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On Pakistan Border, U.S. Troops Launch Their Own Spring Offensive
David Axe
MARGAH, Afghanistan — With the signature whoosh and crack of a rocket-propelled grenade, the local Taliban of northern Bermel district made their feelings perfectly clear. After three years without laying eyes on U.S., Afghan, or allied forces, the insurgents of this mountainous border community were saying, unambiguously, that they were not exactly pleased that the […]
MARGAH, Afghanistan -- With the signature *whoosh *and crack of a rocket-propelled grenade, the local Taliban of northern Bermel district made their feelings perfectly clear. After three years without laying eyes on U.S., Afghan, or allied forces, the insurgents of this mountainous border community were saying, unambiguously, that they were not exactly pleased that the U.S. Army had paid them a visit.
David Axe spent six weeks in Afghanistan, on the war's dangerous and largely forgotten eastern front.
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The rocket fell short, exploding in the loose, jagged rocks beneath one of a pair of mountaintops occupied by two platoons from Fox Company, 2nd battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The small arms fire missed its mark, too. But it came close enough to piss off Sergeant First Class Michael Espeland, the company's taciturn first sergeant.
"Aside from that, it was a good patrol," Espeland said sarcastically, after a pair of tan-painted CH-47F Chinook helicopters had snatched Fox Company from its rocky redoubts and returned it to the relative safety of Combat Outpost Margah -- a chilly hodgepodge of Hesco barriers and concrete that stands alone along a wide swath of eastern Paktika province.
Until last fall, COP Margah was home to just a platoon of soldiers -- too few to do anything but guard the base. It was like a modern-day Alamo. That left many of eastern Paktika's border districts, including Bermel, essentially unpatrolled by coalition forces. It should come as no surprise, then, that Taliban fighters crossed the Af/Pak border by the hundreds, fueling a strengthening insurgency. When Fox Company finally did show up, in August, the Taliban countered with a mass assault that very nearly overran the base on Oct. 30.
Having survived the worst the Taliban could throw at it, Fox Company settled in for a long, cold winter. Everyone expected the insurgents to strike again once the snows had melted. But Fox Company wasn't just waiting around for another attack. With an aggressive new company commander named Chris Tanner, Fox Company planned to meet the traditional Taliban spring offensive with an offensive of its own.
Air Assault
The 24-hour air assault that began April 4 was the first strike in what Tanner and his bosses at battalion envisioned as a months-long, sustained operation. The goal, he said, was to "deny the enemy sanctuary." That meant deploying troops into villages that had been all but abandoned by the coalition years ago.
"There are a lot of bad dudes kicking around in this area," Tanner told his assembled troops in COP Margah's dusty briefing room on April 3. What's more, the deep valleys and steep mountain slopes worked in the insurgents' favor. The roads were too steep and in terrible condition. On one recent road patrol, Tanner's vehicle had burst all four tires. "The terrain restricts our ability to get into the area," Tanner said.
So the paratroopers would infiltrate via helicopter, straight onto two of the highest peaks in the district. The idea was twofold: to start off with the high-ground advantage, as well as provide Fox Company favorable observation angles on the long-neglected villages below.
The soldiers came prepared for a fight, but they weren't looking for one. This time out, the goal was reconnaissance -- to fill out the many blank pages in NATO's dossier on eastern Paktika. Following that, Fox Company and its attached Afghan troops aimed to make regular visits to northern Bermel, hopefully making the presently easy passage between Afghanistan and Pakistan a bit trickier for insurgent forces.
The biggest unknown was how the residents of northern Bermel might react. That question was answered in no uncertain terms, when men riding in a red pickup truck aimed their weapons at Fox Company, and pulled the triggers.
The Chinooks disgorged their human cargoes in mere seconds -- U.S. and Afghan soldiers, Air Force controllers, interpreters and one reporter running, crouched, from the vibrating darkness of the helicopters' holds out into eastern Afghanistan's rich, early-evening light.
In his brief the day before, Tanner had emphasized safety coming out of the "birds." Just a few days ago, there had nearly been two decapitations-by-helicopters in NATO's Regional Command East. An Army captain and an Afghan interpreter had both walked into low-spinning rotor blades. Incredibly, both lived -- saved by their Kevlar helmets. But the captain, in particular, was "jacked up," Tanner said.
Tanner also stressed looking after the "brand-new" Afghan National Army soldiers attached to Fox Company for the mission. The Afghans were fresh out of basic training, "very green ... and a little scared," said the lean, 28-year-old Alabaman.
As the Chinooks chugged off into the falling light, Fox Company's 2nd and 3rd Platoons scouted out defensive positions on their side-by-side mountaintops. The idea was to create two secure, mutually-supporting bases. From there, the soldiers would push out "reconnaissance and surveillance" patrols, starting before dawn.
1st Lt. Sean McCune -- a thickly-built officer with a shaved head -- dragged elements of his 2nd Platoon, plus a handful of ANA, to scout out tomorrow's observation posts. What he found was both good news and bad.
By pushing all the way to the farthest ridgeline overlooking the area's main valley, McCune and 2nd Platoon could gain a clear view of the sparse farming settlements down below. That was the good news. The bad news, was that the Taliban was likely well aware of this. The ridgeline was dotted with shambling stone buildings -- khalats, they're called -- that could have been goatherders' shelters or Taliban fighting positions. Fresh animal dung proved the buildings had been occupied recently.
The soldiers Fox Company were all by themselves on the ground, in an area that was well-known to the Taliban -- and a complete mystery to U.S. forces.
But the Americans weren't entirely alone. Above them in the darkening sky could be heard the roars, grumbles and whines of a steady succession of NATO aircraft: Apache helicopters, F-15E fighter-bombers and Shadow spy drones. The air cover would continue, with few interruptions, for the next 24 hours.
Artillery support was less reliable. No fewer than three NATO bases, including nearby Forward Operating Base Tillman, had ranged their cannons and mortars on Fox Company's position, ready to rain down steel if the company should get into trouble. In theory. But events on April 5 would prove how tenuous that kind of support can be.
The night was cold and, for soldiers taking turns standing guard with night-vision goggles, exhausting. The sun hadn't shone its first rays on northern Bermel when Fox Company began pushing out its reconnaissance and surveillance patrols.
Lt. McCune (pictured above, left) led around a dozen people downslope to the khalats he had identified the night before. It was a treacherous descent. The loose, flat rocks slid underfoot, sending earth, stones and soldiers cascading downhill.
The lieutenant left several soldiers in the *khalat *with a machine gun, then climbed down the ridgeface with Sgt. Kevin Mahon and Privates Bronson Williams and Bryan Schlund. The soldiers crouched behind boulders and focused gunsights and binoculars on the khalats down below. The sun rose, and the Americans got their first clear view of an area NATO hadn't put eyes on in three years.
At first glance, it appeared to be a typical Afghan farming community. Fields of alfalfa surrounded khalats clustered around a river bed -- a wadi -- in which a thin stream and a rough dirt road wound in parallel.
As the sun rose above a chorus of chortling roosters, the people of north Bermel emerged from their khalats or drove past in their Nissan pickup trucks. Some men in one *khalat *conferred while pointing to 2nd Platoon's observation posts. They knew the Americans were there.
Another group of men arrived in a Nissan and scurried indoors for an apparent meeting. A red pickup truck drove slowly past then disappeared into an adjacent "draw," or small valley.
Then Mahon noticed what appeared to be a cave on a nearby slope. Schlund (pictured above, right) spotted several of the black-and-white flags the Taliban sometimes flies over its territory.
The banners were an intelligence coup. They argued for a strong Taliban presence, and possibly helped pinpoint the khalats where Talibs lived or gathered. "This calls for a celebration," said Schlund, who became a father just three weeks ago. He scooped chewing tobacco with his index finger and packed it in his lip.
Mahon climbed back up the ridgeface to rejoin the soldiers in the khalat overlooking the wadi. The patrol had been in position for several hours, now. For many of the soldiers, the mission had long dissolved in haze of boredom.
Between turns peering out the khalat's tiny window, Mahon and Privates Wesley Floyd and Chris Munoz passed the time throwing camel turds at each other, making fun of Floyd's mom and Munoz's ethnicity, and negotiating for portions of a Snickers bar Munoz had carried in along with the platoon's main radio. "I'm so bored, everything is funny," Floyd said.
Even the attack on the Air Force C-17 was funny. The giant airlifter appeared out of nowhere, a hulking gray shape that looked too big and ungainly to fly. It was low, and deceptively close. Its ramp dropped, and containers spilled out, each unfurling a green parachute as it fell.
It was a resupply mission for FOB Tillman. Freed from its bulky load, the cargo plane climbed and accelerated, easily out of range of any gunfire below. But enemy fighters concealed somewhere in Fox Company's wadi either didn't know that or didn't care. They opened fire on the airlifter with their AK-47s, missing it by miles and drawing chuckles from the 2nd Platoon soldiers killing time in their khalat.
The boredom would not last. On a quick jaunt around the khalat, McCune spotted something he thought was strange: four donkeys wandering all alone among the weeds and bright yellow flowers dotting the hillside. "Four donkeys and no humans," McCune mused, shifting his attention to a lone goatherder and her animals moving between 2nd and 3rd Platoon's positions. In Afghanistan, herders often double as Taliban scouts.
The donkeys and goatherder might have been perfectly innocent "atmospherics," to borrow the Army's term for details of daily life. But they refocused Fox Company's attention on its own vulnerabilities. That focus grew sharper when the rockets began striking FOB Tillman.
Indirect Fire
Soldiers call it "indirect fire" -- that is, rockets, mortars, artillery and any other kind of attack that doesn't entail sighting down the length of a rifle barrel. COP Margah had absorbed scores of indirect attacks since Fox Company arrived last fall, even leaving aside the ton of steel that struck the base during the bloody October assault.
Nobody likes indirect fire. It's so sudden. And loud. And more often than not, the attacker is out of sight, denying you the comfort of shooting back. As rockets continued striking FOB Tillman, the soldiers of 2nd Platoon felt a keen sympathy for their distant comrades.
Around noon, there was another whoosh signifying a rocket launch. This time, the boom of the impact occurred almost instantly, meaning the shooter and the target were both close. Staff Sgt. Jerrod Swaim, accompanying Tanner to 2nd Platoon's khalat, flinched. "Why am I the only who jumped?" the veteran of four Afghanistan deployments demanded of his less-seasoned peers.
It quickly became clear that the latest indirect attack had targeted Fox Company, rather than FOB Tillman. The atmospherics in the *wadi *down below took a foreboding turn. Where before women and children had poked around in the fields, now everyone hurried indoors – a sign that people are expecting a firefight.
McCune, Tanner and their sergeants put their heads together and tried to figure out who had fired the rocket. McCune said he was sure it had been "those guys here in the draw somewhere." Tanner agreed that the men in the red truck were to blame. But the truck was nowhere to be seen. Even when two Apache helicopters appeared overhead, the red Nissan remained hidden.
In a strong indication that God is a Taliban sympathizer, at that moment clouds gathered and the wind picked up. The Apaches, vulnerable to rain and sudden gusts, scurried away. Fox Company's only cover would be the artillery from FOB Tillman and the other bases. Tillman was supposed to provide the bulk of the fire support, but with that base under attack, it was unclear how supportive the soldiers at Tillman could be.
Tanner gathered up 2nd Platoon and led them on a long, steep, uphill trek back to the company's defensive positions. Mahon, recently back from several weeks of fat-inducing home leave, wheezed and cursed the Marlboros he'd smoked earlier in the day. Munoz struggled under the weight of the radio.
"You look like a bag of assholes! Keep moving!" Tanner taunted the soldiers lagging behind. The company commander laughed. "That's character building," he said as an aside. At the top of the slope, a sergeant informed Tanner that there had been two rockets fired at Fox Company, plus some small arms.
Show of Force
The plan was to reconsolidate the company atop its two mountains and see what could be done about the Taliban shooters. Part of the response would be a so-called "show of force." In short order, Tillman and the other bases would drop 30 rounds of artillery onto a nearby, uninhabited plateau. Fox Company's expert mortarman, a swaggering, bespectacled private named Timothy Althamer -- nickname, "Hammer" -- would lob a few 60-millimeter rounds of his own.
The planned kickoff for the show of force came and went ... with no artillery. Tanner and his officers got on their radios to find out why. The response was chilling. For some reason, possibly related to the recent indirect attacks, Tillman's artillerymen were not available for the fire mission.
With dark clouds gathering and the air support grounded, Fox Company had just lost most of its remaining, external support. Tanner frowned. "Find out who our primary fires is," he ordered his fire-support officer.
McCune proposed letting Althamer blow up the plateau on his own, and Tanner approved. "Hammer" hauled up his baseball-bat-size mortar tube; Swaim prepped some of the Coke-bottle-size rounds. With his left hand pointing the tube and his right hand adjusting elevation, Althamer zeroed in on the hilltop, 1,200 meters away. Swaim let a round slide into the tube.
*Thoomp! *In a puff of smoke, the mortar round lanced from the tube. Five or six seconds later on the targeted mountain, there was a puff of smoke and a crack like wood splitting.
Althamer took the opportunity to teach some soldiers how to fire the mortar. They took turns blasting the plateau. Some Afghan soldiers showed up with their brand-new rocket launcher, hoping to get a slice of the action. The Americans scrambled away from the blast-zone of the rocket's lethal exhaust, directly behind the launcher.
The young Afghan took aim, squeezed the trigger and -- click, nothing happened. He tried again. Click. Embarrassed, he turned to another Afghan standing to his right, exposing the huddled Americans to the rocket's blast-zone. When Tanner, McCune and Swaim cried out in alarm, the Afghan turned toward them -- now the rocket's warhead was pointed directly at Fox Company.
"Take. Out. The round," Tanner ordered. The Afghans slouched away. Schlund hurried to catch up and, through an interpreter, explained in no uncertain terms how badly the young soldiers had screwed up.
Exfiltration
The clouds parted for a moment and the Apaches reappeared. Battalion radioed in with a change of plan. Rather than risk Fox Company getting stranded by weather on an isolated hilltop with sporadic air and artillery support as Taliban shooters possibly closed in, the Chinooks would return early and__ exfiltrate __the company well before dark.
All the same, the heavylift choppers took their time, "surfing" the district's patchwork of ridgelines to avoid exposing themselves to enemy fighters down below. They landed in a storm of dust and debris that mixed with the green smoke Fox Company had used to mark its landing zones. Nobody got decapitated climbing into the birds. That, at least, counted as a victory.
"It's what we thought it would be," Tanner said of northern Bermel. After three years without any coalition contact, the area has become an overt Taliban stronghold, even flying the group's black-and-white flag. At great risk to themselves, the soldiers of Fox Company had begun the slow process of returning to northern Bermel and contesting the Taliban's hold.
If and when NATO can pry loose the wadi's Taliban defenders, extremists will have fewer avenues for moving across the Af/Pak border. The fight won't be quick or easy.
The biggest challenge is one of resources. It wasn't until the Obama administration ordered up an extra 30,000 U.S. troops for the war effort that the 101st Airborne Division could afford to send troops into northern Bermel. With local Afghan troops still badly inexperienced and the surge of U.S. troops slated to end this summer, this border could quickly fall back into neglect. Those black-and-white flags could quickly be raised again.
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As my expedition to Shetland enters its last few weeks I am travelling to as many beaches and foreshores that I can to examine the littoral zones and to collect Plastiglomerates.
My main aim is to collect up as amny of the Plastiglomerates I can find, so far I have found them on nearly every beach I have surveyed, even on the beautiful world renowned St Ninians (tabola), where they tend to be small fragments collecting usually at the south west corner of the beach.
My notes help me keep track of my finds, the type of beach, aspect amount of easily visible litter and the amount of what I collect.
The numbers of sacks are a crude summary of the amount of litter that each beach is subject to and the prevailing tidal flows and whether the tidal flows are able to wash the litter out to sea once it's there or whether the landforms entraps the litter like at beaches such as Burrick (above left) where so far we have collected 6 sacks, or at Meal where I lifted several large slabs off the rocks, or at Mangaster (below) and Mavis Grind where the the Hightide lines are almost as deeply littered as at Burick.
Mavis Grind is a significant point in Shetlands Geo Park being a narrow isthmus between the Atlantic and the North Sea where boats were hauled traditionally from one side to other to avoid the long row around. On my journey north today I intend revisiting Mavis Grind to try and understand more clearly the significance of the landforms (Taings : tonues of land ) that entrap what the Atalantic and passers by leave. Connectivity permitting I will share my findings.
Alongside collecting the Plastiglomerates usually within the high tide zone, I have been taking small samples of sand/seaweed from the splash zones that evidently contain micro-plastics. This week I will ask Higher school pupils on Whalsey Island to examine and compare samples taken from their own shorelines with those I have taken from around the Shetland Mainland. I look forward to their observations creative interpretations and wonderfully visiting another one of Shetlands 100+ Islands.


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La Petite rivière Rouge Est est un tributaire de la Petite rivière Rouge (bassin versant de la rivière de la Petite Nation et de la rivière des Outaouais). Elle coule dans la municipalité de Namur, dans la municipalité régionale de comté (MRC) de Papineau, dans la région administrative de Outaouais, au Québec, au Canada.

Géographie
Les bassins versants voisins de la Petite rivière Rouge Est sont :
 côté est : lac Papineau ;
 côté ouest : Petite rivière Rouge, ruisseau Suffolk.

La Petite rivière Rouge Est se déverse sur la rive est de la Petite rivière Rouge, au sud du village de Saint-Émile-de-Suffolk, dans la municipalité de Namur et du côté est de la route 323.

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Le toponyme Petite rivière Rouge Est a été officialisé le  à la Commission de toponymie du Québec.

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Articles connexes
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Q: Angular 7 directive with keydown event of input type "number" not prevent on Android phone for special character dot and minus In angular 7 directive, keydown event is not prevent the key in android device for special character like dot and minus. Please help to provide the solution. I have used below code

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A: your code is working absolutely fine.
Please take a look at this stackblitz:
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All you need to do is add the directive in the declarations part in the module in which you are using this component.

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Naryshevo (; , Narış) is a rural locality (a village) in Badrakovsky Selsoviet, Burayevsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 106 as of 2010. There are 3 streets.

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One of my many cousins, Nick Rodina, was a stone masoner. He helped build the big Catholic church on Strawberry Hill. He also handmade a musical intrument called a tamburitza for artists of the era and was written about in the KC Star. He also was a band leader teaching folk music of the Croation heritage. Another of my cousins, Ray Rodina, wrote music and performed plus helped with a kids' musical group called St. John's Tamburitzans along with Don Lipovac.
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A Famous Loser
It is a pleasure to present "A Famous Loser" by chess historian Tomasz Lissowski and Grandmaster Bartlomeij Macieja. Written especially for ChessCentral, this important article provides for many of us our first glimpse into the life and work of Lionel Kieseritzky - perhaps the most famous "loser" in the annals of chess. As we will see, however, Kieseritzky was far more than that; he was indeed a chess artist of the first order, surpassed in his day only by Anderssen and (probably) Staunton.
The authors have written an excellent book about Kieseritzky entitled Zagadka Kieseritzky'ego, or "The Mystery of Kieseritzky". It is unfortunately available only in Polish, but even so it is well worth obtaining for the games alone, which number 170 - a fivefold increase over what is found in the typical database. The book was conceived with the idea of contributing to Polish chess history, but the authors were surprised to find that Kieseritzky eluded them even in his nationality. What they discovered instead was a sensitive man of wide-ranging interests, who happened to play Romantic chess with consummate skill. [Sid Pickard]
Which game of chess is the most famous? Among the millions played and recorded, which single game is so distinguished? Perhaps it is the short offhand game played in 1851 at Simpson's on the Strand, in London, between Anderssen and Kieseritzky. Within 5 years of its conclusion this contest was known everywhere as the "Immortal" game (German "Unsterbliche").
Anderssen - Kieseritzky
[Event "Immortal Game"] [Site "London"] [Date "1851.06.21"] [Round "?"] [White "Anderssen, Adolf"] [Black "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C33"] [PlyCount "45"] [EventDate "1851.??.??"] [EventType "game"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 b5 5. Bxb5 Nf6 6. Nf3 Qh6 7. d3 Nh5 8. Nh4 Qg5 9. Nf5 c6 10. g4 Nf6 11. Rg1 cxb5 12. h4 Qg6 13. h5 Qg5 14. Qf3 Ng8 15. Bxf4 Qf6 16. Nc3 Bc5 17. Nd5 Qxb2 18. Bd6 Qxa1+ 19. Ke2 Bxg1 20. e5 Na6 21. Nxg7+ Kd8 22. Qf6+ $1 Nxf6 23. Be7# 1-0
This game quickly became famous thanks to Anderssen's brilliant style; the cascade of sacrifices from the very beginning, and for the finish - a wonderful combination with a Queen's sacrifice, clearing the way for White's remaining pieces to deliver a mate - in which the helpless Black forces could only observe the execution of their Monarch.
Anderssen's name is extremely well known to all chess aficionados, with many books and countless articles being written about him. Polish chess players in Wroclaw (German "Breslau") completely restored the German Master's tomb some years ago.
But who was Lionel Kieseritzky, the loser of the most famous game of all times? Only a handful of players can say more than a few words about this old chess master with a Polish/Slavonic family name, and who was born in the 19th century region of Livland (today Lettland and Estland).
A careful reader of the Soviet chess press can recall two short texts devoted to this player; both reprinted in 1981: Imants Blaus, "An Eminent Baltic Chess-Player of the XIX Century" in Shakhmaty (Riga) and "The Flash and Fall of Kieseritzky" in 64 (not signed). Over the years I kept those two articles in my small home archive, and in 1992 I decided that Kieseritzky must be remembered and re-introduced to the chess world. Notes in some chess encyclopaedias, including the fundamental Russian Encyclopaedical Dictionary - Chess (Moscow 1991) convinced me that our hero was not only "the most famous loser" of all times in chess, but that his work was really heterogeneous and extensive, and that his biography, rich in events and dramatic turns, ought to be interesting for true fans of chess history. His Polish(?) family name, plus the constantly repeated assertion that "Lionel's father was Polish" or that "the Kieseritzky family came from Poland to Livland only 50 years before Lionel was born", was for me a kind of challenge.
I invited my club mate from "Polonia" Warszawa, International Master (now a strong GM) Bartlomiej Macieja, to be my collaborator and game analyst. I reviewed many private collections of chess literature, and visited libraries in Warsaw, Gdansk and Amsterdam. The most important source was the collection of Prussian diplomat, chessplayer and author Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, whose precious books are preserved in the library of the Polish Academy of Science, housed in a romantic gothic castle near the city of Poznan. I asked two professional historians, two eminent representatives of Polish chess composition, an ex-champion of Poland and a psychologist (Sc.D.) from the University of Lublin to be my critics. Their essays were to be included in a book, which crowned 3 long years of work. I cannot say whether the book (Note 1) is good or bad, but at least now Lionel Kieseritzky has a chance to recover his place in the Pantheon of Chess.
Livland is an area currently divided between the Baltic countries Lettland and Estland. Colonised in the 12th century by settlers from the German kingdoms, Livland was ruled by the Teutonic Order of Knighthood until the 16th century. After decades of crushing wars, during which the monarchs of Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Russia variously laid claim to Livland, the country was in 1793 finally incorporated into the Russian Empire. Allowed to keep a measure of local autonomy and customs, Livland in those years was a mixture of religions, nations, cultures and languages. The townsfolk and those well born used to speak German or (more seldom) Swedish and even Polish in the south; whereas the mother tongue of villagers was Lettish or Estish - although linguistic purists will note some necessary omissions and simplifications.
Erich Seuberlich, a leading genealogist of Baltic-German families with noble descent, has traced the oldest "foot-prints" of the Kieseritzkys to the year 1688. At that time the tailor Juergen Kieseritzky possessed a house in the wealthier neighbourhoods of Wolmar, which is today the city of Valmiera in Lettland. Seuberlich was not able to discover when the Kieseritzkys came to Livland, or from where they immigrated. He searched for the family roots in Sweden and Germany (Sachsen - Anhalt) but failed, finding only pleasant family legends, but no material evidence. Surprisingly for us, Seuberlich did not discuss at all the possibility of a remote Polish ancestry.
Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky was born on the 1st of January, in 1806 (or December 20th, 1805, in the Gregorian calendar) to his parents Otto Wilhelm Kieseritzky and Felicitas Catharina von Hoffmann. Lionel's father was born on the 6th of August, 1755, in Lehova close to Fellin (Viijlandi in Estland). In February 1783 he married Felicitas, who was 10 years younger than himself and the daughter of a Russian "court-councillor" named Andreas von Hoffmann. The young couple settled down in Werro (Voeru in Estland), where Otto Wilhelm held the job of secretary in a local law court. In Werro they had 9 children, 6 among them surviving to adulthood. In 1798 the family moved to Dorpat (Tartu in Estland); Otto Wilhelm was by now a lawyer in Dorpat's regional court.
In Dorpat the Kieseritzkys owned their own house on Johannisstrasse, and over the next 7 years were blessed with 4 more children; the two youngest were boys - Guido and Lionel.
It is not certain how old Lionel was when he first learned rules of chess. According to an article prepared over 50 years ago by Guido, a strong chess amateur himself, for the German paper Deutsche Schachzeitung, it occurred when Lionel was about 3-4 years old. The boy's first tutor was naturally his father, one of the strongest players in the university city of Dorpat, but as a schoolboy Lionel did not distinguish himself as a chess prodigy. After graduating from the gymnasium, following his brothers and other boys from their social class, he entered the university. First he studied philology, and then law, but he was mainly occupied with mathematics. However, he did not finish his studies and left the university in 1829. The same year, having passed a special exam, he started to work as a private teacher. After the university curator confirmed Lionel's qualifications, he devoted himself over the next 10 years to giving private lessons to children from the best families in Dorpat, developing his reputation as a most sought after and popular tutor. For several months he was also a teacher in Carl Raupach's private school. Along with his teaching duties Lionel was constantly improving his chess, and at the end of his university years he was the strongest player in Dorpat, and perhaps also in all of Kurland, Livland and Estland.
Lionel never established his own family; but lived with Guido and his sister Lydie in their parents' house. The habits and lifestyle of this trio was far from the normal patterns accepted by the middle class. Guido and Lydie never held a steady job, and renting part of the house was their only source of income during these years. Meanwhile, Lionel's chess fame was quickly growing throughout the province. For example, journals from both Livland and Petersburg avidly followed the progress of the correspondence encounter between Petersburg - Doormat. The loud theoretician and author Karl von Jaenisch lead the team of chess players from the Russian capital, while Kieseritzky conducted the game from the Livonian side.
Just at the moment when he was finding happiness in his life and achievements, a sharp turn occurred. Lionel had a delicate nature, and was easy to stimulate or provoke. Certain neighborhood wagging tongues (these types are found everywhere and always) began to whisper about the unconventional Kieseritzky household. Lionel became embroiled in a court case for libel as the plaintiff. He probably won the case (Note 2), but suddenly he was at risk of having to repeat the proceedings on appeal. With an aching heart, and following the advice of his friends, he decided to leave Livland. Before departing in May 1839, he organized a "living chess" exhibition in Morgenstern's garden. At the beginning of June he traveled to Riga, where he obtained a pass with a clause allowing him to come back to Russia within 3 years. However, before this period expired he prepared and sent by post a request to abdicate his Russian citizenship, so he was never able to visit the Russian governor general's office in Riga again.
Our research into Lionel's youth has clarified two previously uncertain points.
First, his trip across the continent was not quite voluntarily - he did not leave his family, city and country, because he was obsessively looking for chess fame. Kieseritzky was not a knight-errant of chess, such as later Steinitz, Zukertort, Janowski and others were. On the other hand, for obvious chess reasons he finally settled in France, which was in his imagination a kind of chess Eldorado, and not in the German countries. Here was a place much more suitable in terms of geographical distance, language and culture.
Second (and what a painful stroke to our Polish nationalism!), a "fact" repeated in chorus by many eminent authors that Lionel's father was Polish must be forgotten. Without a doubt, Kieseritzky was a citizen of the Russian Empire from a Baltic-German family, which settled down in Livland no later than the second half of the 18th century.
Nevertheless, we could not understand or accept the paradox of a Polish (Slavonic?) family name combined with his unknown descent. Therefore, backed by our experts, we created no less than 3 different theories; each can be taken as the starting point for new genealogical researches. We do not quote these suppositions here, since they are neither strictly scientific nor perhaps very interesting for non-Polish readers.
In Paris and London
After a week-long stay in Riga, Kieseritzky sailed on the ship "Lisette" to Rostock. Next, on wheels, he traveled to Hamburg, from where he was taken by the steamer "Paris" towards Le Havre. The weather was stormy and the voyage lasted 130 hours instead of usual 60. Departing Le Havre on the 1st of July by stagecoach, he passed through Bolbery, Rouen and Andelys - finally reaching Paris. There he rented a small but nice room in a pensioners home on rue de Lille 5; these modest accommodations cost Lionel 18 francs per month. In Paris the Hungarian Janos Lajos Hora (born 1812 in Budapest), a painter educated in Vienna, became Lionel's first close friend. Hora was a weak player but a good painter, whose works are still displayed in Hungarian galleries.
At last, in the summer of 1839, Kieseritzky visited the "Temple of Chess", the famous Café de la Regence. There he had the opportunity to play games with Charles de Labourdonnais, then the unofficial chess champion of the world. The newcomer was paralyzed by nervousness and de Labourdonnais won several games, giving odds of pawn and move and perhaps even the Queen's Knight, but soon Lionel developed a fighting style befitting the young Russian. Two games by Kieseritzky, a win and a loss against the strong local matador Boncourt, were printed in de Laboudonnais & Mery's journal Le Palamede. His Slavonic name "Kieseritzky" was obviously too difficult for those French journalists (as sometimes happens even today), and it was comically distorted and printed as "Zekeriski".
Readers may well ask at this point how it is possible that our story contains so many details. Is it a bluff or fantasy? After all, more than 150 years have come and gone....
Of course not. We are simply delivering a "first-hand" report! It happens that we know the contents of several private letters sent by Lionel from Paris to his brother Guido in Dorpat, covering the years 1839 to 1849. Guido Kieseritzky showed 16 of these letters to Friedrich Amelung in 1858, who was a citizen of Dorpat as well as a Baltic chess organizer and historian, now chiefly remembered as a skillful chess composer. Between 1889 and 1902 Amelung issued the German periodical Baltische Schachblaetter, and Heft number 2 from 1890 contained Kieseritzky's letters and several of his games.
We know from Lionel's correspondence that during his first months in Paris he intensively searched for a "normal" job. He intended to be a teacher of German language and mathematics. Unhappily he failed, perhaps because his knowledge of French was insufficient, or maybe due to his lack of recommendations. And how might a guest from some distant corner of Europe find in this French metropolis the necessary recommendations to be a teacher?
Chess was Lionel's "lifeboat" in those difficult days - chess players could (and still can!) communicate with few words. There were plenty of gamblers at the Café de la Regence who wanted to play a game, with a stake sometimes even higher than 5 francs. If sufficient games were won, a proper living could be made - perhaps the 25 francs per month required for food, drink, clothes and the newly rented room at rue Dauphine. After de Labourdonnais died in December 1840, it was clear that only a few local players could compete with Lionel.
His chess reputation grew, and he started to write short articles for the renowned Le Palamede. His games, perhaps not all quite sound, but full of sacrifices and rapid attacks, were printed by the English press. Step by step, chess became for Kieseritzky his single source of income, a quasi-profession, the subject of his reading and object of his lonely meditation.
One line from the King's Gambit Accepted, which rises after moves 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5, became a matter of special study, his beloved "child". It is true that the variation was known decades before Kieseritzky, but the Livonian player did so much to popularize it, that already by the mid-1840s a new name was in use all over Europe: the Kieseritzky Gambit.
Lionel was also a skillful problem composer. Starting usually from a practical position, he had no ability as a great innovator, as for example August d'Orville and Bernhard Horwitz, and should instead be considered an eminent representative of the "old school" - although many of his works are remarkable, and bear signs of originality.
In 1842 Kieseritzky is mentioned with 9 others as a member of the French team in a correspondence encounter Paris-Budapest. Long before the Frenchmen's sensational loss Kieseritzky distanced himself from the team, which was surely dominated by Saint-Amant, best known as Howard Staunton's opponent in 1843. This falling out was the first symptom of a growing conflict between Kieseritzky and Saint-Amant; obviously Paris was too small for two chess Kings. Perhaps Saint-Amant was jealous of Kieseritzky's popularity, for the latter's table at the Café de la Regence was always surrounded by a "corona" - a group of loud, impatient on-lookers. Kieseritzky was an expert in offhand games, but his real fame was due to his ability to play several games simultaneously blindfold, without sight of board and pieces. In April 1851 he surpassed Philidor's achievement of 3 games, giving a blindfold performance against Potier, Witcomb, Campbell and de Sivers (+3, -1).
Meanwhile Saint-Amant and his followers had the media in their hands (Le Palamede), and from time to time directed their pens against Kieseritzky. Alphonse Delannoy in 1844 published an article with the clear conclusion:
"Kieseritzky is a coward, he refused to play an official game against Saint-Amant" and that "he hides himself under explanations, the substance of which is inexplicable".
And again, when Kieseritzky edited the book Cinquante parties in 1846, using his own system of notation, Le Palamede blasted the novelty with some malicious remarks.
However, sympathy for Lionel seems to have been abundant. An important moment was the solemn meeting at the "Cercle", when Kieseritzky was endowed with a cheque for 500 francs and a gilded silver medal decorated with symbols "from physical and mathematical sciences" and inscribed: "Le Cercle des Echecs de la Regence a Mr. Kieseritzky, Paris 1846". This gift so much affected the sentimental master that, as he later wrote to his brother Guido, he left the room and started to cry.
In the summer of 1846 Kieseritzky undertook a journey to England. The main purpose was to promote Cinquante parties and its new "lexicographical" notation, but also Lionel wanted to demonstrate his mastery of blindfold play, and perhaps to fight against one of London's champions - maybe against Staunton himself?
But the "Giant of Three Kingdoms" (Note 3) preferred not to risk his reputation in a contest "for nothing". His seconds required a stake of 100 pounds from each side. Poor Kieseritzky did not possess even a quarter of that amount, while his London supporters were not ready to put their money into such a hazardous business. The champion from Paris had to be satisfied with a short match against G. Walker (+1, -2) and the longer one against B. Horwitz (+7, -4, =1) for 10 guineas presented here:
London Games
[Event "match"] [Site "London"] [Date "1846.??.??"] [Round "1"] [White "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Black "Horwitz, Bernhard"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C50"] [PlyCount "103"] [EventDate "1846.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "12"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 d6 4. d4 Bg4 5. c3 exd4 6. Qb3 Qd7 7. Bxf7+ Qxf7 8. Qxb7 Kd7 9. Nxd4 Nxd4 10. cxd4 Qc4 11. Nc3 Qc6 12. Qb3 Bh5 13. Be3 Nf6 14. O-O Be7 15. e5 Rab8 16. Qc2 Bg6 17. Qe2 Nd5 18. Qg4+ Kd8 19. Qf3 Nb4 20. d5 Qa6 21. exd6 Bxd6 22. Bg5+ Kc8 23. Qg4+ Kb7 24. a3 Nd3 25. b4 Ne5 26. Qh3 Qc4 27. Na4 Qg4 28. Qxg4 Nxg4 29. h3 Ne5 30. Be3 Be4 31. Nc3 Bg6 32. Bd4 Bf5 33. Rfe1 Rbe8 34. Re3 Ng6 35. g4 Rxe3 36. fxe3 Bd7 37. Bxg7 Rg8 38. Bh6 Be5 39. Rc1 Nh4 40. Ne4 Kb6 41. Nc5 Bc8 42. Nd3 Bd6 43. Kf2 Bg3+ 44. Kxg3 Nf5+ 45. Kf4 Nxh6 46. Rc6+ Kb5 47. Rxh6 Rf8+ 48. Ke4 Rf7 49. Kd4 Ka4 50. Ne5 Rg7 51. Nc4 Rd7 52. Rc6 1-0 [Event "match"] [Site "London"] [Date "1846.??.??"] [Round "2"] [White "Horwitz, Bernhard"] [Black "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C54"] [PlyCount "76"] [EventDate "1846.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "12"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. O-O O-O 7. b4 Bb6 8. a4 a5 9. b5 Ne7 10. Qb3 Ng6 11. Kh1 h6 12. Ra2 Bg4 13. Ng1 Qd7 14. f4 exf4 15. Bxf4 Nh5 16. Bc1 Ne5 17. d4 Nxc4 18. Qxc4 Rae8 19. Qd3 f5 20. Raf2 Rxe4 21. h3 f4 22. hxg4 Ng3+ 23. Kh2 Qxg4 24. Rxf4 Nxf1+ 25. Rxf1 Rxf1 26. Qxf1 Qh4+ 27. Nh3 Re1 28. Qc4+ Kf8 29. Bf4 Rxb1 30. Bxd6+ cxd6 31. Qc8+ Ke7 32. Qxb7+ Ke6 33. Qc8+ Kf6 34. Qf8+ Kg6 35. Qxd6+ Qf6 36. Qg3+ Kh7 37. Qd3+ Qg6 38. Qxg6+ Kxg6 0-1 [Event "match"] [Site "London"] [Date "1846.??.??"] [Round "3"] [White "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Black "Horwitz, Bernhard"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C28"] [PlyCount "52"] [EventDate "1846.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "12"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bc5 4. d3 Nc6 5. Be3 Bb4 6. Nf3 d5 7. exd5 Nxd5 8. Bxd5 Qxd5 9. O-O Bxc3 10. bxc3 Bg4 11. c4 Qe6 12. Ng5 Qd7 13. Qb1 b6 14. Qb2 h6 15. Ne4 f5 16. Nc3 f4 17. Bd2 f3 18. Rfe1 O-O 19. Nd5 fxg2 20. Re4 Nd4 21. Rxe5 Nf3+ 22. Kxg2 Nxd2 23. f4 Bf3+ 24. Kf2 Bxd5 25. Rg1 Bb7 26. Re6 Rxf4+ 0-1 [Event "match"] [Site "London"] [Date "1846.??.??"] [Round "4"] [White "Horwitz, Bernhard"] [Black "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C64"] [PlyCount "110"] [EventDate "1846.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "12"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Qd6 6. b4 Bxb4 7. c3 Ba5 8. Ba3 Qf6 9. d4 exd4 10. e5 Qg6 11. Nxd4 Bh3 12. Qf3 Bg4 13. Qg3 O-O-O 14. Nd2 Rxd4 15. cxd4 Bxd2 16. f4 Bf5 17. Bf8 Qxg3 18. hxg3 h5 19. Rf3 Be4 20. Ra3 a5 21. Rd1 Bb4 22. Bxb4 axb4 23. Ra8+ Kd7 24. Kf2 Bd5 25. Rb1 b6 26. f5 c5 27. Rb8 Be4 28. Re1 Bxf5 29. dxc5 bxc5 30. Rd1+ Kc6 31. Rdd8 Be6 32. Ra8 h4 33. gxh4 Rxh4 34. Rxg8 g6 35. a4 b3 36. Rh8 b2 37. Rxh4 b1=Q 38. Rhh8 Qb2+ 39. Kf1 Bc4+ 40. Kg1 Qd4+ 41. Kh1 Qa1+ 42. Kh2 Qxe5+ 43. Kg1 Qe3+ 44. Kh2 Qf4+ 45. Kg1 Qf1+ 46. Kh2 Bd5 47. Kg3 Qxg2+ 48. Kf4 Qe4+ 49. Kg5 Qe3+ 50. Kf6 Qd4+ 51. Kg5 Qe5+ 52. Kh6 g5 53. Kh7 Qe4+ 54. Kg7 Qg6+ 55. Kf8 f6 0-1 [Event "match"] [Site "London"] [Date "1846.??.??"] [Round "5"] [White "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Black "Horwitz, Bernhard"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A82"] [PlyCount "111"] [EventDate "1846.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "12"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. d4 d6 2. e4 f5 3. exf5 Bxf5 4. Qf3 Qc8 5. Bc4 Nf6 6. Bg5 Bxc2 7. Nh3 Qg4 8. Qxg4 Nxg4 9. Be6 Nf6 10. Na3 Be4 11. O-O Bd5 12. Nf4 Bxe6 13. Nxe6 Kd7 14. Rfe1 Na6 15. Rac1 c6 16. Rc3 Nb4 17. Rb3 Nfd5 18. Nc4 b5 19. Nxf8+ Rhxf8 20. Rxb4 bxc4 21. Rxc4 Rab8 22. b3 e6 23. Bd2 Nb6 24. Rc3 Rf5 25. g4 Rd5 26. Re4 Rf8 27. f4 h6 28. h4 h5 29. Kg2 hxg4 30. Rg3 Rdf5 31. Rxg4 R8f7 32. Rg5 Nd5 33. Rxf5 Rxf5 34. Kg3 a5 35. Re2 Nf6 36. Kf3 c5 37. Rg2 Nh5 38. dxc5 Rxc5 39. Rg5 Rxg5 40. hxg5 a4 41. bxa4 g6 42. Bc3 Kc6 43. a5 e5 44. fxe5 Ng7 45. exd6 Ne6 46. a6 Nxg5+ 47. Kf4 Ne6+ 48. Ke5 Nc5 49. a7 Kb7 50. Bd4 Nd3+ 51. Ke6 Nb4 52. d7 Nc6 53. Kd5 Ne7+ 54. Kd6 Nf5+ 55. Ke6 Nxd4+ 56. Kd5 1-0 [Event "match"] [Site "London"] [Date "1846.??.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Horwitz, Bernhard"] [Black "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C45"] [PlyCount "48"] [EventDate "1846.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "12"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nf5 g6 6. Ne3 d6 7. Bd3 Nf6 8. Nc3 Ng4 9. O-O Qh4 10. h3 Nxf2 11. Rxf2 Bxe3 12. Qf3 Bxf2+ 13. Qxf2 Qxf2+ 14. Kxf2 f5 15. Nd5 fxe4 16. Bxe4 O-O+ 17. Kg3 Rf7 18. Bh6 Bf5 19. Bf3 Nd4 20. c3 Nxf3 21. gxf3 c6 22. Ne3 Re8 23. Nc4 Re6 24. h4 Rfe7 0-1 [Event "match"] [Site "London"] [Date "1846.??.??"] [Round "7"] [White "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Black "Horwitz, Bernhard"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C42"] [PlyCount "74"] [EventDate "1846.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "12"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nxe4 4. d3 Nf6 5. Nxe5 d5 6. Qe2 Be6 7. Bb3 Bd6 8. f4 O-O 9. O-O Nbd7 10. Nc3 Bc5+ 11. Kh1 Nxe5 12. fxe5 Ng4 13. Bf4 c6 14. Ne4 dxe4 15. Bxe6 Nf2+ 16. Rxf2 Bxf2 17. Bb3 Qd4 18. Rf1 e3 19. g3 Rad8 20. Bg5 Rd7 21. e6 fxe6 22. Bxe6+ Kh8 23. Qxe3 Qxe3 24. Bxe3 Re7 25. Bc5 Rxe6 26. Bxf8 Re2 27. Kg2 Bd4+ 28. Kh3 Rxc2 29. Ba3 h6 30. Kg4 Bxb2 31. Bd6 Bf6 32. h4 Rxa2 33. Kf5 Kh7 34. Ke6 Rd2 35. Rf3 a5 36. Kd7 Rc2 37. d4 Bxd4 0-1 [Event "match"] [Site "London"] [Date "1846.??.??"] [Round "8"] [White "Horwitz, Bernhard"] [Black "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C44"] [PlyCount "45"] [EventDate "1846.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "12"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 4. d4 Nxe4 5. dxe5 d5 6. Bb5 Bc5 7. O-O O-O 8. Bxc6 bxc6 9. Nd4 Ba6 10. Re1 Qh4 11. Be3 Rae8 12. Nf5 Bxe3 13. Nxh4 Bxf2+ 14. Kh1 Bxh4 15. Rxe4 dxe4 16. Qg4 Be7 17. Qxe4 Bb7 18. Nd2 Kh8 19. Qa4 Bc5 20. Re1 Re6 21. Nf3 Rfe8 22. Ng5 R6e7 23. Qc4 1-0 [Event "match"] [Site "London"] [Date "1846.??.??"] [Round "9"] [White "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Black "Horwitz, Bernhard"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C42"] [PlyCount "81"] [EventDate "1846.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "12"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nxe4 4. d3 Nf6 5. Nxe5 d5 6. Qe2 Be6 7. Bb3 c6 8. f4 Be7 9. O-O g6 10. Nd2 Nbd7 11. Ndf3 Nc5 12. Be3 a5 13. c3 Nxb3 14. axb3 O-O 15. Rae1 Ne8 16. Ng5 Bxg5 17. fxg5 Ng7 18. g4 f5 19. gxf6 Rxf6 20. Bh6 Rxf1+ 21. Rxf1 Qb6+ 22. d4 Re8 23. Qf2 Qd8 24. h4 Rf8 25. Qxf8+ Qxf8 26. Rxf8+ Kxf8 27. Kf2 Kg8 28. Bxg7 Kxg7 29. Kf3 Kf6 30. Nd3 b6 31. Kf4 h6 32. g5+ hxg5+ 33. hxg5+ Kg7 34. Ke5 Bf5 35. Nf4 Bc2 36. Kd6 Bxb3 37. Kxc6 Kf7 38. Kxb6 a4 39. Kc5 Ke7 40. Nxg6+ Ke6 41. Ne5 1-0 [Event "match"] [Site "London"] [Date "1846.??.??"] [Round "10"] [White "Horwitz, Bernhard"] [Black "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C51"] [PlyCount "39"] [EventDate "1846.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "12"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Bd6 6. O-O Qe7 7. d4 Nd8 8. dxe5 Bxe5 9. Nxe5 Qxe5 10. Qd3 Nf6 11. f4 Qxe4 12. Qxe4+ Nxe4 13. Re1 f5 14. Nd2 Ne6 15. Nxe4 fxe4 16. Rxe4 g6 17. Ba3 Kf7 18. Rf1 d6 19. g4 Rg8 20. Rfe1 1-0 [Event "match"] [Site "London"] [Date "1846.??.??"] [Round "11"] [White "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Black "Horwitz, Bernhard"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "A85"] [PlyCount "134"] [EventDate "1846.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "12"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. d4 f5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 Be7 5. e3 b6 6. Bd3 Bb7 7. b3 g6 8. Bb2 c5 9. d5 exd5 10. Nxd5 O-O 11. Be2 Nxd5 12. cxd5 d6 13. h4 Bf6 14. Bxf6 Qxf6 15. Ng5 h6 16. Ne6 Rf7 17. Rc1 Na6 18. Bxa6 Bxa6 19. Rh3 Re8 20. Qd2 Bb7 21. Rg3 Rfe7 22. Qc3 Kf7 23. Kf1 Rg8 24. Qxf6+ Kxf6 25. Rd1 Ke5 26. f3 Bxd5 27. Nf4 Bf7 28. Kf2 d5 29. Nd3+ Kd6 30. f4 Re4 31. Ne5 Rxe5 32. fxe5+ Kxe5 33. Rf3 Be6 34. Rh3 Rc8 35. Rhh1 b5 36. Rc1 c4 37. Rhd1 a5 38. Rd4 b4 39. Ke2 a4 40. Kd2 axb3 41. axb3 Ra8 42. Rc2 Ra3 43. bxc4 dxc4 44. Rd8 c3+ 45. Kd3 Bb3 46. Rc1 Ra2 47. Re8+ Be6 48. Rc2 Ra7 49. Rb8 Ra4 50. Rc1 Ra2 51. Rxb4 Rd2+ 52. Kxc3 Rxg2 53. Ra1 Rg3 54. Ra5+ Kf6 55. Kd3 g5 56. Ke2 Rh3 57. Ra6 Rh2+ 58. Kf3 Rh3+ 59. Kf2 Rxh4 60. Rxh4 gxh4 61. Kf3 h3 62. Kg3 h5 63. Rb6 h4+ 64. Kh2 Ke5 65. Rb4 Bd5 66. Rxh4 Bg2 67. Kg3 Bf1 1/2-1/2 [Event "match"] [Site "London"] [Date "1846.??.??"] [Round "12"] [White "Horwitz, Bernhard"] [Black "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C51"] [PlyCount "62"] [EventDate "1846.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "12"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. O-O d6 7. d4 exd4 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. Bb2 Nf6 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. d5 Ne7 12. Bxf6 gxf6 13. Nh4 Ng6 14. Qh5 Qe7 15. Nf5 Bxf5 16. exf5 Ne5 17. Rae1 Rae8 18. Re4 Kg7 19. Rh4 Rh8 20. Qh6+ Kg8 21. Rh3 Ng4 22. Qf4 h5 23. Rg3 Kf8 24. h3 Qe5 25. Qxe5 Nxe5 26. Bb3 h4 27. Rc3 Ba5 28. Rc2 Rg8 29. Kh2 Bb6 30. f4 Nd3 31. Rc3 Re2 0-1
In addition, Lionel played dozens of off-hand games and several blindfold, naturally visiting the most famous English chess salon of the 19th century, the "Cigar Divan" on the Strand.
The year 1848 was filled with important events. In July rebellious workers raised the barricades in Paris, but after several days the forces of General Louis Cavaignac suppressed all resistance from the badly armed rebels. Lionel described those dramatic days in a letter to Lydia:
"Meine liebe theure Schwester! Meine Lebensweise ist einfach. In den Junitagen habe ich nichts zu leiden gehabt, ausser, dass ich fuenf Naechte in der Regence geschlafen oder vielmehr gewacht habe. Nach Hause konnte ich nicht gehen, - die Communication war sehr schwierig, selbst am Tage, so dass ich am Sontag, den 25. Juni, ueber eine halbe Stunde brauchte, um vom Cafe de la Regence nach der Rue Dauphine zu gehen, wozu ich sonst nur 8 bis 10 Minuten brauche. Nur am Montag Abend hatte ich einen kleinem Schreck. Gefangene hatten sich auf dem Carousselplatz losgemacht und bei der Gelegenheit wurde hin und her geschossen, sogar vor dem Cafe, so dass ungefaehr 40 bis 50 Menschen ihr Leben verloren. Ich habe die ganze Nacht bei einem Verwunndeten gewacht und Charpie gezupft. - Jetzt is Alles wieder ruhig. Gott gebe, dass es besser werden moege....Dein treuer Bruder Lionel"
The most important chess event of the year was his match with Henry T. Buckle, a self-taught genius, whose intellectual powers and profound erudition were displayed in his book The History of Civilisation in England (London 1857). In the late 1840s Buckle was one of the best English players (behind Staunton) along with Boden, Williams, Walker and Evans. This time the question of a monetary stake was not decisive because Buckle, a financially independent gentleman, played chess only for amusement. Kieseritzky overlooked an easy win in one of the last games (a Bishop versus Knight ending) and lost the fight +2, -3, =3.
In 1849 Lionel's hopes seemed to revive. Mr Vieille, the owner of Cercle des Echecs and Café de la Regence, formerly the main shareholder of Le Palamede, appointed Kieseritzky as editor of a new chess monthly. Lionel accepted the commission and named the paper La Regence. Despite the only moderate success of his book Cinquante parties he persisted in using his own notation system once again. This provoked a stream of complaints from everywhere; French readers were accustomed to the good old (and quite extended) descriptive system, while the Germans and English trusted their own notations and did not wish to study the complex Kieseritzky system. Deutsche Schachzeitung in 1850 published an article by Karl Jeanisch, in which Kieseritzky's old rival dedicated 14 pages(!) discussing the weak points of this innovation. Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, we must confirm the view that Kieseritzky's obscure notation was one of the main reasons that La Regence collapsed.
In the January 1850 issue Kieseritzky published a letter from Louisiana in North America: Mr. Ernest Morphy informed the readers that his 12-year-old nephew Paul was demonstrating extraordinary ability in chess. Notes by Kieseritzky to one of the games, in which the prodigy had sacrificed a Knight and crushed Mr. R. (Rousseau?), were very flattering.
By the next year the magazine was gone. In January 1851 La Regence published an extensive article by Saint-Amant - two months after Aron Alexandre died (1765?-1850) in England, the first Encyclopedist of Chess. Alexandre was the author of two fundamental works: Encyclopedie des Echecs ou Reseme comparatif ne tableaux synoptiques des meilleurs ouvrages ecrits ce jeu par les auteurs francais et etrangers (Paris 1837), and Collection des plus beaux problemes d'echecs (Paris 1846), the latter containing several Kieseritzky compositions. Saint-Amant regretted the destitute and lonely end of Alexandre's life, and appealed to the chess world to found a sculpture of the late master.
The fate of Alexandre can be taken as a type for Kieseritzky himself; as a chess veteran with no family support and no reliable profession, he was perfectly dependent upon his results over the chessboard. But Lionel, who passed only 45 years in this life, certainly did not think a lot about his future and eventual decline. In fact, he was at this time fully absorbed with preparations for the Big Tournament in London, the first international tournament in the modern history of chess.
This event raised and then dashed the hopes of many. Several strong players could not visit London in the summer of 1851, and especially noted was the absence of Calvi (Italy), Schoumoff and Petroff (Russia), Saint-Amant (France), von der Lasa (Prussia) and Schulten (USA-Germany), while von Jaenisch (Russia) could not take part due to his late arrival. Worse yet, the English players were disorganized by a schism. The two leading circles of St. George's Club and the London Chess Club were in a permanent state of war, and representatives of latter such as Walker, Perigal, Mongredien and Daniel Harrwitz boycotted the competition.
The Big Tournament was fatal for Kieseritzky. In the first round he had to face the formidable Adolf Anderssen along with the "KO" system of rules. After a quick loss in the first game Lionel exerted all his energy for game two and was very close to success:
[Event "?"] [Site "London"] [Date "1851.05.29"] [Round "2"] [White "Anderssen, Adolf"] [Black "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "C39"] [Annotator "Lissowski & Macieja"] [PlyCount "110"] [EventDate "1851.??.??"] [EventType "k.o."] [EventRounds "8"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 h5 6. Bc4 Rh7 7. d4 d6 8. Nd3 f3 9. g3 Be6 10. d5 Bc8 11. e5 dxe5 12. Nxe5 Bd6 13. Bf4 Ne7 14. O-O Bf5 15. Nc3 Nd7 16. Nxd7 Qxd7 17. Bb5 c6 18. dxc6 Bc5+ 19. Kh2 bxc6 20. Bd3 Bxd3 21. cxd3 f5 22. Re1 Rd8 23. Qa4 f2 24. Re2 Kf8 25. Be3 Bxe3 26. Rxe3 Qd4 27. Qxd4 Rxd4 28. Rf1 f4 29. Rxf2 Nf5 30. Ne2 Rf7 31. Re5 fxg3+ 32. Nxg3 Nxg3 33. Rxf7+ Kxf7 34. Kxg3 Rxd3+ 35. Kf4 Rd4+ 36. Kg3 Rd5 37. Re3 Kf6 38. Rc3 c5 39. Ra3 Kf5 40. Rxa7 Rd3+ 41. Kf2 Rd2+ 42. Kg3 Rxb2 43. Rg7 c4 44. Rg5+ Ke4 45. Rxh5 c3 46. Rc5 Kd3 47. Kxg4 Rb4+ 48. Kg5 Rc4 49. Rd5+ Ke2 50. Re5+ Kf2 51. Rb5 Kg3 $2 ({After a long struggle Black has obtained a winning position. He should play} 51... c2 $1 $19 {but instead the game went as follows.}) 52. Rb1 $2 Rc5+ 53. Kf6 Kf4 $4 (53... Kxh4 {still wins.}) 54. Rc1 Ke4 55. a4 ({Many sources, including H. von Gottschall's "Adolf Anderssen" erroneously give} 55. Rxc3 {"with a draw"; in fact, that would be a losing blunder.}) 55... Rc4 1/2-1/2
Yet he failed to carry the full point! At this critical moment in his career, what was it that Kieseritzky lacked? An ability to play Rook endgames? Physical stamina? Patience and concentration? Or was he simply unlucky - did not Napoleon often repeat that a general must be lucky!?
In the third game Kieseritzky played as if condemned to death. He repeated the variation from their first game (1.e5 c5 and then 2.b3) and, in a state of abnormal nervousness, made several mistakes and surrendered after only 17 moves. Anderssen in the following rounds easily defeated Szen (+4, -2) and Staunton (+4, -1), beating in the final round the underestimated Wyvill (+4, =1, -2).
Therefore Kieseritzky won no prize. He searched for consolation in off-hand games, where his results were more reliable. He won the majority against Bird, Perigal, Mayet, Szen, Buckle, Mongredien and others, Anderssen included. Of the several games played against the German Master we have already quoted that from June 21st, the well known "Immortal" game, the starting point of our story.
The ambitious London Club soon arranged for its players to observe a new chess competition:
"Ein Zweites Turnier in London. Der London - Club hat ein neues Turnier angeordnet, welches den 28. Juli beginnen sollte. Der Sieger empfaengt den grossen silbernen Pokal im Werthe von 100 Guineen. Die Kaempfer sind: Anderssen, Loewenthal, Deacon, Lowe, Harrwitz, Meierhofer, Horwitz, Sabo, Kling. Von diesem 9 Combattanten wird jeder mit jedem eine Partie spielen; wer zuletzt die meisten Partieen gewonnen hat, erhealt den Preis." Berliner Schachzeitung 1851, p. 277.
Actually, Kling and Loewenthal were replaced by Kieseritzky and Ehrmann from Strasbourg. Not all the games of this little-known tournament were played, and therefore the event could be called unfinished, but...a winner was declared! As commonly expected it was Anderssen, who scored 7 points in 7 games (one draw with Horwitz was replayed). Kieseritzky, who had already came back to Paris, returned after receiving Mr. Augustus Mongredien's letter.
Once again the committee made a serious mistake in setting the rules. Only one prize was offered, so after Anderssen started to win one game after another, his rivals withdrew in a mass. Kieseritzky was able to conclude 3 games, winning against Szabo and (rather unexpectedly) losing to Mayerhoffer and Anderssen. In his encounter with the favored German Kieseritzky played the White pieces. Again a Sicilian Defense, and again disastrously weak play from the French representative, who lost a piece after only 11 moves. It is merely speculation, but we deeply believe that in those days Lionel Kieseritzky's sad fate was determined.
We know few details of what happened to Lionel after his return from London. English and German papers offer only a few notes in reference to the last months of Kieseritzky's life:
"From a letter just received from Berlin we hear that Messrs. Staunton and Kieseritzky are expected there shortly; the former to play his match with Mr. Anderssen, the latter to test the strength of the Berlin players". The Chess Player, 18 Oct. 1851, p. 110.
In fact, Berlin did not get the chance to observe both heroes. In the November 1851 issue of La Regence Kieseritzky announced the match Paris vs. London by "electric telegraph under the sea". The event fell through. The next issue for December was the last. The magazine had too few subscribers and was closed, so that France lacked a professional chess periodical for over 10 years.
Information for the years 1852-1853 is extremely scarce, and only a few games are recorded. Perhaps Lionel was consumed by his new passion: three-dimensional chess. He showed Anderssen his new invention while still in London, but the German Master showed complete indifference:
"Eines Tages, als ich mit ihm im Salon des Hotel, das wir gemeinschaftlich bewohnten, zusammentraf, nahm er mich geheimnisvoll beim Arm und lud mich ein., ihm in sein Zimmer zu folgen, wo mir ein hoher Genuss bevorstuende. Dort angekommen, wies er nach der Decke, wo ich einen Gegenstand haegen sah, der nach Inhalt und Form mit einem Vogelbauer Aehnlichkeit hatte. Er liess mich nicht lange auf die Loesung des Raetsels warten. Was ueber mich schwebte, war nichts geringeres, als das einfachste 'Matt im Raume' bei umfassender Wirksamkeit der mattsetzenden Dame. Ich war der erste und einzige in London, dem er dieses Mysterium offenbarte, und doch haette er sich keinen Unwuerdigeren aussuchen koennen; denn ich begriff von seiner ganzen Erklaerung kein Wort, ohne das Beduerfnis nach naeherem Aufschluss zu fuehlen." Von Gottschall, Adolf Anderssen, p. 102.
The following quote must be taken as an echo of Kieseritzky's last attempt to change his fortunes:
"In Paris, the Café de la Regence has recently sustained the loss of its most powerful chess player, by the departure of Mr. Kieseritzky for his native country, Livonia". British Chess Review, 1853, p. 30.
It is true that Lionel's destiny was to leave Paris very soon and forever, but not to start a new chess tournament, not to spend the holidays in the country, nor even to return to his distant, native Dorpat. The Highest Referee had already counted the last days, hours and minutes of Kieseritzky's terrestrial game. Soon European lovers of chess received the bad news:
"It is with feelings of deep regret that we have to announce the decease of the one of the most eminent players in Europe - Mr. Kieseritzky. It appears that he had been laboring under mental derangement for several months, which may partly have been caused by the too frequent practise of playing 'blindfold', for which he was so celebrated". British Chess Review, 1853, p. 191.
The English chess writer and journalist R. N. Coles for many years conducted a column titled "One Hundred Years Ago" in the British Chess Magazine. In 1953 on page 137, unhappily without giving the source, he reprinted the following text, which ought to be studied carefully:
"With profound regret we have to record the death of the celebrated Herr Kieseritzkij, so long the ornament and pet of the Paris Chess Club, and one of the most brilliant players of the day. From various distressing causes he had for many months previously been obliged to abandon all attendance at the club, his intellect having become affected, till at length friends deemed it advisable to place him in that receptacle of the afflicted, the Hotel de Dieu, in which he breathed his last on May 18th. The authorities of the Hotel de Dieu applied to the Paris chess-players to bury him by a small subscription, but this was so ill-responded to that poor Kieseritzkij was given the burial of a pauper. Truth is, the Paris players are broken up, the club all but gone and the band who should keep alive the sacred fire without head or permanent locale. The Café de la Regence is to come down, its site being required for building improvements."
A careful trace shows that the quotation was taken from G. Walker, the same writer and player who defeated Kieseritzky in their match in 1846 and who for many decades was one of the main English chess journalists. Yes or no, numerous modern chess encyclopedias (for example, A. Sunnucks' work, London 1970) pass on the story that the Hotel de Dieu, a famous Paris hospital and poorhouse, was Kieseritzky's last asylum. Is it true?
We are sorry to say no. We searched for confirmation by writing to the Service Documentation et Archives of Paris Hospitals. In her letter from the 1st of September 1994 Mme. Velerie Poinsotte wrote us:
"(...) je vous informe gue nous n'avons pas trouve d'admission ou de deces entre le 1er janvier et fin 1853 dans les registres de l'Hotel-Dieu au nom de Lionel Kieseritzky".
Only a second request sent to the same address solved the enigma, one of so many in the biography of this Baltic chessplayer. We were informed that Kieseritzky died in "La Charite" hospital, and that the diagnosis was hemiplegia. A serious dysfunction of the brain (ramollissement du cerveau) was the direct cause of death after 45 days in the hospital. No record in reference to any funeral probably means that the poor, sick and lonely Livonian master was buried in a common grave.
Kieseritzky's Favorite Variations
A) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5
The Kieseritzky Gambit
B) 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 b5 (or 3...Qh4+ 4.Kf1 b5)
The Bryan Countergambit
C) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.d3
The Fried Liver Attack
D) 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.c4
French Defense, Exchange Variation
E) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Nxe4 4.Qe2 Qe7 5.Qxe4 d6
The Petroff Defense, Damiano Variation
F) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Bd6 6.d4 Nf6
Evans Gambit, Stone-Ware Variation (Editor's note: Pillsbury used this variation to good effect in the Hastings 1895 tournament!)
G) 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e4 f5
Queen's Gambit Accepted, Schwartz Defense
Examples of Kieseritzky's Creative Work
[Event "match"] [Site "Paris"] [Date "1839.??.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Boncourt"] [Black "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C54"] [PlyCount "46"] [EventDate "1839.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventCountry "FRA"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. e5 d5 7. exf6 dxc4 8. fxg7 Rg8 9. Bg5 f6 10. Qe2+ Qe7 11. Bxf6 Qxe2+ 12. Kxe2 d3+ 13. Kd1 Bg4 14. h3 Bxf3+ 15. gxf3 Kf7 16. Nd2 Kxf6 17. Ne4+ Kxg7 18. Nxc5 Ne5 19. f4 Nf3 20. Ne6+ Kf7 21. Ng5+ Nxg5 22. fxg5 Rxg5 23. Kd2 Re8 {[And Black wins.]} 0-1 [Event "offhand"] [Site "Paris"] [Date "1850.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Schulten, John William"] [Black "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C33"] [PlyCount "36"] [EventDate "1850.??.??"] [EventType "game"] [EventCountry "FRA"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 b5 5. Bxb5 Nf6 6. Nc3 Ng4 7. Nh3 Nc6 8. Nd5 Nd4 9. Nxc7+ Kd8 10. Nxa8 f3 $1 11. d3 f6 12. Bc4 d5 13. Bxd5 Bd6 14. Qe1 fxg2+ 15. Kxg2 Qxh3+ $1 16. Kxh3 Ne3+ 17. Kh4 Nf3+ 18. Kh5 Bg4# 0-1 [Event "offhand"] [Site "Paris"] [Date "1844.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Black "Dumoncheau"] [Result "1-0"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "2kr1b1r/pp2p3/2n1P1p1/3N3p/2BP4/3KBQ1P/PPP4q/6Rn w - - 0 1"] [PlyCount "7"] [EventDate "1844.??.??"] [EventType "game"] [EventCountry "FRA"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. Bf4 Qxg1 2. Nb6+ axb6 3. Qxc6+ bxc6 4. Ba6# {[Kieseritzky's Mate!]} 1-0 [Event "offhand"] [Site "Paris"] [Date "1849.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Black "Schweig"] [Result "1-0"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/pp2k1q1/5NP1/6K1/6R1/8/8/8 w - - 0 1"] [PlyCount "9"] [EventDate "1849.??.??"] [EventType "game"] [EventCountry "FRA"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. Re4+ Kd8 2. Re8+ Kc7 3. Rg8 Qe7 4. Rg7 $1 Qxg7 5. Ne8+ 1-0
Two Problems by Kieseritzky
[Event "Mate in Four"] [Site ""Le Palamede""] [Date "1842.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Black "1"] [Result "*"] [Annotator "Charushin, V."] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/6p1/Rp6/pP6/B2pN3/5P2/4p1P1/4k1K1 w - - 0 1"] [PlyCount "7"] [EventDate "1842.??.??"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. Ra8 d3 $1 2. Rh8 d2 ({Or} 2... g5 3. Rh1 g4 4. Kh2#) 3. Rh1 d1=Q 4. Kh2# * [Event "Mate in Eleven"] [Site ""Le Palamede""] [Date "1842.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Kieseritzky, Lionel"] [Black "2"] [Result "*"] [Annotator "Charushin, V."] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "4N3/P2ppN2/3QB1p1/2pR2p1/b1p1k1p1/3rpR2/B3PP2/K7 w - - 0 1"] [PlyCount "21"] [EventDate "1842.??.??"] [EventCountry "FRA"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.10.04"] 1. Bf5+ gxf5 2. Rf4+ gxf4 3. f3+ gxf3 4. exd3+ cxd3 5. Rd4+ cxd4 6. a8=B+ Bc6 7. Bxc6+ dxc6 8. Bd5+ cxd5 9. Nf6+ exf6 10. Qe5+ fxe5 11. Ng5# {["Tamerlan's Iron Cage"!]} *
1) Zagadka Kieseritzky'ego (The Mystery of Kieseritzky), Tomasz Lissowski and Bartlomiej Macieja, Warszawa 1996, 300 pages, ca 170 games, with diagrams, maps, drawings etc.
2) In this chapter we used extensively the contents of Friedrich Amelungs paper: Baltische Schachblaetter. In Heft 2, page 64 he wrote: "The records of the proceedings are still available, and now we only can point out, that [L. K.] won the case."
A certain Estonian chess amateur, who wishes to remain anonymous and who several times assisted in the preparation of the book, visited Tartu (formerly Dorpat) in the summer of 1995 in order to check the archives of Tartusian courts. He was surprised and disappointed not to find in any archive any records connected with Lionel Kieseritzky.
Also in the University archives, which is complete and well maintained, he noted the absence of Lionel's file, while the files of many students - members of Kieseritzky family, for example - were in their proper places. We are not able to explain this phenomenon. We cannot say whether the missing documents will be ever found.
3) Alphonse Delannoy on Staunton in Le Palamede 1846.
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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The task that faced Tyree Mayfield, Austin Fort and Josh Harshman last season was a simple but unenviable one: make up for Jacob Hollister's production.
Hollister, now a tight end with the New England Patriots, caught 32 balls for 515 yards and seven touchdowns in 2016 en route to first-team all-Mountain West honors. As a unit, the Wyoming tight ends caught 40 balls for 598 yards and seven scores that year.
LARAMIE — It takes more than one player to replace a quarterback like Josh Allen. So with Wyoming's junior starter sidelined Saturday for the first time since 2015, the Cowboys dialed up some new plays offensively to lend a hand to backup Nick Smith.
Wyoming used a wildcat formation at times in the 13-7 loss to Fresno State, snapping the ball directly to receiver Austin Conway or tight end Austin Fort.
LARAMIE — Feather River College has an athletic backup quarterback this season. He's about 6-foot-4, 230 pounds and played point guard in high school.
Nick Goulet, first-year head coach at the Quincy, California, junior college, wanted to find a way to get that athleticism on the field. So last week the Golden Eagles' staff installed a set of plays from Goulet's days as the offensive coordinator at Chabot (California) College.
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Austin Fort's first career reception took a while to arrive.
Fort missed the first five games of the season with a knee injury. In his first game back, he wasn't targeted. The first four passes thrown his way Saturday at Boise State didn't do the trick, either. One was thrown behind him, and another was intercepted.
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BOISE - The Boise State football team holds a 10-7 lead over Wyoming in the third quarter at Albertsons Stadium.
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Beluga deaths at Vancouver Aquarium a mystery
Published On November 30, 2016 | By frederique | News
By: Alana MacLeod
Never in its 60-year history has the Vancouver Aquarium seen the death of two beluga whales, any whales for that matter, in only two weeks.
Police are now involved in the investigation involving Aurora and her calf, Qila — and the mystery has sparked renewed discussion about keeping animals, specifically whales, in captivity.
Scientists are examining the food the whales were given, checking for infection and even investigating whether they were poisoned.
The mystery has sparked renewed discussion about keeping animals, specifically whales, in captivity.
"It's all just speculation," Andrew Trites, University of British Columbia mammal researcher told Humber News.
"My first thought is probably something viral, some sort of virus," he said. "They both had the same symptoms. Seems like they passed it on to each other," he said, adding "just a pure guess, nothing to substantiate it."
Trites has done research at the Vancouver Aquarium and worked with male belugas there a few years ago.
"Belugas have the most personality," he said. "They can turn their necks and look at you. They have a permanent smile on their faces. They just seem to be able to connect with people, which is why I think people are so shocked."
On Monday, a scientific investigation was launched to try and find out what happened to Aurora and Qila.
Questions about Vancouver Aquarium's care for their animals have surfaced.
When asked if inhabitants in the Vancouver Aquarium are well taken care of, Trites responded with "without question, yes."
The Vancouver Aquarium website says it does not purchase its cetaceans.
"In 1996, Vancouver Aquarium became the first aquarium in the world to make a commitment to no longer capture cetaceans from the wild for display," its website says.
The website also says the last whale or dolphin collected by the Aquarium happened in 1990 and actually was one of the belugas to just pass away, Aurora.
"That same whale, Aurora, contributes to our knowledge of wild belugas, including ground breaking research, which investigates the impact of boat noise on beluga vocalizations and how it affects the ability of beluga moms and calves to call each other. This is especially important in light of the shrinking ice cover and impending increase in shipping traffic in the Arctic."
However, many online activists, such as No Whales in Captivity, say the Aquarium purchased three dolphins in 2005.
This isn't the first time the Vancouver Aquarium has faced controversy.
In 2014, the captivity of cetaceans and the breeding practices within their facilities were questioned and resulted in an official review of the facility.
Animal Welfare groups have responded to the recent beluga deaths asking that the captivity of cetaceans in the Vancouver Aquarium come to an end.
At a Vancouver Park Board meeting Monday night, a motion about cetaceans in captivity was brought forward by Chair member Sarah Kirby-Yung. It will be discussed early next year.
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Still in Cornwall… the previous day's rain gave way to sunshine and we made the two hour drive from Liskeard, where we were staying, to the tin mines at Botallack.
Tin was mined here from the 1500s until 1895 when the mines closed. There were tunnels extending up to half a mile under the sea. The mines are now protected by the National Trust.
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Annal: 2004 Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music
Results of the Anthony Asquith Award in the year 2004.
Cold Mountain: Music From The Motion Picture
2004 BAFTA-Music winner
2004 Golden Globe-Score nominee
2004 Oscar-Score nominee
Director Anthony Minghella's take on Charles Frazier's bestselling novel is powered by wistful romanticism and a dramatic structure that's been compared to Homer's Odyssey. That latter creative tack parallels the Coens' O Brother, Where Art Thou in crucial ways, and is further enhanced by another T-Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack of Appalachian-inflected folk traditionals, sympathetic originals by diverse songwriters (Elvis Costello and Sting), and a core of gritty performances (the White Stripe's Jack White and Alison Krauss) that rise above mere…
The Girl with a Pearl Earring: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2004 BAFTA-Music nominee
Kill Bill: Volume 1 Original Soundtrack
The RZA, Various Artists
Fashion be damned: Pop culture is just one big Hometown Buffet for writer-director Quentin Tarantino. Nowhere has that sensibility been more apparent than on his hand-picked soundtrack choices, and this oft tongue-in-cheek tale of a female assassin's revenge (his first film in six years) is no exception. With dizzy, almost palpable glee, Tarantino evokes the international hall-of-mirrors influences that energize martial arts films and much of Asian pop culture in general. Thus the hip-hop of Wu Tang's RZA (who, along with composer Charles Bernstein, concocts what…
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Music from the Motion Picture
2004 Golden Globe-Score winner
2004 Oscar-Score winner
This final chapter of Peter Jackson's sprawling adaptation of Tolkien's "Ring" trilogy closes out one of the most accomplished cycles in cinema—and film music—history. As he's done for the saga's first two installments, composer Howard Shore has honed a mature, brooding orchestral masterpiece that's long on subtle shadings of mood and nuance, while eschewing the hollow bombast that's characterized all too many mainstream action and adventure films for three decades. If anything, he's pared this chapter of his music for Middle Earth even closer to the bone, the…
Lost in Translation: Music from the Motion Picture
Brian Reitzell, Kevin Shields
Sofia Coppola has, with two elegant movies, proved herself a talented director with a keen eye for interior life. She's also got great ears. For Lost in Translation, the story of a May to December friendship in Tokyo between two displaced Americans, the score is a tonic for jetlag. Coppola prescribes a dose of shoegazer pop, from My Bloody Valentine's chiming "Sometimes" to Jesus & Mary Chain's fuzzed-out "Just Like Honey". The music nails the hazy conscious state of actors Bill Murray (as a movie star in a midlife crisis) and Scarlet Johansson (as an…
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