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| Jul-05-10 | | newzild: This character invented the Caro-Kann, but doesn't appear to have actually played it... |
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| Jul-05-10 | | vonKrolock: Not here in this base !? Well, sooner or later some of such games should be uploaded [Event "?"]
[Site "Berlin"]
[Date "1905.??.??"]
[White "Lewitt,Moritz "]
[Black "Caro,Horatio "]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B15"]
[Round "?"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Ng3 Bg4 6. Be2 Bxe2 7. N1xe2 e6
8. Bg5 Nbd7 9. Qd2 Qb6 10. O-O-O O-O-O 11. Rhe1 h6 12. Bf4 g5 13. Be3 Nd5 14. f4 Qa6
15. Kb1 N7b6 16. Qd3 Nc4 17. Bc1 Nb4 18. Qb3 Na5 19. Qc3 Nc4 20. a3 Nd5 21. Qb3 gxf4
22. Nxf4 Nxf4 23. Bxf4 Rd5 24. Bc1 Nxa3+ 0-1
[Event "?"]
[Site "Barmen"]
[Date "1905.??.??"]
[White "Kopa,I "]
[Black "Caro,Horatio "]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B18"]
[Round "?"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. Nf3 e6 7. c3 Bd6
8. Bd3 Nf6 9. O-O Nbd7 10. Re1 Qc7 11. a4 O-O 12. Bxg6 hxg6 13. Qd2 e5 14. dxe5 Nxe5
15. Nxe5 Bxe5 16. Qc2 Rfe8 17. Bd2 Qd7 18. Re2 Bxg3 19. Rxe8+ Rxe8 20. hxg3 Re2 21. Rd1 Ng4
22. Be1 Qe6 23. Qc1 f5 24. Qb1 Kh7 25. b3 b5 26. a5 a6 27. Kf1 Nh2+ 28. Kg1 Ng4
29. Kf1 Nh2+ 30. Kg1 Ng4 31. Kf1 Nh2+ 32. Kg1 Ng4 1/2-1/2 [Event "?"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1898.??.??"]
[White "Pillsbury,Harry "]
[Black "Caro,Horatio "]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B15"]
[Round "1"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6 6. Nf3 Bd6 7. Bd3 Bg4
8. h3 Bh5 9. g4 Bg6 10. Nh4 Nd7 11. Nf5 Bxf5 12. Bxf5 g6 13. Qe2+ Qe7 14. Bxd7+ Kxd7
15. Be3 Rae8 16. d5 c5 17. Qb5+ Kc8 18. O-O-O Qc7 19. Rd3 Re4 20. Rc3 a6 21. Qd3 Rhe8
22. Bxc5 Kd7 23. Be3 Qa5 24. a3 b5 25. Rc6 Bf4 26. Kb1 Bxe3 27. fxe3 Rxe3 28. Qd4 Re1+
29. Ka2 Rxh1 30. Qa7+ 1-0 |
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| Sep-23-11 | | zydeco: Born in Hull, started playing seriously after moving to Berlin. Looks like he actually tied a match with Mieses, c. 1898 (acc to American Chess Magazine, Vol 1) |
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| Jul-05-12 | | MountainMatt: Happy b-day Mr. Caro, the (half) namesake of my favorite 1. e4 defense. Highly useful at the prestigious Class D level, where it is hardly ever seen. |
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| Jul-05-12 | | BIDMONFA: Horatio Caro CARO, Horatio
http://www.bidmonfa.com/caro_horati...
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| Jul-05-12 | | LoveThatJoker: Horatio Caro, today you are remembered!
LTJ |
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| Jul-05-12 | | Alphonse1973: <But why doesn't the database have any games played by Kann?> As <al wazir> said, <Here is a game in which Kann plays the Caro-Kann defense.>, which is Mieses vs M Kann, 1885
Interestingly, there is no Horatio Caro vs Marcus Kann games, or Marcus Kann vs Horatio Caro, because Marcus Kann died on february 3 1886, when Caro wasn't still twenty-four years old (in fact, he was twenty-three). The Caro-Kann defense was analized in Caro's journal, Bruederschaft, in 1886. The first games of Horatio Caro appearing in www.chessgames.com are from 1888. Interesting data! |
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| Jul-05-12 | | waustad: I was trying to work a Hamlet quote in, but Horatio is the recpient of the "Alas poor ..." line, not a participant so I didn't see how to make it work. |
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Jul-05-12
 | | Benzol: <waustad> <I was trying to work a Hamlet quote in, but Horatio is the recpient of the "Alas poor ..." line, not a participant so I didn't see how to make it work.> <waustad> There is the one about "...more things in heaven and earth Horatio". Could you make one out of that? |
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| Aug-18-12 | | Karpova: Horatio Caro won the Berlin Championship in 1904 ahead of a strong field: 1. Caro 15.0
2-3. O. S. Bernstein 14.5
2-3. Spielmann 14.5
4. W. Cohn 14.0
5. Blumenfeld 12.5
6. Kagan 11.0
7-8. A. Wagner 10.0
7.8. Januschpolski 10.0
9. Gregory 9.5
10. Bauer 9.0
11-12. E. Cohn 8.5
11-12. M. Lange 8.5
13-15. Hoffmann 6.0
13-15. Dr. Brück 6.0
13-15. Kunze 6.0
16. Thomas 5.0
17. Feuss 4.5
18. Pauli 4.0
19. E. Heilmann 2.5 (out of 10 games)
This game H Caro vs Otto Kunze, 1904 won the prize for the most beautiful game (queen sacrifice included). Source: Pages 212-213 of the 1904 'Wiener Schachzeitung' Also note the good showing by Bernhard Kagan! |
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| Aug-19-12 | | Karpova: In 1905 the Berlin Championship was decided by a match between Caro and Dr. Lewitt. Time control was 1 hour for 15 moves but the time consumed would only be measured at the end of the game and overstepping the time limit did not lead to the loss of the game but cost 1 Mark per 5 minutes (page 259). The match was terminated with a final standing of +4 =6 -4 and counted as a draw (page 325). Source: 1905 'Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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Jul-05-15
 | | ketchuplover: Caro Kann ! |
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Jan-30-16
 | | MissScarlett: Another chess master who died in penury: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Jul-30-16
 | | FSR: Ironically, he played 1...e5 six times as often as his eponymous opening. |
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Jul-30-16
 | | HeMateMe: Perhaps this is his Horatio algorithm? |
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| Jun-17-17 | | zanzibar: RE: "Die Brüderschaft"
<The reprint of the first volume 1885 was a great challenge as the original was handwritten in Old German cursive writing, so at first it had to be transcribed into common Latin characters.> http://www.kwabc.org/images/publica... http://www.kwabc.org/index.php/kwa-... . |
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Jul-06-18
 | | offramp: He is the only chess player in history whose first and last names both end in <o>. |
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| Jul-06-18 | | Gregor Samsa Mendel: *sigh*
Sandro Mareco Laszlo Szabo |
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Jun-24-19
 | | mifralu: In 1914, thousands of British civilians and merchant seamen, along with foreigners from other nationalities with British connections, were interned at the hastily constructed prisoner of war camp at Ruhleben racecourse by Spandau, near Berlin, Germany. Most would not see freedom from the camp until the end of the war, but managed to maintain a unique way of life for the four years of their unwelcome internment. < Caro
Caro was released from Ruhleben in January 1917, as reported in the Scotsman newspaper on January 31st 1917 ("British Civilians From Ruhleben", p.6). > http://ruhleben.tripod.com/id5.html
https://ia801702.us.archive.org/Boo... |
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| Jan-06-22 | | DanQuigley: Interesting. He didn't live too much longer after his release as a POW. I wonder if his inability to grow a real moustache was a handicap? |
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May-20-22
 | | Phony Benoni: You run into a lot of players who are identified with a single game, generally one they lost. You know, like Kieseritzy, or Dufresne, or The Duke and The Count, or Curt von Bardeleben, or Friedirch Samisch, or Donald Byrne. Off the top of your head, are you familiar with another game any of them played? Horatio Caro falls into this category, but has the fortunate distinction of having won his Only Game. |
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| May-20-22 | | Retireborn: <PB> I'm not sure which game you mean? Off the top of my head the only game of his I remember is a Caro-Kann(!) which he lost to Pillsbury. |
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May-20-22
| | Phony Benoni: <Retireborn> Sorry; I should have specified H Caro vs Lasker, 1890 |
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| May-20-22 | | Retireborn: <PB> Thanks. Actually I had not seen that game before. I've never been able to work up much enthusiasm for 19th century chess. |
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| Aug-07-22 | | wrap99: My understanding of the British workhouses is that they were deliberately not pleasant places. The sentence, "Discharged from workhouse, reason: dead." Right up there with Hemmingway's "Baby Shoes" short story as being one of the saddest ultra-short stories. One wonders the circumstances of Caro having to go into a workhouse but in our own time, more than one very good player has ended up in desperate circumstances. |
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