Apologies for the slightly ugly bracket: Romantic Rumble: Joseph Blackburne vs. Louis Paulsen Today's matchup is the one with the most history, as these two have games spanning almost three decades; it was Paulsen's blindfold exhibitions ba...
My Windows got corrupted while I was writing this chapter, and among the things I lost were the games and misc. resources used in this blog series. This chapter is mostly unaffected, but expect an even longer gap between posts than usual while I r...
This is probably the least interesting match of the tournament. I'm going to break the sequence a little here, partially because my upcoming obligations will take up a lot of my time, partially because I really want to get this one out of the...
As expected, the winner of our previous vote (see here) was the person who played in a World Championship match, not the person who didn't. Isidor Gunsberg thus moves on to our second quarterfinal match, but today we pay tribute to his dispatched ...
This next match is probably going to be my favourite of the entire round: Romantic Rumble: Isidor Gunsberg vs. James Mason When comparing which of two things is "better," you obviously have to define what exactly you're measuring. In our ca...
My last blog was very unfortunately timed, and as a result, not many people saw it (but you can, see here). Therefore, there's probably not a lot of people who knew Schallopp was even part of the last match. The vote obviously had a smaller turnou...
My job has turned into one where I have to wait for literal hours for my code to compile, leaving me with ample time to do chess stuff. Lucky me! For those that don't know what this blog series is all about, please see here. For those that do, l...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Zukertort won the vote given in our previous discussion (see here). Unlike with Riemann's chapter (see here), today's exploration of Max Weiss won't really be a biographical one, since details of his personal life are rathe...
We're moving on to the second match of our March Madness-esque tournament today. Check out the first match here, an explanation of what the heck we're even doing here, and most importantly, my tribute to our first eliminated competitor here (I spe...
Now accepting suggestions for a better title. As expected, Amos Burn won the vote (albeit by a smaller margin than I anticipated) given in our previous discussion (see here) and thus he moves on while we say goodbye to Fritz Riemann. Seeing as t...
In my last post (see here), we took a look at a prototype leaderboard-esque thing for the 1880s in a continuation of humanity's desire to rank things. I argued that the leaderboard had its flaws when it came to actually ranking people, but it serv...
This is quite possibly the most dry post I'll ever make. I beg you to bear with me, despite all of the seemingly useless arithmetic, I'm going somewhere important with all of this. In February of 1886, the mathematician William Sonneborn shared,...
In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the top player to prevail. Some tournaments will be known and famous, others will be more obscure - in a time period where competition is scarce, I...
In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the top player to prevail. Some tournaments will be known and famous, others will be more obscure - in a time period where competition is scarce, I...
In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the top player to prevail. Some tournaments will be known and famous, others will be more obscure - in a time period where competition is scarce, I...
In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the top player to prevail. Some tournaments will be known and famous, others will be more obscure - in a time period where competition is scarce, I...
I have some rather annoying brain fog today, but at the same time I'd really like to wrap up this particular project, so it's a good thing (for all of us, really) that today's post is not a traditional Winner's POV. As the title suggests, this i...
I fell ill again while writing this post. My first sickness of the year happened during part 1, and now my second is here. If this post feels rushed, it's because this event is literally cursed (akin to a haunted idol from a mysterious island) and...
I kid you not, the day after I started writing my preliminary notes for this post, I got hit with a flu that has stayed in my system for weeks. This tournament is cursed and I hate it. In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th...
In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the top player to prevail. Some tournaments will be known and famous, others will be more obscure - in a time period where competition is scarce, I...
In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the top player to prevail. Some tournaments will be known and famous, others will be more obscure - in a time period where competition is scarce, I...
In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the top player to prevail. Some tournaments will be known and famous, others will be more obscure - in a time period where competition is scarce, I...
In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the top player to prevail. Some tournaments will be known and famous, others will be more obscure - in a time period where competition is scarce, I...
This post is a bit of a behemoth, so I implore you to not read it in one sitting. I certainly didn't write it in just one. Anyway... ahem: In Winner's POV, we take a look at tournaments from the 19th century and see the games that allowed the to...
I've not had a very good time of it the past week-ish, so rather than continue my Winner's POV series, I thought I'd write about one more little thing that interests me within the context of chess history. It kinda keeps things in chronological or...
