Dec-08-08
 | | Stonehenge: His biggest rival was Zakamura. |
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Dec-08-08 | | paavoh: Didn't he lose to Mellington at the famous Materloo tournament? Or was it Zimzovich, I forget... |
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Dec-08-08
 | | Stonehenge: Heh, always nice, some punfun. |
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Dec-08-08
 | | Phony Benoni: The New York event seems to be the only touramaent where we find Zapoleon, but he had an interesting result. Besides drawing the second-place finisher in Marshall, he defeated Jaffe (who finished third and beat Capablanca), and also drew with Rubinstein. Unfortunately, those were the only points he scored on the way to a last-place finish with a total of 2/13. (And before the Historical Police get all over me, it was Solomon Rubinstein.) |
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Dec-08-08
 | | alexmagnus: <Benoni> Are you sure it was Solomon? I just found a crosstable of that event, and there there is a certain J.Rubinstein. CG DB knows oly one J.Rubinstein, and that one has a game much latr, in 1971. Solomon has a game from the same tournament here, but does it surely belong to him? Is my crosstable mistaken? 1 Capablanca * ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11.0
2 Marshall ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 10.5
3 Jaffe 1 ½ * 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 0 9.5
4 Janowsky 0 ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 9.0
5 Chajes ½ 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 8.0
6 Stapfer 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.0
7 Kupchik 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 6.5
8 Tenenwurzel 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 5.5
9 Whitaker 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 * ½ 0 1 1 1 5.5
10 Kline 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ * 1 ½ 0 1 4.5
11 J.Rubinstein 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 * 1 1 ½ 4.5
12 Morrison 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 * 1 1 4.0
13 Liebenstein 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 * 1 2.5
14 Zapoleon 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 * 2.0 |
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Dec-08-08
 | | alexmagnus: To answer my own question, it was indeed Solomon. Here S.Rubinstein is mentioned (hehe, never though one could find NY Times articles from 1913 in the net): http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archiv... |
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Dec-09-08
 | | Phony Benoni: <alexmagnus> That crosstable matches what I found in Di Felice's <Chess Results 1901-1920>, p. 201, which definitely identifies Solomon Rubinstein. But it never hurts to check up on these old facts. The confusion may have arisen from another New York 1913 tournament a few months later that included a J. Bernstein. Capablanca swept that one 11-0. |
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Dec-12-08
 | | Phony Benoni: It just hit me. I wonder if his first name was "Led". |
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Dec-12-08
 | | Calli: "It just hit me."
You've been Zapped. I have this guy as Louis B. Zapolean from Wash, DC., but no source noted. Louis is a good French name, so it at least fits. |
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Dec-14-08
 | | Calli: Found my reference, Soltis in his Marshall book (p.208) says "the obscure last-place finisher Louis B. Zapolean of Dayton, Ohio". Sometime later I must have found that he moved to DC, probably in some write-up to the tournament. |
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Dec-14-08 | | I Like Fish: 2 in 1...
Zapoleon... |
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Apr-23-12
 | | Phony Benoni: At least we have some idea what he looked like: http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%... |
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Apr-23-12
 | | HeMateMe: He was a french artillery officer who listened to Led Zeppelin? |
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May-22-12
 | | technical draw: The last of the Napoleons. |
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May-22-12
 | | offramp: <Phony Benoni: It just hit me. I wonder if his first name was "Led".> "Oh! The humanity!"
Good one, though! |
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May-22-12
 | | Stonehenge: There's also a Louis Zapoleon, born in 1886, to make things easier. Anyway:
<She met her husband, Louis B. Zapoleon, at Brookings Library in Washington. After World War II, they purchased land on Sidling Hill Mountain near Berkeley Springs, WV where they built a cabin and spent weekends there until retiring to Ft. Lauderdale, FL. > http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/20... |
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Jun-01-13
 | | Tabanus: <Stonehenge: There's also a Louis Zapoleon, born in 1886, to make things easier.> Same guy, I'm pretty sure because it's impossible to make two lives out of it. His family immigrated from Russia ca. 1891. If it's him who married Marguerite Wykoff b. 1907 (which it seems) he had a wife 22 years younger than him. |
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Jun-02-13
 | | Tabanus: There is only one Louis Zapoleon. Most sources incl. the Social Security Death Index has 21 Dec. 1886. His World War I card has 21 Dec. 1884 but also shows his work place: the US Tariff Commission. The 1900 census has "Sep. 1884" but also shows his entire family (except one sister). So I'm not in doubt. Not found: 1) immigration documents. Only '1891' in the 1900 census. 2) Passenger lists for the trip to Denmark in 1925. Only mentioned in a 1925 newspaper. 3) Safe data for parents' birth year. The censuses agree on ca. 1852. There exists a home-made family tree with the authorative title 'Olea europaea'. Here the birth years are given as 1845 (Samuel) and 1846 (Pauline). In addition their real names is given there as Shmuel Movsha (Samuel M. Zapoleon) Zapolionsky
Pese (Pauline) Makower
Louis Bernard (Lou) (Leibe) Zapoleon
4) Picture :( |
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Jul-14-15 | | wrap99: In 1976 I played for the first time at the Mechanics Institute chess club. There were some people probably in their 70s or older there and it is not impossible that some of them met this person. |
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