Wiener Schachzeitung Photographs. Part Two.
Vidmar, Burn, Rubinstein, with a little of 'Bora Kostic'!

Wiener Schachzeitung Photographs. Part Two.

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Back with some more goodies for those of you looking for photos to complement your blogs and articles here on chess.com.

Before I start - last night doing this stuff I made a discovery. Was 'well chuffed' as we say over here.

Some of you may have seen a post of mine which is now quoted in various places on the internet, for example here :- https://peoplepill.com/people/emil-ritter-von-feyerfeil/    The blog is this one :-  https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginfan/three-days-in-breslau-the-strange-story-of-how-lasker-became-a-master   Actually, I should get round to redoing the whole thing,, given what has since been found by myself and others - perhaps later on in 'lockdown'!

There I mentioned that I didn't have a picture of one of the principal actors in the drama. Well, now I have 2!!  This one

 was hidden away in an article about another player - which is why I did not spot it before. W.S. 1915. pg 11. However, with the recent interest in von. Feyerfeil, it has appeared on the internet just a few weeks ago, as I have just discovered.

But I have a second one!!  which you won't find elsewhere.

w.s. 1911. 167

That's how it goes in the modern internet age. Stuff gets discovered every day. Good isn't it!

So lets share some nice pictures - some you will  certainly not find elsewhere, I'm sure. Hopefully they will be useful. Also they may inspire others to look into the players and post some history here. Year and page numbers included.

1908. 32 Includes Carl Behting
1908. 39. Quite well known, but a decent version.
1908. 208. Includes Treybal - both, but most notably Karl, and Prokes.
1909. 82
1909. 85. One of the best known here, but I have included it anyway.
1909. 86.
1909. 126. Bit messy, but easily enhanced, etc.

Two useable group photos for those who do not have the print versions of the original Tournament Book. Note that there are a couple of participants in the event not pictured.

1909. 157
1909. 159

For information on the All Russian event - and lots of stuff in the comments, see here :-  https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginfan/all-russian-amateur-tournament-st-petersburg-1909-some-pictures-and-games  

For some stuff on Boris Maliutin, pictured here, and the Saburovs - see earlier picture - see here :-

https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginfan/boris-maliutin-player-organiser-and-one-of-the-ww1-interned-russians  

Capablanca at the time of his match with Marshall. 1909. 238 Definitely - out of hundreds - my favourite picture of him.
Eugene Delmar - from his obituary - given in the last collection as a joint picture. 1909. 261

The next is a beauty!! Love it.

Not many of you will have heard of him, but if you study some of the 19th c. greats, his name crops up a lot. 1909. 347 

1909. 348

One guy that I should get round to writing about was the minor English Master F.J.Lee. Well known to anyone who studies Lasker - sadly the games of their match were not preserved. Again, it is a known image - I have at least one print version -  but included it anyway.

1909. 350

I have used the next one previously, I think.

1909 411
1910. 59
1910 348. Hamburg.
1910, 350 A rare image of Bier.

No jokes please, that would make you look childish. Thanks.

1910. 353
1911. 13

The next player is mostly known for a beautiful loss to Lasker at Nuremberg 1896, and appears in the group photo there, I think. This is the only other image of him that I know. Pretty decent player!

1911. 51. Porges.

1911. 75I think that this next one is a really important picture for chess historians.

1911. 125
1911. 167. Inc. von. Feyerfiel et al.
1911. 168 key

I don't know of another picture with all three of the 'Wolf' players who Vidmar discusses in 'Goldene Schachzeiten'. Also Max Weiss.

The next one is a huge resource for those interested in the era - and what I describe as the 'Barmen Generation. Apart from providing good images from the time for a number of players, the quality is high enough to expand it and cut out images. W.S. 1911. 304.

A few examples to show how you can use such things.

Alekhine
Duz-Khotimirsky
Levenfish.
Rubinstein
The header picture - great one of Amos Burn.

And finally, until next time, this one.

1911. 340

Levitsky and Flamberg.






Hope someone finds this stuff useful, or inspiring!!

Take care guys.