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Yes, when a position is lost it, it can be that somebody makes a move that isn't very sensible but John is just wrong to say "Of course, descriptive notation was in use..." The scoresheet handed in would have been Lasker's and I very much doubt it would have read "Q to B sq". Much more likely he wro...

Tylor as correspondence player:

https://chessmail.com/research/Tylor.html

I have seen only one source that gives 37...Q-B1 (Cheshire) and none that give 37...Qc8. 37...Q-B2 appears in the Daily News (17 August. the day after the game was played), The Times 19th August, The Field 24 August (page 323), and I could probably find more examples if I had time and access to more...

The Round 10 article has finally been posted today and I added some further source information to rounds 1, 2 and 6 recently.
I hope to do some more rounds in the next few days.

Thanks John. The round 9 article is now available (four games).

Round 7: Blackburne - Albin Tim wrote: "The point is that White's next move was 89 Bxe5, which would allow mate in one by 89…Ra5-a3 if the Black rooks were on a6 and a2" I think Tim means "if the Black rooks were on a5 and a2". (It is clear that one of the rooks moved to a5 on Black's 88th turn, in...

I have now posted Round 8 and added several diagrams to earlier rounds.

There will not be further updates until the weekend as I have other matters to attend to and there is plenty online for people to study now.

Thanks John; I tend to agree and will look at this again later and add your comment.

I just posted Round 7 (Blackburne-Albin where both books are wrong) .

Next I will be going back to add some diagrams to the earlier rounds before proceeding with round 8 and eventually round 9.

Working on it. I hope to have round 6 up tonight or tomorrow. Rounds 7 and 8 should follow soon afterwards but round 9 is a mess and will take me some time. I am using notes that I made over several years on all these games but am checking some more sources and then turning the notes into web pages ...

There seem to be a few abentees from the photograph, including James Mason. Can we infer that the photograph session clashed with the Hastings licensing hours? Maybe that's why it is not in the book. Perhaps the original is in the National Archives where I saw a lot of the original portraits (in th...

I doubt that many Senior amateurs enter the European individual championships. The senior individuals are still down for Chotowa, Poland, on unspecified dates in July. The German Senior Championships are down to start on 23rd July so presumably ECU will want to finish well ahead of then. It would be...

This means there is a possibility the European dates might change but the World Team event is definitely on now. Scotland has been complaining about this too. The impression we got is that neither date will change. Interesting to hear if that is not the case. After the Italians posted their invitat...

The invitation documents for both these 9-round events are now published. WORLD: Maritim Hotel, Magdeburg, Germany, 31 March (arrival)--11 April (departure). Free day on 6 April. EUROPEAN: Acqui Terme, Italy, 23 April-3 May Obviously the two events are far too close together in dates, for which FIDE...

Dear Tim - terribly sorry to be presumptuous about these materials which are well over 40 years old. Of course I will be very happy to take down your recordings if you would prefer that. No you can leave it up, but it was odd to hear my voice from so long ago. I think I still have a copy of the tap...

As some of you may be aware, there are problems with many game scores of one of the most important early English international tournaments. None of the four (!) tournament books on Hastings 1895 are entirely reliable, nor any database (as I warned John Saunders of Britbase a while back). Finally I a...