"MacCutcheon" is apparently also a fictional brand of whisky in "Lost" :)

I still wonder what the Scottish preference would be? For MacDonald and McDonald, to me "Mac" seems more Scottish than the  burger chain's Mc, but according to wiki:

[quote]MacDonald, Macdonald, and McDonald are Anglicised forms of the Scottish Gaelic name MacDhòmhnaill.[/quote]

So, isn't this "correct spelling" debate a lot like the "Kortchnoi / Korchnoi / Kortschnoj / Kortnoy / Kortjnoj" (etc), debate? How the person himself spells it does not stop every language group from having their own officially correct spelling...

What, the MacCutcheon is named after a Western Pennsylvanian?? I'm a Western Pennsylvanian myself, by birth. Born in Mercer. 

But that's quite interesting. Who was this MacCutcheon? Or McCutcheon, as the case may be?

Jonathan Tait wrote on 06/01/12 at 18:14:56:


I was surprised by this as well, but if more evidence is needed, here's what Jeremy Gaige says (Chess Personalia, McFarland 1987):

MacCutcheon, John Lindsay
     vide: McCutcheon

and

McCutcheon, John Lindsay
     b 28-05-1857   Allegheny, PA, USA
     d 17-07-1905   Pittsburgh, PA, USA
     ... (with references)

Michael Ayton wrote on 06/01/12 at 14:58:50:


cheers

That's not the meaning of "contemporary" he meant ...

BTW, a couple more books using "McCutcheon" are Nunn's Chess Openings and Practical Chess Openings (the latter by Reuben Fine from the 1940s).

[quote]I wonder if Edward Winter has had anything to say about it. [/quote]
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter60.html

See 6217.

Neil McDonald has McCutcheon in his "How to play against 1. e4" 

ghenghisclown wrote on 05/31/12 at 07:21:07:

yes

Gilchrist is a legend wrote on 06/01/12 at 00:17:56:

seven