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| Jan-10-14 | | SeanAzarin: The "Kentucky Lion" played a wonderful style of chess. He was completely unafraid of anybody. I love playing over Showalter's games. |
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| Feb-05-14 | | WhiteRook48: Showalter was quite the impressive player for 1800's standards. (Actually, he's pretty impressive even by today's standards; I just suppose he'd find the competition a little bit stiffer at today's tournaments.) |
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| Jul-04-14 | | ljfyffe: <GrahamClayton>view the games of Bird for correspondence game between Frederick Intropidi and Edward Harrison of Saint John NB(in the Kibitz). |
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| Jul-04-14 | | kjr63: Beautiful site rookhouse. Very nice. |
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| Jul-04-14 | | ljfyffe: <rookhouse> lnteresting:I was unaware Pollock was champion of Maryland. Good stuff. Pollock represented Canada at Hastings 1895. |
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| Jul-28-14 | | rookhouse: <kjr63> Thanks for the compliment. I hope to start updating it again this fall/winter. Too busy in the summer for my chess related hobbies. |
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| Jul-28-14 | | rookhouse: <ljfyffe> Here is a link to some good info on Pollock if you are interested: http://www.chess.com/blog/batgirl/p... |
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| Jul-28-14 | | ljfyffe: <rookhouse>again interesting; Pollock's 20-mille walk reminds me of Prof. Hanburg's 18- mile trek mentioned by me under Pollock's general heading chessgames.com. I too have done some research on Pollock which might or might not appear in the to- be-published book on him since I forwarded some of the research to Hilbert some years ago if my memory serves me correctly. Pollock was a guest of Rev. John DeSoyres when he stopped in Saint John NB on the way to Hastings. <By the way, all chessplayers should have a hobby!> |
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| Jul-28-14 | | rookhouse: <ljfyffe> This chess player maybe has too many chess hobbies. Showalter biography, Rook House website, and an online chess playing site in the works (Skittles Room). Would be nice if I finished one of them to completion. I have not corresponded with Mr. Hilbert for nearly a year (or right after his Kemeny book came out), any idea how he is doing? |
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| Jul-28-14 | | ljfyffe: <rookhouse> To the best of my knowledge, Hilbert is still doing fine though I heard he might retire from writing history books on chess. He's done more than his share already, but then again, he's the best at it. |
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| Oct-22-14 | | ljfyffe: Showalter played in the 1888 lnternational
Correspondence Match between Canada and the
United States. |
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| Feb-05-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Player of the Day and former U.S. Champion Jackson Whipps Showalter!! |
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| Feb-05-16 | | waustad: This is both his birth day and his death day. Considering when he was born 76 years was quite a long life. |
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| Apr-11-16 | | paderamo: http://www.newspapers.com/clip/1603... A correspondence game from 1887. |
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| Apr-11-16 | | paderamo: http://www.newspapers.com/clip/1603... Another Showalter game. Assume 1887. |
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| Apr-11-16 | | paderamo: http://www.newspapers.com/clip/1607... Another Showalter correspondence game from 1887-1888 time-frame. |
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| Apr-24-17 | | rea: One of the inventors of the curveball! |
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| Feb-07-18 | | mifralu: <rookhouse> Nellie Showalter - Emanuel Lasker <"When I first came to New York I played with Mr. Lasker a match of five games up. He gave the odds of a knight and I beat him five to two."> Third game of the match:
http://www.chessarch.com/excavation... |
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<It is not a usual thing and, in fact, a rare occurrence to find a first class chess player who is, perhaps, equally at home with other branches of sport that require brawn and muscle for their thorough enjoyment, as with the profound intricacies of the checkered board. Probably the only notable exception to this rule is ex-United States Champion Jackson W. Showalter, whose magnificent physique is both the admiration and envy of his fellow masters. The Kentuckian was at one time an expert ball player and a pitcher of considerable repute.> The tournament photo of Nuremberg (1896) illustrates Showalter's sheer bulk: https://www.schachbund.de/files/dsb... |
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| Apr-24-19 | | TheBish: It would be great if Showalter had lost a game to someone named Jackson. Then it could be a pun for Game of the Day: "Jackson Whips Showalter". I suppose there could be a "Jack's Son Whips Showalter", but that would take some digging to find that, and not quite as good. |
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| Apr-24-19 | | TheBish: Here's an excellent posting on Showalter (including his ties to baseball and his use of the curveball) by an ancestor: https://allanshowalter.com/2019/02/.... Incidentally, his father's middle name was Benoni! |
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| Jun-20-19 | | RookFile: He seems like he was an amazing man. I would have liked to have known him. |
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| Feb-05-20 | | Momentum Man: I wonder if there is a game where someone named Jackson whips Jackson Whipps |
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| Feb-05-20 | | Momentum Man: Or Jackson Whipps whips Jackson |
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| Feb-05-20 | | Momentum Man: I thought he looked like a Kentucky boy. Looks like he was indeed |
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