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 Today In Chess History - HighlightsStanley was an Englishman who emigrated from London to New York in 1843 to work in the British Consulate, and his English ideas had a great influence on American chess. One of his ideas was to have a regular newspaper column devoted to chess, which he started in 1845 in The Spirit of the Times. He also started the American Chess Magazine in 1846, but others copied the idea (which originated in England), and competition forced the magazine out of business. In 1855 he organized the first World Problem Tournament. In 1846 he published the first US book on a chess match, 31 Games of Chess. Stanley is a little known figure who has been eclipsed by the achievements of the world famous Paul Morphy. He played Morphy in 1857, losing the title of US Chess Champion to his much better opponent. He was married and later had a daughter Pauline, who was named after Morphy. United States Chess Champion 1845–1857 Preceded by none Succeeded by Paul Morphy SOURCE: en.wikipedia.org ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CHARLES HENRY STANLEY (born September 1819, died October 06, 1901) United Kingdom (citizen of United States of America). Charles Henry Stanley was born in Brigton, England in September, 1819. In 1839, he defeated Howard Staunton (+3-2=1), but Howard Staunton was giving odds of a pawn and move. Stanley emigrated to New York in 1842 and worked at the British Consulate. He was regarded as the best chess player in New York from 1842 to 1857. In 1844, he defeated John William Schulten in two matches in New York. He was considered to be America's first chess champion until he lost a match with Paul Morphy in 1857. He started America's first chess column in the Spirit of the Times on March 1, 1845, which contained the first chess problem published in America. The chess column ran until October, 1848. In 1845, he, again, defeated John William Schulten in a match in New York. In December, 1845, he defeated Eugene Rousseau at the New Orleans Chess Club (Sazerac Coffee House) in the first unofficial US Championship (15 wins, 8 losses, 8 draws). This was the first organized chess event in the United States. The stakes for the event was $1,000. Rousseau’s second was Eugene Morphy, the uncle of Paul Morphy. Paul Morphy attended the match at the age of 8 and became interested in chess. In 1846 Stanley defeated Charles Vezan in New York and George Hammond in Chicago. In October 1846, he started the "American Chess Magazine: a periodical Organ of Communication for American Chess-Players", which folded in September 1847. In 1846 he published the first book in America on a chess match, "31 Games of Chess." From 1848 to 1856, he edited a chess column in "The Albion." In February, 1850 he defeated John Turner of Louisville, Kentucky in Washington, DC and drew a match against Johann Jacob Loewenthal (+3-3=0) in New York. In 1852 he suggested the holding of an international chess tournament at the Great Exhibition in New York in 1853, but nothing came of it. In 1852, he drew a match with Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint Amant in New York (+4-4=0). In 1855 he organized the first World Chess Problem tournament. In 1857 he was knocked out in the first round of the 1st American Chess Congress by Theodore Lichtenhein, winning 2 games and losing 3 games. In December, 1857, Stanley’s daughter, Pauline, was born. She was named after Paul Morphy. In 1859, he published "Morphy’s Match Games" and "The Chess Player’s Instructor." In 1860 he returned to England and took 2nd in the 3rd British Chess Association Congress in Cambridge, England, losing to Ignatz Von Kolisch. From 1860 to 1862, he edited a chess column in the Manchester Express and Guardian. In 1861, he won a tournament in Leeds, England. In 1868, he lost a match to George Henry Mackenzie in New York. He was an alcoholic who spent his last 20 years in institutions on Ward’s Island and in the Bronx. He died in 1901. Provided below are 75 of his chess games, including a game with Morphy. SOUCRE: www.chessgames.com |
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Today In Chess History Oct 7, 1850: Karl Schorn died in Munchen, Germany. Oct 7, 1933: Jonathan Penrose was born in Colchester, England. Oct 7, 1939: Thomas Cox died in Dublin, Ireland. Oct 7, 1972: Loek wan Wely was born, Netherlands. Oct 7, 1980: Andrey Deviatkin was born, Russia. Oct 7, 1983: Robert Markus was born, Serbia. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Ansidei, Francesco Birth Aug 6, 1804 Perugia, Italy. Death Oct 8, 1873 Perugia, Italy. Nationality ITA - Italy Biographical data Italian player and writer. SOURCE: www.maskeret.com _______________________________________________________________________________ Suchting, Hugo Birth Oct 8, 1874 Brackrade, Germany. Death Dec 27, 1916 Valluhn, Germany. Nationality GER - Germany Biographical data German player, economist. SOURCE: www.maskeret.com _______________________________________________________________________________ Ragozin, Viacheslav Vasilyevich Birth Oct 8, 1908 St Petersburg, USSR. Death Mar 11, 1962 Moskva, USSR. Nationality USR - USSR Titles GM - International Grandmaster IA - International Arbiter GMC - International Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess Biographical data USSR player, building engineer. International Grandmaster, 1950. International Arbiter, 1951. International Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess, 1959. Trivia by Bill Wall In 1944 Ragozin trained with Botvinnik for the USSR Championship. They trainded with a radio going full blast in the room to get accustom to a possibly noisy tournament hall. Ragozin ended up in 14th place out of 17 and blamed his results on the unusual quietness of the tournament hall! SOURCE: www.maskeret.com _______________________________________________________________________________ Baird, David Graham Birth Dec 3, 1854 New York, New York, USA. Death Oct 8, 1913 Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA. Nationality USA - United States of America Biographical data US player. SOURCE: www.maskeret.com _______________________________________________________________________________ Marwitz, Jan Hendrik Birth Oct 8, 1915 Wilderwank, Netherlands. Death 1991 Nationality NED - Netherlands Biographical data Dutch study composer. SOURCE: www.maskeret.com |
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Today In Chess History - Continued Bisguier, Arthur Bernard Birth Oct 8, 1929 New York, New York, USA. Nationality USA - United States of America Titles GM - International Grandmaster Biographical data USA player. International Grandmaster, 1957. US Champion, 1954. Biography by George Mirijanian 1st 1948 U.S. Junior Championship 1st 1950 U.S. Open 1st 1956 U.S. Open 1st 1959 U.S. Open 1st 1973 Lone Pine SOURCE: www.maskeret.com _______________________________________________________________________________ Toran Albero, Roman Birth Oct 8, 1931 Gijon, Spain. Titles IM - International Master IA - International Arbiter Biographical data Spanish player. International Master, 1963. International Arbiter, 1957. Spanish Champion, 1951, 1953. SOURCE: www.maskeret.com _______________________________________________________________________________ Contedini, Ennio Birth Oct 8, 1934 Milano, Italy. Nationality ITA - Italy Biographical data Italian player. Italian Champion, 1963. SOURCE: www.maskeret.com _______________________________________________________________________________ Hamann, Svend Birth Oct 8, 1940 Kobenhavn, Denmark. Nationality DEN - Denmark Titles IM - International Master Biographical data Danish player. International Master, 1965. SOURCE: www.maskeret.com _______________________________________________________________________________ Troianescu, Octav Birth Feb 6, 1916 Cernauti, USSR. Death Oct 8, 1980 Bucuresti, Romania. Nationality ROM - Romania Titles IM - International Master Biographical data Romanian player. International Master, 1950. Romanian Champion, 1946, 1954, 1956, 1957. SOURCE: www.maskeret.com |
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Today In Chess History - Highlights - Continued London (ENG), October 8 - November 4 Kasparov, Gary =0=======0=====- 6.5 Kramnik, Vladimir =1=======1=====- 8.5 SOURCE: www.maskeret.com |
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Today In Chess History Oct 8, 1873: Francesco Ansidei died in Perugia, Italy. Oct 8, 1874: Hugo Suechting was born in Brackrade, Germany. Oct 8, 1908: Viacheslav Ragozin was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Oct 8, 1913: David Graham Baird died in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA. Oct 8, 1915: Jan Hendrik Marwitz, Dutch composer, was born in Wilderwank, Netherlands. Oct 8, 1929: Arthur Bisguier was born in New York, USA. Oct 8, 1931: Roman Toran Albero was born in Gijon, Spain. Oct 8, 1934: Ennio Contedini was born in Milan, Italy. Oct 8, 1940: Swend Hamann was born in Kopenhagen, Danmark. Oct 8, 1972: Hichem Hamdouchi was born in Tangier, Marocco. Oct 8, 1980: Octav Troianescu died in Bucarest, Romania. Oct 8, 1987: Susanto Megaranto was born, Indonesia. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Oct 9, 1787: William Lewis was born in Birmingham, England. Oct 9, 1927: Jeremy Gaige was born in New York, USA. Oct 9, 1957: Gyula Neukomm, Hungarian composer, died in Budapest, Hungary. Oct 9, 1962: Milan Vidmar died in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. Oct 9, 1993: Wesley So was born in Manila, Philippines. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Oct 10, 1817: Serafino Dubois was born in Roma, Italy. Oct 10, 1887: Newell Banks was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Oct 10, 1891: Cyril Kipping, British composer, was born in London, England. Oct 10, 1917: Giovanni Tonetti died in Manziana, Italy. Oct 10, 1945: Yuri Razuvayev was born in Moskva, Russia. Oct 10, 1959: Barbara Hund was born in Leverkusen, Germany. Oct 10, 1961: Ognjen Cvitan was born in Sibenik, Croatia. Oct 10, 1964: Suat Atalik was born, Turkey. Oct 10, 1964: Giorgi Giorgadze was born, Georgia. Oct 10, 1975: Giulio De Narda died in Parma, Italy. Oct 10, 1979: Rufat Bagirov was born, Azerbaijan. Oct 10, 1983: Michael Roiz was born, Russia. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Oct 11, 1878: Eugene Colman was born in Merton, England. Oct 11, 1881: Robert Scrivener was born in Mobile, Alabama, USA. Oct 11, 1882: Raymond Gevers, Belgian composer, was born in Anvers, Belgium. Oct 11, 1905: Remo Calapso was born in Palermo, Italy. Oct 11, 1909: Georgy Lisitsin was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Oct 11, 1914: Reuben Fine was born in New York, USA. Oct 11, 1935: Charles Fox, British composer, died in Falmouth, England. Oct 11, 1959: Gregory Kaidanov was born in Berdychiv, Ukraina. Oct 11, 1978: Nicolai Kopayev died, Russia. Oct 11, 1983: Ruslan Ponomariov was born in Horlivka, Ukraina. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History - Highlights He learned to play tournament level chess at the famous Marshall Chess Club in New York City, stomping grounds for many famous grandmasters like Bobby Fischer. Fine was also considered one of the best players of blitz chess in the world-even in the early thirties, he could just about hold his own against the then world chess champion Alexander Alekhine. SOURCE: www.supreme-chess.com _______________________________________________________________________________ Reuben Fine - 384 Chess games of Reuben Fine - 1930 to 1986 - including his photo: Link: www.chessgames.com _______________________________________________________________________________ Reuben Fine's Obituary in the New York Times: Reuben Fine, American Chess Giant, Dead at 79 By HAROLD C. SCHONBERG Published: Saturday, March 27, 1993 Reuben Fine, one of this country's greatest chess geniuses, a psychologist and the author of many books about chess and psychology, died last night at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 79 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was pneumonia that developed after a stroke, said his son, Benjamin. Like Bobby Fischer a few decades later, Dr. Fine gave up chess at the height of his powers. But at least Mr. Fischer, who retired in 1972 and recently made a comeback in an exhibition match in Yugoslavia, had proved his point by first winning the world championship. When Dr. Fine retired, after a tremendous victory at the AVRO tournament in the Netherlands in 1938, he became, and has remained, the great what-if of the chess world. Clearly he was the material of which world champions are made. He had beaten everybody in sight. He had even had a plus score against the mighty Alexander Alekhine, the champion at the time. Why, then, drop out of competitive play? In those days there was no money in chess. Dr. Fine had a family to support, and traveling around the world hustling for a few dollars, playing simultaneous exhibitions, writing chess books and annotating games for magazines was a precarious existence indeed. Then in 1939 came World War II, and for almost a decade international chess came to a halt. So Dr. Fine changed course, earning a doctorate in psychology from the University of Southern California in 1941 and setting up a successful practice as a lay analyst. Learned Moves at Age 8 Dr. Fine was born in 1914, into a poor family from the East Bronx. He learned the chess moves from his uncle at age 8. Soon he was one of the most feared players at the Marshall and Manhattan chess clubs in New York City. He first came to national attention in 1932 at age 18, when he achieved a draw against Alekhine at an international tournament in Pasadena, Calif. Then he really started working. His idols were Wilhelm Steinitz and Emanuel Lasker, both former world champions. To Dr. Fine, Lasker was "the supreme tactical genius," while Steinitz was "the master of consistency." He studied the styles of all past and contemporary players. Referring to the chess geniuses Jose Raoul Capablanca, Akiba Rubinstein and Aron Nimzovich, Dr. Fine wrote of his own eclectic style: "From other masters I try to learn as well, of course. From Capablanca I try to absorb the virtue of simplicity; from Alekhine the speedy way to win a won game; from Rubinstein the supreme art of end-game play; from Nimzovich, how to be unorthodox." He went on, "My chief objective was always precision, wherever that would take me." After graduating from City College in 1932, he decided to be a professional chess player. First he was a member of the United States team that competed in Europe. In 1935 he made his first international tournament appearance, in Hastings, England. He came in first, without losing a game. The next year he played in a tournament in Nottingham, England. Three former world champions and the best of the new generation participated. Alekhine and Capablanca, two chess immortals, shared first place. Dr. Fine and Samuel Reshevsky (the other player who dominated American chess for many years) shared second. Then Dr. Fine went on to win or tie for first at Amsterdam and Zandvoort in the Netherlands, at Margate, England, and in Moscow and Leningrad. In all, he came in first at eight of the 13 international competitions in which he participated, tied for second in most of the others and was ranked among the six strongest players in the world. For two years before war broke out he lived in the Netherlands, where he married Emma Thea Keesing. They were divorced in 1944. In 1946 he married Sonya Lebeaux of New York City, with whom he had two children. His greatest professional moment came in 1938, at the AVRO tournament (AVRO was a Dutch radio station that sponsored the event). The tournament was set up to determine who would play Alekhine for the world championship. The participants, besides Dr. Fine, were Alekhine, Reshevsky, the Russian-born Czech player Salo Flohr, the Estonian star Paul Keres, and the former world champions Max Euwe from the Netherlands and Capablanca from Cuba. It was considered the strongest tournament ever assembled. Dr. Fine and Keres shared first place, although Keres was awarded sole first on a tie-break system. Correction: March 28, 1993, Sunday An obituary in late editions yesterday about Reuben Fine, a chess champion, psychologist and author, misidentified his wife, omitted a stepson and misstated the number of times he was married. His wife is Marcia Fine and his stepson is Harry De Mell of Roslyn Harbor, L.I. Mr. Fine had four previous marriages that ended in divorce. (The obituary is reprinted today on page 38 for readers of editions that did not carry it.) Link: www.nytimes.com Note: Page 2 of this online obituary (Reuben Fine) continues on this link: www.nytimes.com |
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Today In Chess History Oct 12, 1852: Alexander Wittek was born in Sisak, Yugoslavia. Oct 12, 1906: Folke Ekstrom was born in Lund, Sweden. Oct 12, 1927: Franco Romagnoli was born, Italy. Oct 12, 1943: Rita Gramignani was born in La Spezia, Italy. Oct 12, 1947: Josef Pribyl was born in Prague, Czech Republ. Oct 12, 1961: Yuri Piskov was born, Russia. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Oct 13, 1877: Johannes Esser was born in Leiden, Netherlands. Oct 13, 1878: Frantisek Dedrle was born in Tishnov, Czech Republ. Oct 13, 1908: Jan Foltys was born in Svinov, Czech Republ. Oct 13, 1923: Alberto Foguelman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Oct 13, 1949: Nana Alexandria was born in Poti, Georgia. Oct 13, 1965: Igor Yagupov was born, Russia. Oct 13, 1976: Ronen Har-Zwi was born, Israel. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Nov 15, 1911: Fritz Gorschen was born in Dresden, Germany. Nov 15, 1933: Gianfelice Ferlito was born in Milan, Italy. Nov 15, 1944: Hans Ree was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Nov 15, 1947: Bojan Kurajica was born in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. Nov 15, 1961: Gustaaf Nietvelt, Belgian composer, died in Anvers, Belgium. Nov 15, 1964: Samuel Isenegger, Swiss composer, died in Basel, Switzerland. Nov 15, 1965: Maurizio Genovese was born in Siracusa, Italy. Nov 15, 1971: Arnaud Hauchard was born, Germany. Nov 15, 1974: Roland Schmaltz was born, France. Nov 15, 1983: Peter Dubinin died in Gorky, Russia. Nov 15, 1993: Gino Fletzer died in Venice, Italy. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Nov 16, 1926: Alexey Suetin was born in Kirovograd, Ukraina. Nov 16, 1932: Herman Mattison died in Riga, Latvia. Nov 16, 1975: Karel Opocensky died in Prague, Czech Republ. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today In Chess History Nov 28, 1889: Thomas Dawson, British composer, was born in Leeds, England. Nov 28, 1894: Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. Nov 28, 1915: Thomas Wilson died in Wharfedale, England. Nov 28, 1930: Jacques Savournin, French composer, was born, France. Nov 28, 1933: William G. Addison was born, USA. Nov 28, 1942: Hans Rehm, German composer, was born in Geislingen, Germany. Nov 28, 1946: Nikolai Pushkov was born, Russia. Nov 28, 1953: Marco Agazzi was born, Italy. Nov 28, 1964: Giorgi Bagaturov was born, Georgia. Nov 28, 1965: Rustem Dautov was born in Ufa, Russia. Nov 28, 1965: Kiril Georgiev was born in Petrich, Bulgaria. Nov 28, 1975: Valerij Filippov was born, Russia. Nov 28, 1985: Efgeny Alekseev was born in Pushkin, Russia. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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Today in Chess History Dec 20, 1929: Joseph Ney Babson, American composer, died in Seattle, Washington, USA. Dec 20, 1932: Victor Place died in Paris, France. Dec 20, 1935: Arthur William Feuerstein was born, USA. Dec 20, 1944: George Sturgis died in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dec 20, 1961: Nicolai Andrianov was born , Russia. Dec 20, 1976: Alexei Kornev was born, Russia. Dec 20, 1992: Giuseppe Dipilato died in Barletta, Italy. Dec 20, 2008: Albin Planinc(Planinec) died in Ljubljana, Slovenia. SOURCE: www.chess.com |
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