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May-01-04
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| meloncio: <Gipsy> Thanks for the interesting story, but please translate it until the end! I know it's something about smoking (Rauchen), but no much more. By the way, the Madrid tournament was celebrated in October 1943 and Paul Keres was the winner. Sämisch didn't play well, his final position was 12/15. (+4,-8,=2). |
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May-01-04
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| vonKrolock: a free quicky tranlation: "incredible, in fact nothing to smoke!" <...> "And worst - now i'm absolutelly penniless!" |
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| May-01-04 |
| WMD: Bent Larsen relates a few anecdotes about Sämisch in the book How To Get Better At Chess: Chess Masters On Their Art. Frankly, they aren't very interesting. "I got all my Sämisch stories from Sämisch himself. I remember him sitting me down and saying 'Young man, young man, I must tell you this because I could die at any moment and it would be a pity if all of this were forgotten', and then he started to tell me of his life." |
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| May-01-04 |
| WMD: <Then he let his mouth run off at the closing banquette after the Madrid tournament. Upon his return, Samisch was arrested right at the German border and shipped to a concentration camp.> Pachman's account differs from that of Larsen. He has Sämisch on a Berlin train explaining to a fellow passenger that the war was lost and being arrrested after his journey for defeatist talk. "At this time the main judge in Berlin often had people executed for far less but Sämisch was such a nice person that he had many friends and they managed to get him a sentence of only eight months in prison. As it turned out he spent the rest of the war in jail. After the war was over a friend asked if he would go after the man who turned him in. Sämisch said, 'That man is a Swinehund but if I turn him in then I would also be a Swinehund!'" |
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May-01-04
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| Gypsy: Pachman's memoar, <meloncio>, is in Czech with German (or English or Spanish) sentences used here and there in the dialogs. I contemplated translating it all, but decided to keep faithful to the original. Part of my decision was simply because my German is worse than rudimentary, and I figured someone like <vonKrolock> for instance (thank you, sir!) could translate it in an eye blink. (I would have to labor with a dictionary.) |
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| Feb-04-05 |
| rKa: I just wanted to add - because it wasnt pointed out enough imho - that Sämisch lost a good share of his matches because of Zeitnot, earning him some neat nicknames. Apparently he could have spent hours on the board just to reflect every single aspect of a given game, therefore losing a lot more games than his skills would have had promised. I have uploaded a picture of him i found in one of my old chess books:
http://img159.exs.cx/img159/674/sam...
The text may be translated to: "Fritz Sämisch, one of Germany`s best players ever, after a hard-fought match at the Chess Olympiad 1936 in Munich. His face is marked with his efforts (GM Sämisch only had 5 Minutes for the alst 6 moves)".Maybe someone can move the pic from imagehosting to a better server. I have no webspace:/ |
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| Feb-04-05 |
| mcgee: I am not entirely sure that Saemisch frittered away a lot of time simply thinking about all the variations of a game. I believe that Lothar Schmid, during his first ' thinking aloud ' slot on the first international BBC Master Game in 1977-8 (replying to 1 c4 by Miles), brooded on how Saemisch could just spend an indefinite amount of time thinking about the person to whom he was married, the weather etc. I think Schmid blew a draw in that game due to time trouble!!! |
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| Apr-26-05 |
| Runemaster: Great photo at the top of the page. As with some other old players, such as Maroczy, I had imagined that Samisch would look much more bohemian. |
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| Apr-26-05 |
| azaris: "This is the idiot I must lose to?" |
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Aug-19-05
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| WannaBe: To rephrase today's quote, "If I can have the first 20 moves. I can beat anybody." |
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Feb-05-06
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| Timothy Glenn Forney: White to move mate in 3-Saemisch-Menzinger 
click for larger view |
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Feb-05-06
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| Holden: 1.Nf8++ Kh8 (1...Kh6 Qg6#) 2.Qh7+ RxQ 3.Ng6#
Beautiful! |
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Feb-06-06
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| who: User: sleepkid your example of Samisch's brilliance certainly isn't the best, as in his game against Marcozy the final position is a tablebase draw. |
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Feb-22-06
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| ahmadov: Today's quote by this player sounds slightly odd to me.
(How can I accept a draw when I have no idea who stands better? (said during dire time trouble)) |
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| Feb-22-06 |
| hitman84: <Today's quote by this player sounds slightly odd to me>it just beats me!
<said during dire time trouble>did he really reply like this to his opponent's draw offer ? |
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Feb-22-06
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| ahmadov: On the other hand this quote can prove this man's respect to chess. Not being afraid of losing, he wanted to have the fairest result in his games. |
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Jul-16-06
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| percyblakeney: With for example Elisabeth Pähtz the letter ä is usually written ae in English (Elisabeth Paehtz) but with Sämisch it's for some reason a at for example Friedrich Samisch. |
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Sep-20-06
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| paulalbert: Quite right: Since Saemisch definitely has an umlaut ( two dots above the vowel in German ) on the a in his name, if you don't have an umlaut on the keyboard, the e belongs after the vowel in question. Paul Albert |
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Jun-15-07
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| Karpova: http://chesshistory.com/winter/wint... <<Can any reader throw light on the passage below about Fritz Sämisch which comes from page 87 of Koltanowski’s TV Chess?> ‘When he started in his first important tournament in Berlin, 1920, he took an hour for his first move, 25 minutes for his second move, 15 minutes for his third move, ten minutes for his fourth move, five minutes for his fifth move, and from then on, he would play the rest of the game in rapid-transit style, having only five minutes left for 35 moves. Most of his opponents used to go beserk [sic], waiting around for him to move. They wondered if he was up to something deep, or new, or was just balmy. But when Sämisch started to play rapid-transit chess, they would follow suit, because they felt Sämisch did not have much time on his clock. They were sure that if they played fast, he would soon blunder. But Fritz didn’t blunder. In fact, he was in his element and could outsmart most of the opponents in rapid play. Outcome? He would end up winning with great ease, with his opponent having something like an hour and 50 minutes left on his clock and a red face! Soon after his debut, participants would turn up with a detective book to calm their nerves while waiting for Sämisch to move and really slowed up when Sämisch started to rush matters!> |
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Jul-17-07
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| whiteshark: <Wie kann ich Remis annehmen? Ich weiß ja gar nicht, wie ich stehe!> |
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Sep-20-07
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| whiteshark: Player of the day
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Eröffnet einer wie Herr Sämisch
belächelt wird er heut sehr hämisch.
:D |
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Sep-20-07
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| whiteshark:
Am Schachbrett auch der Sämisch hängt
und alle Gegner hämisch senkt
er in den Grund – wie Rheinlachs!
Stets rang der wack’re Spielmann zäh,
wie zu des Sieges Ziel man späh’,
spielt er auch mal zum Schein lax.
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Sep-20-07
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| whiteshark: Here is a smorgasbord of Sämisch pictures:
http://www.jandoerffel.de/saemisch....
http://www.evrado.com/chess/katalog... www.eckschach.de/seehof2.jpg (simultan)
Caricatures:
http://home.karneval.cz/zavodny/blo...
http://www.luccascacchi.it/alevign1...
http://www.jora.info/essayer/samisc...
other findings:
Here you can see Sämisch besides other players during Moskow 1925 tournament in a Russian film (Sämisch between 1:20 to 2:02 minutes): http://video.google.de/videoplay?do... Sämisch in Sweden: http://www.jora.info/essayer/samisc... |
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| Sep-20-07 |
| laskereshevsky: This person's life was ab. 80 years long..... the next time another anti-tabagist will say me the smoke shortening life, i'll show him.... In this case Im shore "they" will answer me something like :< YES, but if he didnt smoke at all, for shore he coulded be a centenary!!..> BTW im a randomly smoker.... |
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Dec-13-07
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| amadeus: From chesstrivia:
<Friedrich Samisch: Loser of more games of chess on time than any other master. In one tournament he lost all 13 games on time. He once spent 45 minutes before making his first move, got in time trouble and lost. In another event he lost a game on time in 13 moves. The time control was 45 minutes in 2 1/2 hours.> |
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