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| Jul-04-08 |
| corsopoet: Skipping politics, if I was going to drink a beer with somebody, and whiskyrebel, michadams and keypusher weren't around, I'd go for the hops with Taratakower. In that great book Wolfmaster mentioned, "500 Master Games of of Chess," for the first game ST and Dumont go back to 1839 to Bledow v. Von Der Lasa. For them to go back that far, you know it is going to be a great game and it is. ST's line about "All the mistakes are out there just waiting to be made" is one of my favorite lines of all time. |
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Aug-14-08
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| whiteshark: Quote of the Day
" Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. "
-- Tartakower |
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Aug-18-08
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| whiteshark: Quote of the Day
" There are only two kinds of moves in the opening, moves which are wrong and moves which could be wrong. " -- Tartakower
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Oct-02-08
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| Karpova: Some excerpts from Hans Kmoch's unpublished manuscript "Grandmasters I have Known" which Burt Hochburg owned: <He was born in Russia but as an Austrian citizen. Though his parents were
Jewish, he was christened at birth, his parents having adopted Christianity some
time earlier. Jews in czarist Russia took that protective step to avoid
persecution, but it failed to save Tartakower’s parents, who were murdered in a
pogrom in Rostov-on-Don in 1911. His brother, who at the time was also
studying in Vienna, received the news while playing chess in the Cafe Central.
He flew into a rage and announced that he was leaving for Russia that very day
to avenge the murders of his parents. His friends held him back only with the
greatest difficulty.>
<Shortly after the war started, Tartakower’s brother was killed while serving in
the Austrian army on the Russian front. Only one member of the family
survived, a sister in Russia. Savielly met her for the last time when she was a
spectator at the great Moscow tournament in 1925.> And regarding Dr. Tartakower and citizenships:
<The treaty of St. Germain brought independence to the nationalities of imperial
Austria. The new Austria became very small, and Vienna became a metropolis
made up of suburbs. The Wiener Schachklub, whose famous president had died
in 1912, moved to cheaper quarters. Its home guard of masters suddenly
became a group of foreigners. Tartakower became, of all things, a citizen of the
Ukrainian Republic. When that new country lost its independence, his
citizenship was transferred, probably as an act of clemency, to Poland. He
spoke no Polish, but he knew French, a language highly esteemed but little
spoken in Poland, and that made his compatriots put aside their traditional
hatred of all things Russian or German and deal with him in those languages.> <In the early 1920s, around the time that he became a Pole by citizenship,
Tartakower became a Frenchman by residence. After a quarrel with his
Austrian publisher, a Russian, he angrily blamed Austria for wronging him and
moved to Paris, which became his permanent home.> Source: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kmoch...
Chesscafe Skittles Archive: http://www.chesscafe.com/archives/s...
An excellent site with plenty of information on a lot of different chessplayers! |
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Oct-02-08
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| suenteus po 147: <Karpova> Thanks for the history and the link. Always love learning more about Dr. Tartakower. |
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Oct-19-08
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| Karpova: C.N. 4089 - Poetry
<From Richard Forster (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Tomasz Lissowski (Warsaw):[...]
Voronkov further showed that, contrary to what most (Western) sources state, the pogrom in which Tartakower’s parents were killed occurred not in 1899 but in 1911 (although the infamous and best-known Jewish pogroms in Rostov took place in 1905). Tartakower refers to this in one of his own poems (our translation): One More, The Final Dissonance
(on the death of the parents)
A whole century of surrenders, tears, and strains.
And for whom? For children, who live safe
In foreign lands. If you ask them:
“Easy life, eh, old men?”, “Yes” – they answer.
Returning home in the early morning
I took and opened the telegram: “Your parents killed.” I hurried. I buried. The iron plates
of two bloody graves lie on my heart.>
Regarding his brother Artur: <[...] who was one year his junior and also a law student at Vienna University. He died on 19 November 1914 on the battle-ground near Katowice (in Silesia, then a part of the German Empire and nowadays in Southern Poland).’> Source: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Nov-02-08
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| gambitfan: My first contact with chess was a book lent to me by my father : "Le bréviaire des échecs" |
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| Dec-25-08 |
| GrahamClayton: <ketchuplover>There's a review of a book pertaining to the birthday boy at www.chesscafe.com. Ketchuplover,
Here is the review of "Moral Victories":
http://www.chesscafe.com/text/revie...
I received a copy of the book as a Christmas present from my wife. I look forward to reading it over the next few months. |
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Jan-29-09
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| Caissanist: <There are only two kinds of moves in the opening, moves which are wrong and moves which could be wrong.> I hadn't heard this QOTD before. Funny and true. |
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Feb-09-09
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| zdigyigy: <Karpova> Good posts as usual. |
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| Feb-27-09 |
| YoungEd: Hooray! My favorite player is player of the day! I nver get tired of playing over his best games collection. |
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Feb-27-09
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| brankat: Born 126 years ago! Feels strange since Mr.Tartakower comes across as one of those people who seem to be forever young. R.I.P. Savielly. |
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| Feb-27-09 |
| Lt.Surena: A wondefull player. I have his book 'My best games of chess 1905-1954'. It's a great commentary to his chess career. RIP Xavier, |
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Feb-27-09
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| suenteus po 147: As great a writer (and wit) as he was a chess player, which makes him my favorite. Even better, we had him for a long time and we are all the luckier for it. Happy birthday, Dr. Tartakower! |
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Feb-27-09
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| timhortons: Happy birthday.
Najdorf always referred to Tartakower as "my teacher." |
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| Feb-27-09 |
| Ladolcevita: Happy birthday!!!!!! |
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| Feb-27-09 |
| WhiteRook48: Happy birthday Master Tartakower! |
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| Feb-27-09 |
| visayanbraindoctor: Amazing and incredible! Tartakover went through so many events. Was so many persons. A great chess master, a polyglot, a journalist, and a poet. It was very nice of the Poles to accept him. The Poles did not particularly like Russians or Germans during that period. Since most of Poland was essentially a Russian province until WW1, Tartakover probably felt he was just transferring from the Ukrainian part of the Russian Empire to the Polish part; and it may not have been that psychologically difficult for him to so. Was he ever awarded the FIDE GM title after WW2? |
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| Feb-27-09 |
| unsound: <braindoctor> Yes, he was among the 27 original FIDE grandmasters in 1950. |
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| Mar-02-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: I don't care what he said; moral victories DO count! In the final analysis, they are the ONLY kinds that do! |
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| Mar-03-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: His games are almost as exciting as parachuting into Nazi territory! :) |
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| Apr-21-09 |
| Dredge Rivers: I think they should make a movie about him before they do one about Fischer. His life was much more exciting! |
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Jul-25-09
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| whiteshark: Quote of the Day
<Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.> -- Tartakower
For databases you have to fill the number with zeros. |
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Sep-14-09
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| vonKrolock: <"Tartakower was a lieutenant in the Viennese House-Regiment of Infantry,<<< Hoch-und -Deutschmeister Nr. 4>>>, where he was employed at the Russian front."> The <echt> Regiment's March in this austrian film with Magda & Romy Schneider etc, on the life of the author W. Jurek (1870-1934) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tB-... |
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| Oct-02-09 |
| epiglottis5: This great player gets no respect in the chess books that I own. An overwhelming percentage of his highlighted games have him losing, often by brutal means or as examples of how not to play. For instance: "Chess Strategy" by Edward Lasker:
Tartakower vs Burn, 1911
L Forgacs vs Tartakower, 1909
Reti vs Tartakower, 1910
"Silman's Complete Endgame Course":
Schlechter vs Tartakower, 1907
"Winning Chess Strategies" by Seirawan
Tartakower vs Lasker, 1924
These books clearly don't do him justice. |
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