On Apr 21, 3:45 pm, ttk5...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 21, 3:02 pm, RookHouse <mor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > On Apr 21, 12:37 pm, ttk5...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Yes, his minus score (+8 -12 =3D7) must have told him the jig was
up=
,
> > > though in mitigation the guys above him in the standings were
prettty
> > > good: Lasker, Janowski, Maroczy, Pillsbury, Schlechter, Blackburne,
> > > Chigorin, Showalter and Mason. He went downhill pretty fast after
> > > that. A sad end to a difficult life full of triumphs and tragedies.-
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> > A poster on my blog asked "I don=92t remember reading what happened to
> > Mrs. Steinitz and the children. In those days widows who could not
> > sup****t their children frequently lost them to state custody."
>
> > Do you have any info on this??
>
> As far as I know, Steinitz had only one child, a daughter, Flora,
> born to him and his first wife Caroline in 1866. The daughter
> predeceased Steinitz, dying of endocarditis in 1888, which greatly
> grieved her father. Wife Caroline (n=E9e Golder) was of English birth,
> and nine years younger than Steinitz. I don't know anything else about
> her.
> I know even less about his second wife, just that she was born in
> Switzerland. Landsberger's "The Steinitz Papers" has a few do***ents
> that indicate she got some money from charitable friends of Steinitz
> to help with his hospital costs. Perhaps some of this money was still
> there when he died in August 1900.
> If anyone reading this has Landsberger's biography of Steinitz,
> perhaps he can supply more details?
You know, a lot of our champions have led really crappy lives. Poor
Steinitz....
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