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    Adolf Albin (14 September 1848 – 22 March 1920) was a Romanian chess player. He is best known for the countergambit that bears his name and for authoring...
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  • against Salvioli at the Milan tournament of 1881, it takes its name from Adolf Albin, who played it against Emanuel Lasker in New York 1893. Though it is...
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    Spanish martyr St. Adolf of Osnabrück, 13th-century German martyr St. Adolphus Ludigo-Mkasa, 19th-century Ugandan martyr Adolf Albin (1848–1920), Romanian...
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  • Albin is a French, German, and English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adolf Albin (1848–1920), Romanian chess player Barry T. Albin...
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  • Biography, Singapore Heritage Society, 2007. ISBN 978-981-05-7922-7 Adolf Albin in America: A European Chess Master's Sojourn, 1893-1895, McFarland,...
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    +3−2=3), Emanuel Lasker (1892/93, +2−6=2), Jacob Halpern (1893, +5−3=1), Adolf Albin (1894, +10−7=8), Dawid Janowski (four times: 1898, +2−7=4; 1899, +4−2=0...
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  • devised by Adolf Albin and played by Chatard, but not taken seriously until the game Alekhine–Fahrni, Mannheim 1914. It is known today as the Albin–Chatard...
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    In October 1928 Emanuel Lasker's brother Berthold died. In spring 1933 Adolf Hitler started a campaign of discrimination and intimidation against Jews...
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    Ferdinand Albin Pax (26 July 1858 – 1 March 1942) was a German botanist specializing in spermatophytes. A collaborator of Adolf Engler, he wrote several...
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  • Variation was in 1905 in Vienna where Aron Nimzowitsch with white checkmated Adolf Albin on the 34th move. Very dubious is 2...Ne4?, which John L. Watson and...
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  • became an internationally recognized player. In 1892, he tied for 5-6th (Adolf Albin won), shared 3rd in 1893/94 (Jacques Schwarz won), twice took 2nd in...
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  • Alapin (Lithuania, 1856–1923) Vladimir Alatortsev (Russia, 1909–1987) Adolf Albin (Romania, 1848–1920) Lev Alburt (Russia, US, born 1945) Alexander Alekhine...
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    top players, and he was able to arrange a match in 1866 in London against Adolf Anderssen, who was regarded as the world's strongest active player because...
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     Henry Bird (England) 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 X 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 9 17  Adolf Albin (Romania) 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ 0 0 0 X 0 0 1 1 ½ 8½ 18  Georg Marco (Austria)...
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    drawbacks to the knockout elimination tournament format. It was won by Adolf Anderssen of Germany, who became regarded as the world's best chess player...
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  • Lake Albert, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Albert Medal Adolf Albin, Romanian chess player – Albin Countergambit Alcaeus, Greek poet – Alcaic stanza Alexander...
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  • Lasker, Carlos Torre Repetto, Wilhelm Steinitz, Johannes Zukertort, Adolf Albin and José Raúl Capablanca. Another of his sons, Henry Jacob Labatt (1832-1900)...
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    Agarici (1886–1979), nurse and philanthropist, Righteous Among the Nations Adolf Albin (1848–1920), chess player Mircea Albulescu (1934–2016), actor Radu Aldulescu...
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  • Mason (United States) ½ 0 1 ½ L 0 0 0 0 1 W 1 * 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 9.00 14  Adolf Albin (Austria-Hungary) 0 0 0 L ½ ½ 0 0 W 0 W 0 1 * W 0 1 1 1 1 8.50 15  Georg...
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  • – 1.e4 c5 2.c3 – named after Semyon Alapin Albin Countergambit – 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 – named after Adolf Albin Alburt Variation of the Alekhine's Defence...
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  • Pillsbury and Carl Schlechter won), took 4th at Paris 1901 (Quadrangular, Adolf Albin and Stanislaus Sittenfeld won), withdrew from the 1902 Monte Carlo chess...
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  • La part de l'autre (category Éditions Albin Michel books)
    ideas of Moral Philosophy. It consists of a fictionalized biography of Adolf Hitler, sticking to the known facts of Hitler's life, in parallel with the...
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    13  Georg Marco (Austria) 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 8 14  Adolf Albin (Romania) 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 ½ * 0 ½ ½ 1 1 7 15  Szymon Winawer (Poland)...
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    Kaufmann (+5 –5 =0) in 1893, lost to Max Weiss (+1 –5 =1) in 1895 and beat Adolf Albin (+4 –2 =4) in 1901. However, he is probably best known for his work as...
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  • matches in Vienna against Berthold Englisch (3.5 : 1.5) in 1882, and Adolf Albin (5.5 : 3.5) in 1891. logicalchess.com Wien at xoomer.alice.it http://www...
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    Baden-Baden in 1870, where he shared 3rd place with Gustav Neumann, behind Adolf Anderssen and Wilhelm Steinitz but ahead of Paulsen, De Vere, Simon Winawer...
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  • Janowski and drew with him in 1893. In 1901 he tied for 1st–2nd with Adolf Albin in Paris (Quadrangular). Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography...
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  • down when he was sharing the lead with Adolf Albin. He won matches against Bernhard Fleissig (2:0) in 1890, and Albin (4:0) and Marco (3:1), both in 1891...
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  • Joseph Lee 1894 Buffalo 1. Jackson Showalter, 2. Harry Pillsbury, 3. Adolf Albin, 4. Farnsworth 1895 Skaneateles 1. Eugene Delmar, 2. Richardson, 3. Albert...
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  • ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ x 0 1 5.5 18  Adolf Zinkl (Bohemia) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 x 1 5.5 19  Adolf Albin (Romania) 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0...
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