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| Jun-24-03 | | Sylvester: Does anyone know anything about Charousek? |
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Jun-24-03
 | | Sneaky: CHAROUSEK, Rudolph.
(19 Sept. 1873 - 18 April 1900)
Hungarian Grandmaster. He learned to play chess as an impoverished student at the Hungarian College at Kashau (Kassa).--it is said that he copied out by hang Bilguer's Handbuch since he could not afford to buy it--and soon displayed immense ability. Charousek made his international debut at the strong Nuremburg 1896 tournament, finishing only 12th out of 19, but defeating the winning, World Champion Lasker, in their individual game. A few months later he tied with Chigorin for 1st place at Budapest 1896, losing the play-off match. During the next two years Charousek produced a string of tournament successes, including notably first prize at Berlin 1897 and shared second prize at Cologne 1898. He was widely hailed as a brilliant player and potential World Championship contender, but ill-health had always dogged him and he died tragically at the age of 27, of tuberculosis. Source: Golembek's Encylopedia of Chess |
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| Jun-24-03 | | Sylvester: A few guys died young back then or were forced to quit. |
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| Dec-09-03 | | Hidden Skillz: does anybody have the lasker charousek game?? if so post it if possible.. |
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Dec-09-03
 | | Chessical: <Hidden Skillz> I have just posted it.
Nuremberg 1896, Charousek v Lasker (1-0), a 36 move KGA. |
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Dec-09-03
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| Mar-29-04 | | shr0pshire: "Emmanuel Lasker, chess champion of the world, once said in reference to Rudolf Charousek, "I shall have to play a championship match with this man some day."
But his career was all too brief.
Born in 1873 in Czechoslovakia, he began playing chess at age 16 (1889). Between 1896 and 1899, he was one of the most formidible names in chess. Everyone who faced him across the table conceded his genius.
In 1896, he defeated Emanuel Lasker at Nuremberg and in many minds was considered his successor. At The 11th Congress of the German Chess Association, 1897, Charousek shone like a firey comet. He started with two losses - to Walbrodt and Burn; he gradually gained tempo with two draws - to Marco and Schlechter; from then on, he was undefeated, beating von Bardeleben, drawing against Blackburne, defeating Teichmann and Suchting, then drawing Englisch and Metger; now he proceded winning nine straight games! Janowski, Albin, Cohn, Schiffers, Alapin, Winawer, Caro, Zinkl and finally Chigorin!! Unfortunately, Lasker, Tarrasch, Steinitz and Pillsbury were not in that tournament.
Early the next year he contracted tuberculosis which adversely affected his chess for the next year and a half, until he died, April 19, 1900 at age 26. He played in tournaments during that time, but his debilitation was apparent....the comet was burning out fast."That excerpt was taken from:
http://www.angelfire.com/games/SBCh... |
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| Mar-29-04 | | capanegra: It is little known that Rudolf Charousek was the model for one of the characters of the classic novel “The Golem”, written by Gustav Meyrink in 1915. It is a very difficult and dark book (I read it last year, and it took me a lot work to understand probably no more than the 20% of the content), with lots of symbols and Jewish mysticism, e.g. the Kabbalah. The story takes place in a Jewish ghetto of Prague, and one of the main characters is a man called Charousek, who dies young from tuberculosis, just like the chess master. It is said that Meyrink was very fond of chess, and the game certainly is mentioned more than once in the novel. Those who read it, may recall Charousek -the character- using chess moves in his description of Dr. Wassory’s downfall and his remark to Pernath: “Everything in the world is a game of chess, Pernath, everything.” |
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| Sep-25-04 | | platonov: It is hardly known that his name was simply Rezső (r-e-3-oe), but this unique hungarian name was too unusual so when he was playing in foreign countries he used Rudulf as his first name. |
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| Sep-25-04 | | platonov: ő is the character 'o' with hungarian umlaut... |
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| Dec-26-04 | | Benzol: Rezso Charousek
Born 19th September 1873 in Prague
Died 18th April 1900 in Nagyteteny. |
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| Feb-18-05 | | percyblakeney: Carl A Walbrodt was apparently no friend of Charousek. The former wrote, after finishing second in Berlin 1897: "...he has the unpleasant habit of constantly visiting the boards of his competitors, and sometimes he does not even feel embarrassed about giving direct advice to the opponents of his rivals or telling them how they should have played, etc. [---] he is ambitious beyond limits, he blames everything else, and he seems to take himself for a chess god. To become a normal human being again it would really do him good to abandon chess totally..." According to Walbrodt, Charousek claimed that he could give Chigorin pawn and move and still win. Richard Forster, who quotes these descriptions (from Internationales Schachjournal, 1-15 October 1897) in his "Amos Burn. A Chess Biography", points out that other papers express different views on Charousek. |
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| May-28-05 | | Skepticus: <capanegra>: This morning (here, in México, hola) when I realized that there was a chess player named Charousek, I was wondering if he has something to do with the Charousek from "The Golem", a book that I read about 3 years ago, and that also I didn't understand at all. I came to chessgames.com and here is your post about just that. Could you be so kind to post an URL where the relation between Rezso Charousek and the Meyrink's character is clarified? And by the way, does anybody know of other characters based on real chess players? |
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| Jun-01-05 | | Catfriend: <skepticus> In "Lugin defence" by Nabokov, the main character is based on a real player, though I forgot who was it.. |
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| Jun-01-05 | | hintza: Luzhin Defence rather. |
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| Jun-01-05 | | Catfriend: Hmmm I'm a Russian-speaker, and to me it's more natural to use "g", but I guess you're right. |
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| Jun-01-05 | | hintza: I know very little of Russian but the spelling I gave is the one used, so make of that what you will. |
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| Jun-01-05 | | Catfriend: Ok:)
I posted our game with analysis, BTW. |
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| Jun-05-05 | | Skepticus: Thanks <Catfriend> and <hintza>, but I would like to know who was the real player. I have also read "The Royal Game" by Stefan Zweig, but I don't know if the players listed there: Czentovic and Dr. B are based on real ones. |
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Jun-05-05
 | | keypusher: <skepticus> I have read that Luzhin was based on Bardleben (who also died in a leap from a window) and Rubinstein. |
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| Jun-06-05 | | Catfriend: "The Royal Game" was based on a real person, I think, but Mr B.'s prototype is not a chess-player. Feel free to correct me, I'm really not sure. It seems to me Chentovic is just a represntation of a general idea, not a personality. Some say "Luzhin Defence" could be written about Oll (who commited suicide at a young age) if Nabokov would write it later enough! |
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| Jun-06-05 | | FHBradley: <Skepticus: I have also read "The Royal Game" by Stefan Zweig, but I don't know if the players listed there: Czentovic and Dr. B are based on real ones.> I believe the character of Mirko Czentovic was modelled upon Borislav Kostic |
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| Jun-06-05 | | Catfriend: I strongly doubt it for reasons mentioned on Borislav Kostic 's page. Kostic was a pleasant, talkative and polite person, eager to make contact. Nothing bad can be said about Rubinstein's behaviour as well. |
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| Jun-07-05 | | Skepticus: <To all>: thanks for your responses, let me check the pages and other material to write a reply for you. |
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Jul-18-05
 | | chancho: I really enjoy Charousek's games, this is one guy who could have been an all time great.Pillsbury also. So many young talents dying before they can show their true potential can be utterly depressing, but at least we have something of what they could have been, in the games they left us. |
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