| Feb-11-07 | | Autoreparaturwerkbau: Stella's plan was poor from beginning on. |
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| Feb-24-07 | | wolfmaster: White has one piece beyond the first rank;Black has four. |
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| Oct-11-07 | | Whitehat1963: Oh Stella! |
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| Oct-11-07 | | Plato: I'm pretty sure Black in this game was played by a consultation team consisting of of Charles Henry Stanley and Stephen Kowalski ;-) |
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| Nov-19-08 | | Karpova: Could this me Mademoiselle Stella? Or does anybody know something about her? Edward Winter refers to C.N. 3145:
<Stella, Mademoiselle
An account was published on page 177 of La Stratégie, 15 June 1895. See C.N. 3145.> Source: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... And pages 186-187 of "Chess Facts and Fables":
<Stella, Mlle (blindfold exploits) CFF 186-187> Source: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Feb-26-18 | | CheckMateEndsTheGame: Stellllllllaaaaaaaaaa!
H2 is really weak without the Queen side being active. |
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| Jun-02-20 | | ath: This is the 'Stella' of Chess Notes 9793 (https://www.chesshistory.com/winter...), with a fl. of 1850 or so. She is primarily known for her chess problems, but seem to have played some games with chess club players that were published. (I think I have seen about half a dozen, though none I would immediately think of as worth publishing now.) Her identity is not known. She started out under the pseudonym of 'Judy', but changed, probably around the time when her problem 'Stella' was published. Staunton said at some time that it indeed was 'A Lady'. Illustrated London News, vol. XXVIII, p. 99 (1856-01-26) published this score, with the added comment '(A very slight skirmish, played by letter, between the accomplished "Stella," of problem-composing celebrity, and Mr. Staunton.)' The only annotation that may be worth preserving is of Stella's move 13, which Staunton described as 'Original and ingenious'. |
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Jun-02-20
 | | MissScarlett: <She started out under the pseudonym of 'Judy', but changed, probably around the time when her problem 'Stella' was published.> When was this? |
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| Jun-03-20 | | Nosnibor: Not exactly a stellar performance by the good lady. |
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Jun-03-20
| | MissScarlett: <Could this me Mademoiselle Stella?> There are 2 Stellas - the French one was, apparently, a student of Ladislas Maczuski . The case for the English one being <Rev. Bolton> does seem pretty strong. |
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| Jun-03-20 | | ath: <MissScarlett> The change of pseudonyms seems to have happened in late fall of 1853. Dating is a bit difficult as Chess Player's Chronicle didn't carry dates, except perhaps on covers, which have not been preserved. It may be possible to get datings indirectly by sheet signatures and internal dates, though. I have an early sighting of 'Stella (ci-devant Judy)' from Illustrated London News 1852-12-17. There's also 'The charming problem of "Judy", called "Stella"' in 1852-10-09. The change probably happened sometime between those dates -- it probably requires digging into other chess columns from the time to pin-point further. The first from "Judy" that I have is I.L.N. 1850-09-14. While the attempt to connect Bolton with Stella is interesting, it is based on an observation that easily could have another explanation. Nor am I entirely convinced that Stella being a reasonably good problemist from the beginning is significant: she could have chess-players or problemists in her family, as Mrs. Baird did later. (There's a "Sophia, of Bridport", with perhaps half a dozen problems, and some correspondence with I.L.N. around this time, for example, and Bridport is where the problemist "J. B., of Bridport" lived. May easily be a coincidence, of course.) |
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| Jun-03-20 | | ath: Oops, late fall of 1852, not 1853. |
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Jun-03-20
| | MissScarlett: Townsend in C.N. 9793 speaks of <Bolton’s retirement as a problem composer in 1850.> Do you know if this was a formal announcement on Bolton's part? If so, was any reason given? |
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| Jun-03-20 | | ath: Yes, but no reason given. In C.P.C. vol. XI (1850), p. 246-248, which cites his letter to Staunton (dated June 18th, 1850), and prints his last problem, dedicated to Staunton (both on p. 248). The preceding pages are Staunton's 'summary'. Problems by Bolton are still published later, though, in both C.P.C. and I.L.N. Some are reprints, as befits a great composer. Some are misattributions. Some are ... well, unclear. Not many of them. But sufficiently many that I wonder if he really stopped composing entirely. I should perhaps say that the change from "Judy" to "Stella" seems odd if Bolton was using Judy as pseudonym to hide his returning to problems. There could be a personal reason, but ... I find that a tougher nut to swallow than that Judy / Stella really is someone else. |
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| Jun-03-20 | | ath: I've uploaded one of the other "Stella" games I know. Not because it's really worth it ... but perhaps to show a bit more of how she played, and perhaps serve as comparison. Feel free to disregard it -- I don't really think it's good enough to save. |
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Jun-04-20
| | MissScarlett: <I have an early sighting of 'Stella (ci-devant Judy)' from Illustrated London News 1852-12-17. There's also 'The charming problem of "Judy", called "Stella"' in 1852-10-09. The change probably happened sometime between those dates.> The <ILN> of November 6th 1852, p.379, has <Stella (late Judy)> as the solver of the previous weeks's problem (#457): http://www.chessreference.com/Staun... Scroll down further and you'll discover the Rev. Bolton being upbraided for a cook to his problem (#456) that had appeared a fortnight earlier, October 23rd: <For this beautiful strategem we are indebted to the unpublished Chess MSS. of the Rev. H Bolton.> But the October 30th column adds to the intrigue, because amongst the solutions (i.e., solvers) of the 'Stella' problem (created by Judy) we find <Rev H B>, and in the (uncooked) solutions to problem #456 (created by Bolton) there is <Stella>: http://www.chessreference.com/Staun... Either Bolton is definitely not Judy/Stella, or there's some high-level piss-taking going on. |
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| Jun-04-20 | | Captain Hindsight: Probably <Stella's lorikeet> was playing. |
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| Jun-07-20 | | ath: Nice! You're a decent way on your way to an article, I think. |
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