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| Oct-11-11 | | JustAFish: There's a really interesting picture of Jay Whitehead- complete with frilly shirt and choker- in Jeremy Silman's book "The Reassess Your Chess Workbook." |
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| Oct-11-11 | | Prugno: Hoping to distract from the tragedy of his premature death with a little pun, I would like to point out that Mr. Whitehead's surname is the exact translation of "Capablanca". His style, however, looks more aggressive than the Cuban's... |
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| Oct-11-11 | | Agent Bouncy: "Capa" means cape or cloak, not head. |
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| Oct-11-11 | | I play the Fred: <Cabezablanca> would be correct, I think. |
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Oct-19-11
 | | ketchuplover: RIP please |
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| Jan-07-12 | | Caissanist: The US Junior was apparently not the only tournament where he used pseudonyms, there is also this: Withead vs S Biyiasas, 1984 . |
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Feb-07-12
 | | GrahamClayton: Whitehead is possibly the only US player to have finished ahead of Garry Kasparov in a tournament, finishing 2nd in the 1977 World U-17 championship (Kasparov finished 3rd). |
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Feb-08-12
 | | HeMateMe: Thats a great trivia question, regarding Kasparov. |
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| Mar-13-12 | | esundel: i remember the whitehead twins quite well. i drew against paul once in a friendly time odds blitz game. pity about jay, i hadn't heard till now. anyone know how paul is faring? |
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| Mar-13-12 | | Granny O Doul: Not quite twins; Paul was a year or so older. That's all I know. |
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| Mar-13-12 | | esundel: <Granny O Doul> We all thought of them as twins back then even though they were quite different in personality and age. they were twins on the junior rating list. i knew them both as acquaintances. |
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| Mar-27-12 | | ekw: Hello all. I spent the last month helping Jay out in San Diego and then San Francisco; he passed the last week at the Zen Hospice Guest House on Page Street, with his mother present. His brother Paul made it in for a week (from Virginia, where he's lived for many years). |
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| Mar-29-12 | | Whitehat1963: No relation. |
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| Jun-28-15 | | epistle: Mukhang ayaw ng magporkas ni jayz a. Nakoryente e, bwahaha. |
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| Oct-29-15 | | zanzibar: A little more background about his historical database via Sam Sloan: < I (ed-Sam Sloan) just let him stay as a service to the
chess community, as I often have done.
The reason he wanted to stay in my residence in Brooklyn was he was
going to the New York Public Library every day to research old chess
manuscripts. The New York Public Library is the largest library in the
world and has many documents that no other library has. Whitehead had
a list of newspapers that had published chess columns in the period
around 1830-1850 and every day Whitehead was going there to write down
every game he could find. One of these newspapers was the Bristol
Mercury from Bristol, England.
In 2001, I had to tell him that he could no longer stay at my place
because I had gotten married and had a child, so I could not keep any
men in my family home. About a year later, I received an email from
him saying that he was living in the San Francisco Bay Area, but the
hard disk on his computer had gone bad so he had lost all the data he
had collected. Since he had been using my computers in my home in
Brooklyn New York, he asked me to send him his computer file that he
had left on my computer. Fortunately, I still had the file, so I sent
it to him. I am sure that I still have the file on one of my old
computers and I will search for it when I have time.> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!t... |
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| Oct-29-15 | | zanzibar: See also these posts:
H W Popert (kibitz #57) H W Popert (kibitz #66) |
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| Oct-29-15 | | zanzibar: A good picture (maybe the best?) is at Sam Sloan's site: http://anusha.com/jaywhite.jpg
There's also this (from M Ginsburg's site):
https://nezhmet.files.wordpress.com...
J Whitehead is 2nd from left (see autographs on picture as well) |
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Oct-29-15
 | | jnpope: And another post about the Jay Whitehead database when I was involved: Morphy vs NN, 1850 |
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| Oct-30-15 | | zanzibar: Here's a list of players/games for those players with more than 100 games in Whitehead's database: <
877 Cochrane, John
817 un
781 Staunton, Howard
717 Anderssen, Karl Ernst Adolf
704 Harrwitz, Daniel
695 ?
659 Cochrane
500 Bonnerji, Mahescandra
499 Mahescandra
459 Lasa, Tassilo v H und der
439 Morphy, Paul Charles
374 Paulsen, Louis
369 Lowenthal, Johann Jacob
368 Williams, Elijah
331 Mayet, Carl
297 Kieseritzky, Lionel Adalbert B.F
293 Lange, Max
272 Horwitz, Bernhard
267 Walker, George
255 Kennedy, Hugh Alexander
240 Guttock, Somacarana
238 Mongredien, Augustus
232 Somacarana
221 Stanley, Charles Henry
221 Kolisch, Ignatz F. von
216 team
214 McDonnell, Alexander
214 Neumann, Gustav Rich. Ludwig
209 Steinitz, Wilhelm
207 Spreckley, George Stormont
197 Boden, Samuel Standidge
192 Perigal, George
187 Medley, George Webb
187 Riviere, Jules Arnous de la
180 Suhle, Berthold
172 Bird, Henry Edward
164 Eckstadt, Conrad W Vitzthum v
160 Falkbeer, Ernst Karl
159 Schulten, John William
147 Hanstein, Wilhelm
143 Slous, Frederick Lokes
138 Bourdonnais, Louis Chas. M de la
136 Perrin, Frederick
129 Saint Amant, Pierre Charles F de
128 Walker*, George
126 Brien, Robert Barnett
124 Buckle, Henry Thomas
121 Barnes, Thomas Wilson
121 Hirschbach, Hermann
119 Hirschbach*, Hermann
117 Deacon, Frederick Horace
114 Lewis, William
113 Hirschfeld, Philipp
111 Szen, Jozsef
111 Smith, C. F.
106 Goltz, Alex. Ferdinand v.d
105 Withers, John
103 Marache, Napoleon
103 Emmett, J. F.
103 Fenton, Vivian
101 Macdonnell, George Alcock
101 Mackenzie, George Henry
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Note: I didn't try to merge any names together, e.g. Cochrane and Cochrane* are considered separate entries. |
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Nov-08-15
| | jnpope: <Note: I didn't try to merge any names together, e.g. Cochrane and Cochrane* are considered separate entries.> Which is a good thing. From what I've seen most of the asterisk appended names just mean that it is a line or NN vs NN game given by that author in the source material Jay was using. For example the Walker,George* games all seem to come from "Chess Studies" (so far) where Walker doesn't give the names of the players. In those cases Jay just attributes the game to Walker,George* in the White field and no opponent in the Black field. This may have been due to the number of fields he was limited to back in the days of ChessBase 3.0. I've been slowly going through "Chess Studies" (for a couple months now) verifying games found in Jay's database. I'm up to game 833 and so far I've only discovered two games that he missed. |
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Nov-27-15
 | | Domdaniel: <LIFE Master AJ> displays his usual staggering tact here, asking < [Does he even play chess anymore?]> shortly after Jay's death. Much too young. Though AJ does not return to comment on this. |
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Feb-22-19
 | | MissScarlett: <103 Emmett, J. F.
103 Fenton, Vivian>
Falkirk Herald, April 15th 1908, p.8:
<"Norwich Mercury” some time ago quoted the following game (with its interesting notes which smack of the hunting-field) from a source which is explained in the accompanying text:-“Curious to say we lately picked up a book which shows that chess was much in vogue at Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1864. It is a record of 100 games played between J. F. Emmett and Vivian Fenton during the winter of 1864, and published by Delahodde, Rue Royale, Boulogne, 1865. The authors say they had these printed as 'a memento of a long and dreary winter, which, with its rapid rounds of frost, thaw, fog, rain, snow, hail, gale, flood, and mud, left them little else to than to sit behind the Staunton ivory.’ The notes to the games are extremely quaint, and readers were asked to regard them as the small talk of the home fireside, round which they were made the time.” We give one example....> (submitted) |
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| Feb-22-19 | | Caissanist: A posting on the Monokroussos page:
<Jay was my son. He was brilliant. He also had a tender and loving heart. He introduced me to animal rights and vegetarianism. He cared about the plight of animals. I'm leaving my house in San Francisco to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Jay's memory, The Hare Krishnas seduced him in his early twenties when he was lonely and grieving after a bad relationship. They tried to sever his relationship with me, a standard ploy of cults. But they were not successful. I blame them for his dying prematurely - they made him paranoid of everything Western: e.g.. "Western doctors are only in it for he money, etc." So, although he had a very curable cancer (testicular) he didn't follow through with the protocols. Beware of cults! There are no magic solutions for life's challenges. Think critically! And never take the ones you love for granted - Jay spent the last 8 days of his life in the Zen Guest House Hospice in San Francisco. He was treated royally. I have the wonderful memory of John Donaldson visiting him and Jay looking so animated and happy. Eluott Winsow, another chess master, was his devoted friend until the end. Any friends of Jay's are welcome to write or visit me. Loretta - bodhmom@gmail.com> |
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| Feb-23-19 | | JimNorCal: Doubtless the second name in the selection above should be Elliot Winslow.
Elliott C Winslow |
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| Nov-01-24 | | cameosis: middle name is edwin, credit to <jnpope> https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/6...
https://unmask.com/Jay-Whitehead/CA... |
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