Nicholas Theodore Miniati
Nicholas Theodore Miniati ( Greek Νικολάος Θεόδωρος Μηνιάτης Nikolaos Theodoros Miniatis ; * June 1860 in Salford ; † 1943 in Bolton ) was a British-Greek chess master.
Miniati was born to Greek parents in the British city of Salford . At the age of 21 he learned to play chess . From the mid-1880s he was considered one of the best chess masters in Manchester and won the Manchester Club championship several times . For several years he edited the chess column of the Manchester Weekly Times . In 1892 and 1893 he published the chess newspaper The Chess Review . Miniati also composed some chess problems.
Miniati went down in chess history as a competitive opponent of the later world champion Emanuel Lasker , to whom he lost 1: 4 (+ 0, = 2, - 3) in Manchester in 1890. He finished third in the main tournament in Amsterdam in 1889 and fifth in the British National Tournament in London in 1890.
From the mid-1890s, Miniati no longer recorded any chess activities in the chess literature. He died in Bolton in 1943 .
swell
- Gittins, Frederick Richard (Ed.): The Chess Bouquet or The Book of the British Composers of Chess Problems. London 1897, pp. 119-121.
- Hübner, Robert : The Lasker-Miniati competition. In: The world championship fight Lasker-Steinitz 1894. Berlin 2008, p. 33.
Web links
- Compositions by Nicholas Theodore Miniati on the Schwalbe's PDB server
- Replayable chess games by Nicholas Theodore Miniati on chessgames.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chess Yearbook for 1899/1900, Leipzig 1899, p. 186
- ^ Yorkshire Chess History. Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miniati, Nicholas Theodore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Μηνιάτης, Νικολάος Θεόδωρος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Greek chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salford |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1943 |
| Place of death | Bolton (Greater Manchester) |