1858

German-American immigrant Louis Paulson played 10 games simultaneously
without sight of the board. The London Illustrated News reporting on the
Chicago event noted that;

"during this unexampled match, upward of 920 moves were made, and not
only did Paulson never make the slightest error, but often during very
intricate combinations he corrected the mistakes of his open-eyed
adversaries. This is perhaps the most astounding feat of memory the world
has ever hear of"

The result was nine wins and Paulson was stalemated in the10th.

Phil Innes

Is "Paulson" the Cornish spelling of Paulsen?

Chess One wrote:
1858

German-American immigrant Louis Paulson played 10 games simultaneously
without sight of the board. The London Illustrated News reporting on the
Chicago event noted that;

"during this unexampled match, upward of 920 moves were made, and not
only did Paulson never make the slightest error, but often during very
intricate combinations he corrected the mistakes of his open-eyed
adversaries. This is perhaps the most astounding feat of memory the world
has ever hear of"

The result was nine wins and Paulson was stalemated in the10th.

Phil Innes

"Taylor Kingston" wrote in message
oups.com...

Is "Paulson" the Cornish spelling of Paulsen?

No. Its as the London Illustrated News reported it - actually twice with no
other variant. Look it up. Dangerous to make assumptions, no? Since he may
have anglicised his name for all I know. But as for the spelling, ibidem.
Phil

Chess One wrote:
1858

German-American immigrant Louis Paulson played 10 games simultaneously
without sight of the board. The London Illustrated News reporting on the
Chicago event noted that;

"during this unexampled match, upward of 920 moves were made, and not
only did Paulson never make the slightest error, but often during very
intricate combinations he corrected the mistakes of his open-eyed
adversaries. This is perhaps the most astounding feat of memory the world
has ever hear of"

The result was nine wins and Paulson was stalemated in the10th.

Phil Innes

Chess One wrote:
"Taylor Kingston" wrote in message
oups.com...

Is "Paulson" the Cornish spelling of Paulsen?

No. Its as the London Illustrated News reported it - actually twice with no
other variant. Look it up. Dangerous to make assumptions, no? Since he may
have anglicised his name for all I know. But as for the spelling, ibidem.
Phil

I have held in my hands a letter actually written by the man in
question, and he spelled his name "Paulsen." I suspect the LIN erred.

"Taylor Kingston" wrote in message
oups.com...

Chess One wrote:
"Taylor Kingston" wrote in message
oups.com...

Is "Paulson" the Cornish spelling of Paulsen?

No. Its as the London Illustrated News reported it - actually twice with
no
other variant. Look it up. Dangerous to make assumptions, no? Since he
may
have anglicised his name for all I know. But as for the spelling, ibidem.
Phil

I have held in my hands a letter actually written by the man in
question, and he spelled his name "Paulsen." I suspect the LIN erred.

Ich auch! I can't find any reference to anglicising his name - he emigrated
here at age 21 settled in Dubuque, came second to Morphy 1857.

Talking of openings - i see he should have received credit for the Goring
Gambit, and he also played the "Boleslavsky var" of the Sic. Def 1883-89

Interestingly Morphy ducked a match challenge in 1860. Then won in
Bristol/Eng in 61, when presumably they got his name right. This is when he
started playing 10 people simultaneoulsy blindfold in sessions lasting 20
hours! But no blitz player - slow as Moses!

There is a really funny story about him in Baden. He didn't like his hotel
where he was staying during a tournament, so left it, and visted lots of
other places, eventually finding a place he liked. He then said to the
'girl' who was attending on him to fetch his luggage, but she replied that
it was already here, and he slept in the same hotel the previous night and
merely come in a different entrance and chosen a room on the other side of
it.

Phil Innes

Chess One wrote:
"Taylor Kingston" wrote in message
oups.com...

Chess One wrote:
"Taylor Kingston" wrote in message
oups.com...

Is "Paulson" the Cornish spelling of Paulsen?

No. Its as the London Illustrated News reported it - actually twice with
no
other variant. Look it up. Dangerous to make assumptions, no? Since he
may
have anglicised his name for all I know. But as for the spelling, ibidem.
Phil

I have held in my hands a letter actually written by the man in
question, and he spelled his name "Paulsen." I suspect the LIN erred.

Ich auch!

Which in German means "I also." You have held the same letter? Please
tell us where and when.

I can't find any reference to anglicising his name ...

No need to. It was Paulsen auf Deutsch, and Paulsen in English.

- he emigrated
here at age 21 settled in Dubuque, came second to Morphy 1857.

Further reports indicate bears live in the woods.

Talking of openings - i see he should have received credit for the Goring
Gambit, and he also played the "Boleslavsky var" of the Sic. Def 1883-89

Quite a lot besides, such as the Pirc, the King's Indian, the
Sicilian Dragon, the Advance French, and several others.

"Taylor Kingston" wrote in message
oups.com...

Ich auch!

Which in German means "I also."

Indeed it does, or in the vernacular, 'me too'. I can speak it quite good,
unfortunately can't spell it worth a shirt, and I learned Swabische while
while obtaining my near-phenomenal rating and jodelling degrees. I can also
nearly-speak Hungarian [payer la goutte].

You have held the same letter?

Thats leider? As in, take me to your...

Please
tell us where and when.

Okay, I tell you 'vere and vhen'. Now vot ve do?

I can't find any reference to anglicising his name ...

No need to. It was Paulsen auf Deutsch, and Paulsen in English.

Paulo majora canamus.

- he emigrated
here at age 21 settled in Dubuque, came second to Morphy 1857.

Further reports indicate bears live in the woods.

Kamp ums Dasein altmodisher baeren! Ich denke heute direkt in
condolandesicherkeitlichhabitatsgemeinschafte habe.

Talking of openings - i see he should have received credit for the Goring
Gambit, and he also played the "Boleslavsky var" of the Sic. Def 1883-89

Quite a lot besides, such as the Pirc, the King's Indian, the
Sicilian Dragon, the Advance French, and several others.

did he invent all those too?

Grüss, Phil nein?

Chess One wrote:
Kamp ums Dasein altmodisher baeren! Ich denke heute direkt in
condolandesicherkeitlichhabitatsgemeinschafte habe.

Ihre Gedankenfolge ist unbegreiflich.

This raises a question I run into frequently. When quoting an old
source, is it appropriate to change the spelling when the modern
version is obvious? Sometimes I quote as is, sometimes I use sic, and
sometimes I correct it. Sometimes sic seems inappropriate, and I don't
know what to do. For example, when Tschigorin first came on the scene
many spellings were used before we English speakers arrived at either
Tschigorin or Chigorin. For a while, I decided to write down variants
used in early tournaments; these include Tschigoryn, Tschegorgn,
Tschigorin, Tschizorin, Tschigovin (all of these in the New York Times
reports of 3 tournaments). None of these are strictly wrong (except
perhaps Tschigovin, which was used twice in the same article and so was
not a misprint), they are different transliterations that are arguably
reasonable but fell out of favor.

Sometimes, I do not know whether to correct or not. We all use
Blackburne now, but there are plenty of old sources that consistently
used Blackburn. Similarly, Zuckertort was used almost as often as
Zukertort for quite a while. Were these all errors, or was it
considered a valid alternative spelling in those days when spelling
rules seem to be occasionally more relaxed than in the present day?

Jerry Spinrad

Chess One wrote:
"Taylor Kingston" wrote in message
oups.com...

Is "Paulson" the Cornish spelling of Paulsen?

No. Its as the London Illustrated News reported it - actually twice with no
other variant. Look it up. Dangerous to make assumptions, no? Since he may
have anglicised his name for all I know. But as for the spelling, ibidem.
Phil

Chess One wrote:
1858

German-American immigrant Louis Paulson played 10 games simultaneously
without sight of the board. The London Illustrated News reporting on the
Chicago event noted that;

"during this unexampled match, upward of 920 moves were made, and not
only did Paulson never make the slightest error, but often during very
intricate combinations he corrected the mistakes of his open-eyed
adversaries. This is perhaps the most astounding feat of memory the world
has ever hear of"

The result was nine wins and Paulson was stalemated in the10th.

Phil Innes

wrote in message
oups.com...
This raises a question I run into frequently. When quoting an old
source, is it appropriate to change the spelling when the modern
version is obvious? Sometimes I quote as is, sometimes I use sic, and
sometimes I correct it. Sometimes sic seems inappropriate, and I don't
know what to do. For example, when Tschigorin first came on the scene
many spellings were used before we English speakers arrived at either
Tschigorin or Chigorin. For a while, I decided to write down variants
used in early tournaments; these include Tschigoryn, Tschegorgn,
Tschigorin, Tschizorin, Tschigovin (all of these in the New York Times
reports of 3 tournaments). None of these are strictly wrong (except
perhaps Tschigovin, which was used twice in the same article and so was
not a misprint), they are different transliterations that are arguably
reasonable but fell out of favor.

Its dangerous though - to change a name, since at the time was it correct or
not? Also, between langauges there is often a fluctation on spellings
systems - is it Yegenny Shvesnikov or Evgenny? What about talking of the
early Tal? When he used his birth-name Mihais Tahls?

Then there are at least 3 Alekhines - Russians persist even these days with
Aljechin, but even that wasn't quite his early name, which was changed it is
thought to avoid any semitic ressemblance.

Shakespeare spelled his own name progressively at least 4 ways, maybe 5 -
should we use the name he used when writing plays or sonnets, or conspire on
the last; Shakespeare?

I wonderer about Paulson [sic] because I do not know if he ever actually
used that spelling, and suspected as was not unusual that on emigrating to
US he changed it, or someone spelled it that way for him. The LIN actually
used the 'wrong' spelling 3 times. What is unknown is if subsequent
mispelling were the result of it, and so on. Phonetically, in speech, it
would have been mostly indistinguishable.

Sometimes, I do not know whether to correct or not. We all use
Blackburne now, but there are plenty of old sources that consistently
used Blackburn. Similarly, Zuckertort was used almost as often as
Zukertort for quite a while. Were these all errors, or was it
considered a valid alternative spelling in those days when spelling
rules seem to be occasionally more relaxed than in the present day?

Maybe if you are French or German or Russian you spell it phonetically or
else how do you say it? How is it possible to go from Aljechin to Alekhine
for example? In English the sound of his name is much like AL - EE - YO -
K'N, and might as well be spelled Alyokn.

Do you think players who moved around suffered these changes more than
others? And how would you pronounce EUWE in Amerkan? YOWVAY?

Phil

Jerry Spinrad

Chess One wrote:
"Taylor Kingston" wrote in message
oups.com...

Is "Paulson" the Cornish spelling of Paulsen?

No. Its as the London Illustrated News reported it - actually twice with
no
other variant. Look it up. Dangerous to make assumptions, no? Since he
may
have anglicised his name for all I know. But as for the spelling, ibidem.
Phil

Chess One wrote:
1858

German-American immigrant Louis Paulson played 10 games simultaneously
without sight of the board. The London Illustrated News reporting on
the
Chicago event noted that;

"during this unexampled match, upward of 920 moves were made, and
not
only did Paulson never make the slightest error, but often during very
intricate combinations he corrected the mistakes of his open-eyed
adversaries. This is perhaps the most astounding feat of memory the
world
has ever hear of"

The result was nine wins and Paulson was stalemated in the10th.

Phil Innes