Jun-14-05 | | Knight13: Happy birthday, Nicolaas Cortlever! Now you are 90 years old! 10 more years to go! |
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Jun-14-05 | | aw1988: Until what? Death? |
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Jun-14-05 | | Knight13: <aw1988> 50 more years and 7 days to go! |
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Jun-14-05 | | aw1988: WHAT? What on earth are you going on about???? |
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Jun-14-05
 | | TheAlchemist: <aw1988> You will be 120 then :-) |
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Jun-14-05 | | aw1988: Well, I hope to live until 160 if possible, but Knight13 is really quite odd... |
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Jun-14-06 | | BIDMONFA: Nicolaas Cortlever CORTLEVER, Nicolaas
http://www.bidmonfa.com/cortlever_n...
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Sep-06-06 | | sneaky pete: Cortlever died April 5, 1995, at age 79. Still not bad for someone whose name translates as short liver. |
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Apr-21-07 | | brm786: Would like to see the Clarke_Cortlever_1958 (Ruy Lopez) game in the database |
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Mar-24-08 | | Sem: I am not too overawed by Cortlever's partaking in a tournament in Munich 1941. |
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Mar-24-08 | | MichAdams: True, he only scored +2 =5 -8. |
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Mar-31-08 | | Sem: MichAdams, what I meant was that a Dutchman, living in a country occupied by the Nazi's, had no business in Munich 1941. |
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Mar-31-08 | | MichAdams: Why not? The new Europa and all that. Do you know if he had a job or profession apart from his chess? |
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Aug-31-08
 | | GrahamClayton: Cortlever owned a gemstone and marble business in Amsterdam. |
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Sep-02-08
 | | GrahamClayton: Source: Andy Soltis "Chess Lists", 2nd edition, McFarland Publishing, 2002 |
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Oct-17-08 | | Sem: MichAdams, The new Europa almost wiped out my family. Yes, Cortlever had a profession, but I forgot which. He lived in the village of Almen (province of Gelderland) and until his death in a beautiful house in Zutphen, where I live. |
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Jul-31-09 | | returnoftheking: <what I meant was that a Dutchman, living in a country occupied by the Nazi's, had no business in Munich 1941>
I won't take Alekhine or Keres as example, but even Euwe travelled across Europe for chess during the war. Only once as far as I know, but still. I don't think chess has anything to do with politics and Cortlever was not important enough to be a tool in Nazi propaganda. So to me it's not something to hold against him. |
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Feb-02-10 | | Sem: <I don't think chess has anything to do with politics> returnoftheking, ideally: no, but I can think of circumstances when it does. The Soviet regime was a perfect example, of course, aiding or hindering great chess players to foster its case.
And indeed, Cortlever was probably small fry to the Nazi propaganda, but his mere taking part in Munich 1941 still was a contribution, however small. His own moral judgment should have told him to stay at home. |
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Jan-31-13 | | Kikoman: Rest In Peace Sir Nicolaas Cortlever. |
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Mar-17-21
 | | FSR: Yasser Seirawan claims in his chessable course on endgames that Cortlever "is still going strong." That appears to be a minority view. |
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May-12-22
 | | GrahamClayton: Neat study by Cortlever - White to play and win: click for larger view1. Qf6 Rg6 2. Qc6+ Rxc6 3. dxc6+ Ka7 4. Ke6 h5 5. Kd5 h4 6. Kc4 h3 7. Kb4 h2
8. Ka5 h1=Q 9. b6+ cxb6+ 10. cxb6# |
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