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Thanks for the kind mention. As a side note the description of Williams as an apothecary may be wrong, and based on his being licenced to distribute medicine during the epidemic. Somewhere - I forgot to note the source - he is listed as a surgeon. That would make sense as Bristol was a centre of sur...

There certainly is no image of him that I could find - I searched the bna archives of the newspapers of the time without finding an image of him whilst putting a blog together.

"P.S. Please don't be distracted by the bit of Latin at the end. It's from a poem by Horace and quite well known to classicists. It contains a slight typo - it should be "parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus". Literal translation "the mountains give birth, a ridiculous mouse is born". George Th...

It's a wonderful site.

Slow down Richard + I am struggling to keep up mate!! Gifford was an interesting figure, so off to see what goodies you have pulled out of your magic bag!. See you elsewhere soon. Cheers

Thanks Douglas and welcome along

[Event "Ch Lithuania(Open)"] [Site "Vilnius (Lithuania)"] [Date "1947.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Mikenas Vladas (LTU)"] [Black "Vistinietzki Itzhak (ISR)"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C13"] [WhiteElo "0"] [BlackElo "0"] [Annotator ""] [Source ""] [Remark ""] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Ng8 6....

Graf, like all the German team, stayed behind in South America after the tournament

There was the women's world championship - won by Menchik ahead of Graf - held alongside the 1939 Olympiad. The women players are included in the team photographs.

A curiousity - the tournament book of Barmen 1905 lists Tartakower as being from Moscow. My Best Games of Chess says:- "he left Russia in 1889, matriculated at the College of Geneva in 1904 and became a doctor in law at Vienna University in 1909.

Thanks mate! I was going to do a blog with these games at some point. Your copies are much clearer than the ones I have for some reason. Cheers!

So the spouse is presumably Stevenson

Guessing the game was Kriegspiel. J.W. Cornforth was a nobel winner and a very strong player - beat Golombek in the Bletchley - Oxford university match. My guess for the game would be Einstein who knew Lasker's wife, but I am probably wrong 🤣 Kriegspiel is right. Not Cornforth but you're getting wa...

Guessing the game was Kriegspiel. J.W. Cornforth was a nobel winner and a very strong player - beat Golombek in the Bletchley - Oxford university match. My guess for the game would be Einstein who knew Lasker's wife, but I am probably wrong

It depends on the players involved. Rubinstein for example was famous for spending many hours a day in chess. In the other hand Vidmar for example had a full time career so would have hardly studied at all. The information on potential opponents came from tournament books and magazines. As for daily...