| Mar-09-13 | | thomastonk: Is this Walter Pulitzer, the American problem composer? |
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| Mar-09-13 | | Calli: <thomas> Albert Pulitzer. Source: WS page 9 1900. Slip submitted. |
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| Mar-11-13 | | thomastonk: <Calli> Thanks!
The father of Walter Pulitzer (born 1874 in New York City) was called by W.H.K. Pollock the "celebrated Albert Pulitzer, who was born in Buda-Pesth, and his uncle, Joseph Pulitzer, in Austro-Hungary, likewise. Both are too well known the world over to need special mention here." (Brooklyn Daily Standard-Union from Febraury 9, 1895, reprinting a portrait from the Baltimore News.) The well-known Pulitzer-Prize is named after Joseph Pulitzer, and Albert Pulitzer was also a newspaper publisher in New York: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert.... Nevertheless, I am not sure that both Alberts are the same person. The newspaper publisher had sold his journals before 1896, and he committed suicide in Vienna 1909. But is Marco's opponent the same person? |
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| Mar-12-13 | | Calli: Probably the same person but don't know how to prove it. They were a chess playing family. I think Walter published some chess problems. |
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| Mar-13-13 | | thomastonk: <Calli: Probably the same person but don't know how to prove it.> Well, I will look at some Austrian newspapers. <I think Walter published some chess problems.> At the end of this column you will find Pollock's portrait: http://www.chessarch.com/excavation.... Walter Pulitzer published also a book on problem chess called "Chess harmoninies. Selections", New York 1894. |
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| Jul-26-14 | | zanzibar: According to wiki's account of <Joseph Pulitzer> (the Hungarian immigrant to America, of Pulitzer Prize fame): <"He often played in the chess room [of the St. Louis Libary] where Carl Schurz noticed his aggressive style."> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph...
Wondering who Carl Schurz is?
<"In 1866, Schurz moved to Detroit, where he was chief editor of the Detroit Post. The following year, he moved to St. Louis, becoming editor and joint proprietor with Emil Preetorius of the Westliche Post (Western Post), where he hired Joseph Pulitzer as a cub reporter."> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_S...
I think it would be nice to get a game or two of Joseph Pulitzer's. Wonder if any exist? |
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| Jul-26-14 | | zanzibar: There's also this, from the "official" Pulitzer site: <His great career opportunity came in a unique manner in the library's chess room. Observing the game of two habitues, he astutely critiqued a move and the players, impressed, engaged Pulitzer in conversation. The players were editors of the leading German language daily, Westliche Post, and a job offer followed.Four years later, in 1872, the young Pulitzer, who had built a reputation as a tireless enterprising journalist, was offered a controlling interest in the paper by the nearly bankrupt owners. At age 25, Pulitzer became a publisher and there followed a series of shrewd business deals from which he emerged in 1878 as the owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and a rising figure on the journalistic scene.> http://www.pulitzer.org/biography
So, pay attention fellow kibitzer's - and may all your kibitz's be astute. |
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| Jul-26-14 | | zanzibar: <[Joseph Pulitzer] developed into an accomplished chess player. It became a hobby that he continued to pursue the rest of his life> http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Pulitz... <[While Pulitzer served, essentially as a mercenary, in the Civil War] It seems to me that other things are more important in his war record, especially three things.First, he cleaned his own cavalry horse and at least one other horse belonging to an officer. Here he learned a good deal about the reality of life. Second, he came in contact with a whipper-snapper officer, brutal to his men. This officer needed a lesson and he got it from Pulitzer, who knocked him down and was arrested to be held for court-martial. One day an old general of German blood was hunting around for somebody who could play chess. He was told that a young Hungarian named Pulitzer, under arrest for striking an officer, was said to be able to play chess very well. Fortunately, to this old general chess seemed more important than court-martials, and he had Pulitzer brought from his imprisonment to play chess with him. He was so amazed at the young man's mental force that the court-martial was patched up and Joseph Pulitzer was never tried. The old general deserved credit in view of the fact that he never won a game.> http://www.digitalhistoryproject.co... (Apocryphal or not? Writer Arthur Brisbane)
Also here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Q7... |
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Aug-10-14
 | | offramp: <zanzibar: <[Joseph Pulitzer] ... To this old general chess seemed more important than court-martials, and he had Pulitzer brought from his imprisonment to play chess with him.> http://www.digitalhistoryproject.co...
(Apocryphal or not? Writer Arthur Brisbane)...> I am afraid that Arthur Brisbane's quest for a Pulitzer prize failed to clear the first hurdle:
He did not know the plural of <court-martial>. |
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Aug-11-18
 | | MissScarlett: Philadelphia Inquirer, October 5th 1913, Magazine Sect. p.7: <Walter Pulitzer, nephew of the late Joseph Pulitzer, the author of Chess Harmonies, has started a chess column in the Pulitzer Magazine at Manhattan, Herman Helms having been selected as the chess editor. We congratulate Mr. Pulitzer on having secured the services of such an able chess analyst and writer.> |
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Feb-02-20
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click for larger viewThis 'White to mate in 2' problem by Walter Pulitzer appeared in the chess column of the <Newcastle Courant>, June 1st 1895, p.2: <The above problem deserves special attention, considering it took Mr Lasker no less than three-quarters of an hour to solve it.> |
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| Feb-02-20 | | vonKrolock: It appeared before in "The British Chess Magazine" for October 1894. It took me five minutes to solve, time to see the star variation 1. key Nxd7 2.# ... The other variations are more trivial. |
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