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May-12-10
 | | GrahamClayton: Looking at Narraway's record, I am surprised that he did not receive an invitation to participate in the 1889 New York tournament. He couldn't have put in a worse performance than his compatriot Nicholas McLeod! |
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Jul-10-10
| | GrahamClayton: Picture and biography at:
http://web.ncf.ca/bw998/CanadianChe... |
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Mar-05-12
 | | Phony Benoni: While looking for games of Fred Reinfeld (oh, why not?), I came across one from the <New York Post> of December 31, 1938, where his opponent's is given only as "Narraway" and no event or year is mentioned. The game is used as an illustration for an opening which Reinfeld had recently analyzed, and need not have been played around that time. http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%... I see that Narraway was a correspondence player, and I know that Reinfeld played correspondence chess himself in the late 1920s. Could they possibly have met through the mails back then? |
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Mar-05-12
| | Phony Benoni: Should have checked Edward Winter, of course.
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
See Item no.4858. Still doesn't have Narraway's full name, though. |
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| May-06-14 | | ljfyffe: Defeated G. Fisher 3-2, 1884 Last of nineteenth century chessplayers of Saint John, no. 144, 1997, EN PASSANT, by Larry Fyffe. A son was born to James' wife in Campbellton NB. Buning in a newspaper chess article calls James by the name John which was the name of Narraway's
father who was a minister. |
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| May-06-14 | | ljfyffe: That is Fisher, not Fischer. George Fisher, called Fred, became mayor of Saint John. Fisher and Alfred Porter played in a telegraph match against Montreal. Narraway adjudicated Porter's game vs Frank Marshall to be a draw. The match was in 1894. Marshall had white. |
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| May-06-14 | | ljfyffe: Defeated G. Fisher 3-2, 1884 Last of nineteenth century chessplayers of Saint John, no. 144, 1997, EN PASSANT, by Larry Fyffe. A son was born to James' wife in Campbellton NB. Buning in a newspaper chess article calls James by the name John which was the name of Narraway's
father who was a minister. |
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| May-06-14 | | ljfyffe: Nicholas McLeod relocated to Seattle, USA. |
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| May-06-14 | | ljfyffe: Sorry unable to delete duplicated post. |
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| May-06-14 | | ljfyffe: Rather, McLeod moved to Spokane, Washington, USA. |
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| May-06-14 | | ljfyffe: McLeod, who was only 19 when he played the stong NY tournament, first moved to Minnesota where he would win the state championship. |
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| May-07-14 | | ljfyffe: My mistake...James E Narraway's father was a minister(Methodist); but his name was James R. Narraway. |
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| May-31-14 | | ljfyffe: From Saint John GLOBE: J.E. Narraway was born at Guysborough, Nova Scotia, in 1857. He learned the game of chess at twelve years of age;
at eighteen, he was the victor at the tourney of the St. John,N.B., club, and was acknowledged as champion of the Maritime Provinces up to the time when he left for Ottawa, in 1887.
In 1888, he tried his strength for the first time with the players of the Dominion, at the annual tourney of the "Canadian Chess Association" at Quebec, where he took the first place, tieing with Messrs. N. MacLeod and E. Pope(lost out in playoff:L.F.).
In the tourney of 1889, at Montreal, he again held the first place, tieing with Mr. R.P. Fleming(losing playoff:L.F.). In the tourney of 1891, at Montreal, he won the third prize; at Toronto, in 1892, he received the second prize, with the difference of half a point in favor(sic) of the winner, Mr. Boultbee; in the same tourney, he won the MacLeod silver cup. In 1893, at Quebec, he carried off the first prize, with a total of ten points out of twelve, Messrs. E. Pope and A.T. Davison coming next with a total of seven points each. At Montreal, 1894, he took second prize, and, without doubt, would have had the first, if he had not fallen ill after winning his first five games. |
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| May-31-14 | | ljfyffe: Perhaps,the confusion over Narraway's
birth place is due to the required paper-work being done in Sackville? |
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| Jun-01-14 | | ljfyffe: See Narraway-Shipley for more information about (which we do not pronounce "a-boot") the famous Canadian player. |
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| Jun-01-14 | | ljfyffe: Reinfeld-James Narraway was a correspondence game played in 1929. An open Spanish, it was won by white. |
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Jun-02-14
| | GrahamClayton: A composition by Narraway, taken from "The Torch" in 1871. White to play and mate in two:
click for larger viewhttp://jornalheiros.blogspot.com.au... |
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| Jun-03-14 | | ljfyffe: Narraway-Fisher Saint John 1885 1e5 c5 2Nf3 e6 3Nc3 Nc6 4d4 cxd4 5Nxd4 Bb4 6Nxc6 Bxc3 + 7bxc3 dxc6 8Bf4 Qa5 9Qd4 f6 10e5 c5 11Qd2 f5 12Rd1a6 13Bg5 Qc7 14 f4 Ne7 15Be2 0-0 16Bf3 Nc6 170-0 Rf7 18Bd8 Qd719Qe3 Qe8 20Bxc6 Qxc6 |
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| Jun-03-14 | | ljfyffe: 21Rd6 Qb5 22Bb6 Bd7 23Bxc5 Rc8 24Bb6 Qc4 25Rfd1 Bc6 26R1d4 Qxa2 27Bc5 Bd5 28R4xd5 exd5 29e6 Qb1+ 30Kf2 Qxc2+ 31Kg3 Rf6 32e7 Re8 33Rxf6 gxf6 34Qe6+ Kg7 35Bd4 Qd3+ 36Kh4 1-0 |
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| Jun-04-14 | | ljfyffe: For more of Narraway's chess problems, see Canadian Chess Problems by Charles Stubbs. |
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| Jun-05-14 | | ljfyffe: Stubb's book contains the above chess problem by Narraway from the Torch. I've seen others by Narraway in Stubb's column in the St. John Globe, as well. |
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| Jun-05-14 | | ljfyffe: If you can't solve the problem, Stubbs' book gives the solution: 1Nc6. |
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| Jun-06-14 | | ljfyffe: Narraway-Fred Fisher 1884 Saint John Chess Club: 1e4 e5 2Nf3 Nc6 3Bc4 Bc5 4b4 Bxb4 5c3 Bc5 6d4 exd4 70-0 d6 8Qb3 Qf6 9e5 dxe5 10Re1 Nge7 11Bg5 Qf5 12Qb5 Bd6 13cxd4 0-0 14Bd3 e4 15Qxf4 Nxf4 16Rxe4 f6 17Bd2 Rd8 18Bc3 Bb4 19Bc4+ Kf8 20d5 Bxc3 21Nxc3 Na5 22Bd3 h6 23Nb5 c6 24Nc7 Rb8 25Rae1 Bd7 26Rf4 Nd6 27Nd4 Kf7 28Nde6 Bxe6 29dxe6+ Ke7 30Rg4 g5 31Ra4 b6 32Na6 Rbc8 33Nc5 Rc7 34Nd7 c5 35Rg4 Nc6 36Rg3 Nd4 37Rge3 Re8 38Bg6 Rg8 39Bh7 Rg7 40Bb1 Rg8 41a4 Rc6 42g4 Nc4 43Rh3 Rh8 44Nxf6 Kxf6 45e7 Re6 46Rxe6+ Nxe6 47Rxh6+ Kxe7 48Rxh8 1-0 |
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| Jul-06-14 | | ljfyffe: By the way, Nicholas MacLeod did beat Lasker in an 1892 simul. |
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Jul-31-14
 | | offramp: "Listen up people! There are two ways to play this game. There's my way or the Narraway." |
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