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Ludwig Bledow
Bledow 
 

Number of games in database: 47
Years covered: 1835 to 1846
Overall record: +29 -11 =5 (70.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 2 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Giuoco Piano (10) 
    C53 C50
 Evans Gambit (7) 
    C51 C52
 King's Pawn Game (4) 
    C44
With the Black pieces:
 King's Gambit Accepted (6) 
    C38 C33
 Giuoco Piano (5) 
    C53
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Horwitz vs Bledow, 1837 0-1
   Bledow vs von der Lasa, 1839 1-0
   Bledow vs P Bilguer, 1838 1-0
   Bledow vs K Schorn, 1839 1-0
   Bledow vs P Bilguer, 1838 1-0
   von der Lasa vs Bledow, 1837 0-1
   Bledow vs Crelinger, 1846 1-0
   Bledow vs von der Lasa, 1838 1-0
   Bledow vs von der Lasa, 1837 1-0


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LUDWIG BLEDOW
(born Jul-27-1795, died Aug-06-1846, 51 years old) Germany

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Ludwig Erdmann Bledow became the strongest player in Berlin around 1840. He organised the developing chess scene there and gathered around him a group of very talented players including Tassilo von der Lasa, Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, Wilhelm Hanstein and Bernhard Horwitz. This group became known as the Berlin Pleiades and was very influential on German chess subsequently. He founded Schachzeitung (later Deutsche Schachzeitung), and his large library aided Lasa in writing the famous Handbuch des Schachspiels (together with Bilguer).

Wikipedia article: Ludwig Bledow

Last updated: 2025-03-12 19:00:32

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 page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 47  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Bledow vs von der Lasa  0-1261835?C24 Bishop's Opening
2. Bledow vs von Voigt  1-0241835Casual gameC00 French Defense
3. Horwitz vs Bledow 0-1141837BerlinC53 Giuoco Piano
4. von der Lasa vs Bledow ½-½401837Berlin m2C44 King's Pawn Game
5. von der Lasa vs Bledow 0-1371837Berlin m2A80 Dutch
6. Bledow vs von der Lasa 1-0571837Berlin m2C51 Evans Gambit
7. Bledow vs von der Lasa 1-0371837Berlin m2C44 King's Pawn Game
8. Bledow vs von der Lasa 1-0381838BerlinB21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4
9. Bledow vs von der Lasa 1-0331838BerlinC44 King's Pawn Game
10. von der Lasa vs Bledow 1-0331838BerlinC53 Giuoco Piano
11. Bledow vs P Bilguer 1-0331838BerlinC23 Bishop's Opening
12. P Bilguer vs Bledow  0-1261838BerlinC53 Giuoco Piano
13. Bledow vs C Mayet  1-0311838BerlinC53 Giuoco Piano
14. P Bilguer vs Bledow  1-0191838BerlinC38 King's Gambit Accepted
15. Bledow vs P Bilguer 1-0261838UnknownC51 Evans Gambit
16. Bledow vs C Mayet  1-0291838BerlinC51 Evans Gambit
17. Bledow vs P Bilguer  1-0181838BerlinC52 Evans Gambit
18. Bledow vs Horwitz  0-1191838Casual gameC50 Giuoco Piano
19. Bledow vs Johann Wolff  1-0141838Casual gameC52 Evans Gambit
20. von der Lasa vs Bledow  0-1501838Bledow-LasaC38 King's Gambit Accepted
21. von der Lasa vs Bledow 1-0171839Casual gameC38 King's Gambit Accepted
22. P Bilguer vs Bledow  ½-½441839BerlinC33 King's Gambit Accepted
23. W Hanstein vs Bledow  1-0191839Casual gameC38 King's Gambit Accepted
24. Bledow vs NN 1-0211839Casual gameA00 Uncommon Opening
25. Bledow vs von der Lasa ½-½381839BerlinC53 Giuoco Piano
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Jul-27-06  BIDMONFA: Dr. Ludwig Bledow

BLEDOW, Ludwig
http://www.bidmonfa.com/bledow_ludw...
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Oct-17-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: Here is an article about Bledow from Chesscafe.

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/spinr...

Jul-17-08  myschkin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin...
Jul-27-08  whiteshark: Bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig... surprisingly shortish
Jul-27-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Wait a cotton pick'n minute, wasn't he one of the bad dude in a few James Bond movie?! Trying to take over the (chess) world?
Jul-27-09  whiteshark: What did the rabbit smoke today? :D
Jul-27-09  whiteshark: Oh wait, he's almost a sort of right:
<B> <L> <O> F <E> L <D>
Jul-27-09  Knight13: Bernhard Horwitz was his pupil! NICE! Horwitz was an endgame genius!
Jul-27-09  WhiteRook48: van Beethoven... NOT!
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Jul-27-11  Antiochus: [Event "Berlin"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1838.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Ludwig Bledow"]
[Black "Paul Von Bilguer"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C23"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "1838.??.??"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 f5 3. d3 Nf6 4. Nf3 fxe4 5. dxe4 Nxe4 6. Qd5 Nd6 7. Nxe5 c6 8. Qf7+ Nxf7 9. Bxf7+ Ke7 10. Bg5+ Kd6 11. Bxd8 Kxe5 12. f4+ Kf5 13. Bg5 Bb4+ 14. c3 Rf8 15. Bb3 h6 16. Bc2+ Kg4 17. Bd1+ Kf5 18. g4+ Kg6 19. Bc2+ Kf7 20. Bh4 Be7 21. Bg3 d5 22. f5 Nd7 23. Nd2 Bf6 24. Nf3 Re8+ 25. Kf2 Nc5 26. Rhe1 Bd7 27. b4 Ne4+ 28. Rxe4 dxe4 29. Bb3+ Kf8 30. Bd6+ Be7 31. Ne5 g5 32. f6 e3+ 33. Kg1 1-0

Feb-14-12  thomastonk: <From the biography: He also helped found 'Deutsche Schachzeitung' ...> He was in fact the founder of the 'Schachzeitung' (which became decades later the 'Deutsche Schachzeitung'), but died soon afterwards.

<... and inspired Lasa and Bilguer to write their famous 'Handbuch'.> The idea of the handbook is not Bledow's. This idea is due to Lehfeldt, the editor of Bilguer's first work, and to Bilguer. However, von der Lasa was allowed to use Bledow's large library, when he wrote the Handbuch (I do not write that he finished it, because he did the majority of this work).

Jul-27-16  TheFocus: Happy birthday, Ludwig Bledow.
Jan-06-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Staunton in the <ILN> of September 26th 1846, p.206, replying to a correspondent, <"Amateur," Athenaeum Club>:

<The fine Chess Library belonging to the late Dr. Bledow, containing between five and six hundred volumes, many of them most scarce and costly, is now in the market, and may be had complete, we understand, for a hundred pounds. It was Dr. Bledow's wish that this valuable collection of works upon the game of Chess should remain intact; and, by his desire, it was first offered to the President of the London Chess Club and to Mr. Staunton, but those gentlemen having declined the purchase, it is now open to the public. We have been favoured with a catalogue, and shall take occasion next week to point out some of the most rare and interesting works which it contains, in the hope of tempting the Committee of one of our Metropolitan Chess Clubs to avail themselves of this favourable opportunity of acquiring a splendid Club Library at very small cost.>

The London CC president was Augustus Mongredien. He'd played with Bledow in Berlin a few months prior to the latter's death.

What happened to the library, I don't know.

Jan-06-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  fredthebear: "...between five and six hundred volumes..." in 1846?

That sounds so improbable.

Hatchards was opened in 1797 by English publisher and bookseller John Hatchards; it is the oldest bookstore in London.

Barnes & Noble was founded in 1873 by Charles M. Barnes in Wheaton, Illinois.

https://www.oldest.org/artliteratur....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...

Jan-06-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  fredthebear: Germans know... Founded in 1781, Hoffmann und Campe is one of the oldest publishers in the German-speaking world. Over the years, they have published several Nobel Prize winners in literature. Their international authors include Amanda Gorman, Bob Dylan, and Ijeoma Oluo.

This historical article goes back farther: https://www.britannica.com/topic/pu...

Jan-06-24  stone free or die: Lots of fluff, or as the Texans say - <All hat, no cattle>
Jan-06-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <Hatchards was opened in 1797 by English publisher and bookseller John Hatchards; it is the oldest bookstore in London.>

You don't imagine that oldest means original, I take it.

Jan-06-24  stone free or die: The fate of some of Bledow's library gets a mention in an article by <batgirl>:

< Daniel Willard Fiske, "the Book of the First American Chess Congress" :

Several Chess libraries have been collected in this country. We have seen that already in the last century, Lewis Rou possessed a number of works upon the game. In this century our information is more exact. Judge Fisk collected between one and two hundred volumes which were sold at his death. Professor Anderson, formerly of Columbia College, New York, has a Chess library of considerable size, composed in part of the duplicates belonging to the Bledow collection. Professor H. R. Agnel of West Point, Mr. H. P. Russ and Mr. F. B. Wightman of New York, Mr. Eugene B. Cook of Hoboken, and several others within a few years, have become interested in this branch of bibliomania. But the finest collection in the land, and one of the largest and most important in the world, is that of Professor George Allen of Philadelphia. It numbers over six hundred volumes, and is rapidly increasing. It contains many rare works, and among them books from the libraries of Mercier, Schumacher, and Lewis.>

https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

Note that Cook's collection is largely responsible for most of Princeton's library - much of which is online.

Please also note that by 1857 even the uncivilized heathens in the USA had libraries of over 500 books.

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Feb-27-25  Gottschalk: Jeremy Spirad wrote an article in Chess Cafe
where he said:

In 1838, Bledow split a pair of games with Szén during a visit by Szén to Berlin (from Schachzeitung, January 1847).
l According to the Oxford Companion, a narrow loss to Bledow in 1839 was Szén’s worst result.
l According to the Oxford Companion, Bledow “played in few matches, notably defeating Jaenisch in 1842.”
l In 1843, according to a letter by Lasa evaluating relative strengths of Buckle and Staunton, Bledow won a majority of his games with Buckle (unfortunately, writes Lasa, none of these games are preserved).
l In 1845, Bledow beat Anderssen by either 5-0 or 4½-½, depending on which source is used.
l In 1845, Bledow defeated Mongrédien +7 –4 =1.

Feb-27-25  Gottschalk: Spinrad
Feb-28-25  Gottschalk: Where are the 14 Bledow games I sent?
My sources were 13 games from the chessbase megadatabase 2019 and one game more from a column by Jeremy Spinrad for ChessCafe. Is there anything missing that hasn't been checked? I sent two copies: the first with annotations and the second without annotations. I hoped to anticipate me the Webmaster's ill will.
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