Chess history trivia

[IM Jack Rudd]

Najdorf?

[MJMcCready]

Nope

[NickFaulks]

Lilienthal felt like a good guess and appears to be true.

[Matt Mackenzie]

Reshevsky, absolutely definitely.

Half a point more in the 1981 US Championship-cum-zonal, and he would have played Kasparov as well.

[John Upham]

Can you name someone who has both played Lasker and Karpov?

Yes.

I guess you want their names?

Well,

AL drew with EL at Moscow, 1936 and Moscow, 1935 and beat EL with Black at Moscow, 1936

AL drew with AEK at Moscow, 1966 although this does not appear in MegaBase 2022.

Reshevsky- Karpov, Skopje, 1976 was a draw in 12 moves

Lasker lost to Reshevsky at Nottingham, 1936.

As stated elsewhere, Botvinnik has played Karpov and Lasker.

Najdorf has played both Edward Lasker and AE Karpov but not at the same time.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

The connections and friendship between Edward and Emanuel are interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_La ... sonal_life

[MJMcCready]

Reshevsky, absolutely definitely.

Half a point more in the 1981 US Championship-cum-zonal, and he would have played Kasparov as well.

Yes, Reshevsky, the Polish protege.

[John Townsend]

Why was 9 April 1785 a bad day for Parsloe's Subscription Room?

[John Clarke]

Parsloe's being THE chess venue of the time, I'd say M. Philidor had decided to return to France, and so would no longer be available to demonstrate his phenomenal prowess at blindfold chess.

[John Townsend]

Thank you, John. Ingenious, but not the answer.

[John Townsend]

Answer:
On that day, the house was consumed by fire. George Olive, a cook's apprentice, aged about 15, was defended by William Garrow, convicted and sentenced to death. Later, he was reprieved on the strength of evidence not presented at the trial.

[Gerard Killoran]

More on Garrow

Sir William Garrow
His Life, Times and Fight for Justice

by John Hostettler and Richard Braby, Foreword by Geoffrey Robertson QC

https://www.watersidepress.co.uk/books/ ... 904380696/

[Gerard Killoran]

More on Garrow

Sir William Garrow
His Life, Times and Fight for Justice

by John Hostettler and Richard Braby, Foreword by Geoffrey Robertson QC

https://www.watersidepress.co.uk/books/ ... 904380696/

The case is reported here

Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 07 January 2023), June 1785, trial of GEORGE OLIVE (t17850629-2).

https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse. ... #highlight

[John Townsend]

A pamphlet was published: Case of George Olive, condemned for setting fire to the house of Joseph Parsloe of St. James's-Street. London, H. Reynell. small 8vo; 17 pp.

It may be hard to obtain. According to Catalogue of English and American chapbooks and broadside ballads in Harvard College Library (1905):

"The accused was a boy, fifteen years of age; the pamphlet states evidence of his innocence which was not presented at the trial but had since procured for him a reprieve."

[MJMcCready]

I would like to ask a question but unfortunately I don't know the answer yet (although I am still looking) but I will ask to see if someone can get to the answer before I can.

Which was the first internationally recognized tournament where the participants arrived by air via commercially recognized flights?