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| mahmoudkubba: I can't understand how that he died in 1911 and officially saying that years covered are between 1903-1977 ?? HaHaHa. |
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Jun-05-06
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| alexmagnus: He died 1934, but that's still earlier than 1977 LOL |
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Jun-05-06
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| alexmagnus: Last 3 games belong to another person with exactly same name. |
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Jun-05-06
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| acirce: <mahmoudkubba> Yes, curious name indeed with both Saladin and "Lionheart" in it... |
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| Jun-06-06 |
| WTHarvey: Here are some winning combinations in Leonhardt's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/leon.html |
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Jun-25-06
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| Peligroso Patzer: The game mentioned in the first posting on this page (by Resignation Trap from Nov-25-03) is indeed a great attacking gem. That game is now included in the CG database ( Leonhardt vs Tarrasch, 1910 ). I am surprised it does not appear in the list of Leonhardt's "Notable Games". |
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| Jul-20-06 |
| James Bowman: Not sure about his record in tournament play against Nimsowitsch as the games here show him 1-4 not the other way around which one is in error or is this a coincidense |
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Nov-13-06
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| Caissanist: It's a coincidence, most of the games of the 1911 match are missing from this database. They're in Chessbase. |
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Nov-13-06
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| Peligroso Patzer: I am surprised that Leonhardt vs Tarrasch, 1910 does not head the list of Leonhardt's Notable Games. It is an absolute crush in 26 moves over Siegbert Tarrasch. (Maybe I need to take a look at the four games that precede it on the "Notables" list for this player.) |
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Nov-13-06
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| Caissanist: <Peligroso> - Have you considered putting together a collection of Leonhardt games? You seem to be quite knowledgeable about this player. |
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Jul-20-07
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| whiteshark: Leonhardt died of a heart attack while playing a game of chess. Lucky beggar! |
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Jul-20-07
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| Karpova: Akiba's whipping boy
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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Nov-04-07
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| Phony Benoni: At the moment, I'm looking at the Carlsbad 1907 tournament where Leonhardt finished third behind Rubinstein and Maroczy. There were six players from the tournament who lived long enough to receive the GM title from FIDE in 1950: Rubinstein, Maroczy, Vidmar, Duras, Tartakower, and Mieses. Leonhardt scored 5˝ points against them, drawing Rubinstein and defeating the others. |
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Nov-04-07
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| Nasruddin Hodja: <whiteshark>: "Leonhardt died of a heart attack while playing a game of chess. Lucky beggar!" Now now, there's only one cool way to die, and that is in flagrante a la Nelson Rockefeller. Among chess masters, only Leonid Stein is rumored to have crossed over this way. There's a chess player who had his priorities straight. |
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| Nov-13-07 |
| Refused: Hum, somehow I doubt all those games are correctly attributed to him. This Leonhardt was born 1877, so I doubt he played against Nimzowitsch in 1878 (it's at least extremely unlikely)
And since he passed away in 1934, I doubt he played any games later than 1934. |
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Nov-13-07
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| Benzol: <Refused> The last two games were played by Wolfgang Leonhardt
I have submitted correction reports but so far no corrections have been made. |
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Nov-13-07
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| Phony Benoni: <Refused> And that game from 1878 is a duplicate of Leonhardt vs Nimzowitsch, 1912; it was probably mislabelled during submission. I'm sure corrections have been submitted (and I just put in another to be sure), but as <Benzol> noted it sometimes takes quite a while for such changes to be made, Apparently, for some perverse reason, the majority of players want to see additional features and more games from 2007 than corrections to games from the last couple of centuries, so the limited available manpower concentrates on the new stuff. |
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| Nov-14-07 |
| nescio: <Phony Benoni> For a few moments I thought you had discovered a real move-by-move duplicate in this database, but then I noticed Black's 34th in Leonhardt vs Nimzowitsch, 1878 |
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Nov-14-07
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| Phony Benoni: <nescio> That's another reason why the 1878 game is wrong; 34...Bb7 isn't check. I think what happened here is that the previous few submitted games were all from Paris 1878, and whoever submitted or processed the PGN just didn't change things when that game came in. There are dozens of duplicate games in the database that anybody can find with some investment of time and a bit of systematic searching. I may work on it after the beginning of the new year. |
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| Nov-14-07 |
| nescio: <Phony Benoni: There are dozens of duplicate games in the database> Indeed, but I haven't encountered a genuine duplicate yet. There is always a difference, often in the move order. I think you are right that the maintenance of the database should have more priority. A few months ago I discovered that the game Euwe vs O Bernstein, 1946 isn't Euwe-Bernstein at all, but Euwe-Vidmar, and in my opinion such bad mistakes should be corrected soon after they were reported. It's the main reason why I won't be a premium member: I wouldn't mind paying for the use of the database if it was maintained properly, but I do mind throwing money away for uninteresting side-features and exercises in futility. |
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Nov-14-07
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| Phony Benoni: <nescio: Indeed, but I haven't encountered a genuine duplicate yet. There is always a difference, often in the move order.> Well, for starters try Tartakower vs Vidmar, 1907 and Tartakower vs Vidmar, 1907. <I think you are right that the maintenance of the database should have more priority.> This drives me especially batty because my profession involves maintenance of the information in a library catalog where I can make direct and immediate changes. While corrections do get made here, it takes awhile. But we're in the minority of users here, and I think the administrators do the right thing by putting more effort into features that the majority wants. Perhaps someday I'll win the lottery, move to Cleveland, and start my own site where things will get done right. Maybe pigs will fly. |
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| Nov-14-07 |
| nescio: <Phony Benoni: Well, for starters try Tartakower vs Vidmar, 1907 and Tartakower vs Vidmar, 1907.> You have really found one ;-) I suspected that chessgames.com's software recognized duplicates and threw them out, but I suppose it was fooled in this case by the difference in the PGN (the commentary). <But we're in the minority of users here, and I think the administrators do the right thing by putting more effort into features that the majority wants> Oh, sure. I regret the many errors, but I do like the way this database is organised and the fact that we can comment on the games. I just ignore the nonsense. |
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Nov-13-08
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| brankat: R.I.P. Master Leonhardt. |
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| Jun-09-09 |
| myschkin: . . .
As an expert analyst of the openings, he wrote a monograph on the Ruy Lopez (Zur Spanische Partie - 1913). Opening variations have been attributed to him in the Lopez, Sicilian Defence, Ponziani Opening, Evans Gambit, and the Scandinavian Defense. Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_S... * Schachmeister Paul S. Leonhardt
http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner... (German, Berliner Zeitung, 2008) |
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Sep-06-09
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| Chessical: A rough translation of the Berliner Zeitung piece.
The city of Poznan was, with an eight-year hiatus in the Napoleonic period, in Prussia from 1793 to 1919. It was the birthplace of Paul Saladin Leonhardt (1877 to 1934). After graduating, this gifted student enrolled in the University of Leipzig. He studied modern languages, but the charm of the sixty-four squares exerted a greater attraction on him than his studies. Leonhardt soon rose to become the champion of the Leipzig Chess Club "Augustea"; and he then devoted himself entirely to chess as a professional player and also a journalist. In 1903 he won the masters tournament in Hilversum. Before the war he was one of the best German chess players. His victory in the in 1907 Copenhagen international tournament ahead of Maróczy and Schlechter underlines this. During the Weimar Republic, Leonhardt carved out a career as a poet and political journalist. Chess, however, served him throughout his life as a livelihood. His chess columns in the "Hamburger Nachrichten" and the "Konigsberg Allgemeine Zeitung" were well regarded for their very deep analysis. As a chess teacher, he produced radio programmes for Konigsberg radio which enjoyed large audiences. The Viennese chess champion Marco aptly described Leonhardt as "a combination of giants". First rank success in his chess career was, however, denied to him because of his chronic time pressure problems. |
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