From Hans Kmoch’s column in Neues Wiener Journal, November 12, 1927. Played in this years All-Russian national tournament. We show this game not only because it is well played, but mainly because the winner, Botvinnik, despite being a just seventeen-year-old young man, shows remarkable maturity and tactical power. It should be noted that his opponent …
Cream together ½ lb of butter and ½ lb of sugar Add 5 eggs (one at a time) Add 10 oz flour Add 1 teaspoonful of baking powder Colour one-half with 1 tablespoonful of cocoa (or it may be coloured pink) Put each half in a greased divided tin, and bake about half an hour …
Emanuel Lasker visited Montreal in November 1892, gave two simultaneous exhibitions and played a number of single games against the best local players. Ken Whyld (‘The Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker’) gives 8 games, most of them from Joseph Ney Babson’s chess column in The Montreal Daily Herald. John Henderson’s column in The Montreal Gazette …
From The Montreal Gazette, December 23, 1893:
From The Los Angeles Evening Herald, June 28, 1921: 9-YEAR-OLD CHESS MARVEL ANALYZED BY NOTED PSYCHOLOGIST Herbert Lapham, character analyst and psychological expert, last night watched the child wonder of the age play against men old enough to be his grandfather and defeat them, and this is what he has to say of the infant prodigy: Samuel Rzeschewiski [sic] is a boy not so different from other normal …
From Steinitz’ chess column in New York Daily Tribune, June 18, 1893: A stoutly contested and elegantly finished game played recently in the Caucasus by His Serene Highness Prince Dadian of Mingrelia. A. de Smitten – The Prince of Mingrelia Russia 1893 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Qf6 Unusual and with good reason, as Black’s …
The book is called Kriegsbüchlein für das deutsche Haus (War Booklet for the German House), and is advertised as ‘The Christmas book of 1914 (…) that is absolutely necessary in every household during the war.’ Lasker’s involvement is unclear. He is named as one of the many publishers, but it doesn’t say whether he …
From Birmingham Weekly Mercury, September 6, 1890 [Robert John Buckley]. The habits and peculiarities of the players are a curious and interesting study. Gunsberg usually wears his hat, and, leaning his head on both hands, never looks away from the game, upon which the whole of his faculties appear to be intently concentrated. Taubenhaus is …
From Birmingham Weekly Mercury, August 15, 1896 [Robert John Buckley]. The Chess Champion Lasker has come out first, an easy first, in the Nuremberg Tourney [Nuremberg 1896: 1. Lasker 13½/18, 2. Maroczy 12½, 3.-4. Tarrasch & Pillsbury 12. 19 players. Ed.], which, in the opinion of many experts, ranks as the strongest Tourney played up …