| Oct-25-06 | | mcrowl: I've just found chessgames.com via Google, and was pleased to find seven of my father's games here. (He was F A Crowl). Last time I checked Google there was virtually nothing about him on the Net. |
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| Oct-25-06 | | Benzol: <mcrowl> Don't know if you play chess yourself, although I suspect you do, would you have any access to any of your Father's other games that could be submitted to the database? |
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| Oct-31-06 | | mcrowl: I should have some other games available, as I have several old books that have his games in them. How could they be put on this site?
BTW, I do play chess, though nowhere as well as my father did. |
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| Oct-31-06 | | Benzol: <mcrowl> Games can be submitted to the database using the
PGN Upload Utility facility.
If you need more information contact the administrators at
User: chessgames.com |
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| Oct-31-06 | | Caissanist: <mcrowl> Welcome to the site! I don't know if you've ever done PGN before, but if you haven't don't worry, it's easy. Basically, it's just a game score with some extra information in front. One other thing to keep in mind--if the original score is in descriptive you should convert it to algebraic. There are a number of freebie programs that you can install to do this, or you can use the online utility at http://alawi.csail.mit.edu/~alawi/c.... |
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| Nov-03-06 | | mcrowl: Thanks for your help - as soon as I get some free time, I'll check this out further. |
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| Nov-04-06 | | mcrowl: My father's games are generally in descriptive. I tried using the alawi site, putting the original in, in capitals, re-formatting and trying various other things, but can't get it to do the whole game. Any suggestions? Or alternatives? I wondered about whether where the original has an 'X' for pieces being taken if there's something else that should be there? |
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| Nov-04-06 | | mcrowl: One other thing, if I was to put the original annotations in (they'll be by Cecil Purdy, I'd think), how do I do that? |
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| Nov-06-06 | | Caissanist: There are a number of pieces of freeware/shareware that you can install on your computer that will do the conversion from descriptive to algebraic nicely. I myself have an old shareware program called chessbd (still available at http://www.dfong.com/chessbd/) that does the job nicely. Others like to use Chessbase Light, the freeware version of Chessbase (see http://www.chessbase.com/download/c...). I'm sure there are other programs available. If you absolutely can't find a way to do the conversion then I suppose you could ask the Chessgames admins if they would be willing to accept the descriptive and do the conversion themselves. Adding annotations to PGN is easy, you just include the annotations in braces in the appropriate place. The Purdy annotations are probably still covered by copyright, however, and Chessgames doesn't like to include copyrighted annotations unless permission has been explicitly granted. Incidentally, if you want to see what a PGN looks like, you can bring up any game here and click on "View PGN". |
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| Nov-06-06 | | mcrowl: Thanks for that. I'll see if I can get the translation to work! |
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| Jan-23-07 | | Pawn Promotions: <mcrowl> Do you have a copy of the game Crowl v. Gundersen played at the Melbourne Chess Club that you could share with us? I believe Black played a Stonewall Defense against White's Colle System. |
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| Apr-10-09 | | Benzol: It is possible that Frank Crowl was actually born in London, England. Although he hasn't posted here for a while I wonder whether <mcrowl> could shed some light on this. |
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Jan-24-10
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| Dec-27-10 | | Karpova: Here's a link to Edward Winter 's feature article on Crowl <The Australian Nimzowitsch>, 2010: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Aug-24-14 | | optimal play: <<<<<CHAMPIONSHIP CHESS.> TENTH ROUND.>
Crowl Defeats Purdy.>
Playing the game of his life, F. A. Crowl defeated the title-holder,
C. J. S. Purdy in the tenth round of the Australian chess championship,
which was played at Anthony Horderns fine arts department yesterday afternoon. PREMATURE ATTACK
Crowl played the opening in a very original manner against Purdy whose position looked very formidable after a dozen moves. The Australian champion became over-confident and attempted a premature attack on the queen's side leaving his king's side insufficiently protected. Crowl seized his opportunity and counter-attacked vigorously. He won a pawn and developed mating threats.
Purdy was forced to give up the exchange and several pawns to escape. He fought for many moves against overwhelming odds but could not escape the inevitable end.> - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW) issue Friday 6 January 1939> [Event "Australian Championship"]
[Site "Sydney"]
[Date "1939.01.05"]
[Round "10.2"]
[White "Crowl, Frank Arthur"]
[Black "Purdy, Cecil John Seddon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A06"]
[PlyCount "113"]
[EventDate "1938.12.26"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "13"]
1. Nf3 d5 2. b3 c5 3. e3 e6 4. Bb2 Nc6 5. Bb5 Nge7 6. O-O a6 7. Be2 Ng6 8. a4 e5 9. d3 Bd6 10. Nc3 Be6 11. e4 d4 12. Nb1 O-O 13. Ne1 b5 14. g3 Qc7 15. Nd2 Na5 16. axb5 axb5 17. Ba3 Ra7 18. Ng2 Rfa8 19. Bc1 Nc6 20. Rb1 Nb4 21. Bb2 Na2 22. Bg4 Nc3 23. Bxc3 dxc3 24. Bxe6 fxe6 25. Nf3 Ra2 26. Ne3 Qa5 27. Ng5 Be7 28. Nxh7 Qd8 29. Qh5 Nh8 30. h4 Nf7 31. Kg2 R8a6 32. Rbc1 Ra7 33. Rh1 Nh6 34. Ng5 R7a6 35. Qg6 Bf6 36. Nf3 Kf8 37. g4 Nf7 38. g5 Be7 39. Ng4 Ra7 40. Nfxe5 Bd6 41. Nc6 Qd7 42. Nxa7 Qxa7 43. Qxe6 Bf4 44. Qc8+ Ke7 45. Ne3 Bxe3 46. fxe3 c4 47. d4 Nd6 48. Qg8 Ne8 49. bxc4 Qa4 50. cxb5 Rxc2+ 51. Kf3 Rxc1 52. Rxc1 Qxb5 53. Qd5 Qb2 54. Qc5+ Nd6 55. Qc7+ Ke8 56. Qxc3 Qh2 57. Qe1 1-0 
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Aug-31-18
| | GrahamClayton: "As a boy, he [Crowl] lived in Shanghai, winning the minor championship at 10 and the major at 14. He was champion of Victoria in 1930, 1935, 1941, 1943 and 1950. Described as the Australian Nimzovitch, he was a most original player. Crowl believed that black has the advantage. At times his behaviour was as original as his play and it often brought him into collision with the committee. He regarded the club as his home; all his correspondence was addressed to it, which caused friction. He claimed propriety rights in a certain table near the door, which served as his desk, and resisted all attempts to oust him from it. With his shrill voice, bad language and eccentricities, Crowl made enemies. A reluctant president was asked to "personally explain to Mr Crowl the serious view the committee takes of some of his actions in the clubroom, which annoy so many of our club members". When the club was given notice to quit by the Athenaeum Crowl moved at members' meeting that a letter be sent to the landlord in what the minutes delicately describe as "certain terms"; there was no seconder. When Basta first encountered him in 1955, Crowl, who liked playing for money (usually he needed it) proposed a friendly game for 5 shillings. With uncharacteristic caution Basta suggested half a crown, and play began. Basta won, where upon his opponent enquired, "Would you take a cheque?" Crowl was a great gambler, he once asked tournament organisers to fix a rest day so that he could go to the races." http://www.melbournechessclub.org/m... |
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Aug-31-18
 | | MissScarlett: <Described as the Australian Nimzovitch> <Why must I lose to this drongo!?> |
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| Sep-22-21 | | Gottschalk: 'The Australian Nimzowitsch' by Edward Winter
https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... |
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