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on Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:53pm.
For the past week or two (and in the weeks to come) I've been (will be) presenting a variety of blog entries concerning chess players of the latter part of the 19th century. I introduced Nellie Showalter and plan to do the same with he... Read more »
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on Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:41am.
British Chess Magazine - 1888 Augustus Mongredien was the son of a French officer, who came over to England at the time of the first revolution. He was born in London, on the 17th March, 1807, and being brought up and educated here, s... Read more »
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on Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:25pm.
British Chess Magazine May and June 1888 CHESS PLAYERS I HAVE KNOWN. By Augustus Mongredien.
"To gratify the curiosi... Read more »
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on Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:39pm.
G.A. MacDonnell
The Knights and Kings of Chessby George Alcock MacDonnell
I FIRST met Kolisch in 1861 at the St. James's Club, then just founded by Herr Lowenthal. A short time previously he had encountered Harrwitz at the Cafe L... Read more »
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on Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:45pm.
Charles Edward Ranken January 5, 1828–April 12, 1905
The British Chess Magazine, Volume 17, February 1897
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF AN AMATEUR.
I WAS born in 1828 at Brislington, near Bristol, and was taught to play chess when twelve yea... Read more »
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on Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:48pm.
British Chess Magazine. April, 1892
Herr Lasker is a pleasant-featured genial-mannered man, of short stature, with an intellectual cast of countenance. Generally he may be described as "a dapper little fellow," and but for the ever... Read more »
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on Wed Sep 9, 2009 5:07pm.
1892 BCM
In 1894 Nellie Love Marshall Showalter, the wife of then U.S. Chess Champion, Jackson Whipps Showalter, played Mrs. Harriet Worrell, the wife of the renowned chess player, Thomas Herbert Worrall, a match for the U.S. Women's Champions... Read more »
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on Tue Sep 8, 2009 9:10am.
This treatise on Buckle was written by Johann Jacob Löwenthal and appeared in the Vol. II, 1864 issue of his Chess Player's Magazine
"The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful... Read more »
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on Mon Sep 7, 2009 6:24pm.
Yet again, it's THAT time!
The last time I posted a content summary was 07/19/2009. Due to the number or recent postings, I think it's time to update.
Because of the quantity of links, I made the font tiny. Remember, if you want to zoom in,... Read more »
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on Sun Sep 6, 2009 12:53pm.
Paul Morphy called the Evans Gambit, "that most beautiful of openings," and, indeed, until the beast was declawed by Lasker, this particular opening led to some of the most spectacular games. Of all the Evans Gambits ever played, Anderssen's ... Read more »