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Emanuel Lasker vs Leopold Spielmann
Blindfold simul, 5b (1900) (blindfold), Vienna AUH, Sep-30
Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch. Primitive Pillsbury Variation (D50)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Nov-20-04  ughaibu: Well well well, if Lasker doesn't repeat Pillsbury's play from the famous 1895 game.
Nov-20-04  aw1988: What happens then? :)
Nov-20-04  Calculoso: Why is this a draw? I see it was going towards a repetition but why not move the king elsewhere?
Nov-20-04
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  beatgiant: <Why is this a draw? I see it was going towards a repetition but why not move the king elsewhere?>

If the king moves to the h-file, Rxh2+ is possible (since it comes with check), and if to to e8 ♗a4+ ♔d8; ♘e6# .

Mar-29-06
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  offramp: Lasker and Spielmann played 5 times, a win for Lasker and 4 draws.

This is the first game, in 1900. Their last game was at Moscow in 1935; just 5 games in 35 years. Rather unusual.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

Mar-29-06  Boomie: The cute 26...Rxh2 blows a won game. After 26...Nxc5 white is cooked.
Mar-29-06
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  Honza Cervenka: <This is the first game, in 1900. Their last game was at Moscow in 1935; just 5 games in 35 years. Rather unusual.> Lasker's career was long but he played quite sporadically in tournaments. By the way, this game was played also in an exhibition, maybe in a simul of Lasker against Vienna chess club players. But I guess that Lasker and Spielmann played more off-hand games, which are not in the database or which did not survive.
Sep-03-10  muwatalli: <If the king moves to the h-file, Rxh2+ is possible (since it comes with check), and if to to e8 Ba4+ Kd8; Ne6# .> actually there are many possibilities after 27... Kf7 28 Nc5+? Ke8 29. Ba4+ Kf8(not kd8 Ne6# as mentioned) when 30. Rxh2 Rxc5 the best possibility for white appears to favor black(though it is quite complex).

the reason it is a simple perpetual is due to 27... Kf7 28 Nc7+ when the king cannot get to e8 at all.

Sep-03-10
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  NM JRousselle: Spielmann was 17 and Lasker 32 when this game was played. It could have been a simul. It certainly was at the beginning of Spielmann's career.
Sep-04-10  Calli: Apparently, this is not the teenage Rudolph. Wiener Schachzeitung (1900, page 212) gave the name as "P Spielmann". The game was one of five played blindfold by Dr. Lasker.

Through the miracle of Google books you can view the report here: http://books.google.com/books?id=vy...

Nov-22-14  TheFocus: From a blindfold simul played in Vienna, Austria at the Wien Chess club on September 30, 1900.

Lasker scored +4=1-0.

Jul-20-18
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  mifralu: < Calli: Apparently, this is not the teenage Rudolph.>

Actually, it is his older brother
Leopold <(Poldi)> Spielmann (born August 5, 1881 in Vienna, † December 10, 1941 in ghetto Theresienstadt). He was an Austrian pianist and conductor.

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