On Apr 26, 4:19 pm, RookHouse <mor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
I don't see any "mystery". The preoccupation
with the pedantic spelling of names is modern.
In the old day the idea of the name was to describe
a person realtively uniquely, in the context
of the person life and possible travels. Thus
those who travelled and lived in different
countries used to spell their names just to
describe themselves, i.e. to identify themselves,
and they would do so to make the things easy
for the people around them. Thus most likely
the original Lipschutz's first name was Jewish,
perhaps Shmuel. And next he used a name which would
life easier for his new neighborhoods.
While the story of his name might be left with some
white space, it doesn't mean that it is a mystery
story. We don't know whether or not I had a headache
on January 1 of 1964 but it's not a mystery.
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RookHouse, about your other post:
"It's the same with several prominent chess
players. Unexplained examples of this would
be Chigorin often being spelled Tschigorin
and Victor Korchnoi often being spelled
Viktor Kortchnoi."
Not at all! - it is NOT the same.
Chigorin and Korchnoi (in Russia)
always used one last name, spelled in
one way. Different WESTERN spellings
of their names are due to the different
transliteration conventions from Russian
to English (and similar).
REMARK. I was always of the opinion that
======= Russian names in the West should be
spelled the way they are spelled in Poland.
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