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Samisch 
 
Friedrich Samisch
Number of games in database: 547
Years covered: 1920 to 1972
Overall record: +151 -189 =205 (46.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      2 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Queen's Pawn Game (47) 
    A46 D02 E10 A50 D00
 Orthodox Defense (33) 
    D52 D51 D63 D64 D55
 Queen's Gambit Declined (26) 
    D37 D35 D30 D31 D06
 Nimzo Indian (18) 
    E24 E21 E38 E35 E20
 Slav (18) 
    D18 D15 D19 D11 D16
 Grunfeld (14) 
    D96 D90 D97 D98 D95
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (43) 
    B83 B40 B20 B24 B43
 Ruy Lopez (31) 
    C76 C71 C79 C73 C64
 Queen's Indian (25) 
    E12 E17 E14 E18 E15
 Queen's Pawn Game (25) 
    A46 E10 D02 E00 D01
 Nimzo Indian (22) 
    E38 E21 E23 E20 E22
 French Defense (16) 
    C11 C10 C01 C12 C00
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Samisch vs F Herzog, 1924 1-0
   Samisch vs Capablanca, 1929 1-0
   Samisch vs Gruenfeld, 1929 1-0
   Samisch vs Reti, 1928 1-0
   Samisch vs Alekhine, 1921 1/2-1/2
   Samisch vs O Menzinger, 1953 1-0
   Samisch vs K Engel, 1928 1-0
   Samisch vs Carlos Torre, 1925 1/2-1/2
   Samisch vs Nimzowitsch, 1925 1-0
   Samisch vs F Krautheim, 1946 1-0

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Copenhagen 1923 by suenteus po 147
   Dresden 1936 by suenteus po 147
   Dortmund 1928 by suenteus po 147

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FRIEDRICH SAMISCH
(born Sep-20-1896, died Aug-16-1975) Germany

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Friedrich (Fritz) Sämisch was born on the 20th of September 1896 in Berlin, Germany. Awarded the GM title in 1950 he was Austrian Champion in 1921. His most notable match win also in 1921 was against Richard Reti (+4, =3, -1) and in his best tournament he finished 3rd at Baden-Baden 1925 after Alexander Alekhine and Akiba Rubinstein.

In later years he became a notorious time trouble addict and at one tournament in Linkoping, Sweden 1969 he lost all 13 games he played on time. In contradiction to this he could play fast chess well winning two lightning tournaments at the age of 61.

A profound opening theoretician, two major opening variations are named after him, which are still played today at the highest levels: Nimzo-Indian, Samisch (E24) and King's Indian, Samisch Variation (E80).

He passed away in Berlin in 1975.


 page 1 of 22; games 1-25 of 547  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Samisch vs Euwe  ½-½22 1920 Berlin-Holland m TelegraphD00 Queen's Pawn Game
2. Samisch vs Shropp  1-035 1920 ItD00 Queen's Pawn Game
3. Samisch vs Bogoljubov 0-133 1920 BerlinA40 Queen's Pawn Game
4. Samisch vs H Von Hennig  ½-½51 1920 Goteborg BD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
5. A Larsson vs Samisch  ½-½68 1920 Goteborg BC10 French
6. Tarrasch vs Samisch  1-077 1920 BerlinC49 Four Knights
7. Samisch vs A Nilsson  ½-½77 1920 Goteborg BA80 Dutch
8. Maroczy vs Samisch  ½-½48 1920 BerlinA46 Queen's Pawn Game
9. W John vs Samisch  1-059 1920 Goteborg BC10 French
10. Samisch vs K Kullberg  1-030 1920 Goteborg BA46 Queen's Pawn Game
11. Samisch vs Mieses 0-151 1920 BerlinA80 Dutch
12. Gruenfeld vs Samisch  ½-½26 1920 Goteborg BE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
13. Samisch vs Euwe  ½-½34 1920 GoteborgD04 Queen's Pawn Game
14. Samisch vs A Olsson  1-037 1920 Goteborg BA46 Queen's Pawn Game
15. Samisch vs Reti  1-043 1920 BerlinA46 Queen's Pawn Game
16. Hakansson vs Samisch  ½-½31 1920 Goteborg BD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
17. Spielmann vs Samisch  ½-½33 1920 BerlinB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
18. Samisch vs Olland  ½-½47 1920 Goteborg BD00 Queen's Pawn Game
19. Carls vs Samisch  1-092 1920 Goteborg BE05 Catalan, Open, Classical line
20. Leonhardt vs Samisch  ½-½50 1920 BerlinE12 Queen's Indian
21. Samisch vs E Jacobson  1-055 1920 Goteborg BA46 Queen's Pawn Game
22. Samisch vs Breyer  ½-½64 1920 BerlinA43 Old Benoni
23. M Marchand vs Samisch  1-062 1920 Goteborg BE12 Queen's Indian
24. Samisch vs P F Johner  ½-½56 1920 Goteborg BD34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
25. Samisch vs Tartakower  ½-½36 1920 BerlinC11 French
 page 1 of 22; games 1-25 of 547  PGN Download
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Apr-26-05   azaris: "This is the idiot I must lose to?"
Aug-19-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: To rephrase today's quote, "If I can have the first 20 moves. I can beat anybody."
Feb-05-06
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  Timothy Glenn Forney: White to move mate in 3-Saemisch-Menzinger


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Feb-05-06   Holden: 1.Nf8++ Kh8 (1...Kh6 Qg6#) 2.Qh7+ RxQ 3.Ng6#

Beautiful!

Feb-06-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.
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))
Feb-22-06
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  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 ?
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.
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.
Sep-20-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  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
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!>

Jul-17-07
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  whiteshark: <Wie kann ich Remis annehmen? Ich weiß ja gar nicht, wie ich stehe!>
Sep-20-07
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  whiteshark: Player of the day
===

Eröffnet einer wie Herr Sämisch
belächelt wird er heut sehr hämisch.

:D

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.
Sep-20-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  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...

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....

Dec-13-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.>

Jun-03-08   Alphastar: <The time control was 45 minutes in 2 1/2 hours.> Yes, that's going to be difficult indeed
Jun-12-08
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  hedgeh0g: <The time control was 45 minutes in 2 1/2 hours.>

Now correct me if I'm wrong...

Aug-07-08   myschkin: . . .

http://tinyurl.com/6yshzx

(Adressverzeichnis von 1935)

Mar-23-09
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  fred lennox: nimzowitch's comment after loosing to samisch i don't take seriously, wouldn't even be surprise if it wasn't true. In his book Carlsbad 1929 Nimzowitch describes Samisch as a deep thinking strategist. Doesn't sound like an idiot to me.
Apr-20-09
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  Sem: Donner wrote a nice paragraph on him. Sämisch in his latter days played Donner and of course lost on time. Donner: 'He remained still at the board when his flag had fallen, a sound so tiny that only real chess players can hear it. He said that something held him back from making the moves.'
Jun-15-09   capanegra: I found the following position from a game Samisch-Ahues (Hamburg 1946), in which Samisch won beautifully with a shocking move which explodes the theme of closing the enemy's lines. Does anybody recognize it and has the full score?

White to play and win


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Sep-20-09
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  talisman: happy birthday friedrich...the original slowhand.
Sep-21-09
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  Open Defence: Samisch is quite good looking
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