In the latest quiz,
readers were asked to identify the chess figures in the ten pictures below,
all of which have been featured in Chess
Notes over the past four years.
Picture 1: Samuel Reshevsky
This photograph, taken in the Netherlands in February or March 1920, comes
from the collection of Michael Clapham (Ipswich, England), who presented it
in C.N. 4791.
Picture 2: Newell Williams Banks
Given in C.N. 4544, the portrait was the frontispiece in Banks’ Scientific
Checkers (various editions in the 1920s).
Picture 3: Eugène Michel Antoniadi
Richard McKim (Peterborough, England) allowed us to reproduce this photograph
in Chess Notes, from his biography ‘The Life and Times of E.M. Antoniadi’
in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association. See C.N. 3903,
as well as our article A
Chessplaying Astronomer. There are various versions of Antoniadi’s
forenames.
Picture 4: Hans Johner
This photograph was one of four in a tableau of Swiss players
reproduced in C.N. 3703 from page 39
of Chess Pie No. 2 (1927):
Clockwise from the top-left corner: Hans Johner, Oskar Naegeli, Otto Zimmermann
and Henry Grob.
Picture 5: Antonio Bottacchi
Chess Pie (page 48 of the 1922 edition) was the source for this photograph
of the problemist Antonio Bottacchi, which appeared under the heading ‘Resembling
Capablanca’ in C.N. 4217.
Picture 6: James A. Leonard
The above picture of the US prodigy was included in C.N. 4087, taken from page
320 of Brentano’s Chess Monthly, November 1881. See also our feature
article on him.
Picture 7: Léonardus Nardus
Nardus was a chessplayer, sponsor, painter and swindler, as reported in the
feature article
on him. The self-portrait above was given in C.N. 4627. Adri Plomp (Hilversum,
the Netherlands) had previously drawn it to our attention, as one of several
paintings by Nardus reproduced by Tijdschrift van den Nederlandschen Schaakbond
in 1919.
Picture 8: Andor Lilienthal
Frederic Friedel (Hamburg, Germany) gave us the original of this shot, and
it was reproduced in C.N. 5404.
Picture 9 Gaston Legrain
This photograph of Legrain, who founded Les Cahiers de l’Echiquier
Français, was presented in C.N. 5406. It had been published opposite page
404 of L’Echiquier, 17 February 1934.
Picture 10 Jens Enevoldsen
C.N. 5776 had this inscribed photograph of Enevoldsen, taken from our collection.
Winners of the quiz
In view of the large number of entries, many of which were correct
in all respects, it was necessary to draw lots.
Under the supervision of Frederic Friedel, the draw was made in Bonn by Yasser Seirawan, and the winners are as follows:
- Main prize: Amos Burn A Chess Biography by Richard Forster, personally
inscribed to the winner by Richard Forster, Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir
Kramnik: Walter Hart (Burra, NSW, Australia).
- Two consolation prizes: Fritz 11, one signed by Anand and the other by Kramnik:
Andy May (Vancouver, WA, USA) and Robert Dodd (Austin, TX, USA).
Links:
Amos Burn
