Chess. Maniac. In 1. Gioacchino Greco (1. Paris from playing chess while on his way to London. On August 3. 0, 1. Thomas Middleton (1. London after producing a play, A Game of Chess, that satirized the proposed marriage of Prince Charles with a Spanish princess.
The play was performed in the Globe Theater in London. Its nine performances, from August 5- 1. London. After Middleton’s arrest, the play was censored and was not allowed to be shown again. In 1. 79. 3, Thomas Paine (1. The Rights of Man and Common Sense, was supposedly arrested in Paris for favoring the exile of King Louis XVI rather than his execution.
Paine was scheduled to be guillotined, but his fianc. She frequented the Caf.
Robespierre challenged her again and promised to grant any wish if she won again. She again won and asked that her husband’s life be spared. Thomas Paine then was released from prison. Another source says the lady was Jacqueline Armand, the fianc. A third source says that the lady was the wife of the Marquis de Merin, who was recently condemned to death by guillotine. Alexandre Deschapelles (1. French insurrection of June 1.
He was released after writing to the king that he was too old, too infirmed, and innocent. He already fought with distinction on three battles. He was released in May, 1. New York and started playing chess. Henry as he was known, shot his adopted daughter four times in the head after he proposed marriage when she turned 2. He then jumped into a river to drown himself, but the tide was out.
He was arrested, but died 1. His book, American Chess Nuts, was published in 1. In 1. 87. 0, Joseph Henry Blackburne (1. Baden- Baden as a French spy for sending chess moves in the mail. The British government thought they were coded secrets.
It also turned out that Blackburne’s carriage driver was a French spy. In 1. 87. 5, Albert Ensor (1. New York. In 1. 87. Canadian Chess Championship. He was later arrested in Germany for gambling and in France for forgery. In 1. 87. 9, American chess player and journalist James Mortimer (1.
Once inside prison, he taught his fellow inmates how to play chess. In 1. 89. 1, William Steinitz (1. In New York as a Russian spy after someone in the telegraph company thought that his chess moves being sent over telegraph was code. He was held for 2. At the time, Steinitz was playing Chigorin in Havana by cable. In November 1. 89. William Steinitz fired his private secretary, Arthur Williams, and hired a new secretary, Edward Treiter.
Williams was to stay in Steinitz’s house in Montclair, New Jersey for a few days to help Treiter get his accounts into shape. Williams later broke into Treiter’s bedroom with a double- barrel shotgun and fired both barrels at Treiter while he was in bed. Williams then placed himself at the front door and threatened to kill anyone who attempted to leave Steinitz’s house. He was finally overpowered and arrested. Treiter survived, but his left arm had to be amputated. In 1. 89. 7, William Wilson, age 5.
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Franklin Chess Club in Philadelphia and bookseller, was robbed and killed in his store. In December 1. 90. Nicolai Jasnogrodsky (1. Bay City, Michigan out of $1. In 1. 91. 4, all the Russian chess masters were arrested at the Mannheim, Germany Congress when World War I broke out.
The arrested players included Alexander Alekhine and Bogoljubow. Alekhine was released after 6 weeks.
In 1. 91. 8, Lorenz Hansen, a Danish naturalized citizen, was arrested by the Federal authorities, charged with using a secret code and spying. The secret code turned out to be the moves in a correspondence game sent by post card.
In 1. 91. 8, chess master Ossip Bernstein (1. Russia, was arrested by the secret Bolshevik police and ordered executed by a firing squad. An officer reviewing the list of those to be shot recognized Bernstein as the famous chess master and spared his life. In 1. 92. 1, British chess master William Winter (1. He was an active member of the Communist Party. In November 1. 92.
Norman Whitaker (1. Whitaker was convicted, but escaped.
He was arrested in 1. Fort Leavenworth.
In December 1. 92. Dr. Joseph Eljas, President of the Reval, Estonia Chess Club, was invited to a chess tournament in Leningrad. As soon as he entered Russia, he was arrested by the Cheka.
The Cheka, claiming his notebooks, filled with chess problems, were a secret cipher. He was charged for spying for a foreign power. In 1. 93. 2, chess master Norman Tweed Whitaker (1. Evalyn Mc. Lean, a wealthy heiress by claiming to be in contact with the Lindbergh kidnappers.
Earlier in his life, he was convicted of several other crimes, including auto theft, sending morphine through the mail, and sexual molestation of a minor. He served time in Alcatraz and was a friend of Al Capone there.
In 1. 93. 6, Pyotr Izmailov (1. Soviet Union, accused of plotting to assassinate Stalin. He was executed in April, 1. In 1. 92. 8, he was the first champion of the Russian Republic.
In February 1. 93. Danzig for talking Socialistic politics in between moves. The police charged them with trying to keep alive the forbidden Social Democratic party. In 1. 93. 7, chess problemist Mikhail Platov was arrested in Russia after making a derogatory remark about Stalin. He was shipped off to the Gulag in Siberia and died within a year. In 1. 93. 7, Nikolai Krylenko (1. Chairman of the Chess Section of the Supreme Council for Physical Culture of the Russian Federal Republic, was arrested in Russia and later executed on orders from Stalin.
One of the charges against him was that he had retarded the development of chess in the Soviet Union. On July 2. 9, 1. 93. Nikolai Krylenko (1. Soviet Chess Association, was executed in Stalin’s purges. His trial lasted 2. In 1. 94. 0, the Germans arrested all the chess players that were meeting at the Warsaw Chess Club (Kwiecinski Chess Caf. The Jews were all taken to a concentration camp (Danilowicowskia) and were later killed in a mass execution.
This included Polish masters Dawid Przepiorka, Achilles Frydmann, Stanislaw Kohn, and Moishe Lowtzky. In September 1. 94. Menahem Begin (1. Russian troops (NKVD). At the time, he was an active member of the Zionist movement. In June 1. 94. 1, Estonian player Ilmar Raud (1.
Buenos Aires and was arrested by the police. A fight occurred while he was in jail, and he was later sent to a lunatic asylum, where he died on July 1. In 1. 94. 1, Ludek Pachman (1. Gestapo and interrogated for several weeks about incitement to anti- German demonstrations. On October 2, 1. 94. Karel Treybal was charged will illegal possession of a firearm (a pistol) by the Nazis and condemned to death. He was executed the same day in Prague.
In the 1. 94. 0s, a tournament director of the U. S. Championship had his car stolen during the tournament. The car was recovered a day later. In 1. 94. 3, Austrian master Ladslaus Dory was arrested for sedition by the Nazis and sentenced to death.
He was released from prison by allied troops in 1. In 1. 94. 3, Akiba (Akiva) Rubinstein’s (1. Samy Rubinsten (1.
Germans after hiding in a castle in the Ardennes, and spent a year in prison. In 1. 94. 8, grandmaster David Bronstein (1. Interzonal in Saltsjobaden, Sweden. On the last day, Bronstein was playing Tartakower when, suddenly, a Lithuanian made a lunge at Bronstein to kill him. Several spectators grabbed the would- be assassin.
The attempted killer wanted to murder a Russian because he claimed the Russians were responsible for sending his sister to Siberia and murdering her. In 1. 95. 0, Walter Bjornson of Vancouver was cut with a knife by his opponent during a chess game, leaving a 4 inch gash in his forearm. His opponent, attacked Walter after losing a game and was later arrested.
In 1. 95. 1, James Bolton, age 2. New England chess champion, was arrested by the FBI for evading the draft.
In March 1. 95. 2, Pal Benko was arrested and imprisoned for 1. Hungarian concentration camp for trying to escape from East Berlin and defect to the West. He was accused of being an American spy. When they searched his apartment, they found mail devoted to his postal chess games. The police assumed that the notation was secret code, and they demanded to know how to break the code. In 1. 95. 2, famous bank robber Willie Sutton (1. FBI. At the time, Sutton was reading How to Think Ahead in Chess by I.
A. Horowitz. In 1. Poles, Alexander Piotrowski and Kazimierz Osiecki, were arrested for assault after they both got into a fight over a chess game, resulting in both players going to the hospital. The charges were later dismissed.
In 1. 95. 9, a Soviet scientist killed another Soviet scientist at a Soviet research station in Vostok, Antarctica after a chess game argument. The losing player got so mad, he killed his opponent with an axe. After the incident, the Soviets banned chess at their Antarctic stations. Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica; The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica) In June 1. American sailor, Michael George, got into a fight at a Greenwich Village bar, Chumley’s, when a spectator criticized the sailor’s chess game after he lost.
The sailor struck the spectator (Clinton Curtis) with a broken beer bottle, which cut his jugular vein. The sailor was eventually acquitted of murder and charged with accidental death instead.
Turner worked as a clerk for Chess Review magazine. Smith stabbed Turner 9 times in the back, then stuffed his 2. Smith had been recently released from an insane asylum and claimed that Turner was a Communist spy and had to be killed on orders from the U.
S. Soon after the incident, he was deported back to the United States. There, he was detained in a half- way house, then arrested for murder after he killed his 8. Weinstein was judged mentally ill and was confined to the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center on Ward’s Island for the mentally ill. In 1. 96. 6, grandmaster Mikhail Tal was beaten up and hit on the head with a beer bottle during the chess Olympiad in Havana.
He missed the first five rounds because of his injuries. In August 1. 96. 9, Grandmaster Ludek Pachman (1.