In 1879, Rutherford B. Hayes from Fremont, Ohio was President. My sister once bought a box of "junk" at a flea market and in it she found a letter written by Hayes. It was authenticated as genuine by his museum and she subsequently donated it to them.
In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opened Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store, but it soon failed. Later that year he opened his first successful store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After a long run, it was eventually crowded out by Walmart. After a couple of changes, the original Woolworth became Foot Locker which is the legal continuation of the original company.
Milk was sold in glass bottles for the first time. But, by the 1950s, glass was becoming too hard to manage. The crates heavy and there were a lot of damage when transporting the bottles to and from home deliveries.
As a kid we never bought milk at the store...a milkman delivered it in glass bottles in a wire rack. Every week, when the empty bottles were left out for him to pick up, my dad left the payment in one of the bottles which were set on the porch. Porch thieves? They were unheard of.
The quality factor of making sure the bottles were properly cleaned before re-using was a problem. As a result, in the 1960s, a switch was made to paper cartons that were dipped in wax and then stapled at the top.
The problem with those cartons was they were considered as a potential fire hazard (sic!). So, another switch was made to the construction of cartons made of layers...plastic, paper, plastic and then heat sealed at the top. In the 2010s a transition was made to recyclable plastic.
In chess, Adolf Anderssen died in Breslau from a heart ailment on March 13th and the English player George Walker died on April 23rd.
A couple of posts back I mentioned the little known Hungarian player of yesteryear, Adolf Schwarz (October 31, 1836 - October 25, 1910).
He was a trade merchant and teacher of religious education, but beyond that there seems to be no other information available.
However, I did locate his obituary that appeared in the January, 1911 edition of Wiener Schachzeitung.
"He showed extraordinary interest in chess already in his youth and was soon regarded to be the strongest player in Arad (Romania), where he studied.
But, only in Budapest, where he moved to at the age of 20, he acquired this stubbornness in had and the incomparable vigor in good positions, which made him a feared opponent everywhere. In 1872, he moved to Vienna where he joined the Vienna Chess Society and he remained a member for 38 years."
He had many successes in local and national tournaments. At the international tournament in Wiesbaden (1880), he shared first place with Blackburne and Englisch (11.0/15). In matches he beat Minckwitz (+3 -2 =4) and Winawer (+2 -0 =2).
After that he participated in tournaments more rarely, but at the age of 73 he won a tournament of the Vienna Chess Club in 1909 against the strongest amateurs.
Chessmetrics gives his best world rank at #3 with a rating of 2657 in 1882. His last rating of 2526 is in 1902 which placed him 39th in the world.
Schwarz' opponent in the following game was German master Carl Wemmers (1845-1882, 37 years old). He was a businessman in Cologne, an amateur musician and a singer. He died of blood poisoning in his parents' house after several months of illness.
Adolf Schwarz–Carl Wemmers1–0C48LeipzigLeipzig GER17.07.1879Stockfiah 15.1
Four Knights Game 1.e4 e5 2.f3 c6 3.c3 f6 Prior to WWI, the Four
Knights Game was popular even at the highest level, but then along with a
number of open games in gerneral it fell by the wayside. It usually leads to
quiet positional play, but there are some shartp tactical lines. 4.b5 4.xe5 The dubious (or is it?!) Halloween Gambit. xe5 5.d4 Against the
popular 5...Bd6 my database gives white only a very slight edge in the winning
percentage which is nearly evely divided between white wins, black wins and
draws! Stockfish prefers 5...Ng6 4.d4 exd4 5.d5 The spicy Belgrade
Gambit which is little explored and is certainly worth a try. b4 5...xe4
Rare, but perfectly satisfactory. 6.d3 c5 7.0-0 equal 5...e7 6.c4 0-0 7.0-0 d6 8.xd4 xd4 9.xd4 xd5 10.xd5 f6 11.d3 c6 12.b3 e6 13.e3 Draw agreed. Tartajubow-Opponent, Correspondence 2016 6.c4 equal 4...c5 5.0-0 0-0 6.d3 d6 7.g5 h6 8.h4 e6 9.xc6 bxc6 10.d4 exd4 11.xd4 g5 12.g3 xd4 An unfavorable exchange. Retreating to d7 is logical. 12...d7 13.d3 h5 14.ad1 ad8 with equal chances. Krebs,D (2080)-Yeo,M
(2170) Dresden 2013 13.xd4 h5 14.f4 xg3 15.hxg3 f5 This move opening
up his Ks position is not a good idea. Instead, strengthening it with 15...f6
was better. 16.f2 More aggressive was 16.Rae1 followed by the advance of
the e-Pawn. f6 17.e3 c4 This move does not turn out especially well as
black now comes under a heavy attack. 17...fxe4 keeps black's disadvantage
at a minimum. 18.xe4 d7 19.af1 e6 with excellent defensive chances. 18.fxg5 hxg5 19.xf5 h6 20.xg5+ With his K stripped of cover black is
now lost and he is dispatched in a most efficient manner. h7 21.g4 f7 22.f1 g6 23.h3 xf1+ 24.xf1 a5 25.f2 g7 26.h5 a4 26...h7 offers more resistance. 27.e5 f8+ 28.g3 f7 29.f5+ e8 30.xf8+ xf8 31.xh7 xh7 White wins the ending. 27.a3 f8+ 28.g3 f1 28...h7 29.xh7+ xh7 30.a5 b8 31.a7 This is more efficient than taking the a-Pawn
which is not going to run away. xb2 32.xc7+ h8 33.xc6 xc2 34.f4 xg2 35.xd6 wins 29.e2 h1 There was nothing really better, but this allows
a nice finish. 30.xg6+ xg6 31.xh1 Black resigned. 1–0
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