| Margate (1935) |
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The chess club at Margate, a seaside resort in England, held the first of five consecutive international tournaments in the spring of 1935. Former world champion Jose Capablanca was invited to participate; he was agreeable considering his success at Hastings and other British tournaments. Samuel Reshevsky, just 23, participated on behalf of the United States. Hungary's Andre Lilienthal was invited, but illness meant his replacement by Ernst Klein, who traveled from Austria. The remaining seven seats in the tournament went to the following chess masters from the United Kingdom: William Albert Fairhurst, women's world champion Vera Menchik, Jacques Mieses, Philip Stuart Milner-Barry, Brian Patrick Reilly, Edward G Sergeant, and George Alan Thomas. The tournament proceeded in a surprising fashion, largely due to the aggressive and often brilliant play of young Reshevsky. Conventional wisdom had Capablanca as the sure bet going into the competition, and he took an early lead following his win in the third round against 70 year old Mieses. But the turning point came in the fourth round when Reshevsky beat the former world champion in Reshevsky vs Capablanca, 1935. That gave Reshevsky the lead, which he never relinquished. Although Reshevsky and Capablanca each won six games, the young American master's win over the former world title holder gave him the extra half point to finish sole first at an impressive 7½/9. The victory here was the first of a string for Reshevsky in the 1930s that would herald his arrival as one of the world's best players. Crosstable:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Pts
1 Reshevsky * 1 = = 1 1 1 = 1 1 7.5
2 Capablanca 0 * 1 = 1 1 = 1 1 1 7.0
3 Thomas = 0 * = = 1 = 1 = = 5.0
4 Klein = = = * 0 = 1 0 1 = 4.5
5 Reilly 0 0 = 1 * = 1 = 0 1 4.5
6 Sergeant 0 0 0 = = * = 1 1 1 4.5
7 Fairhurst 0 = = 0 0 = * = 1 1 4.0
8 Milner-Barry = 0 0 1 = 0 = * 0 1 3.5
9 Menchik 0 0 = 0 1 0 0 1 * 0 2.5
10 Mieses 0 0 = = 0 0 0 0 1 * 2.0
More information can be found here: https://www.saund.org.uk/britbase/p.... Margate (1936) was the subsequent congress of this series. Original collection: Game Collection: Margate 1935, by User: suenteus po 147.
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| Jan-09-14 | | ughaibu: What was "the surprising behavior of Klein"? |
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| Jan-09-14 | | sneaky pete: Maybe it's related to the curious behaviour of the dog in the night time. It's certainly surprising that all Klein games from this tournament remain unkibitzed. The trained observer can draw his conclusions. |
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Jan-09-14
 | | perfidious: <sneaky pete....It's certainly surprising that all Klein games from this tournament remain unkibitzed. The trained observer can draw his conclusions.> Who? |
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| Jan-09-14 | | john barleycorn: <sneaky pete: ... It's certainly surprising that all Klein games from this tournament remain unkibitzed. ...> Is kibitzing disabled ?? |
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| Jan-09-14 | | RedShield: Eine Kleine Nichtkibitzen. |
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| Jan-10-14 | | RedShield: <The tournament was also marred by the surprising behavior of Klein, who the other players grouped against and later published their complaints about following the tournament's conclusion.> I expect there's a simple mix-up between this event and the 1937 congress, where Klein didn't participate in the main tournament (Margate (1937)) but was presumably in attendance as player, journalist, spectator, or some combination thereof. Ernst Ludwig Klein gives chapter and verse of his contentious, not to say disputatious nature. |
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Jan-11-14
 | | offramp: Down to Margate, don’t forget your buckets and spades and cossies and all.
We’ll have a pile of jellied eels at the cockle stall.
We’ll go on the pier and we’ll have a beer beside the sea.
You can keep the Costa Brava and todos las palabras, we are going no farther, me I’d rather have a day down Margate with all my family! |
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Oct-26-17
 | | MissScarlett: <The tournament was also marred by the surprising behavior of Klein, who the other players grouped against and later published their complaints about following the tournament's conclusion.> I'll remove the offending item. |
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Jan-26-24
 | | FSR: <A photograph caption on page 361 of CHESS, 14 June 1938 described Ernst Klein as having ‘achieved satisfaction in his libel action’, and the April 1940 issue of the same magazine (page 168) referred back to this matter: ‘One hundred years ago, chess masters used freely to print things about each other which would lead to an instant and successful libel action today. E. Klein, the ex-Austrian master, entered on such an action when most of the visiting chess masters at Margate, a couple of years ago, signed and published a petition complaining about his “unfair and obnoxious behaviour” and stating their unwillingness to have him competing with them ever again; and he obtained redress.’ The matter had been mentioned on page 269 of the 14 April 1938 CHESS, under the heading ‘Klein’s “Honour Vindicated”’: ‘Ernst Klein has withdrawn his libel action against Alekhine, Miss Menchik, Prins and a group of other masters, having obtained an apology, with indemnification for costs. He states that his “honour has now been vindicated”.’ An endnote on page 262 of Chess Explorations:
Pages 78-79 of CHESS, 14 November 1937 reported: ‘A writ claiming damages for alleged libel has been issued by Ernst Klein, the Austrian chess master now living at Clanricarde Gardens, Bayswater, against Dr Alekhine, Miss Menchik, G. Koltanowski, E. Cox, L. Prins, Reuben Fine, W.A.T. Schelfthout, S. Landau and G. van Doesburgh. ... The action is concerned with a document prepared at Margate during the Easter congress in which certain allegations were made concerning Mr Klein’s desirability as an opponent.’> https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... |
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| Jan-26-24 | | stone free or die: <FSR> (or anyone) - Who is the other person in the picture (i.e. the identity of the article's author) http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Jan-26-24
| | perfidious: <zed>, if the caption is correct, the kibitzer is none other than Baruch Harold Wood. |
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Jan-26-24
 | | fredthebear: Wow, a lot of work on your part to provide that link of Wood. Wouldn't you know it, such research on your part to confirm the facts allows you to be correct this once. Congratulations! Real Dump Trump doesn't have a clue who B.H. Wood is, so that link will come in handy. Good work perfidious! We knew you could do it if you put your mind to it. Let me do my part to help y'all:
https://archive.org/details/Easy_Gu... |
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Jan-26-24
| | FSR: Yes, B.H. Wood, editor of CHESS magazine for over 50 years. |
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| Jan-27-24 | | stone free or die: Thanks <perf> and <FSR>, just wanted to be sure. . |
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Mar-13-24
 | | John Saunders: The crosstable currently shown here for Margate 1935 is wrong. Presumably it has been generated from the ChessBase Mega/Big database which includes an erroneous result (Reilly ½-½ Mieses but in fact Reilly won the game - see BCM, June 1935, p266). I have just updated the equivalent page at BritBase - https://www.saund.org.uk/britbase/p... |
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Mar-13-24
| | MissScarlett: Chessbase sucks a big one. |
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| Mar-14-24 | | stone free or die: <MissScarlett: Chessbase sucks a big one.> At the risk of violating the posting guidelines - then I guess <CG> sucks a really big one. Deleting the old xtab and sending users over to John Saunders' site for it just seems slightly too convenient (and slack). It's not that I don't think a link over to Britbase isn't merited, as John has done a great job revising and updating his page on the tournament. It's just that I think <CG> should also host the corrected xtab. |
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Mar-14-24
 | | Tabanus: By paying someone to do it? |
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| Mar-15-24 | | stone free or die: <<tab> By paying someone to do it?> I don't know <Tab>, but <CG> had an xtab - it wasn't like the entire table needed to be redone... |
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Mar-15-24
 | | Stonehenge: Not sure why you get so worked up about these things, nobody gives a toss about these tables. But you've got your xtab back :) |
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Mar-15-24
 | | Sally Simpson: <...nobody gives a toss about these tables.> Oh but they do. Historians, authors and researchers... This site is invaluable and is often cited as a source. We must maintain a high standard and every effort should be made to have tournament tables correct. If an error has been spotted by someone who knows what they are doing then it should be taken onboard. Thank you John. |
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| Mar-15-24 | | nok: This is the place to rant? Why some crosstables have the players' age and others don't? Do we have to pay for consistency? |
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| Mar-15-24 | | stone free or die: Thanks <Stone> (aside - who's John?). <nok> - I think we can move the rant and other follow-ups to the Bistro. |
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| Mar-15-24 | | stone free or die: As for xtabs - if they're good enough for Gaige, well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRd...
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