| Oct-27-05 | | fgh: Perphaps Richard Strauss :-) |
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| Feb-15-06 | | blingice: What about Levi? |
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| Aug-16-06 | | Aspirador: This should be corrected. Obviously, 1-3 cannot be the same player as in the games 4-5. |
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| Aug-16-06 | | Calli: <Aspirador> There is really nothing to correct if the players first names are unknown. The list merely gives all games played by "Strauss" and does not imply that they are necessarily the same "Strauss". |
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| May-27-07 | | M.D. Wilson: Probably Old Dick. |
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| Nov-19-15 | | zanzibar: <Calli> I would prefer two groupings... Clearly <Strauss (1860)> is one player, and <Strauss (1987)> another. In some cases we can't untangle the games. But here we can, and probably would benefit from properly separating the two players. |
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Apr-09-20
 | | jnpope: Strauss turns up in the following list of prize winners from the Vienna Chess Club tournament that ended 31 March 1868:
<Am 31. März d. J. wurde das Wiener Schach-Turnier beendet. Den 1. Preis errang Herr Czank, den 2. E. Feyerfeil, den 3. Fleyssig, den 4. Strauss, den 5. Jeney, den 6. Hartstein, den 7. Schlemm, den 8. Dr. Herzfeld, den 9. H. Lehner.>
Neue Berliner Schachzeitung, v5 n11/12, 1868, p192 The Wiener Schachzeitung, while giving a short bio of Richard Strauss, mentions his father, Heinrich: <Heinrich Strauß erreichte im Meister-Turnier der Wiener Schachgesellschaft (1882) mit 14 Point denselben Stand wie Max Weiss (2. Platz), während A. Wittek mit 15½ Zählern den 1. Preis erstritt.>
Wiener Schachzeitung, v9 n5/6, May/June 1906, p157 I suspect Steinitz's opponent in 1860 was Heinrich Strauss. I'm conducting more research to see if there is a bio of Heinrich circa 1882 that mentions playing Steinitz in 1860. |
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Apr-09-20
 | | perfidious: This fellow apparently had a whale of a long career, though I suspect Gurevich's opponent in 1987 was none other than the Anglo-American IM David Strauss. |
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Apr-10-20
 | | Telemus: <jnpope> Bachmann writes "Strauss (Pesth)" and "Strauss (aus Pesth)" at the two Evans Gambits, but only "Strauss" at the third game. He has also exact dates for all three games.
These games are from the famous Rumler manuscripts, which Bachmann had the privilege to study in 1924/25, and which are lost. There is one more game Steinitz vs Strauß (sic) in the articles published by Anderberg in 2018, and I posted all these games 2019-01-01 at Steinitz's page starting with Wilhelm Steinitz (kibitz #1194) |
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Apr-10-20
| | jnpope: <Telemus> Excellent, Pesth is a create clue in tracking down Strauss. |
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Apr-10-20
| | jnpope: (sometimes when doing things by phone it unintentionally auto-corrects words into something that makes no sense in the sentence... create=great silly phone) |
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Apr-11-20
| | jnpope: <Bachmann writes "Strauss (Pesth)" and "Strauss (aus Pesth)" at the two Evans Gambits, but only "Strauss" at the third game.> <Telemus> I wonder if that is a subtle hint that the two games played by Strauss from Pesth indicates Heinrich and the game by Strauss with no city mentioned indicates Anton? Do you have access to <Waldheim's Illustrirte Zeitung>, 1862, page 250, to see if Pesth is mentioned in the fourth Strauss game you posted? |
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Apr-23-20
| | Telemus: <jnpope> Is there a final proof that Steinitz's opponent was Heinrich Strauss? (Sorry, I probably have not followed the whole discussion.) I ask this because I just read that Anton Strauss (1820 - 20.10. 1893) was a founding member of the "Wiener Schachgesellschaft", but Heinrich was not. Anton and Heinrich owned a well-established "Zwirn- und Wirkwarengeschäft" (twine and knitwear store). |
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Apr-23-20
| | jnpope: Heinrich was the only Strauss brother living in Pest (I dropped the H to make Annie K. happy), so I'd give a high degree of certainty to two of the Steinitz games. It is possible that Anton was the opponent in the third non-Pest game, but I'm thinking it unlikely as I have found no mention of Anton actively playing after 1855ish. I am still digging backwards in time to see when Anton was last actively playing. |
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| Mar-15-21 | | Chessist: < Deutsche Schachzeitung 1868, page 279> Vienna Chess Society:
1. Adolph Csánk 43
2. Emil Feyerfeil 42 1/2
3. Max Fleissig 41 1/2
4. Anton Strauss 39 1/2
etc. |
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