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Andre Lilienthal
Number of games in database: 508
Years covered: 1930 to 1977
Current FIDE rating: 2385
Overall record: +164 -107 =237 (55.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Nimzo Indian (33) 
    E24 E58 E33 E40 E38
 Orthodox Defense (26) 
    D51 D55 D61 D59 D62
 King's Indian (24) 
    E76 E60 E80 E90 E72
 Grunfeld (21) 
    D98 D94 D97 D90 D89
 Slav (19) 
    D19 D13 D11 D14 D18
 Semi-Slav (18) 
    D44 D43 D49 D45
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (39) 
    C98 C86 C89 C82 C92
 Grunfeld (37) 
    D85 D97 D98 D95 D91
 French Defense (36) 
    C14 C11 C13 C00 C01
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (29) 
    C98 C86 C89 C92 C91
 King's Indian (22) 
    E67 E69 E60 E90 E68
 Nimzo Indian (18) 
    E33 E38 E30 E22 E49
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Lilienthal vs Capablanca, 1935 1-0
   Lilienthal vs Zamokhotsky, 1942 1-0
   Lilienthal vs Najdorf, 1948 1-0
   Lilienthal vs Smyslov, 1941 1/2-1/2
   Smyslov vs Lilienthal, 1941 1/2-1/2
   Lilienthal vs Tolush, 1947 1/2-1/2
   Lilienthal vs G Negyesy, 1931 1-0
   Botvinnik vs Lilienthal, 1941 0-1
   Koblents vs Lilienthal, 1945 0-1
   Lilienthal vs Botvinnik, 1940 1-0

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Moscow 1936 by suenteus po 147
   Lilienthal! by FSR
   TITANS vs. GIANTS by laskereshevsky
   Hastings 1934/35 by Phony Benoni

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ANDRE LILIENTHAL
(born May-05-1911) Russia (citizen of Hungary)

[what is this?]
Andre Arnoldovich Lilienthal was born on the 5th of May 1911 in Moscow, Russia to Hungarian parents. He was taken to Hungary at the age of two, but emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1935.

Awarded the GM title in 1950 he won the Moscow Championship 1939-40 and became joint USSR Champion in 1940 ahead of Vasily Smyslov, Paul Keres, Isaac Boleslavsky and Mikhail Botvinnik. He retired in 1976, returned to Hungary and remains well liked and respected.

He has the distinction of having met or played every World Chess Champion (with the exception of Steinitz) and is currently the world's oldest living grandmaster.


 page 1 of 21; games 1-25 of 508  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Lilienthal vs M Romi 1-031 1930 ParisA50 Queen's Pawn Game
2. Mieses vs Lilienthal 1-016 1930 ParisC01 French, Exchange
3. Lilienthal vs Tartakower 1-042 1930 Int TtB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
4. J Michlo vs Lilienthal  0-177 1931 BudapestD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
5. Lilienthal vs E Steiner  ½-½36 1931 BudapestE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
6. Lilienthal vs P Rethy  1-053 1931 BudapestD02 Queen's Pawn Game
7. L Steiner vs Lilienthal  1-044 1931 BudapestC14 French, Classical
8. Lilienthal vs R Pikler  1-052 1931 BudapestE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
9. Lilienthal vs G Negyesy 1-025 1931 BudapestD41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
10. L Wiesel vs Lilienthal  0-123 1931 BudapestA46 Queen's Pawn Game
11. Lilienthal vs J Szekely  0-136 1931 BudapestD43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
12. S Boros vs Lilienthal 0-116 1932 BudapestC29 Vienna Gambit
13. Lilienthal vs Tylor  1-041 1933 Hastings ENGD41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
14. Lilienthal vs K Skalicka  1-077 1933 OlympiadD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
15. Tartakower vs Lilienthal  1-023 1933 ParisC13 French
16. Eliskases vs Lilienthal  ½-½28 1933 Hastings ENGA15 English
17. R P Michell vs Lilienthal  0-147 1933 Hastings ENGE23 Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann
18. Lilienthal vs Milner-Barry 1-030 1933 Hastings 3334E33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
19. K Kullberg vs Lilienthal  0-151 1933 OlympiadC00 French Defense
20. Lilienthal vs Milner-Barry  1-030 1933 Hastings ENGE33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
21. Lilienthal vs W Hasenfuss  1-027 1933 OlympiadA43 Old Benoni
22. Lilienthal vs P Devos  1-032 1933 OlympiadE17 Queen's Indian
23. C H Alexander vs Lilienthal  ½-½40 1933 Hastings ENGC17 French, Winawer, Advance
24. Duchamp vs Lilienthal 0-137 1933 OlympiadD69 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Classical, 13.de
25. Lilienthal vs Alekhine  ½-½17 1933 Paris (09)C74 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense
 page 1 of 21; games 1-25 of 508  PGN Download
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May-05-08
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  brankat: Happy Birthday GM Lilienthal!
May-05-08
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  whiteshark: Many happy returns, Andor!
May-05-08
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  ketchuplover: What Brankat said :)
May-06-08   stanleys: Better later than never: Happy birthday Mr Lilienthal!
May-06-08   gus inn: Happy Birthday !
May-09-08   stanleys: Very nice interview with Lilienthal(in Russian) at: http://www.rg.ru/2008/05/08/lilient...
Aug-31-08   myschkin: . . .

Photo:

http://www.chessbase.com/images2/20...

(with David Bronstein)

Dec-29-08
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  Karpova: From page 77 of "CHESS", January 1946:

<The difficulty of deciphering chess masters' game scores is proverbial among chess journalists. We think the worst offender beyond any doubt was Lilienthal who is (or was) almost illiterate. His game scores outdid the prescriptions of the most frabjous physician. They were a cross between the most rabid work of the best impressionist painters and the work accomplished by the average child of two when it first dips its dummy into an ink-pot.>

Source: C.N. 5867
Link: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Feb-09-09   laskereshevsky: could b interesting to know ab. how many tournaments Lilienthal might say...

< on this, I am the only alive player....>

OK, is not so difficoult to find it.... but in this moment im to lazy!...

Feb-09-09
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  percyblakeney: <could b interesting to know ab. how many tournaments Lilienthal might say...

< on this, I am the only alive player....>>

That must be many, he could be the only player alive for the last 34 years from Budapest 1931 and Paris 1933. Lilienthal may also be the player with the most years since his highest Chessmetrics rating (75 years, in 1934). Smyslov's top rating was in 1956.

Feb-15-09   WhiteRook48: this must be a long liver
May-05-09
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  wordfunph: Happy 98th Birthday GM Andre Lilienthal!!! I think you're the oldest living GM today..
May-05-09
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  whiskeyrebel: Perhaps the longest living gm ever? does anyone happen to know?
May-05-09
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  vonKrolock: quote of the day: < "Another defect of Lilienthal is the little attention which he lends to his physical form , with the result that, in many championships, he could not support until the end the tension of the fight"> Kotov & Yudovich, back in the 50's...

Happy 98th birthday, Lilienthal!!

May-05-09
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  duchamp64: Happy Birthday Andor!! -- and many more to come. A fan from the USA.
May-05-09   stanleys: Happy birthday Mr Lilienthall !!!
May-05-09   WhiteRook48: Happy 98th Birthday!!
May-05-09
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  whiteshark: Many happy returns!
May-05-09
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  diagonal: ...born 1951 Karpov , ...born 1931 Korchnoi, ...born 1921 Smyslov, ...born 1911 Andor Arnoldovich Lilienthal...

Happy birthday to the World's oldest Chess Grandmaster; celebrating his 98th birthday today in good health! Congratulation and many more happy years!

May-28-09
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  TheaN: I was wondering, is Lilenthal still playing, albeit being unofficially, obviously?
Aug-17-09
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  dorsnikov: just to give you an idea how old this guy is...he played Jacques Mieses, born 1865 and Emmanual Lasker born 1869!! and he's still living!! fantastic !!
Sep-11-09   WhiteRook48: and beat Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine
Oct-21-09   kramputz: Lilienthal was a communist that's why he went to the USSR. So was Rakosy, Kadar, Kun and many others.
Nov-07-09
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  vonKrolock: Already in this century, appeared <"90 лет жизни шахмати&- #1089;та"> , or 'The Ninety Years of a Chessplayer' - memories, some games not included in his volume of "Selected Games", etc, for instance: L vs Reilly, Nice 1931; L vs Tartakower, Paris 1933 1-0 27 moves; vs < Коцхер> <?! transliteration ?!>, Madrid 1934; further a few other games from events like Olympiads, or Tournaments like Hastings etc, of course more likely featuring already in the online databases
Nov-07-09
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  vonKrolock: <vs < Коцхер> <?! transliteration ?!>, Madrid 1934> I mean

август 1934 года. Мадрид. Ферзевы&- #1081; гамбит, А.Лилиен- таль - Коцхер.

1.d4 d5 2.c4 Kf6 3.c:d K:d5 4. Kf3 Kc6 5. e4 Kf6 6.Kc3 Cg4 7.d5 C:f3 8.g:f Ke5 9.f4 Ked7 10.e5 Kg8 11. e6 Kb6 12.Фh5! G6 13.Cb5+c6 14. d:c g:h 15.C:b+Kd7 16. e:d+Ф:d7 17. b:a8Ф+ и мат

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