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From: victor@klipper.UUCP (L. Victor Allis)
Newsgroups: net.games.chess
Subject: Re: beginner's book on chess
Message-ID: <527@klipper.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 08:34:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  6 08:34:53 1985
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Reply-To: victor@klipper.UUCP (L. Victor Allis)
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In article <2560@sunybcs.UUCP> colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>> As far as a good book, I highly recommend "Bobby Fischer Teaches
>> Chess."  It is a compendium of chess problems, mostly back-rank
>> mates.  Some may scoff, but I consider it a great book (pb) for a
>> beginner.  Unfortunately, I can't think of any other titles
>> offhand.  Several authors come to mind, though: Irving Chernev,
>> Fred Reinfeld, I.A. Horowitz, Raul Capablanca (Chess Fundamentals,
>> or some such title, is a classic), and Aaron Nimzovitz.
>
>          '   '                          '
>That's Jose Raul Capablanca and Aron Nimzovich.

Since you started "correcting" the way Nimzowitch's name was written I
would like to show there is more to say about his name. The 'Lebenslauf
eines Pessimisten' (A forword in Nimzowitch's famous book 'Mein System')
written by Dr. J. Hannak, says quite a lot about the way his name should be 
written.  (I'm talking about the second release, printed in 1965.)
Hannak writes that Nimzowitch was born as:

           v   v
  Aaron Nemcovic (An accent circonflex must be put on the e)

This was changed after a little while into the German way of writing it:

  Aaron Niemzowitch (no accents)

After World War I Nimzowitch moved to West, and in his new passport
the letter 'e' was mistakenly left out, so from now on his name was:

  Aaron Nimzowitch (no accents)

L. Victor Allis.
Free University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands.

(Nomen est Omen ? Quis Nomen ?)