Talk:Joseph Henry Blackburne
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[edit] Changes Made
Intro - Changed learnt to learned for consistency. Expanded a sentence to add weight.
Biography - Among other changes, added info on blind simuls and context of drinking-good-for-you claim, both citing Schoenberg. Moved doubts about alleged use of Shilling gambit to a footnote.
Comments welcome.
Eldred 06:18, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
- Article is nice to read. Informative and interesting. ChessCreator (talk) 00:25, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] 1876 match w Steinitz
I've commented out "and it was considered at the time to be an unofficial world championship match" because there's no citation and it looks dubious. The only source I can find for 1876 is a French journal quoted at Winter, E.. Early Uses of ‘World Chess Champion’. I would translate "Aujourd’hui que ce charmant Morphy a abandonné les échecs, il faut considérer M. Steinitz comme le roi de l’Echiquier moderne, et nous nous inclinons, tout éblouis, devant son éclatant triomphe" as "Since the charming Morphy has abandoned chess, one must regard Steinitz as the king of modern chess, and we bow down, totally dazzled, before his resounding triumph." Philcha (talk) 12:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
