| Sep-16-12 | | Karpova: He was in charge of the chess column of the 'Illustrated London News' after Wormald's death. From page 209 of the March 1888 'Wiener Schachzeitung' |
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| Aug-08-15 | | zanzibar: As <Karpova> sez, plus this: <We will here remark <en passant> that we have this week received a most delightful visit from Mr. Duffy, the present chess editor of the <London Illustrated News>, as well as the <Westminster Papers>. Mr. Duffy is making a flying visit to the United States, and will return very shortly.> <Sci Am Suppl v4 (Dec 8, 1877) p1614> So, he pulled double duty as editor back in 1877.
Please also note, that unlike today, back in 1877 a "flying visit" didn't have the potential of two meanings, but rather, just one. |
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| Sep-14-15 | | Paarhufer: "If this book has a villain, it was Duffy ..."
Tim Harding in 'Eminent Victorian Chess Players', p 69. |
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Sep-14-15
 | | perfidious: AKA Bobby Ewing of <Dallas>, good guy extraordinaire. |
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| Jan-29-18 | | zanzibar: Is there a good photograph or illustration of him? I found one on Winter's pages, but it's not sourced: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... Anybody know where that one came from? |
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| Jan-29-18 | | zanzibar: I guess Harding used the same illustration on p183, but I couldn't find the source there either, after a quick scan. |
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| Feb-17-18 | | Hans Renette: See my book on Bird (p. 106) for a photo of Duffy. |
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Feb-17-18
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click for larger viewWhite to mate in 3. |
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| Mar-07-19 | | zanzibar: Let's expand <Paarhufer>'s quote a bit, to give a little more context: <The largely autonomous chess dept. of
the (WCC) Paper became the voice of the anti-Staunton camp for the rest of his life. Its principal writer was Irish-born <Patrick Thomas Duffy (1834-1888)> who had come to London around 1860 after a chess apprenticeship in Newcastle. Duffy, though never a player of any distinction, was at the center of the capital's chess life for more than twenty years, also editing the <Land and Water> column from <April 1876 to October 1877>, and the <ILN> for nearly <12 years from Dec 1876>. <If this book has a villain, it was Duffy, as the Steinitz chapter shows.> ... <<>>> Harding - EVCP ch2 p68-69 (slightly edited) |
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Mar-08-19
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| Mar-09-19 | | zanzibar: Yes, <MissS> you're the jelly in the roll. Apologies - it's plural, "the (WCC) Papers", the WCC piece is my additional to Harding's text. Perhaps I should have used the canonical <WP>: https://zanchess.wordpress.com/2016... WCC also omits the whist part of the club... so, <Missy>, as they say on the net <WP>!
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