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Chess Historian
This is a list of chess historians. Chess historians * Yuri Averbakh * Henry Bird * Ricardo Calvo (October 22, 1943 – September 26, 2002) * Hiram Cox * G. H. Diggle * David Vincent Hooper *Willard Fiske *Professor Duncan Forbes * Jeremy Gaige * Ann Gunter * Tim Harding (chess player) * H. F. W. Holt p. 5. * Thomas Hyde (29 June 1636 – 18 February 1703) *Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 – April 27, 1794) *Garry Kasparov * Baron von der Lasa * David H. Li * Antonius van der Linde * A. A. Macdonell * H. J. R. Murray (June 24, 1868 – May 16, 1955) *Joseph Needham * A. v. Oefele * M. E. V. Savenkof * F. Strohmeyer * Olimpiu G. Urcan * Bo Utas *John Griswold White *Ken Whyld (6 March 1926 – 11 July 2003) * William Henry Wilkinson * Edward Winter * Emilia Castelao, her studies focus on chess as a tool in diplomacy Notes External linksInitiative Group Königstein [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the study of all history in time. Some historians are recognized by publications or training and experience.Herman, A. M. (1998). Occupational outlook handbook: 1998–99 edition. Indianapolis: JIST Works. Page 525. "Historian" became a professional occupation in the late nineteenth century as research universities were emerging in Germany and elsewhere. Objectivity Among historians Ancient historians In the 19th century, scholars used to study ancient Greek and Roman historians to see how generally reliable they were. In recent decades, however, scholars have focused more on the constructions, genres, and meanings that ancient historians sought to convey to their audiences. History is always written with contemporary concerns and ancient hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tassilo Von Heydebrand Und Der Lasa
Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as Baron von der Lasa; 17 October 1818 – 27 July 1899) was a German chess master, chess historian and theoretician of the nineteenth century, a member of the Berlin Chess Club and a founder of the Berlin Chess School (the Berlin Pleiades). Name His name is usually abbreviated as "von der Lasa", as this is how he signed his letters. However both contemporary and more recent writers have used other abbreviations, such as "von Heydebrandt" (which is a misspelling) and "Der Lasa". The Prussian King (later Emperor) William I made a joke out of the confusion by saying, "Good morning, dear Heydebrand. What is von der Lasa doing?" Biography Von der Lasa was born 17 October 1818 in Berlin. He studied law in Bonn and Berlin. From 1845 he was a diplomat in the service of Prussia. His career took him to Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Rio de Janeiro, among other places. He retired from the diplomatic service in 1864, and ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess Historians
This is a list of chess historians. Chess historians * Yuri Averbakh * Henry Bird * Ricardo Calvo (October 22, 1943 – September 26, 2002) * Hiram Cox * G. H. Diggle * David Vincent Hooper *Willard Fiske *Professor Duncan Forbes * Jeremy Gaige * Ann Gunter * Tim Harding (chess player) * H. F. W. Holt p. 5. * Thomas Hyde (29 June 1636 – 18 February 1703) *Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 – April 27, 1794) *Garry Kasparov * Baron von der Lasa * David H. Li * Antonius van der Linde * A. A. Macdonell * H. J. R. Murray (June 24, 1868 – May 16, 1955) *Joseph Needham * A. v. Oefele * M. E. V. Savenkof * F. Strohmeyer * Olimpiu G. Urcan * Bo Utas *John Griswold White * Ken Whyld (6 March 1926 – 11 July 2003) * William Henry Wilkinson * Edward Winter * Emilia Castelao, her studies focus on chess as a tool in diplomacy Notes External linksInitiative Group Königstein [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilia Castelao
Emilia may refer to: People * Emilia (given name), list of people with this name Places * Emilia (region), a historical region of Italy. Reggio, Emilia * Emilia-Romagna, an administrative region in Italy, including the historical regions of Emilia and Romagna * Emilia, Łódź Voivodeship, a village in central Poland Arts * Emilia (Bulgarian singer) (born 1982), full name Emiliya Valeva, known by the mononym Emilia * Emilia Mernes, Argentine singer, known by the mononym Emilia * Emilia Rydberg, Swedish singer, also performing as Emilia Mitiku and by the mononym Emilia ** ''Emilia'' (album), 2000 self-titled album by Swedish singer Emilia Rydberg * Emilia (''Sítio do Picapau Amarelo''), a fictional character of the ''Sítio do Picapau Amarelo'' series * Emilia (''Othello''), a character in Shakespeare's ''Othello'' * ''Emilia'' (TV series), a Venezuelan telenovela * ''Emilia'' (play), a 2018 play by inspired by the life of the 17th century poet and feminist Emilia Bassano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Winter (chess Historian)
Edward Winter (born 1955) is an English chess journalist, archivist, historian, collector and author. He writes a regular column on chess history, ''Chess Notes.'' ''Chess Notes'' ''Chess Notes'' started as a bimonthly periodical, and was described by its author, in the first issue (January–February 1982), as "A forum for aficionados to discuss all matters relating to the Royal Pastime". At the end of 1989, the periodical ceased publication. In 1993, Winter resumed publication of ''Chess Notes'', which appeared, this time, as a syndicated column, in many languages around the world. From 1998 to 2001, it was published exclusively in '' New In Chess''. Later, it appeared online at the Chess Café website. Since September 2004, ''Chess Notes'' has been located at the website Chesshistory.com. Between 1996 and 2006 four anthologies of ''Chess Notes'' were published in book form. On 15 March 2020, in C.N. 11763, Edward Winter announced that from the end of March 2020, ''Chess Not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Wilkinson
Sir William Henry Wilkinson (traditional Chinese: 務謹順, simplified Chinese: 务谨顺; May 10, 1858The Foreign Office list and diplomatic and consular year book for 1917, Foreign Office, Great Britain. – 1930) was a British sinologist who served as Consul-General for the United Kingdom in China and Korea. He was also a playing card collector and card game enthusiast. British Diplomatic Service Books *''Where Chineses Drive: English Student-Life at Peking (London, 1885)''"Those Foreign Devils!" A Celestial on England and Englishmen by Hsiang-fu Yuan (translated by Wilkinson; London and New York, 1891) *'' The Game of Khanhoo'' (London, 1891) *''A Manual of Chinese Chess'' (Shanghai, 1893) *'' Chinese Origin of Playing Cards'' (1895) *''The Corean government: constitutional changes, July 1894 to October 1895. With an appendix on subsequent enactments to 30th June 1896'' (1896) *''Bridge Maxims'' (1918) *''Mah-Jongg: a memorandum'' (1925) His Collection of Playing Cards Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Whyld
Kenneth Whyld (6 March 1926 – 11 July 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of ''The Oxford Companion to Chess'', a single-volume chess reference work in English. Whyld was a strong amateur chess player, taking part in the British Chess Championship in 1956 and winning the county championship of Nottinghamshire. He subsequently made his living in information technology while writing books on chess and researching its history. As well as ''The Oxford Companion to Chess'', Whyld was the author of other reference works such as ''Chess: The Records'' (1986), an adjunct to the ''Guinness Book of Records'' and the comprehensive ''The Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker'' (1998). He also researched more esoteric subjects, resulting in works such as ''Alekhine Nazi Articles'' (2002) on articles in favour of the Nazi Party supposedly written by world chess champion Alexander Alekhine, and the bibliographies ''Fake Automata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Griswold White
John Griswold White (10 August 1845 – 27 August 1928) was a prominent Cleveland lawyer, attorney, a chess connoisseur, and a bibliophile. Early life and education John Griswold White was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1845 to Bushnell and Elizabeth Brainard (Clark) White, both originally from Massachusetts. White's birthplace was located on what was then Lake Street (near the present-day City Hall). Both of John Griswold White's parents valued education, and Bushnell White once wrote a letter to the ''Cleveland Herald and Gazette'' in March 1847 that read in part: "Freedom and equal rights have ever, and always will, exist in proportion to the knowledge of the people." Bushnell White graduated from Williams College, and Elizabeth White graduated from Troy (NY) Female Seminary. John G. White was born near-sighted but was not diagnosed until he was a teenager. Although fitted with glasses eventually, White usually read without them, preferring (according to his contemporaries) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Utas
Bo Utas, born May 26, 1938, in Höglunda, a village in Jämtland, Sweden, is a Swedish linguist, Iranologist and chess historian. He is professor emeritus in Iranian languages at Uppsala University, and a scholar on Persian historical linguistics and classical Persian literature. Career Bo Utas got acquainted with Persian literature in secondary school. In 1959, he started to study Persian at Uppsala University for his mentor Henrik Samuel Nyberg and defended his PhD thesis in 1973. His thesis is a critical edition of the Sufi ''masnavi'' poem ''Tariq to-tahqiq'' which has been ascribed to Hakim Sanai of Ghazna. Utas travelled extensively in Iran and Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1988 he became the first professor in Iranian languages at Uppsala University, a chair that he held until he retired in 2003. Under his supervision, no less than eight PhD candidates defended their theses successfully. Bo Utas is a member of several learned societies, including the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olimpiu G
Olimpiu is a masculine Romanian given name. Notable people with the name include: * Olimpiu Becheș (born 1955), Romanian rugby union player * Olimpiu Bucur (born 1989), Romanian footballer * Olimpiu Blaj (born 1986), Romanian actor * Olimpiu Marin (born 1969), Romanian sports shooter * Olimpiu Moruțan (born 1999), Romanian footballer * Olimpiu G. Urcan (born 1977), chess historian {{given name Romanian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Needham
Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (; 9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initiating publication of the multivolume '' Science and Civilisation in China''. A focus of his was what has come to be called the Needham Question of why and how China had ceded its leadership in science and technology to Western countries. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941 and a fellow of the British Academy in 1971. In 1992, Queen Elizabeth II conferred on him the Order of the Companions of Honour, and the Royal Society noted he was the only living person to hold these three titles. Early life Needham's father, Joseph, was a doctor, and his mother, Alicia Adelaïde, née Montgomery (1863–1945), was a music composer from Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland. His father, born in East London, then a poor section of town, ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonius Van Der Linde
Antonius is a masculine given name, as well as a surname. Antonius is a Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Latin, Norwegian, and Swedish name used in Greenland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, part of the Republic of Karelia, Estonia, Belgium, Netherlands, Suriname, South Africa, Namibia, and Indonesia, while Antoníus is an Icelandic name used in Iceland. It is also the source of the English personal name ''Anthony'', as well as a number of similar names in various European languages. Antonius is the nomen of the '' gens Antonia'', an important plebeian family of ancient Rome. Marcus Antonius claimed that the gens was descended from Anton, a son of Hercules. Women of the family were called ''Antonia''. The Antonii produced a number of important generals and politicians, some of whom are listed below. For other persons with this name, see Antonia (gens). *Marcus Antonius (83–30 BC), ally of Caesar, triumvir and afterwards enemy of Augustus. Probably the most famous of the Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
