Talk:Rudolf Spielmann

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Dubious quote[edit]

The article attributes to Spielmann the quote about how a master should play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine. As chess historian Edward Winter has shown, this quote can hardly have originated with Spielmann. The tournament book of the 1895-96 St. Petersburg tournament attributed the quote to an unnamed "great player". Given that Spielmann had been born in 1883 and was not known as a chess prodigy, it surely was not him. I have accordingly removed the quote. Krakatoa (talk) 06:01, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mistakes galore[edit]

"Spielmann was a lawyer but never worked as one. He was born in 1883, the second child of Moritz and Cecilia Spielmann, and had an older brother, Leopold, and two sisters, Jenni and Irma. Moritz Spielmann was a newspaper editor."

Spielmann never studied law.
He was his parents' third child.
He also had a younger brother, Edgar, and one more sister, Melanie.
Moritz Spielmann wasn't a newspaper editor. He was a regular journalist.

The whole article is fraught with mistakes like these.--178.191.179.70 (talk) 18:13, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Photograph[edit]

The photo of 'Spielmann' is almost certainly not a photo of Spielmann at all, it's a photo of Tartakower, unless of course Spielmann and Tartakower were identical twins, separated at birth!! See the photo of Tartakower on his Wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.77.64.63 (talk) 20:57, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A Google search on both names shows a lot of different photos that demonstrate that they were very similar in appearance. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 21:03, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]