Showing posts with label Winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Les échecs modernes; histoire, théorie complète

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My thanks to Edward Winter, of Chess Notes , for sending me a copy of the Jerome Gambit analysis from Henri Delaire's Les échecs mode...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

A Shared Concern

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I have shared my concerns over the novel Paul Morphy: Confederate Spy with Edward Winter, prompting a posting at his Chess History websit...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

A Distant Relative?

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While the origin of the Jerome Gambit ( 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Bxf7+ ) appears to have been some time after Alonzo Wheeler Jerome wa...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Shillings: One Found, Two Lost (Part 1)

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Sometime back I contacted Edward Winter, of "Chess Notes" and Chess History fame, with some questions about the origin and namin...
Saturday, April 4, 2009

Double-Perpetual

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In a recent "Chess Explorations " by Edward Winter at ChessBase , a game with the opening highlighted in our last post, " A ...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Busch-Gass Gambit

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From the pages of Edward Winter's Chess Facts and Fables (2006) comes an interesting early, if undated, Busch-Gass Gambit game (see &q...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

And Yet Wilder Still...

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From Edward Winter's A Chess Omnibus (2003): Back-rank mate A bizarre game: 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.Bxf7+ Kxf7 6.Ne5+ Ke6...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Wildest!

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Here's a Wild Muzio, presented in Edward Winter's 1996 Chess Explorations (source British Chess Magazine , September 1903, page 392)...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

I love a great used bookstore

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I like a good bookstore. I love a great used bookstore. I have always enjoyed reading (and been a little jealous) of the chess treasures th...
Monday, June 16, 2008

Flaws (Part I)

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A more serious look at the Amateur - Blackburne game would reveal a few "flaws," to return to the master's comments on "b...