| Apr-28-07 | | MORPHY MARVELLOUS: This person is actually oscar wilde. Man he really was a great genius. he makes emanuel look silly, I know its a simuli, but oscar really does look like he had great talent for chess. who knows what kind of a chess player he would have become if he had concentrated on it a little more, but sadly we never got the chance to find out. |
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| Apr-28-07 | | TheHurricane3: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) He must of rose from the dead to play against Lasker. |
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| Apr-28-07 | | MORPHY MARVELLOUS: I think they got date wrong here, but I checked in another site, and they have it as oscar wilde playing against emanuel. |
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| Feb-29-08 | | whiteshark: From February 15 - March 12 1909 Lasker played the 'International Chigorin Congress' in St. Petersburg 1-2 Lasker and Rubinstein with 14.5/18 |
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| Jan-27-13 | | IndigoViolet: I dub this <The Wilde Man of the Woods>. <3450. Alekhine in Riga (C.N. 2793)C.N. 2793 quoted from page v of Tal-Botvinnik II Match (published by Alfred Kalnajs & Son, Chicago, 1969 – no author specified): ‘The former world chess champion Dr A. Alekhine, playing in a simultaneous exhibiton [sic] at Riga, 1937 [sic] – a year before [sic] Tal’s birth – could score only 17 wins out of 50 games. “Riga is a main stronghold of European chess”, said Alekhine after his failure.’> http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Dec-08-14 | | TheFocus: From a simul in Riga, Latvia on March 22, 1909.
Lasker scored +25=2-3. |
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May-29-18
 | | Telemus: Rigasche Rundschau of 24 March 1909 (page 9) reported that <Egon Wilde> was the only winner in the second simul that Lasker gave in Riga on 23 March. The first simul on 22 March was one for the younger players, while the second was for 20 stronger players. |
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May-29-18
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May-29-18
| | Telemus: <MissScarlett: Details of the second simul?> The result was +17, =2, -1 (see also Whyld's book). The two players that drew their game were also mentioned (August Lüth and a student A. Woit, whose name was corrected in a later issue to Wait, iirc). Lasker played with these stronger players differently compared to the day before: "Dr. Lasker fuhr aber auch ganz anderes, schweres Geschütz diesen Kerntruppen gegenüber auf [..]". |
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Jul-28-18
 | | mifralu: < Telemus: The two players that drew their game were also mentioned (August Lüth and a student A. Woit, whose name was corrected in a later issue to Wait, iirc> August Lueth and
Arvids Vaits |
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| Jul-04-20 | | Jean Defuse: ...
<Dr. E. Lasker v stud. E. Wilde> Baltische Schachblätter, vol 12 (1910), p. 62 (ref: Rigaer Tageblatt): 'From the second simultaneous exhibition by Dr. E. Lasker, in the Riga Chess Club, against 20 opponents <on March 10, 1909>.' ... |
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Jul-05-20
| | MissScarlett: Are you implying that no-one realised that Latvia was still under the yoke of the Julian calender? |
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Jul-05-20
| | MissScarlett: <Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) He must of rose from the dead to play against Lasker.> <The report of my death was an exaggeration.> Oh no, wait, that was <Mark Twain>. |
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