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- Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:00 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Remembering GM Jacques Mieses (27-ii-1865 23-ii-1954)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 390
Re: Remembering GM Jacques Mieses (27-ii-1865 23-ii-1954)
Where did Heidenfeld make this mistake? It is true that the incorrect attribution of the 8th edition is in Golombek's Encyclopaedia and (I just checked) also in the Soviet Encyclopaedia. But surely the Oxford Companion (1984 edition, page 213) correctly says he did the supplement and you actually qu...
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:46 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Remembering GM Jacques Mieses (27-ii-1865 23-ii-1954)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 390
Re: Remembering GM Jacques Mieses (27-ii-1865 23-ii-1954)
Thanks for the interesting article about Mieses but the statement "He edited the eighth edition of the famous Handbuch" is incorrect and needs to be corrected. The editor of the 8th edition (1916, 1040 pages) was Carl Schlechter, with the cooperation of some specialists in certain sections but Miese...
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 2:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Queens Gambit and Netflix
- Replies: 124
- Views: 8633
Re: Queens Gambit and Netflix
And did they play Swiss-type tournaments? The BCF moved to Swiss system tournaments from the 1949 Championship onwards. Other tournaments run over several days followed suit. Swiss system tournaments over a weekend were introduced to the UK by Stewart Reuben in the late 1960s copying a US format. I...
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 11:41 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Peter Markland
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2024
Re: Peter Markland
I was at Wijk aan Zee 1973 (playing in a Reserve Master Group, effectively the 3rd section) when Peter was in the Master group (2nd section). He threw away half a point because he didn't know the correct way to claim a repetition draw, i.e., he made the move on the board before claiming so the oppon...
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:05 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Remarkable chess career of GPS Coy
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1208
Re: Remarkable chess career of GPS Coy
"I thought you meant he had played postal chess since the 1930s!" I'm not sure when he started - happily the CS captain has been running the teams for 40+ years, so I'll ask him. The following is from my CC database, unfortunately no source. But a game between the same players with reverse colours ...
- Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:56 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: FIDE titles achieved by British Isles players since 2010
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5941
Re: FIDE titles achieved by British Isles players since 2010
It's worth noting that Trisha Kanyamarala was born in 2005, and I believe she is the first Irish WIM. David, you don't seem to have noticed that I mentioned Trisha's WIM title earlier in the thread. Her brother Tarun is an FM and there are some other Irish IMs, FMs (also FAs) whom I have not mentio...
- Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:39 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Remembering IM Hugh Alexander CMG CBE (19-iv-1909 15-ii-1974)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1329
Re: Remembering IM Hugh Alexander CMG CBE (19-iv-1909 15-ii-1974)
Correspondence chess is only mentioned briefly in the article. CHO'D took up international postal chess in 1963 playing board 3 for the BCCA "Socrates" team in the Eberhardt Wilhelm Cup, a European team event. He annotated his first two games to finish in the November 1964 issue of the BCCA Magazine...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 2:33 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: FIDE titles achieved by British Isles players since 2010
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5941
Re: FIDE titles achieved by British Isles players since 2010
It has been nearly four years since I looked at this thread. Is anyone aware of any additions needed to this list in the intervening period? There must be very many, especially if FMs, arbiters etc. are also included. For example, my post of May 2017 is out of date since Trisha Kanyamarala became I...
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 10:17 pm
- Forum: Seniors Chess
- Topic: Senior Tournaments in 2021
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2586
Re: Senior Tournaments in 2021
http://www.chessmail.com/seniors/Seniors-calendar.html updated to show the cancellation (or possibly postponement until May) of the annual Bad Woerishofen festival has been announced this evening.
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 10:14 pm
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Martyn Whiteside
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1479
Re: Martyn Whiteside
He twice beat me in BPCF postal events with the Sokolsky; ouch!Simon Rogers wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:49 pm
Martyn then took up Correspondence Chess and played matches for BCCA and BPCF. He also played for Wales in the European Team Championships.
There is an excellent tribute by Martyn Griffiths on:
www.welshccf.org.uk
RIP
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 10:13 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: (Chess) Life Returning To Normal
- Replies: 1724
- Views: 98942
Re: (Chess) Life Returning To Normal
Bad Wörishofen, scheduled for March, has just been cancelled but will possibly be rescheduled for May.
http://www.chessmail.com/seniors/Seniors-calendar.html
http://www.chessmail.com/seniors/Seniors-calendar.html
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 5:52 pm
- Forum: Women's Chess
- Topic: Indian Sportswoman of the Year
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1166
Re: Indian Sportswoman of the Year
Yes - I was tidying up a database recently to get rid of duplicates and quite a lot of them were Indian and Chinese names, where there is confusion (for us) over the order of the names. The names on the backs of the Indian cricketers in the Test match all look wrong to me. Obviously they're not. Or...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 10:09 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: The first Chess Defector
- Replies: 54
- Views: 2865
Re: The first Chess Defector
I hardly think Cenek would have viewed himself as a defector and certainly not as somebody who deserted his country in favour of an opposing one. If he was political at all (I don't recall we discussed politics but he may have been when he was younger), probably he would have viewed his country (Cze...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 10:03 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Where was James Mason born?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1451
Re: Where was James Mason born?
That's a very plausible suggestion, thank you.
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:43 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Game score errors and discrepancies
- Replies: 4
- Views: 767
Re: Game score errors and discrepancies
The single most useful thing would be if ChessBase employed somebody full-time to fix mistakes in their databases, because so many people use them and they make so much money out of them. Such an employee, who should have historical training and a real desire to do the job properly, would need to tr...