Jul-05-04
 | | offramp: <chessgames> Either the first game here, Heltay v Janny, is by a different Janny, or it was not from 1816 - that is the year Janny was born. |
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| Jul-05-04 | | markt: Was he still playing and winning games at the age of 111?!! Amazing! |
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| Jul-31-04 | | RonB52734: Of course, there are a handful of games of Paul Morphy playing Alonzo Morphy, who I believe was Paul's father. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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| Jul-31-04 | | HailM0rphy: Whats the have to do with janny? |
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| Jul-31-04 | | SBC: <RonB52734>
Is there some point to that??
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I did a search for Heltay and Janny. I only found this game on one site, which happened to feature old games. Among thse old games were two of Greco playing Paolo Boi. Now, unless Boi crawled out of his grave to play these games, they're bogus. Janny, 1816 could be equally so. This leaves Janny 1898-1927 who no one has heard of. Could he be David Janowski who was active during this time frame (he died in 1927)? . |
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| Jul-31-04 | | Dick Brain: He appears to be some anonymous ringer but neither Paul or Alonzo Morphy definitely. Maybe a chess hustler. |
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| Aug-01-04 | | RonB52734: Ah, yes. The point was to illustrate that it was possible there are two Jannys. |
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| Aug-01-04 | | sneaky pete: One Janny is enough! The 1816 game is clearly from (around) 1916. An Englund gambit, declined even, in 1816? Ridiculous. |
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| Aug-06-04 | | Dick Brain: I have seen the Heltay vs Janny game elsewhere as having been played in 1916. |
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| Jun-24-08 | | abstraction: All the games of "Janny" seem composed. I wonder who is behind them. |
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Jul-28-10
 | | GrahamClayton: I believe that Janny is Dr Geza Janny, a Hungarian doctor of medicine from Arad. He was a famous chess historian, and he wrote the preface in the tournament book of Chess Congress of Győr in 1924. |
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Jan-02-12
 | | FSR: This Janny is the greatest player this side of Prince Andrey Dadian of Mingrelia! |
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| Feb-08-12 | | Marcelo Bruno: And I could speculate this: Schiffers-Janowski. |
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| Feb-08-12 | | Calli: You mean this is not the girl that Mitch Rider and the Detroit Wheels sang about? |
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Feb-08-12
 | | WannaBe: <Calli> No, this Janny, she's got a gun! |
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| Jun-28-16 | | Jim Bartle: Was excellent in "The West Wing." |
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| Apr-27-20 | | 41eduardoariel: Is GM Geza Janny 140 years old? He really is very old |
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| May-04-20 | | Cibator: "The Janny, the janny*, he nearly drove me mad; he shopped me to the teachers any time that I was bad ... " (Billy Connolly) * Scottish slang for a janitor or caretaker. Sir Billy did a whole song about them, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-g... ) |
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May-04-20
 | | Breunor: Following what FSR noted, maybe the greatest chess match that we as fans were cheated not having happened was Prince Dadian vs. Janny! |
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May-05-20
| | FSR: <Breunor> I would love to see a three-way tournament among those two and Gioachino Greco. Time travel would be necessary, of course. |
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May-05-20
 | | moronovich: In these Ctimes we have a lot of time,so why not!? |
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| Feb-16-25 | | stone free or die: I downloaded the source referenced above, and searched for all occurrences of "sakk" to try to make a connection between the Doctor and chess. I didn't find it. I saw mention of a chess table, and of children being able to play chess at a high level. Could somebody please provide the passages mentioning the good Doctor as a chess author? . |
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