QUIZ16

***** QUIZ16 *****

ICC Chess History and Trivia Quiz #16--By Naisortep

        "The world resembles a chessboard which is chequered white and 
black, the colours showing the two conditions of life and death, or 
praise and blame.  The chessmen are men of this world who have a common 
birth, occupy different stations and hold different titles in this 
life, who contend together, and finally have a common fate which levels 
all ranks.  The King often lies under the other pieces in the bag.

        "The King's move and powers of capture are in all directions, 
because the king's will is law.

        "The Queen's move is aslant only, because women are so greedy 
that they will take nothing except by rapine and injustice.

        "The Rook stands for the itinerant justices who travel over the 
whole realm, and their move is always straight, because the judge must 
deal justly.

        "The Knight's move is compounded of a straight move and an 
oblique one; the former betokens his legal power of collecting rents, 
&c., the latter his extortions and wrong-doings.
        
        "The Aufins are prelates wearing horns (but not like those that 
Moses had when he descended from Sinai).  They move and take obliquely 
because nearly every bishop misuses his office through cupidity.

        "The Pawns are poor men.  Their move is straight, except when 
they take anything; so also the poor man does well so long as he keeps 
from ambition.  After the pawn is promoted he becomes a Fers and moves 
obliquely, which shows how hard it is for a poor man to deal rightly 
when he is raised above his proper station.

        "In this game the Devil says 'Check' when a man falls into sin; 
and unless he quickly covers the check by turning to repentance, the 
Devil says 'Mate!' and carries him off to hell, whence is no escape.  
For the Devil has as many kinds of temptations to catch different types 
of men, as the hunter has dogs to catch different types of animals."
                                                [Pope Innocent II,1307-1327]

Chess Anniversaries  (Source: 1996 International Chess Calendar, P.O. 
Box 30, Milford, CT. 06480)

Birthdates = * 
Deaths = +

1/8 * Herman Pilnik (1914), Nikolai Minev (1931), Igor Ivanov (1947), 
George Botterill (1949)
+ Alexander Kotov (1971)

1/9 Start of Hoogoven Tournament at Wijk-Ann-Zee. Won by Kortchnoi over 
Hort, Portish and Tal (1968).
+ David Harrwitz (1884)

1/10 * Henri Rinck (1870), Walter Browne (1949), Oleg Romanishin (1952)

1/11 * Ervin Haag (1933), Shaun Taulbut (1958)
+ Emanuel Lasker (1941)

1/12 * Vlastimil Hort (1944), Arnaldo Ellerman (1893)
+ Simon Winawer (1920)

1/13  Larsen first at Hastings over Uhlmann, Hartson, and Hort (1973).
+ Samuel Boden (1882), Anthony Santasiere (1977)

1/14 Lasker defeats Steinitz to retain the World Championship Title 
(1897).  Start of King's Gambit Tournament at Abbazia, Yugoslavia.  Won 
by Spielmann over Duras (1912).
* Henry Bettman (1868), Yakov Yukhtman (1935), Drazen Marovic (1938)
+ Fritz Englund (1933)

1/15 * Louis Paulsen (1833), Hans Boehm (1950)
+ James Mason (1905), David Janowski (1927)

1/16 * Frederick Yates (1884), Victor Ciocaltea (1932)

1/17 * Karel Traxler (1866), William Napier (1881), Lev Loshinsky 
(1913), Maya Chiburdanidze (1961)

1/18 Olafsson first in Hoogoven Tournament at Beverwijk, Netherlands 
over Eliskases and Donner (1959).
* Alex Khalifman (1966)
+ Al Horowitz (1973)

1/19 Donner and Euwe tie for first at Beverwijk (1958).
* Gennady Kuzmin (1946)

1/20 Start of the first World Championship Match between Steinitz and 
Tchigorin at Havana.  Won by Steinitz 10-6 with 1 draw (1889).
* Yevgeny Vladimirov (1957)

1/21 Start of the 24th U.S.S.R. Championship won by Tal over Bronstein, 
Keres, Spassky and Tolush (1957). 
* Les Blackstock (1949), Ilya Smirin (1968)

1/22 Steinitz defeats Gunsberg to retain the World Championship title 
(1891). Ivkov and Larsen tie for first at Beverwijk (1961).
* Otvin Sarapu (1924) Karl Burger (1933)

1/23 Capablanca scores 5th straight win en route to victory in Rice 
Memorial Tournament at New York (1916).
* Hugh Myers (1930), Ruth Haring (1955)

1/24 Geller and Portisch tie for first at Beverwijk (1965).
* Teodor Ghitescu (1934).


CHESS TRIVIA QUESTION (Message Naisortep With Answers): Which chess 
master was also known as "the Black Death"?

ANSWER AND WINNERS OF THE PREVIOUS QUIZ: Eugenio Torre, of the 
Phillipines, was the first asian to obtain the GM title.

Congratulations - POTZY, INDIGO, LARRYP, EPOR, TASSILOLASSA, MALK, 
MRSNRUB, BLAKE, NEGADO.

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