In article , skoonj wrote:
"Miriling" wrote in message
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Subject: 125th annual New York State Championship

On 26 August 2003 (Don Mihokovich) replied
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According to this site: http://starfireproject.com/chess/lasker.html:
"In 1906, Dr. Lasker played in the 19th New York State Chess
Championship. He won first place; of course he won first place." The
same factual claim is repeated he
http://members.tripod.com/HSK_Chess/lasker.html. Assuming these sites
are correct and the 19th annual was in 1906, how can the 2003 event be
the 125th annual, or even the 121st? It doesn't add up.

KidDon


Very interesting. But how do you explain how Hermann Helms is listed in
the
archives as winning the New York State Championship in 1906?

George Mirijanian



Empire Chess magazine (Spring 2003) lists all the winners and flatly says
the numbering is wrong. Last year was claimed to be the 124th... it was the
122nd played.

It lists Niles Luce as the 1885 winner (his 3rd straight).

Emanuel Lasker won a tournament in Trenton Falls in the summer of 1906 which
was also sponsored by the NYSCA but was not the official state championship.
They held summer tournaments every year were that were supposedly stronger
than the official state championship, which was held in February. Lasker
never won the official title (his brother did).

No. Not his brother Berthold; it was his (perhaps) distant relative
Edward Lasker.


(all this info per the Empire Chess article)

-T