Philipp Stamma
Philipp Stamma | |
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Country | England |
Born | c. 1705 Aleppo Syria, Aleppo Eyalet (etrugul bey), Ottoman Empire |
Died | c. 1755 London, England |
Philipp Stamma (c. 1705 – c. 1755), a Syriac native of
Stamma died in London c. 1755, with two sons surviving him.
Strong player
Stamma was a regular at Slaughter's Coffee House in St Martin's Lane, London, a center of 18th-century English chess, and was considered one of England's strongest players. He was defeated quite handily by Philidor in a famous match in 1747, which marked the beginning of Philidor's rise to fame.
Apart from the higher skills of Philidor, Ludwig Bledow and Otto von Oppen have suggested that his defeat could be attributed to the fact that Stamma, in Ottoman Syria, was used to playing with the Arabic rules and only after his arrival to Europe got acquainted with the Western rules. Bledow and Oppen also commented that the match was poorly documented, being mentioned only by Philidor's biographers, who frequently contradicted each other.[1]
Other legacy
Stamma's book introduced
His name is attached to the Stamma Gambit in the King's Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.h4),[4] and Stamma's mate, a rather rare checkmate.
New edition of Stamma's book
A new translation of Stamma's book into modern French appeared in November 2015 under the title Les cent fins de parties de Philippe Stamma.[5]
See also
References
- ^ L. Bledow, O. von Oppen, Stamma's hundert Endspiele, Berlin 1856
- ^ McCrary, R.J. "The History of Chess Notation". Archived from the original on 2000-03-12.
- ISBN 0-679-14550-8.
- ^ "King's Gambit Accepted, Pawn's gambit (Stamma gambit)". 365Chess.com. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
- ISBN 978-2-322-04370-5.
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-7864-2353-6.
- John Roycroft: Philip Stamma, in: British Chess Magazine, 124 (2004), pp. 544–49, 603-08