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Jacob Schiffman

Number of games in database: 7
Years covered: 1879 to 1909
Overall record: +3 -3 =1 (50.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.


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JACOB SCHIFFMAN
(born Jan-25-1856, died Jan-02-1910, 53 years old)

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Last updated: 2023-03-07 12:16:04

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Blackburne vs J Schiffman ½-½241879Blindfold simul, 6bC45 Scotch Game
2. Blackburne vs J Schiffman 1-0301880ManchesterC29 Vienna Gambit
3. T H Hopwood vs J Schiffman  1-0361881Manchester Athenaeum ChC58 Two Knights
4. J Schiffman vs V Gitterman  1-0301903Ch OdessaC31 King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit
5. J Schiffman vs S I Kiriakov  1-0401903Schiffman - Kiriakov MatchC59 Two Knights
6. J Schiffman vs L Karpinski  1-0281907Schiffman - Karpinski MatchB22 Sicilian, Alapin
7. Capablanca vs J Schiffman 1-0361909Simul, 15bC66 Ruy Lopez
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Kibitzer's Corner
Sep-24-15
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <The book also contained (on pages 10-12) an article entitled ‘Recollections of a Veteran’ by H. Helms which referred to a mysterious figure already mentioned in C.N.s 4539 and 4541:

‘Banks learned the moves of chess at home from his father. At 14, he met a Russian refugee by the name of Schiffman. Before leaving Europe, Schiffman had given a helping hand to Rubinstein and Salve, then aspiring young players. He took an interest in little Banks, who from then on progressed rapidly.’

The coupling of Rubinstein and ‘Salve’ as aspiring young players is strange; Georg Salwe was 20 years older than Rubinstein.

Page 14 of our book on Capablanca presented a victory by the Cuban over a player named Schiffman in a simultaneous exhibition in Detroit on 21 January 1909, taken from the Detroit Free Press of the following day. The newspaper described Schiffman as ‘the local expert’. We wonder whether this was the same Schiffman, and not least because Detroit was Banks’ native city.

(4550)>

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Apr-22-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 24th November 1909, p.24:

<Detroit, Mich. November 24 - Jose R. Capablanca, Cuban chess champion, played against eleven members of the Detroit Checker and Chess Club yesterday, winning ten games. Shiffman [sic] had the honor of drawing a game.>

Mar-06-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: A correction slip suggests this player is <Jacob Schiffman (born Jan-25-1856, died Jan-02-1910) who lived in Poland, England, Ukraine, then USA.

www.findagrave.com/memorial/121261303/ jacob-schiffman>

More documentation is requested.

Mar-07-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: More documentation is requested here.

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