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Edward Olly

Number of games in database: 31
Years covered: 1891 to 1894
Overall record: +8 -18 =5 (33.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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EDWARD OLLY
(born Mar-26-1856, died Feb-27-1933, 76 years old) United States of America

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Edward Nicolai Olly, born Kars, Russian Empire; died Hackensack, NJ, USA.

A native of Southern Russia, he was a journalist in St. Petersburg for a time. He was a talented linguist, being conversant in four languages, and held a position in the New York Life Insurance Company. (1)

He is credited with introducing to the chess clubs of America the continuous tournament system, a tournament were players of different degrees of strength can, by a system of handicapping, meet each other in play. By recording of the games, the percentage of winnings and losings, in a large number of games, indicates the true strength of the players. The system was first tried in the Brooklyn Chess Club, and has been adopted in many clubs throughout the country. (1)

Sources
(1) Brooklyn Daily Standard-Union, 1892.03.12, p8

Last updated: 2024-06-28 19:30:31

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. W DeVisser vs E N Olly  1-0321891de Visser Simul 12b, BrooklynC25 Vienna
2. E N Olly vs J W Baird  ½-½311891New York State Chess AssociationA20 English
3. H J Rogers vs E N Olly  1-0341891New York State Chess AssociationB20 Sicilian
4. Lasker vs E N Olly 1-0251892Simul, 12bB00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
5. J C Halpern vs E N Olly  ½-½311893Staats-Zeitung Trophy ContestC62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense
6. E N Olly vs W Pollock  0-1311893Staats-Zeitung Trophy ContestA80 Dutch
7. A B Hodges vs E N Olly  1-0241893Staats-Zeitung Trophy ContestC48 Four Knights
8. W Pollock vs E N Olly  0-1421893Staats-Zeitung Trophy ContestB01 Scandinavian
9. J M Hanham vs E N Olly  0-1471893Staats-Zeitung Trophy ContestA00 Uncommon Opening
10. E N Olly vs E Delmar  0-1491893Impromptu International Congress, New YorkA01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
11. L Schmidt vs E N Olly  1-0331893Impromptu International Congress, New YorkB01 Scandinavian
12. N Jasnogrodsky vs E N Olly  1-0481893Impromptu International Congress, New YorkD00 Queen's Pawn Game
13. E N Olly vs F J Lee  0-1331893Impromptu International Congress, New YorkA01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
14. Lasker vs E N Olly 1-0331893Impromptu International Congress, New YorkB01 Scandinavian
15. E N Olly vs Pillsbury 0-1451893Impromptu International Congress, New YorkA01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
16. Taubenhaus vs E N Olly  1-0391893Impromptu International Congress, New YorkC62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense
17. Showalter vs E N Olly  0-1361893Impromptu International Congress, New YorkC62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense
18. E N Olly vs Albin 1-0511893Impromptu International Congress, New YorkB00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
19. Gossip vs E N Olly  ½-½251893Impromptu International Congress, New YorkC62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense
20. E N Olly vs J M Hanham 0-1641893Impromptu International Congress, New YorkC41 Philidor Defense
21. J S Ryan vs E N Olly  1-0331893Impromptu International Congress, New YorkC66 Ruy Lopez
22. A J Souweine vs E N Olly  ½-½511894Frank Rudd Novelty Tournament 1893/94000 Chess variants
23. E N Olly vs A J Souweine  0-1301894Frank Rudd Novelty Tournament 1893/94000 Chess variants
24. H Helms vs E N Olly  0-1241894Frank Rudd Novelty Tournament 1893/94000 Chess variants
25. E N Olly vs H Helms  0-1231894Frank Rudd Novelty Tournament 1893/94000 Chess variants
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Kibitzer's Corner
Aug-21-08  myschkin: . . .

<Edward N. Olly> (1857-1933)

Olly was born in the city of Kars, Turkish Armenia, according to the American Chess Bulletin for January 1909. He came to America while young, and was credited with intoducing the system of continuous tournament play at the Brooklyn Chess Club. Two years after New York 1891, in 1893, he would place second to Albert Hodges at the NYSCA championship, only losing the title to Hodges after a playoff. He was, for a very short time, between September and December 1893, editor of the chess column in the New York Recorder.

In addition to playing, Olly enjoyed the art of problem composition. Here is one of his efforts that appeared in the September 12, 1894, issue of Hermann Helms' Brooklyn Daily Eagle chess column.


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White to play and mate in 3

Later in life Olly made his living in the insurance business in NY City, although by then he was living in Westwood, NJ. He would die in Hackensack, NJ, on February 27, 1933, at the age of seventy-six.

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American Chess Bulletin (1909), p.10

Aug-02-11
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  GrahamClayton: In 1894, Olly won a "Novelty" tournament at the Brooklyn Chess Club, in which the positions of the Knights and Bishops were transposed at the start of the games.
Nov-30-11  TheFocus: His nickname was <Olly Olly Oxen Free>.

He did not like it.

Mar-26-16  TheFocus: Happy birthday, Edward Olly.
Aug-02-17  Eagle41257: Edward Nicolai Olly http://www.edochess.ca/players/p531...

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