<1906.06.07 A00 0 (R3 (1.3.3)) 0-1 Post--Taubenhaus (Marco G-47 p39/41)>

Where I think there's a tpos 10-12 - Macro having:

<10...Nxd2 11.Qxd2 O-O 12.Bc2>

Black would likely have a ...Nxf7 option somewhere in there, otherwise.>

This looks like the same sort of case as Swiderski vs Spielmann, 1906. In that game Marco has 3...Nc6 and 4...Nf6, GIllam (who used Marco as a source of ntoes) had 3...Nf6 and 4...Nc6.

In PostA E Post vs Taubenhaus, 1906, we have these move orders:

Marco: 10...Nxd2 11.Qxd2 0-0 12.Bc2
Gillam: 10...O-O 11.B2 Nxd2 12.Qxd2

In Swiderski-Spielmann we have good contemporary evidence that Mrco's order of moves is correct. There is not the same evidence in Post-Taubenhaus/

In both cases, Gillam's choice is by far the most popular move oderder today, but relatively less popular in 1906. I think it possible that, instead of a contemporary source, he used a databases which included games in which the OOM had been tweaked to fit a standard sequence.

You mentioned something earlier about score corrections in either textual or PGN form. PGN would probably be easier for me to work with, but do but whatever is easier for you

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1H...

BTW- you can update your files on the Google drive. If you drop in a new version with the same name Google will just update it in place (while saving/stacking the old versions).

We had snow flurries here yesterday...

http://orig15.deviantart.net/a220/f...

It's so depressing I can't do any (useful) work, either. Thank goodness for CG!

It's independent of your games, except for the ϵ˛-checking to eliminate obvious transcription mistakes/typos.

Is there anyway to get the photos?

He includes thumbnail portraits of everybody except Sournin, but no indication of sources. I haven't looked carefully, but I guess they are publicly available rather than from a special collection of some sort. For example, here's the Teichman shot he uses:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=...

And this, of course, is not the original source.

I have no way of scanning or transmitting these.

As for <Fahrni>, isn't there a little bit of Irish in all of us? (At least here in Boston there is).

I'm circling around again too, having finished a pass over all the players bio's - at least for zbase.ssp and zbase.spf files.

I wish you could scan material - don't you work in a library?

I use a local libary's scanner, when needed, which has a pretty good OCR converter.

You know, you can also take jpg pictures with your iPhone/Android (or digital camera) for photos, and even use Google drive's Google Doc as an OCR converter.

Even with access to a good scanner I often use Google Doc for such purposes - e.g. to get text for translation in a non-OCR'ed PDF (or a snip clippings I make).

The fact is I have a very bare-bones flip phone with a very small limit on calls and text. Nor do I want more. This isn't that important to me.

This is OK because I don't even know how to text anyway. I can't read the letters on the phone, and can't figure out how to put spaces between words. That photo stuff is completely out of my league.

My library did not provide scanning services for public or personal use. I could have pulled some strings, but I have my ethics about asking for special privileges. Or stuff like copying large quantities of copyrighted text.

Nobody is asking for copyright violations here - especially since most of the material I deal with is definitely Public Domain. Certainly all the <Ostend (1906)> material is.

And I have few qualms with copying Public Domain material, as our framers of the Constitution intended:

<Article I Section 8. Clause 8 – Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution. [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”>

Note the word "limited" - not "unlimited".

https://copyright.cornell.edu/publi...

One question to ask is if one could copy Gillam's copying of Public Domain material? Now if I read the legal decisions correctly:

https://www.jcms-journal.com/articl...

Cf. The Bridgeman Art Library, Ltd. v. Corel Corp., 25 F. Supp. 2d 421 (SDNY 1998)

<... which had ruled that, in order to be original, works ‘need not be original or novel in form, but it must originate with the author and not be copied from another work’. >

I tend to believe Gillam's copies of PD material can be copied.

In fact, I believe this protects much of Winter's free reproductions of the many historical photographs on his chess history site.

There's no need to continue the constitutional law lesson. That wasn't what I was really upset about.

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So let's just get back to where we stand with Ostend 1906. But first, just let me thank you for all the help. I make far too many mistakes these days, and appreciate it when somebody checks up on me.

I've tried to answer all the question you brought up earlier, and reconcile other discrepancies.

I have a file of 137 games to submit. Once those are sent in, Unless you know of something present, I'lll then take a break until they actually arrive. By then I'll probably need a break from the US Open and be ready to clean up the introduction and get this done.

By the way, I'm actually retired now. Just an Average Joe where the Library is concerned.

Then I might be able to help. As is, I don't know where to start.