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| Dec-13-08 | | Karpova: Did he write those books: http://www.archive.org/search.php?q... "The manual of receipts; being a collection of formulæ and process for artisans" (1899) "The manual of business; being a collection of correct business forms for executing all commercial instruments, commercial data and advice on the thousand and one questions of correct methods that are constantly arising in every day business life" (1902) ------
I found this information (from 02-01-2008, 07:02 PM, ttk5079@gmail.com) <Sidney Paine Johnston (with a "t"), 1869-1905, was born and died in
Chicago. In "Young Marshall" by John S. Hilbert (Moravian Chess,
2002), he is described as "one of Chicago's strongest experts." He
played 7th board in the 1899 US-vs.GB cable match (Marshall was 8th
board). His best tournament showing was probably the 4th Western Chess
Congress, 1903, where he scored 14½-2½ to tie for 1st with Judd and
Uedemann, finally losing a playoff to Judd. He was chess editor for
the Chicago Tribune 1901-1905.
His match with Marshall was played in Chicago 12/1899-01/1900,
Marshall winning +7 -6 =2. The total stakes were $200.
Johnston died young and unexpectedly, just age 35. I don't see where
Hilbert mentions a cause of death. Apparently Johnston was well-liked
and respected, and his premature passing was much mourned.> Source: http://www.gamesforum.ca/showthread... |
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Oct-24-10
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<"Sidney P. Johnston, an authority on chess and for twelve years editor of the Amorican Artisan, a hardware trade paper, is dead at his home in Chicago, Ill., of diabetes. Mr. Johnston was the champion chess player of Illinois."> The article includes a drawn portrait: http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers... |
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| Nov-29-12 | | waustad: Any relation to the general? |
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| Nov-23-13 | | paderamo: Here is the announcement in the Chicago Daily Tribune 1905.03.20: http://www.newspapers.com/clip/1950... |
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| May-08-17 | | zanzibar: <The Johnston-Marshall Match.
Sydney P. Johnston, the Champion of the Chicago Chess-Club and probably the strongest player in the Western States, and Prank J. Marshall, the young Brooklyn Champion, who took first prize in the minor tournament at the London Congress, have begun their match for $100 a side, first seven games, Draws not counting. All the games are to be played in Chicago.> https://books.google.com/books?id=I... Literary Digest, v19 (Dec 23, 1899) p792 |
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| May-08-17 | | zanzibar: Here's <CG> version of the Marshall--Johnston match games, 14 of 'em: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... The trouble is, Marshall won the match 7-6 (two draws not counting), whereas <CG> tallies up 7-5. So a Johnston win is missing (i.e. the match consisted of 15 games - and draws didn't count). That good old stoop, <MissS> has just 14 games; while not noting that game 11 is missing: Game Collection: Marshall - Johnston match (1899-00) The electronic Marshall claims that two games are missing, so G10 somehow found its way onto <CG>: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~goeller... |
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| May-08-17 | | zanzibar: Can we please crop his photo properly? |
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| May-08-17 | | zanzibar: What is this site? - it's new to me...
http://chichess.wikia.com/wiki/Sidn... |
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| May-08-17 | | zanzibar: BTW - his was the first, and only, game to finish on the first day of the Anglo-American Cable Match (1899): http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstra... . |
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| May-08-17 | | zanzibar: And if you want a little more coverage of that match: https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a... . |
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May-08-17
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| May-08-17 | | zanzibar: <MARSHALL WINS THE MATCH Marshall, of Brooklyn, won the match against Johnston, of Chicago, as played in the Chicago Chess Club on Sunday, by winning his seventh game. The day before Johnston had won a game, thereby tieing Marshall's total number of wins, and the final score therefore was: Marshall 7; Johnston, 6; drawn, 2. Johnston played an Evans Gambit on Saturday, and won after seventy-eight moves, while the final game on Sunday was a Queen's Gambit declined, won by Marshall after thirty moves.> <NY Tribune 1900-01-23 p8> |
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May-09-17
 | | Pawn and Two: <zanzibar & MissScarlett> Hilbert's book, "Young Marshall", includes the game scores for all 15 games in the Marshall - Johnston match. Game 11 was won by Johnston in 34 moves. Hilbert provides the first 17 moves for this game, and indicates his source as the "Chicago Tribune", Jan. 10, 1900. |
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May-09-17
| | MissScarlett: < Hilbert provides the first 17 moves for this game, and indicates his source as the "Chicago Tribune", Jan. 10, 1900> Danke. Submitted. |
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| May-09-17 | | zanzibar: <Pawn and Two> many thanks, as always - a very helpful fellow. Always good to know the actual sources - having the specific date allowed me to locate the source square away - http://archives.chicagotribune.com/... It's in the column just to the left of the <Victims of Shooting Known> article (p6 c2). |
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| May-09-17 | | zanzibar: <<MissS> Danke. Submitted.> Hopefully you included the proper <Source> this go round, plus the proper <Stub> tag in the PGN. Right?
(The <Stub> tag is used to denote an incomplete score (movelist) - according to the new standard.) . |
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May-10-17
| | MissScarlett: <Hopefully you included the proper <Source> this go round, plus the proper <Stub> tag in the PGN. Right?>
Wrong. Yes to the <Source>, but I prefer the protocol <curley bracket.../xx(if known)curley bracket result}>. So game 11 ends: .../34 1-0. See S I Groen vs Alekhine, 1923 |
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| May-10-17 | | zanzibar: <MissS> Yes, I agree that such info also needs to be included as a comment. The PGN still needs the <Stub> tag as a formal convention to codify the info so that software can parse it out. The trouble with comments is that they're free-form - so that info can be polluted/diluted/omitted all too easily. For ZanBase games I tried to use @ character as a delimiter in the comment for such occasions - e.g. <@stub - ...>
This stuff might sound arcane - but it's really essential for accuracy. . |
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| May-10-17 | | zanzibar: Although, <MissS>, the comment < {.../23} > might be a little too concise even for me. * * * * *
<CG> nerd info - to get curly braces use } and { in the comment. (I won't tell you how to get & to show up as & in the above (lookup HTML entity).) |
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May-11-17
| | MissScarlett: I've said it before, and I'm saying it again - I contend that the man in the picture above is an imposter! |
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| May-11-17 | | zanzibar: <MissS> you might be right - but there does seem to be a resemblance to the guy in the line drawing I posted in my blog. Who found the photo above?
Maybe it's from here:
http://chessreader.blogspot.com/201... Who, although anonymous, seems to be pretty trustworthy when it comes to early mid-West chess history, at least from my experience. . |
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| May-11-17 | | zanzibar: Gettyimages has this - but without ID or comment: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos... . |
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| May-11-17 | | zanzibar: Oh, and congratulations are in order:
<Announcements are out for the wedding of Sidney P. Johnston, chess editor of the Chicago Tribune, to Miss Alice J. Evans, to take place Oct. 29. We tender our congratulations.> Checkmate - Monthly Chess Review v2 (1902) p35
https://books.google.com/books?id=0... |
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| May-11-17 | | zanzibar: Oh, sorry, gettyimages does identify him, and gives a little more on his "background"! http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/n... . |
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| May-11-17 | | zanzibar: 1st Anglo-American Cable Match (1896) (kibitz #1) has a link to another line drawing portrait of him. |
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