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Apr-23-08
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| Karpova: Dennis Monokroussos: <They say no one remembers who comes in second; if so, then Johannes Zukertort (1842-1888), loser of the inaugural world championship match in 1886 to Wilhelm Steinitz, is a forgotten man. If true, that’s a pity. He was a great player and, despite dying in his mid-40s, managed to play many valuable games.> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
This game is being discussed:
Zukertort vs Blackburne, 1883 |
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May-16-08
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| Knight13: Chessmetrics Player Profile: Johannes Zukertort
Born: 1842-Sep
Died: 1888-Jun
Best World Rank: #1 (56 different months between the August 1878 rating list and the February 1886 rating list ) Highest Rating: 2798 on the February 1886 rating list, #1 in world, age 43y5m Best Individual Performance: 2844 in London, 1883, scoring 22.5/29 (78%) vs 2641-rated opposition |
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Jun-28-08
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| BishopBerkeley: Here is a copy of "Neue Berliner Schachzeitung", a publication of Herr Adolf Anderssen and Herr Johannes Zukertort (year 1870): http://tinyurl.com/4qm4yn
You may download the entire work as a PDF file: it is in the public domain. (:  Bishop Berkeley :)
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Jul-16-08
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| chancho: This guy was paid 20 guineas by some Englishmen who were looking for someone who could kick Steinitz's ass.
Zukertort accepted the offer, and relocated to London. This is what happened when the two finally met: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohpt... |
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Jul-20-08
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| talisman: wow. ...he was fluent in 12 languages; a writer on such diversified subjects as theology, prison reform and music; one of the best whist players of his time; and an excellent fencer and pistol shot. He had also been a soldier-he fought in the Prussian army in 3 wars and recieved a total of 9 medals for bravery."-Al Horowitz. |
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Jul-20-08
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| talisman: ok how many knew what whist was w/o googling? not me. 1st Renaissance Man... I always thought of gene tunney(fought 2 boxing matches, became champion, made a million dollars, moved to iowa to teach school, paint, and play chess.), now Z seems to have beaten him to the punch. |
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Jul-20-08
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| chancho: <talisman>
<Zukertort enrolled in the faculty of medicine at Breslau University but for the next five years he spent much of his time playing chess, including many friendly games with Anderssen, and was struck from the register because of non attendance. This brief brush with higher education
enabled him to pass himself off as a Doctor in later life, but it also allowed him to be useful as a medical orderly in the war between Prussia and Austria, which lasted from mid June to mid July 1866. That experience, too, provided material for later tales of glory (twice wounded, left for dead, seven medals, etc)> Source: The Oxford Companion to chess. I also read that Zukertort told some Indian (visiting in England) a tale of a Tiger hunt he was involved in, when he went to India, and he had the guy completely enthralled, even though Zukertort had never been to India. |
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Jul-20-08
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| talisman: thank's chancho...now that's interesting! |
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Sep-07-08
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| brankat: A very colorful personality, and certainly a great chess master. R.I.P. Mr Zukertort. |
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Sep-07-08
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| artyom2008: happy bday |
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Oct-22-08
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| nimh: Zukertort currently ranks 12th out of 14.
http://web.zone.ee/chessanalysis/su... |
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Dec-11-08
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| whiteshark: "Zukertort relied on combinations, and in that field he was a discoverer, a creative genius. For all that, he was unable to make use of his faculty, the positions yielding no response to his passionate search for combinations. Zukertort, the great discoverer, searched in vain, while Steinitz was able to foresee them. Zukertort could not understand how Steinitz was able to prevent combinations. He tried for four years to solve this riddle, but he never approached its solution by even one step." -- Emanuel Lasker |
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Jan-04-09
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| Karpova: From Marek Soszynski's review of "Arcymistrz z Lublina", by Cezary W. Domanski and Tomasz Lissowski, 2002, Wydawnictwo Szachowe “Penelopa” (Warsaw), Softcover, Polish Algebraic Notation, 279 pp. <Domanski and Lissowski point to his general and increasingly poor health:He was troubled by such afflictions as a cardiac defect, rheumatism, and coronary heart disease, and suffered from insomnia. [...] Besides that he
suffered from hypertension, kidney problems, and progressive arteriosclerosis. Some of these illnesses may have had their origins in his lifestyle and diet, others accompanied him since childhood. (p. 269.) No wonder then, if he was taking digitalis (which strengthens the
action of the heart) and other strong medication. But what about the allegation that he was using narcotics? The authors dismiss
this in a single sentence:
It seems that the reporting of his digitalis treatment underwent distortion and exaggeration over time.
(p. 208, n. 12.)>
Source: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/revie...
This review is certainly worth reading for those who want to know more about Zukertort (and the book seems to have published in English also) |
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Mar-01-09
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| just a kid: I would consider him the last great romantic player. |
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| Mar-01-09 |
| AnalyzeThis: No, that would be Spielmann, or Marshall. |
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| Mar-01-09 |
| ughaibu: Not Radjabov? |
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Mar-01-09
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| just a kid: Well.I'll say Marshall.Not radjabov.Yet |
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| Mar-01-09 |
| ughaibu: What do you mean "yet"? Radjabov already post dates Marshall. Come to that, so do Kupreichik and Nezhmetdinov, not to mention Tal!! |
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Mar-04-09
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| just a kid: <ughibau>Did Tal make sacrifices that may or not be sound all the time? |
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| Mar-04-09 |
| ughaibu: Did Zukertort? |
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Mar-05-09
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| talisman: yea uh but he didn't Inhale. |
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| May-23-09 |
| WhiteRook48: Supposedly when the speaker at a New York banquet proposed a toast to "The World Champion," both Zukertort and Steinitz stood up. |
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| Jul-24-09 |
| morphynoman2: Sorry with the defendants of hypothetical matches. I'm studying many of Zukertort's games with the help of two strong computers. He was tactically brilliant, no doubt, but believe me, the amount of Zuk blunders is largely higher than Morphy's. |
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| Sep-07-09 |
| WhiteRook48: and Morphy's was much higher than Rybka's
:P |
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| Sep-07-09 |
| TheTamale: You know, I never bothered checking out Zuk's page before they made him player of the day. He's considerably more dashing than I imagined. I had pictured someone considerably more portly and stodgy. Go figure! |
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