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Max Bluemich
M Bluemich 
DSBl 1942 p50  

Number of games in database: 80
Years covered: 1910 to 1941
Overall record: +23 -43 =14 (37.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Reti System (14) 
    A06 A04
 English (10) 
    A13 A14 A12 A15
 King's Indian Attack (5) 
    A07
 Sicilian (4) 
    B27 B63 B56 B32
 Vienna Opening (4) 
    C25 C29
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (6) 
    B56 B40 B29 B20 B83
 King's Indian (5) 
    E64 E62 E90 E72 E71
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Tarrasch vs M Bluemich, 1925 0-1
   R Grau vs M Bluemich, 1928 0-1
   M Bluemich vs F Gobl, 1920 1-0
   M Bluemich vs G Kieninger, 1941 1-0
   M Bluemich vs E Zimmer, 1913 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   1st General Government Championship (1940)
   Bad Elster (1937)
   Dresden (1926)
   Bad Liebwerda (1934)
   Breslau (1925)
   The Hague Olympiad (1928)


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MAX BLUEMICH
(born Nov-03-1886, died Feb-23-1942, 55 years old) Germany

[what is this?]
Reinhold Max Blümich participated in the 1928 Olympiad for the German National team with a result of +5 =4 -4.

Wikipedia article: Max Blümich


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 page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 80  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. M Bluemich vs V Svensons  0-1101910corrC25 Vienna
2. M Bluemich vs E Zimmer  1-0461913LeipzigC29 Vienna Gambit
3. M Bluemich vs Saemisch  ½-½611920Berlin2C48 Four Knights
4. E Zirker vs M Bluemich  ½-½271920Berlin2C48 Four Knights
5. W Schoenmann vs M Bluemich  ½-½551920Berlin2C66 Ruy Lopez
6. M Bluemich vs F Gobl 1-0231920Berlin2C66 Ruy Lopez
7. M Bluemich vs J A Seitz 1-0241920Berlin2C11 French
8. H Kollert vs M Bluemich  1-0341921HamburgC28 Vienna Game
9. M Bluemich vs G Oskam  1-0271922MatchNation Berlin-NED +10-5=9C01 French, Exchange
10. G Oskam vs M Bluemich 1-0501922Germany - NetherlandsA46 Queen's Pawn Game
11. M Bluemich vs G Oskam  1-0271922Germany - NetherlandsC01 French, Exchange
12. Teichmann vs M Bluemich 1-0351924LeipzigE90 King's Indian
13. Bogoljubov vs M Bluemich 1-0421925BreslauB40 Sicilian
14. M Bluemich vs Saemisch  ½-½331925BreslauA07 King's Indian Attack
15. Tarrasch vs M Bluemich 0-1811925BreslauE71 King's Indian, Makagonov System (5.h3)
16. M Bluemich vs A Nimzowitsch 0-1551925BreslauA07 King's Indian Attack
17. H Wagner vs M Bluemich 1-0311925BreslauA48 King's Indian
18. M Bluemich vs von Gottschall 1-0291925BreslauA13 English
19. Rubinstein vs M Bluemich 1-0351925BreslauE72 King's Indian
20. M Bluemich vs A Becker 0-1491925BreslauA06 Reti Opening
21. Gruenfeld vs M Bluemich  1-0261925BreslauE64 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav System
22. M Bluemich vs B Moritz 0-1501925BreslauA07 King's Indian Attack
23. Reti vs M Bluemich  ½-½631925BreslauA10 English
24. Gilg vs M Bluemich  1-0711926DSV KongressE19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3
25. M Bluemich vs H Wagner  ½-½441926DSV KongressA06 Reti Opening
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Kibitzer's Corner
Feb-16-05  vonKrolock: Max Blümich (*1886- +1942) Author of an infamous 1941 edition of the "Kleine Lehrbuch des Schachspiels", by Dufresne and Mieses, oportunistically changed, omitting and modifying the references to Chess personalities whith Jewish background - Article on-line, "Arische Eröffnung", by Klaus Gaisenkersting and Martin Krauss (in German) here http://www.belkaplan.de/chess/allge...
Nov-21-06  Karpova: Yes, from jewish chessplayers only losses were included (except for one win by Kolish if i recall correctly) which was ridiculous. So Bluemich even didn't include his games against Rubinstein: Rubinstein-Bluemich 2-0
May-14-07  SBC:

I really must learn German

May-14-07  vonKrolock: :) Another "Prominenter" to be found there (besides of those already mentioned) is Theodor Gerbec
May-14-07  whiteshark: That's maybe interesting for <SBC>: Within the above linked article it is said that <Gutmayer founded a »Morphy chess society«>

googling for <Schachgesellschaft Morphy> yield/bear only one additional but imo very valuable link : http://www.ewetel.net/~heike.focken... footnote 112 - must be before WWI

May-14-07  vonKrolock: <whiteshark> Interesting article and significant passage too - I'm sure that <SBC> wil arrive to a translation before that we can display one here :)

Some highlights from the article I linked above - quote: <"»Und von Schönheit kann man bei den Partien eines Flohr oder Fine wahrhaftig nicht reden«, schreibt Gerbec. »Reines Sicherheitsschach ist so ziemlich das Übelste, was bisher auf den 64 Feldern verzapft worden ist.« "> More firewood in the bonfire, as we say here... And following pearl is from still another "Prominenter", Ernst Strouhal:quote <"»Konkret versuchte Diemer, die Schacheröffnungen nach politischen und rassischen Merkmalen zu bewerten. Die Juden sind die Schöpfer der positionellen, geschlossenen Eröffnungen, während das 'deutsche Kampfschach' - Synonym für Mut und Risiko - offene und kombinationsreiche Eröffnungen bevorzugt, welche dem 'deutschen Wesen' adäquat sind.«>

Nov-04-07  Karpova: A picture of him:
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

From left to right:
Kieninger (writing down his move), Bluemich (thinking), Carls (playing with black against Alekhine), Junge (the tall one standing and talking), Alekhine (playing against Carls) and Lokvenc (standing and talking to Junge)

Dec-22-08  Karpova: From Edward Winter's feature article "Chess: Hitler and Nazi Germany", 2000: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

BCM of January 1942, page 10:

<‘The “New Order” in Germany is busy on chess literature. The outstanding text-book in the German language is Dufresne’s "Lehrbuch des Schachspiels", which has held the field for some 60 years. From 1901 to 1937 it was periodically revised, and brought up to date by J. Mieses, and so remained a thoroughly modern work.

As its popularity could not be gainsaid, it had to be “aryanized”, and a new revision was entrusted to a 100 per cent Aryan master [Max Blümich (1886-1942)].

It will hardly be credited that the names of “non-Aryan” players have been omitted from the historical section, including Kolisch, Zukertort, Steinitz, Lasker, Rubinstein, etc. Not only that, all their most brilliant games which adorned earlier editions have been eradicated, although a few of their games were allowed to remain – those they lost! This is on a par with the maintenance of “Aryan” superiority in chess by the simple expedient of excluding non-Aryan competition.

There is only one word for it – lunacy. “Whom the gods wish to destroy…”.’>

Nov-03-09  Birthday Boy: Happy Birthday!!!Max Bluemich!!!
Nov-03-16  TheFocus: Happy birthday, Max Bluemich.
Jul-22-24
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  perfidious: The following link supplements <Karpova>'s quote from the <BCM> and further highlights Bluemich's role in purging Jewish masters from the literature:

https://www.thearticle.com/rudolf-s...

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