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	ChessBase.com - Chess News - Move to remember the chess great
		In 1897 (until his death) he won the United States Chess Championship.
		In 1895 the Brooklyn chess club sponsored his trip to play in the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, which he sensationally won, in spite of the fact that all the greatest players of the time were participating (they included reigning world champion Lasker, former world champion Steinitz and challenger Mikhail Chigorin).
		He could play checkers and chess and a hand of whist simultaneously, while reciting a list of long words that had been shown to him for just a few seconds.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=2900 (424 words)

	Factfinder (Chess Notes) by Edward Winter
		Botvinnik, Mikhail (quotes from Half a Century of Chess) CE 240
		Courts, Chess in the CE 109-113 (Wood, Gunsberg/Foster, Chigorin, Jaffe, Rosenthal, Tarrasch/Ranneforth, Nield, Piotrowski/Osiecki, Tennant-Smith, Kelin, Calvo/Ghobash, Karpov/Jungwirth), 124-125 (Winter); ACO 190 (Wood/Ritson Morry) + C.N.s 3756 (Jaffe), 3824 (Gunsberg/Foster)
		Opening rarities (1 e4 by Grünfeld and 1 d4 by Chigorin) CE Opening repertoire (broadest) KCK 386
	www.chesshistory.com /winter/extra/factfinder.html (10081 words)

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