<Phony Benoni: I have an unusual situation involving the notorious Norman Tweed Whitaker. At the Western Open at Cleveland, 1921, Whitaker's second round opponent, Herman H. Hahlbohm, barely made the time control at move 20. Whitaker protested, but this was not upheld and he went on to lose the game in 44 moves.

The next day, the persuasive Whitaker talked Hahlbohm into replaying the game from the position after the 20th move. Tournament referee Hermann Helms, after consulting the other players, agreed to this arrangement "in the interests of harmony".

So the game was replayed, and this time Hahlbohm won in 31 moves!>

We have both games in the database now:

The original: N Whitaker vs H H Hahlbohm, 1921

The replay: N Whitaker vs H H Hahlbohm, 1921

It's also exciting to hear that the Bio Bistro & Library corners are also being hit with some good brainstorming ideas, making filtering of names like Janelle Mae Frayna (does anyone know of any lists of the commonest 1000-10000 or so top picked unisex first names for a gender? - any time an Alice or Mary comes up, a tag check might be in order) easier. World Junior Championships (Girls) (2011) uses "girls". Tweaking those types of priorities were not implied to be 'high', but just occasional bugs that would be noticed if a game needed adding. Speaking of which, the Librarian seems to can't/doesn't (if at all) view a pgn-upload's included comments until after a batch has been screened for upload, which explains to others about what types of extra data can be held with a pid/tid/gid for clarifications.

But the name/gender issue is not simple. Ask any Hispanic male named Jose Maria.

On the <New Orleans-Wch> games: We did a search for all games with this in "event" or "site" fields. Here are the "tournaments" where most/all games contain these labels:

New Orleans-Wch (1948)
New Orleans-Wch (1954)
? (1955)

If any of you would enjoy identifying the actual tournaments of these games, submit a slip on each game (or list them by tournament here, that might actually be better) and I'll fix it. I agree that it definitely seems "New Orleans" is some kind of consistent error for "New York".

There were also a few more labeled as "Rice Memorial" but with "New Orleans-Wch" in the site field. I combined them into a tournament here:

Rice Memorial (1913)

The only problem is, they're from 1913 and the first Rice Memorial was 1916. So I guess they are actually from the Rice Chess Club tournament 1913 that <Phony Benoni> referred to.

1 Jose Raul Capablanca X 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11.0
2 Oldrich Duras 0 X 1 1 1 = 1 = 1 1 = 1 8.5
3 Roy Turnbull Black 0 0 X 1 = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.0
4 Oscar Chajes 0 0 0 X 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 7.0
5 Abraham Kupchik 0 0 = 0 X 1 1 1 1 1 = 1 7.0
6 Albert Marder 0 = = 0 0 X 1 1 = 1 1 1 6.5
7 Edward Tennenwurzel 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 1 1 1 1 = 4.5
8 G F Adair 0 = 0 1 0 0 0 X = = = 1 4.0
9 Jacob Bernstein 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 = X 1 1 1 4.0
10 F P Beynon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 X = 1 2.0
11 Harold Meyer Phillips 0 = 0 0 = 0 0 = 0 = X 0 2.0
12 Jacob Grommer 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 1 X 1.5

I checked at Chess365.com, and the three games by Grommer are definitely from this tournament.

The situation is also confused because there was another New York 1913 held January 19-February 5, won by Capablanca with a measly 11/13. Several players were in both tournaments.

Game Collection: New York 1948/49

http://www.rookhouse.com/events/ny1...

The 1954 "New Orleans" games are from the 1954 US championship in New York:

HAHAHAHAHA

Um, make that <Feb> 1956.

From Mar 1956 Chess Review:

Lombardy vs Reshevsky, 1956

is also from the second Rosenwald.

From a Larry Evans <Chess Life> series of columns on openings from the second Rosenwald, this one can also be confirmed:

Reshevsky vs Lombardy, 1956

Bisguier vs D Byrne, 1955

Larry Evans vs Bisguier, 1955

Bisguier vs J Sherwin, 1955

W Shipman vs Lombardy, 1956 is also from the second Rosenwald, and was published in the NY Times on 23 Dec 1955.

I have not yet seen a contemporary printed source for these four:

Lombardy vs Larry Evans, 1956

Lombardy vs W Shipman, 1956

Larry Evans vs Bisguier, 1956

Lombardy vs Bisguier, 1956

but I'd bet they are all from the second Rosenwald. The Bisguier games might be in <The Art of Bisguier>, but I don't have that book.

R Durkin vs Curtis, 1955

Game Collection: New York 1918

The 1924 "New Orleans" games are from the New York 1924 tournament, as seen in one of <Benzol's> game collections:

And to make the things even more confusing: His book <Play 1.b3!>, published by 'New in Chess', writes it <Ilya Odessky <>>

Kupchik vs Duras, 1913, J Bernstein vs Duras, 1913, O Chajes vs Duras, 1913, Duras vs E Tennenwurzel, 1913, F Beynon vs Duras, 1913, H Phillips vs Duras, 1913, Duras vs G F Adair, 1913, G Beihoff vs Capablanca, 1913

The three games labelled "Rice Memorial" are also from this event:

Duras vs J Grommer, 1913, J Grommer vs Kupchik, 1913, J Grommer vs G F Adair, 1913

However, there is yet another event involved. These games:

Duras vs C Jaffe, 1913, O Chajes vs Duras, 1913, C Jaffe vs Duras, 1913, Duras vs O Chajes, 1913, Duras vs Marshall, 1913, Marshall vs Duras, 1913

Are from a quadrangular tournament, also held at the Rice-Progressive Chess Club soon after the Summer tournament was over. Final scores: Marshall 5, Duras 4, Chajes 2.5, Jaffe 0.5.

I've put togetther a couple of collections:

Game Collection: New York 1913 (American National Masters) Game Collection: New York 1913 (Rice Chess Club Summer Tournament

What happened is as follows. They were co-winners of the 1938 American Chess Federation championship held during June in Boston. Interest was expressed in holding a match between the two and sufficient funds were raised to make a 10-game match a reality. Both were busy, so it took from mid-October to the end of December 1938 to play the 10 games. Horowitz left the next day for his yearly multi-month US tour and both had missed wins in games, so no effort was made to break the 5-5 tie.