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Open Questions List
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Open Questions

JGW TODO List:
Brooklyn Daily Standard Union, 1893.07.01 (issue missing online)

Syracuse Daily Standard, 1858.08.12
Syracuse Daily Standard, 1858.09.24
Clerc - de Riviere (1881) (was it ever concluded?)
in La Stratégie, 1880, 1881, and 1882

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The score to Walbrodt - Kürschner, Nuremberg 1898

Di Felice gives Walbrodt +3-0=1, but the reports given in the <British Chess Magazine> and <Deutsche Schachzeitung> indicate five games:

Aus Nürnberg. Ein kleiner, in Nürnberg zwischen M. Kürschner und dem zum Besuch anwesenden Herrn A. Walbrodt gespielter Wettkampf wurde von letzterem mit 3½:1½ gewonnen. <Deutsche Schachzeitung>, v53 n4, April 1898, p124

A little match was played lately at Nuremberg between Herren Walbrodt and Kürschner, which the former won by 3½ to 1½ games. <British Chess Magazine>, v18 n5, May 1898, p196 ————————————————————————————————————————————

Biographer Bistro (kibitz #27347) F Perrin vs M Hazeltine, 1855

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What is the contemporary source for this game:
Albin vs Pillsbury, 1902
«След Метеора», Советский спорт, 1996, p371 (courtesy of Andrew E. Soltis)

WilhelmThe2nd: <j> Your <Open Questions List> asks for a contemporary source for Albin vs Pillsbury, Monte Carlo, 1902:
<The chess column of 'Moskovskiye Vedomosti', March 28 (Old Style; April 10 New Style), 1902, page 5, includes the game Albin-Pillsbury from the 15th round of Monte Carlo, 1902. After the move 45...Rf8-b8 it states, 'White resigned after a few moves'. The column was then conducted by P. P. Bobrov who was also the editor of the chess magazine 'Shakhmatnoye Obozreniye' which may also have published the game. I mention this since it is a far more likelier source for the score of the game for the Russian book on Pillsbury that you reference.>
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Match conditions:
Khardin - Schiffers (1895)
Charousek - Maroczy (1895)
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Find a report of Wolf being awarded the de Armas brilliancy prize for:
H Wolf vs G Marco, 1902 ————————————————————————————————————————————
Does anyone have any of the other games played in the three matches between Stanislaus Sittenfeld and David Janowski?
1891, Janowski over Sittenfeld, +3=1-1.
1892, Sittenfeld over Janowski, +7=5-5.
1893, Unfinished/Drawn, two wins each, two drawn.
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More info on this event:
Lasker vs NN, 1908 ————————————————————————————————————————————
How long do free TinyUrls last?
08-Mar-2022: https://tinyurl.com/yex9vcar
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Reported results don't match game totals:
Antze - Hartlaub (1909/11) ————————————————————————————————————————————
Are there any facts supporting this was a match and not just a casual series?
Hirschfeld - Urusov Casual Series (1866) ————————————————————————————————————————————
What was the amount of the prize to:
Anderssen - Paulsen (1877) ————————————————————————————————————————————
Charles Moehle was not Zukertort's second, his father Adolph was:
Steinitz - Zukertort World Championship Match (1886) ————————————————————————————————————————————
<Match of Nine Games played at the Westminster Club, June, 1836, between M. St. Amant and George Walker. MS., with notes, by George Walker. 18mo. Paper.>
https://books.google.com/books?id=u...
https://discover.hsp.org/Record/ead...
https://librarycompany.org/using-th...
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Being that I didn't include these things in my Desiderata section, here is a list of wanted Pillsbury material cited in the Quarterly for Chess History articles (along with four games where a source was not cited):

Games (my game number followed by Quarterly's cited source):
1065: Western Daily Mercury, 1902.04.25
1071: (no source cited)
1098-1109: Blindlingspartien des Schachmeisters H. N. Pillsbury 29. Juni 1902, Köllner Schachclub
1187, 1189: (no source cited)
1214: Der Sammler, 1906.08.25
1259: Pall Mall Gazette, 1903.01.10
1263: Western Daily Mercury, 1903.01.23
1282: Western Daily Mercury, 1903.02.06
1290: Daily Chronicle and Argus, 1903.02.02
1326: (no source cited)
1331: St. John Globe, 1905.11.17

Reports:
De Telegraaf, 1903.01.04
Evening North Wilts Herald, 1903.01.24
Western Daily Mercury, 1903.01.28
Cornish Post and Mining News, 1903.01.29
Sussex Daily News, 1903.04.25

I would also like to acquire copies of the material cited by Chessist:
1148: Bremer Nachrichten, 1902.09.21
1149: Bremer Nachrichten, 1902.08.31
1150: Bremer Nachrichten, 1902.10.05
1151: Bremer Nachrichten, 1902.10.26
1152: Bremer Nachrichten, 1902.11.09
1153: Bremer Nachrichten, 1902.09.28
1154: Bremer Nachrichten, 1902.08.24
1156: Hamburgischer Correspondent, 1902.08.30 (User: mifralu submitted PDFs)
1157: Hamburgischer Correspondent, 1902.08.23(User: mifralu submitted PDFs)

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