Latest Updates

23.02.05:
General Requests: Important update on Reykjavik 1964 and research request for the Australasian Chess Review.

15.01.05:
Link Collection: Great new page on James Mason.

25.11.04:
General Requests: Update on Dublin 1889.

10.10.04:
General Requests: Updates on Belgrade 1945 and the Saragossa Opening (Mannheim 1922).

04.10.04:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Denker - Rabar game

13.09.04:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Mystery tournament "Bahia Placa 1944"
General Requests: Kurt Richter: a game turned up // Belgrade 1945: a game from the event?

06.09.04:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Another contribution to the Jerome Gambit.
General Requests: Belgrade 1945 and various.

09.08.04:
New sub-page: Swiss Chess Literature (in German)

27.07.04:
General Requests: Small update on Reykjavik 1964 and Mannheim 1922.
Link Collection: OlimpBase added.
Amos Burn page added.

02.07.04:
General Requests: New Showalter-Lipschütz games.

17.06.04:
General Requests: W.H. Pratten.

30.04.04:
Various updates.

14.02.04:
Link Collection and Various Links: Updates.
General Requests: Update on Mannheim 1922.

10.01.04:
Link Collection: Two updates (Mieses and Lasker-Gesellschaft).

11.12.03:
General Requests: Two games by E.E. Colman.
General Requests: Details of Reykjavik 1964 sought.

18.11.03:
General Requests: E.E. Colman.
General Requests: New games from  the second Lipschütz vs. Showalter match. Now available as PGN.
Link Collection: A few updates.

14.10.03:
The website of the
Ken Whyld Association for Chess Bibliography is up and running.
Link Collection: Various new links.
General Requests: Norman Littlewood.

02.10.03:
Puzzles and Mysteries: News on Walter John
Puzzles and Mysteries: Another small contribution to the Jerome Gambit.
Link Collection: Book on the origin of chess.

30.08.03:
Critical Eye: Watson's Modern Chess Strategy in Action.
Chess Jottings: A hint to puzzle one.

17.07.03: 
The
Critical Eye looks at Hübner and Fischer.
General Requests: Einar Michelsen * More games of  the Showalter-Lipschütz series * England vs. Holland matches: anecdote

07.07.03: 
Statement on the late
Late Knight column at chesscafe.com.

04.07.03: 
The "
Critical Eye" is launched at this site.

29.06.03:
Various small changes.
General Requests: BCM information on the Showalter-Lipschütz matches.
Chess Data: Update of Anders Thulin's player index (1850-1920).

04.06.03:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Another small contribution to the Jerome Gambit.
General Requests: More Showalter-Lipschütz games.

27.05.03:
Chess Jottings
: Another puzzle...

21.05.03:
Puzzles and Mysteries: A small contribution to the Jerome Gambit.
Link Collection: Several new links.
General Requests: Showalter-Lipschütz matches: Another game uncovered.

30.04.03:
General Requests: England vs. Holland Matches.
Puzzles and Mysteries: More news on the Jerome Gambit.

13.04.03:
General Requests: Showalter-Lipschütz matches: two "new" games.

01.04.03:
General Requests: Games of the Showalter-Lipschütz matches.
Puzzles and Mysteries: Another update on the Jerome Gambit.

26.03.03:
Chess Jottings
: Just started...

12.02.03:
Link Collection: Schachmotivphilatelie, with hundreds of chess stamps.

10.02.03:
General Requests: Early and other games of Peter H. Clarke.

03.01.03:
General Requests: Nice Olympiad result request solved by Kevin Flaherty. 

09.12.02:
General Requests: Three games by Kurt Richter from the Berlin Club championship 1931, submitted by Peter Anderberg.

26.11.02:
Link Collection: New Staunton Homepage by John Townsend

11.10.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Who has Gossip's Theory of 1879 (Jerome Gambit continued...)?
General Requests: Full score of unknown Richter game, submitted by Peter Anderberg.

23.09.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Addition to Jerome Gambit and who was Stadelman?

04.09.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Feedback on the problemists' S and more on Jerome 
and the mysterious S.A. Charles
General Requests: Two new fragments of games by Kurt Richter.

23.08.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: When and why did problemists start using the symbol 'S'?
Puzzles and Mysteries: Why is it named "The Perreux Variation"?

30.07.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Some information on Junior Chess from Ken Whyld

25.07.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Jerome Gambit - Latest Discoveries.

18.07.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Substantial update on the Jerome Gambit.

03.07.02:
General Requests Dimock Theme Tournament 1924 (Urusov Gambit)
Chess Data: Update of Anders Thulin's player index (1850-1910)

16.06.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Update on (another?) Spielmann manuscript

15.06.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Spielmann manuscript
Link Collection: Brilliancy Prizes and Discart

03.06.02:
Specific Requests: Who knows where to find the British magazine Society?

30.04.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Plagiarism?

12.04.02:
General Requests: Update on Staunton.
Puzzles and Mysteries: Update on MacLeod Defence

26.03.02:
General Requests: The family background of Howard Staunton. Searching for further clues...

17.03.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Anyone there who knows about the "Maltese Falcon Gambit"?

07.03.02:
Link Collection: The Chess Methodical Bulletin

04.03.02:
General Requests: Small update on Weaver Adams.

28.02.02:
General Requests: Latvian Gambit: Karlis Betins Memorial games.

24.02.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Information on Ulvestad in Spain
Puzzles and Mysteries: UK magazine "Junior Chess" sought

31.01.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Information sought on Walter John

27.01.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Olaf Ulvestad in Europe by John Donaldson
General Requests:
Update on USA v USSR post-war matches by John Donaldson.

12.01.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Update on Canadian champions

08.01.02:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Jerome puzzle continued.

05.01.02:
General Requests: Update on the Steinitz v Chigorin 1889 match by Ingo Zachos.

01.01.02:
General Requests: Rare blindfold games. Update by Christian Sánchez.
Puzzles and Mysteries: The "Jerome Gambit Chronology" by Rick Kennedy

28.12.01:
Link Collection: Chess in Sweden (Alekhine, Capablanca, Marshall, Réti, Nimzowitsch etc.) by Sthig Jonasson.

24.12.01:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Update on Alfred van Nüss by Jack O'Keefe

19.12.01:
Puzzles and Mysteries: More on the Jerome Gambit by Neil Brennen
Link Collection: Reshevsky and Mordechai Rechtman

17.12.01: 
General Requests: Update on Sydney Sharp in Buenos Aires from Cristian Sánchez

16.12.01:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Addition to MacLeod

12.12.01:
Link Collection: Interesting material in German and English by Harald Balló

01.12.01:
Link Collection: New links from Mieux Jouer aux Echecs
Puzzles and Mysteries: Alfred van Nüss

24.11.01:
Puzzles and Mysteries: The Jerome Gambit
Link Collection: A couple of news links.

29.10.01:
Puzzles and Mysteries: Canadian Chessplayers and Bognor Regis 1962

08.10.01:
General Requests: Rare blindfold games.

05.10.01:
Puzzles and Mysteries: More first names