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Sep-28-06
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| chessgames.com: Somebody emailed us and wrote: <I've noticed that it's usually the Player of the Day's birthday, but not always. Why is that?> Today's Player of the Day is a perfect example of why we do this. Charousek shares a birthday (November 19) with Varuzhan Akobian, Isaac Kashdan, James Mason, and Capablanca. For birthday celebrations, November 19th is booked up until 2011! A player of his importance should not wait that long; so we slipped him in during a slow day in September. |
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Sep-28-06
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| Sneaky: <Charousek shares a birthday (November 19) with Varuzhan Akobian, Isaac Kashdan, James Mason, and Capablanca.> Astrologers should have a field day with that!! |
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| Sep-28-06 |
| WTHarvey: 'The Last Round' by Kester Svendsen is a short story about the game between Walbrodt and Charousek: http://www.wtharvey.com/lastrd.html |
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Sep-28-06
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| OhioChessFan: A major loss for the chess world. There was that odd time when the world was coming to grips with Steinitz, but still enamored with the King side attack at all costs. Lasker seemed to be the first to get past that, but I think Charousek just might have ended up being better. |
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Feb-14-07
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| JointheArmy: <Astrologers should have a field day with that!!>
Actually we wouldn't because they were born in different years not the same day. The only thing it tells us is when they were born the Sun was lined up with the constellation Scorpius. They share the same sun sign, which governs their personality, ego and inner self (or soul if you will) but hardly makes up for even 60% of the person. At least according to real astrology, not those stupid horoscopes people want you to believe. Even if they were born on the same day the minutes or hours would cause several key entities to be placed in different houses. For example if you were born on my birthday Dec 16 1988 11:41 AM you would have Aries in the Moon and the 1st house. If you were born just before that you would have a Pisces in the Moon and the 1st house making giving you a completely different set of emotions than minutes later. Of course this is all according to astrology, so please I'm not hear to accept your 1 million dollar prize James Randi. LOL |
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| Feb-15-07 |
| Plato: <There was that odd time when the world was coming to grips with Steinitz, but still enamored with the King side attack at all costs. Lasker seemed to be the first to get past that, but I think Charousek just might have ended up being better.> Charousek himself was quite enamored of the kingside attack at all costs. Many of his games place in firmly in the "Romantic School." |
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| Feb-15-07 |
| ughaibu: I dont understand the amount of praise Charousek gets, unless it's due to him dying relatively young. Looking at what he actually achieved, he wasn't that great. |
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Feb-15-07
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| iron maiden: I can understand it, even if it's more of a case of what might have been rather than what actually was. Before he died, Charousek's biggest successes came in 1897 and 1898, when he was still in his early twenties, and well before he would have reached his natural peak. |
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| Feb-15-07 |
| ughaibu: Iron Maiden: What about Chigorin, Lasker, Tarrasch, etc, didn't they acieve at least as much when they were young? Have a look at Charousek's results at Chessmetrics, I think you'll be surprised. |
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Feb-15-07
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| iron maiden: Lasker, sure, but Tarrasch's career didn't really take off until he won Breslau 1889, when he was already twenty-six. And Chigorin hardly achieved anything of note before he was thirty. |
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| Feb-15-07 |
| ughaibu: Okay, thanks for the corrections. I wonder when it was that players routinely became strong when young. In the 1900s we have Rubinstein, Capablanca and Alekhine. |
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| Feb-28-07 |
| wolfmaster: The good die young. Charousek would have given Lasker a run for his money. I looked through a few of his games. This guy is the Morphy of the close of the 19th century! |
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| Sep-19-07 |
| sneaky pete: Even if chessgames.com forgets you, happy birthday Rudolf! |
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Sep-19-07
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| Benzol: <sneaky pete> His birthday was down as November 19th instead of September 19th. That is why it didn't show up on the birthday list. It has been corrected now. |
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| Jan-07-08 |
| Owl: Does anyone have a PGN format or a websites of the 1895 match Charousek had with Maroczy? |
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| Jan-07-08 |
| Owl: If I stand correct the match ended with Maroczy winning with 6-wins 6-draws and 2-losses. Is that correct |
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| Apr-12-08 |
| MichAdams: According to Fiala's QFCH (1/1999):
<Rudolf Charousek was born on September 19th in 1873, at Klein-Lometz [Lomec], Bohemia, near Prague. His mother was Czech, his father German. At the age of five weeks he was taken by his family to to live at Debreczen, Hungary, where he was "in language, education and manners, perfectly Magyarised".> |
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| Jul-09-08 |
| myschkin: Some chess puzzles
from the games of Rudolf Rezso Charousek:http://www.wtharvey.com/char.html
<Owl>
http://www.berlinerschachverband.de... [Budapest 1895, Wettkampf gegen Maroczy +2 -6 =6]
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| Jul-09-08 |
| myschkin: <Artikel in der Berliner Zeitung vom 5.April 1997> <Auch diese Schachpartie habe ich ausgerechnet bis zum letzten Zug. Diesmal wird es ein Königsläufergambit sein. Da gibt es keinen einzigen Zug bis zum bittern Ende, gegen den ich nicht eine verderbliche Entgegnung wüßte. Wer sich mit mir in ein solches Königsläufergambit einläßt, der hängt in der Luft, sage ich Ihnen, wie eine hilflose Marionette an feinen Fäden, die ich zupfe, - hören Sie wohl, die ich zupfe, und mit dessen freiem Willen ist's dahin.So spricht der bettelarme Student, der in Gustav Meyrinks düsterem Roman Der Golem (1915) die Machenschaften des Augenarztes Wassory aufdeckt. Meyrinks Vorbild für die Figur war der ungarische Meister Rudolf Charousek. Geboren wurde der feurige nervöse Ungar , wie ihn das Berliner Tagblatt vor 100 Jahren beschreibt, 1873 in Böhmen, Charousek wuchs jedoch in Ungarn auf und studierte an der Budapester Universität Jus. In Wahrheit studierte er freilich Schach. Heute ist er fast vergessen, denn seine Schachkarriere dauerte nicht einmal vier Jahre, er spielte nur vier große Turniere. Charousek war aber ein Genie des Angriffs und hinterließ zahlreiche Glanzpartien. An guten Tagen war er in der Lage, sogar die stärksten Meister wie Emanuel Lasker vom Brett zu fegen. Der Gipfel seiner Karriere war das internationale Berliner Turnier 1897, einer der Höhepunkte der Goldenen Berliner Schachzeiten . Angereist waren u. a. Alapin, Schiffers und der gewaltige Tschigorin aus St. Petersburg, aus Wien Albin, Englisch, Marco und Schlechter, Janowski aus Paris, "Black Death" Blackburn, Caro und Teichmann waren aus London gekommen und Charousek aus Budapest. Das Riesenturnier mit 20 Teilnehmern wurde in den Räumen des Architektenhauses in der Wilhelmstraße gespielt, der Eintritt betrug damals gerade 60 Pfennige, der Hauptpreis immerhin 2000 Mark. Charousek gewann nach spannendem Kampf vor dem Berliner Meister Walbrod, Blackburn und Janowski. Das Berliner Turnier 1897 stellt in der Schachgeschichte ein Scharnier dar: Die Prinzipien der alten romantischen Meister waren noch lebendig, die Neuerer klopften aber bereits heftig an die Tür und begehrten Einlaß. Charousek selbst sollte die Revolution der Avantgarde nicht mehr erleben. Er starb drei Jahre später an Tuberkulose. Ein Meyrinksches Königsgambit vom ersten bis zum letzten Zug gelang ihm bei diesem Turnier gegen Erich Cohn.> |
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Sep-19-08
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| brankat: A super-talent, Mr.Charousek. A fate in many ways similar to that of H.N.Pillsbury. R.I.P. Master Charousek. |
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| Oct-04-08 |
| Xeroxx: Interesting is that for 1.e4 he has better percentage with the black pieces than when playing as white!? |
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May-05-09
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| parisattack: <Owl: If I stand correct the match ended with Maroczy winning with 6-wins 6-draws and 2-losses. Is that correct> Charuchin's Chess Comet Charousek shows two 1895 matches vs Maroczy: 2-6-6 Maroczy and 2-1-0 Charousek; the later apparently the earlier of the two. Charousek's Chess Career by Sergeant mentions a match other than the 2-2-6 'earlier' but no other details. |
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| Jul-05-09 |
| visayanbraindoctor: <parisattack: <Owl: If I stand correct the match ended with Maroczy winning with 6-wins 6-draws and 2-losses. Is that correct> Charuchin's Chess Comet Charousek shows two 1895 matches vs Maroczy: 2-6-6 Maroczy and 2-1-0 Charousek> Played in Budapest. Hungary was then part of the Hapsburg Empire; but do present-day Hungarians regard these matches as the first Hungarian Championships? |
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Sep-12-09
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| notyetagm: Maroczy vs Charousek, 1896 This must be the most aggressive game I have *ever* seen from Black against a World class player (Maroczy). 18 ...  d6-b4!!
click for larger view<blacksburg: the position after 18...Bb4 is very picturesque.> In-@#$%ing-credible. |
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Sep-12-09
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| notyetagm: 18 ... ?
click for larger view18 ... d6-b4!!
click for larger viewIt never ceases to amaze me what you can do on the chess board when you have *immense* <TACTICAL SKILL>, like Charousek did back then and Carlsen, Aronian, etc. do today. |
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