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1999.06.19:
** Question:
    There is a dispute regarding the year in which Tartakower’s parents were murdered in a pogrom in Rostov-on-Don.  According to The Oxford Companion to Chess and a Hans Ree article on The Chess Cafe site, this happened in 1899.  However the date 1911 is given in both Kmoch’s piece on Tartakower (also at The Chess Cafe site), and in the Moran book, A. Alekhine, Agony of a Chess Genius.
    My instinct is to trust Whyld and Hooper.

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