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2/11/2012 – In 1987 Olga Capablanca Clark mentioned to the Editor of Chess Notes an unknown game played by Capablanca and Tartakower in Paris in the late 1930s. She offered it for sale, but the reserve price was not reached. The game remained unpublished until this month, when its owner, David DeLucia, made it available for publication in Chess Notes. A wonderful episode.

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1/29/2012 – Correspondents often send the Editor of Chess Notes forgotten brilliancies published in old newspaper columns, and here he shows half a dozen such games. They include queen sacrifices and some moves which look like misprints, and they range from a lightning skirmish to a complex battle between Nimzowitsch and Marshall. Enjoy these entertaining games.

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1/1/2012 – Exactly 30 years ago the Editor of Chess Notes began his forum devoted to history and lore, a miscellany of forgotten games, compositions, biographies, photographs, quotes, enigmas and exposés, scrutinizing without fear or favour the saints and sinners of chess, the champions, amateurs, scholars and reprobates. Here is a guide to help readers continue to enjoy the mass of unique material.

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12/25/2011 – It seems that the exchange of Christmas greetings cards has never been a particularly common practice in the chess world, and such ephemeral items from yesteryear are quite difficult to find. The Editor of Chess Notes has brought together a selection of cards sent by prominent figures, including Géza Maróczy, Edward Lasker and Irving Chernev. It is time to revel in some Yuletide nostalgia.

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12/12/2011 – Chess can be an exceptionally fast or slow game. Here, the Editor of Chess Notes examines some cases where an inordinate amount of time was consumed over a single move, sometimes even in the opening. Not that the evidence is always clear. As so often in chess lore, the published accounts may contain contradictions, misunderstandings and errors. More investigative work ...

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11/12/2011 – Marking the tenth anniversary of the death of Tony Miles, at the age of only 46, the Editor of Chess Notes discloses some tantalizing brief extracts from his correspondence with the great British master. They include discussion of the 22-board blindfold exhibition which Miles gave in Roetgen, Germany in 1984. All the game-scores were passed on by Miles for safekeeping and are given here now.

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11/3/2011 – The Editor of Chess Notes turns his attention to one of chess history’s most famous games, a 15-move miniature from the nineteenth century which features ‘Boden’s Mate’. The books contain a large amount of contradictory information about when the game was played, and a particular mystery is the exact identity of Boden’s opponent. The chess historian investigates.

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10/16/2011 – Which is the most difficult form of chess writing? Of course, each kind presents its own problems and pitfalls, but the Editor of Chess Notes focuses here on a genre which hardly anyone ventures upon nowadays although it used to be highly popular: an attempt to capture the essence of a chess master’s appearance and demeanour with some well-crafted words, in a pen-portrait.

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10/3/2011 – The Editor of Chess Notes puts forward a range of practical suggestions for authors and columnists. How to make the best use of limited time and resources? What to write about and what to avoid? And perhaps the trickiest question of all: how to react when it all goes wrong? For chess writers everywhere, we proudly present the ultimate survival guide.

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9/23/2011 – Many forgotten interviews with Alekhine have been reproduced over the years by the Editor of Chess Notes. We witness the great champion discussing his chess rivals and predecessors, plans, training routines, blindfold exploits, family background, education, personal lifestyle, pastimes, travel, politics and writings, including the notorious anti-Semitic articles published in the Nazi press in 1941.

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9/2/2011 – The Editor of Chess Notes has put together an extensive selection of chess-related cartoons and comic strips from the past century or so. They include satire, science fiction, a war adventure, a depiction of Pillsbury riding an elephant, Capablanca’s life story, an account of the 1972 Spassky v Fischer match in Reykjavik and, to begin with, two old cartoons about cheating at chess.

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7/24/2011 – Few old game-scores of lightning chess (also known as rapid transit and blitz) have survived, but the Editor of Chess Notes presents a number of specimens, most of which were played at ten seconds per move and all of them before the 1930s. The masters featured include Alekhine, Bogoljubow, Capablanca, Janowsky, Kupchik, Marshall and Tartakower, and the play contains several brilliancies.

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7/17/2011 – The first two decades of the twentieth century saw many initiatives to create bodies with names such as the International Chess Masters’ Association, International Chess Association, Supreme Court, Chess Council and, eventually, International Chess Federation. The Editor of Chess Notes reports on these pre-FIDE attempts to organize the chess world and, in particular, the world championship.

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7/10/2011 – The Editor of Chess Notes looks at a topic often neglected by chess historians: the origins of FIDE, the world governing body. As is well known, the Fédération Internationale des Echecs was founded in Paris in 1924. What is less widely realized is that at first it was not called FIDE at all, but FIE. Moreover, the Federation was created in great haste, and almost without preparation.

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6/26/2011 – From around the world there came a very strong entry for the photograph quiz set about a week ago by the Editor of Chess Notes. Now it is time for the answers and the announcement of the five winners. Among the names often put forward by readers were Geller, Ivanchuk, Korchnoi, Smyslov, Stein and Tal, but were they there? What was the actual line-up of the mystery seven?

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6/18/2011 – The latest picture quiz from the Editor of Chess Notes presents for identification seven chessplayers. Since all of them are leading masters, the whole exercise ought to be simplicity itself. As will be seen, however, there is one slight complication with the photographs. Can readers rise to the challenge? Personally inscribed book prizes are on offer to those who can identify the mystery seven.

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6/5/2011 – Every collector likes multi-signed items. After presenting some from his collection, the Editor of Chess Notes offers readers the opportunity to acquire a stunning one: a programme inscribed by, among others, Anand, Gelfand, Grischuk, Ivanchuk, Karpov, Kasparov, Khalifman, Korchnoi, Leko, Morozevich, Ponomariov, Seirawan, Shirov, Short, Smyslov and Spassky. A grand total of 28 signatures...

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4/2/2011 – Adolf Anderssen is often said to have lost a brilliant miniature involving a strange queen sacrifice (13...h5). Both Max Lange and Jean Dufresne have been credited with the win, but was the game actually played at all? With assistance from correspondents in England, Switzerland and Germany, the Editor of Chess Notes has conducted another historical investigation.

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3/12/2011 – The death has been announced of the chess historian and archivist Jeremy Gaige of Philadelphia. In 1988 the Editor of Chess Notes received from Gaige, his close associate, a unique document which was not to be disclosed during the American’s lifetime: a ‘self-obituary’. The text is made public here for the first time, to mark the passing of a magnificent figure in the history of chess.

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2/28/2011 – Taking the example of a well-known book with a huge number of basic historical errors (Golombek’s volume on Capablanca), the Editor of Chess Notes demonstrates the negligence of a succession of publishers. The underlying issues regarding reprints give much food for thought, and we witness too one publisher’s ‘exquisitely deceitful’ attempt to conceal its failure over the Golombek book.

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2/21/2011 – One of the most sensational moves ever seen on a chessboard was played in Liverpool in 1910. The game was published in a contemporary magazine, only to be ignored by the chess world for nearly a century. Finally, though, the move was hailed as perhaps even exceeding Marshall’s ‘golden’ 23...Qg3 for beauty and shock value. The Editor of Chess Notes relates an extraordinary case.

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2/6/2011 – ‘A most extraordinary game in that the final moves were wholly unexpected’, wrote one commentator. But what is the truth about the brilliancy, with a full range of suggestions regarding the loser’s identity? And what can be discovered about a master’s painting of the spectacular conclusion? The Editor of Chess Notes looks at a miniature with a unique checkmate.

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1/23/2011 – Cunning, gamesmanship, skulduggery, bluff, trickery, foxiness, dishonesty and cheating are just some of the terms that may be applied to a set of episodes related by the Editor of Chess Notes. They include play-acting, intentional time-trouble and illegal moves. Never let it be suggested that chessplayers are devoid of ingenuity in trying to outwit their opponents by fair means or foul.

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12/28/2010 – The Editor of Chess Notes has contributed over 80 articles to ChessBase, firstly Unsolved Chess Mysteries and then Chess Explorations. A handy A to Z has now been prepared, for ease of reference and as a reminder of the plethora of games, positions, exposés, quips, enigmas, photographs, quotes, compositions and quizzes presented in the two series.
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