May-04-06
 | | Benzol: Just how strong was James Kipping? Anyone know anything about him? |
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| May-05-06 | | Calli: "Mr. J. S. Kipping, secretary of the Manchester Chess Club". The win over Morphy was at the simul in Birmingham. Still, it was Morphy's only loss. |
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| Apr-07-09 | | Dredge Rivers: Do you like Kipping?
I don't know, I've never kipped! :) |
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Oct-27-12
 | | GrahamClayton: Kipping was also an official of the Bank of England branch in Manchester. He lived on a farm at Higher Broughton, on the outskirts of Manchester. Kipping is on the extreme right in this family photo: http://charlesduval.org/upimg/flhv1... |
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| Nov-18-12 | | brankat: Well, Mr.(Club Secretary) Kipping must have been quite a strong player. He defeated A.Anderssen 5 times! Won a simul game against P.Morphy, too. R.I.P. Mr.Kipping. |
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| Oct-06-20 | | paulmorphy1969: James Stanley Kipping
1822-1899 - secretary of the Manchester Chess Club. In 1857 he was part of the English team with Staunton and Boden who played a consultation match played in Manchester against Anderssen, Horwitz and Kling.
He embarked on an extraordinary career in the mid 19th century.
with most of the greats of the Howard Staunton era, Adolph Anderssen, Henry Thomas Buckle, Harry Horowitz and others, Jacob Löwenthal and others when the greatest of all Paul Morphy visited the UK in August 1858, at Birghingham he faced eight blindfolded opponents James Kipping was chosen as one of eight and was the only one to beat the legendary American. Two more games played by Kipping against Morphy were included by Lowenthal in his Morphy's Games Of Chess (1860).
James Kipping has therefore abandoned top-tier chess, preferring to play friendly matches at local clubs, in Manchester, and included his other hobby of doing chemical experiments in the back kitchen.
in fact, in chess circles he became a forgotten man, to the point that when in 1875 a local chess reporter wrote an article lamenting the deaths of so many great British players, including Kipping on the list, only he was still alive, and had another 15 years of life.
James also worked all his life in the Manchester branch of the Bank of England, it was not a love for banks that he passed on to his heirs, but his twin hobbies of chemistry and chess. |
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Sep-23-21
 | | keypusher: Here's a Kipping problem, which somehow reminds me of a chemistry experiment.
click for larger viewBlack's king obviously can only shuttle back and forth between a7 and b8, but the position seems hopelessly blocked. But there's a way to win, if the White king works hard enough. 1. First, he walks to a4 and takes the passed pawn. 2. Next, he retreats to the back rank, slides over to the kingside, circles around and takes the pawn on f3. 3. Now the hard part. The king marches all the way back to a6, stalemating the Black king and forcing ...f4-f3. 4. The king retreats, slides, and circles again to pick up the pawn on f3. 5. Now the easy part. f2-f4 breaks through, and White queens a pawn. |
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| Apr-07-22 | | Nosnibor: Kipping has 31 games in this collection made up of 10 wins. 1 draw and 20 losses and not what is stated above. Someone must have been kipping! |
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Sep-19-23
| | GrahamClayton: A Kipping study - White to mate in three moves:
click for larger view1. Qa1 bxa1=Q+ 2. Bxa1 b2 3. Nf6# |
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