SDM at @amazon. Apache Struts PMC and ASF Member. Currently writing a biography of my great-great-uncle Jacques Mieses, the chess grandmaster.
Germany, Leipzig
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I have shipped a lot of software over the years. The longest-running project of my life is a book about a chess player who died in 1954. It has a publisher now: Hentrich & Hentrich, Leipzig, spring 2027.
1895: a 30-year-old plays in the great Hastings tournament. 1946: back in Hastings, 80 and a refugee, he wins the brilliancy prize. Every other player from 1895 is dead. He was my great-great-uncle. His biography: spring 2027, Hentrich & Hentrich. mieses.info/en/book-biograph…
The book is in German. Hentrich & Hentrich publish on Jewish culture and history, out of Leipzig, where Mieses was born, and Berlin. English rights stayed with me; an English edition is in preparation. The page above has a newsletter that sends one message on the day the book is out.
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Glossop, 29 October 1945.
Jacques Mieses, 80, begins a six-game match against Gerald Abrahams, 38, a Liverpool barrister. Mieses wins 4½-1½.
At Bournemouth in 1939, Abrahams had won exactly one game. Against Mieses.
#chesshistory #chess – at Leipzig, Germany
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In July 1927 the German Chess Federation turned 50 and gave out twelve medals. Ninth on the list: "J. Mieses-Leipzig". He wasn't in the hall. He was in London, playing board two at the first official Olympiad.
He was my great-grandmother's brother.
#chesshistory #chess
I wrote about #Leipzig, where the federation was founded in 1877, and five players from the city. My BlogChamps entry on @chesscom :
chess.com/blog/jogep/leipzig…
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London, 30 September 1942.
A charity granted Jacques Mieses, 77, £21 for two pairs of orthopedic shoes. His last pair from Leipzig, built up for a right leg an inch and a half short since 1937, was past mending.
In #Leipzig, money had never been his worry.
#chesshistory #chess @WJRelief
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Meister Mieses thearticle.com/meister-miese… @JacquesMieses hope you enjoy this piece about your distinguished ancestor‼️
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Liverpool, April 1923. Nine rounds in a week. Mieses scored 8 out of 9 and finished undefeated, ahead of Maróczy.
He was fifty-eight.
Gunsberg ended his report in the Liverpool Daily Post with four words: "Hats off to Mieses."
#chesshistory #chess♟️
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Apache Struts 7.4.0 test build is ready. 31 bug fixes, HTML5 form constraints derived from your validators, tighter REST body handling and a few breaking changes, so please read the notes and test against your apps before the vote.
lists.apache.org/thread/srd9…
#struts #test #build
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Apache Struts 6.12.0 test build is ready for the 6.x line: mostly bug fixes plus a couple of behaviour changes in the REST plugin's default stack. If you're still on 6.x, now is the time to test.
lists.apache.org/thread/y2lc…
#struts #test #build
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The Hague, 1949. I was eighty-four. My opponent, Dirk van Foreest, was eighty-six.
I won in twenty moves, announced the result and added: "Die Jugend hat gesiegt." Youth has triumphed.
Between us we had a hundred and seventy years. – at Lisbon, Portugal
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Why I dropped the plan to publish it myself, and what changed my mind: jgeppert.com/2026/09/10/jacq…
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Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1882. Problem no. 5011, mate in two, by J. Mieses in Leipzig, aged seventeen. His first appearance in print, and not a game.
Still sound after 144 years. The key alone will not do, give me all four lines.
#chesshistory #chess
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Photographs of him actually giving a simul are rare. Written records of the Dutch tours survive in quantity, board counts and all, but almost nothing shows the room. This one does. – at Leipzig, Germany
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Habe den Punkt erreicht, wo ich Schriftsatz bekomme, in dem mir erklärt wird, dass das Editieren von HTML in meinem Browser (löschen eines disabled Attributes) hacking, für das man besonders krasse Fachkenntnisse bräuchte, sei.
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In 1901 Reclam handed him a chess textbook whose author had died eight years earlier.
Mieses edited it for the next fifty-one years, until 1952. It stayed in print until 2004, past thirty editions.
#chesshistory #chessbooks – at Leipzig, Germany
ALT Lehrbuch des Schachspiels von J. Dufresne und J. Mieses.
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Leonard Barden is 97 today. In the winter of 1948 he was nineteen and finished second in the Hastings Major Section. I was eighty-three and came eighth in the same field.
He has been writing about chess ever since. Many happy returns. – at Leipzig, Germany
Leonard Barden turned 97 today. He is still writing excellent chess columns for the @guardian and @FT. chesshistory.com/winter/extr…
