Talk:Daniel Harrwitz

Linking "German"

Its my understanding that the linking convention for articles is to link to other articles of particular relevance, and not simply because a word has a wikipedian article. In the opening statement, if both "German" and "chess master" are both linked, the eye tends to see just one long link, it looks like "German chess master" and that is misleading, as there is no such article, and clicking on "German" takes you to general entry on Germany. So, perhaps its best to link "chess master" only, as its not obvious that such an article exists, and its relevant to understanding what Harrwitz was in his life. On the other hand, if the reader wants to know about Germany in general, they can simply type "Germany" into the search box. Linking "German" is over-linking in this type of article, in my opinion. ChessPlayer 03:00, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It's really a matter of taste, and there are certainly plenty of people who would agree with you that such links are unnecessary and even undesireable, but most biographical articles in the Wikipedia do nevertheless link to countries in this way. If you wanted to take the link out, then you could do so, but I'd expect somebody to put it back in eventually. Personally, I think such links do little harm. I wouldn't worry about it too much, really - such things don't make a lot of difference one way or the other. The content of the article is more important. --Camembert

If you turn on link underlining in the Preferences, you'll find that the eye does not run together German chess master as one link. I favor linking both. -- Mareklug ^talk 06:16, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Harrwitz did not have a plus score against Anderssen. The score was either even, or plus one in favor of Anderssen. Their 1848 match ended with five wins each. But, some sources have an additional two games that year with Anderssen scoring 1 1/2. Then, in 1857 they played three games, each winning one, plus a draw. JStripes —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.185.177.88 (talk) 22:45, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Black

It seems that Harrwitz had the black pieces, not Morphy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.169.107.99 (talk) 13:51, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Birth date

The correct birth date was the 22 Feb 1821. See the grave stone in Edgar Winters CN 6286 See also the film "Geburten 1804-1802, 1809-1822, 1825-1846 International Film 1184380 7989998" (Jewish records from Breslau) at family-search (free registration necessary)

On page 337/594 of the film the birth is registrated as 22 Feb 1821  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.48.125.174 (talk) 10:55, 17 December 2019 (UTC) 

Death date

The death date is also wrong, see the grave stone in Edgar Winters CN 6286 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.48.125.174 (talk) 10:58, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

The Morphy game needed changes in annotations.

I changed 0-0 to 0-0-0 and ree1 to r5e1. While I don’t have a source for these changes, they are the only logical way the game could have played out, the previous annotation had been an impossible game. Any moves other than 0-0-0 and r5e1 does not match with the later moves played. Con1975 (talk) 12:07, 29 September 2024 (UTC)