| Aug-18-21 | | Jean Defuse: ...
[Event "16-board simultaneous exhibition"]
[Site "Framlingham"]
[Date "1899.??.??"]
[White "Blackburne, Joseph Henry"]
[Black "Pilkington, Richard"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Source "Graham, p. 201"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN " 
click for larger view"] 1. Qe8+ Kg7 2. Re1 Bd7 3. Qd8 Qh5 4. g3 Qg4 5. Bf5 Bxf5 6. Nxf5+ Qxf5 7. Qf8+ Kxf8
8. Bh6+ Kg8 9. Re8# 1-0
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Apr-28-22
 | | MissScarlett: Not Richard but Blackburne vs James H Pilkington, 1899. |
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Dec-15-23
 | | mifralu: < We regret to have to record the death of Mr. Richard Pilkington, which occurred suddenly on the 11th June, at Penzance. Mr. Pilkington was an enthusiastic chess player, and for some years was a well-known figure in the City of London Chess Club, of which he was president in 1884-5 and again in 1893-4. Although never a very strong player he played a good game, and in 1883, took part in the Vizayanagram Tournament of the London Chess Congress of that year. He was a fairly strong correspondence player, and during his lengthened sojourn at Penzance this form of chess was his favourite pastime. He was of a very sociable nature, and for some years devoted himself to the social side of chess in the City Club. A few years ago Mr. Pilkington had a very severe illness, from the effects of which he never fully recovered, and in search of health he went to Penzance, which for the last few years he made his home; though he still paid flying visits to London to see his old friends. He never fully recovered the effects of his prolonged illness, and his strength gradually gave way, though the end came suddenly. Mr. Pilkington was but little over 60 at the time of his death. He was eminently a “club-able” man (to use his own favourite expression), and his old friends of the City Club mourn his loss. > Source: BCM, vol. 14, July 1894, pp. 290-291 |
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Dec-15-23
| | MissScarlett: The <BCM> report is apparently wrong in two regards - <RP> died on June 16th in London, not Penzance, on June 11th. Brompton Cemetery's register records the burial of <RP> on June 19th, and the place of death as Stobart Mansions, Camberwell, London. This tallies with the probate record of <RP> <of the "Queen's" hotel Penzance>, dying on June 16th in 1, Stobart Mansions. The 1891 census records <RP>, aged 61, a St, Helens born visitor staying at the Queen's Hotel, Penzance. All of which fits with the <RP> of <Richard Pilkington> in the Geneanet Community Trees Index, born February 6th 1830 in Eccleston Hall, St. Helens, Lancashire, dying June 16 1894. |
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Dec-16-23
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi Miss Scarlett,
Regarding magazines and dates, something to consider for the future. (the above post does not apply - seeing the date 1890 twigged my memory.) I was reading Alain C. White's 'Fist Steps in the Classification of Two movers.' and he was having trouble getting the exact date for a problem published by Sam Loyd. A newspaper printed it February 1892 but he also found it in Steinitz' International Magazine dated November 1891. 1892 was the correct date. White reports that Steinitz '...was woeful in arrears' his November 1891 issue came out in March 1892 with the undated February 1892 problem printed inside.
(meticulous research that one.)
Just a thought and a point of interest as I was passing by. |
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Mar-27-25
| | MissScarlett: His father was <William Pilkington> (1800-1872), one of the founders of the glass company, Pilkington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilki... |
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