Talk:Egil Jacobsen

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This article was nominated for deletion on 31 March 2010 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

Passing refs

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2546 http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter46.html

Dubious

Actually the date of death is pretty well established, it's the claim that Jacobsen participated in the 1928 Chess Olympiad that's really dubious, considering that he had been dead for five years. Jeremy Gaige 1987, Chess Personalia, p. 190, gives Jacobsen's date of death as 27 March 1923. The sources listed by Gaige are Deutsche Schachzeitung, 1923, p. 77, and Skakbladet. 1923, pp. 115-116. Given the dates of publication those are likely obituaries, although I don't have either source myself to check. Working from the other end, a quick check of Olimpbase.org shows that Denmark did field an Olympiad team in 1928, and the Danes placed fifth. The Danish team roster is four players, none of them named Jacobsen. In fact our own 2nd Chess Olympiad page lists the Danish roster and also explains the chessgames.com mistake: the 1928 E. Jacobsen games are from Ernst Jacobsen, a Swedish player. Our article spells his name Ernst Jacobson, possibly because that's the way that Olimpbase spells it. (Gaige has Jacobsen.)

We ought to be extra cautious in making claims based on any information from chessgames.com, and doubly extra cautious if the claim is based on a game score as these are often erroneous. Quale (talk) 02:03, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see http://www.olimpbase.org/1928/1928swe.html. Ernst Jacobson played in 1928 Olympiad. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 03:20, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]