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Berthold Englisch
Number of games in database: 196
Years covered: 1877 to 1897
Overall record: +72 -40 =84 (58.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (41) 
    C65 C77 C61 C70 C60
 Orthodox Defense (13) 
    D53 D55 D50 D60
 Sicilian (10) 
    B45 B23 B73 B46
 French Defense (9) 
    C00 C13 C01 C11 C14
 Queen's Gambit Declined (7) 
    D31 D06 D30 D35
 French (6) 
    C00 C13 C11
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (32) 
    C77 C84 C67 C91 C69
 Four Knights (10) 
    C49 C47
 Queen's Pawn Game (9) 
    D02 D00 D04 D05
 Vienna Opening (8) 
    C25 C29 C28
 Giuoco Piano (7) 
    C53 C50 C54
 King's Gambit Accepted (6) 
    C33 C38
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Bird vs Englisch, 1883 1/2-1/2
   Englisch vs J Bauer, 1890 1-0
   Englisch vs Blackburne, 1883 1/2-1/2
   W Paulsen vs Englisch, 1877 0-1

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   London 1883 by suenteus po 147
   Vienna 1882 by suenteus po 147

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BERTHOLD ENGLISCH
(born Jul-09-1851, died Oct-19-1897) Austria

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Berthold Englisch was born on the 9th of July 1851 in Holtzenplatz, Austria. He was German Champion in 1879 and passed away in Vienna in 1897.

 page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 196  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Englisch vs C T Goering  0-160 1877 LeipzigC61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense
2. Englisch vs A W Franke  0-147 1877 LeipzigC64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
3. Paulsen vs Englisch 1-044 1877 LeipzigA28 English
4. K Leffmann vs Englisch  0-141 1877 LeipzigC80 Ruy Lopez, Open
5. W Paulsen vs Englisch  0-157 1877 LeipzigC51 Evans Gambit
6. Winawer vs Englisch  0-156 1877 LeipzigC45 Scotch Game
7. Zukertort vs Englisch  1-060 1877 LeipzigC49 Four Knights
8. Flechsig vs Englisch  ½-½48 1877 LeipzigC49 Four Knights
9. Englisch vs Anderssen  ½-½61 1877 LeipzigD31 Queen's Gambit Declined
10. Englisch vs Metger  1-039 1877 LeipzigD55 Queen's Gambit Declined
11. Englisch vs E Schallopp  0-130 1877 LeipzigC25 Vienna
12. K Pitschel vs Englisch  1-065 1878 ParisC54 Giuoco Piano
13. Englisch vs Winawer  1-062 1878 ParisC46 Three Knights
14. Mackenzie vs Englisch 1-036 1878 ParisC77 Ruy Lopez
15. Bird vs Englisch 1-037 1878 ParisC77 Ruy Lopez
16. A Clerc vs Englisch 1-037 1878 ParisC29 Vienna Gambit
17. Englisch vs Blackburne  ½-½31 1878 ParisC14 French, Classical
18. Englisch vs J Mason  ½-½40 1878 ParisC11 French
19. Englisch vs Bird 1-017 1878 ParisC48 Four Knights
20. Englisch vs Zukertort  ½-½40 1878 ParisC65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
21. Englisch vs Anderssen 1-031 1878 ParisC46 Three Knights
22. Englisch vs H Gifford  1-017 1878 ParisC77 Ruy Lopez
23. Blackburne vs Englisch  1-050 1878 ParisC77 Ruy Lopez
24. J Mason vs Englisch  ½-½59 1878 ParisC80 Ruy Lopez, Open
25. Englisch vs Bird 1-035 1878 ParisC00 French Defense
 page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 196  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
May-04-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.
Aug-28-04   Whitehat1963: Ironically loved the French and Spanish!
Aug-28-04   Whitehat1963: As well as the Sicilian and the Vienna!
Sep-19-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  Knight13: Hmm... This guy plays not bad at all.
Dec-28-04
Premium Chessgames Member
  Benzol: Berthold Englisch
Born 9th July 1851 in Holtzenplatz
Died 19th October 1897 in Vienna
He was German champion in 1879
Mar-09-06   LluviaSean: How come he doesnt start with 1 c4. ?
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?
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!
Jun-27-06   offramp: <Holtzenplatz> sounds like part of a town rather than a town itself.
Jun-27-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.

Jul-08-08   myschkin: Bertolt in <German>, therefore some Brrrrecht now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXJ...
Jul-08-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  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...

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...

Jul-08-08   myschkin: In memoriam I left <E Flower;
Jul-08-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: Way to show 'em, Bertie!
Jul-08-08   Jim Bartle: What ho!
Jul-08-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: By the way, I think I managed to find an illustration of "brain affection."

http://www.extrememortman.com/wp-co...

Jul-09-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  Calli: The worst case of it that I have seen: http://blogs.smh.com.au/passport/20...
Jul-09-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  Phony Benoni: <offramp: How do you get the surname Englisch? How do you get the surname Pope?>

Generally, from your parents.

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...

Jul-11-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  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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