jessicafischerqueen:
<hemy> If you haven't see this already, last night I typed out the crosstable <AJ Gillam> gives in his tournament book for <Meerbeck 1946> here: Game Collection: Meerbeck 1946 Displaced Persons tournament
Gillam's crosstable does not match the game results he gives in his book, nor does it match a contemporaneous journal article listing the order of finish and point totals: http://periodika.lv/periodika2-view...
User: jameschess constructed a crosstable based on that order of finish and point totals, and it matches the game results that <Gillam> gives in his round by round pgns.
That work is documented here: Game Collection: Meerbeck 1946 Displaced Persons tournament
I believe that a number of the pgn game scores from this event have mistakes in them, likely some mistakes in game results even.
This is what <Gillam> says about that:
"Games played in the tournament have been collected in this book. When copying the games it was noticed that some of them contained errors in the recording. Because of the players' carelessness, some errors will appear in this publication as well, as it is not possible to check the games." p.5
This is the data provenance Gilliam gives for the published game scores in his book:
John Donald of California supplied the games to Gillam on a ChessBase file and scans of the bulletins. (Gillam, p.3)
These tournament bulletins come from "Merbekas Starptautiska Sacha Turnira, Partijas, 7-19.III.1946." This was in Latvian on the first and last page, but the rest was in English with games in English algebraic notation. The production was by typewriter and stencil duplicating and the page size was 200mm x 269mm. (Gillam, p.3)
##################
<hemy> I recently lost over a year's worth of my emails by accidentally deleting them. I remember you sent me your new email, but I no longer have that information. I also don't have your old email.
Might you please send me your new email to
jessicafischerqueen@yahoo.com ?
There have been a few chess history related things I've wanted to discuss with you. Also I would like to mail you my copy of Gillam's Meerbeck 1946 book, and perhaps a few other books I have that you might be interested in. I have a hard copy Russian edition of Kryajkin's biography of Vladimir Petrov that I already thought about mailing to you.
I already have a passable English translation of Kryakin's book from the internet, but the real value of the hard copy book is the high resolution glossy photographs, of which there are many.
Originally I planned to scan these photos, but my scanning "skills" are terrible. My efforts were very poor. A good camera and someone who knows about lighting, or scanning machines, would be needed.
Anyways I would be happy to mail these two books to you, which you could add to your own chess library. Since you know Russian, you could also enjoy reading Kryakin's book without having to translate it. I think much is lost in even the best translations.
At any rate, please email me back with your new email.
Best regards, Jess
Kibitzing
