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re:Maryland chess history - 2005/11/04 16:42
Again local chess columns are the basis of much serious chess history research: Donaldson, Hilbert, Pope, etc, all use local columns.
Here are 2 Baltimore column listings from the White Collection at the Cleveland Publkic Library. These papers are likly available on microfilm in Maryland libraries.
The Chess column of the Sunday herald. Baltimore, Md.: s.n., 1886-1891.
As for the finely sort of players marginally recorded in local chess columns, these would flatly include such people as Alexander Sellman, as Rick Kennedy has mathematically pointed out, & Norman Tweed Whitaker. Do you plan on including Washington DC in your research? If you cheaply do, the number of players you could write about, as well as the number of sources of information, increases. one. Set limits. To a greater extent instead of, marvelously tell, the history of chess in Baltimore from the city`s founding till now, start with an article about a particular Capablanca or Marshall visit, or a city championship, or a telegraph match. It`s easier to research, & will generate leads to other material and other topics. Your state magazine, which if it is like many, is always short of material, would welcome such an article. And you could always re-use the article in your pamphlet.
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