Jacques Mieses (1865-1954)

[Hugh Brodie]

I'm cleaning up my database and found it has several "odd" games - allegedly played by Jacques Mieses. Although born in 1865, I have several games from a match against Adolf Anderssen, Breslau, 1867 - and one against Anderssen in 1862. Could these have been against S. Mieses (1841-1884)?

I also have one game that Jacques Mieses supposedly played against Mikhail Tal in 1958 (four years after Mieses died). Does anyone have any idea as to who really played these games?

[Event "URS"]
[Site "URS"]
[Date "1958.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Mieses, Jacques"]
[Black "Tal, Mikhail"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C00"]
[PlyCount "128"]
[EventDate "1958.??.??"]
[EventCountry "URS"]

1. e4 c5 2. f4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. e5 Nc6 5. d3 Nge7 6. Nc3 Nf5 7. Be2 Be7 8. O-O
O-O 9. Qe1 b6 10. a3 Bb7 11. Bd1 Qd7 12. Ne2 d4 13. Ng3 Nxg3 14. Qxg3 f5 15.
Bd2 b5 16. Be2 Bd8 17. Ng5 Bxg5 18. fxg5 Ne7 19. h4 Rac8 20. b3 Bd5 21. Rfb1
Qc6 22. a4 a6 23. axb5 axb5 24. h5 Ra8 25. Bf1 g6 26. h6 Ra6 27. Bf4 Rfa8 28.
Qe1 Ra2 29. Qc1 Qa6 30. Rxa2 Qxa2 31. Rb2 Qa5 32. Rb1 b4 33. Qe1 Qa2 34. Qc1
Bb7 35. g3 Nd5 36. Bd2 Nc7 37. Be2 Nb5 38. Kf2 Qa6 39. Qf1 Qc6 40. Ke1 Ra2 41.
Rc1 Qd5 42. Bf4 Nc3 43. Bd1 Bc6 44. Be2 Bb7 45. Bd1 c4 46. dxc4 Qe4+ 47. Kd2
Bc6 48. Be2 Nb1+ 49. Kd1 Nc3+ 50. Kd2 Bb7 51. Bd3 Qc6 52. Qg1 Qd7 53. Ra1 Ra3
54. Rf1 Ne4+ 55. Ke2 Nc5 56. Bd2 Be4 57. Bxe4 Nxe4 58. Rd1 Ra2 59. Bxb4 Rxc2+
60. Kf1 Qa7 61. Be1 Qa8 62. Rxd4 Nxg3+ 63. Qxg3 Qh1+ 64. Qg1 Qh3+ 0-1

[Stephen Wright]

Presumably https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1753878

The subject elicited the following from Edward Winter:

"Users of the FatBase 2000 CD will be awe-struck by some of the defeats sustained by Jacques Mieses during his long career. At the age of minus three he lost a game to Adolf Anderssen (in Breslau, 1862) and did no better against him in 1867, by which time he had matured into a two-year-old. Nor did the passing of time improve Mieses’ fortunes. In 1958 he lost a game to Mikhail Tal in the Soviet Union, and in 1964 Forgács beat him in Ostend. At the age of 128 Mieses was defeated by Carl Schlechter in the Prague, 1993 tournament. That was certainly an opportunity for him to recall a remark he had made 90 years previously: ‘It is bad enough to get run over, but to get run over by a corpse is horrible.’"

[Stephen Wright]

And yes, according to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Chess Games and Jeremy Gaige the early games would be Samuel Mieses.

[Hugh Brodie]

I found it - the 1958 game was played by A. Miezis (against Tal) in the Latvian Championship of the same year.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

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did not look at the answer before posting as window was opened for a long time)