Nov-12-11
 | | GrahamClayton: 20. ♘d2 stopping the threat of 21...♘h5 seems a better move. In the game, 21. ♔h2 to avoid the knight fork on f4 doesn't work, eg 21...♘hg4 22. gxf4 ♘xg4 and the threat of 23...♕xh3+ is unstoppable. |
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Dec-22-20
 | | fredthebear: "-all is -well" |
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| Aug-10-21 | | Z truth 000000001: This game's source is discussed by Winter:
C.N. 11887
(wonder if the auto-magic link works? Some do, some don't. Oh well, we'll see...) |
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Mar-31-24
 | | MissScarlett: <Our source, page 82 of the Chess Amateur, December 1907, described it as ‘a remarkably pretty ending’ but gave no details of the occasion or any information about White, apart from his surname, Coldwell. Now, Eduardo Bauzá Mercére (New York, NY, USA) proposes as a working hypothesis that it was an offhand or simultaneous game played in London in April 1905 against P.H. Coldwell, on the basis of these considerations: No chessplayer named Coldwell, or any close variant, has been found in the United States or Canada during the period 1893-1907. P.H. Coldwell was a member of the Hampstead Chess Club, as mentioned, for instance, on pages 151-153 of the April 1905 BCM. A game won by P. Coldwell against Louisa Fagan in the Hampstead Chess Club tourney in 1906 was published on page 2 of the Bridlington Free Press, 7 December 1906. Marshall went to London in 1899, 1902, 1903 and 1905. As regards the last of these visits, he departed for London from Mannheim on 11 April 1905 (Deutsche Schachzeitung, June 1905, page 156). The following day he gave a simultaneous display at the City of London Chess Club, with the result +4 –9 =7 (Daily News, 20 April 1905, page 11); in an exhibition at the Criterion (Metropolitan Chess Club) on 26 April 1905 he scored +14 –2 =4, as reported, inter alia, on page 6 of the Hampstead & Highgate Express, 6 May 1905. Page 7 of the Woolwich Gazette, 5 May 1905 stated that ‘Marshall has been a regular attendant at London chess resorts during the last week’. In early May, he departed for Hamburg (Deutsche Schachzeitung, June 1905, page 186).> https://www.chesshistory.com/winter...I'm sure <Philip H Coldwell> is correct, but 1905 is less certain, although still likely. |
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Apr-01-24
 | | jnpope: <No chessplayer named Coldwell, or any close variant, has been found in the United States or Canada during the period 1893-1907> Only if you ignore Mrs. A. E. Coldwell, of Nova Scotia, who played Pillsbury in 1901 when both were in St. Louis. I know Marshall was in Canada in 1906, but I'm unsure if he made it as far east as Nova Scotia. |
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Apr-01-24
 | | Tabanus: Try C<a>ldwell. |
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Apr-01-24
 | | scutigera: "Caldwell" looks like a "close variant" of Coldwell, and "o" and "a" are easy letters to confuse in printed sources, not all of which are perfectly edited or typeset. |
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Apr-01-24
| | Tabanus: Coldwell indeed.
The game is in Northern Weekly Gazette, 14 December 1907, against some "Marshall" but I don't have access to the scan. |
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May-05-24
| | jnpope: <No chessplayer named Coldwell, or any close variant, has been found in the United States or Canada during the period 1893-1907.> Also, Robert Colwell was a member of the Brooklyn Chess Club during that date range; perhaps a hard-target search of Marshall's simultaneous performances in New York should be conducted for 1906-1907 to see if Colwell was a participant? |
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