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May-16-20
 | | WannaBe: I've always found it interesting, that Professional Sports Teams are always a Club, a lot more often used virtually everywhere outside of U.S... Manchester United Soccer Club would be such an example. But I have rarely, or never heard the Green Bay Packers Football Club, Boston Bruins Hockey Club. Or the New York Yankees Baseball Club. |
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May-16-20
 | | jnpope: US sports used Club. We still have artifacts of it like the baseball club house, etc. And I see the term used for professional team names in old newspapers. It looks like the usage in the US dropped when sports teams became incorporated business entities. |
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May-17-20
 | | Annie K.: That's interesting. Well, at least as far as Hungarian goes, the article you pointed me to was about the results of the re-election/appointment of the "Chess Circle"'s officers, so they clearly meant a Club by that definition. And while I'm here, ;) have you republished your Pillsbury biography yet? If you haven't, I remember that some years ago we turned up that Pillsbury's wife remarried and lived to 83 - I still think it might be worth including a mention of this fact, given Pillsbury's strongly suspected COD being a highly contagious STD. That's your call though. :) |
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May-17-20
| | jnpope: <re-election/appointment of the "Chess Circle"'s officers, so they clearly meant a Club by that definition. > Not necessarily. Circles could still have officers. It's just that a Circle was less formal than a Club, particularly in regards to membership. Circles tended to be a group with an "open door" policy. The Paris Cercle des Echecs that met at the Cafe de la Regence for example. Players came and went. Clubs, like the British Chess Club or New York Chess Club, were more strict with memberships either by being voted in, or requiring membership dues to keep out the "lower class" riff-raff. As for Pillsbury. Two volumes are basically finished. I have some proofsheets I need to run by a printer to make sure things will come out as desired, but the printing house I have lined-up is currently shut-down so I'm just waiting for my regional covid19 lockdown to be lifted before I can get moving on physical copies... although I'm seriously thinking about releasing the books as digital downloads at this point. I have some research on Pillsbury's wife, but it really wasn't germane to Pillsbury's life so about the only coverage she gets is whatever occurred when she was with Harry. I don't delve into her first marriage or third marriage. Basically it was hard enough cramming all the chess and checker games and chronicling Pillsbury's life into 1500+ pages. |
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May-18-20
| | jnpope: I was doing a little house-cleaning over at the Chess Archaeology library page and spent the evening doing an audit of the issues of <Chess Journal>/<Brownson's Chess Journal>/<Dubuque Chess Journal> that are available online. It looks like the 'net is lacking ten issues, nos. 17-26 (July 1871 through April 1872). The remaining 150 issues appear to be available. Far too often other material seems to have been bound with the Journal issues and Google has some serious page duplication problems in a few files which makes reading the "set" rather laborious at times. |
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May-27-20
| | jnpope: Getting ready to migrate the chessarch website to another platform this weekend. There may be a slight interruption in reaching the site after the DNS update occurs... so don't panic. The site and I are still here. :-) |
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May-30-20
| | jnpope: Ok, the Co-Lo folks are planning on migrating the Chessarch site for me: Expected Downtime: None
Date: 01.06.2020 - 07.06.2020
I think they are planning to copy everything over and let me test it next week on the new platform before changing over the DNS entries, so hopefully this goes smoothly. I did make a back-up of the entire site on 5/27 so I should be safe in the case of total disaster. |
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Jun-07-20
| | jnpope: The re-location of chessarch.com has begun. It looks like it might be a little rougher due to some last minute suggestions by senior engineer at the co-lo. They are going to make chessarch a virtual host beneath another one of my web properties, so there may be some slight problems with headers/footers as I flush out the physical path vs virtual path differences (some of the back-end code uses physical directory paths which will be changing). Overall it will be a good thing for me as all of my stuff will be on the same box and controlled through similar means. Bad news is that transition will probably be noticeable until I fix all the pathing issues... c'est la vie. |
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Jun-12-20
| | jnpope: Ok, Name Server changes submitted so we shall see what happens over the course of the weekend... stay tuned. |
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Jun-13-20
| | Annie K.: Good luck, Nick. Hope everything goes well. :) |
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Jun-13-20
| | jnpope: <Annie> Thanks. Everything looks good so far. I had to change my MX and some email redirects but so far so good.
If anyone notices anything amiss at the CA site just let me know. The important stuff (i.e. Jack O'Keefe Project) appears to be fully functional. I haven't checked out the entire site yet. I will probably spider it later this week and look for any internal dead links, but if you notice something not working please let me know. |
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| Dec-07-22 | | stone free or die: Long time since the last post...
This might be a better place than the Bistro, agreed, but perhaps not as good as on Pillsbury page itself. (My general feeling is that personal forums are suspect for discussions needing permanence, given the forum's impermanence. Consider the Librarian account.
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Dec-07-22
| | jnpope: Reports about "production" problems (typos, etc.) can be posted here. Discussions about the new discoveries regarding Pillsbury's life/games do belong in the Pillsbury forum. Research questions probably belong in the Bistro. |
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| Dec-07-22 | | stone free or die: That's not too bad a "division of labor". |
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Dec-08-22
| | jnpope: It is oft stated that no plan survives first contact with the enemy, and clearly no publication survives first contact with the public. Volume 1, p493, hard rule line is missing before the dark green box for 1899.08.29. Volume 2, p580, in the light green box, "December" should be "January". You can stare at something for years, have it proofread by others, but yet, somehow, only after publication will errors jump out at you and shout "boo!" |
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Dec-08-22
| | jnpope: December 8 version fixing those two gaffes has been uploaded. At this point I'm very thankful about not doing a physical publication first! |
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Dec-11-22
 | | MissScarlett: Vol.II, p.458, Game #1210, blindfold simul vs. Prokopowski. <ILN> date should be <1902.11.08, p707>, not <1902.11.22, p787>. Page 788 actually carries that week's column. This is the first game reference I've checked, so hardly a propitious start. |
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Dec-11-22
| | jnpope: The game against Ohs is also wrongly attributed. The photocopies I got from Jack have the wrong dates/pages written on the back. *sigh* |
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Dec-11-22
| | jnpope: Jack was fairly meticulous in his citations so I'm puzzled and also embarrassed for not double checking the material he gave me once I had access to an online resource. Regardless I'm changing the dating/pages to the version available via the britishnewspaperarchive. |
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Dec-11-22
| | jnpope: Ok, just to be safe I ran through the remaining ILN citations in vol. 2; games 653, 688, 1074, 1359, and 1396 from the ILN, all via Jack, have good citations. Only games 1208 and 1210 had bum citations. |
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Dec-11-22
| | jnpope: An updated volume 2 is uploaded. |
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Dec-14-22
| | jnpope: Spelling corrections to German text on page 485 in volume 2 (updated and uploaded): BerathungSpartieen=Berathungspartieen
getrossen=getroffen
Thanks to User: mifralu |
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Dec-14-22
| | jnpope: Grumble, grumble, grumble...
I "fixed" game 1147 (Pillsbury vs Swiderski, 1902) and added the <Deutsches Wochenschach und Berliner Schachzeitung>, v18 n37, 14 September 1902, pp304-305 as a source and also indicated the problem with the tournament book version (in the citation). Also a few cases the <Cornish Chronicle> were missing the Penzance city prefix so those were updated. Which then required an update to the bibliography index. |
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Dec-30-22
 | | OhioChessFan: I've found some newspaper articles about an Ajeeb appearance in Cincinnati in July/August 1888. If you have any interest, I'll check them out. If not, that's fine. |
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Dec-30-22
| | jnpope: I've done a fairly comprehensive survey of the Moehle operated Ajeeb during the Cincinnati expo, so I probably already have that material. But you can post it here or in the Ajeeb forum if you just want to share it with the members. Anything furthering discussions is a good thing. |
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