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Joseph William Mellor vs Emanuel Lasker
Casual game (1902), Owens College, Manchester ENG
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Classical Defense Deferred (C70)  ·  0-1

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Apr-18-20
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  MissScarlett: A serendipitous find, whoever it was. Who’d think that a new Lasker game was hiding in such a provincial newspaper? But it all fits, of course. Lasker was an assistant lecturer at the college for a couple of terms from the beginning of 1902.
Jun-04-20  Hans Renette: Where did you find this one?
Jun-04-20
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  MissScarlett: Click on the <view> tab and you'll find <[Source "Otago Witness 21.5.1902"]>.
Jun-04-20  TheFocus: Nice find!!
Jun-05-20  Hans Renette: In my book on Bird, p. 514, I have a certain R. Meller from Australia visiting the Hastings tourn and writing an account of it. Maybe the same man?!
Jun-05-20
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  MissScarlett: Probably no - see Joseph William Mellor
Jun-05-20
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  fredthebear: Word of the Day

I nominate "serendipitous" for WOTD.

serendipitous

ADJECTIVE
occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way. "a serendipitous encounter"

synonyms:
chance · accidental · lucky · fortuitous · unexpected · unanticipated · unforeseen · unlooked-for · coincidental · fluky

Jun-05-20  Brenin: Why would this game appear in the Otago Witness? That was the local paper for Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand.
Jun-05-20
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  MissScarlett: Which is where Mellor had been living. The obvious inference is that he sent it back home; likely he knew the columnist.
Jun-05-20  Brenin: Thanks, <MissScarlett>, I hadn't realised Mellor was from NZ.
Jun-05-20
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  MissScarlett: Still don't know who submitted this...
Jun-05-20  dumptrump: Knowing the source isn't enough for her highness?!
May-17-25  stone free or die: Apparently, whoever submitted this game put up a few other Lasker games (I'm assuming),

<gid> 1993994 → 1993998 (this one)

Are all sourced Lasker games.

1993993 is a sourced chess365, non-Lasker, and 1993999 is an unsourced non-Lasker.

Did we ever figure out who submitted this one?

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