That being said, there are a few caveats:

1) To save time and space, I have used an abbreviated form of PGN which does not include certain fields such as "EventDate". Hopefully, this is not too big of a hassle. Please feel free to ask if you have nay questions.

2) Also, I have omitted notes to the game which clafiy some concerns. Again, ask if you need information.

3) If you happen to check for the games in databases you may well find differences, particularly in opening move order. In general, I have used what appears in ACB unless it is absolutely clear ACB is in error. ACB is not infallible, but this project is meant to record what is found there.

4) In general, I think the scores are in good shape. I have tried to use the <CG> form of names. I have put some effort into verifying event data, but many questions remain. That being said, PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR TYPOS. My poor eyesight makes proofreading very difficult, and I fear that often my best efforts are not good enough. (This is not meant as an excuse, just a reflection of reality.) As always, let me know if you find mistakes or have questions. I have no ego when it comes to accuracy.

5) I have checked all the games for presence in the database, but they should be checked again before uploading. It's been a couple of years since I began the project, and games may have been submitted since then. I haven't checked.

6) In case you're interested, I have also started s similar set of collections for Chess Review. These two meta-collections provide information:

Game Collection: American Chess Bulletin: Years Covered

Game Collection: Chess Review: Years Covered

7) I have been idiosyncratic and not always consistent, since I'm still making up y mind on how to present some information. I was planning to go back and fix this someday, but someday never comes, does it?

Good morning.

You uploaded this intriguing game, with the intriguing annotation <Reinfeld Kill!>.

I added the annotation to the game page:

F Reinfeld vs NN, 1925

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The reason your annotation didn't get published in the actual game score was that the squiggly brackets you used only work inside the body of the pgn. {

If you use those brackets below the pgn, or anywhere else outside the body of the pgn, whatever is inside the brackets will disappear.

I find these brackets to be both ungrateful and rude. Certainly useful, but I find them a bit rude. Not that the people using them are rude- the brackets themselves are rude. And sneaky too. In my view they would benefit from a good thrashing.

Check this out- I will show you a sciencing experiment.

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Here is your name inside of regular, well-socialized brackets:

<[Phony Benoni]>

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Now, here is your name inside of the spoiled misbehaving squiggly brackets:

<♙hony ♗enoni>

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So when you put your (excellent) annotatory comment below your pgn, as soon as I processed it the bad brackets immediately deleted your annotation. Worse, they then committed seppuku so that all trace of your comment and brackets was gone. This way, they avoid getting fingered for the crime.

<Phony Benoni>

To be more precise, to make sure your { annotations are included in the text of the pgn, you may add them at any point before the end of the game score. So lets say the end of the game score is < 19.Nd5 Qxd5 20.Qg5# 1-0.>

In this case, if you put an annotation inside the { brackets, and then insert it <before> the <1-0>, then the annotation will appear in the actual published game score. In this case, it would be the last annotation summing up the game.

I keep forgetting that game submissions are serious stuff, and attempts at humor often do nothing but make your life harder. Sorry about that.

<PB and J>

heh... I knew your epic summary annotation would disappear the second I clicked "process" so I manually imported it.

Look at the response your bon mot got on the actual game page!

Rokhlin vs Carlos Torre, 1925

Good morning.

This is a game you uploaded some time ago from this collection: Game Collection: American Chess Bulletin 1926

Rusbase gives a score with a slightly different move order, and additional moves.

I assume the <American Chess Bulletin> would likely provide the more accurate score?

Just in case though maybe have a look at the Rusbase score and let me know what you think:

[Event "Leningrad International"]
[Site "Leningrad URS"]
[Date "1925.12.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Yakov Geraisimovich Rokhlin"]
[Black "Carlos Torre Repetto"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[Source "rusbase"]

In your 1905 ACB collection of games,

<Game 185 / 537 Daniel, G H - Babbitt, George Harris C50 Boston - New England Boston, MA USA (1.5), 30.05.1905>

should have White as <Daniel, H G>.

I found this both in the ACB (please recheck) and another source.

Perhaps for a moment I confused him with his opponent, <G H Babbitt>.

If you look at the game ID#s before and after Rokhlin vs Carlos Torre, 1925, you discover the games are all from Carlos Torre in the mid-1920s, so they were probably input from some collection of his games.

The <CG> version is identical to the <ACB> version excep t for one spot at the end which I'll get to. <RusBase> does have some variation, but I don't see one until move 27 (not in the opening. (If someone can tell me what I'm missing, i'll appreciate it.)

After <27.Qd2> everybody has reached this position

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CG and ACB continue: 27...g6 28.Re7 Bf6 29.Re3 Rxe3 30.Nxe3 Rd8 31.Qc2 h5 32.Re1 h4 33.gxh4 Bxh4 34.Qe2

RusBase continues: 27...h5 28.Re7 Bf6 29.Re3 Rxe3 30.Nxe3 Rd8 31.Qc2 h4 32.gxh4 Bxh4 33.Re1 g6 34.Qe2

and all sources have reached this position:

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At this point, ACB goes totally wacko (forgive the Descriptive) with <34...R-K1 35.QxQ RxQ 35.Kt-Kt2 DRAWN>

which is impossible, and even worse idiotic. <CG>attempts to rectify this with:

<34...Qxe2 35.Rxe2 Kg7 DRAW>

Which is not convincing, since it does not account for all the moves in ACB and changes a move for no apparent reason.

Rusbase chimes in with:

<34...Qe4 35.Qg4 Re8 36.Qxe4 Rxe4 37.Ng2 Rxe1+ 38.Nxe1 DRAWN>

This seems the most convincing. It implies that ACB simply omitted the moves 34...Qe4 35.Qg4, someting which does happen occasionally.

To sum up, I think you can safely subitute the RusBase version for that now in CG. What we have in the database now seems a failed attempt to fix the faulty ACB version. . RusBase undoubtedly had more and better information than our other sources. (ACB probably got the score fro Torre himself, who wrote notes for the game He may have been working from memory than an actual scoresheet, since White's name is given as "Rockline", obviously a phonetic spelling.)

<Phony Benoni> I can't thank you enough for clearing that up, due to your knowledge on this issue and the hard work you did to figure out the mystery.

Now it has the RusBase score:

<Hello Phony Benoni>, do you have any information about this forgotten pearl, which does not appear in Velasco's 'The Life and Games of Carlos Torre'?

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[Event "New York, (ca 1925)"]
[White "Burgess"]
[Black "Torre Repetto, Carlos"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C11"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 Nfd7 4. d4 e6 5. Nf3 Be7 6. Bd3 c5 7. Be3 Nc6 8. Bb5 O-O 9. Bxc6 bxc6 10. O-O Rb8 11. b3 f6 12. Na4 fxe5 13. dxe5 Qc7 14. Re1 Rf5 15. Bc1 Nxe5 16. Nxe5 Rxe5 17. Rxe5 Qxe5 18. Ba3 d4 19. Nb2 Bd6 20. g3 Qd5 21. Nc4 e5 22. Qh5 g6 23. Qh4

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23... Be7 24. Qh6 Bg5 25. Qxg5 Bh3 26. f3 Qxf3 27. Qd2 Rf8 0-1 White cannot defend the threats of mate on f1 and g2.

Source: Melbourne Weekly Times, 10th May 1930, researched by Alan A. Smith

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<Thank you so much for your fantastic work!!>

Hello,

As a lifelong Michigander, I regret to report that the 1950s-1960s, including the time Donald Byrne spent here, are a lost era in Michigan chess history. The state organization was almost moribund, and there were no publications chronicling information. The figures of that time -- and you might add Leon Stolzenberg to you list -- are little more than long gone, legendary figures.

About the only place information can be found are references in the major national publications like Chess Life, Chess Review, or American Chess Bulletin. And these are few and far between.

Perhaps I can help elsewhere. My main focus in on games rather than historical or biographical information. Since you have been using my collection, I assume you are accumulating games. I still have a number of US OPens to wor on which might contain Byrne games If these would be useful, and I take a break and pullthem out for you.

Whoa <John Donaldson> is a really handsome man eh?

Hard to believe it's been almost fifty years.