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| Jan-11-06 |
| BIDMONFA: Jacques Mieses MIESES, Jacob
http://www.bidmonfa.com/mieses_jaco...
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| Jan-28-06 |
| Steppenwolf: I just looke at the game Rolandoarango describes. It is an AMAZING MOVE! 22...Rg3!! really seems to pop from NOWHERE. I am curious to know if a strong chess program would find it. Anybody would like to try it? |
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Mar-31-06
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| Benzol: A position from a game at Metz in 1935.
Mieses vs Amateur
click for larger viewWhite to play and win
1.g4+ fxg3
2. h4+ gxh4
3.b5+  xb5
4.axb5 wins.
If
1... h4
2.h2 h5
3.h6 xb4
4.xh5 #
If
2...xh4
3.xh6 # |
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| Jul-21-06 |
| madlydeeply: Mieses had a funny way of playing agains the french, he'd make it into an open game, castle queenside fling the Kingside pawns forward. I tried that a few times and was repeatedly pummeled by even the dizziest of simpletons. So was Mieses essentially a complexicator? Was his postional sense a little...howsa say...suspect? Waitaminit, I just looked up a few posts before and saw he b/slapped Tarrasch and Schlecter! I gotta rethink this whole Mieses thing...Ok i'm starting it up |
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| Jul-21-06 |
| madlydeeply: WHy isn't the 1945 Hastings Brilliancy prize on the list of Notable games? Ahhh Brilliancy Shmilliancy who cares? I was about to make a note but I erased it. Yawn. |
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| Dec-10-06 |
| sucaba: His match against Carl Schlechter in 1909 was blindfold. M. Ehn and E. Strouhal in the article "Duel with bandaged eyes" http://www.karlonline.org/205_3.htm consider it as the "first blindfold match between recognized grandmasters". I'm not sure that they played literally with bandages on their eyes at Stuttgart. Mieses wrote "Playing blind. A chess-psychological-historical outline together with a selection of games played without sight of the board", Leipzig 1918. Quotes from this treatise reproduced in the KARL-article are: For Mieses "such a serious game between masters" was "more exhausting than a blindfold exhibition of the same duration with six simultaneous games." "Mostly I restrict to five or six simultaneous games, and only a few times, on special request of the organizers, I have played eight games. The ease by which I accomplished these was a comforting sign for me that I had not nearly approached the limit of my ability, and I am certain that I could master twelve to fifteen, perhaps even more games, if it had to be. " "I don't fell like causing a sensation at the expense of my health. Exhibitions which take longer than four hours I experience as an excessive one-sided strain of the brain." "Even after a blind game of shorter duration, I have the need of diversion and recovery. As totally wrong I declare it to go to bed immediately, because the sleep would be a restless one, disturbed by confused, dreamlike chess fantasies. Some hours in pleasant company are very desired for me after every blindfold exhibition, and to it, as a conditio sine qua non, the consumption of alcohol - not excessively, but a little more than usual. Yes, I even go so far to call the alcohol in this case a specific medicine because of its calming, balancing effect on the brain." Mieses appears as very self-assure here, speaking in the apodictic tone of the late William II era in Germany. Perhaps this exhibited self-confidence, which has a semi-comical effect on a present reader, was a condition for his profession as a chessmaster. However the insights Mieses gives into blindfold chess are still interesting. Of course his attitude towards the use of alcohol seems to be untroubled by any knowledge of its dangers as a poison and an addictive drug. I'm convinced the participants of nowadays Blind Chess World Duel (2006) are much more considerate and restrictive in the use of it. |
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Feb-27-07
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| geraldo8187: <madlydeeply>, you're absolutely right about the french thing. its unlike any french structure i've ever seen and i play 1...e6 exclusively against 1e4. are there any recent examples of players using this mieses structure of playing the french? |
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| Feb-27-07 |
| Maatalkko: <sucaba> Alcohol is an addictive drug, but a poison? Most modern studies show positive effects of light to moderate drinking, which is exactly what Mieses describes. |
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Feb-27-07
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| keypusher: <Mieses appears as very self-assure here, speaking in the apodictic tone of the late William II era in Germany. Perhaps this exhibited self-confidence, which has a semi-comical effect on a present reader, was a condition for his profession as a chessmaster.> sucuba, have you considered that his self-assurance stems from the fact that he successfully played multiple blindfold chess games for many years? Perhaps if you are similarly successful, a like self-assurance will creep into your prose. Until that day, show respect to the master. |
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Aug-19-07
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| whiteshark:
Is he mentioned in the children's song <Frere Jacques> ? |
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Aug-19-07
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| technical draw: No, he invented a candy: Mieses Pieces |
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Aug-19-07
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| Phony Benoni: One who was not a fan was Mr. Jinks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie_... |
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Aug-19-07
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| Calli: Wasn't he the original Schach Jacques?
Eat your heart out Howard Stern! :-) |
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| Oct-14-07 |
| Dr. Siggy: I'm afraid the author of this particular "profile" didn't do his homework well enough... Among other things, Mieses didn't defeat Tarrasch "in a match in 1915 (+7 -2 =4)": it was the other way around, and in 1916. A very serious omission in the "notable games" is of one of the most amazing productions of Mieses long career: a Sicilian Four Knights against Pillsbury at Paris 1900. Last but not the least, it should be mentioned that Mieses was one of the first (if not the first) chess tournaments organizers to promote professional-like conditions and rewards for the participants, beginning with San Sebastian 1911. In short: a "profile" in need of a very deep revision... |
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Oct-23-07
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| whatthefat: The notable games section just includes those games that have been included in the most games collections. |
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| Oct-24-07 |
| Dr. Siggy: <whatthefat>: Being, as I am, a new comer here, I must confess I wasn't aware of that. That's why many great games don't appear in many "notable games"! Now, with all due respect for the people behind this (great) "site", it shouldn't be that way... |
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Nov-24-07
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| whiteshark: The word <Patzer> is a favourite in most International events. The story goes that the German Grandmaster <Jacques Mieses> was giving a simultaneous exhibition in England at the turn of the century. One of his opponents had a lone king left on the board against Mieses' King, Queen, Rook and Bishop plus two pawns. The Englishman knew that the word 'Patt' meant Stalemate in German. When Mieses arrived at the board, his opponent politely informed <Patt, Sir>. As this was far from the case, Mieses replied, "<Patzer> yourself. It's mate next move." by Koltanowski (1978), Chessnicdotes, p10. |
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Feb-27-08
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| brankat: A fine master, Mr.Mieses! He battled it out with the best of his time for more than a half of a century. Happy Birthday, Sir!
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| May-15-08 |
| wrap99: In 1945, he managed to draw Euwe, not so many years after Euwe had been world champ. Mieses was 80... By then he was probably the last living master who had faced Steinitz. He lived from the time of Morphy until the time of Botvinnik. |
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Jul-09-08
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| whiteshark: Quote of the Day
< To be capable of conducting an endgame to the distant goal with clarity, firmness, and complete familiarity with all its tricks and traps is the sign of the first-class Master. > -- Mieses |
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Dec-19-08
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| whiteshark: chessgames.com pool of chessquotes has grown... |
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Feb-27-09
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| brankat: R.I.P. master Mieses. |
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Mar-16-09
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| whiteshark: <It is a very well-known matter of experience that losing a pawn in the opening by a mistake is often the involuntary equivalent of playing a quite promising gambit.> -- Jacques Mieses |
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Mar-16-09
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| kellmano: <whiteshark: <It is a very well-known matter of experience that losing a pawn in the opening by a mistake is often the involuntary equivalent of playing a quite promising gambit.>
-- Jacques Mieses
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Ha ha. This is definitely true at my level. A pawn advantage is not worth an open file because a pawn advantage requires the game lasting to the endgame, an open file can give a quick mate. |
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| Jun-17-09 |
| Fanacas: I always thought it strange that there arent that many mieses variations in the vienna, scandinavian, and center game, even tought mieses played them many times and did musch wich iit theories. |
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