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| Apr-10-09 | | wordfunph: What a first name!
Happy Birthday Polish GM Wlodzimierz Schmidt!!
I've got a good friend who is a Polish and he once invited me to Poland to spend a beach vacation in their place. I should have accepted his invitation..ahh, i missed 1/8 of my life! |
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| Apr-10-11 | | DarthStapler: Don't forget Poland! |
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| Apr-10-11 | | markwell: In 1943 there was no Poznan, Poland. It was Posen, Germany. You're entitled to your own opinion, not your own facts. |
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Apr-10-11
 | | Stonehenge: So you think it says Posen, Germany in his passport? Don't make me laugh. |
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Apr-10-11
 | | HeMateMe: Tough call. Polish first name, German last name. I don't know whether to order a blintze or a brat! |
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| Apr-10-11 | | Sho: Poznan, Poland 1943: I cannot image the challenges of caring for an infant in that time and place. |
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Apr-10-11
 | | Penguincw: < McCool: This guy has 1793 (!) games in this database, but only has five kibitzes. Hmmm... > Maybe he likes to play chess a lot.
Happy 68th birthday to the Player of the Day,Wlodzimierz Schmidt! |
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Apr-10-11
| | HeMateMe: Posen/Poznan was punted back forth between Germany and Poland for the last 200 years. This city was part of the ancient Polish Kingdom that split off from Russia. It would have been part of East Germany (Prussia), annexed, during WWII. Tough times. brutal occupation, concentration camps. In 1945 this area would be overrun by the invading Red army bent on revenge for German atrocities. After 1945 the area was ceded back to Poland, to make up for Russia permanently anexing part of eastern Poland. If there is good for that in for the German citizens, they didn't have to be part of the eastern occupation zone, which later forcibly became a Soviet sattellite. |
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| Apr-10-11 | | slomarko: <HeMateMe: Posen/Poznan was punted back forth between Germany and Poland for the last 200 years. This city was part of the ancient Polish Kingdom that split off from Russia.> HeMateMe your post is a big mess. Poznan is one of the oldest Polish cities. Polish Kingdom did not "split off" in fact it existed from much earlier. <After 1945 the area was ceded back to Poland, to make up for Russia permanently anexing part of eastern Poland.> Before WWII Poznan was part of Poland and it was simply restored back it was not "ceded". Maybe you mixed up Poznan with Szczecin (Stettin). |
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Apr-10-11
 | | alexmagnus: Poznan was Polish before 1793, then German (1793-1871 Prussian, 1871-1918 German), then Polish in 1918-1939 (it was taken by Germany on 10.09.1939), then German in 1939-1945, then back to Polish. <Polish Kingdom did not "split off" in fact it existed from much earlier.> Did not split off - correct, most of Poland never belonged to any predecessor of Russia (some of it did at different points). Existed much earlier - hmmmm? The Polish Kingdom appeared in 1000 or 1025. Kievan Rus, which is most usually considered the first predecessor of modern Russia, was founded 862. OK, the Poles had a state prior to it becoming a kingdom, but there are no historical accounts of it dating back that far (the earliest mentioning of it appears to be in 960s). |
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Apr-10-11
| | HeMateMe: ...sounds to me like Posnan/Poznan was punted back and forth. Poland was once held by Russia, in the 1600s, I think. Polish troops actually occupied Moscow in a war, strange as that may seem. |
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| Apr-10-11 | | slomarko: <Poznan was Polish before 1793, then German (1793-1871 Prussian, 1871-1918 German), then Polish in 1918-1939 (it was taken by Germany on 10.09.1939), then German in 1939-1945, then back to Polish.> Let's be precise: after Prussia partitioned Poland with Austria and Russia, it was de-facto under Prussian/German occupation.
And in 1939, the Nazis occupied it for 6 years. To summarize: a Polish city with the periods of German occupation: one long Prussian and a short Nazi. |
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| Apr-10-12 | | brankat: Happy Birthday GM Schmidt! |
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| Jul-06-12 | | Poisonpawns: How to pronounce the first name please? |
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| Apr-10-15 | | apexin: <Poisonpawns>
The pronounciation is Vlo-dgee-mye-sh |
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| Apr-10-15 | | greed and death: More correct would be "Vwod-jee-myezh" as the correct Polish spelling is "Włodzimierz" and the Polish "Ł" is pronounced like the English "W" For a better example, the name of the city of "Łodź" is pronounced like "Wooj" would be in English. |
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| Apr-10-15 | | Infohunter: <greed and death: More correct would be "Vwod-jee-myezh" as the correct Polish spelling is "Włodzimierz" and the Polish "Ł" is pronounced like the English "W" For a better example, the name of the city of "Łodź" is pronounced like "Wooj" would be in English.> Correct, except that the city is spelled "Łódź" rather than "Łodź". The letter "ó" is pronounced like our "oo" in "food". As an aside, the word "łódź", when used as a common noun, means "boat". |
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Apr-10-15
 | | Retireborn: First time I've seen a photo of him, he does resemble Ron Burgundy slightly...is his first name equivalent to "Vladimir" or is it a different name altogether? |
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Apr-10-15
 | | offramp: <greed and death: More correct would be "Vwod-jee-myezh" as the correct Polish spelling is "Włodzimierz" and the Polish "Ł" is pronounced like the English "W"
For a better example, the name of the city of "Łodź" is pronounced like "Wooj" would be in English.> More specifically, in Poznan that <Wł> sounds like an English B. The <odz> as you say, sounds like the English OLL. The final <imierz>, in Poznan that sounds like the English OCKS. So his name sounds like <B-OLL-OCKS>. |
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| Apr-10-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Wlodzimierz Schmidt. |
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Jun-06-21
 | | louispaulsen88888888: Offramp, it’s not good form to explain the joke. We get it. |
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| Apr-02-23 | | philmsu: RIP
https://przegladsportowy.onet.pl/sz... |
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| Apr-03-23 | | whiteshark: <philmsu: RIP> "Wlodzimierz Schmidt has died. He was the first Pole to win the title of grandmaster At the age of just under 80, Wlodzimierz Schmidt has died. The outstanding Polish chess player represented Poland 14 times at the Olympics. He was the first Pole to win the title of grandmaster. Włodzimierz Schmidt was a forerunner of Polish chess after World War II. Due to the tragic fate of the players of the golden era of the 1930s, the discipline on the Vistula had to be built from scratch. On the ruins of the former powerhouse, the talent from Poznan was revealed. Initially Schmidt did not treat chess as a profession, since in the reality of the time it was difficult to make a decent living from it in Poland. He studied at the electrical faculty of the Poznan University of Technology. In 1973, he gave up his academic career and fully devoted himself to chess. This resulted in earning the necessary standards to become a grandmaster. Schmidt won it in 1976, becoming the first Pole to do so (Akiba Rubinstein, Ksawery Tartakower and Mieczyslaw Najdorf received them for merit in 1950). During his heyday, he was among the world's top 100 chess players. To this day, he remains the leader of the medal classification of individual Polish championships, with fifteen medals, including seven gold ones. He represented Poland 14 times at the Chess Olympiads. Until recent years, he was an active player, eager to share his knowledge. For 13 years he was vice president of the Polish Chess Federation for sports. He was awarded the Knight's Cross and the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He died on April 1 in Poznan." ibidem |
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Apr-03-23
 | | Fusilli: RIP.
Here's a crazy win against Planinc, full of fireworks.
A Planinc vs W Schmidt, 1969 |
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Apr-03-23
 | | Honza Cervenka: RIP, grandmaster. |
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