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Jan-26-19
 | | Tabanus: <PB> I understand you perfectly, perhaps because I'm grumpy myself :) And of course, the player name must be fixed first. I could probably clone it some time in the future and finish it, but as things are now, it has come to the point where I too can't continue. I have 100 unprocessed slips, and can easily make 200 more. It also seems that jess, hemy and "chi" have given up. At least for now. Sargon says he will administer extended editor rights in the future so that we (or the new volunteers) can fix things like games results, player names, etc. ourselves. I can understand a thing like that will take some time. I also think Sargon must be a good programmer, probably better than Daniel was. In addition, Daniel apparently has made some "undocumented codes" which are hard to understand or walk around. I suspect Sargon will come up with something eventually. But there is no guarantee. So long, my friend. |
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Jan-26-19
 | | Phony Benoni: <Tabanus> Yes, extending the powers of the volunteer editors will probably be the only ultimate solution. If I had the pwers you describe, I'd sign up for a ten-year extension on the sport. I've got about 1 years of US Open games stacked up right now, so I've been working on the American Chess Bulletin instead. There are still many games not in the database, but at least I can included the missing ones in the introduction and make them available that way. By the way, in all sincerity, I don't feel worthy of the Best Hisorian award. You do so much more in so many areas that I almost wish I had voted this year. |
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Jan-27-19
| | Tabanus: <PB> I voted for hemy for the 3rd year in a row. His work together with chi and jess is the real chess history work here. Only they don't post much in the Bistro, which is understandable. Volunteers, it was a great progress when Daniel allowed us to edit date, site and round number. I think the rights should be extended, but that the edits should be traceable somehow. Such things + pgn's, Olga, ECO, "find similar games", FIDE ID, etc. are probably not usually encountered by website designers. I hope Sargon can see the value in having reasonably correct player and tournament pages. |
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Jan-30-19
| | Tabanus: Janowski vs W Cohn, 1906, fixed. |
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Jan-31-19
| | Phony Benoni: I don't know who pulled the strings, but thanks very much. |
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Jan-31-19
| | Tabanus: <PB> I don't know either, but <Annie> posted two days ago that "the user-submitted game uploads, and the handling of correction slips resume today". Biographer Bistro (kibitz #19306) |
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Jan-31-19
| | Phony Benoni: That's good news. I'll wait a bit before sending in some new games, though, to let the blacklog clear out a little. |
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Feb-01-19
| | Tabanus: I'll wait too. For months I suppose. My backlog is in my forum header - about 140 slips, of which 3-4 were processed the last two days. I can easily make 140 more. Trying to create a decent environment ;) |
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Feb-01-19
 | | perfidious: <...And the unknown annotation (possibly Cummings) wrot, <'White had better moves.">> One wonders whether the Unknown Annotator was paid by the word, or had simply run out of useful ideas. |
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Feb-06-19
 | | mifralu: 2 missing games from American National (1913) [Event "American National (1913)"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1913.02.02"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Morrison, John Stuart"]
[Black "Whitaker, Norman Tweed"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D12"]
[EventDate "1913.01.19"]
[Source "Evening star (Washington, D.C.), February 19, 1913, Page 4"] 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c6 3.e3 Nf6 4.c4 Bf5 5.Nc3 e6 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bd3 Bg6 8.
Ne5 Nbd7 9.O-O Nxe5 10.dxe5 Nd7 11.f4 Qh4 12.e4 Bc5+ 13.Kh1 dxe4 14.
Bxe4 O-O-O 15.Qe2 Rhe8 16.Be3 f6 17.b4 Bh5 18.Bf3 Bxf3 19.Rxf3 Bxe3
20.Qxe3 Nb6 21.b5 fxe5 22.fxe5 Qd4 23.bxc6 bxc6 24.Qxd4 Rxd4 25.Re1
Nd5 26.h3 Re7 27.Ne4 Nb4 28.e6 Rxe6 29.Rf8+ Kc7 30.Rf7+ Kb6 31.Rb7+
Kxb7 32.Nc5+ Kb6 33.Nxe6 Rd7 34.a3 Nd3 35.Rb1+ Ka5 36.Kg1 c5 37.Rb3
c4 38.Rc3 Kb5 39.Ng5 Kc5 40.Nf3 Rb7 41.Nd2 Ne5 42.Re3 Kd4 43.Kf2 Rb2
44.Re4+ Kd5 0-1
[Event "American National (1913)"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1913.02.04"]
[Round "12"]
[White "Whitaker, Norman Tweed"]
[Black "Tennenwurzel, Edward"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[EventDate "1913.01.19"]
[Source "Evening star (Washington, D.C.), February 19, 1913, Page 4"] 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.f4 e5 5.Nf3 c6 6.dxe5 dxe5 7.Nxe5 Qa5
8.Nc4 Qc5 9.Be3 Qe7 10.e5 < score gives Kt - K5 > 10...Ng4 11.Nd6+ Kd8
12.Qxg4 Nxe5 13.Qe2 Bg4 14.Qd2 Qxd6 15.fxe5 Qxd2+ 16.Bxd2 Bc5 17.Ne4
Re8 18.Bc3 Bb6 19.Nd6 Re7 20.h3 Be6 21.O-O-O Kc7 22.Bc4 Be3+ 23.Kb1
Bxc4 24.Nxc4 Bf4 25.Rhf1 < score gives R - B ( 25.Rdf1 g5 26.Bb4 Re6
27.g3 )> 25...g5 <score gives P - Kt 4 ( 25...b5 26.Bb4 Re6 27.g3 ) >
26.Bb4 Re6 27.g3 1-0
Source: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/... |
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Feb-06-19
| | Phony Benoni: <mifralu> Thank you. One tiny correction: the games were printed in the Evening Star for February 9, not February 19. |
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| Feb-16-19 | | unclecharley: I have the 12 games I played in the 1980 U.S. Open in Atlanta. You are welcome to add them to the US Open Tournament Index, if you're interested. (The games aren't great - I was only rated 1632 at the time.) |
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Feb-16-19
| | Phony Benoni: <unclecharley> I would definitely be interested in your games. Thank you. How would you like to send them? |
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Feb-18-19
 | | MissScarlett: Game Collection: US Open 1932, Minneapolis = 33rd Western Champ. Tournament ended on Saturday the 6th. I've corrected the date of Reshevsky vs Fine, 1932 When did Reshevsky stop playing on the Sabbath? I have an idea it wasn't until the mid 50s. |
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Feb-18-19
 | | Diademas: <MissScarlett: When did Reshevsky stop playing on the Sabbath? I have an idea it wasn't until the mid 50s.> Not sure, but it seems he took his orthodoxy quite seriously all his life. <In 1929, Mr. Rosenwald arranged
for us to see the opera with him at
Ravinia. It took place on a Friday
evening. We drove there from his
home while it was still light. After
the performance, Sam proposed walking back to the Rosenwald home, about
a mile distant, because he preferred
not to ride on the Sabbath.>
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... There seem to be some evidence that he followed strict Jewish rules already in the Leningrad/Moscow training (1939) tournament. <Reshevsky is an Orthodox Jew and is
meticulous in his observance. He does
not compete, of course, neither on Friday
night nor on the Sabbath and Festivals,
and occasionally the organizers are
forced to change the game arrangements
due to this. Is it true that one cannot play
chess on the Sabbath? Reshevsky
answers: “Amateurs are allowed, for
them it is merely a game. For us it is
forbidden, in our case it is a prohibited activity, since working on the Sabbath is
forbidden”. And what happens when
Reshevsky participates in tournaments in
the U.S.S.R? [Alexander] Kotov, one of
the great Soviet chess masters, says:
“We are experts regarding Reshevsky’s
religious views. On Saturday night we
scan the sky to see if there are three
visible stars, because then he will sit
down to play his game. On Sabbaths we
accompany him to the synagogue in
Moscow and prepare kosher food for
him.”
The organizers of a large international
tournament in Bled, Yugoslavia did not
spare any effort to persuade Reshevsky
to participate. The tournament was held
in September, during the Jewish High
Holidays. The question was, where
would he pray. The Yugoslavians
promised to erect a synagogue on the premises. When he discovered,
however, that most of the games would
take place on the holidays and he could
not be completely exempted from playing
on those days, he turned down the
invitation.
Needless to say, during his visit to Israel
in 1958 there were no such problems:
the only place he felt at home as a Jew.>
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Feb-19-19
| | Phony Benoni: <MissScarlet> You're right. I assume I was following ACB, which state the tournament ended on August 7. Knowing Fine and Reshevsky played in the final round, I put their game on that day. However, the Minneapolis Star Tribune" of October 7 makes it clear the final round was played on Saturday, giving a complete listing of games and the final results. The "Star Tribune" sttes the game was played in the "afternoon round". , but not the excat time of day. AmI correct in saying the Sabbath ended at sundown on Satu? In that case, Reshevsky could have delayed the game with Fin until the evening. Or he many not have been so observant that weekend. The dates given in ACB for these tournament are often off a day or two either way. Helms would include days in which there was tournament -related activity but no play. |
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Feb-23-19
| | MissScarlett: That Western championship game I mentioned (Phony Benoni chessforum (kibitz #22674)) is here: R G Fitzgerald vs G Spencer, 1905 |
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Feb-24-19
| | Phony Benoni: <MissScarlett> Terrific. I've been checking on it regularly. Now I feel a little more confident about submitting some games. |
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Feb-26-19
| | MissScarlett: Capablanca vs L L Labatt, 1909 Does the ACB identify this as a simul game? |
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Feb-26-19
| | Phony Benoni: <MissScarlett> ACB, June 1910, p. 156: <"From an exhibition given by Capablanca on December 18 at the romms of the Young men's Gymnastic Club of New Orleans, in which he made a score of 19 wins, 2 losses a 3 drawn games. his opponent being Judge L. L. Labbatt [sic]"> However, I can't find any newspaper reports of this simul. By the way, I sent in a correction slip for <26...Re4?, which is given in ACB. |
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Mar-01-19
| | MissScarlett: Thanks. I've submitted a couple of offhand games that Labatt won from Capablanca in 1912. |
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Mar-11-19
| | MissScarlett: <There seem to be some evidence that he followed strict Jewish rules already in the Leningrad/Moscow training (1939) tournament.> I knew I'd posted something about this:
Samuel Reshevsky (kibitz #1614) Only I have a memory that at some point in the 1950s/60s, Reshevsky said something about divine punishment for putting his chess career ahead of his religion or family responsibilities, but I'm probably just confusing it with something or someone else. Leave it with me... |
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Mar-16-19
 | | Annie K.: <PB> your game submissions have been processed, at gids 1947589-1947596. :) |
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Mar-17-19
| | Phony Benoni: <AnnieK> Thanks! That's good news, at least for me: I've got a lot of pent7p games to submit. |
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Mar-18-19
| | Tabanus: <PB> I think it has to be nominated as just "Russian Championship" (with a p). |
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