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| Nov-25-15 | | zanzibar: A question for Biographers...
Jozsef Szen (kibitz #33) where I asked what book was the source for Szen's photograph? No answer there, but on the outside chance I'll ask here as well. |
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Nov-25-15
 | | offramp: <Stalwart: I wrote a chess book and put it up for free at
bterranlong.wix.com/whitemates
and it contains ~200 microbiographies...>
...And it is 1.1Gb. |
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Nov-29-15
 | | egilarne: A far better picture of Simen Agdestein is available at Wikipedia Commmons. |
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| Dec-03-15 | | zanzibar: We should make a list of players whose pictures are better on Wiki... bet it would be rather more on the longish than shortish side. * * * * *
What's the story with modern tournaments? Or, as some might say, contemporary tournaments? I ask because I was looking for a game from a major tournament - <Dubai Open (2014)>. The game was missing, understandably, since even the TWIC version of the tournament is apparently missing some games. But <CG> is not only missing the game I was looking for, <it's missing the entire tournament>! This isn't an entirely minor tournament, as evidenced by the fact that <CG> has deemed other years worthy of inclusion: Tournament Index search: "dubai" So, what's the story?!
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TWIC page dedicated to the tournament (w 351 game download): http://www.theweekinchess.com/chess... (ChessBase credit TWIC for their version btw -
http://en.chessbase.com/post/edouar...) FIDE lists the money winners here:
https://www.fide.com/component/cont... The most complete xtab for the tournament appears to be found here: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr130... at <chess-results.com>. |
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Dec-15-15
 | | Phony Benoni: After a four-month hiatus, Nick Pope has added some new excavations at Chess Archaeology: http://www.chessarch.com/journal/jo... |
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| Dec-15-15 | | TheFocus: <jnpope> must be one of the busiest men in chess history preservation!! Thank you, Mr. Pope! |
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Dec-20-15
| | offramp: Spassky - Keres Candidates Quarterfinal (1965)
<"Spassky recovered from this loss to lead 3.5 - 2 after five games...">. I think it's 3.5-1.5. |
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Dec-20-15
 | | Tabanus: <But <CG> is not only missing the game I was looking for, <it's missing the entire tournament>!> Add it yourself. The purpose of this forum is not only to file complaints. |
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Dec-20-15
| | offramp: Thank you, whoever responded to my last message. Very quick, as usual! |
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Dec-20-15
 | | MissScarlett: <We should make a list of players whose pictures are better on Wiki...> If you're looking for something constructive to do with your/our time over the festive period, I suggest a better idea would be for us to start compiling lists of lost/missing games, grouped by both individual tournaments/matches and leading players. It could be a valuable aid in getting a grip on those gaps in the DB that might potentially be filled, and determining which games are seemingly lost to posterity. Stumbling upon long-forgotten simul games is one thing, hunting down some prized missing game a la Simon Wiesenthal, quite another. |
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Dec-20-15
| | offramp: I don't call it the Festive Period. I call it Christmas time. |
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Dec-21-15
 | | Domdaniel: <framp> - < I call it Christmas time.>
And other people call it the festive period. You are not, I trust, implying that they're *wrong*? Me, I call it 'late December'. |
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Dec-22-15
| | Tabanus: Some months ago, <crawbf5> nominated his Game Collection: Prague 1946. I voted no because the round dates were off by one day. This was corrected (for all the games), but <crawbf5> did not renominate, and has not been posting since August. So a Christmas present at Game Collection Voting. |
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| Dec-22-15 | | thomastonk: Game Collection: Prague 1946: I also voted <no> back then, but partly for another reason. The introduction contained and still contains very much general stuff, but comparable little specific tournament information. I posted something here, say the prizes, but this was ignored. I would now vote <yes>, if some changes could be made once the tournament is accepted. |
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Dec-22-15
| | Tabanus: <tt> I can add the extra info. If I can find it again! Which I probably will. But I'll give <crawfb5> a chance to add it first. |
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| Dec-22-15 | | thomastonk: <Tabanus: I can add the extra info.> Thank you! <If I can find it again!> My first post on this subject was Biographer Bistro, and we had here some more discussion later on. |
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Dec-22-15
| | offramp: <Domdaniel: <framp> - < I call it Christmas time.> And other people call it the festive period. You are not, I trust, implying that they're *wrong*?
Me, I call it 'late December'.>
I don't like appearing pusillanimous. I call Christmas-time Christmas-time. I saw a sign on London Underground today: Festive Opening Times. What makes an opening time festive? |
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| Dec-22-15 | | zanzibar: RE: <festive opening times> http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014... <What makes an opening time festive?> Seems self-explanatory. |
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| Dec-22-15 | | zanzibar: Good to see mention of <crawfb5>... I hope all is well. |
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| Dec-22-15 | | zanzibar: Here's some recent additions to the <Jack O'Keefe Project> added by <jnpope>: <Excavation additions:
14-Dec-2015:
• Bell's Life in London: 1839.01.06-1839.06.30 (redo) 13-Dec-2015:
• London Era: 1855.04.01-1855.04.29
11-Dec-2015:
• Manchester Evening News: 1901.10.02-1901.10.30
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Dec-23-15
| | Tabanus: J Minckwitz vs Gunsberg, 1889, or the alternate score of it, has (perhaps long time ago) dropped out of Breslau (1889). Correction slip sent. |
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Dec-24-15
| | Tabanus: <J Minckwitz vs Gunsberg, 1889, or the alternate score of it, has (perhaps long time ago) dropped out of Breslau (1889).> This is now fixed! And Merry Christmas! |
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Dec-29-15
| | Phony Benoni: An exercise in score deciperization: B Price vs A Simonson, 1935 (kibitz #1) |
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| Dec-30-15 | | frogbert: <He finished 2015 with a flourish when he won the powerful Qatar Masters (2015) with 6/9 in the main rounds [...]> Minor mistake in the update of Carlsen's bio after Qatar. The score is wrong. |
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Dec-31-15
| | MissScarlett: <Fox beat Johner by a score of 3-2 in these 5 games (of which 2 results were draws). Memo to other biographers: were there any more games of this match, and does anyone know the days or months, or at least have a date range?> Game Collection: 1906 Fox - Johner (MATCH) See the <BDE> for May 13 and 27, 1906, wherein we learn that Fox won +3 -2 =3. The match is described as being one of 'three games up', but as Johner had to abandon the adjourned, final game, to leave by boat to make the Ostend tournament, this might best be described as a training match for Johner's benefit. Only the scores of the first five games are given, all later appearing in the September/October issues of the <ACB>, which suggests Helms didn't have access to the remaining scores. The game dates aren't given, but it seems likely that all were played in May, because three are reported as completed by May 13 and the remaining five by the 27th. |
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