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| Apr-03-12 | | Penguincw: I believe he was the one from invented the Breyer system of the Ruy Lopez. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... |
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Apr-30-12
 | | talisman: Mr. b1...Happy Birthday! |
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Apr-30-12
 | | parisattack: Happy B-Day, Breyer Gyula!
Forward with the (hypermodern) revolution! |
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Aug-16-12
 | | Pirandus: Great Breyer! |
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Aug-22-12
 | | andrewjsacks: And also a pioneer of hypermodern ice cream. |
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Aug-22-12
 | | TheFocus: I love Breyer's ice cream!! |
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Aug-22-12
| | andrewjsacks: <TheFocus> So do I. The thing about a hypermodern ice cream cone is that one must attack the center by first exerting pressure from the flanks. Breyer discovered that, and the rest is history... |
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| Aug-22-12 | | I play the Fred: <sacks> When I eat hypermodern chicken, I open from the wings. |
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Aug-22-12
| | andrewjsacks: People should avoid hypermodern driving, and stay in their own lanes. I drive a Buick Rook. |
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Nov-09-12
| | TheFocus: R.I.P. Gyula Breyer. Thanks for the games, the theories and the ice cream! |
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| Nov-10-12 | | thomastonk: In a Mednis/Teschner book it is stated that Breyer introduced the Breyer system in the Ruy Lopez (9.. Nb8) at the end of the 19th century. Hmm, this would mean he suggested it before he was 8 years old?! The German wikipedia entry on Breyer provides 1911 as the year of his suggestion, but without giving a source. Does anybody know when and how he suggested or played this line? |
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| Nov-10-12 | | SimonWebbsTiger: <Thomastonk>
a bit of a mystery because I have not found any reference to the actual source game. It is not here in cg. The ECO code for the Breyer Ruy Lopez is C94~C95. It appears to be common to say the retreat was introduced by Breyer to avoid the problems Black often gets with his knight offside at a5 in the Chigorin lines, that Spassky loved to play it, etc. yet nobody seems to mention the year or precise game. I wish I had a good book on Breyer! Could be it was a suggestion because Breyer was also a noted analyst. A little chess mystery.... |
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| Nov-10-12 | | thomastonk: <SimonWebbsTiger> Thank you very much for your reply. Your observations coincide with mine. Maybe it's not a game we look for. Breyer had an obscure magazine for brain sports, which appeared with only five issues. Or he made the suggestion in an analysis. But I think that it is not the first time, this little mystery appears ... There is a book on Breyer by Bottlik. It is written in German, and so I should consult it. PS: Do you know that I played twice with <Simon> himself? |
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Nov-10-12
| | parisattack: I was told the suggestion was in a Kagan's - but, alas, not in any of the issues I have. As I recall, Bottlik cites a number of Breyer's opening contributions including 9...Nb8 but offers nothing further. That book also has a solid bibliography of Breyer's writings for anyone able to hunt down obscure Hungarian chess periodicals such as Magyar Sakkujsag and Magyar Sakkvilag. There is another tome (also in German) on Breyer but I cannot find it at the moment, either. |
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Nov-10-12
| | parisattack: I checked the commemorative piece on Breyer (by Bottlik) in Magyar Sakkelet, March 1993, and - tho my Hungarian isn't what it should be ;) - I don't see the variation in question mentioned. It does note Breyer's variation of the Accelerated Dragon (Kostics-Breyer, Goteberg 1920). Someone with the early years of Kagan's out there in CG.com land? |
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| Nov-10-12 | | Olavi: It is perhaps worth noting that Tartakower doesn't mention the variation in Die hypermoderne Schachpartie (1925), if it's not very well hidden, otherwise the book is a more or less a complete compendium of hypermodern openings of the day. |
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| Nov-11-12 | | SimonWebbsTiger: Sounds like the origins of the Breyer Lopez and its history is a worthy question for Chess Notes by Winter. |
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| Nov-11-12 | | SimonWebbsTiger: ps. <thomastank>
glad you met Simon. As you can no doubt attest, he was a fine player OTB and at CC and a very nice person to boot. No surprises which book was one of the first I read as a child and continue to love! |
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| Nov-11-12 | | thomastonk: <SimonWebbsTiger> Well, before one should forward the question to Mr Winter, a few more sources should be checked. <Olavi> had the good idea to check "Die hypermoderne Schachpartie".
I am going to check Bilguer's Handbuch, 8th edition and a few other books, e.g. Reti's books.
And maybe <parisattack> is right, and someone provides a Kagan source within a few days. PS: I met Simon at cc, and he was a very nice person! Nevertheless, we had a problem in our second game. I forced more or less an early draw with the white pieces, because I had no idea how to play for an advantage. I spent about six weeks with the position, because I didn't liked this kind of draw. When he repitition was made, Simon asked: "Why do you play chess? Because of your rating?" and something like that. Then I explained that I analysed deeply the position and so on, and so on. At the end I added: "and I was invited to this tournament because of my rating!"
Then he replied: "I still count you as a friend." |
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Nov-11-12
| | parisattack: Yes, a topic for Mr. Winter! I checked several Ruy Lopez books - three also cite the 1911 date - but no source. Even that would be a stretch as Breyer didn't seem to have the hypermodern revelation until 1915 or so... No luck either in the Streeter manuscript. It does have some games not in the CG.com database or in Bottlik. I will endeavor to send them to CG.com someday soon. I am still guessing an early Kagan's - probably the Schachkatalog as Schachnachrichten began about the time Breyer passed (1921). |
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| Nov-12-12 | | thomastonk: <parisattack: Yes, a topic for Mr. Winter.> I think we have to complete our homework first. <parisattack: As I recall, Bottlik cites a number of Breyer's opening contributions including 9...Nb8 but offers nothing further.> Bottlik offers a lot of information on 9.. Nb8 on page 12. In brief: according to him, neither he nor other researches could ever find Breyer's article, which was cited from memory by Hans Mueller in Schach-Echo 1955, p 247. To be continued. |
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| Nov-12-12 | | thomastonk: <Breyer Variation in the Ruy López> Ivan Bottlik 's book on Breyer and his contribution in "Magyar Sakktörténet", vol.3, p 221, describe the information sketched above: Hans Mueller in Schach-Echo 1955, p 247 quotes from memory a manuscript of Breyer and explained several of his ideas, one of them being 9.. Nb8. Moreover, according to Bottlik there is no trace in Breyer's known writings. He assumes that the manuscript is probably lost (like Breyer's book). The subject was considered and described this way already by Mr Winter in C.N.s 1939 and 2004 (see Winter's book "Kings, Commoners and Knaves", p 150). The earliest games with 9.. Nb8 in several databases are from 1954, and the variation became very popular already the next year. Max Euwe published in "Schach-Archiv", October 1955 his first analysis of the new line. He explained the idea like Mueller did, and gave a reference to Mueller for the relation to Breyer. In 1956, Euwe published in Schach-Archiv three more contributions on this line. My personal impression is: Bottlik is reliable and what he explained is still the state of the art. In particular, I see currently no reason to submit the question again to Mr Winter. <parisattack> Can you please mention those books giving the 1911 date. Maybe this provides a new aspect. Thank you in advance. |
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| Nov-12-12 | | Olavi: In the Intro of <L.S. Blackstock's Ruy Lopeaz: Breyer System (1976)> the editor O'Donnell suggests <Becsi Magyar Ujsag> as the most likely source for further historical research. There's no mention of 1911 but the back cover says that Blackstock published two previous works on the Breyer. |
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| Nov-13-12 | | thomastonk: Thank you very much, <Olavi>! Bottlik gives a lot of references to <Bécsi Magyar Újság>, and so it seems that he has checked this source. |
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Apr-30-13
 | | brankat: R.I.P. master Breyer. |
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