Aug-04-25 Biographer Bistro 
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| SecretSanta: Michael must be Abraham Michael then of the Birmingham Chess Club who moved to South Africa the following year. http://www.edochess.ca/players/p549...
1881 England Census
Abraham Michael: Birth abt 1847 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Residence#; 1881 Birmingham, ... |
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Jul-22-25 1st CCA Congress, Newcastle (1870)
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| SecretSanta: Yes I saw the Bristol Mercury but thought ILN was an earlier and more authoritative source. Can I have a B?
I'll now go back to fingering my box and ebony. |
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Jun-25-25 British Chess Club Handicap (1887)
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| SecretSanta: From the Morning Post - Monday 28 March 1887 p.2 [Event "British Chess Club Handicap"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1887.03.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Lowe, Hubert Foster"]
[Black "Gunsberg, Isidor"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN " [DIAGRAM] "] 2... d6 3. Bd3 ... |
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Jun-08-25 Louis Zangwill
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| SecretSanta: From the Norwood Review and Crystal Palace Reporter - Saturday 07 January 1899 p.2 [Event "City of London C. C. Championship"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1898"]
[Round "Final"]
[White "Howell, Percy"]
[Black "Zangwill, Louis"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D00"]
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Apr-23-25 Arthur T Nicholls
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| SecretSanta: ARTHUR THOMAS NICHOLLS of 31 and 33 Magdalen Street, Norwich, Draper and Milliner. Eastern Daily Press - Thursday 03 April 1902 p.4 |
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Mar-25-25 ChessBookForum chessforum
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| SecretSanta: <thulium> I can only find a couple of chess results for E. N. Marks in Liverpool in the 1930s and no game scores. The Liverpool Daily Post - Thursday 06 October 1938 has a report of the Alekhine simultaneous exhibition played the previous night at the Liverpool Chess Club, |
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Jul-29-24 John Connell
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| SecretSanta: and his mother?
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)
Mon 4 Sep 1893
Page 1
Family Notices
CONNELL.—On the 2nd inst., At Roydon, Queen-street,
East St. Kilda, Mary, relict of the late John Minton Connell, portrait painter, of Cork and Dublin, Ireland. ... |
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Jul-02-24 Henry Barton
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| SecretSanta: [Event "6th New Orleans CC Championship"]
[Site "New Orleans"]
[Date "1885.08.11"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Barton, H. E."]
[Black "Blanchard, James G."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C39"]
[Opening "KGA: Kieseritsky, Kolisch defence"]
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 ... |
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May-20-24 John Morphy
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| SecretSanta: Two Brooklyn Chess lub championship games
[Event "Club Championship"]
[Site "Brooklyn C. C."]
[Date "1896.02.04"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Elwell, John Duryea"]
[Black "Morphy, John"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD: Harrwitz attack"]
1. d4 d5 2. ... |
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