Chess history trivia
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Francis Burden and Samuel Standidge Boden both acted as chess mentors to the young Cecil De Vere. By a "curious coincidence", the two of them had something else in common. What?
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I believe they both died on the same day - not the same date in different years but literally the same day!John Townsend wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:39 pmFrancis Burden and Samuel Standidge Boden both acted as chess mentors to the young Cecil De Vere. By a "curious coincidence", the two of them had something else in common. What?
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Yes, well done, Jon.
P.W. Sergeant, in his A Century of British Chess (page 185), names the fatal day as 13 January 1882. Burden died in his native Belfast, having dropped out of chess some time before.
P.W. Sergeant, in his A Century of British Chess (page 185), names the fatal day as 13 January 1882. Burden died in his native Belfast, having dropped out of chess some time before.
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Who, in 1735, wrote the book Noble game of chess.
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Only one likely candidate for this - Philip Stamma.
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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Not him, he came after.
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Well Mac, no more takers, so I guess it's time for the Big Reveal.
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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Meanwhile, try this on for size. What piece of current chess terminology was originated - inadvertently - by one J S Bingham in 1820?
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(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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En passant?John Clarke wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:07 amMeanwhile, try this on for size. What piece of current chess terminology was originated - inadvertently - by one J S Bingham in 1820?
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Apparently
"J S Bingham is a pseudonym of Captain John Smith, RN "Quotes and queries", British Chess Magazine, November 1978, page 523."
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No, there's several instances of the term en passant being used earlier than 1820.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:43 amEn passant?John Clarke wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:07 amMeanwhile, try this on for size. What piece of current chess terminology was originated - inadvertently - by one J S Bingham in 1820?
(And I'll take this opportunity of thanking John Upham for providing the true identity of Mr "Bingham".)
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
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I believe Smith (alias J. S. Bingham) first used the word "study" in the sense of a composed endgame.
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Appreciated but credit is really due to the sadly missed Ken Whyld / Ken Fraser in Quote and Query #3944, BCM, 1978, page 523.John Clarke wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:09 pm
(And I'll take this opportunity of thanking John Upham for providing the true identity of Mr "Bingham".)
If only all of the Q&Qs from BCM were digitised and placed on-line...
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We previously discussed Captain Smith in 2022, especially regarding a claim that his son, Isaac Bressey Smith, was related to the famous explorer, Captain James Cook:
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