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| Jul-23-04 | | Cecil Brown: Octavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida is the full handle. The originator of the opening to carry his name.
http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/jcbtro... |
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| Jul-23-04 | | vonKrolock: dear <Cecil Brown>: From Rio de Janeiro (1897-1984), Brazilian Champion for 1939, played in two Olympiads, in Buenos Aires 39 he drew whith Alekhine and lost in the last round to Capablanca in what was Capa's "last tournament game" - he played the unofficail team-tournament from Munich 1936, launching then his own Opening "whith great success"; his "Selected Games", writen whith "humour and originality" is a "classic from brazilian Chess literature" (more details in www.brasilbase.pro.br/jcbtromp.htm whith photo and curriculum - from where i translate freely those infos) |
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| Jul-23-04 | | Cecil Brown: <vonKrolock> Many thanks! I was struggling with the Portugese.And my above link to the Google English translation doesn't seem to work. |
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| Aug-28-05 | | BaranDuin: The name Trompowsky sounds very Russian.
Did he have ancestors who came from there |
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| Jan-05-06 | | BIDMONFA: Octavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida TROMPOWSKY De Almeida, Octavio Figueira
http://www.bidmonfa.com/trompowsky_...
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| Apr-12-06 | | ahmadov: <BaranDuin> I think Trompowsky is Jew because of the "w" in his surname. Russians usually use "v" in such cases. |
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| Apr-12-06 | | ahmadov: Does anyone know how the Trompowsky opening is played? |
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| Apr-12-06 | | Parriotblue: 1.d4; Nf6, 2.Bg5 its the moves of the Trompowsky opening. |
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| Apr-13-06 | | ahmadov: <Parriotblue> Thanks a lot. You must be a master of this opening. You probably play it frequently. |
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| Apr-13-06 | | JustAFish: I've been playing the Trompowky opening a lot recently and have found it to be a lot of fun. The main line goes 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4 ... followed by white playing f3 (ejecting the knight) and e4. White gets great development and a massive pawn center at the slight expense of a drafty king. Black can fight back with ... c5 and pick apart white's center if white plays passively. The main question now, for me, is what to do when black does NOT play 2 ... Ne4. If black plays ...g6 or ...d5, I usually take the knight and furiously attack black's exposed king hoping to get some other concessions in the process. The doubled pawns actually provide some protection to the castled black king, so the objective is to keep black from castling for as long as possible. If black plays 2 ...e6 I have the option of transposing into a queen's gambit declined/Nimzo-indian type formation or going full on Trompowsky with e4, which leads to interesting two edged games. I haven't yet read a book on this opening, but intend to in the future. For now, I'm exploring the possibilities on my own. |
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| Jun-22-06 | | Whitehat1963: Is this the longest name in the database? |
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| May-16-07 | | Themofro: <Whitehat1963> From the lateest cg.com newsletter: Longest name: <Count Grigory Alexandrovich Kushelev-Bezborodko>, with 47 letters. However, his name is inflated somewhat with the title of "count", so arguably it should only "count" for 41 letters, in which case the winner would be none other than <Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritsky> with 43 letters. Honorable mentions: Below is a list of other players who have names as big as their games. <Dr. Jana Malypetrova Hartston Miles BellinMikhail Aleksandrovich Bonch-Osmolovsky
Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint Amant
Octavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida
Conrad Waldemar Vitzthum von Eckstaedt>
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| May-16-07 | | Benzol: <Themofro> Surely the 'Mighty Baron' deserves a mention
Baron Tassilo Heydebrand und der Lasa |
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| May-16-07 | | Maatalkko: <Benzol> I'm not sure that his "name is as big as his game", since he had a pretty good game goin on. |
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| May-17-07 | | Benzol: <Maatalkko> Quite so! :) |
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| May-19-07 | | Themofro: <Benzol> Yes i guess he does. That was the list in the latest cg.com newletter, so i can't claim credit for it. I don't think cg.com was really serious with it's names as big as their games phrase, was just trying to be amusing. It is worth noting though that other players on the list also were quite good. Lionel Kieseritsky was world number 1 for 23 months according to http://db.chessmetrics.com/CM2/Play..., people just always remember him for the immortal game and nothing else, sadly. Saint Amant was number 2 behind Staunton for quite a while according to chessmetrics again, http://db.chessmetrics.com/CM2/Play... not a bad place to be. and us course der Lasa was another of the early greats in the 19th century, just posted his chessmetrics profile on his home page if you want to look at it there. |
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| Nov-05-07 | | Karpova: More on the Trompowsky opening:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Nov-30-09 | | Infohunter: <BaranDuin: The name Trompowsky sounds very Russian.
Did he have ancestors who came from there>
<ahmadov: <BaranDuin> I think Trompowsky is Jew because of the "w" in his surname. Russians usually use "v" in such cases.> You can't tell for certain by the spelling. Russian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet, so every language that uses the Roman alphabet has a slightly different "take" on how a Russian name ought to be spelled in transliteration. For example, we English-speakers typically follow the French example in rendering the name of "Alekhine"; in German, however, his name is spelled "Aljechin". As for Trompowsky, the spelling is consistent with a German transliteration; English would have placed a 'v' where the 'w' goes. For that matter, so would Portuguese or Spanish, as the letter 'w' is seen as alien by those languages. |
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| Nov-30-09 | | vonKrolock: the link to the brasilbase article with photo etc is now http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/jtromp... also online <"Uma Pequena Homenagem">, a 'litle tribute', in Portuguese, by J. Chaves http://www.xadrezdemestre.kit.net/T... <Trompowsky> From Polish aristocracy, it seems: In the XIX-th Century first half, a <von Trompowsky> was in Rio de Janeiro as representative of Poland (under Russian rule). His daughter Ana Elizabeth became the matriarch of the T. Leitão de Almeida and Figueira T. de Almeida families. |
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| Nov-30-09 | | DarthStapler: "was was born", eh? |
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| Nov-30-09 | | WhiteRook48: 2 Bg5 is my favorite move on the board |
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| Nov-30-09 | | waustad: <darth>I know it is easy to comment. Sadly, it is so easy to make that sort of error. If you write a lot you know. After making many of those sorts of errors, I try to restrain myself. Getting the second edition of a book back from the copy editor is a humbling experience. |
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| May-28-10 | | rich187113: I play the Trompowsky attack a lot, but I find the Raptor variation to be the best which is 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.h4. |
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| Dec-13-10 | | Antiochus: O XADREZ Com a lira de um píndaro grego,
Xadrez, eu quisera cantar-te!
Por ser jogo, ser ciência e ser arte,
Apaixonas ao sábio e ao lábrego.
É a Dama a Rainha do jogo,
E as torres seu forte baluarte.
Os Bispos invocam a Marte,
Esgriminando suas lanças de fogo!
Abertura...os Peões...o Gambito...
O Roque...a Trampa...um grito
Cheque ao Rei, que...foge ao combate!
Cavalos saltam como os de pólo,
Há uma troca: peças ao solo,
E outra vez anuncia: CHEQUE-MATE.
E de Octavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida |
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| Sep-14-11 | | wordfunph: <Apr-12-06 ahmadov: Does anyone know how the Trompowsky opening is played?> Trompowsky 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5
<The Trompowski is closely related to the Veresov and again White's main strategical idea is to downgrade Black's pawn structure by the exchange ♗ to ♘ and then solidify the center with the pawn triangle c3, d4, e3, which simultaneously diminishes the value of Black's bishops while enhancing that of the knights which, of course, show to their best in closed positions.> taken from the book Trompowski Opening and the Torre Attack by Robert Bellin.. |
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