| Apr-18-16 | | ljfyffe: The St. John Globe, Sept. 11, 1903, CF Stubbs chess column:
<Game played in the Rice Gambit Tournament
of the Pillsbury N.C.C.A. Tournanent between E.
Saunders of Toronto, and C.H. Wheeler of Chicago.
Mr. E. Saunders, who played White in the foregoing correspondence game, is of Toronto's
first class players, who played in a simultaneous
contest here in St. John a few years ago*, losing only one game. Mr. Wheeler is a well known problem composer, and an old contributer to the Globe chess column. Composers sometimes condescend to play the game, and often do it well.> *Stubbs beat Saunders in that 1899 St.John simul.
The game, a Rice Gambit, is cited as Chicago - Toronto correspondence elsewhere;
perhaps, it be not an official entry in the Pillsbury gambit tournament. |
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| Apr-18-16 | | ljfyffe: *N.C.C.A. Tournament (my error). |
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Aug-08-22
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| Aug-09-22 | | vonKrolock: Great research! Alain C White, writing as Sam Loyd's biographer, in his "Sam Loyd and his Chess Problems", Leeds 1913, page 126, refers to "Sunny South" 1887, but associates Wainwright with this source, with <"an ingenious solution in fifteen moves"> He also mentions Frankenstein, Dudeney and Thompson, but not the Shinkman thirteen moves solution, and Wheeler's both 12 moves Game and name are omitted. On the following pages, 127 and 128, is reproduced <Wheeler's Synthetic Game> in twelve moves, with comments written by Loyd, who in fact does not presents himself specifically the Author of the synthetic Game, that would be just a <"dream of a game">. White (and Loyd) were really unaware of that apparently elusive newspaper clipping ?! Well, anyway, the Atlanta "Sunny South" from September 3rd 1887 wasn't over everyone's breakfast table in the past as it is in mine own today... |
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Aug-09-22
| | MissScarlett: <T.R. Dawson (1938) : <This little history is based on a re-examination of the Sunny South chess column by J.C.J.W.>> <J.C.J.W.> is Joseph Wainwright, a <Sunny South> regular, but not, AFAIK, ever the editor. The editor in 1887 was <J. B. Redwine>: https://www.chessarch.com/excavatio... |
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| Aug-15-22 | | vonKrolock: <Sunny South chess column by J.C.J.W.>
The column in itself, or it's <re-examination> !? |
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