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| May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all> - Eugene Znosko-Borowski. |
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| May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.> - Eugene Znosko-Borovski. |
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| May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc> - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky. |
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| May-15-15 | | TheFocus: <It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices> - Eugene Znosko-Borowski. |
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| May-15-15 | | TheFocus: <It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan> - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky. |
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| May-22-15 | | TheFocus: <One despairs when one thinks of all the effort expended on the study of chess, and of the poverty of results. Year after year the same elementary mistakes are repeated, the same antediluvian traps claim their victims. It is almost incredible, yet so it is...> - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, in How Not to Play Chess (first published in 1931). |
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| Jun-01-15 | | TheFocus: <The middlegame I repeat is chess itself; chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.> – Eugene Znosko-Borovsky. |
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| Aug-28-15 | | Nosnibor: According to Wikipedia his birthdate was August 16th 1884 and this is also confirmed by the obituary in the B.C.M.1955,page 102.An amendment is required to the bio. |
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| Aug-28-15 | | NeverAgain: Corrections should be submitted via the "suggest your correction" link under the "Leave a comment!" text box. You can't expect the admins to keep pace with all the comments on the thousands of game and player pages. |
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Aug-28-15
 | | Stonehenge: It may be just a Julian/Gregorian Calendar thingy. |
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| Aug-28-15 | | wrap99: Looked through the kibitzing can't find this mentioned and maybe it is a different player who suffered a head injury and had to relearn the game and was a master afterwards. If it isn't Z-B,who is it? |
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| Aug-28-15 | | NeverAgain: That was Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky , who went on to beat Capablanca at the Moscow 1925 with a Queen sacrifice. |
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| Aug-28-15 | | wrap99: <NeverAgain> Ah, thanks, a similar-sounding (in memory) name. |
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| Dec-31-15 | | TheFocus: Rest in peace, Eugene. |
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| Mar-03-16 | | zanzibar: Correction to the bio:
He was evacuated to Constantinople, and from there he and his family proceeded to Paris. From p ix of Introduction (the original intro, not Reinfeld's - Dover Edition). |
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| Aug-16-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Eugene Znosko-Borovsky. |
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Oct-14-16
 | | wwall: In Chernev's book, 'Wonders and Curiosities of Chess,' he wrote "In a tournament held in St. Petersburg in 1903, no less than three Znosko-Borovskys won prizes." There is no tournament like that listed in Gino Di Felice's book, 'Chess Results 1901-1920.' Assuming that two of them were Evgeny Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky (1884-1954) and his brother, Sergey Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky (1879-1911), who is the third Znosko-Borovsky? And is this story true and is there a better source than Chernev? There is no other Znosky-Borovsky mentioned in Gaige's book 'Chess Personalia.' |
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| Jan-09-17 | | Nosnibor: >wwall> But there was also N.A.Znosko-Borovsky where a game is shown in this database Methinks that this is the third man referred to by Chernev |
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| Jan-09-17 | | Nosnibor: Further to my last post N A Z-B may well be another relative. He cannot be the brother mentioned who died in 1911 because N A Z-B was in attendance at the 1914 St Petersburg Tournament. |
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Jan-12-17
| | wwall: <Nosnibor> You are right! Seems to be a Nikolay Alexandrovich Znosko-Borovsky. Perhaps the father of the other two. Looks like Amos Burn played all three at one time. I found a fourth one - Alexander F. Znosko-Borovsky (1908-1983) who was a musician. And a book on Stalin mentions a Prince Znosko-Borovsky. |
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| Jan-12-17 | | Straclonoor: Znosko-Borovsky was big family of literators and intellectuals. Father - Alexander Eduardovich (son of Edward) Z-B - episodically wrote in "History courier" in 1900s Eugene - theater critic, dramauturgist, author of stories and biographist some Russian writers (M.Kuzmin etc.). Chess player of course. Alexander Alexandrovich Z-B - oldest Eugene's brother - bureaucrat in Russian land ministry before revolution. Nikolay Alexandrovich Z-B (twin brother of Eugene?) - accountant in ministry of education in Russia before revolution. Sergey Alexandrovich Z-B (1879-1911) - chess organizer Konstantin Alexandrovich Z-B - geography teacher in Saint-Peterburg, executed by firing squad in 1921 Sister - Nadezhda Alexandrovna Z-B - actress, wife of writer Sergey Auslender |
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| Jul-03-17 | | brimarern: "To avoid mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess."
-GM Eugene Znosko-Borovsky |
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| Jun-12-18 | | zanzibar: As already mentioned, but with a few more details: <The well-known Russian master, Eugene Znosko-Borowski, is at
present resident in Constantinople, having been, like so many of his
compatriots, driven from Russia by the deplorable events which have
befallen there, resulting, among other things, in the complete dis-
appearance and feared death of that other brilliant master, Aljechin.
Mr. Znosko-Borowski, who is by profession an author and in particu-
larly interested in dramatic affairs, would like to pay a visit u,
England, and, could it be arranged, to give a simultaneous exhibition
or two. We are sure that British chessplayers would welcome the
idea if the visit comes off. In the B.C.M for June, 1917, page 172,
there appeared some details of Mr. Znosko-Borowski's chess achieve-
ments, the most noted of which was his first participation in an
international masters' tournament at Ostend in 1906. Here, at the
age of 22, he only just failed to qualify for the final section of
9 players.>
BCM v40 (1920) |
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| Apr-14-22 | | Canadian chesser: <blacksburg> I wonder if you shouldn't ask for your 7 bits back. That sequence is just the start of the Cambridge Springs Defence of the QGD and completely legit for Black. According to Neil McDonald's guide to the QGD, it continues 5. e3 c6 6. Nf3 Qa5 7. Nd2 and then it branches: 7...exd5 or 7...Bb4 8. Qc2 0-0, or 8...Ne4 (page 188).
How can the author that is the subject of this Kibitz claim players of Black playing 4...Nbd7 "do not realize they are offering to sacrifice their Q, and they would be greatly astonished if anyone told them that this was the case"? |
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Sep-20-23
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