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Lilienthal 
 
Andre Lilienthal
Number of games in database: 586
Years covered: 1930 to 1980
Last FIDE rating: 2385
Overall record: +200 -120 =265 (56.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      1 exhibition game, odds game, etc. is excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Nimzo Indian (36) 
    E24 E28 E58 E40 E33
 Orthodox Defense (33) 
    D51 D61 D62 D55 D59
 King's Indian (28) 
    E80 E76 E60 E90 E70
 Slav (24) 
    D19 D11 D13 D10 D16
 Grunfeld (23) 
    D98 D94 D97 D85 D89
 Semi-Slav (19) 
    D43 D44 D49 D45
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (44) 
    C98 C92 C86 C82 C91
 French Defense (43) 
    C14 C11 C01 C13 C00
 Grunfeld (37) 
    D85 D97 D98 D95 D91
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (32) 
    C98 C92 C86 C91 C89
 King's Indian (27) 
    E67 E60 E69 E90 E68
 Nimzo Indian (20) 
    E33 E30 E38 E22 E47
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Lilienthal vs Capablanca, 1935 1-0
   Lilienthal vs Najdorf, 1948 1-0
   Lilienthal vs Botvinnik, 1940 1-0
   Lilienthal vs Tolush, 1947 1/2-1/2
   Lilienthal vs Menchik, 1933 1-0
   Lilienthal vs Smyslov, 1941 1/2-1/2
   Lilienthal vs Zamikhovsky, 1942 1-0
   Koblents vs Lilienthal, 1945 0-1
   Lilienthal vs Bondarevsky, 1940 1-0
   Lilienthal vs G Negyesy, 1931 1-0

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Moscow 1936 by suenteus po 147
   TITANS vs. GIANTS by laskereshevsky
   Lilienthal! by FSR
   Hastings 1934/35 by Phony Benoni
   Hastings 1933/34 by Phony Benoni

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ANDRE LILIENTHAL
(born May-05-1911, died May-08-2010) Russia (citizen of Hungary)
PRONUNCIATION:
[what is this?]
Andre Arnoldovich Lilienthal was born in Moscow 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 (jointly with Igor Bondarevsky) USSR Champion in 1940 [rusbase-1] ahead of Vasily Smyslov, Paul Keres, Isaac Boleslavsky and Mikhail Botvinnik. He retired in 1976, returned to Hungary and remained well liked and respected.

He has the distinction of having met or played every World Chess Champion (with the exception of Steinitz) and was the world's oldest living grandmaster for quite some time.

Wikipedia article: Andor Lilienthal


 page 1 of 24; games 1-25 of 586  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. T Regedzinski vs Lilienthal  1-042 1930 Stubnanske TepliceA15 English
2. Lilienthal vs M Romi 1-031 1930 ParisA50 Queen's Pawn Game
3. Lilienthal vs D May 1-032 1930 Stubnanske TepliceC13 French
4. Pirc vs Lilienthal  0-160 1930 Stubnanske TepliceE16 Queen's Indian
5. Lilienthal vs Tartakower 1-042 1930 Int TtB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
6. Mieses vs Lilienthal 1-016 1930 ParisC01 French, Exchange
7. Lilienthal vs S Gruber  1-028 1931 HUN-chD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
8. L Wiesel vs Lilienthal  0-123 1931 BudapestA46 Queen's Pawn Game
9. Maroczy vs Lilienthal  ½-½35 1931 HUN-chC46 Three Knights
10. Lilienthal vs J Szekely  0-136 1931 BudapestD43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
11. J Michlo vs Lilienthal 0-177 1931 BudapestD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
12. G Lovas vs Lilienthal  0-132 1931 HUN-chA46 Queen's Pawn Game
13. Lilienthal vs E Steiner  ½-½36 1931 BudapestE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
14. Lilienthal vs P Rethy  1-053 1931 BudapestD02 Queen's Pawn Game
15. K Havasi vs Lilienthal  1-035 1931 HUN-chD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
16. L Steiner vs Lilienthal  1-044 1931 BudapestC14 French, Classical
17. Lilienthal vs R Pikler  1-052 1931 BudapestE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
18. K Sterk vs Lilienthal  ½-½31 1931 HUN-chC01 French, Exchange
19. Lilienthal vs M Szigeti  1-025 1931 HUN-chD61 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
20. Lilienthal vs G Negyesy 1-025 1931 BudapestD41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
21. Lilienthal vs G Negyesy  1-042 1932 BudapestD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
22. P Rethy vs Lilienthal  0-142 1932 BudapestA46 Queen's Pawn Game
23. Lilienthal vs B Orvenyi  ½-½39 1932 BudapestA33 English, Symmetrical
24. Lilienthal vs E Canal  0-158 1932 BudapestD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
25. S Boros vs Lilienthal 0-116 1932 BudapestC29 Vienna Gambit
 page 1 of 24; games 1-25 of 586  PGN Download
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May-05-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  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  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  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
Premium Chessgames Member
  wordfunph: Happy 98th Birthday GM Andre Lilienthal!!! I think you're the oldest living GM today..
May-05-09  whiskeyrebel: Perhaps the longest living gm ever? does anyone happen to know?
May-05-09  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  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
Premium Chessgames Member
  whiteshark: Many happy returns!
May-05-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  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  TheaN: I was wondering, is Lilenthal still playing, albeit being unofficially, obviously?
Aug-17-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  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  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  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

Dec-26-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  PhilFeeley: The following game is analyzed by Kevin Spraggett on his blog (http://kevinspraggett.blogspot.com/ Dec. 26, 2009):

Lilienthal A. - Finogenov M.
Kuibyshev, 1942.
1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3 6. bxc3 Qc7 7. Nf3 Ne7 8. Bd3 c4 9. Be2 Bd7 10. a4 Qa5 11. O-O Bxa4 12. Ba3 Qxc3 13. Bxe7 Bxc2 14. Qc1 Kxe7 15. Ra2 Nc6 16. Rxc2 Qa5 17. Qg5 Kf8 18. Qf4 Qc7 19. Ng5 Qe7 20. Bxc4 dxc4 21. Rxc4 Rd8 22. Rfc1 h6 23. Ne4 Nxd4 24. Rxd4 Rxd4 25. Nd6 Qc7 26. g3 g5 27. Qe3 Qb6 28. Qf3 Rxd6 29. Qf6 Rd8 30. Qxh8 Ke7 31. Qxh6 a5 32. Qxg5 Ke8 33. h4 a4 34. h5 a3 35. h6 a2 36. h7 Kd7 37. Qf6 Rf8 38. h8=Q Rxh8 39. Qxf7 Kd8 40. Qf6 Kd7 41. Qg7 [1:0]

Jan-05-10  laskereshevsky: <Sep-11-09 WhiteRook48: and beat Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine>

In true, there are no evidences of the victory over Alekhine in a serious game.

Would I like it very much cause ANDOR is one of my chess heroes, but till nowadays, unfortunatly, no one was able to find the scoreshit of that fantomatic game...

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