Source: Chess Life, vol. 19 no. 11, p. 281.
Jewish Chess History
Chess History in Palestine and Israel
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Cosmonauts, Prisoners, and Chess
Henry Wittenberg, from Chess to Swimming to Wrestling
Fischer not Playing in Tel Aviv, 1964
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Who Says there are no New Chess Clubs?
Saturday, May 31, 2025
The Dangers of Machine Translation
A colleague of mine is researching the life of the Zvi (ne Henryk) Kahane, 1906-1983. He was a strong player (a candidate master) in Israel in the 1950s to 1970s as well as a composer of problems. For consistency's sake, I use in the blog Gaige's preferred spelling "Kahana", although this does not mean "Kahane" is wrong (it is just a variant spelling).
Not speaking Hebrew, he sent me the Hebrew sources as well as - for my edification - the machine-translated version of what they said for comments. I emphasize that my colleague does not rely on the machine translation to be accurate but only to give a general idea of what the Hebrew text is about - and for good reason. Here, is for example, the "translation" given to an article in La'merchav, 27 October 1957, p. 1, with my corrections in red:
Monday, May 19, 2025
Chess and the Jewish Refugee Camp in Landsberg
Monday, April 28, 2025
Science Fiction and Chess - Once More
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Photos of Ephraim Kishon Playing Chess
Despite his love of the game, there don't seem to be many photos of Ephraim Kishon playing chess, except occasionally in simultaneous displays or the like (as opposed to tournament games). In particular, two black and white photos of him doing so are found on his memorial web site (link above). The same site also has a note about his chess computer, the talking chesster. There was also a chess set in his office, as seen in, for example, the following detail from the photo of his office on the Hebrew wikipedia web page about him: