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M Marks

Number of games in database: 5
Years covered: 1871 to 1872
Overall record: +4 -0 =1 (90.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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C37 King's Gambit Accepted (2 games)


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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. M Marks vs Riola  1-0231871Casual gameC37 King's Gambit Accepted
2. M Marks vs H Meyer 1-0281871Muzio Gambit SeriesC37 King's Gambit Accepted
3. M Marks vs Gossip  ½-½491871Westminster CC - City of London CC mC26 Vienna
4. W Vyse vs M Marks  0-1481872City of London CC Handicap t000 Chess variants
5. R Fenton vs M Marks  0-1181872Casual gameC60 Ruy Lopez
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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-16-24
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  jnpope: <MissScarlett: <While there has never been any problem with identifying the player of the black pieces as Heinrich Meyer, the printed source of the Muzio notation lends definite weight to the attribution of the other role to Mark Marks. He was a London chess player who in 1873 was appointed Secretary to the (London) Athenaeum Chess Club is still in existence.>
https://www.kwabc.org/en/newsitem/g...

I will require further documentation.>

I don't believe M. Marks was a member of the Athenaeum Chess Club let alone the Secretary. I think that may have been Edward Marks. I think <M. Marks> was just a member of the City of London Chess Club. I've found no evidence of him continuing to play beyond 1872 (so far), nor any mention of him in regard to the Athenaeum Chess Club.

Dec-16-24
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  jnpope: <MissScarlett: I have dropped the name <Mark> until further notice, balancing it with two new games.>

I've also added two games vs Riola and Fenton.

Dec-16-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  jnpope: I think I know where he vanished to, a "M. Marks (Swansea)" is given as a correspondent in the chess columns of the <English Mechanic>, 1872.07.26, p497 and 1872.08.23, p601.
Dec-16-24
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  jnpope: There was a Mark Marks (born Oct 1841, Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales). But I cannot dig any deeper with my Ancy.com acct.

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