Jun-01-04
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| Resignation Trap: For a good article about Herman Steiner, try this: http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/... Also note that there is only one "n" in his first name. |
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Nov-09-04
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| iron maiden: <Resignation Trap> I think you're right; every spelling I've seen gives his first name just one "n". Unlike most American GM's, he spent most of his time on the West Coast rather than in New York. His chess club in L.A. attracted a handful of Hollywood actors and directors, or so I've read. |
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| Nov-14-04 |
| kostich in time: Stiener was in fact quite the celebrity in Hollywood...Bogart and Boyer, among others, hung out at his club, and he organized the 1945 "Pan-American championship" in Hollywood. I once saw apicture of him introducing an amused Clark Gable to Max Euwe and Sammy Reshevsky. He also lost a game with "living pieces"-all Hollywood starlets-to Capablanca |
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| Nov-14-04 |
| kostich in time: Btw..there seems to be an error here..is chessbase really sure that those games from Lodz1938 were played by HERMAN Stiener?
There were also an LAJOS Stiener, and an ANDRE Stiener(no relation to Herman)who were brothers-and strong European masters. In fact, Im almost certain it was Lajos who played at Lodz. According to what few sources Ive seen, Stiener didnt play outside the US between 1931 and 1945 |
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| Nov-15-04 |
| sneaky pete: Herman Steiner moved to the USA before 1928. The 1938 Lodz games were played by Lajos Steiner, the 1928 Budapest games (attributed here to Herman) by Andreas (=Endre) Steiner, according to Feenstra Kuiper's "Hundert Jahre Schachturniere". |
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| May-02-05 |
| WTHarvey: Here are some diagrams of crucial positions in Hermann's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/stnr.html |
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May-02-05
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| cu8sfan: <WTHarvey> I just want to say thanks for the incredible amount of work you do every day for all the players of the day! You really seem like a scarab, assiduously rolling up what great players have emitted. (-: |
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May-02-05
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| Sneaky: Interesting photograph here featuring Charles Boyer, Herman Steiner, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, 1945 - http://www2.polito.it/didattica/pol... |
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| May-02-05 |
| WTHarvey: <cu8sfan> Much obliged! It's gratifying to see how much following some of the 19th century chessplayers still have, the Olland and Judd puzzles drew a LOT of visitors over the last week. Too bad many of their games are missing. |
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Jan-10-06
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| Gypsy: <Dunajska Streda, then a part of Hungary (and now in the Czech republic)> Nowdays, Dunajska Streda is actually in Slovakia. |
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| Apr-15-07 |
| wolfmaster: I don't believe Steiner is GM. |
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Apr-16-07
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| Benzol: Thanks <Gypsy>. <wolfmaster> Steiner wasn't a GM. |
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| Aug-22-07 |
| savagerules: < Sneaky: Interesting photograph here featuring Charles Boyer, Herman Steiner, Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, 1945 > http://www2.polito.it/didattica/pol... Hehe, in this picture chess doesn't seem too interesting to Steiner, esp. when Bacall is so close... |
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Aug-24-07
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| whiteshark: <savagerules <Hehe, in this picture ... esp. when Bacall is so close...>>
Something’s up, quite certain. |
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| Mar-26-08 |
| Petrosianic: Steiner was an IM, but that was back in the days when IM meant something. Amazing how few of his games are here. There's only one or two games from his 1948 win in the database. Another database has almost all of them, but without round numbers. I've got the Chess Life & Review 1933-1975 set on order, hopefully I can get some more information on those pre-1950 US Championships other than just the crosstables. |
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Apr-15-08
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| brankat: A very colourful personality, Mr.H.Steiner. It happens to be his Birthday today, would have been 103! |
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Jun-20-08
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| talisman: steiner and stein...neither on the drop down list. |
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Apr-15-09
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| wordfunph: Herman Steiner died on November 25, 1955 while playing in the California State Championship. He had just played a 62 move draw against William Addison and died two hours later. The State Tournament was cancelled by the wish of the other players as a gesture of sorrow. Happy Birthday Herman Steiner! |
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| Apr-15-09 |
| WhiteRook48: Happy birthday |
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Jun-10-09
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| vonKrolock: <SBC> presents, in her <'Sarah's Chess Journal'>, a wonderfull account of the so called <Pan-American Tournament> from 1945 - the players, the movie-stars, many photos, trivia, curiosities etc http://sbchess.sinfree.net/Hollywoo... |
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Jun-10-09
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| vonKrolock: Also crosstable of the tournament won by Reshevsky ahead of Fine, Pilnik, Horowitz, Kashdan, Rossetto etc *** Brazilian participant Dr. Walter O. Cruz =9/10; Singer and actress Carmen Miranda was also there < SBC: 'In keeping with the predominant Pan-American note, <Carmen Miranda> was invited to draw the players' numbers for the pairing system. Her dynamic personality gives the routine ceremony a character all its own. No wonder Reuben Fine (left) grins so appreciatively!> ... on Steiner's remarcable activity in Hollywood :< 'Besides Bogart, Bacall and Boyer, other notable movie stars who attended Steiner's club or were otherwise influenced by Steiner included Charlie Chaplin, Lew Ayres, John Barrymore, Jose Ferrer, Louis Hayward, Fritz Feld, Rosemary Clooney, Katharine Hepburn, Dean Martin, Louis Jourdan, John Wayne, Franchot Tone, Basil Rathbone, J. Edward Bromberg, Helmut Dantine, Frank Morgan, Nigel Bruce, Myrna Loy, Linda Darnell, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mitzi Mayfair, Josef von Sternberg, Billy Wilder, Barbara Hale, Bill Williams, Carmen Miranda, Daun Kennedy, Jean Trent, Kathleen O'Malley and Roseanne Murray.'> Due to the importance of the event and the milieu, 'memorabilia' would be more in place than 'trivia' as I wrote above... |
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