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| Mar-23-06 | | dbquintillion: The headstone at his grave reads very simply:
25. Nxc8 GxA.G.O |
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| Apr-13-12 | | YoungEd: If Black had played 23...♗e7 to avoid the ♘-fork, then it looks as though 24. ♘g5 would be good, with the idea of a ♖-lift and maybe f5 to follow. Black doesn't have much to defend his king with. |
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Jan-16-13
 | | FSR: I believe that I read somewhere that the tournament committee gave this game the unique score of 1-1: the guy who lived got the forfeit point, but the committee figured that the guy who died also deserved the point, since he died with a won game. |
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Jan-16-13
 | | perfidious: At Olland's page, it states that he 'died of a heart attack playing the Dutch Championship'. Could it have been that bad, really? |
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| Jan-16-13 | | Harvestman: I was a arbiter at a tournament where one player suddenly collapsed. As the stricken player was wheleed away a short time later on a stretcher, he lifted his head and offered a draw. His opponent declined. |
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Jan-22-13
 | | Phony Benoni: A question for our researchers from the Netherlands: Di Felice's <Chess Results, 1931-1935>, p. 151, has a crosstable from the tournament. It shows Olland with five results (including this game) and four unplayed games. So is the "round 8" in the above PGN correct? (He might have had unfinished adjournments.) |
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| Jan-23-13 | | thomastonk: <Phony Benoni> Well, I am not from the Netherlands, but I try an answer ... According to some Dutch newspapers, Olland died during this game, which has been played in the 8th round of the Dutch championship in The Hague on Saturday 22th July 1933. Moreover, Olland had 3 points from the previous rounds and no adjourned games! So, it seems that the crosstable you mentioned is incomplete. I will next try to find all of his results. |
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| Jan-23-13 | | thomastonk: Here are Olland's results from his final tournament (10 players, 9 rounds): Round 1: Spinhoven - Olland 1-0
Round 2: Olland - Wolthuis 1-0
Round 3: Euwe - Olland 1-0
Round 4: Olland - van den Bosch 0-1
Round 5: Rassers - Olland 0-1
Round 6: Olland - Mulder 1-0
Round 7: van Hoorn - Olland 1-0
Round 8: Olland - Hamming 0-1
Round 9: Felderhoff - Olland 1-0.
Olland played indeed ALL games! The round 9 encounter with Felderhoff has been played in advance, and hence only Hamming benefited from his death. |
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| Jan-23-13 | | thomastonk: I was wondering what the site "The Hague/Leiden NED" exactly means. The first rounds were played in the "Nationaal Schaakgebouw" in The Hague, rounds 3 and 4 were played in "De Vergulde Turk" in Leiden, and the next rounds again in the "Nationaal Schaakgebouw", where Olland died. However, the final round has been played in the hotel Oranje in Scheveningen, where also an international tournament was held a few days later. |
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Jan-23-13
| | Phony Benoni: <thomastonk> Thank you. That makes everything clear. |
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| Mar-21-15 | | Mr. V: <The round 9 encounter with Felderhoff has been played in advance, and hence only Hamming benefited from his death.>
I don't understand. How can round nine precede round eight? |
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Nov-19-15
 | | dernier loup de T: So, if I understand well, Hamming began a chess game against an opponent, and finished by winning it alone, the opponent no more existing... Interesting and unique, or maybe a similar thing happened when Zukertort died while playing? |
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| Nov-20-15 | | thomastonk: <Mr. V: How can round nine precede round eight?> A Round-Robin tournament is usually organised as follows. Each player gets an unique number from the numbers 1,2,..,n, where n is the number of participants. Then the pairings of all rounds are taken from some prearranged table. In the case discussed above round 9 of such a table was played before round 8 of the table. |
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| Nov-20-15 | | sneaky pete: That's not completely right. After the death of Dr Olland, some unfinished round 8 games were concluded at the Hotel Oranje later that day. The next day, 4 of the 5 round 9 games were played at that same location. "The game Olland vs Felderhoff had been played in advance, at the request of Felderhoff ..." (Tijdschrift van den Nederlandschen Schaakbond, August/September 1933) |
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| Nov-20-15 | | thomastonk: <sneaky pete: That's not completely right.> Yes, many thanks. I had it correctly on Jan-23-13, when I wrote: <The round 9 encounter with Felderhoff has been played in advance ..>, but today I was mislead by the question I replied to. |
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Oct-19-17
 | | MissScarlett: <Board to Death> |
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| Jan-19-18 | | thegoodanarchist: Two Adolfs playing one another. You don't see that anymore. Hitler ruined the name Adolf for everyone.
Yet Joseph Stalin didn't ruin Joseph - people still name children "Joseph". Folks, name your boys "Adolf"! We can rehabilitate that name. |
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Jan-19-18
 | | WannaBe: Screw that, I'm naming mine Napoleon, or Benito, may Ho Chi, or Pol Pot, maybe Fidel, or Hugo... Bring back the Charlie Chaplin moos-tache, I miss those, Hitler really ruined a whole bunch of things for us. Especially that haircut. =)) But people's wagon is as popular as ever, so we have that to thank for, and the freeway system, well, except for the congestions, maybe we should not thank him for that... |
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Jan-20-18
 | | Stonehenge: https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml... |
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| Jan-20-18 | | thegoodanarchist: < WannaBe: ...
and the freeway system, well, except for the congestions, maybe we should not thank him for that...> LOL! Hilarious stuff! |
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| Oct-20-19 | | Cheapo by the Dozen: This sad anecdote seems worthy of a Game of the Day slot. |
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Feb-15-21
 | | OhioChessFan: <Harvestman: I was a arbiter at a tournament where one player suddenly collapsed. As the stricken player was wheleed away a short time later on a stretcher, he lifted his head and offered a draw. His opponent declined.>
Perhaps the best anecdote ever on this site. |
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Oct-04-22
 | | Korora: <WannaBe>: Giving the devil his due is a dying art. |
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Mar-06-23
| | FSR: "During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Adolf was a popular name for baby boys in German-speaking countries and to a lesser extent also in French-speaking countries (spelled there as Adolphe). After Adolf Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany, the name Adolf became popular again, especially in 1933–1934 and 1937. Due to negative associations with Hitler, the name has declined in popularity as a given name for males since the 1940s." (footnotes omitted) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf... |
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Apr-06-23
| | FSR: <dernier loup de T: So, if I understand well, Hamming began a chess game against an opponent, and finished by winning it alone, the opponent no more existing... Interesting and unique, or maybe a similar thing happened when Zukertort died while playing?> Emory Tate also died while playing a tournament game. |
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