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The Chess Club at Dresden, Germany held a 50th anniversary celebration in 1926. Among the events was a masters tournament, the Paul Schellenberg Memorial, which was held from April 4th to the 14th. Three contenders for the world championship, Alexander Alekhine, Akiba Rubinstein, and Aron Nimzowitsch, were among the attendees. While the race was close among all three in the early rounds, Nimzowitsch emerged victorious with a near perfect 8½/9, a full point and a half ahead of second place Alekhine! The final standings and crosstable:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
1 Nimzowitsch * ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8½
2 Alekhine ½ * 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 7
3 Rubinstein 0 0 * ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 6½
4 Tartakower 0 0 ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 5
5 Von Holzhausen 0 ½ 0 ½ * 0 1 1 0 1 4
6 Johner 0 ½ 0 0 1 * 0 1 0 1 3½
=7 Yates 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 * 0 1 0 3
=7 Sämisch 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 * ½ 1 3
9 Blümich 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 ½ * 0 2½
10 Steiner 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 * 2
Original collection: Game Collection: Dresden 1926, by User: suenteus po 147. For further information and background, see Game Collection: 99_Dresden 1926, by User: whiteshark.
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| Jun-24-15 | | zanzibar: I have to wonder how this game
Schroder vs A Illgen, 1926
got attached to this tournament...? |
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| Jun-24-15 | | zanzibar: (It's not in <Whiteshark>'s original collection) |
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| Jun-25-15 | | zanzibar: <CG> fixed it, my comments above no longer apply. Well, no longer apply specifically here. It seems that some additional safeguards for a tournament might be helpful to prevent future accidents similar to this. |
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| Jul-07-15 | | zanzibar: And yet somehow the extraneous game somehow mysteriously reappears! Ce n'est-ce pas possible, n'est-ce pas? |
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May-25-17
 | | offramp: Chessmetrics has a page for this: http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/Sing... For his 8½/9 performance Nimzowitsch is given an event rating of 2778. That seems small to me. |
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Mar-20-25
 | | FSR: It is very rare for a player to achieve a perfect score in a significant tournament. Here a list of such achievements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_... Nimzowitsch missed by half a point here, as did Alekhine at Bradley Beach (1929), Korchnoi at the Asztalos Memorial (1965), and Huebner at the Oslo Chess International (1974). This tournament was by far the strongest of those mentioned. Had Nimzowitsch managed to sweep it, that would evidently have been the most impressive tournament sweep in history. (In matches, Fischer's 6-0 against Larsen is nonpareil.) But he didn't. Indeed, it was Alekhine who missed a win in their game. |
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Mar-20-25
 | | Stonehenge: Nona deserves being mentioned:
Belgrade (Women) (1971) Timisoara (Women) (1975) |
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Mar-28-25
| | FSR: Reykjavik (1964) also saw a near perfect score. Tal yielded only one draw, to Palmason, while beating Gligoric and Olafsson, the other star players. |
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Mar-28-25
 | | perfidious: This run at perfection inspired Nimzowitsch to issue a formal challenge to Capablanca, though nothing ever came of it. |
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Mar-28-25
 | | beatgiant: <perfidious> It's not clear at all that Nimzowitsch actually issued such a challenge. See https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... for a discussion. |
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Mar-28-25
| | perfidious: <beatgiant>, all most informative, but Sergeant referred to the matter as well (do not have the precise page number): <....After Dresden Nimzowitsch issued a formal challenge to Capablanca.> As an aside:
<....‘Aron Nimzovich had an ego problem....'> In his classic biography <Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal>, <ray keene> referred to each annotated game of le grand maître's works as being an 'ego trip' for him. |
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Mar-28-25
| | beatgiant: <perfidious> At most, news of a Nimzowitsch challenge was reported in the press. I don't know of any source that claims he actually posted a stake, or that he even actually confirmed making a challenge. |
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| Mar-28-25 | | stone free or die: The way I read it here, it was Capablanca issuing the challenges: <To continue the story, we must turn to the great Dr Siegbert Tarrasch:‘I exited the playing hall and was much amused to see Mr Capablanca strutting behind Mr Lasker performing what looked like some sort of Vaudeville chicken impression. As Lasker left in a hackney Capablanca turned to the players assembled there and not scared of a fight
said, “Come on then, who’s first? I’ll have the lot of you.” He lurched towards Mr Alekhine and the young man recoiled in trepidation. Then he turned to Rubinstein who advised him to calm down. It was at this point that Mr Nimzowitsch appeared from the shadows saying “I’m your huckleberry.”> https://www.kingpinchess.net/2015/0... (Of course, coming from kingpinchess, this must be taken with a grain, or two, of salt!) |
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Mar-31-25
| | FSR: Larsen scored 9.5/10 at the Canadian Open (1970), but that wasn't a very strong tournament. |
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