.au/passport/20... |
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Jul-09-08
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| 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
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| 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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