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Charousek 
 
Rudolf Rezso Charousek
Number of games in database: 167
Years covered: 1891 to 1899
Overall record: +108 -30 =25 (73.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      4 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 King's Gambit Accepted (16) 
    C33 C36 C34 C39 C37
 King's Gambit Declined (12) 
    C30 C32 C31
 Giuoco Piano (10) 
    C50 C53
 King's Pawn Game (7) 
    C44 C20
 French Defense (7) 
    C14 C13 C11
 Vienna Opening (7) 
    C29 C28 C26 C25
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (28) 
    C67 C60 C64 C77 C84
 Giuoco Piano (7) 
    C50 C54 C53
 Two Knights (6) 
    C55 C59
 Orthodox Defense (4) 
    D55 D66 D50 D60
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Charousek vs J Wollner, 1893 1-0
   Charousek vs Englander, 1894 1-0
   D Hermann vs Charousek, 1896 0-1
   Charousek vs J Wollner, 1895 1-0
   Charousek vs Pillsbury, 1896 1-0
   Charousek vs Lasker, 1896 1-0
   Charousek vs K Schneider, 1891 1-0
   Charousek vs G Makovets, 1893 1-0
   Maroczy vs Charousek, 1896 0-1
   Charousek vs G Makovets, 1897 1-0

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Charousek Comets by chocobonbon
   Budapest 1896 by suenteus po 147
   Reszoe's favorite games by Reszoe

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RUDOLF REZSO CHAROUSEK
(born Sep-19-1873, died Apr-18-1900) Hungary

[what is this?]
Rudolf Rezso Charousek was born on September 19th, 1873 in Prague. He learned to play chess in his early teenage years, and his international debut came at the Nuremberg Tournament of 1896. Although he failed to win a prize, he defeated World Champion Emanuel Lasker in their individual encounter. Later that year he tied Mikhail Chigorin for first place at Budapest, and then took clear first place in the Berlin tournament of 1897. After these and other successes, Lasker remarked, "I shall have to play a championship match with this man someday." This did not happen, however, due to Charousek's death from tuberculosis on April 18, 1900, at the age of twenty-six.

 page 1 of 7; games 1-25 of 167  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Charousek vs Skultety 1-019 1891 MiskolcC34 King's Gambit Accepted
2. Charousek vs K Schneider 1-021 1891 MiskolcC37 King's Gambit Accepted
3. J N Berger vs Charousek 0-123 1892 KaschauC39 King's Gambit Accepted
4. Charousek vs Englander 1-029 1892 KaschauC41 Philidor Defense
5. Brosztel vs Charousek 0-121 1892 KaschauB30 Sicilian
6. Tyrnauer vs Charousek  0-128 1892 KaschauC35 King's Gambit Accepted, Cunningham
7. Brosztel vs Charousek 0-120 1892 KaschauC52 Evans Gambit
8. Englander vs Charousek  0-134 1892 KaschauC50 Giuoco Piano
9. J N Berger vs Charousek 0-144 1892 KaschauC52 Evans Gambit
10. Charousek vs Englander 1-032 1892 KaschauC33 King's Gambit Accepted
11. N Konjovic vs Charousek  0-147 1893 BudapestA03 Bird's Opening
12. Vertes vs Charousek  0-135 1893 crC77 Ruy Lopez
13. Charousek vs Csipkes 1-055 1893 crC14 French, Classical
14. Charousek vs G Makovets 1-013 1893 BudapestC30 King's Gambit Declined
15. Charousek vs Niedermann  ½-½29 1893 crC14 French, Classical
16. B Bartsch vs Charousek  0-132 1893 crC24 Bishop's Opening
17. Charousek vs Mayer 1-040 1893 crC51 Evans Gambit
18. Charousek vs J Wollner 1-019 1893 KaschauC21 Center Game
19. Charousek vs Kozmata  1-041 1893 crC33 King's Gambit Accepted
20. G Makovetz vs Charousek  ½-½31 1893 BudapestC60 Ruy Lopez
21. Charousek vs G Kanyurszky 1-024 1893 crC50 Giuoco Piano
22. Soleski vs Charousek  0-145 1894 crD24 Queen's Gambit Accepted
23. Charousek vs Englander 1-033 1894 KaschauC20 King's Pawn Game
24. Charousek vs Maroczy  ½-½40 1894 BudapestC13 French
25. Maroczy vs Charousek  1-034 1895 Budapest mD66 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Bd3 line
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Apr-09-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: I noticed that in Kasparov's OMGP part1, he does not mention, nor show a game of Charousek's. That sucks!
Apr-09-06   pazzed paun: it is very difficult to make case for including Charousek in a book series like Kasparov's for many reasons.

In the original order of books K. was not even going to include Reshevsky!

(unless it was a game R lost to somebody in one of the Featured chapters like Capablanca or Botvinick)

it would be a big stretch to include Mr. C.

Apr-10-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Resignation Trap: Charousek played 1.e4 in each of his games at Nuremberg 1896, and all of them were gambits: Charousek vs Blackburne, 1896 was an Evans Gambit. Charousek vs Janowski, 1896 , Charousek vs G Marco, 1896 Charousek vs Showalter, 1896 , Charousek vs Lasker, 1896 , Charousek vs Pillsbury, 1896 , Charousek vs E Schallopp, 1896 and Charousek vs Steinitz, 1896 were King's Gambits. Charousek vs M Porges, 1896 was a Scotch Gambit.
Aug-07-06   DanRoss53: Interesting that 10 of his 29 defeats were by Geza Maroczy.
Sep-28-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.

Sep-28-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sneaky: <Charousek shares a birthday (November 19) with Varuzhan Akobian, Isaac Kashdan, James Mason, and Capablanca.> Astrologers should have a field day with that!!
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
Sep-28-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.
Feb-14-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  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

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."

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.
Feb-15-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.
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.
Feb-15-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.
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.
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!
Sep-19-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  sneaky pete: Even if chessgames.com forgets you, happy birthday Rudolf!
Sep-19-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.
Jan-07-08   Owl: Does anyone have a PGN format or a websites of the 1895 match Charousek had with Maroczy?
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
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".>

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]

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.>

Sep-19-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  brankat: A super-talent, Mr.Charousek. A fate in many ways similar to that of H.N.Pillsbury.

R.I.P. Master Charousek.

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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