Dec-22-04
 | | Benzol: Georg Albert Becker
Born 5th September 1896 in Vienna
Died 7th May 1984 in Vicente Lopez
Awarded the IM title in 1953 he was joint Austrian champion in 1925. |
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Jul-07-05
 | | WTHarvey: Here are some mates and wins from Albert's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/beck.html |
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| Jul-07-05 | | sandyobrien: After talking with grandaunt I'm almost 90% sure that this my greatuncle. Some of the information she gave me was that,
- He was once Austrian champion
- Had a opening variation named after him (in a primitive non-chess way of course, but after some research I found "the Becker Defense" 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Qd5) - Time frame of birth matched well, but she wasn't sure about his death - Finally, the name she gave me was dead-on except she said that they used to spell Becker, "Buecker". I'm going to see what else I can find out from other family members. Wouldn't it be exciting if one of them had kept his old chess research/notation sheets/belongings? Anyway, stay tuned while I check some ancestry resources ;) |
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Sep-05-06
 | | cu8sfan: Is he the guy who yesterday defeated Andre Agassi? |
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Sep-05-06
 | | NakoSonorense: <Is he the guy who yesterday defeated Andre Agassi?> How did you do that?? I was going to ask the exact same question! Lol |
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Sep-05-06
 | | chessmoron: No sillies, that's Benjamin Becker. |
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| Jan-08-07 | | Albertan: In 1929 Vera Menchik participated an an international tournament in Carlsbad. Albert Becker, who played in this event, said that anyone who lost to Menchik would have to be put into a Vera Menchik Club. He wanted to ridicule any master who lost to this woman. Becker was the first victim of Vera. LOL. |
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Jan-08-07
 | | WannaBe: Ahhh... thanks <Albertan>, the founding father of the 'Vera Menchik Club'! :-)) |
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Jan-08-07
| | WannaBe: This is the game, I take it? Menchik vs A Becker, 1929 |
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| Jan-08-07 | | Albertan: Your welcome WannaBe :) Yes the game you mentioned in your post is the game which caused Becker to become the first member of the Vera Menchik Club. :) It must have been something to see the expression on both players faces after Becker played the blunder 39...Rd7?? and Menchik responded with 40.e6 :) |
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Sep-05-08
 | | brankat: A very talented master and an influential theorist, particularly during the 1920s and '30s. R.I.P. Mr.Backer. |
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Sep-05-08
| | brankat: From A.Becker's Biography: <He collaborated with Ernst Gruenfeld on an excellent book of the Teplitz-Schonau Tournament of 1922.> I think the tournament took place in 1923. Dr.Lasker was the winner. |
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| Sep-05-08 | | FHBradley: Schachkongress Teplitz-Schönau took place in October 1922. The tournament which Dr. Lasker won, the first in which he participated after his defeat against Capablanca, was organized in Mährisch-Ostrau the following year. |
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Sep-05-08
 | | whiteshark: <Player of the Day: <Albert Becker>> Bio: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert...(Schachspieler) |
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Sep-05-08
 | | Gypsy: Aparently, Euwe relyed heavily on Becker's opening files when he upstaged Alekhine in 1935. |
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Sep-15-08
| | brankat: <FHBradley> Yes, You're right. Thanks for the correction. |
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Sep-16-08
 | | Calli: <Gypsy> Was Euwe following Becker's recommendations on the French defense? Euwe lost three of the first nine with the French and was lucky to escape with a draw in a fourth game. |
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| Mar-29-09 | | wolfmaster: So sandy, I guess you haven't found anything in 3 3/4 years about Becker? |
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Nov-12-09
 | | steunmar: The openingsystem of Albert Becker has been in the possession of The Max Euwe Center in Amsterdam (http://maxeuwe.nl), which is a museum with the chess inheritance of dr Max Euwe, and a library of 10.000 items. The Becker-archive consisted of more than 100.000 handwritten cards. If anybody (Sandy for instance) is interested, I can find out who the present owner is. |
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| Sep-05-10 | | BIDMONFA: Albert Becker BECKER, George Albert
http://www.bidmonfa.com/becker_albe...
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Sep-05-11
| | whiteshark: <Player of the Day: <Albert Becker>> Bio in english: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert... |
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