Feb-24-13
 | | GrahamClayton: Elison's original Christian name was Karl. Could he have changed it to Charles due to anti-German sentiment in the United States due to WW1? |
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Dec-24-13 | | Karpova: <Stuttgart. C. Elison gab am 16. Januar im Cafe Eberhardbau eine Simultanvorstellung zugunsten des Roten Kreuzes. Es kamen 20 Partien zustande. Resultat nach 2 1/2 Stunden: +13, -4, Remis 3. Der Ertrag (70 Mk.) wurde dem Roten Kreuz überwiesen.> C. Elison gave a 20-board Simul in Stuttgart on January 16, 1915, which lasted 2.5 hours, scoring +13 -4 =3 and donated the revenues of 70 Mk. to the Red Cross. Source: Page 83 of the March-April 1915 'Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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Jul-02-20 | | Alan McGowan: He was born Carl [Karl] Friedrich Elison in Berlin on 24 February 1888.
He immigrated to the USA in 1923.
He died 2 August 1939 in Chicago, IL, USA.
He played in the German Chess Federation congresses at Mannheim 1914, Berlin 1920, Hamburg 1921 and Bad Oeynhausen 1922. In his ‘Hauptturnier’ at the Deutscher Schachbund Congress in Berlin 1920 he was 2nd with 8½/11, losing only to the winner, Kurt Pahl (10).
At the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933, Elison, representing the Irving Park YMCA, was one of four players who defeated Alekhine in his 32-board blindfold exhibition (Blindfold Chess: History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records, and Important Games, by Eliot Hearst, John Knott, McFarland, 2009).
He was active in Illinois chess right up to his death; in the 1939 Chicago City championship, held in March/April, he scored 8/10, finish in second place behind Samuel Factor (Chess Review, May 1939, p103). |
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