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Apr-05-25 Andras Adorjan    Alan McGowan: Various online references, including ChessBase, say that he adopted his mother's maiden surname when he was 18. https://en.chessbase.com/post/andra...      Apr-02-25 Heinrich Weissinger   Alan McGowan: Gaige (1987, Chess Personalia) gives his dob as 20 September 1881, with death on 02 February 1957 at Karlsruhe (where his simul win against Em. Lasker was played).      Apr-01-25 Biographer Bistro    Alan McGowan: It's very busy here. Re comments by <mifralu>. I note that 'agonia de un genio a. alekhine', by Pablo Moran, p148, shows Black in this game as Navarro. Also, re Wilhelm John, I should have picked up on this earlier. Sorry. It should be Walter John.      Mar-28-25 John Noel Williams   Alan McGowan: John Noel Williams was born 12 February 1920, Bridgeburg, Ont., Canada. Chess references show him as J.N. Williams, J. Noel Williams, or Noel Williams. Williams died 18 June 1992 at Ste.-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada. The death record also recorded his birth date. Details ...      Mar-23-25 Harry Yanofsky   Alan McGowan: In 100 Years of Chess in Canada - by D.A. Yanofsky - the year of birth of his younger brother is given as 1928 (CG shows 3 March 1929). A memorial in the cemetery at West Kindonan, Greater Winnipeg, MB, Canada shows his dob as 18 March 1928 and his death date as 12 March 1996.      Mar-23-25 Joseph Lyon Rauch   Alan McGowan: An obituary notice referenced by Ancesty (and Canadian chess archivist/historian Stephen Wright) shows that Dr Rauch died 16 December 1984 (The Gazette, 18 December 1984).      Mar-23-25 Heinz Matthai   Alan McGowan: In a brief bio prepared for the 1955 Canadian championship, it is stated that Heinz Matthai - not Hans - was born 1908 in Hannover (thanks to Stephen Wright). It also mentions that he was champion of Lower Saxony three times, and this is confirmed at ...      Mar-21-25 Alekhine vs Dr. Mueller, 1929    Alan McGowan: This game is in Skinner and Verhoeven's book Alexander Alekhine's Chess Games 1902-146, p372. Black is shown as Moeller (no Dr title and spelling difference). Their source is L'Italia Scacchistica 1930, p14.      Mar-19-25 E Schroeder vs A Nimzowitsch, 1903   Alan McGowan: This game, played at the Cafe Kaiserhof in Berlin, is given in Aron Nimzowitsch: On the Road to Chess Mastery, 1886-1924, p12. The authors show White as 'E. Schroeder' and give the Akademische Schachblaetter, June 1903, p62, as the source. The Deutsche Schachzeitung of May ...      Mar-17-25 A Bisguier vs F J Perez, 1961   Alan McGowan: The Deutsche Schachzeitung 1962, p40, said that 8...Nxe4 was an idea of Perez's compatriot Albareda who, it was said, might not have been happy with his idea being used only to take an early draw. See the following game, which was played in February 1961, many months earlier. ...      Mar-16-25 Erwin Lexandrowitsch    Mar-16-25 E Walther vs K Hoecht, 1953    Mar-07-25 Saltsjobaden Interzonal (1948)     Mar-01-25 K Richter vs O Naegeli, 1936    Feb-11-25 Petrosian vs M Stean, 1975     Feb-10-25 Hermann Ree    Feb-10-25 John Jenkins     Feb-09-25 Harry Forbes    Feb-09-25 Lasker vs W N Paton, 1899     Feb-08-25 H J Macthomas Thoms vs W Spens, 1900     Feb-03-25 Willibald Roese    Feb-03-25 Alfred Wagner    Jan-31-25 Paul Radermacher    Jan-30-25 Donald G Mackay    Jan-28-25 Vienna (1939)    Jan-27-25 Paul Krusius    Jan-27-25 Wilhelm Schwarzbach    Jan-07-25 F Wenman vs W Gibson, 1914    Dec-19-24 Josef Dobias    Dec-19-24 S Karjakin    Dec-02-24 Waldemar Gerhardt    Nov-30-24 D Neukirch vs I Radulov, 1964     Nov-30-24 K Richter vs M Draexlmaier, 1939    Nov-29-24 Isaac Lipnitsky    Nov-29-24 I Lipnitsky vs M Neckermann, 1946    Nov-26-24 Gunsberg vs Chigorin, 1890     Nov-26-24 G Grohmann vs L Engels, 1934    Nov-22-24 Leon Monosson    Nov-20-24 Moisei Elyashiv     Nov-16-24 W Heidenfeld vs W Fairhurst, 1958    Nov-16-24 I Bilek vs W Heidenfeld, 1968    Nov-15-24 Schuster vs C Carls, 1914    Nov-15-24 Yanofsky vs Unzicker, 1964     Nov-15-24 Spielmann vs J Platz, 1926    Nov-15-24 Hromadka vs Spielmann, 1928    Nov-15-24 K Richter vs Petrov, 1938    Nov-14-24 S Nadel vs Margulies, 1932    Nov-11-24 G Meszaros vs I Vezer, 1932    Nov-11-24 G Meszaros vs I Wessel, 1933    Nov-10-24 Mar del Plata (1944)     Nov-10-24 Alekhine vs Janowski, 1914    Nov-08-24 Rio de Janeiro (1946)     Nov-03-24 A Simonson vs R Combe, 1933     Nov-01-24 E Gereben vs Gyorgy Szollosy, 1948    Oct-16-24 Bogoljubov vs A Fuderer, 1951     Aug-30-24 Ludwig Herrmann     Aug-26-24 Aivi Karu     Aug-12-24 Hubert Razinger    Aug-12-24 Gisela Harum    Jul-01-24 L Steiner vs K Helling, 1928     Jun-03-24 Saemisch vs A Nimzowitsch, 1930    Mar-31-24 E Reichmann vs B Ullrich, 1961    Mar-31-24 P Michel vs R Sanguineti, 1949    Mar-31-24 B Ullrich vs W Spengler, 1949     Mar-27-24 A Brinckmann vs K Richter, 1933     Mar-24-24 K Richter vs C Ahues, 1933    Mar-24-24 K Richter vs H Wagner, 1932     Mar-24-24 K Richter vs W Schlage, 1930    Mar-24-24 L Steiner vs K Richter, 1928    Mar-05-24 M Fallone vs Westerinen, 1966    Mar-05-24 M Fallone vs W Pietzsch, 1966    Mar-05-24 Alexander Baxter    Mar-05-24 Charles Baxter    Mar-05-24 James Creevey    Mar-05-24 C W Marshall vs G Dickson, 1958    Mar-05-24 Andrew Marshall    Feb-17-24 Maude Mary Ritchie     Feb-16-24 John Jackson    Feb-13-24 Walter Bergmann     Feb-12-24 Leo Kreisberg    Feb-12-24 Julius Harnik     Feb-12-24 Hermann Haar    Feb-12-24 Walter Bergmann     Feb-06-24 William Henry Jonas    Feb-06-24 Hans Herrmann     Feb-06-24 Edith Keller-Herrmann    Feb-06-24 Kurt Emmrich     Feb-05-24 Eljasz Chaim Mundsztuk    Feb-01-24 Moses Hoeflein     Jan-31-24 Herbert Ahrens    Jan-31-24 Willi Klemm    Jan-31-24 Johannes Langeheinecke    Jan-31-24 Otto Nigg    Jan-31-24 Wilhelm Rothamel    Jan-31-24 Herbert Starke    Jan-31-24 Leo Wildegans    Jan-31-24 Franz Sachsenmaier    Jan-31-24 Ludwig Mues    Jan-31-24 Walter Meyn    Jan-29-24 Walter Schmahl    Jan-25-24 W Koch vs K Richter, 1930     Jan-22-24 Polugaevsky vs Tal, 1979     Jan-20-24 Leonhard Schiffler    Jan-19-24 E Diemer vs P Tautvaisas, 1948    Jan-15-24 Simon Rotenstein    Jan-14-24 Dresden (1956)    Jan-08-24 Reti vs Marshall, 1925     Jan-07-24 J Benzinger vs H Von Hennig, 1929     Jan-04-24 Kasparov vs Huebner, 1986    Jan-04-24 Flohr vs K Richter, 1930    Jan-01-24 Charles Whipple    Dec-31-23 A Brinckmann vs P Bodenstein, 1920    Dec-14-23 Kurt Richter    Dec-08-23 C Carls vs H Taube, 1948    Dec-05-23 Walter Benary    Dec-02-23 R Griffith vs R MacDonald, 1924     Dec-01-23 Ronald MacDonald    Nov-29-23 MacDonald vs E Adam, 1968     Nov-27-23 H Persson vs E Adam, 1936    Nov-14-23 Aachen (1933)     Nov-14-23 K Helling vs K Richter, 1933     Oct-24-23 C Richter vs von Bardeleben, 1910    Oct-17-23 Egon Joppen    Oct-16-23 Bernhard Richter     Oct-16-23 Eugen Sobernheim     Oct-15-23 Eugene Mehlen Sobernheim     Sep-15-23 Spielmann vs Tartakower, 1913    Jun-28-23 Hans Gebhard     Jun-28-23 Josef Schindler     Jun-25-23 Werner Buchholz    Jun-24-23 E Kuebart vs A Brinckmann, 1949     Jun-16-23 Edmund Nebermann    Jun-15-23 H Hunte vs J Schindler, 1927    Jun-13-23 G Abrahams vs V L Szentkiralyi Toth, 1948    Jun-13-23 Hans-Georg Mueller     Jun-12-23 Franz Moelbitz    Jun-12-23 Michael Hennicke     Jun-11-23 J Foltys vs Kostic, 1937    Jun-11-23 Hugo Soyka    Jun-09-23 M Katetov vs E Hofmann, 1949    Jun-09-23 E Hofmann vs P Trifunovic, 1949     Jun-06-23 David Adolf Albin     May-12-23 E Diemer vs Richter, 1958    May-12-23 H Mueller vs K Richter, 1940    May-12-23 K Richter vs G Fuster, 1939     Apr-01-23 Robert Steel    Mar-28-23 Saemisch vs A Medina Garcia, 1943     Mar-28-23 J E Hall vs von Bardeleben, 1888     Mar-13-23 L Day vs Francisco Silva, 1971     Feb-16-23 K Richter vs J Mieses, 1929    Jul-05-22 Nicholas Young     Jul-03-22 Hubert Knott     Jun-19-22 Robert Macdonald Ross     May-09-22 J A Birch     May-09-22 James Birch Jr.    Apr-21-22 James Cunningham Fraser     Apr-21-22 Alexander Ross    Apr-12-22 Robert M Grant    Apr-11-22 J Steegmann vs Zukertort, 1873     Apr-09-22 J Fyfe vs Zukertort, 1873    Apr-06-22 M Condie vs P Cramling, 1984    Mar-21-22 Max Janowski    Mar-18-22 Carl Ahues     Mar-17-22 Neil McKelvie     Mar-03-22 Willi Kretzschmar    Mar-03-22 W Kretzschmar vs K Richter, 1920    Feb-28-22 John Crittenden Thompson    Feb-20-22 Carl Schultz     Feb-20-22 Gyorgy Mayer    Feb-09-22 Timman vs Speelman, 1989    Feb-04-22 Roy Batchelor     Feb-03-22 Jeannot Schotz    Jan-19-22 Charousek vs B Richter, 1897     Jan-19-22 E Schorn vs E O Freienhagen, 1924    Jan-18-22 K B McAlpine vs J Lumsden, 1974     Jan-08-22 Gerald Katz    Jan-08-22 Kurt Meyer    Jan-05-22 Rupert Cross    Jan-05-22 Stanislaw Kohn     Jan-01-22 Ewald Habermann     Dec-28-21 M Romi vs K Richter, 1936    Dec-24-21 Zoltan Kovacs    Dec-24-21 Kovacs     Dec-23-21 B H Wood vs L D H, 1948    Dec-23-21 Wolfgang Schmidt     Dec-22-21 Wolfgang Schmidt     Dec-22-21 M G Kovacs    Dec-18-21 K Poschauko vs J Penrose, 1952     Dec-14-21 Martin Blaine     Dec-14-21 Marton Blum    Nov-26-21 Anatol Gerschenkron    Nov-25-21 David Hamburger    Nov-24-21 Walter Holowach    Nov-24-21 E Canal vs S Tatai, 1967     Nov-20-21 Pal Rethy    Nov-18-21 Sylvain Burstein    Nov-16-21 Trebitsch Memorial (1936)    Oct-26-21 Hans Keller    Oct-26-21 Karl Weinstock     Oct-26-21 L Steiner vs K Weinstock, 1937    Oct-26-21 Siegfried Nadel     Oct-24-21 Rudolf Bauer     Oct-24-21 Kurt Vordank    Sep-05-21 Walter Jurgschat     Aug-26-21 Heinrich Viktor Klein    Jul-24-21 Nikolay Tereshchenko    Jul-19-21 W Mueller vs K Junge, 1942     Jul-12-21 Paul Bodenstein     Jul-03-21 P Bodenstein vs G Exner, 1898     Jul-03-21 Julius Kunstmann    Jun-28-21 Bernhard Kagan     Jun-26-21 Erwin Kipke    Jun-23-21 Wolfgang Fleischmann    Jun-21-21 Rossolimo vs T van Scheltinga, 1950     Jun-20-21 D Mueller vs Werra, 1941    May-22-21 George Fraser    Apr-17-21 Walter John     Apr-05-21 Nathan Mannheimer    Apr-05-21 H Steiner vs S Fajarowicz, 1928     Apr-03-21 K Orienter vs R Toran, 1971     Apr-03-21 Hermann Thelen    Mar-27-21 Walter Loose     Mar-26-21 Hans-Georg Lachmann    Mar-25-21 L Engels vs K Richter, 1935     Mar-23-21 Ernst Szczepaniak    Oct-26-20 Neil Bernstein    Oct-26-20 C M Jonas vs Blackburne, 1897    Oct-25-20 J Szekely vs E Canal, 1933    Oct-17-20 W Ernst vs Unzicker, 1948    Oct-14-20 J Foltys vs P Michel, 1939     Oct-13-20 Julius Silverman    Sep-30-20 H Nowarra vs K Junge, 1942     Sep-29-20 Georg Kieninger    Sep-28-20 E Szczepaniak vs P Michel, 1939     Sep-27-20 Josef Grammatikoff     Sep-27-20 Enrique Reinhardt     Sep-27-20 L Engels vs E Badestein, 1937     Sep-08-20 Rossolimo vs I Romanenko, 1948     Sep-06-20 H Grob vs C Chaude de Silans, 1951    Sep-04-20 H Taube vs A Brinckmann, 1933    Aug-29-20 Ludwig Schmitt     Aug-29-20 Georg Maier    Aug-17-20 Joseph Stone    Jul-25-20 H Heinicke vs P A Seitz, 1934    Jul-25-20 Kurt Rattmann    Jul-18-20 B Koch vs Noteboom, 1931    Jul-17-20 Hans Zollner     Jul-16-20 David Podhorzer    Jul-15-20 Wolfgang Weil    Jul-15-20 Hans Kranki     Jul-14-20 Karl Gilg     Jul-14-20 Herbert Ullrich     Jul-14-20 Helmut Lange    Jul-11-20 Bruno Moritz     Jul-11-20 Heinz Ullrich    Jul-10-20 Keres vs K Richter, 1942     Jul-10-20 Victor Winz     Jul-09-20 Ernst Schweinburg    Jul-09-20 Leonhard Westphal    Jul-05-20 Paul Hallbauer    Jul-02-20 Charles F Elison    Jul-02-20 J Mora Corbera vs Suttles, 1964     Jul-02-20 Jaume Mora Corbera     Jul-02-20 J Mora Corbera vs W Lange, 1955    May-21-20 Vladimir Petrov     Jun-05-18 Nicholas Anthony Perkins     Apr-17-18 Eliskases - Fairhurst (1933)     Apr-15-18 Peter B Anderson    Apr-04-18 Maroczy vs O Tenner, 1926     Feb-09-18 Alexander Munro Davie     Feb-09-18 Gerald Bonner    Feb-09-18 Andrew Bonar Law / Richard Barnett / William Rutherford     Feb-01-18 Herbert Rose    Feb-01-18 Neptali Ponce Miranda    Feb-01-18 John Montgomerie     Feb-01-18 James Alexander McKee    Feb-01-18 Norman Alasdair Macleod    Feb-01-18 William Gibson     Feb-01-18 John Crum    Feb-01-18 Robert Combe     Feb-01-18 James Macrae Aitken     Feb-01-18 William Albert Fairhurst     Feb-01-18 Michael Fallone     Feb-01-18 Florence Hutchison Stirling    Feb-01-18 Walter Spens    Dec-20-09 Leonardas Abramavicius     Dec-12-09 K Richter vs Bogoljubov, 1941     Dec-12-09 K Richter vs G Stoltz, 1931    Dec-12-09 K Richter vs E Kipke, 1934     Dec-12-09 Saemisch vs K Richter, 1941     Dec-12-09 Berndt vs K Richter, 1936    Dec-12-09 K Richter vs E Reinhardt, 1937    Dec-07-09 Paul Schmidt     Oct-24-06 R Michell vs A Nimzowitsch, 1925

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