Rudolf Spielmann vs Akiba Rubinstein (1911)

Rudolf Spielmann vs Akiba Rubinstein
Karlsbad 1911 · Four Knights Game: Spanish. Symmetrical Variation (C49) · 1-0

Given 24 times; par: 42 [what's this?]

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Dec-16-03		Chessical: Spielmann plays very actively against Rubinstein and breaks through to his K with two rook sacrifices – on f6 and g7. 11...c5 12.d5 Nc7 13.Bd3 Bg4 (Tartakower) is equal. 37.Rxg7 Ke8 38.Rxg8+ Rf8 39.Rxf8+ Kd7 40.Rxd8 mate. Also see Spielmann vs Rubinstein, 1907 where fours years earlier Spielmann crashed trough on the K-side again.

Nov-12-08		chocobonbon: It seems to me that the Rook capture at g7 isn't a sac as it literally cannot be taken and will not have been taken even had Black played on. Quite a bully Rook.

Jan-04-09		WhiteRook48: the arrangement in the final position...

Mar-17-09		WhiteRook48: 37 Rxg7 and Rubinstein is stuck in zugzwang

Aug-19-09		tayer: I think that zugzwang is a position where you rather don't have to move (i.e. the fact that you have to move makes things worse), so you would "pass" if you could. After 37 Rxg7+, if black "passes", then white plays 38. Qxg8++

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