Johannes Geppert 📯

SDM at @amazon. Apache Struts PMC and ASF Member. Currently writing a biography of my great-great-uncle Jacques Mieses, the chess grandmaster.

[Johannes Geppert 📯 @jogep]

The blog has been quiet for a while. Here is the reason: I am writing a biography of my great-great-uncle Jacques Mieses. Started a website about him in the nineties, finally turning it into a book.
https://t.co/NDF6NvIclh

[JacquesMieses @JacquesMieses]

This photo of Reshevsky in old age. I played him at Margate in 1935, when he was 23. That game later appeared in Walter Tevis's The Queen's Gambit and in the Netflix series. You can replay it here.

https://t.co/bYtfbMbCe0

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This 1896 portrait of David Janowski, one of the most frequent opponents of my career. We played each other for over twenty years. One of our games remained my favourite to the end.

https://t.co/IF79aF2qYH

#chess #chesshistory

[Apache Struts @TheApacheStruts]

Apache Struts 6.10.0 is under Vote! Test the bits and cast your vote!
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#struts #release #vote

[JacquesMieses @JacquesMieses]

May 1942, London. The 77-year-old Jacques Mieses, exiled from Nazi Germany, sits down for a 10-game match against Vera Menchik, 36, Women's World Champion since 1927.
The first ever serious match between a woman and a grandmaster.

#chess #chesshistory

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Douglas Griffin found this photograph from the Prague Olympiad 1931. Mieses sits at the front right, attending as guest of honour and most likely also reporting for the press, which he did at major tournaments of those years.

[Johannes Geppert 📯 @jogep]

The prompt mattered more than the model.
That's the unexpected finding from trying to get @claudeai to read a Russian passport from 1864 that has been sitting unread in my family archive.

https://t.co/UR7cahS616

[Apache Struts @TheApacheStruts]

We published a dedicated webpage about EOLed versions of the Apache Struts - hope it will help make a right decision!
https://t.co/EK5kuVCCEV

#struts #eol #versions

[JacquesMieses @JacquesMieses]

@thechessnerd Sat across from him at Hastings 1895. Already the grand old man at 59, still fighting like he was 30. The man taught chess what "positional" meant.

[JacquesMieses @JacquesMieses]

@anishgiri My advice: play him. I once accepted a similar challenge in Berlin, 1916. The opponent: Tarrasch. The prize: half a pound of butter. Lasker arbitrated. I lost 7-2. We split the butter anyway.

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Stuttgart, January 1909. Before his blindfold match against Schlechter, Mieses wrote that imagination "works most vividly at night." Play ran 8 pm to midnight. He won 2½–½, undefeated.
#chesshistory #chess

[Apache Struts @TheApacheStruts]

Apache Struts 6.9.0 is officially out, happy coding!
https://t.co/oOUhI4HHh4

#struts #release

[Apache Struts @TheApacheStruts]

A new version of the Apache Struts @intellijidea plugin is available, have fun!
https://t.co/7oE9qyrq1J

#struts #idea #plugin

[JacquesMieses @JacquesMieses]

May 1945. @BCMChess devotes its cover and editorial to "The Mieses Celebration", his eightieth birthday at the Lud-Eagle Chess Club.
Britain had given him refuge seven years earlier. Citizenship was still two years away. The chess world claimed him first.
#chesshistory #chess

[Apache Struts @TheApacheStruts]

We started a vote process on releasing a new version of the Struts plugin for @intellijidea - test the plugin and cast your vote!

https://t.co/zxYCAzV2IG

#struts #ide #idea #plugina

[Apache Struts @TheApacheStruts]

Apache Struts 6.9.0 is coming, the Vote process has started, test the bits and vote!
https://t.co/UnyAnToIY4

#struts #release #vote

[JacquesMieses @JacquesMieses]

In 1945, an 80-year-old refugee sat down at Hastings and won the brilliancy prize.
He had played in the same town 50 years earlier, in the tournament that invented modern chess.
A short thread about Jacques Mieses and the longest career in chess history.
#chesshistory #chess

[Douglas Griffin @dgriffinchess]

An interesting & informative post by @JacquesMieses on the inaugural holders of the International Grandmaster title:
https://t.co/CQHuOt3aLE

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In 1950, @FIDE_chess awarded the #Grandmaster title for the first time. 27 players received it.

The oldest: Jacques Mieses, age 85.

He had been playing international chess since 1888, 62 years before the title that defined his rank even existed.

https://t.co/ja9QPwzdZr

[Apache Struts @TheApacheStruts]

Just prepared a new version of our plugin for @intellijidea - if you developing Struts app with IDE, test the plugin and let us know!
https://t.co/TJYd9SHZCP

#struts #intellijidea #plugin #test #build