On Apr 26, 5:16=A0pm, Anders Thulin <ath_no_spam_ple...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> =A0 =A0I wonder what source the other date and age (1863 and 17 in 1880)
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My primary sources for this were The Oxford Companion to Chess
(Hooper, Whyld) and the December 1905 issue of the American Chess
Bulletin.
Dates this far back are very difficult to substantiate sometimes. An
example of this would be the birth date of Jackson W. Showalter. All
of the chess historian experts (Whyld, Winter, Hilbert, etc.) have
published this as February of 1860 (some of them vary on the exact
day). They are all absolutely incorrect, as I have been to his
gravesite and had the luxury of looking at the Showalter family bible.
Another unresolved mystery on Lipschutz is his actual first name. It
has been listed as Samuel, Salomon, and Simon. Nobody seems to know
for sure which one is correct. Edward Winter even concedes this fact
in his 2006 book, Chess Facts and Fables.
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