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William Young

Number of games in database: 15
Years covered: 1896 to 1913
Overall record: +5 -7 =3 (43.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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WILLIAM YOUNG
(born Dec-25-1877, died Sep-30-1940, 62 years old) United States of America

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William Wallace Young, born Bordentown, NJ USA; died New Port Richey, FL USA.

Obituary
Bordentown, Oct. 5.—Funeral services for William W. Young, a sanitary engineer who died September 30 in his Winter home New Port Richey, Fla., will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in a funeral home at 427 Farnsworth avenue. He was 62.

Born and reared here, he graduated from Princeton University in 1899 and entered the profession of sanitary engineering. During the World War he served as a government engineer at projects in the vicinity of Cape May.

His most outstanding work was the $25,000,000 Westchester county, N. Y., trunk sewer system which has been a model for similar systems in the United Stats and abroad.(1)

Source
(1) Camden Courier-Post, 1940.10.05, p4

Last updated: 2025-06-02 20:19:07

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A M Price vs W W Young  1-03918965th Intercollegiate Cup, New York 1896/97C15 French, Winawer
2. W Murdoch vs W W Young  1-05618965th Intercollegiate Cup, New York 1896/97C01 French, Exchange
3. W W Young vs E E Southard  0-11318965th Intercollegiate Cup, New York 1896/97C45 Scotch Game
4. W W Young vs F A Lehlbach  ½-½3518965th Intercollegiate Cup, New York 1896/97C45 Scotch Game
5. A Ryder vs W W Young  0-14018975th Intercollegiate Cup, New York 1896/97C10 French
6. W W Young vs G Parker  1-03318975th Intercollegiate Cup, New York 1896/97C45 Scotch Game
7. G R Jacobus vs W W Young  ½-½2718976th Intercollegiate Cup, New York 1897/98B23 Sicilian, Closed
8. W Murdoch vs W W Young  0-14318976th Intercollegiate Cup, New York 1897/98C01 French, Exchange
9. W W Young vs E E Southard  0-12918976th Intercollegiate Cup, New York 1897/98A00 Uncommon Opening
10. W W Young vs L A Cook  1-04118976th Intercollegiate Cup, New York 1897/98C00 French Defense
11. J Hewins vs W W Young  ½-½1918976th Intercollegiate Cup, New York 1897/98C15 French, Winawer
12. W W Young vs A S Meyer  0-15018986th Intercollegiate Cup, New York 1897/98A00 Uncommon Opening
13. W W Young vs G Ellis  0-13718991st Anglo-American universities cable mA00 Uncommon Opening
14. W W Young vs Janowski 0-1371913Aero Chess Club of AmericaC38 King's Gambit Accepted
15. W W Young vs Marshall 1-0131913Simul, 15bC37 King's Gambit Accepted
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Kibitzer's Corner
Apr-27-06  Autoreparaturwerkbau: Is it the same W Young there?
Apr-23-09  Dredge Rivers: For.....ev..er Young!
Apr-23-09  WhiteRook48: There is a Franklin Knowles Young
Apr-23-09  YoungEd: I hate it when other people come up with jokes better than the one I was planning! Well done, <Dredge Rivers>.
Apr-25-09  Dredge Rivers: <YoungEd> Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.
Dec-21-18  Jean Defuse: ...

'The Young Gambit': W W Young vs Marshall, 1913

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