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Charles Vezin

Number of games in database: 7
Years covered: 1827 to 1847
Overall record: +2 -3 =2 (42.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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C39 King's Gambit Accepted (2 games)
C34 King's Gambit Accepted (2 games)


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CHARLES VEZIN
(born 1781, died Apr-08-1853, 71 years old) Germany (federation/nationality United States of America)

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Charles Vezin was born in Osnabrück, Germany. In 1802, Vezin moved to Bordeaux, France and served as a clerk for ten years. After having saved up 1,500 francs, Vezin sailed to America in 1812 on an American vessel. He was made prisoner at sea and spent 3 weeks in an English prison. After exchange and now destitute, he came to Baltimore, Maryland. Vezin settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and started a new business, importing German, Belgian and French goods.(1)

When Maelzel's Automaton arrived, Vezin practiced by playing against its operator, Wilhelm Schlumberger, and thereby became a player of first rank.(1)

Source

(1) Gustavus Charles Reichhelm and Walter Penn Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, 1898, p. 36


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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. C Vezin vs The Turk ½-½571827friendlyC00 French Defense
2. C Vezin vs C Stanley 0-1241844MatchC39 King's Gambit Accepted
3. C Vezin vs C Stanley ½-½641844MatchC53 Giuoco Piano
4. C Vezin vs C Stanley  0-1131844MatchC34 King's Gambit Accepted
5. C Vezin vs J Thompson 1-0221845PhiladelphiaB21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4
6. C Vezin vs C Stanley 1-0411845CorrC34 King's Gambit Accepted
7. P P Randolph vs C Vezin 1-0261847PhiladelphiaC39 King's Gambit Accepted
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Kibitzer's Corner
Sep-19-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Charles Vezin was extremely influential in the development of chess in Philadelphia. He came to the United States from France in 1813; and for over twenty years, Vezin conducted an informal chess "school" with his friend Henry Vethake, a chess prodigy. The school was held in the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and produced many talented chess players. Students of Charles Vezin were sometimes known as "Men of the Athenaeum." Charles Vezin became a stockholder of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia in 1815.

Portrait: http://www.philaathenaeum.org/ppexh...

Oct-24-13  Karpova: Chas. Vezin died on April 8, 1853, according to the Almanac of the 'British Chess Magazine' (p. 1, April 1882).
Jul-29-22  wrap99: A man born in very antique times who nonetheless we can find I think clear linkage to modern players. He was not even born in Germany, I think, because it was not called that. The USA he came to in 1812 was almost incomprehensibly different from today -- the population of NYC was like 1 percent of what it is today.
Jul-29-22  Cassandro: As <wrap99> points out, the bio is misleading. Charles Vezin wasn't born in Germany, because there was no country called Germany in 1781 :)

Vezin's birthplace Osnabruck was in 1781 part of the Hannover Electorate, a part of the Holy Roman Empire at the time. The Holy Roman Empire was a political entity covering all of Central Europe for almost a thousand years and was not dissolved until the Napoleonic wars in the early 1800s.

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