He was a life-long Chess enthusiast. The one who started the first American Chess Magazine. Also, winning the Championship of New York Chess Club, at the time the most prestigious club in the states, was no small feat.

I don't have Gaige, do you?

I will trust Winter's excerpt of Gaige's format for his entries:

<About 14,000 chess personalities past and present are featured in this awe-inspiring book. From Erkki Aaltio to Adolf Zytogorski, each entry aims to give the date and place of birth and, where appropriate, death. A selection of newspaper, magazine and book sources is cited, as are FIDE titles, Elo historical ratings, etc. To take one entry at random:

‘Bogoljubow, Efim Dimitrijewitsch
born: 14 April 1889 Stanislavitsk/Kiev, USSR
died: 18 June 1952 Triberg, Federal Republic of Germany
GM 1951
Elo Historical Rating: 2610
American Chess Bulletin, 1952, page 72
British Chess Magazine, 1952, pages 253-254
Caissa, 1952, pages 133-134
Chess Pie No. l, 1922, pages 8-10
Chess Review, 1952, page 200
Chess Career of E.D. Bogoljubow by Jack Spence
Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1952, pages 224-225
Deutsche Schachblätter, 1952, pages 115-116
Grossmeister Bogoljubow by Alfred Brinckmann
Teplitz-Schönau 1922, pages 567-568.’

His date of birth is marked to indicate that it has been converted to the Gregorian Calendar (New Style).>

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter...

see also C.N. 1491 for the formatting.

So, <Missy>, since you brought up the discrepancy, perhaps you might also help the interested reader along by citing <Gaige>'s references under his Marache entry.

I wish Winter produced the text along with the image of the letter so I could quote it, but I point you to point 5.

Basically, if there is a discrepancy between Gaige and Gilberg than I would expect Gaige to note this and address why he used 1818 instead of the otherwise accept 1815 date.