Akiba Rubinstein vs Hirschbein (1927)

Akiba Rubinstein vs Hirschbein
Lodz 1927 · Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense. Main Line (D64) · 1-0

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Jan-31-03		just4fun: This is a very pleasing game. Playing through it I got fixated by mating themes on the b1-h7 diagonal but the final blow invlolved the a1-h8 one - seeing the entire board is still one of my unfortunate shortcomings, I guess..

Jan-31-03		Sneaky: Long live the Rubinstein attack!

Jan-31-03		highschool: a beautiful finish, such creativity

Feb-21-04		iron maiden: Very common and basic combinational pattern: a rook captures a knight that was preventing a hostile knight from checking the king. Any piece that takes the rook back gets forked. Beginners should learn it: it's practically guaranteed you'll use it at least once.

Feb-21-04		kevin86: A neat pair of double attacks;first a fork,then a far more subtle one:a threat of mate and an attack on the queen. And if the queen moves,the knight which attacked it now blocks the king's escape square!

Feb-21-04		WMD: According to the Donaldson & Minev book on Rubinstein, Black resigned after 22.Nf6.

Feb-21-04		karlzen: The theme Ba2-b1 looks like an amateur in action, but acutally it is very much worth remembering. It created a severe weakness of the black king's cover and black lost control of the dark squares. Ne5! took advantage of that fact and Rxd7! followed by the beautiful Nd5! then came naturally.

Feb-21-04		masterwojtek: Rubinstein=Polish genious! He almost became the world champion

Feb-21-04		knightfly: Excellent play by Rubinstein. I'm sure he must have envisaged the final position when he played 16.Ne5 offering the pawn sac. Many chessplayers consider him the strongest player never to have been world champion.

Dec-09-06		notyetagm: <iron maiden: Very common and basic combinational pattern: a rook captures a knight that was preventing a hostile knight from checking the king. Any piece that takes the rook back gets forked. Beginners should learn it: it's practically guaranteed you'll use it at least once.> Yes, I call this tactical idea <knight opposition> - a knight defending a knight fork square. Knight defender? <REMOVE THE GUARD>!

Apr-13-09		WhiteRook48: I don't get it

Dec-09-09		OhioChessFan: Nice puzzle from the newsletter. Not too hard, but still a nice combination.

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