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Mar-27-19
 | | Tabanus: <PB> You can also thank me by voting YES :) |
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Apr-20-19 | | SBC: <Phony Benoni>
Do you have a copy of the American Chess Bulletin (vol.43) Jan. 1946?If so, would it be possible for you - if you are amenable - to scan several pages, 65-67, for me? If not, it's no problem. |
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Apr-21-19
 | | Phony Benoni: <SBC> I do have a physical (not digital) copy of the American Chess Bulletin (vol. 43) 1946. Unfortunately, I don't have a scanner myself, but I may be able to work something out. However, I would ask that you check your reference. Pages 65-67 are from the May / June issue (not January) and contain games from a Santasiere - Seidman match and a report on the match between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Having seen your recent article about Abraham Kupchik., I'm wondering if you are interested in the photos from Pittsburgh 1946 on p. 74-76 of the July / August issue. These include a group photo on p.74 with pictures of both Kupchik and his wife. By the way, I want to thank you for the Kupchik article. He's always been a special interest of mine; and 250-300 of his games in the <CG> database are my submissions. At one point I had some extensive files on him, but lost everything in a computer crash and never felt like restoring it. So I'm glad you've done the work instead! |
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Apr-21-19 | | SBC: <Phony Benoni> Thanks.
My rather nebulous source (Google Book/snippet view) revealed there is an article on the Women's Chess Club of NY (with a photo of the founders, including Eliza Foot and Harriet Worrall on those pages of "vols.43-46.". The snippet actually shows the pages are correct (I just assumed it was vol.3 and January due to the page numbers see: https://content.screencast.com/user...)
That article and the photo are what I am looking for. Of course a photo of Kupchick and his wife from such a sharp publication as the ACB is like icing on the cake. |
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Apr-21-19
 | | Phony Benoni: <SBC> It's from v.46, May / June 1949. I've contacted a friend who may be able to supply scans of those pages, as well as the photo from Pittsburgh 1946. A word of warning. Instead of the original, we both have a photocopied reprint of ACB. The photographs in this reprint are of very poor quality, and you may not be able to use them, |
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Apr-22-19 | | SBC: <Phony Benoni> Thank you so much. BTW, I've already cited you in the article-to-be since I used your digitized game scores from the ACB 1907 and 1908 saving me the work. |
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Apr-22-19
 | | Phony Benoni: <SBC> that's very gratifying. I've reached the point where I'm no longer interested in writing or publishing, but am perfectly content to make the lives of those do a little bit easier. |
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Apr-22-19 | | SBC: <Phony Benoni> One thing I've always liked about the chess community in general is the number of unselfish individuals willing to contribute in all different fashions, even with little specific appreciation, for the benefit of everyone. |
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Apr-24-19 | | SBC: <Phony Benoni> Here's the result: https://www.chess.com/article/view/... Thanks for your help! |
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Apr-24-19
 | | Phony Benoni: <SBC> Thanks for the link and the kind words. One little corrections: the article was from the <May / June 1949> issue of ACB, not 1946. (That was volume 46 of ACB). My apologies if I misled you. |
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Apr-24-19 | | SBC: <Phony Benoni> Thanks. I believe that was my original misconception and I was stuck in that paradigm. |
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May-08-19
 | | mifralu: I Gudju vs Bogdanovsky, 1927 (kibitz #52) |
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May-13-19
 | | Tabanus: Did PB end Andrea Peterson 's career? |
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May-13-19
 | | Phony Benoni: I suspect it was about to end anyway. Puberty has robbed chess of more potential Masters than the Four Horseriders of the Apocalypse. |
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May-19-19
 | | Phony Benoni: I'm moving into a retirement community, and may be out of touch for a few days. |
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Jun-22-19
 | | mifralu: Game Collection: USSR Championship 1929 The 6th USSR Championship was held in Odessa from < October 2-20, 1929 >... < September 2-20 > https://chesspro.ru/book/rc29.shtml |
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Jun-22-19
 | | Phony Benoni: <mifralu> Thanks. I probably took my information from De Felice (who gives October), but your source looks more authoritative. |
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Aug-22-19
 | | thegoodanarchist: < Phony Benoni: As a matter of fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3b... So Howard can play! Wow, thanks for the link. I am surprised. I'd say he plays at a "Class A" level or better. |
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Aug-23-19
 | | Phony Benoni: <thegoodanarchist> I had a vague memory of hearing that somewhere. It's probably a good thing that "celebrities" don't play in real tournaments. Can you imagine the media circus if, say, Charlie Chaplin or Humphrey Bogart showed up to play/ The playing conditions would be impossible for everybody, not just them. |
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Aug-23-19
 | | thegoodanarchist: Especially in this era, with smartphones, uploading to instagram, twitter and facebook. If Brad Pitt showed up to a tournament today it would be mayhem in under 20 minutes. |
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Nov-03-19 | | spingo: I thought I had seen Ostend 1906 up as a full tournament page. Am I mistaken, or was it put up and then removed? |
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Nov-03-19
 | | whiteshark: Good question!
Ostend (1905) and
Ostend (Championship) (1907) are already there but not Game Collection: Ostend 1906 |
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Nov-03-19 | | spingo: <whiteshark: Good question!> By some distance <Ostend 1906> is the most difficult of all tournaments to present coherently. It had numerous stages and a huge number of games: about 400, I think. THAT'S why I am sure I remember the page being there as a cg.com tournament page. (Not just as a Game Collection, because I remember that people had kibitzed.) I think the page may have existed for a short time, but then been withdrawn for some reason. Perhaps the complex formatting created bugs on the page. |
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Nov-05-19
 | | Phony Benoni: <spingo> As far as I know, Game Collection: Ostend 1906 was never a tournament page. I certainly did not nomicate it because I don't consider it finished. Besides introductory material, ti needs careful proofreading and formatting. At the moment, I am not interested in doing this work. It would take a large amount of time and be very difficult for me. Any one who would be willing to borrow my information and finish it up as their own collection is welcome to do so. |
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Nov-11-19 | | spingo: Many thanks for your answer <PB>. |
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