Ernst Falkbeer
Number of games in database: 44
Years covered: 1847 to 1885
Overall record: +21 -21 =2 (50.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  King's Pawn Game (4)      C44  French Defense (4)      C01 C00  Vienna Opening (4)      C25 C26	With the Black pieces:  Bird's Opening (5)      A02 A03  Ruy Lopez (4)      C63 C77 C80 C60

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   C Bayer vs Falkbeer, 1852 0-1
   Matschego vs Falkbeer, 1853 0-1
   Falkbeer vs NN, 1847 1-0
   Falkbeer vs Anderssen, 1851 1-0
   K Moll vs Falkbeer, 1864 0-1
   Falkbeer vs Zytogorski, 1856 1-0
   Falkbeer vs Bird, 1856 1-0
   Falkbeer vs Lowenthal, 1858 1-0
   Hamppe vs Falkbeer, 1849 0-1
   Falkbeer vs R Brien, 1855 1-0

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   pre-Steinitz Era2: 1861 or before by Antiochus

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ERNST FALKBEER (born Jun-27-1819, died Dec-14-1885) Austria [what is this?] Ernst Karl Falkbeer was born in Austria in 1819. A journalist he founded Austria's first chess magazine Wiener Schachzeitung in 1855. A few months later he went to London and played two matches with Henry Edward Bird losing in 1856 (+1, =0, -2) and winning in 1856-57 (+5, =4, -4). He then played in a knock-out tournament in Birmingham in 1858, defeating Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint Amant (+2, =0, -1) in the second round and losing to Johann Jacob Loewenthal (+1, =4, -3) in the fourth round. He later returned to Vienna and edited Neue Illustrirte Zeitung from 1877 to 1885. He is mainly remembered for the counter-gambit 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 e4 in the King's Gambit.

page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 44  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Falkbeer vs NN 1-0 10 1847 ? C44 King's Pawn Game 2. Hamppe vs Falkbeer 0-1 31 1849 Vienna C26 Vienna 3. Falkbeer vs R Schurig 1-0 25 1850 Leipzig C44 King's Pawn Game 4. Anderssen vs Falkbeer 1-0 26 1851 Berlin C31 King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit 5. Falkbeer vs Anderssen   0-1 40 1851 Berlin C23 Bishop's Opening 6. Falkbeer vs Anderssen 0-1 32 1851 Berlin C44 King's Pawn Game 7. Anderssen vs Falkbeer 1-0 41 1851 Berlin C58 Two Knights 8. Falkbeer vs Anderssen 1-0 30 1851 Berlin C25 Vienna 9. C Bayer vs Falkbeer 0-1 23 1852 Vienna C52 Evans Gambit 10. Matschego vs Falkbeer 0-1 25 1853 Vienna C39 King's Gambit Accepted 11. Matschego vs Falkbeer 0-1 17 1854 Wien C39 King's Gambit Accepted 12. R Brien vs Falkbeer   1-0 51 1855 London D00 Queen's Pawn Game 13. Falkbeer vs R Brien 0-1 42 1855 London C53 Giuoco Piano 14. R Brien vs Falkbeer   1-0 50 1855 London C44 King's Pawn Game 15. Falkbeer vs R Brien   ½-½ 51 1855 11 C25 Vienna 16. R Brien vs Falkbeer   0-1 36 1855 London C53 Giuoco Piano 17. R Brien vs Falkbeer   1-0 52 1855 London D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted 18. Falkbeer vs R Brien 1-0 19 1855 5 C25 Vienna 19. Falkbeer vs R Brien   1-0 31 1855 London C01 French, Exchange 20. R Brien vs Falkbeer   1-0 23 1855 London C44 King's Pawn Game 21. Falkbeer vs Staunton 0-1 49 1856 London C44 King's Pawn Game 22. Bird vs Falkbeer 0-1 49 1856 London A02 Bird's Opening 23. Falkbeer vs T W Barnes 1-0 31 1856 McDonnell Chess Club-f B40 Sicilian 24. Bird vs Falkbeer ½-½ 50 1856 London A03 Bird's Opening 25. Bird vs Falkbeer 0-1 34 1856 London A02 Bird's Opening  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 44

Sep-15-04    James D Knight: Not many games in the database for Falkbeer , but he played some good players including Anderssen , Staunton , Bird , St. Amant. Nov-16-04    Knight13: Never knew this guy beat Henry Bird. Jan-19-05    MidnightDuffer: I stumble on so many pages with a lot of writing and comments on them. I am surprised that there are not more comments on Falkbeer. Face it, the Counter-Gambit named for him, is really very power for Black against the King's Gambit. It seems the way to go in fact. Jan-19-05    nikolaas: <MidnightDuffer> I see more future in the classical defence. Jun-27-05    Knight13: Hey. It's Falkbeer's birthday! COol! Apr-05-07    ganstaman: I hate this man. Maybe if he hadn't looked at 1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5, no one else would have for 1000 years or so. I take it no one writes on this page out of hate, too? Aug-01-07    Edmemphis: Yeah, thanks for ruining the Kings' Gambit buddy. Oct-09-07    Andoy: It's very nice for Ernst Falkbeer to break into King's Gambit in his time. Though the database presents only 2 games under his name for the counter-opening he devised, he loses both. It maybe such ironic that the an opening has been named after you and yet you proved to be quite unsuccessful in defending so. However, thanks for the name and a blowing 2. ...d5 push. You made the wild King's Gambit even wilder. Nice work for Player of the Day! Oct-09-07    King mega: king gambit, falkbeer is a mirror of Queens gambit, alapin. one of them creates out of his own head, while the other just mirrors it. Oct-09-07    playground player: The Albin Countergambit mirrors the Falkbeer Countergambit on the queen-side (sort of like the Grob mirrors the Polish Opening on the king-side); yet for all their similarity, the Albin seems a lot stronger than the Falkbeer. Why should that be? Simply because you have a little more room on the queen-side? Oct-09-07    gorash: <playground player> I'm not that sure that the Albin is a lot stronger. I think neither of these two can be considered quite strong, but both of them are playable and can cause some surprise to the opposition. Oct-09-07    ganstaman: The King's Gambit and Queen's Gambit are mirror images, yet expecting them to play the same is crazy. One involves exposing your own king and building up kingside pressure. The other doesn't. And since the roots of the Albin and Falkbeer play out so differently, I couldn't imagine the two of them being comparable. After all, do you even try to say that 1.d4 and 1.e4 are similar? The position of the queens and kings really makes openings that would otherwise be mirror images of each other almost complete opposites. Oct-09-07    Gypsy: <playground player> I am not sure about this. I always understood Falkbeer and/or Falkbeer/Abbasia to be about as solid-yet-ambitious as you can do meeting KG. In turn, Albin's reputation is rather-ambitious-but-definitely-not-solid. Jun-27-09    wordfunph: Thanks to Ernst Falkbeer for the counter-gambit 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 3.exd5 e4 in the King's Gambit. Happy Birthday Master Falkbeer! Beer cheers! Nov-14-09    manakin: falkbeer is one of the coolest actual names I've ever heard. Falkbeer. Should have been a big, cheerful Irish bar tender with the proper sideburns...

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