| Feb-06-04 |
| Whitehat1963: This gets really ugly fast. It's almost as if Nimzo was trying to lose. |
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Feb-06-04
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| InspiredByMorphy: Holy cow! This is some amazing play by Edward ( not Emmanuel ) Lasker. The kingside attack is viscous, and combinational. I always love seeing black win the Ruy Lopez exchange as I (yes just my opinion) think it is the strongest way to play the Lopez for white. I am always interested in how to handle it. Laskers seems to handle it with great confidence. This guy is really cool. He made a book called "secrets I learned from the masters", and its great. He talks about
his childhood experiences with chess and how he got to where he was. A must read for chess fans who like books! |
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May-16-05
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| Caissanist: According to Lasker, this was a "practice game" that he and Nimzowitsch played while preparing for an upcoming tournament in Hamburg. "I was elated at winning the game, although I confessed to myself afterward that this would never have happened, had Nimzowitsch not played with that somewhat condescending attitude of a master who feels that all he has to do is to wait until his weaker opponent commits positional suicide." |
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| May-16-05 |
| Jamespawn: My boy Nimzo didn`t have it together this game, but he`s usually the stuff. |
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| May-17-05 |
| Holden: 11. Kh2?
This seems to beg for a kingside pawn rush. How about 11. c3, with an idea of Ne2, preparing d5? |
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Jan-11-07
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| aazqua: kh2 might be the worst move nimzo ever played. FOr a positional master it really is appaling to think that that was the best move available. |
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| Jul-28-08 |
| jerseybob: I wouldn't be so hard on 11.Kh2. By that time white was in serious trouble. The real villain here, in my opinion, is 9.Ng3? White should've followed the logic of his 8th move and opposed the black king bishop with 9.Be3, and if Bxe3, 10.Nxe3 with a great game. 9.Ng3 might be bearable if black just mechanically castled kingside, but with Qd7 and 000 he signals that he's really ready to rumble, and Bxh3 could be a threat. Doesn't necessarily win, but it's scary. That's the reason for 11.Kh2. White might have tried the trappy 11.Nh2,hoping for Bxh3? 12.gxh3, Qxh3 13. Qg4ch!, but black has a strong game with just ordinary moves. White might also try 11.Be3, and if Bxe3 12.fxe3 might be survivable, but white's kingside is loose, much looser than black's queenside. |
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| Jul-28-08 |
| jerseybob: Let me add one more 11th move possibility for White: 11.Qe2, eyeing 12.Be3. Of course, white is then gambling that the bishop sac Bxh3 is unsound. Nimzo wasn't willing to take that gamble. |
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Dec-13-08
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| Jonathan Sarfati: 5...  c5 is not so good though, because of e3. Better to play 5... f6, c5, d6,  e7-c6 with a nice position, as in P Romanovsky vs Botvinnik, 1935. Lasker's attack was most elegant. |
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