| Jul-14-11 | | technical draw: Unable to make it as a chess pro, he started a burger business. I wonder how that worked out? |
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Jul-14-11
 | | Phony Benoni: Unfortunately, success proved slippery for <Edmond's Eel Burgers> ("The Taste Will Give You a Jolt!"). |
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Jul-14-11
 | | tamar: Not a great judge of character, he employed Arthur Skipworth as his treasurer,
Amos Burn as his cook, and Willem A T Schelfhout as his supply chief. |
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Jul-14-11
| | Phony Benoni: <tamar> You win! |
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Jul-14-11
| | tamar: I won, I won!
Now I have to figure out how to use 1000 eel burgers left over from 1912... |
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| Jul-14-11 | | Shams: <Schelfhout> was an inspired choice. |
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| Jul-15-11 | | technical draw: <Now I have to figure out how to use 1000 eel burgers left over from 1912...> The Cleveland School District just finished the last of the 1911 eel burgers so I guess they're ready for a fresh supply. |
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May-28-22
 | | FSR: I hear that he had a farm. |
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| May-28-22 | | FM David H. Levin: I was struck that despite MacDonald's having won the Scottish championship the previous year, both he and Blackburne consented to their meeting in a simul (in which I presume the latter was the exhibitor). I guess this attests to how the comparative quality of top-flight chess in their respective countries was perceived. |
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May-28-22
 | | MissScarlett: I doubt it would have even been considered an issue at the time. On the contrary, as one of the club's best players, he would surely have been expected to play as a club's score against visting masters was considered a matter of local pride. Only a fellow master, like Amos Burn, would have been viewed as beyond the pale. Yates, for instance, played Blackburne and Lasker, in 1907 and 1908, respectively. |
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| May-28-22 | | FM David H. Levin: <MissScarlett>: Reading your comment reminded me of a simul that Tigran Petrosian gave at the Westfield (New Jersey, USA) Chess Club in the late 1970s. Among the participants was Mike Valvo, who certainly was IM strength although it would be a year or two before he was awarded the title. So, I guess I ought not to have been startled to learn that MacDonald was in a simul given by Blackburne. |
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May-28-22
| | MissScarlett: For some players, it was the highlight of their year, if not their career: Sydney Thomas Sharp |
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May-31-22
| | FSR: <MissScarlett> He was obviously a very strong player (ten-time Pennsylvania champion). In simul games in the database, he beat Capablanca (four times!), Lasker (twice), and Alekhine; drew Lasker and Reshevsky; and lost to Marshall. |
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Oct-02-22
 | | Sally Simpson: Some good information to flesh out a bio on this lad, Edmund MacDonald here. https://www.chessscotland.com/docum... |
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