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Akiba Rubinstein vs Miguel Najdorf / Samuel Elper / I Towbin
Consultation game (1931) (exhibition), Warsaw POL
Indian Game: Knights Variation. General (A46)  ·  0-1

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Apr-17-09  Benzol: Seems a shame that this game appears to be the only one played between Rubinstein and Najdorf.
Apr-17-09
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  ray keene: rubinstein was evidently winning but amazingly ignored what black was doing on the kings side-it has the air of a simultaneous game to me-two black players and one white-consultation simul against the master?
Apr-17-09  Karpova: <Benzol: Seems a shame that this game appears to be the only one played between Rubinstein and Najdorf.>

From C.N. 5250:

<Here, M. Najdorf affirmed that in Brussels in 1950 he visited Rubinstein, who had shut himself away in an attic and spoke to nobody. Also present during the visit were Rubinstein’s sons and the director of a neuropsychiatric institute, and they told Najdorf the Gestapo story. Najdorf added that Rubinstein agreed to play two games with him and that Rubinstein won in fantastic style.> (page 109 of "Najdorf x Najdorf" by Liliana Najdorf (Buenos Aires, 1999))

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Jul-27-10
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  GrahamClayton: According to "Najdorf: Life and Games", Tovbin is actually I Towbin, while the 3rd player on the Black side is Samuel Elper, who was a sponsor of the Warsaw Championship for many years.

This game was played as part of a major exhibition tour by Rubinstein of his homeland, with the aim to give him some financial security.

Jun-22-11  Benzol: <Karpova> Thanks for your post here. My apologies for missing it at the time. It would be great if the scores of the two Rubinstein - Najdorf games were to surface.
Jul-19-18
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  Stonehenge: Some info on Towbin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izaak...

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