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Jun-02-24
 | | mifralu: <BarakSaltz>, I randomly picked a year and have submitted all missing games today from
Game Collection: American Chess Bulletin 1927 |
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Jun-03-24
 | | jnpope: Awesome. I go on vacation and my host decided to migrate my site to a new box without fair warning. I get home and chessarch.com is down/suspended due to lack of a DNS entry. Grrr. |
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Jun-03-24
| | jnpope: Ok, not the web host. The DNS host changed servers after being bought out... similar problem just higher up the food chain. |
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Jun-04-24
 | | FSR: <keypusher: Question: did Paul Morphy ever say "The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."? If so, where/when, and what is the source?> Sorry to be late to the discussion, but I just happened upon this. People have posted this alleged quote on Facebook, where I have opined that Morphy never said this. There are many sites that claim he did, but I don't see any credible evidence for this. It also doesn't make much sense. Morphy was the de facto world champion at age 22. Why would he call his chess prowess the sign of a wasted life? The alleged Morphy quote may be an altered version of an earlier aphorism. It sounds a lot like "A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth." This was reportedly said by the character Lucien Fairchild in the book <Thunder & Roses> by Mary Jo Putney. https://www.goodreads.com/author/qu... Similarly,
<"A proficiency at billiards is a sign of a misspent youth" is an old saw often incorrectly attributed to both Mark Twain and English philosopher Herbert Spencer.Spencer did say it, but he maintained that he was simply repeating a comment he heard at the Athenaeum Club in London by Charles Roupell, a referee of the High Court of Justice.> https://www.pressherald.com/2015/01... |
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Jun-04-24
| | jnpope: While waiting for tech support to pull the ticket for Chessarch.com I spent the afternoon working on:
Game Collection: Manhattan CC Championship 1898/99
I'm not 100% certain as to it's accuracy, especially the order of the games between the first half and second half of this double round robin event, but the totals all appear to fit the available data; more so than table 8 given here:
https://brasilbase.pro.br/Frank.htm
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Jun-04-24
| | jnpope: If another insane member would care to check the horizontal and vertical sums I would appreciate another set of eyes on that table. I think everything adds up, but a double-check never hurts. |
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Jun-04-24
| | jnpope: <mifralu: Can anyone provide information on who is behind the pseudonym <'Aga'>?> The following three were apparently played in the same tournament at the Prague Chess Club:
Porges-Meyer, <Bohemia>, 1901.04.07, p25
Porges-"Aga", <Bohemia>, 1901.04.28, p17
"Aga"-Porges, <Bohemia>, 1901.05.05, p17
I still don't know who "Aga" is, but I think we can at least rule out Meyer. I'm still searching for a cross table or list of participants. |
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Jun-04-24
 | | Tabanus: The upper table looks Ok. |
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Jun-04-24
| | jnpope: Thanks! |
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Jun-05-24
| | jnpope: I have contact with a human (I think).
I got an email reply to my support ticket finally (phone calls and LiveChat are still waiting to connect me to a living person!). |
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Jun-05-24
| | jnpope: I just checked <Z>'s Zanchess site:\ https://zanchess.wordpress.com/2024... His last post was dated March 11, 2024. His last post at CG was March 16, 2024 (Biographer Bistro). I fear the worst. |
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Jun-06-24
 | | MissScarlett: Anyone familiar with Charousek's opponent in this early game, with respect to first name, spelling, etc.? J Toplanzsky vs Charousek, 1892 |
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Jun-06-24
| | MissScarlett: My Game Collection: Charousek MS has, so far, turned up about 30 new Charousek games. By new, I mean to <cg>, of course. Is there any Charousek games' collection apart from those of Sergeant and Charucin's? Sergeant's 1919 book, apparently, has 146 games (incl. 3 fragments). According to this review, <Chess Comet Charousek>, has only 200+ games: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show... |
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Jun-06-24
| | jnpope: I'm guessing the Bachmann book was subsumed into Sergeant's book? |
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Jun-06-24
| | MissScarlett: Sergeant's preface mentions it as one of his sources. https://archive.org/details/charous... He also credits Hoffer's Field column, but the Westminster Gazette is notably missing. Hard to believe there isn't a more complete Hungarian-language collection, especially from the last couple of decades, but what do I know of the economics of the Hungarian chess book market. |
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Jun-06-24
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi Petrosianic,
<This is an offbeat question, but in a Star Trek episode called Charlie X, Kirk and Spock are playing chess. Spock gives check, and Kirk responds with checkmate.Obviously Kirk's move was Discovered Checkmate. But can anybody think of a game in this database where that same situation occurred (discovered mate in reply to a check) I just don't remember ever seeing such a thing in actual play.> Bogoljubov vs A H Trott, 1950 I have played one and am about to submit it. This one Erwin Abrahmson vs I Rabinovich-Barav, 1928 Black replies to a check with a Double Checkmate. There will probably be internet games on here on here with the same theme. |
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Jun-06-24
| | jnpope: <Sally Simpson>, interesting finds. Did you pull those examples from memory or did you discover a nifty trick for searching for such terminations? |
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Jun-06-24
| | jnpope: I'm still lost in a help-desk ticketing hell trying to get my sites back online. :-P Is 9am too early in the day to start drinking hard liquor? |
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Jun-06-24
| | MissScarlett: Distinguishing between Hugh Sherrard and Charles Hugh Sherrard may be trickier than I thought if the <Derby Daily Telegraph> report of September 29th 1884 is correct that <C H Sherrard> played for the Midland Railway Institute CC against Birmingham CC. I've already 'corrected' one game today: H Sherrard vs C E Ranken, 1890, but maybe I'm wrong. How about Blackburne vs H Sherrard, 1888? It seems both players had connections with Birmingham and the Midlands. The chess column of the <Sheffield Independent> of Deccember 20th 1884 has a problem solvers' score list in which <C H> and <H W> appear next to each other with exactly the same scores! |
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Jun-06-24
| | Tabanus: Nordic Championship (1903), for the insane. |
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Jun-06-24
| | Sally Simpson: HI jnpope,
Used Chess base 8. I won't upgrade, no need to, an upgrade only improves the onboard engine and I'm happy with Fritz 6 if I need it, the rest of the package, searching and sorting etc is very good, invaluable. Did a search for any check (White then Black) and mate next move restricted search to two moves. Note the system here does not always show a mate (No #) see Bogoljubov vs A H Trott, 1950 so searching by another method might not pick it up. |
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Jun-07-24
 | | Stonehenge: <FSR is opened by jnpope> <perfidious is opened by MissScarlett> (has been like that for at least ten days now). Guys, if you want to look at the games that have been uploaded, then please be as kind as to actually process the bloody things. |
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Jun-07-24
 | | perfidious: <Stonehenge>, not sure what you mean; I do not have the privilege (contrary to the repeated assertions of one member) to process games submitted by anyone. |
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Jun-07-24
| | Stonehenge: It means jnpope should process FSR's games and Missy should process your games. |
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Jun-07-24
| | perfidious: Yo comprendo. |
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