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| Dec-13-06 | | Benzol: Q13. Alyekhin failed to win outright 1st prize in the following tournaments 1932 Mexico City 1st & 2nd=
(Euwe took the title in 1935)
1936 Bad Nauheim 1st & 2nd=
1936 Podebrady 2nd
1936 Nottingham 6th
1936 Amsterdam 3rd
(Alyekhin won the title back in 1937 but further investigation needed to verify the exact dates). 1937 Margate 3rd
1937 Kemeri 4th & 5th=
1937 German Quadrangular Tourney 2nd & 3rd=
1938 Plymouth 1st & 2nd=
1938 AVRO 4th, 5th & 6th=
1941 Munich 2nd & 3rd=
1945 Gijon 3rd
1945 Almeria 1st=
1945 Navidad 2nd (This should be the answer to part b). |
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| Dec-13-06 | | percyblakeney: <Q12: Consider the following five tournament scores: * Fenzl, +1 –17 =4 at Vienna 1895-96
* Znosko-Borovsky, +3 –11 =4 at St. Petersburg 1909 * Zastrow, +2 –11 =4 at Berlin 1921-22
* Paul Johner, +2 –7 =4 at Teplitz-Schönau 1922
* Spielmann, +5 –12 at Carlsbad 1923
The five players have this in common: each finished last in his respective tournament. However, one of them failed to do something positive in his tournament, that the other four did do, something very unusual in tournament history. In that sense, which of the five above does not belong? [2 points]> Spielmann won against the tournament winner, so did Zastrow and Johner. Z-B didn't beat the tournament winner and may be the answer (it's impossible to find out anything about Fenzl). |
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Dec-13-06
 | | Sneaky: <“Then came the shock. After the conventional documentary report on the tournament results had been digested, I came to an item of information about the photograph on the cover. It told me, among other things, that the set in the photograph was a prop, furnished by [the magazine’s] staff photographer, due to the fact that —— … did not own a chess set.”> The answer to this one is "Reshevsky." Don't ask me how I know this. I just do. |
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| Dec-13-06 | | thegreatzidane: <Question 11 talks about three chess events that each took place in multiple cities. Each event naturally started in one city. One of these “starting” cities [City #1] in Question 11 was also the city in which a famous American player [Player #1] scored his only tournament victory in an American tournament [Event #1]. The victory of Player #1 in Event #1 took place 50 years before the event [Event #2] began in City #1.> City 1 is New York I think. That was where Morphy won the First American Chess congress and is his only American Tournament win if i am not mistaken. 50 years later, the Lasker-Marshall 1907 WC match was held in the same city. |
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| Dec-14-06 | | thegreatzidane: <<“Then came the shock. After the conventional documentary report on the tournament results had been digested, I came to an item of information about the photograph on the cover. It told me, among other things, that the set in the photograph was a prop, furnished by [the magazine’s] staff photographer, due to the fact that —— … did not own a chess set.”> The answer to this one is "Reshevsky." Don't ask me how I know this. I just do.> I wish I had my GKOMGP Part 4 with me right now. It would make searching information about Reshevsky much easier. |
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| Dec-14-06 | | thegreatzidane: <Q13. Alyekhin failed to win outright 1st prize in the following tournaments
1932 Mexico City 1st & 2nd=
(Euwe took the title in 1935)
1936 Bad Nauheim 1st & 2nd=
1936 Podebrady 2nd
1936 Nottingham 6th
1936 Amsterdam 3rd
(Alyekhin won the title back in 1937 but further investigation needed to verify the exact dates). 1937 Margate 3rd
1937 Kemeri 4th & 5th=
1937 German Quadrangular Tourney 2nd & 3rd=
1938 Plymouth 1st & 2nd=
1938 AVRO 4th, 5th & 6th=
1941 Munich 2nd & 3rd=
1945 Gijon 3rd
1945 Almeria 1st=
1945 Navidad 2nd (This should be the answer to part b).> Early in 1934, he finished 2nd in Hastings behind Flohr. |
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| Dec-14-06 | | sneaky pete: Q22/32 "One of the participants [Player #3] in Event #2 shares a birthday (the same day and month, not the same year) with a grandmaster [Player #4] from one of the countries involved with the correct answers to Question 5. Finally, one player [player #5] also shares the same birthday (same day and month, not the same year) as Player #4." Conclusion: players #3 and #5 were born the same day and the same month - but nothing in the text precludes they were born not only the same year, but are in fact one and the same player. <Sneaky> identified quite apodictically Reshevsky as answer to Q1, which means he is also Player #6 (Q31), who in 1936 succeeded Marshall
(Player #5, Q30) as his country's national champion. Marshall is also player #3, one of the participants in the 1907 Lasker vs Marshall match, starting in New York (the Q11b event),
if earlier suggestions about Q22/23/24/25 are correct. The German Democratic Republic (DDR) didn't play at the 1982 Lucerne Olympiad, may be the registered team that didn't show up (Q5). Marshall was born August 10 (1877). Can anyone dig up an East German grandmaster with the same birthday? |
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Dec-14-06
 | | Joshka: <cu8sfan> Thnaks for the info on Macintosh, but I have to use "Safari" as my browser, Internet Microsoft explorer sucks big time. too many freeze ups and i have to reboot........maybe this winter Im going to get another laptop with windows xp..thanks again for your help....couple months away till spring training!!!..Go Cubs and Go Tribe!!! |
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| Dec-14-06 | | sneaky pete: Q11c is about the 1964 Bobby Fischer exhibition tour. Next stop (after Toledo and Chicago) was Baton Rouge. I posted answers for Q11a and Q11b in the cafe yesterday. |
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| Dec-15-06 | | thegreatzidane: <Q11c is about the 1964 Bobby Fischer exhibition tour. Next stop (after Toledo and Chicago) was Baton Rouge.> Any idea when the tournament ended? |
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| Dec-15-06 | | thegreatzidane: <identified quite apodictically Reshevsky as answer to Q1, which means he is also Player #6 (Q31), who in 1936 succeeded Marshall (Player #5, Q30) as his country's national champion. Marshall is also player #3, one of the participants in the 1907 Lasker vs Marshall match, starting in New York (the Q11b event), if earlier suggestions about Q22/23/24/25 are correct.> Thats the tricky part. I couldnt find any other American players who only won an American tournament once in his life other than Morphy. In addition, the tournament he won was also held 50 years before the Lasker-Marshal match in the same city. The main problem is the player 3 and player 5. If Reshevsky is player 6, then definetly player 5 must be Marshall since he got the title from him. On the other hand, player 3 must also be Marshall, since Lasker is born on the 24th December. |
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| Dec-15-06 | | sneaky pete: <thegreatzidane> Last stop of the 1964 Fischer exhibition tour was May 31, State College, Pennsylvania. "The projected finale, the 100-board exhibition in New York City scheduled for early June, never came off." Last game (15) of the 1907 L vs M match was played April 6 and 8, last game (25) of the 1929 A vs B match November 11 and 12. This seems to rule out Reshevsky (born November 26) as player #6 (and correct answer Q1) and in consequence
Marshall as player #5. Capablanca, born november 19, is also disqualified as player #6 (and correct answer Q1). Nigel Short, mentioned as candidate answer to Q1, was born June 1, one day after, not before, the Fischer tour ended. Two straws: Reshevsky, born 1911 as a subject of the Russian empire, may have had 2 birthdays, Julian and Gregorian. The 1929 A vs B match may have been continued, after the final score 15,5-9,5 was reached, with the scheduled games 26/30 as exhibition games, thus stretching the event until around Capablanca's birthday. |
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Dec-15-06
 | | cu8sfan: <chesscafe.com quiz> Some hints in French: http://www.france-echecs.com/index.... |
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| Dec-15-06 | | sneaky pete: <cu8sfan> Nice link. Unfortunately the French kibitzers didn't find out much more yet than we did here. "The correct answer to Question #2 contains a word often associated with a member of the highest grade of the British peerage [Person #1]." I believe (I couldn't locate the entire text) the poem of Q2 is "Une revanche de Waterloo", and Waterloo is easily associated with the Duke of Wellington. Morphy played a famous game against Duke Karl of Brunswick. |
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| Dec-16-06 | | thegreatzidane: <"The correct answer to Question #2 contains a word often associated with a member of the highest grade of the British peerage [Person #1]." I believe (I couldn't locate the entire text) the poem of Q2 is "Une revanche de Waterloo", and Waterloo is easily associated with the Duke of Wellington. Morphy played a famous game against Duke Karl of Brunswick.> I thought so too. Whne I flipped through my dicitonary to check out Waterloo, I too found the person Duke of Wellington. Morphy played a famous game with Duke Karl of Brunswick where he sacrificed nearly all his pieces to give mate with only two of his remaining pieces. Since our answers from Q22-Q27 are all linked, I hink there should not be any mistake at that part. The only problem is Q28-Q33. Alekhine-Bogo match was schedule to play until 30 games. However they finished ahead of schedule at the 11th of November. Lasker-Marshall match finished at the 6th of April. Fischer's exhibition tour finished on the 31st April. Of all these 3 dates, none of the players I knew who does not own a chess set birth date are one day before these dates. Either I am missing something like stated above, Reshevsky has 2 birth date or the events's closing date are wrong. |
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Dec-16-06
| | cu8sfan: Taken from the French site:
<Q17 : pistes par Camelot, le 14-12-2006 à 18:03:23
1/ Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - British soldiers playing chess
2/ 13 Rue Madeline (1946) - soldiers playing chess
3/ Babette's Feast (1987) - two soldiers play chess
4/ Dances With Wolves (1990) - two soldiers playing chess
5/ Human Comedy, The (1943) - soldiers studying a chess position
source : http://www.geocities.com/siliconval... > All these movies are set in a time when chess was well known in Europe. The movie they're looking for must be set in the very early Middle Ages or earlier. There's a chess scene in Kingdom of Heaven but it's not two soldiers playing and the 12th century is already to late ("at the time in which the film is set, chess was unknown in Europe, nor probably anywhere else."). The movie must be set in Roman times or even earlier. Maybe this site will help: http://movie-chess.hemobile.de/ |
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| Dec-16-06 | | queengrabber: sneaky: The German Democratic Republic (DDR) didn't play at the 1982 Lucerne Olympiad, may be the registered team that didn't show up (Q5). Marshall was born August 10 (1877). Can anyone dig up an East German grandmaster with the same birthday? I'm not sure that DDR is part of the answer to Q5. I would think maybe Uganda or Switzerland. |
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| Dec-16-06 | | thegreatzidane: <queengrabber> Q5 must be the Ugandan team. The Ugandan team showed up in time but at the wrong city in Lugano. |
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| Dec-16-06 | | queengrabber: Q5 has a two-part answer: the team is Uganda, and the city is Lugano.
Q29 deals with one of these two answers. As it mentions a grandmaster, I would say that the answer to Q29 is a swiss grandmaster. |
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| Dec-17-06 | | sneaky pete: "... 94 teams applied, of which 2 (the African sides Gambia and Mauritania) did not arrive at Lucerne." From a site on the Luzern 1982 Olympiad, where Uganda and Lugano as correct answer to Q5 is confirmed. The GDR (DDR) is out, they didn't participate but were not expected. I can't think of a GM from one of the African countries involved. Which Swiss GM's do we have except Korchnoi (born March 23) and Gallagher (born May 4)? |
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Dec-17-06
| | cu8sfan: <Which Swiss GM's do we have except Korchnoi (born March 23) and Gallagher (born May 4)?> Yannick Pelletier, born Sep-22-1976 Vadim Milov, born Aug-01-1972 Florian Jenni, born Mar-24-1980 Lucas Brunner, birthdate unknown These are just active Swiss GMs. The question only says "Grandmaster". Might be an inactive one. |
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Dec-17-06
| | cu8sfan: I missed Ivan Nemet, born Apr-14-1943 |
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Dec-17-06
| | cu8sfan: Knowing the chesscafe quiz, it might also be a correspondence GM. |
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| Dec-17-06 | | thegreatzidane: <Swiss GM> I have tried searching in Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I could not find any Swiss GM born on August 10 or 24 Discember. |
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| Dec-19-06 | | Resignation Trap: The player in photo Q34 is Davide Marotti and that in Q35 is Eugene Aleksandrovich Znosko-Borovsky , and both photos can be found here: http://www.chessgraphics.net/congre... . The player in photo Q36 is Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky , and the photo is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexan... . The player in photo Q37 is Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko as can be seen in http://www.mountain.ru/people/Ickov... . No idea on Q33, sorry! |
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