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Jan-12-22
 | | MissScarlett: <[Source "Falkirk Herald, 21 May 1930; Linlithgowshire Gazette, 23 May 193"]> Just one source necessary, except in exceptional circumstances. In this case, it's the same column which regularly appeared in both papers. A page number is also encouraged, where known. I have amended the above to <Source "Falkirk Herald, 1930.05.21, p.15">. |
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| Jan-16-22 | | Polonia: <jessicafischerqueen:
<perfidious>
No one, of course.
Nonetheless, new member <Polonia> thinks this is an important message to get out there. <Polonia> has made four posts so far, and three of them have been exactly the same post you read in here. The fourth is a post in the Kibbutzer's Kafe criticizing its habitues. Best Kibbutzer of the year?
You make the call!>
INSTEAD OF DRINKING TOO MUCH, ANSWER MY POINT! |
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| Jan-16-22 | | Polonia: <perfidious: <jess...Best Kibbutzer of the year?> Dang!
I have a theory: perhaps an ancestor was a member of the Vera Menchik Club.>
How WIKISTUPID U R.... ancestors go back at least thousands of years as in dinosaurus times, we can link crocodile and alligators to them but only ancestors people have are monkey humanoids! |
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| Jan-28-22 | | Polonia: She beat top players in tournament play including world champ max euwe and sam reshevsky:
https://worldchesshof.org/hof-induc... |
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| Feb-02-22 | | Polonia: max euwe should not have given rematch to alexander alekhine but find opponent who will pay him most dough! i doubt there was rematch agreement but yet chess was not as professional as today with details computer preparation for moves leading to draws. |
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Feb-02-22
 | | perfidious: Euwe was a class act. Full stop. The world was better for his presence. |
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| Feb-02-22 | | Polonia: u mean chess world was made better because of him! |
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Feb-03-22
| | perfidious: Don't put words in my mouth.
Sod off. |
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Feb-03-22
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi Polonia,
<"max euwe should not have given rematch to alexander alekhine...i doubt there was rematch agreement."> There was re-match clause in the 1935 contract should Alekhine lose. Here is the contract signed by both players agreeing to it. https://en.chessbase.com/post/edwar... |
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| Feb-03-22 | | Olavi: Yes, there was a rematch clause, but there was one also in the Lasker - Schlechter contract, and Schlechter never got a second match. So if Euwe had somehow evaded the match there would have been little that Aljechin could have done. But of course that wasn't going to happen, provided the purse was there, which it was. |
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| Feb-03-22 | | Polonia: sod off you can leave on wikipedia really: wiki-PEDO-ia aka wiki-PEE-dia full of wikignorant, wikihypocrites wikioccultist, wikistupid, wikicontradicting, wikiarrogant wikihomopedoidiots where every article is wrong and old people get accused of killing heads of state archive.is/Y0BB, whatever, i wrote what you really ment in positive terms, duh! |
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| Feb-03-22 | | Polonia: but schlechter drew the match, did he try to get rematch? and 2 points clause? last game was draw for drawchter and the title and immortality and comfy living! then he like kieseritzky died like bum and was buried in pauper's grave? |
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| Mar-08-22 | | Albertan: Thoughts on International Women’s Day:Remembering Vera Menchik: https://en.chessbase.com/post/thoug... |
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| Apr-05-22 | | Whitehat1963: How would she do against the likes of the Polgar sisters, Yifan Hou, etc.? |
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Apr-06-22
 | | Dionysius1: Home or away? |
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| Apr-08-22 | | Whitehat1963: Away, with DH allowed, lefty fireballer on the mound, and the lights on at Wrigley. |
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Apr-21-22
| | Dionysius1: I was being smart-ish - I meant really during her heyday or during theirs |
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| Jul-15-22 | | Reviews By AdiN: death should not take away somebody's champion, she remained champion until new champion was crowned! |
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Sep-03-22
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: An excellent article on Menchik from The New York Times, part of their "Overlooked" series of stories. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/... |
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Sep-03-22
 | | al wazir: <An Englishman: Good Evening: An excellent article on Menchik from The New York Times, part of their "Overlooked" series of stories.> The NYTimes piece notes that
<As the 2020 Netflix mini-series “The Queen’s Gambit” dramatized, women competing in the upper echelons of chess have traditionally had to swim upstream in a black-and-white game that not only shuns them but also identifies success and competitive ambition as inherently male qualities.> But ironically, “The Queen’s Gambit” overlooked Menchik. In the series Beth Harmon is referred to as the first female chessplayer who plays at the same level as the top male players. Menchik never gets a mention. The Washington Post also ran an article about Menchik, covering much of the same material: https://www.washingtonpost.com/hist.... It makes the point about how the series expunged Menchik from history. |
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Oct-25-23
 | | ketchuplover: only 1 loss in world championship matches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Feb-18-24 | | stone free or die: From Tanner's book on Menchik (p10):
<About this time [1923, she joined Hastings CC on March 18] the great Hungarian grandmaster Géza Maróczy was lecturing at the club. It was Vera's good fortune to start taking private lessons from him. Although we have no way of knowing what went into her lessons, an article in <The Times> indicated that she had received her tuition in the form of 20 games. Maróczy and Vera had a mutual admiration for the rest of her life. A number of sources have attributed her positional style as well as many of her opening to GM Maróczy. Maróczy's observation was that she was "Every inch a master."> https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/... https://en.chessbase.com/post/vera-... |
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| Mar-19-24 | | Petrosianic: <al wazir>: <But ironically, “The Queen’s Gambit” overlooked Menchik. In the series Beth Harmon is referred to as the first female chessplayer who plays at the same level as the top male players. Menchik never gets a mention.> The Queen's Gambit overlooked a lot. They were sued by Gaprindashvili for explicitly claiming that Nona had never played against men. They not only committed errors of omission, but of commission also. |
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| Mar-19-24 | | Cassandro: Well, it might as well have been for the best that the Netflix series didn't mention Menchik. Who knows what insult to her memory they would have come up with, as they, as <petrosianic> noted, did to the great Nona Gaprindashvili. |
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Mar-19-24
| | Sally Simpson: I do not think Walter Tevis mentioned Vera so Neflix are not too guilty on that one. I'm happy Nona got a pay day however that will be it as far as any accuracy in future chess productions are concerned. These places hate getting burned like that. We will be back to made up names 'Kronsteen - McAdams' and buggered up random positions for fear of breaching copyright. Still a wee bit surprised Nona got her money as most of these productions stick in a save ass claise; 'Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead or actual events is purely coincidental. etc...' But good for her.
Still not seen 'Queen's Gambit.' Netflix is the path to sloth. I've ticked off the rest seven deadly sins I'm leaving that one off my report card. (and it cost money....as you can see I've succumbed to 'Greed' the 3rd deadly sin.) |
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