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WilhelmThe2nd
Member since Apr-25-05
I am researching Capablanca's speed chess results. I keep a record of what I have found at this blog: https://web.archive.org/web/2013040...

Chigorin At The Kiev Tournament of 1903
By M. S. Evenson
Mikhail Chigorin (kibitz #149)

Encounters with Alekhine
By P. Romanovsky
http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/Enco...

Steinitz Interview
Wilhelm Steinitz (kibitz #374)

von der Lasa Letter about Howard Staunton
Howard Staunton (kibitz #210)

Emanuel Lasker 'The Game of the Future'
Emanuel Lasker (kibitz #339)

Akiba Rubinstein at Kiev 1903
Akiba Rubinstein (kibitz #552)

Steinitz on Morphy
By C. W. Phillips
Paul Morphy (kibitz #5421)

John Cochrane
http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/coch...

Prince Dadian of Mingrelia
http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/Andr...

Prince Andrey Dadian of Mingrelia

Game Collection: Prince Dadian's Consultation Games

Game Collection: Prince Dadian of Mingrelia Brilliancy Prizes

Vassily Soldatenkov
Vassily Soldatenkov

Game Collection: Soldatenkov's Consultation Games

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   WilhelmThe2nd has kibitzed 330 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Jul-12-25 S R Dill
 
WilhelmThe2nd: When <Samuel Richard Dill> died in 1878, the <Signature, Qualification, and Residence of Informant> portion of his death registration was filled out 'John Dill in attendance during last illness Lurgan'. This was undoubtedly Samuel's brother John Dill (who, ...
 
   Jul-11-25 Biographer Bistro (replies)
 
WilhelmThe2nd: I believe that the games under the L Schlemm profile need to be merged into Heinrich Schlemm . I can find no record of an 'L. Schlemm' playing chess. Also, the source for the two Nowotny games under the L Schlemm profile clearly gives 'H. Schlemm': ...
 
   Jul-09-25 Isidore Sasias
 
WilhelmThe2nd: There is a portrait of Sasias included in an article by Alphonse Delannoy titled "Gallery of the Chess Masters of the Regence" in <Brentano's Chess Monthly>, v1 n2, June 1881, p60, which can be seen here: https://archive.org/details/brentan...
 
   Jul-08-25 Richard Bradford (replies)
 
WilhelmThe2nd: <BIRTHS...On the 20th March, at South Hackney, Mrs. R. W. BRADFORD, of a son.> — The Times (London), 1870.03.22, p1.
 
   Jul-08-25 Armand-Jacques Guibert (replies)
 
WilhelmThe2nd: Translated from <La Stratégie> (1878.08.15, v11 n8, p245): <Obituary> <Mr. Guibert> <One of the best and most likeable chessplayers has just died; Mr. Guibert, who was attending the great International Tournament, was taken ill and died within a few ...
 
   Jul-08-25 James Fitch
 
WilhelmThe2nd: The database <New York City, Public School Teacher Retirement List, 1895-1915> gives James H. A. Fitch's vital dates as: Birth Date - Feb. 14th, 1843 Death Date - Jan. 28th, 1905
 
   Jul-08-25 von Beer (replies)
 
WilhelmThe2nd: Apparently an alternative spelling for <von Beer> is <von Behr>. A good candidate for the Baron von Beer who played Gustav Neumann is <Felix von Behr> from Bandelin in Pomerania who was a member of the Order of Saint John and who had been made a Baron in ...
 
   Jun-07-25 Thomas Worrall (replies)
 
WilhelmThe2nd: <j> Are there any contemporary sources that claim he was in the British Army?
 
   Jun-04-25 Johannes Bothe (replies)
 
WilhelmThe2nd: This might be <Johann Bothe>: https://www.google.com/books/editio...
 
   Jun-04-25 Max Blumenfeld
 
WilhelmThe2nd: The book <Pioneros Judíos del Desierto: Neuquén y Río Negro, 1879-1939> (Buenos Aires, 2000) by Ricardo Koon, which chronicles the history of the Jewish community in Argentina's Neuquén and Río Negro provinces, mentions (p171) a <Dr. Maximiliano Blumenfeld>, a
 
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