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Sultan Khan 
 
Mir Sultan Khan
Number of games in database: 131
Years covered: 1929 to 1935
Overall record: +65 -38 =27 (60.4%)*
   * 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:
 Queen's Pawn Game (21) 
    D02 D05 D04 A46 E10
 Queen's Indian (5) 
    E16 E15 E18 E12
 French Defense (4) 
    C01 C11 C00
With the Black pieces:
 Queen's Pawn Game (9) 
    A46 A40 D02 A45
 Nimzo Indian (9) 
    E24 E23 E38 E43 E44
 Ruy Lopez (7) 
    C88 C78 C79 C73 C74
 Orthodox Defense (7) 
    D55 D53 D52 D50
 Queen's Indian (5) 
    E15 E16
 French Defense (5) 
    C01 C11 C13 C17
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Sultan Khan vs Capablanca, 1930 1-0
   Tylor vs Sultan Khan, 1932 0-1
   Euwe vs Sultan Khan, 1931 1/2-1/2
   Sultan Khan vs H K Mattison, 1931 1-0
   Sultan Khan vs Marshall, 1930 1-0
   Sultan Khan vs Flohr, 1932 1-0
   Euwe vs Sultan Khan, 1932 1/2-1/2
   Sultan Khan vs Flohr, 1931 1-0
   Rubinstein vs Sultan Khan, 1930 1/2-1/2
   V Soultanbeieff vs Sultan Khan, 1930 0-1

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Liege 1930 by suenteus po 147
   London International Chess Congress, 1932 by Resignation Trap
   When Sultans played Chess by Open Defence

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MIR SULTAN KHAN
(born 1905, died Apr-25-1966) India

[what is this?]
Mir Sultan Khan was born in 1905 in Mittha in the Punjab, India. His prowess at the Indian variety of chess brought him to the notice of Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan who taught him the European game.

After winning the All-India Championship in 1928 (+8, =1, -0) he went to England and quickly came to the notice of English masters William Winter and Frederick D Yates who helped him overcome his lack of theoretical knowledge. He was British Champion in 1929, 1932 and 1933.

He played on three British Empire Olympiad teams in 1930, 1931 and 1933 and participated in some international events. He was 2nd at Liege 1930, 3rd at Hastings 1930-31 and 3rd= at London 1932. In matches he beat Savielly Tartakower (+4, =5, -3) in 1931 and lost to Salomon Flohr (+1, =3, -2) in 1932.

He returned to India with Sir Umar in December 1933 and played very little serious chess again. He passed away in Sargodha, Pakistan in 1966.


 page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 131  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Yates vs Sultan Khan  1-046 1929 LondonC17 French, Winawer, Advance
2. Tylor vs Sultan Khan  ½-½24 1930 Hastings 3031A46 Queen's Pawn Game
3. W Winter vs Sultan Khan 1-033 1930 7, Scarborough it ENGD50 Queen's Gambit Declined
4. Sultan Khan vs Weenink  1-070 1930 Liege BelgiumC29 Vienna Gambit
5. Sultan Khan vs Euwe 0-138 1930 HastingsD13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
6. Przepiorka vs Sultan Khan 1-069 1930 Liege BelgiumB32 Sicilian
7. Sultan Khan vs G A Thomas 1-035 1930 Hastings 3031E10 Queen's Pawn Game
8. Sultan Khan vs Rubinstein 0-182 1930 2, Scarborough it ENGC77 Ruy Lopez
9. K Ruben vs Sultan Khan 1-074 1930 Hamburg olm GERE15 Queen's Indian
10. R P Michell vs Sultan Khan 0-196 1930 11, Scarborough it ENGD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
11. Sultan Khan vs Marshall 1-026 1930 Liege BelgiumC22 Center Game
12. W Winter vs Sultan Khan 1-045 1930 Hastings 3031E23 Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann
13. Sultan Khan vs Menchik 1-025 1930 6, Scarborough it ENGB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
14. Sultan Khan vs Capablanca 1-065 1930 Hastings ENGE12 Queen's Indian
15. Sultan Khan vs G A Thomas 0-144 1930 Liege BelgiumC00 French Defense
16. Sultan Khan vs R P Michell  1-025 1930 Hastings 3031E47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3
17. Sultan Khan vs E G Sergeant  1-035 1930 1, Scarborough it ENGB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
18. Rubinstein vs Sultan Khan 1-042 1930 Hamburg olm GERA46 Queen's Pawn Game
19. Sultan Khan vs Colle  0-147 1930 10, Scarborough it ENGB03 Alekhine's Defense
20. Ahues vs Sultan Khan 0-146 1930 Liege BelgiumE43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation
21. H Taubmann vs Sultan Khan  0-134 1930 Hamburg ol (Men)E24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
22. Maroczy vs Sultan Khan  1-041 1930 5, Scarborough it ENGC01 French, Exchange
23. Colle vs Sultan Khan 0-145 1930 Hastings ENGA46 Queen's Pawn Game
24. Rubinstein vs Sultan Khan ½-½80 1930 Liege BelgiumA47 Queen's Indian
25. Sultan Khan vs A Pokorny  1-043 1930 Hamburg ol (Men)B02 Alekhine's Defense
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Sep-24-05   pazzed paun: <lentil> RIGHT ON!!! on of the few comments on this page that makes any sense at all.
Oct-16-05   Kriegspiel: Chap's got a very oddly proportioned head and a rather petery haircut...I suppose that's the final word on this subject.

Kriegspiel

Oct-20-05   kvcs: Final message from <KVCS> for <MSK--Posters/Readers>

After a final perusal of Mir Sultan Khan [MSK], no one has as of this date, answered our query of "the first Chess love" of GM Khan.

On 14 February, we posted this [page 2]: "For anyone to answer: Please let me know you know what Mir Sultan Khan's first Chess love is. HINT: It was not Chess, or should I more correctly say, International Chess." This was erroneously attributed by me, Molly, to Agt71/Marie as she was to be the KVCS Chess Correspondent.

Then on 27 April two <KVCS> posts appeared [page 3]: "No one, as yet, has satisfied my query of Monday 14 Feb 2005: '...Please let me know you know what Mir Sultan Khan's first Chess love is....". Also, "In short, this 'love' has a name [both colloquial and true]. We at KVCS want to know if anyone else knows either or both."

This MSK-Thread is now Closed for further comment by <KVCS>. For a full explanation, you may go to page 8 of Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997 Deep Blue vs Kasparov, 1997

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Oct-31-05   Udit Narayan: Shahrukh Khan:

"Yeh tara woh tara har tara..."

Nov-06-05   Delusional Patzer: Is it just me or does Sultan Khan look exactly like the midget in 'Me, Myself & Irene'?
Dec-01-05   sleepkid: ...looks more like Hrundi V. Bakshi to me.

Unfortunately he never played the Birdie Num Num opening.

Dec-01-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: <Is it just me or does Sultan Khan look exactly like the midget in 'Me, Myself & Irene'?>

There IS a slight resemblance to that actor (Tony Cox). Tony, also played Billy Bob Thornton's sidekick, in the movie: Bad Santa.

Feb-07-06
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  al wazir: <WTHarvey: Here are some puzzles>

You seem to have an endless supply of these combinations from the games of everyone who ever played at the GM level. Did you compile these puzzles yourself? Are they from a book or for one?

Feb-16-06   sagahelten: According to Chessmetrics Mir Sultan Khan was the world #6 in 1933. His highest rating was 2699 (1932) and his best individual performance was 2713 (Ol Prague 1931). Let's just say that he played with grandmaster strength ;-) What a strange fate: Being a servant, playing in Europe for four years and then never again on top level!
Aug-20-06   saturn: <His highest rating was 2699 (1932)> By these norms, he would only be behind Vishy as the second best player India has ever produced but yet ahead of Harikrishna and Sasikiran (so far).
Aug-20-06   OlimpBase: Allegedly he was illiterate.
Aug-20-06   mahmoudkubba: I am thinking that he was Indian in the time as far as I know India was the Jewelry of the crown and part of the British Commonwealth or the British Empire. I also ask if there is any connection to MIR Galaxy Institute in the Soviets ?. I also ask if that is his real picture or there r better pictures. Yet this is as far my knowledge and memory helps me the first time for me to notice this Ch. Player.

Did he have any real blitzes if for the British side or others?

Aug-20-06   mahmoudkubba: Also his name MSK is a look like to my name in a similarity or something: MHSK, but as it sems only the initials. WAWWWWW.
Sep-15-06   saturn: <Allegedly he was illiterate> Inspite of that he accomplished whatever he did. All the more glory to him!
Sep-28-06   hitman84: I gathered some info on Sultan Khan.

In 1926, Sir Umar Hayat Khan who later was A.D.C to his majesty King George V taught him the modern chess.

In 1929, Sultan joined the Imperial chess club where he beat B.E Sieghiem a top player in the club who played for Middlesex.

in the same year, just a few months prior to the british Ch., a small round robin quadrangular tnt. was organised for him in Ramsgate at the Gambit chess room by the proprietress and former lady champion Miss Price.

Competitors,
1.F.D Yates, British Champion
2.Winter W, IM
3.Conde A G, strong Mexican player.

Khan lost, 0-2 to Yates,0-2 to Winter and scored 1.5 against Conde.

This was a disastrous tourney for Sulatan Khan but managed to win the British Ch which made many think that the tourney was'nt strong enough as neither Yates nor Sir George Thomas were playing in it.

In the first round he lost to Hamond FE
but recovered thereafter to score 8 poits but was lucky against Winter who allowed a stalemate.

Harry Golombek, a famous chess writer who participated in the British Championship along with Khan at Ramsgate said that Khan loved to play quick games and discovered that he was uneducated and had a friend as an interpreter.

He died of Tuberculosis on 25th April, 1966.

Sep-28-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  keypusher: thanks, hitman84, very interesting. Where did you find this information?
Sep-28-06   hitman84: <keypusher>I found it in our national chess monthly mag(AICF) spread over 4 issues(feb-jun 2000) now defunct.
Sep-28-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: sultan khan learned fast-he went on to defeat tartakower-rubinstein and capablanca-see the book on him by coles at www.hardingesimpole.co.uk the best games of mir sultan khan
Oct-07-06   Maatalkko: Sultan Khan makes me smile. Watching him play simplistic openings and then beat grandmasters has a cheering effect.

His play reminds me of a young Capablanca, although somewhat less aggressive. One building move after another, and eventually his erudite European competition would make a mistake.

Oct-28-06   Octavia: <Chap's got a very oddly proportioned head and a rather petery haircut> reminds me to the time my husband had a haircut in India - when he came back, his head was shaped just like many Indian's!!! lol
Mar-14-07   drik: <Kriegspiel: Chap's got a very oddly proportioned head>

Here we have one of the greatest natural talents to ever play the game ... and a major topic of interest appears to be his oddly proportioned head. Sigh! It is not as if Anatoly Karpov could have posed for Rodin's The Thinker.

Apr-02-07   itsaworry: "...Col. Sir Nawab Umar Hayat Khan entertained the American chess team at his home one evening in 1933 the table waiter was Sultan Khan, to the embarrassment of all except the illustrious Colonel" (Harold C Schonberg, Grandmasters of Chess)
Feb-21-08
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  Knight13: You all know what Sultan Khan means in the once powerful Ottoman Empire right?
Aug-27-08   myschkin: . . .

Photographs:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2385...

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

(London, 1932. Theodore Tylor has white against Sultan Khan)

Nov-07-08   anandrulez: The legend , Mir Sulthan Khan is probably the best ever chess player ! He was no GM and he defeated Capablanca ...amazing player .
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