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Mar-23-17
 | | perfidious: Matter of fact, same as you, two who post copious amounts of YouTube videos and one who puts up endless Bible verses are invisible--just do not need to view that at every turn. You want to call that hypocritical, by all means--just get your facts straight instead of firing from the hip. |
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Mar-23-17
| | perfidious: Matter of fact, same as you, two who post copious amounts of YouTube videos and one who puts up endless Bible verses are invisible--just do not need to view that at every turn. You want to call that hypocritical, by all means--just get your facts straight instead of firing from the hip. |
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| May-27-17 | | zanzibar: High resolution 1937 photograph:
http://cplorg.cdmhost.com/cdm/singl... . |
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Jan-23-18
 | | MissScarlett: Hastings & St. Leonard's Observer, November 27th 1937, p.21: <We have now learnt that the report of the death of Jacques Meises [sic], originated in 'La National Belge' (Brussels) of October 15th. A full report was given, and it was said to be due to his accident which happened in August last. As reported here last week, a letter from Meises, bearing the Leipzig postmark of November 8th, had been received. Meises there refers to his accident, and says he still has to remain in bed, but hopes to be well enough to travel again by December. All English chess players will be relieved to hear this news.> #fakenews |
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| Jan-23-18 | | zanzibar: Well, it's not exactly #fakenews, but rather #incorrectnews, or maybe #fakescoop... there was a basis in fact underlying the report: < In 1937 he was involved in a serious car accident that nearly killed him and was hospitalized for nearly a year.> http://tartajubow.blogspot.com/2011... Though I'm not sure what original source got it right. |
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| Oct-08-18 | | lentil: GM @ 85; gotta be a record! |
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| Feb-11-19 | | Nosnibor: On October 16th 1943 now in his 79th year and short of a leg he played 28 games simultaneously against members of the Leicestershire Chess Club. Winning 18 ,losing 3 and drawing 7.His fee was £3.15 or 2shillings and sixpence old currency per player! |
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Feb-17-19
 | | Penguincw: ♔ Quote of the Day ♔
< " Lasker's style was like clear limpid water--with a dash of poison in it!" > - Mieses
Hey, new quote! Although I believe this quote is normally attributed to Spielmann. |
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Feb-17-19
| | MissScarlett: Winter's got it covered: C.N. 7697 |
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| Feb-27-19 | | Nosnibor: No mention in the bio of serious accident Mieses zuffered in 1937 when he lost a leg. |
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Jun-05-19
 | | roberts partner: <No mention in the bio of serious accident Mieses suffered in 1937 when he lost a leg.>
He may have had an accident, but he didn't lose a leg. I saw Mieses in 1945 when he played in a club match, and played him at Hastings 1948-49, so I am sure I would have noticed. In old age he took a daily dip in the Serpentine. |
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| Jun-06-19 | | Nosnibor: <Roberts partner> I knew of a number of players whom Mieses played in the 1943 simul in Leicester and they all confirmed that he must have had some prothetic leg. It was also reported in various sources that he had lost a limb. I also notice that you did rather well at Hastings in the Premier Reserves A Section finishing second behind H.G.Rhodes and drawing your individual game with Mieses.Not bad for a callow youth of 18 ! |
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Nov-09-19
 | | Fusilli: <zanzibar: High resolution 1937 photograph: http://cplorg.cdmhost.com/cdm/singl... Nice.
Mieses moved to England in 1938, at 73. Was he escaping the Nazis? Was he Jewish? Pretty advanced age to resettle internationally. |
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Nov-09-19
| | perfidious: <Fusilli>, Mieses was indeed Jewish. |
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Jun-11-21
| | louispaulsen88888888: Jakob Mieses was born in 1865 in Leipzig, Germany. He enjoyed a long lasting professional chess career of 64 years. Mieses played in numerous tournaments throughout his life, and was known and studied as having a very aggressive, and at the same time, rather traditional playing style. He lived in Germany until the rise of Nazism; as he was Jewish he fled Germany after Kristallnacht, even though he was elderly and had only a little bit of money in his pocket. He went on to become a UK citizen, and is credited as bring the first British grandmaster. Mieses' wit and sharpness continued to the end of his life and were credited to his dedication to physical fitness and his fondness of swimming. He remained active in England until dying just a few days shy of his 89th birthday. He continued to play regularly, and always kept a keen sense of humor. For example, at the age of 84, after defeating an 86-year-old, fellow chess master Van Foreest, Mieses famously stated, "Youth has been victorious." |
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| May-31-22 | | wrap99: It is interesting to read that Mieses' age and chessic accomplishments were no protection against the nazis. One might think, if their concern was racial purity, that being old and not only unlikely to reproduce but also not having many years left to them might result in getting "a pass" from the nazis but this was not the case. Many people who had, for example, fought in WW1 and been decorated who maybe at first got lighter treatment ultimately ended up in concentration camps. And again, age was no protection, I think people over 80 were sent to Theresienstadt. Very rare exceptions were people who were critical to the war effort who were given Aryan certificates -- who knows what would have happened after the war to them when they were not needed. A guy named Warburg was an unimaginably talented cancer researcher and perhaps Hitler's personal experience with the disease resulted in his protection so he could continue research. But merely being a world-class chess master was no protection at all and perhaps even attracted nazi attention. |
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May-31-22
| | MissScarlett: Protection against what? |
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| Dec-16-22 | | syracrophy: I've been looking the full game for this amazing puzzle. Does anyone knows it? Would appreciate it.
click for larger view<<Solution> 1.g4+ fxg3 2.Rh4+ gxh4 3.Rb5+ 1-0> In some places it appears as <Mieses vs NN, 1935> but found anything using the year, much less NN. Such an ending gives me huge curiosity for knowing the full game. |
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Dec-17-22
 | | Stonehenge: Endgame study in Schach-Echo, nr. 1 1984 according to https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=... |
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Dec-17-22
| | Stonehenge: I assumed that the study was from 1983 or 1984 but that can not be the case. See this newspaper from 1951: https://krantenbankzeeland.nl/issue... where the solution to a <problem II> is given. Unfortunately I cannot find that <problem II>. Maybe there are free endgame databases? |
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Dec-17-22
 | | Sally Simpson: This puzzle first appeared in this thread in 2006 adding it was played in Metz in 1935. Jacques Mieses (kibitz #14) And here https://allanbeardsworth.com/2016/1... we are told it is from from Dragoslav Andric’s 1981 book “Matni Udar”. Here https://blog.problemasdeajedrez.com... we have an opponent's name. ' Aficionado ' (Spanish for Amateur) adding it was from a simultaneous in 1935. |
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| Dec-17-22 | | stone free or die: (More nice legwork by <Sally> - especially finding <Benzol>'s post) |
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| Dec-22-22 | | syracrophy: Appreciate the effort, <everyone>! It looks perfectly fit for a study that it couldn't be a coincidence there's no full record of the game. Simply beautiful! |
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| Feb-18-24 | | stone free or die: On the theme that snark wasn't born yesterday... A CL v38 (1983) snippet has this bit involving Mieses: <... the brilliant German Jacques Mieses over coffee in Liverpool in 1923. And he was not an annotator or analyst. "We do not undertake to examine positions or games", he once responded to a reader. "A glance at your losing game, however, suggests that the losing move was 1.P-K4."> https://books.google.com/books?id=W... |
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| Feb-18-24 | | stone free or die: https://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/C... p8 The quote is not Mieses', but rather came from D.J. Morgan, author of the <Quotes & Queries> column of BCM for many years. |
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