"Tidsskrift for Skak" 1895 p.136 gives "St. Louis" as Max Judd, "Dr. Reminet" as Dr. Meitner, and "Philidor" as having droppped out.

Yes, I think I posted something about <Chess Horizons> not too long back. Not about volumes for sale though, but about contacts who might help locate back issues.

The main name that comes to mind is <George Mirijanian>

George Mirijanian

longtime member of <Wachusett Chess Club>

https://www.worcestermag.com/story/...

I don't have a premium account but a search on <stone free Mirijanian> should find the contact info.

I also think <Chris Chase> is someone else to contact - he who wrote the last <Boston Globe> chess column.

And contacting whoever is handling either the <Metrowest> or <Boylston> CC's might be helpful too:

info_requests@metrowestchess.org
https://boylstonchess.org/board (Andrew Hoy - current president(?))

Let's not forget the current MACA itself:

At the risk of sounding a little bit part of the cheerleader squad - congratulations.

Apparently, throughout its publishing history, the title of the magazine 'Tygodnik Illustrowany' was sometimes spelled without the second 'l' in 'Illustrowany'. One of the years this happened was 1887. I have used that spelling below but when I submitted the first seven games of the match I used the two-'l' spelling (which is the same spelling under which it appears at the library websites I consulted).

<Match. Mr. Jan Taubenhaus, a Varsovian who now lives in Paris and is considered one of the strongest chessplayers there, is currently staying in our city. Mr. Taubenhaus has engaged in a match (pojedynku) with Mr. Jakob Heilpern, an engineer who won one of the prizes at the Warsaw chess tournament a few years ago, on the condition that the winner will be the first to win five games. The first and third games were won by Mr. Heilpern; the second and fourth were drawn.> (from the chess column of 'Tygodnik Ilustrowany', Aug. 15(27), 1887, no page number)

<Match. The further course of the struggle between Mr. Heilpern and Mr. Taubenhaus until last Sunday was as follows: The fifth game was won by Mr. Taubenhaus; the sixth was won by Mr. Heilpern; the seventh was drawn; Mr. Taubenhaus lost the eighth as a result of exceeding the time limit for reflection (on average 15 moves per hour). By Sunday, Mr. Heilpern had won 4 games, Mr. Taubenhaus 1 and 3 were drawn. On Sunday, Mr. Taubenhaus won a second game, and that was the end of the fight due to Mr. T.'s departure for Paris.> (from the chess column of 'Tygodnik Ilustrowany', Aug. 29(Sept. 10), 1887, no page number)

RE: Dr. Samuel Gold

A prolific Hungarian problemist (and physician), who was the first, and only, chess instructor for Carl Schlechter. Gold was also a long time editor of various chess columns in the Viennese press (starting in <Der Osten (1864)> and finishing with <Allgemeine Sport-Zietung (1892)> before relocating to NY, USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samue...

* * * * *

OK, a couple of items to discuss -

First, Olimpu Urcan (as he was known in 2006) did a profile of him (mostly as composer) here:

https://web.archive.org/web/2007082...

It contains an illustration of Gold, credited to the <NY Sun (1893-12-25)>.

Now, I found the issue at LOC, but it doesn't seem to have any such illustration:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...

The main chess column is the weekly Sunday article (Dec 24), but it's not there either.

Just to confirm, one can also search the clippings at <O'Keefe>:

https://www.chessarch.com/excavatio...

So - where did Urcan/06 find his illustration?

<RE: Dr. Samuel Gold>

Having determined him as a significant chess figure, we need a bio page on <CG>, imo.

I think we should be able to do this even if we don't have a game in hand. A similar situation arose with Miron Haseltine.

Dr. Gold, being a problemist, could have a problem used as a placeholder - but I don't think <CG> has any such examples.

The plethora of published problems by Gold makes finding any games by him difficult enough, but he never seemed to participate in any of the Viennese competitions (as far as I know, I could be wrong).

So, the following find is important, if only because it allows us to set up a page for him on <CG>:

<
[Event "casual"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1888.04.??"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Lendeh, K."]
[Black "Gold, Dr. Samuel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C25n"]
[EventDate "1888.04.??"]
[Source "Wiener Mode N8 (1888-04-15) p25_325"]
[Source_url "https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0_0_cizXq- QC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&pg=RA7-PA29"]
[Notes_1 "White's name is difficult to determine with 100% certainty"]
[Notes_2 "No commentary in source about game context, date taken from publication date"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.d4 Qh4+ 5.Ke2 d6 6.Nd5 Bg4+ 7.Nf3 O-O-O 8.c3 Nf6 9.Kd3 Nxe4 10.Kxe4 Qh5 11.Nxf4 Re8+ 12.Kd3 Qf5+ 13.Kc4 d5+ 14.Kb3 Na5+ 15.Ka4 Qd7+ 16.Bb5 a6 17.Bxd7+ Bxd7+ 18.Kxa5 Bb5 19.Nxd5 Re6 {Black announced mate-in-two.} 0-1

>

If anyone else would be so kind as to offer their take on White's name(*), I'd be appreciative. Similarly for anyone shepherding the game and player onto <CG>.

(*) E.g. the last letter of the name could be an "n", but the curling at the bottom suggests "h" instead.

But I think the "d" is either the "ck" ligature or a lower case "a" (comparing with the "d" in Gold suggests that it's a different letter).

<...the curling at the bottom suggests "h" instead>

It could also be a "y" per Google (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frakt...).

Seems like I need to update my WSZ index page, as does <Chess Archeology> as well - since we both previously thought the "neue" WSZ run began on Jan 1888.

<BarakSaltz>'s game can be found here:

https://books.google.com/books?id=v... (G-11 bottom of page)

The WSZ (1888-onwards) series was originally edited by Fahndrich, Halprin and Marco.

The CA site is only guilty of having no entry for a WSZ 1887/1888, so I'll be adding it today.

But both our indexes appreciate getting a previous missed entry added, which is better way to say it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiene...

I started pages for Samuel Gold and Ladislaus Felix von Kochanowski. I have no idea if Gold became a US citizen (I'm guessing he did, but I don't have any data in front of me at the moment).