Horace Ransom Bigelow
Number of games in database: 14
Years covered: 1922 to 1929
Overall record: +1 -11 =2 (14.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line (2 games)

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HORACE RANSOM BIGELOW (born Mar-06-1898, died Apr-18-1980) United States of America [what is this?] Horace Ransom Bigelow learned the game in Switzerland, and played chess for Oxford University. His travels included attending a boarding school in Italy, and military service in Ljubljana. As a chess organizer he was involved in one of the greatest of all tournaments, New York 1924, as well as the book on the event. He is given credit in Lasker’s Manual of Chess for compiling the index. He was editor for the chess column of the New York Evening Post. Source: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

page 1 of 1; 14 games    Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Reshevsky vs H R Bigelow   ½-½ 52 1922 New York CCI E10 Queen's Pawn Game 2. Marshall vs H R Bigelow   1-0 57 1923 Masters Tournament D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense 3. R T Black vs H R Bigelow 1-0 12 1923 9th American Chess Congress B12 Caro-Kann Defense 4. H R Bigelow vs Kupchik 0-1 41 1923 9th American Chess Congress C30 King's Gambit Declined 5. O Chajes vs H R Bigelow 1-0 33 1923 9th American Chess Congress B15 Caro-Kann 6. H R Bigelow vs M Schapiro   0-1 30 1923 9th American Chess Congress D67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line 7. Alekhine vs H R Bigelow   1-0 44 1923 New York B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange 8. Ed Lasker vs H R Bigelow   1-0 35 1923 9th American Chess Congress B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack 9. Carlos Torre vs H R Bigelow 1-0 28 1924 New York Dimock theme, USA C45 Scotch Game 10. Marshall vs H R Bigelow   1-0 45 1924 Dimock theme C55 Two Knights Defense 11. Lasker vs H R Bigelow 0-1 19 1926 USA sim C89 Ruy Lopez, Marshall 12. Alekhine vs H R Bigelow   ½-½ 25 1929 New York Manhattan C D67 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line 13. H R Bigelow vs Alekhine 0-1 46 1929 Bradley Beach (03) A28 English 14. H R Bigelow vs Marshall 0-1 56 1929 Bradley Beach A27 English, Three Knights System

Mar-04-07    Phony Benoni: Looking at the picture, I'd bet little Horace's father was a chess player too... Mar-04-07    Resignation Trap: Why is this American player listed as "United Kingdom" in his short biography? Mar-04-07    technical draw: Man, this guy has a millionaires name. Maybe he paid Alekhine and Marshall to play him? Mar-04-07    Resignation Trap: <technical draw> Maybe Reshevsky, too? Bigelow can be seen in this photo: http://www.chessbase.com/images2/20... . Bigelow is on the most distant board on the right, playing Edward Lasker . Bigelow finished last at Bradley Beach, 1929 with a score of 0.5/9. Mar-04-07    technical draw: Great photo <RT>...Who's the kid, Reshevsky? Mar-05-07    Resignation Trap: <technical draw> Yes, that's the ten-year old Reshevsky, during the tournament in which he played this game: Janowski vs Reshevsky, 1922 . Mar-05-07    Resignation Trap: Bigelow was educated at Oxford University, but... As Garisson Keillor would say "Oh, come on! Who are you trying to fool? You're not from Great Britain. I can tell you're <really> from Minnesota!" H R Bigelow was born March 6, 1898 (hey, that's tomorrow!) in St. Paul, Minnesota. He died April 18, 1980 in Port Washington, New York. More information can be found in the New York Times of April 20, 1980 on page 44. Mar-05-07    Phony Benoni: Figures he's from Minnesota. "H. R. Bigelow" sounds like a Rocky and Bullwinkle character. Mar-19-07    c o r e: <Phony Benoni> Sid and Marty Croft present: The Adventures of H.R. Bigelow! Sounds convincing. May-09-08    biglo: Hmm, they mispelled my surname. My middle name is Handsome not Ransom and I am from the UK. I visited Oxford University once. Wait I'm not really a chess player though! Maybe Resignation Trap is correct!!

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