Saturday, May 4, 2024
A Chess Book I Didn't Like
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There was a tournament in 1929 that was won by Capablanca who finished with a superb +13 -0 =1 which put him 1.5 points ahead of Tar...
Friday, May 3, 2024
A Real Sacrifice by Spielmann
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Rudolf Spielmann (1882-1942, 55 years old), The Last Romantic, was born in Vienna, Austria. He was the Nordic Champion in 1919 and the ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
An Early Fischer Game
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The 75-player 1955 US Amateur Championship was won by Clinton L. Parmelee of Newark, New Jersey. The venue was the Mohegan Country Club...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
A Brilliancy Prize for Bobby Fischer
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The year 1962 started off with Mikhail Botvinnik winning the Hastings Congress and Viktor Korchnoi winning the Soviet Championship, h...
Monday, April 29, 2024
A Delicate Touch by Salas Romo
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Back in 1951, unemployment was low as was the inflation rateand the average household income was $3,510 a little over $41,000 in today’...
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Reshevsky Returns to Detroit
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Reshevsky first arrived in Detroit in 1920 and a nationally known checker player named Morris Steinberg took an interest in the chess p...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Even Tal Couldn’t Top This
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William M. de Visser (November 5, 1855 0 December 4, 1922, 68 years old) was a charter member of the Manhattan Chess Club, an expert pl...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
A Rococo Finale by Devos
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In 1948, in the small town (population less than 25,000) of Baarn, located about 22 miles southeast of Amsterdam, Paul Bevos and Baruch...
Monday, April 22, 2024
Who was F. R. Chevalier?
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He was a Harvard, class of 1929, graduate who won the precedent, setting Harvard, Yale, Princeton and West Point College Chess League’s...
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Chess On the High Seas
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I don’t think I have ever presented a game from this far back…April 11, 1853. That was the year Howard Staunton went to Brussels to me...
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