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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...

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...

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...

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...

"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 ...

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...

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...

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 For example, my post of May 2017 is out of date since Trisha Kanyamarala became I...

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.

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

He twice beat me in BPCF postal events with the Sokolsky; ouch!

Bad Wörishofen, scheduled for March, has just been cancelled but will possibly be rescheduled for May.

http://www.chessmail.com/seniors/Seniors-calendar.html

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...

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...

That's a very plausible suggestion, thank you.

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...