Vincent Grimm
Vincent (Vincenz, Vince) Grimm (1800, Vienna – 15 January 1872, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess master. • Illustration — Portrait of Vincent Grimm. Wood engraving from 1850 from the Elke Rehder collection. Vincent Grimm was born in Vienna, he moved to Pest, Hungary in 1823.
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- 1801. · Vienna.
- Died
- 1872. · Pest.
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- Kingdom of Hungary.
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Vincent (Vincenz, Vince) Grimm (1800, Vienna – 15 January 1872, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess master. • Illustration — Portrait of Vincent Grimm. Wood engraving from 1850 from the Elke Rehder collection. Vincent Grimm was born in Vienna, he moved to Pest, Hungary in 1823.
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Born at Vienna in 1801, died in Pest in 1872.
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1801
Vincent Grimm born at Vienna.
1872
Vincent Grimm died at Pest.
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- 1.Taufbuch St. Stephan Wien, tom. 1/103 fol. 79.
- 2.József Hajtun: Magyar sakktörténet 1. Verlag Sport, Budapest 1975, ISBN 963-253-239-2, Hajtun: S. 78–82.
- 3.Vgl. etwa die Gemälde Zwei Eremiten in ihrer Einsiedelei (1827) und Junge Frau mit ihrer schlafenden Tochter (1868)
- 4.Ludwig Bachmann: Aus vergangenen Zeiten. Bilder aus der Entwicklungsgeschichte des praktischen Schachspiels. 2 Bände. Berlin 1920–1922 (Band 2: S. 305–307).
- 5.Der eiserne Druckstock (Klischee) zu dieser Banknote ist hier abgebildet.
- 6.Kálmán Benda und Erik Fügedi: Tausend Jahre Stephanskrone, S. 186ff. (Budapest 1988, ISBN 963-13-2654-3); Ludwig Bachmann: Aus vergangenen Zeiten. Bilder aus der Entwicklungsgeschichte des praktischen Schachspiels. 2 Bände. Berlin 1920–1922 (Band 2: S. 305–307).
- 7.Vincenz Grimm: Jellacsichiade. Heldengedicht in fünf Gesängen, Leipzig 1850
- 8.So war Grimm angeblich 1869 in Konstantinopel verstorben (Bachmann). Siehe auch den Hinweis in der Encyclopaedia Britannica (1888), Bd. 5, S. 602, im Artikel Chess
- 9.Verbesserte Lösung nach L. Bledow und O. von Oppen: Stamma's hundert Endspiele, Berlin 1856, S. 201
- 10.Zitiert nach Bachmann; Frederick Milne Edge: Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion, New York 1859, S. 58
- 11.(Quellen: Schachzeitung 1846 und 1851); siehe ferner László Orbáns Buch Schach als Denkspiel (München 1974, ISBN 3-423-01029-0), das eine (vierte?) Kurzpartie Grimms gegen einen anonymen Gegner enthält, die in „Konstantinopel 1864“ gespielt wurde.
- 12.Digitalisat: The Chess Tournament, London 1852, S. XXIV
- 13.V. Grimm: Chess at Aleppo, in: The Chess Player's Chronicle 1851, S. 184–186
- 14.H.J.R. Murray: A History of Chess, Oxford University Press 1913, S. 358f.; Grimm: Chess at Aleppo
- 15.David Hooper und Kenneth Whyld: The Oxford Companion to Chess. Oxford University Press 1987, S. 134 unter Grimm Attack.
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