Jan-01-10 brankat chessforum 
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| Anyi: Happy New Year wishes from me, too, <Brankat>.
Recently I have been working a lot and there was no time for CG - in the new year I'll try to be here more often... |
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Dec-30-09 Akiba Rubinstein
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| Anyi: Am looking forward to hearing from you <TheFocus>. "Akiba" is the German version of "Akiva", as you can see from the Wikipedia article on the famous Rabbi Akiva ben Josef: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi_... It may be that Rubinstein went for the German version of his name ... |
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Jul-05-09 Emanuel Lasker
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| Anyi: Have been at the Lasker rapid chess memorial in Thyrow today (my result: somewhere in the middle).
Thyrow is a little village near Berlin where Lasker had his summer residence.
The house is still standing, but slowly falling apart due to lack in financial means.
I made a a very short ... |
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Jun-23-09 Samy Rubinstein
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| Anyi: I guess Samy Rubinstein loved painting too much to become a chess player of grandmaster level.
His rating was about 2200.
Btw, I plan to translate a CREB interview with him into English and to publish it on my website... |
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Apr-12-09 Calli chessforum
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| Anyi: Thank you very much <Calli>!
Of course the same to you!
The sunshine is glorious here in the moutains where I'm spending four days of relaxation in midst of woods and valleys... |
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Feb-13-09 parisattack chessforum
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| Anyi: Hi <parisattack>! As a translator and chess lover I am of course very interested in chess literature, and will often come here, too.
For my research I am in particular interested in Yiddish and Hebrew chess literature from the early 20th century. You know, it's all connected to ... |
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Feb-12-09 Pyke chessforum
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| Anyi: Hi <Pyke>, thanks for your encouraging comment in the Lasker forum! I'll definitely continue my research in the next months, as I'm moving to a big city with huge and extensive libaries...
Btw, according to Kasparov, Botvinnik was much inspired by Rubinstein's approach to the ... |
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Jan-19-09 Rubinstein vs Znosko-Borovsky, 1909
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| Anyi: After WWI Rubinstein reminded Lasker of their contract for a match, and even held a speech at a simultan display in 1920 asking for a triangular world championship match between Lasker, Capablanca, and him, (see book by Donaldson and Minev, p. 370), but at that time and onwards he had ... |
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Jan-16-09 Travis Bickle chessforum
Jan-07-09 Karpova chessforum
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| Anyi: Hi <karpova>, for my latest short story I am looking for a picture of Frank Marshall's cemetery, and <brankat> wrote: <Frank Marshall was most likely buried somewhere in New York City. I can't remember it now, but there was a hyper-link somewhere around here to a site ... |
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