<I know that atleast in Sweden we write it like, middle name, first name, middle name last name, atleast when we have multiple middle names. I atleast presume that they do the same in Norway, hence Sven being written first.>

Is this true? Might that mean Magnus always was his first name?

And if not, would a child be given the choice, or would it have been his parents usage?

I like to think we are the source for Wiki, not the other way-around.

<Petrosianic: <That's the point of my comparing the diminutive forms, we don't use "Sammy" here for Reshevsky>

You may not, but I do. And he used it himself when he was in his 60's. That was the byline on his column: "The Art of Positional Play, by Sammy Reshevsky". If you don't use it, you should.>

The Social Security Numerical Identification Files online give Gatscha's place of birth as <Panten Bohem*, Czechoslovakia>. This is rendered as <Pauten, Tepl, Bohemia, Austria> in his Fam...Search family tree. This would be Pauten, Teplitz District, West Bohemia which is now Poutnov, Cheb District, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic (Pauten is the German name of the town). Johann/John Gatscha's father was Engelbert Gatscha. There is an 1881 reference to him at Pauten here:

I'm avoiding bios/names of those who didn't play chess prior to 1914 (I'm drawing a line at the start of commercial airline travel!).

Can someone verify the date and place of death for Carl Erickson?

I was able to track him through his movements and I nailed his birth date and location as well as his first and middle names, but confirming that last piece of data eludes me (I do see "Alberta, Canada" but the rest is blurred out).

In a previous discussion about the identity of the Belgian player L de Rives here (see Biographer Bistro and Biographer Bistro), there was mention of a <Ch. Loyer de Rives> who published a chess magazine at Brussels during the first decade of the twentieth century. Included was a link to a death notice for a <Charles Loyer de Rives> placed in a French newspaper by his wife <Madame Loyer de Rives de Bosredon> in 1923.

There is a listing in an 1887 bibliography of a <Marcelin-Laurent de Rives>, also known as <Laurenci de Rives>, who wrote under the pseudonym <Hippolyte Bosredon> or signed his pieces <L. de R.>. His vital dates are give there as born in 1820 at St-Antoine, near Villeneuve-sur-Lot, died on July 18, 1871 at Brussels:

https://www.google.com/books/editio...

The fact that the chessplayer L de Rives has a game from 1877 here might lead one to eliminate <Marcelin-Laurent de Rives> from any consideration of being him. But things are not so simple...

The 1877 game, de Rives vs C Leffmann, 1877, is misdated. The source given for it is <Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1874, p. 209>. Checking that source (https://www.google.com/books/editio...) we see that it dates the game as being played on 1873.11.17.

Also, a Dutch/Belgian genealogy website has three records for a <François Marcelin Hypolite de Rives>; one marriage record for himself and two marriage records for his daughter Hélène:

https://www.openarchieven.nl/search...

According to these records <François Marcelin Hypolite de Rives> was a resident of Brussels who was born Oct. 24, 1817 at Saint-Antoine, Lot-et-Garonne, FRA, the son of Charles & Catherine Hélène (née du Vignau) de Rives. He married Sophie Caroline Bakelandt, on Nov. 3, 1869 at Brussels. According to his daughter Hélène's first marriage record from 1891, François died on July 17, 1876 at Brussels. (It should be noted that Hélène's second husband's name was <Charles Louis Marie Loyer> and that he was born in 1862 at Pontchâteau, FRA, i.e. around the same time and at the same place as the <Charles Loyer de Rives> mentioned above.)

<Marcelin-Laurent de Rives> (1820-1871)

Would seem to excluded him due to the (now corrected) game <de Rives vs C Leffmann, 1873>. Unless those birth/death years are wrong.

I do find it interesting that he wrote under the name <Hippolyte Bosredon> and that the other name you uncovered is François Marcelin <Hypolite> de Rives (1817-1876).

It definitely feels like they could be the same person with the first set of years being an estimate or error. The second set of years would definitely account for the 1873 game vs Leffmann.

I think the Regina address was an old address that the Veterans Administration had for Erickson. (The card for Erickson that gives the Regina address is from the <United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940>. Aside from the notations at the top, the death date is the only part that is hand-written on it.)

There is a death notice in the <Edmonton Journal>, 1957.08.03, p20, that says, <"On August 2nd, aged 79 years, Carl Herman Erickson of Government House, Edmonton, Alberta.">

According to Wikipedia, the 'Government House' referred to was then being used as a convalescent home for veterans:

"...and moved around a lot before settling in California as a hospital ward assistant."

Always submit a player <new to CG> with the full legal name. This allows us to have that information for the biography box. Once a biography gets started the name used for the <long name> and <short name> will get updated to the CG spec for those fields:

Game Collection: Individual Player Names

The full legal name should always appear in the biography box (when known and a biography is started). The <long name> is what is used by the CG search forms on the homepage and the <short name> is what appears on the search results pages. Then there are names that become aliases when two profiles are merged. These aliases are used to match PGN name tags to the proper player.

Too many cooks spoil the broth... inform away!

I submitted this correction, but it remains un-updated. There was never a "Howard S. Easton". Only a erroneous arrangement of his legal name.

Stephen Howard Easton
September 05, 1880 - March 26, 1952

https://best-in-chess.blogspot.com/...

(1942) Providence, Rhode Island;
(d.) Providence County, Rhode Island;
(b.) Cemetery Forest Chapel Cemetery, Barrington, Bristol County, Rhode Island

Boston Evening Transcript, Boston, Massachusetts, Friday, April 20, 1906, p. 9 "In the evening, E. Lasker, champion of the world, gave a simultaneous exhibition on thirty boards in remarkably fast time, finishing in about four hours, or shortly after midnight. Lasker won twenty-four, drew three with H. S. Easton of Providence..."

Rhode Island Championship
The annual meeting of the Rhode Island Chess Association... before the play that the winner would be the successor to the State champion, S. Howard Easton, who retired from the play, and was not a contestant.

https://www.google.com/books/editio...

EASTON, Stephen Howard, manufacturer, was born in Central Falls, Rhode Island, September 5, 1880, son of Nicholas Howard and Mary Ella (Jenks) Easton. His first paternal American ancestor was Nicholas Easton (q.v.), who came to this country from Wales in 1634 and was a founder of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1639.

https://www.google.com/books/editio...

U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 for Stephen Howard Easton Rhode Island > Providence > Brown University > 1903

Everett R Perry

I still believe a tool for disambiguation would help resolve a lot of difficulty... whether "Bobby" or "Robert" or "Tschigorin" or "Chigorin" or "Wainstein" or "Vainshtein" you are given direction to the correct profile.

A related example would be a Chat GPT, that could probably tell users the name they are searching for.

If you ask "who was the chess player named wainstein" -- AI replies: "The chess player named Samuil Weinstein (also known as Samuil Vainshtein or Samuil Wajnsztejn) was a prominent Russian chess master, organizer, and editor during the early 20th century."