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Mar-26-20 | | Jean Defuse: thanks a lot! |
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Nov-22-20 | | Nosnibor: In Harding`s excellent biography of Blackburne there appears to be a mistake with the death certificate. It states his age at date of death 83 years but this of course should be 82. This was not picked up by Tim Harding who is usually so meticulous in his writings. |
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Jan-04-21 | | ColdSong: Blackburne is an heavyweight in chess history.Just look at these wins with the best players(Imo) of his time.Anderssen,+3,Steinitz,+9,Neumann,+1,Paulsen-
,+6,Zukertort,+15,Gunsberg,+17,Chigorin,+6,Weiss-
,+4,Tarrasch,+4,Burn,+3,Schlechter,+3,Janowski,+-
2,Teichmann,+3,Lasker,+2,Pillsbury,+5,Marshall,+-
3,Nimzowitsch,+1.I apologize if I (most probably)only repeat it,but it can be useful for everybody. |
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Mar-22-21 | | Nosnibor: According to Harding Blackburne played a simultaneous at the Victoria Coffee House in Leicester on the 24th November 1893 where he states that he played 20 players. Of these he lost two to Dr. Mason and Dr.Finch and drew one against E.H.Collier. However he won 11 games and not 14. The victims being A.A. Cooper, A. Pickard, A.A. Allnutt, T Carter, T.Underwood. Councillor W. Stanyon, J. Coy, A.F.Atkins, Israel Hart ( Mayor of Leicester ), Alderman R. P. Swain, and Councillor H.P. Rogers. (Source: "Leicester Mercury" 25/11/1893.) |
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Aug-26-21
 | | GrahamClayton: Has there ever been a reasonable guesstimate made as to how many simultaneous exhibition games Blackburne played in his long career? |
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Aug-26-21
 | | MissScarlett: On Blackburne's last years, Harding has (p.503): <Alekhine visited Blackburne on Sunday 14 October 1923, reported Brian Harley the following weekend in <The Observer>; "it was a great meeting." Also the <Oxford Dictionary of National Biography> says that in the fall of 1922 Capablanca visited Blackburne at his bedside.> Harding, the word is <autumn>. |
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Aug-27-21 | | login:
@GC Joseph Henry Blackburne (kibitz #248) Still counting
http://www.chessmail.com/research/b... 1 of many (not yet in the DB)
https://www.ulsterchess.org/archive...
Ats us nai,
https://ballynafeighchess.wordpress... wee chess in Belfast is back on map.
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Aug-27-21
 | | MissScarlett: I'll be damned if there's another 600 Blackburne games hiding out there. |
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Apr-15-22
 | | MissScarlett: Here's a couple from a blindfold simul in Reigate, Surrey, in December 1898: Blackburne vs NN, 1898 Blackburne vs NN, 1898 This display is missing from the list in Harding's biography (pp. 529-532). It's mentioned in the <Croydon Observer> on December 2nd that Blackburne is coming, and on December 23rd, that's he's been and gone, but nothing in between that I can see. |
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Sep-19-22 | | Nosnibor: >MissScarlet> I am sure that there is another 600 games of Blackburne hiding somewhere. One of these is from the B.C.A. Handicap Tournament 1868/69 where he lost as black to H.J.S. Selfe in an odds game with a pawn and two moves start. |
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Dec-02-22 | | DataFly: Tim Harding's book about Blackburne says that it was Blackburne who gave the odds in his loss to Henry James Selfe Selfe (the artist formally known as Henry James Selfe Page). This is on page 60. On page 511 it suggests that Blackburne was White, i.e. moved first, which wouldn't really make sense if he gave Selfe a two move head start. I'm just basing this on the preview of the pages on Google. I don't own Harding's book. |
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Dec-02-22 | | Nosnibor: <DataFly> I own a copy of the said book and I believe that page 511 stating that Blackburne was White is an error which was overlooked before publication. Generally speaking Harding undertook an ardous task and produced a marvellous biography and games collection. |
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Dec-02-22
 | | MissScarlett: <I own a copy of the said book and I believe that page 511 stating that Blackburne was White is an error which was overlooked before publication.> It's not an error because Blackburne is the first name in all the match-ups - including other pawn and move(s) games - given on page 511, so colour is not being indicated. |
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Dec-02-22
 | | MissScarlett: Here's the Selfe game: Henry Selfe vs Blackburne, 1868 Without the null move (which I'll add shortly) it can be viewed using Olga. |
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Dec-02-22 | | stone free or die: Just curious, but what was the last year where White could have the black pieces (and Black the white pieces)? At one time it wasn't so uncommon.
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Dec-03-22
 | | fredthebear: 1880. |
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Dec-03-22 | | stone free or die: Do we have a source for that? Hopefully with the game. |
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Dec-03-22
 | | MissScarlett: I suspect this article was in play: https://new.uschess.org/news/evolut... |
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Dec-03-22 | | stone free or die: Thanks <MIssy>, that is a highly relevant article. It could be in play, or maybe not, though.
I still wonder who (and where) the "early writers" were who promoted the White first-move standard. . |
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Mar-10-24
 | | MissScarlett: British Chess Magazine, April 1888, p.195:
<Mr. J. Wade, 18, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, W.C., is about to publish a collection - about 200 - of Mr. J. H. Blackburne's blindfold games, arranged by that master.> |
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Mar-10-24
 | | Sally Simpson: I have a copy of 'Blackburne's Blindfold Games' by Mr. J. Wade. It is in braille. |
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May-15-25
 | | MissScarlett: <MissScarlett: I'll be damned if there's another 600 Blackburne games hiding out there.> Joseph Blackburne (kibitz #251) By way of update, the WayBack Machine reveals that there were 1,330 (sole) Blackburne games on October 17th 2021. 1661 today. Let's aim for 2000 by 2028. |
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Jun-25-25 | | stone free or die: We owe phrenology thanks for this player's illustrious career apparently: <It is not, we think, generally known that the father of Mr. Blackburne the celebrated chess player, is a phrenologist, who has been established for a long time in Scarborough. When his son was a lad of 14 or 15, the elder Blackburne foresaw from the shape of the boy's skull that proficiency in chess was likely to be one of his attributes. With this view, he gave him every opportunity of learning and practising the game; and now Blackburne pere may fairly boast that he had much to do with the success as a chess-player of Blackburne files.> Harding - Blackburne p259-260
Unfortunately I don't know the original source. |
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Jun-25-25
 | | MissScarlett: The Dial, June 21st 1862, p.8:
<PHRENOLOGY. - MR. BLACKBURNE, Consulting Phrenologist, Author of "Helps to Progress," &c. (from Princes-street, Edinburgh, and King-street, Manchester) may be consulted DAILY at 45, Ludgate-hill. Open from Nine a.m. till Eight p.m. Phrenological examinations, pointing out the trade, profession, &c., for which the individual is best adapted, for 2s. 6d.> Morning Herald, March 25th 1865, p.1:
<PHRENOLOGY. - At the CITY PHRENOLOGICAL GALLERY, 71, Fleet-street, may be seen 200 Portraits and Casts of Eminent Men. Private Examinations. N.B. Heads measured by a new mathematical instrument. The Science taught by Professor Blackburne.> |
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Jun-25-25 | | stone free or die: files → fils (bien sûr).
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A sample of Blackburne (pere's) work product might be found here: https://collections.library.yale.ed... If, like me, you didn't know who <George Gissing> was: <In the 1890s he was considered one of the three greatest novelists in England, and by the 1940s he had been recognised as a literary genius. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg...
I wonder if all the bumps on the head dished out daily on <CG> would affect the results? (Not in my case, of course, being a far sighted, granite-headed New Englander makes me pretty much immune!) |
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