Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research. — W._Steinitz
Journal
Site Log
1999.06.13
** Excavations
  • Added Tomasz Lissowski’s “Adolf Albin: The Teacher of Nimzovich?”
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  • Added The Blackburne-Zukertort Match, London 1881, Game 8
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    (Other games added sporadically since May 24)
    Journal
  • Added Fischer questions by John Donaldson
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    1999.05.24
    ** Excavations
  • Added The Blackburne-Zukertort Match, London 1881, Game 5
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    1999.05.13
    ** Excavations
  • Tomasz Lissowski’s “Unknown Games of Mikhail Tal”
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  • Added The Blackburne-Zukertort Match, London 1881, Game 4
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    Journal
  • Added answer to Amos Burn request.
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    1999.05.02
    ** Excavations
  • Added John Hilbert’s “To Checkmate the Kaiser”
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    1999.04.27
    ** Journal
  • Added two questions to the Q and A section.
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    1999.04.26
    ** Excavations
  • Added The Blackburne-Zukertort Match, London 1881, Game 3 over the weekend
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  • Added David McAlister’s “History of the early Irish Championships” over the weekend
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    Library
  • Database Archives: Added links to various national database archives over the weekend
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  • Links Archives: Added links to Chess Cafe, Chess City, Chess Curiosities, & Chessworks Unlimited over the weekend
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  • Finished uploading Nomenclature pages for ECO B through ECO E during the course of last week.
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    Museum
  • Added images of Cochrane, Delmar, Mackenzie, & Mason today.
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    1999.04.13
    ** Excavations
  • The Blackburne-Zukertort Match, London 1881, Game 2
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  • Added an icon to Tomasz Lissowski’s “Letter from the Lodz Ghetto: A Tribute to Dawid Daniuszewski” to compensate for the bug in I.E. 4.0.
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    Note: Page loads correctly with I.E. 3.0, AOL, WebTV & Netscape.  Microsoft somehow found a way to mess up a working browser (Win95; I.E. 3.0) and replace it with a buggy browser (Win98; I.E. 4.0).  God help us all.
    Library
  • Nomenclature page for ECO A late last week.
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    1999.04.05
    ** Excavations
  • Tomasz Lissowski’s “Letter from the Lodz Ghetto: A Tribute to Dawid Daniuszewski”
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  • Corrected Blackburne-Zukertort Prologue: no=not (first cite) and of=for (second cite)
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    Journal
  • Answer to Hilbert’s request for Whitaker games by Jack O’Keefe
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    Library
  • Chess Store top 50 link removed April 1st, as their site is non-functioning.
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    Retrofit
    Began replacing all occurrences of " " & ' ' with “ ” & ‘ ’.
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    1999.03.16
    ** Excavations:
  • The McConnell Family Notebooks, Part I, Item 2: Unpublished game played between James McConnell Sr. and Wilhelm Steinitz.
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  • The Blackburne-Zukertort Match, London 1881, Prologue & Game 1
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    Corrected corrupt links:
  • Caissa’s Legacy: The Great Chess Libraries 
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  • The Rosenthal-Zukertort Match, London 1880
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    1999.03.02
    ** Excavations:
  • Tomasz Lissowski’s “Alexey, Brother of Alekhine”
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    Used typographically correct punctuation marks, i.e. “ ” & ‘ ’ instead of " " & ' '.
    They work with Netscape, IE, AOL, and WebTV.
    They have not been checked on all web browser platforms.
    If your browser has trouble displaying these new punctuation marks please send an e-mail to:
    feedback@chessarch.com
    Moved from Excavations to Previous Excavations
  • Nick Pope’s “The Anderssen-Kolisch Match, London 1861”
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  • John S. Hilbert’s “The Queen City: George Thornton and Early Buffalo Chess”
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    Library:
  • Added link to The Campbell Report
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    1999.02.24
    ** Excavations:
  • John Hilbert’s “Napier: The Search Continues”
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  • Chris Ravilious & Brian Denman’s “The Chess Detectives”
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    Library: Added links (over a three day period) to the Links Page
  • Chess Store
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  • Chessopolis
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  • Inside Chess Online
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  • InternetChess.com
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  • SmartChess Online
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  • The Week In Chess
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    1999.02.18
    ** Market:
  • Added Allan G. Savage’s “RECONCILING CHESS: a MARCEL DUCHAMP SAMPLER”
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    Library: Added to links page
  • ChessWeb
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  • Deja News Chess History Discussion
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    1999.02.15
    ** Excavations:
  • Nick Pope’s “The Rosenthal-Zukertort Match, London 1880”
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    Library:
  • Added 1861anko.pgn: The Anderssen-Kolisch Match, London 1861
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  • Added 1880rozu.pgn: The Rosenthal-Zukertort Match, London 1880
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  • Added thornton.pgn: Games from “The Queen City: George Thornton and Early Buffalo Chess”
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    1999.02.10
    ** Journal
  • Added Site Log
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    1999.02.09
    ** Library:
  • Added 1890gust.pgn: The Gunsberg-Steinitz match, World Championship 1890-1891
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  • Added 1894last.pgn: The Lasker-Steinitz match, World Championship 1894
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    1999.02.05
    ** Added to Excavations:
  • Allan Savage’s “Caissa’s Legacy:  The Great Chess Libraries”
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    Moved from Excavations to Library:
  • Allan Savage’s “Selected U.S. Chess Libraries”
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    1999.02.01
    ** The Chess Archaeolgy website goes public.
    Initial Excavations:
  • John S. Hilbert’s “The Queen City: George Thornton and Early Buffalo Chess”
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  • Nick Pope’s “The Anderssen-Kolisch Match, London 1861”
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  • Tomasz Lissowski’s “A Trap for the Historian”
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  • John Paul Phillips’ “The McConnell Family Notebooks (Part I):”
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        -Introduction
        -Item 1: Letter from Wilhelm Steinitz to James McConnell Sr. 
  • Andy Ansel’s “The Lazy Man's Guide to Chess Research”
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  • Allan Savage’s “Selected U.S. Chess Libraries”
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