For quite a few years this site has been on auto-pilot with essentially no maintenance. Unfortunately, this has lead to several comments being neglected, and many links going stale. For all those who noticed – I apologize. The links, hopefully have been fixed, and I hope to review the unmoderated comments sometime soon. One of…
The Gyor (1924) tournament book has an appendix of what it considers important chess tournaments, which appears on pp 25-27. I should translate it into English and repost it, but it’s pretty much comprehensible as is, so I’ll just post it raw for the moment. Maroczy was a major contributor to the tb, but I’m…
Visual Puzzle No. ??? Long overdue – the visual puzzle theme has been neglected for far too long. This time I don’t know the answer(*), so we’re on equal footing. OK, let’s start with this nice illustration of the players at San Sebastian (1911): This illustration comes from the very stylish Chess Marginalia chess site:…
A dollop of Liebwerda… I was doing some research on tournaments in 1934 and came across a tournament, Liebwerda (1934), won by Salo Flohr. It’s an interesting tournament, run by the German chess association of Czechoslovakia (deutsche Schachverband in der Tschechoslowakei (1)), not often mentioned. (More basic research is needed, obviously, but that’s another post).…
Came across this while doing some other research – thought it worth extracting to share: In case you were wondering, the books on the floor, next to very young Kashdan studying by the midnight oil, are entitled “Life of Morphy” and “Chess Games” (as best as I can make out). Obviously I have a soft…
This series is ongoing, check back for updates…. [Please note – entries are good when added, but the internet being what it is, some images may break as time goes on. The link on the right may still be good, however, or it may not. I will attempt to fix this from time to time,…
WSZ / DSZ Online Versions of Weiner Schachzeitung (mostly thanks to Calli): (Series 1 – Falkbeer) 1855 http://books.google.com/books?id=wR… (Series 2 – Berger, Gold) 1887 https://books.google.com/books?id=vLVXDQifeXEC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0 (Series 3 – Fähndrich, Halprin, Macro initially) 1898 Vol 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=Pi… 1899 Vol II http://books.google.com/books?id=nR… 1900 http://books.google.com/books?id=vy… 1901 http://books.google.com/books?id=lR… 1902 http://books.google.com/books?id=sh… 1903 http://books.google.com/books?id=7x… 1904 http://books.google.com/books?id=eh… 1905 http://books.google.com/books?id=nR… 1906 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.3901… 1907 http://books.google.com/books?id=t2… 1908 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.3901… 1909 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210… 1910 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210… 1911 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210… 1912 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210… 1913 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210… 1914 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.3210… 1915 http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a… 1916 http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/a… 1917-1922 not…
Having done some tactical training I stumbled across a great position in an early Lilienthal game. That started me down the road of researching his emergence as a competitive master, which places him roughly as a contemporary of Eliskases. Researching both of them, I can across an early autobiography of Eliskases, written by him…
Many of the world’s leading chess tournaments use it extensively, and it really is a versatile and useful site listing a great deal of useful information about a given tournament, in an easy to maneuver and well-organized fashion, including xtab listings. But trying to understand, and replicate, the tiebreak systems utilized can be a great…
THE CHESS DIVAN. The lights extinguished, closed is the Divan, And weary Simpson and his wearier man Seek home and smiling supper which awaits The men whose homes are graced with smiling mates. The husbands did not smile; they’d tarried long, While a strong player, matched ‘gainst one as strong, Could scarcely mould his men…
[ed- This is a working document, valuable enough for immediate publication, but in need of additional editing/translation improvements/and other sundry improvements. This notice will be removed at some point in the future, so check back.] Various vignettes of the Cafe de la Regence: While doing some background research to supplement that of J.N. Pope’s treatment…
1st Cafe de la Regence Masters Tournament – (Paris 1902) — Quandangular – Janowski, Taubenhaus, von Scheve, Alpin 4-player RR2⁽¹⁾ Sep. 16 – Sep. 27, 1902 at the Cafe de la Regence, Paris FRA. . (Drawing of lots on Sep. 13th.) Time Control⁽¹⁾: …
17e Aeroflot Open – Group A (2019) z-PGN: https: //drive.google.com/open?id=1dp4o0I2F1DG8rRIZ4sXYxzjzhFC6bD7O (R9 final, i.e. C-R complete) Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr403175.aspx?lan=1&turdet=YES TWIC: http://ruchess.ru/en/championship/detail/2019/aeroflot_open_2019/ CG: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=94828 Official Site: http://www.acfed.ru/tournament/aeroflot-open-2016/en/ . http://ruchess.ru/en/championship/detail/2019/aeroflot_open_2019/ SCID Swiss xtab (click on image to enlarge) >>> xtab Aeroflot Open 2019 – Group A Federation : Russia ( RUS )…
Multi-language chess vocabulary: Chess Vocabulary in 17 Languages: http://chess.granz.de/ch_vocab.html English language sources: USA: Associated Press: http://www.aparchive.com/ Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841-1955): https://www.newspapers.com/title_18… California newspapers 1846-1922: http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc California Chess History Archives: http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/ Chess Archaeology: http://www.chessarch.com/ Chicago Tribune: http://archives.chicagotribune.com/ (pay site – but free searches) Connecticut Illustrated History: https://connecticuthistoryillustrated.org/ Fulton NY newspapers: http://www.fultonhistory.com/fulton… Georgia newspapers…
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