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- Thu Mar 28, 2019 11:45 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Rediscovered game by De la Bourdonnais
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3662
Re: Rediscovered game by De la Bourdonnais
Harding's claim that the game was played by Labourdonnais is still on-line (http://www.chessmail.com/research/Historic-games.html). The page above is not linked to either from Tim's home page, or even his research page under which it is found in the link above. It would be difficult for anyone to c...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:32 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Rediscovered game by De la Bourdonnais
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3662
Re: Rediscovered game by De la Bourdonnais
Harding's claim that the game was played by Labourdonnais is still on-line (http://www.chessmail.com/research/Historic-games.html).
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 6:34 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Media comments on chess
- Replies: 5968
- Views: 737442
Re: Media comments on chess
Macron on Brexit : "We need to get out of this checkmate. A proposed rejection of the EU with no plan can only ever lead to stalemate." Can we verify Emmanuel Macron's exact words? Dipping into this recording of his recent press conference in Brussels https://www.boursorama.com/videos/actualites/so...
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:36 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: HISTORY OF THE LAWS OF CHESS
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7726
Re: HISTORY OF THE LAWS OF CHESS
Not "Fabiano." Nor "Fabio," as given on page 4 of Tim Harding's book on Blackburne. Zavatarelli's forename is Fabrizio.Tim Harding wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:20 pm
In Italy it may have been Serafino Dubois who was influential in the modern rules being adopted, but on this you should consult Fabiano Zavatarelli.
- Sun Mar 10, 2019 6:59 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Winning against both Capablanca and Fischer
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6386
Re: Winning against both Capablanca and Fischer
Threw the original question: Wins against both Capablanca and Fischer to the crowd at Chessgames. We have a fifth. The Canadian Maurice Fox (1898-1988) He beat Capa in a simul in Vienna in 1919 and Fischer in the Canadian Open in 1956. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=12989 In Capabla...
- Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:43 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Rediscovered game by De la Bourdonnais
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3662
Re: Rediscovered game by De la Bourdonnais
See, though, https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=8967#p196126. The Morning Post is clear that De la Bourdonnais won the game.... That is not true. The Morning Post column in question does not mention De la Bourdonnais anywhere at all: column.JPG The same game and text were reproduced on page...
- Thu Mar 07, 2019 3:17 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Rediscovered game by De la Bourdonnais
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3662
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 7:04 am
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Anne Sunnucks/Mothersill (1927-2014)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6789
Re: Anne Sunnucks/Mothersill (1927-2014)
Reaction to the publication of Anne Sunnucks' The Encyclopaedia of Chess (1970) is shown by Edward Winter in Chess Notes item 9280: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/wint ... ml#CN_9280
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 11:18 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Chess & Bridge Withdraw Ray Keene's Book from Sale
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25963
Re: Chess & Bridge Withdraw Ray Keene's Book from Sale
Raymond Keene has just reacted at http://www.chessgames.com/player/raymond_keene.html to criticism of his Carlsen v Caruana match book (criticism made in, for instance, my review at https://www.patreon.com/posts/23138934). That review gave countless examples of copying, factual mistakes, typos, etc....
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 9:06 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Chess & Bridge Withdraw Ray Keene's Book from Sale
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25963
Re: Chess & Bridge Withdraw Ray Keene's Book from Sale
I note this tweet by "Chess Club Live":
https://twitter.com/ChessClubLive/statu ... 5494371328
- O.G. Urcan
https://twitter.com/ChessClubLive/statu ... 5494371328
- O.G. Urcan
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 7:57 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: "Chess is intellectual gymnastics"
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2284
Re: "Chess is intellectual gymnastics"
By chance, I discussed the Steinitz quotation with Edward Winter a few days ago, with a view to presenting various citations on the Chess Notes page.
- O.G.Urcan
- O.G.Urcan
- Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:32 pm
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Eric Schiller 1955-2018
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7076
Re: Eric Schiller 1955-2018
Mention has been made, in relation to Eric Schiller's passing, of the "De mortuis nil nisi bonum" tag so maybe it's not totally inappropriate to recall what Eric himself wrote on the death of former FIDE president Florencio Campomanes in 2010: "An evil man who is not going to be missed. Thoroughly ...
- Thu Sep 27, 2018 2:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Raymond Keene new site
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12997
Re: Raymond Keene new site
Anyone who does not have Raymond Keene's 2017 book on Tony Buzan but is concerned about claims in it which are misleading, or worse, may like to see what is in the "About the author" section on page 6: zzzzkeene1.jpg Among that section's many other boasts is one on page 5 about a so-called "Oscar fo...
- Mon Sep 24, 2018 9:40 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Raymond Keene new site
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12997
Re: Raymond Keene new site
In the second edition of his book on Tony Buzan (2017), Raymond Keene is still describing himself as "the Chairman of the English Chess Association." Some years ago, I enquired about the Association on this Forum (https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=6117), but facts proved hard to find. ...
- Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Latest Bristol Chess Times
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6672
Re: Latest Bristol Chess Times
From page 245 of Edward Winter's Chess Explorations (1996), C.N item 1283:JustinHorton wrote: ↑Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:22 amThere's a good quip about that French Exchange line, can't quite remember it, somebody must know what I mean (the one about its sole merit being the ingenuity you can display to get away with it).