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| Sep-26-08 | | whiteshark: Can you respell his name properly? |
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| Sep-26-08 | | Resignation Trap: Here's a solo shot from 1923: http://www.chesspro.ru/pict/rc23-9.... He is in a group photo from the 1923 USSR Championship: http://www.chesspro.ru/pict/rc23-0.... , and again from the 1925 USSR Championship: http://www.chesspro.ru/pict/rc25-1.... . In both of these photos, Dus-Chotimirsky can easily be identified, as he is the only one not to take off his hat for the photograph. And here is a caricature from 1933: http://www.chesspro.ru/pict2/rc33-6... . |
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| Feb-25-09 | | Sem: In a book full of anecdotes I read that it was not uncommon for Dus Chotimirsky to translate poetry WHILE he was playing an end game in a tournament game. |
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| Aug-17-09 | | Open Defence: <Fyodor Ivanovich Dus-Chotimirsky was born in 1879 in Kozul, Russia> is there a Kozul in Croatia ? or only the player Kozul... |
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Jun-24-10
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| Apr-01-11 | | MaczynskiPratten: Duz-Chotimirsky was summed up by Marshall in one word; "excitable". The context was in describing the following entertaining game; Marshall vs Dus Chotimirsky, 1911 |
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| Sep-26-11 | | parisattack: We had a fellow at the club in the 1960s, Joe Mirsky - apparently a distant relation to Dus. Whenever Joe would make what he thought to be a good move he would say, "She-she yedyats, dash-a-bouts.' I assume yiddish as it doesn't sound Russian to me. If someone knows and its not profane, please share. RIP, Mirskys - Dus and Joe. |
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| Sep-26-11 | | TheTamale: I believe an anglicized version of Dus Chotimirsky's name would be Theodore John Rankins. |
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| Sep-26-12 | | brankat: R.I.P. master Dus Chotimirsky. |
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| Sep-26-12 | | LoveThatJoker: IM Dus Chotimirsky, today you are remembered!
LTJ |
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| Aug-07-13 | | ekanth: what was he doing for a
living?just curious |
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| Oct-07-13 | | thomastonk: From the biography: "In his autobiography, he claimed to have invented the name 'Dragon Variation' of the Sicilian Defense." Can anybody give a more precise reference to his autobiography? A page number, or even the text? |
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| Oct-11-13 | | Calli: Lubomir Kavelek says that Duz told the story (a Dragon's tale?) in his notes to A Rabinovich vs Dus Chotimirsky, 1908 The Kavelek article is here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lubom... |
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| Mar-02-14 | | Karpova: Dr. Emanuel Lasker mentioned (Berlin, May 18, 1911), that the chess masters call Fyodor only <Dus>. Dus-Chotimirsky is a man who firmly maintains his positions. He was raised to become a priest, but abandoned his career as he didn't sympathize with the party of the powerful during the commotion of the last years. He then became a journalist and came to San Sebastian as a correspondent for two newspapers. Now he is on his travel back to Kiev. Source: 'Pester Lloyd', 1911.05.21, page 9 |
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| Mar-26-16 | | zanzibar: <Fyodor Dus-Chotimirsky. Memories, part 1> https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrow... |
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| Mar-26-16 | | zanzibar: <Upon returning to Kiev, I took an interest in higher mathematics and astronomy, which I've liked since childhood. I read a lot of astronomy books and dreamed to work with telescopes. To get an opportunity to develop my skills further, I decided to meet the Kiev Observatory director, Professor Khandrikov. I came to the appointment in the morning, long before the agreed time, and just walked nervously around the observatory's garden. I was told that Professor Khandrikov was still sleeping. Finally, after hours of waiting, the porter gave me an envelope. Inside I found five roubles and a small message that there were no janitor vacancies in the observatory! For the first time in my life, I cried bitterly from the humiliation, and immediately wrote back: "Professor! I could prove to you that my theoretical knowledge was enough for me to work at the telescope, but I'm afraid that I cannot provide you with responsiveness and ability to understand this proof. F. Dus-Chotimirsky.
P.S. Give five roubles to the porter for his work."> - ibid |
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| Mar-26-16 | | zanzibar: So, if you can't get a job as a janitor, you'll have no choice but to become a chess master. |
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Jun-02-16
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| Sep-26-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky . |
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| Dec-07-16 | | zanzibar: His autobiography is partially (entirely?) cited here: https://www.chess.com/es/blog/Spekt... where one can find the passage concerning the naming of the Dragon variation. Sorry, but I couldn't quickly find the page numbers of the original reference. Here's the extent of the passage from the chess.com source: <I [Dus-Chotimirsky] took an interest in Sicilian defence as early as in 1901. It was unpopular and largely unstudied at the time.I was fascinated with the strategical idea of playing d7-d6, g7-g6 and developing the Bishop to g7, which gave Black good counterplay perspectives at the queenside. I studied this system and would use it often.
The story behind the name "Dragon", which said system now bears, is also interesting. I was the one who coined the name, back in 1901 in Kiev. I was an amateur astronomer and studied the night sky, and so I noticed the similarities between the Draco constellation and Sicilian pawn configuration d6-e7-f7-g6-h7. I used this association and came up with the name "Dragon variant".> |
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| Feb-04-17 | | rea: "Can you respell his name properly?"
Фёдор Дуз-Хотимирский |
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Jul-30-18
 | | offramp: <TheTamale: I believe an anglicized version of Dus Chotimirsky's name would be Theodore John Rankins.> How did you get the "Rankins" bit? |
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| Jul-08-19 | | Jean Defuse: ...
[Event "Simultaneous display, (fragment)"]
[Site "Tula"]
[Date "1910.??.??"]
[White "Dus Chotimirsky, Fyodor Ivanovich"]
[Black "Trublenkov"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN " 
click for larger view"] 1. Nb6+ axb6 2. Rd8+ Bxd8 3. Qxc6+ Nc7 4. Rxd8+ Kxd8 5. Qxc7+ Ke8 6. Bb5+ Kf8
7. Bd6# 1-0
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Aug-05-19
 | | louispaulsen88888888: Remarkable combination! |
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| Sep-15-19 | | Jean Defuse: ...
Fyodor Dus-Chotimirsky:
'My blindfold simultaneous display against Tula's ten strongest players was my first one. In one game, I gave a complicated, non-obvious mate in six. During this Tula display, a curious thing happened. On two boards (6th and 7th) I played identically until the moment when I played c3-c4 at one board and castled at the other. When prompted to make my next move, I couldn't remember which move I made on which board. I had a dilemma: to make an obvious (but probably illegal) move or offer an unfounded piece sacrifice, the acceptance of which would eliminate all doubts. I chose the second option, lost the piece, but won the game! ...
Here's a position from one of my blindfold games I played in the aforementioned Tula simultaneous exhibition. White to play and mate in seven moves.' - see: Fyodor Ivanovich Dus Chotimirsky ...
Dus-Chotimirsky's blindfold simultaneous displays: 12 boards in Dresden, 10 boards in Leipzig, 12 boards in Warsaw, 15 and then 17 boards in Ekaterinburg in 1917, 10 games in Rostov-on-Don in 1925, and 10 games in Kzyl-Orda in 1926. . Source: <Fyodor Dus-Chotimirsky Memories> Part I. - V. translated by Spektrowski:
- https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrow... - https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrow... - https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrow... - https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrow... - https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrow... ... |
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