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Or should that be Russian Delusion?!

Oddly, Golombek prefers to stick with Fleischmann as his encyclopedic entry and that is faithfully replicated by Divinsky of course, but 'Forgacs' seems the more logical choice to me.

I checked Golombek's entry... first of all, he uses the following format for the name:

<FLEISCHMANN [Forgács], Leo>

which at least makes a distinction between a middle-name and an alternative name.

But Golombek is responsible for what I think is an errant claim:

<He always played in tournaments under the name of Fleischmann ...>

Not true, as this page of a contemporaneous BCM report makes clear:

https://books.google.com/books?id=i...

But when constrained to using just one name, it's also justified to use the first name form used by the player, and if possible, also indicating the alternate name by bracketed or parenthesized name alternative.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3...

<I'm trying to find out more about my brother's chess winning tournament.

His name is John C. Barnes. Family lore indicates that he won a Louisiana state championship for being the youngest winner in the 1950s when he was about 23. (He is now deceased.)

How can I find out more?

Nancy Barnes Shaw>

https://www.gettyimages.com/license...

It's a Getty Image, over 110 years old. Is this in PD for US?

1953 Louisiana championship: <The youngest player here is 20-year-old John Barnes of New Orleans> (STA 5 Sep 1953). Edward Borsodi and Fred Cummimgs won with 5/6, and Barnes shared 8th place with 3.5/6 (STA 8 Sep 1953)

1954: "Alfred B. Wills, winner of the New Orleans City Chess Championship tournament, and <John Barnes, winner of the reserve tournament>, were presented trophies during a meeting of the New Orleans Chess Club Friday night at the Young Men's Christian Association." (Times-Picayune, 27 March 1954, page 18). With a photo of Wills, David A. Walsdorf Jr. (president of the club), and John Barnes in shirt and tie holding a pocal.

1954 Louisiana championship: won by Fred Cummings of New Orleans (Morning Advocate 6 Sep 1955 p. 13-B) (perhaps referring to 1953)

I like reading all the erudites comments but I have nothing to add.

But I have a question. Does CG has a problem with Miami? There are very few games of Miami players, and those are mostly loses.

I would not like to believe that it is an Artidiello legacy, a guy I remember as a nice guy, who was Cuban had a very Galician name and looked Russian, we played several games with varied results, that must have been around the eighties, I remember my plus, so we must have been equal. That is following the only absolute law in chess: "All chess players believe they play better than they do".

Anybody know anything?>

I have the USCF newsletters from the 1950s on disc. The two Barnes games in the database are from the 1954 US Open in New Orleans. Barnes finshed 50-64th in a field of 109 players with a 6-6 score. This seemed like a good year to start a search.

He won the <Reserve> section of the 1953-4 New Orleans City Championship with a score of 10-1. He did not play in the 1954 Louisiana State Championship.

He was rated 1913 on the 1954 rating list. He was not on the 1959 list.

Proquest has a copy of this game:

<Sandrin,A.--Barnes,J. 19# 0-1 (1954 US Open)>

Is that one from the USCF disc?>

It's interesting to compare the finish of A Sandrin vs J C Barnes, 1954 with this game by Angelo Sandrin's borther, Albert Sandrin, for the 19949 US Open in Omaha:

Game 1 - The game score given in "The Guardian", (London), 26th February 1932, p.3. matched the CG score. Also it can be found in "The Observer" (London) 28th February 1932, p.25.

Game 6 - Score given in "The Guardian", (London), 1st March 1932, p.3. also matched the CG score.

I do not as a general rule check the scores of games already in the Database. This is simply a matter of time and proportionality.

I also have increasingly sought out matches where the games already are in the Database due to the time it takes to include new games. I have several collections which have waited months for the record to made complete. I do not blame CG as the Database is a commercial enterprise and if corrupted would entail both a reputational and a financial loss. I would, however, welcome:

1. An accessible live list of those games submitted but awaiting evaluation and incorporation.

2. A system by which selected biographers could volunteer contribute to this process which could include a period of probation and assessment to ensure qulaity and consistency.