This game is from a simultaneous exhibition <Sultan Khan> gave at the Hampstead chess club in London.

He scored +23-1=2, losing only to his opponent in this game, a 17 year old lad from the University College School.

<MissScarlett> I don't think so. I still haven't finished investigating the whole book, but I believe here at cg.com we will come out with just about 200 games total from all sources I found so far, including King. For sure we have some games in our collection that he didn't put in his book, so I don't think he intended to put them all in.

<MissScarlett> I have now read more of <Daniel King's> book, and I can report that publishing all known <Khan> games was not the intention.

He gives only a representative sample of the well known games from major events, in favor of many rarely seen or previously unpublished games.

I'm glad he did this, because we can easily find the games from high profile events in other sources.

<MissScarlett> You refer to <Sultan Khan's> grandaughter Atiyab Sultan and her article on King's book in chess.com?

https://www.chess.com/blog/atiyabsu...

She makes several trenchant points, and I would suggest her article is a must read for anyone interested in <Sultan Khan>. However, I think she falls short of demonstrating intentional or unequivocal racism in <King's> treatment. In fact, she never makes that claim in the first place. Rather, she speculates on racism as a possible cause of an objectionable attitude in which King participates. She says <"It is only in later years that western commentators, perhaps owing to racism and perhaps envious of Khan’s success, sought to belittle him and reduce his status, a trend unfortunately repeated uncritically by King in his work.">

In my view, she is on more sure ground when invoking Said's "Orientalism" as an explanatory tool: <"It can be tempting for a certain class of writers to cast achievements of people of colour as extraordinary and miraculous and so they seek to dehumanize them as illiterate savages defying gravity, because the truth that they could beat white men purely on merit is too hard to bear. As a scholar of empire, I am only too familiar with such trends, neatly summed up by the Palestinian academic Edward Said in his seminal work Orientalism (1978).">

I think that applies to much of the earlier western commentary on <Sultan Khan>, particularly that of Rueben Fine, who referred to him as a "slave." But this notion is absent from King's work. This may be true of many: <"...the truth that [people of colour] could beat white men purely on merit is too hard to bear."> But it's not true of King's treatment. It's obvious he believes that <Sultan Khan> beat white men purely on his personal merit.

<MissScarlett>

I had read this "240" known game figure before, but I wonder where did you hear this from?

I have <R.N. Coles>, <Matsukevich> and <King>, and the combined game harvest from all three together is going to come out at around 200.

<MissScarlett> I question the total in Britbase of 205 games?

I went through their online database carefully. Ok somewhat carefully.

https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/br...

But I say it has nowhere near 205 Sultan Khan games, unless the public online database is an abridged collection.

Maybe those figures you quoted are all of the games <John Saunders> has collected in his paper sources? Where did you get the Britbase Sultan Khan figures from?

The online Britbase has no Khan games from Olympiads, Berne, Liege, or the matches v Flohr and Tartakower.

I will go back to <Britbase> and look again, this time *very* carefully.

Is there a supersecret place where the "elite" can get access to all of <Mr. Saunders'> Sultan Khan games?

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Genius!

Anddddd the honorable member from British Columbia proves once again she does not know how to navigate a website...

Will I ever learn probably not.

The funniest part is how many hours I spent typing out pgns from "old style notation" when I could have been copy and pasting ready made pgns instead.