The chess games of Franklin Knowles Young

Franklin Knowles Young
Number of games in database: 10
Years covered: 1862 to 1911
Overall record: +8 -1 =1 (85.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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FRANKLIN KNOWLES YOUNG (born 1857, died Dec-19-1931) United States of America	[what is this?]
Franklin Knowles Young born 1857 was a US author who tried to apply battlefield principles to the chessboard in a number of books. The masters of his time ridiculed his work for this.

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. Blackburne vs F Young	½-½	24	1862	London	C41 Philidor Defense
2. F Young vs Hannah	0-1	38	1862	London	C42 Petrov Defense
3. F Young vs Sidney	1-0	15	1865	London-Dublin	C55 Two Knights Defense
4. Carapelli vs F Young	0-1	13	1874	Greece	C40 King's Knight Opening
5. F Young vs Zukertort	1-0	23	1882	?	C52 Evans Gambit
6. R Barnett vs F Young	0-1	32	1885	Cambridge	C29 Vienna Gambit
7. F Young vs L Dore	1-0	22	1892	Boston	C21 Center Game
8. F Young vs Pillsbury	1-0	16	1893	Boston	C62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense
9. F Young vs H N Stone	1-0	24	1907	-17664	C34 King's Gambit Accepted
10. H Daly vs F Young	0-1	39	1911	corres ARG	C29 Vienna Gambit

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Dec-31-04		fred lennox: i like this guy. I've seen some of his games besides these two. Interesting player.

Dec-31-04		hintza: <fred lennox> Do you have any information on him? "F Young" and two games is a little vague. If you have any other games you could try submitting them to the database.

Dec-31-04		iron maiden: What's his first name? Forever?

Jan-02-05		fred lennox: <hintza> Welcome to the site! My mistake. The F. threw me. Who i was referring to is Young. His name is Franklin K. Young. I do have games of his I could submit.

Jan-02-05		aw1988: <iron maiden> Groan.

May-28-05		Benzol: Was Franklin Young a lawyer? Judging by the quote of the day it's possible. Oh, can someone explain what it means! Thanks. :)

May-28-05		aw1988: "Always deploy so that the right oblique can be readily established in case the objective plane remains open or becomes permanently located on the centre or on the King's wing, or that the crochet aligned may readily be established if the objective plane becomes permanently located otherwise than at the extremity of the strategic front." I had to read over this one a few times.

May-28-05		aw1988: I think it basically sais to keep your pieces open for action on either wing, but it's anyone's guess!

May-28-05		pazzed paun: Take Franklin Young's useless and awful chess writing as an example (a bad one but still an example) Young was a weak player writing at a time when people confused slow dull pseudo- religious or scientific language as being the same thing as profound. It was difficult to read so therefore the author must be smarter than I am! DO not be fooled - unscrupolus bookdealers will ask a high price for his book because it is "old" and in hardback. You have a responsibilty to all chessplayers to not pay money for Trash and keep prices inflated. Chess is a game of discernment- start here and now!

May-28-05		aw1988: When I was still a boy I was reading over some notes to the Lasker-Tarrasch match in which Tarrasch was losing badly going into the 14th game. He said something like "with the last game on the line I played as though the Sword of Damocles was poised over my head". This got me utterly confused, as did some other kinds of witty annotation. It helps to be somewhat poetic.

May-28-05		pazzed paun: <aw1988> It helps what to be poetic? "the sword of Damocles" is a very basic reference to history/mytholgy that would have been common knowledge for Tarrasch"s audience of the day. a cultural reference to great literature is not the same as F.Young creating bogus military terms to describe a chess game. Thus trying to make himself profound and impress non-chessplayers.

May-28-05		aw1988: I know it is an easy reference, but I was only like 6 when I read it.

May-28-05		offramp: People should not put swords over the heads of 6-year-olds.

Jun-04-05		pazzed paun: <offramp> I see you belong to the modern namby-pamby school of childrearing. My friend had a theory that it was the duty of parents to dig a big pit in the backyard and build a maze of pointed sticks. Any children who survived this maze would be better for the experience.!

Dec-25-06		Phony Benoni: Chernev and Reinfeld made what was probably the best comment on Franklin K. Young in their "Fireside Book of Chess": <"Most players talk a better game of chess than they play. In Young's case the opposite was true!"> Take a look at H Daly vs F Young, 1911. Incredible game.

Dec-25-06		Calli: Best sly comment was by E. Winter in CN 4437: "Tartakower is one of the most difficult chess writers to translate into English (among others are A. Nimzowitsch and F.K. Young)" :-)

Dec-25-06		Maatalkko: Does anyone find it suspicious that Young's first two games were played at five and eight years old? The first game wasn't too hot, but the second game looked impressive...and how does an American eight year old get to play a correspondence game with an Australian city?

Feb-24-07		Rubenus: F Young vs L Dore, 1892 is another nice game.

Sep-25-07		Dim Weasel: Quote of the Day (couldn't resist putting it here): Always deploy so that the right oblique can be readily established in case the objective plane remains open or becomes permanently located on the centre or on the King's wing, or that the crochet aligned may readily be established if the objective plane becomes permanently located otherwise than at the extremity of the strategic front. --- Franklin Young

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