George H. D. Gossip

George Hatfeild Dingley Gossip (December 6, 1841 in New York City, † May 11 1907 in Liphook ) was an English chess player and chess writer.

Life

After his mother died when he was eighteen months old, originally from England, his father returned with him to his home country. He graduated from the College Windermere in Westmorland, but could not begin the required training at Oxford University because of financial problems. Instead, he went to Paris for five years and worked as a journalist, notably from 1879 to 1880 for The Times. There, he often visited the famous Café de la Regence local chess. After that, he spent four years, from 1884 to 1888, in Australia, where he worked for several newspapers, then went to the USA and eventually returned to England, where he died in 1907 from heart disease.

Chess players

Gossip participated in several master tournaments in which he, however, did not achieve good results. In the tournaments of Breslau in 1889, London in 1889, Manchester in 1890, London in 1892 and New York in 1893, he came last and came to a total of only four winning plays at 52 defeats and 22 draws. At the tournament in New York in 1889 he reached at least 13.5 points from 38 games and won some games against recognized masters such as Henry Edward Bird. In the not very strong occupied Australian championship in 1885 he finished second, two years later, he finished in third place.

Despite these unimpressive tournament balance he considered himself to be a good player and like led as evidence of success in minor tournaments, and games that have been played outside of tournaments. He was accused to have invented these games partially free, which he always denied. The truth is rather that he not only used to publish his won games that significantly more numerous games but loss.

His best historical Elo rating is 2470th

Chess Author

Gossip wrote several chess books, including The chess player 's manual (1875, 2nd edition 1888), a 900 -page treatise on openings, which was after all reviewed by World Chess Champion Wilhelm Steinitz as useful work. More chess books from his pen are Theory of the Chess Openings (1879, 2nd edition 1891), The chess players ' text -book (1889 ) and The chess-player 's vade mecum and pocket guide to the openings Public (1891 ). In the English Chess Press these works were regularly panned to the great bitterness Gossips, because you put his chess skills in question.