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Apr-06-13
 | | Tabanus: From "A History of the Machine-Wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures" by William Felkin (1867): <Mr. Frederic Rainford Ensor, of Nottingham, has devised many methods whereby laces may be made more approximate in various particulars to Valenciennes produced on the pillow.> This Frederic Ensor (1807-1892) is the uncle of Albert Ensor. |
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| May-08-14 | | ljfyffe: I wrote a small article in En Passant on Albert Ensor prior to Samsin's excellant piece. Included a partial game he played in Buffalo with Alberoni; I had to correct a move I copied wrong which appeared in the issue following. I also assumed that the partial appearing in Cook's should read h6, not a6 ????? Always wondered about that though ???? |
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| Jun-12-14 | | ljfyffe: Visit the chess games of Edward Aberoni for the first 20 moves of that 1875 Buffalo match game.Any thoughts on move 13 of that game? |
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| Jun-12-14 | | ughaibu: What was his relationship to the famous artist? |
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| Jun-25-14 | | ljfyffe: Of wordfunph's chess book collection, one can only be envious...was Pawn Power among them? |
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| Jun-25-14 | | ljfyffe: Though Ensor won the Canadian chess championship likely as a British subject as were all Canadians at that time, his stay in Canada, as far as I know, was not long enough for him to qualify as a Canadian domicile, while Canadian citizenship, in any event, did not exist as a legal entity until 1947. |
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| Jun-25-14 | | ljfyffe: Prior to 1947, a Canadian, considered a citizen, was , in law, also a British subject. But not now, though their were cries of "a British subject I was born, and a British subject I shall die!" from opponents of the new legislation. |
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| Jun-25-14 | | ljfyffe: That is THERE WERE cries...by the way, did I mention that if you want to become a Canadian citizen, you still must swear allegiance to the Queen and her heirs...hope I have clarified matters. |
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| Jun-26-14 | | ljfyffe: Ughaibu: l believe Albert was the uncle of the famous painter.ie the artist was the son of one of Albert's brothers. |
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| Jun-26-14 | | ljfyffe: The trick is that new Canadians swear an oath to the Queen in her capacity as Queen of Canada, if any viewer has been somewhat confused about the matter. Ensor's nephew, the expressionist painter, first name James, was awarded the title of a Belgian baron. Robert DeBury, a chessist of
Saint John NB, was said to be a Belgian count; one of his daughters did a portrait of the count seated at his chess table. His mansion has recently gone up for sale. The residence of Rev. John DeSoyres, another chessist of the city, has recently been torn down. |
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| Jul-08-14 | | ljfyffe: <Mr. T.M. Brown has been challenged by the irrepressible Mr. Ensor, now in Rochester, N.Y., to play for a stake of $200. We hope he will accept, and that the money put up by Mr. Ensor will not come from unwary admirers of the game who may have been duped by false representations into backing a man who, during his short stay in this country, has made so unenviable a reputation for himself. He has palmed off on some chess publications games and end-games, as his own, that he has never played. He has never won a single victory over any strong player in this country, and no reliance is to be placed upon his boasted achievements in Europe.>
Hartford Weekly Times, Sept. 25, 1875 [from the Jack O'Keefe Project]. |
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| Jul-08-14 | | ljfyffe: Theodore Brown was a well-known chess problemist. |
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| Jul-09-14 | | ljfyffe: Ensor did beat Edward Alberoni sometime in 1875 at Buffalo, NY. As goes the traditional ballad:
<There was Albert Ensor, from Buffalo;
I never will forget;
He'd play all day, and he'd play all night;
And, I guess, he's playin' yet.>Made famous by Blind Boy Grunt. |
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| May-01-16 | | ljfyffe: Alberoni, however won the 1875 total contest 7-4. |
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| May-01-16 | | ljfyffe: Perhaps Ensor did play Nb5 against Alberoni's
....a6 hoping for a 'swindle",and the latter chose to play it safe anyway with King to f8. So maybe I should have stuck with Cook's moves, I having no evidence to the contrary. |
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| May-01-16 | | luftforlife: <ljfyffe>: <"From Montreal to New York Town/He ne'er did shuck or jive/Beat Alberoni/He weren't no phony/In the Days of '75."> |
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| May-01-16 | | ljfyffe: Deep research was possible when microfilm was available down in the 'boonies' from the National Library in Ottawa free of charge...discovered the first Toronto championship was in '54 and that a club existed in Montreal prior to the accepted date of '41......Ah, yes, those were the days my friend..... |
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| May-01-16 | | ljfyffe: That should be "Perhaps Alberoni did play Nb5 against Ensor's a6..... |
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Aug-02-18
 | | MissScarlett: Illustrated Sporting and Illustrated News, October 13th 1883, p.10: <I REGRET to announce that Mr. Albert Ensor died at his residence in Hammersmith on Thursday, October 4, aged about forty-two. Mr. Ensor was a very able exponent of our game; always quick in making his moves, and frequently brilliant in his combinations. He had, indeed, a genius for chess, and, I may add, for games in general. His memory was wonderful. He would amuse a crowd of people for two or three consecutive hours by going over games played by the masters long years ago, or setting up problems and positions of the most complicated nature. Mr. Ensor, like most mortals, had faults in his character, but this is not the time nor the place to refer to them. He always seemed to me to speak of himself as though he wished you to believe him to be a very strange but, at the same time, a very clever fellow. Constantly speaking about himself, yet nobody ever regarded him as an egotist. Rich in anecdotes about his wonderful performances in this country and in America, yet nobody ever set him down as a braggart. Chatty and cheerful, he seldom failed to contribute to the amusement of the company present, whilst his fondness for children and generosity to friends in distress proved him to be by no means wanting in goodness of heart. Mr. Ensor possessed a large fund of original humour, which he dispensed equally to the gratification of himself as of his hearers.> |
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| May-28-20 | | Larryfyffe: (Buffalo)Globe Illustrated News
June , 1875 - George Thorton vs Albert Ensor
Sept., 1875 - Albert Ensor vs Henry Richmond
Oct., 1875 - Theodore Brown vs Albert Ensor |
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| May-28-20 | | Larryfyffe: However 7 )O-O h6 are the moves played - Globe Illustrated News (Buffalo). |
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Feb-02-21
| | MissScarlett: < l believe Albert was the uncle of the famous painter.ie the artist was the son of one of Albert's brothers.> The artist <James Ensor>'s father was <James Frederic Ensor> according to Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James... Not one of Albert's brothers according to Tab's list above. It's possible, however, an elder son had already left home. |
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| Jul-29-25 | | stone free or die: The archived version of the Spinrad article:
https://web.archive.org/web/2014081... |
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| Jul-29-25 | | stone free or die: <This reprimand did not seem to trouble Ensor. Instead, he grew more daring. His Express column of August 30, 1875 contained a long article entitled “Chess Literature on the Origin of the Game, by A. W. Ensor” which continued over the next few weeks. He did not bother to tell his readers that the entire article had been lifted word for word from the Atlantic Monthly of June, 1860. Yet this pales next to his most brazen piece of literary borrowing, worth quoting in full. From the New York Clipper: [claimed Paulsen-Blackburne, BadenBaden 1870 as his own]
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(ibid)
Wonder if Winter got wind of this?!?
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| Jul-29-25 | | stone free or die: His last years described (post-1877):
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Within a few years, he was in New York again. By then it had been nearly a decade since he first dazzled North American chess players. He was a much older man. Years of heavy drinking and dissipated living had aged him still more. He again turned to the one thing he could do well, hoping to bring in a few pennies. But chess in New York was not what it once had been, either. Professionals were now in disgrace after their tournament-fixing shenanigans. Many had been forced out of the business once their income in the cafés dried up. Max Judd commented on this sad scene in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle: <I never saw chess so dead as it is in New York, a tourney going on, but with no interest, not even among the contestants. Ensor plays chess down stairs, giving a knight, at ten cents a game, and winning, of course, nearly every game. The players I saw him give a knight to ought to be getting a queen; and yet, after winning the game, he would point out where his opponent could have won, only so as to make the poor fool believe the next time he would do better–all for ten cents! To what uses poor chess has come! … McKenzie [sic] used to play at odds with amateurs for twenty-five cents a game. Ten cents a game! Bah. – Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Jan. 17, 1882> Ensor eventually made enough to return to London, but his health was rapidly failing. He died there in poverty on the 5th of October, 1883. His age was listed as forty years. The cause of death: “cirrhosis of the liver, and exhaustion.” Unable to afford a private burial, he was interred in a public grave in London’s West End, in the Hammersmith Cemetery. > (ibid) |
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