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Jan-06-09
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| Karpova: <Anyi>
A question with regards to your above post: Some people claim that Rubinstein was already mentally unstable prior to WW1 and that it didn't get that much worse after the War. What do you think about that? Do his pre-WW1 results strike you as significantly unstable (with his worst result being the equal score at St. Petersburg 1914)? (This should not be regarded as an antithesis to your above post) |
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Jan-06-09
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| kevin86: This game is truly immortal:After all,it is very rare that a player sacs his queen IN THE PROCESS of offering the rooks in turn. In the end,the true goal-mate-is inevitable. |
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| Jan-06-09 |
| Anyi: <karpova>
Rubinstein's level and constancy of performance before 1913 is higher than any other player's of his age, and fatigue (and as I suggest in my essay, other distractions) may have led to the 1914 St. Petersburg disaster. My intution says that Rubinstein had to face a lot of envy throughout his career, and that this showed in all those anectodes that sprang up like mushrooms after WWI when his performances got less successful and his depression set in, but from an objective point of view he was still a successful player up to 1931 (compared with other players of his time). A matter that deserves an essay (and you have already worked on the statistics of his performances). I'm actually about to start an essay on this topic and on Rubinstein's social status among his colleagues. |
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Jan-06-09
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| Karpova: <Anyi>
I agree with you. Regarding the pre-WW1 era I came to the same conclusion (especially if you compare the results to those of players who played matches for the WC title - Marshall and Janowski). |
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| Jan-06-09 |
| WhiteRook48: why do we have to recycle a game of the day on with the same pun? |
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Jan-06-09
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| SuperPatzer77: <WhiteRook48: why do we have to recycle a game of the day on with the same pun?> <WhiteRook48> It beats the heck out of me. You don't have to ask us the Chess folks why but just ask the chessgames.com people why. However, we gotta take our hats off to Akiba Rubinstein - one of the greatest chess players - It is, of course, Akiba Rubinstein's Immortal. You gotta ask any grandmasters about his tactical moves. Even Kasparov likes the way Rubinstein played in chess. SuperPatzer77 |
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Jan-09-09
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| LIFE Master AJ: This game IS pretty, I am always puzzled by the critics of this game. My position has always been when you cannot appreciate the raw beauty of this game, then you you cannot see the forest for the trees. |
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| Jan-17-09 |
| WhiteRook48: the annotations are extraordinary!
how surprising that GM Fine gave ...Rh3! FOUR exclamation marks. |
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Jan-25-09
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| SuperPatzer77: After 23...Rd2!!!, White's reply to this move is 24. Qxd2 (deflection) Bxe4+, 25. Rf3 Bxf3+, 26. Qg2 Rc2!! (threatening to mate with Bxg2#), 27. Bd4 (27. Qxf3 Rxh2#) Bxd4, 28. Rg1 Nf2#! 0-1
Of course, too many mating threats still are inevitable so, that's why it is Rubinstein's immortal. SuperPatzer77
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Jan-26-09
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| SuperPatzer77: Correction to my previous analysis after 23...Rd2!!! as follows: 23...Rd2!!!, 24. Qxd2 (deflection) Bxe4+, 25. Rf3 (instead of 25. Qg2) Bxf3+, 26. Qg2 Rc2!! (threatening 27...Bxg2#) below: a) 27. Bd4 Bxg2+ (faster than 27...Bxd4), 28. Kg1 Bxd4# b) 27. Rg1 Nf2#!
c) 27. Qxf3 Rxh2#
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Sorry if my previous analysis I made is incorrect so, I want to show you this simple and better analysis if it is 25. Rf3 instead of Georg Rotlewi's actual move of 25. Qg2. SuperPatzer77
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| Mar-02-09 |
| vikinx: This game is in 303 game collections-wait, make that 304!Game Collection: vikinx's favorite games |
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| Mar-05-09 |
| shaqcosteau: What an amazing game. |
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| Apr-23-09 |
| MaczynskiPratten: Remarkably, at move 15 the position is almost exactly symmetrical, but Black's more subtle play of the opening has gained two tempi - one to reverse White's first move advantage, one for Rd8 - and these prove vital. |
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Apr-29-09
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| SirChrislov: If you love this game, see this one where blk also plays ...Ng4 and ...Qh4 with Q sac!! Polugaevsky-Nezhmetdinov,1961. In Andrew Soltis' book the 100 best chess games of the 20th Century, these two games are in the top ten. |
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Apr-29-09
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| parisattack: <Richard Taylor: I've known this game for about 40 years and every time I see it is like hearing the most fantastically beautiful music I have ever heard. I have just been playing over some Rubinstein games again - he played so many beautiful and deep, and instructive games.> About the same here, RT. Over 40 years or so I'm sure I've replayed this one several dozen times and it continues to awe. Rubinstein one of the great chess 'geometers' along with Fischer, Kasparov and perhaps Lasker. |
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May-02-09
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| Richard Taylor: <parisattack> I agree re Rubinstein - I also have been studying Lasker, Alekhine, Capablanca, Steinitz, Tarrasch (Tarrasch is good to play for almost "basic" technique) and others ... it is only now I am rather old I am starting to understand strategy perhaps more systematically (and it helps - so I seem to understand the moves of Rubinstein, Capablanca, and others). I play games over - study the variations then play it over quickly again... of course tactics practice is also always necessary. But there is a beauty at work here also - just like listening to music or looking at or studying art or poetry or some great science or maths or astronomy and so on - or a great game of sport whatever...is deep or inspiring. |
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May-02-09
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| blacksburg: i love it when this game pops up on recent kibitzing so i get another excuse to look at it again. this and the opera house game are the only 2 that i know by heart. beautiful stuff here. |
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| May-17-09 |
| zzzzzzzzzzzz: weird, it is |
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| May-18-09 |
| gus inn: I once witnessed two 2600+ GM´s analyze their game , and both agreed that they hopefully, one day would "play like Rubinstein".And it was this game they referred to. Bigger praise is not possible in the world of chess. |
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Jul-29-09
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| LIFE Master AJ: http://www.geocities.com/lifemaster... My annotations of this game ... (if you have never seen them). |
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| Aug-12-09 |
| Damianx: i agree it.s great but what if 21 queen takes knight |
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| Aug-12-09 |
| Damianx: rook takes bishop knight E2 different game then |
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Aug-12-09
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| LIFE Master AJ: <Damianx>
[Some other moves were:
#1.) 21.Qxg4? Rxd3; 22.Ne2, (22.Rac1!? Rd2; "/+")
22...Rc2; "/+" 23.Bc1 h5!; 24.Qxh5 Bxg2+!; 25.Kxg2 Qb7+;  #2.) 21.Ne4 Rxd3!; 22.Qxd3 Bxe4; 23.Qxe4 Qh4!; "and mates," says Soltis. (now) 24.h3 Qg3!; A nice move. 25.hxg4 Qh4# - I. Chernev. #3.) 21.Bxh7+ Kxh7; 22.Qxg4 Rd2!; " "
#4.) 21.h3 Qh4; ("  ")
And now: 22.Qxg4 Qxg4; 23.hxg4 Rxd3; 24.Rac1, (?) Black is winning in any case. (24.Rf3 Bxf3; 25.gxf3 Rdxc3; 26.Bxc3 Rxc3; 27.Rd1, And now the simplest win is: 27...g6!; "  " when Black is a piece ahead and wins easily.) 24...Rh3#. ] From my web page, http://www.ajschess.com/lifemastera.... |
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Aug-22-09
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| Phony Benoni: Sometimes words are superfluous. Note how Schlechter and Tartakower, after jabbering away the past few moves, have absolutely nothing to say starting with 22...Rxc3. |
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Oct-12-09
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| Bishoprick: Anyi, you are suggesting that I made a mistake? How is that possible? ;-) |
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