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Orla Hermann Krause

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ORLA HERMANN KRAUSE (born Nov-03-1867, died Sep-28-1935, 67 years old) Denmark [what is this?] Orla Hermann Krause was born 1867 in Copenhagen as the eldest son of Elsine Søborg and timber merchant Meinert Krause. He educated as a doctor and worked at Frederiks Hospital, St. Hans Hospital (Roskilde) and Vordingborg mental hospital. After the tournament in Gothenburg 1901 he was trusted by Ludvig Collijn to co-author the book on the first three Nordic chess congresses: De nordiska schackkongresserna: Stockholm 1897, Köpenhamn 1899, Göteborg 1901 (Lindström, Stockholm 1902). He played in Wilhelmshaven 1892* (4th), Copenhagen 1895 (2nd), Copenhagen 1899 (2nd, Jorgen Moeller won), Copenhagen 1907 (5th), Copenhagen 1916 (2nd=, Paul F Johner won), Copenhagen 1924 (4th=, Aron Nimzowitsch won) and Copenhagen 1934 (5th=, Aron Nimzowitsch won). And he played for Denmark on board 1 (+4 –5 =6) in the 1st Chess Olympiad in London 1927 (http://www.olimpbase.org/1927/1927d...) where he busted the British Champion Frederick D Yates and won a team silver medal. He was also a theoretician who worked with Aron Nimzowitsch on openings research in the 1920's. His name is attached to variations in the Queen's Pawn Game (D02) (1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c5), Queen's Gambit Declined Slav (D17) (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.Nh4) and others (see e. g. http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kaiss...). Dr. Krause was friendly, gifted and had an unfailing memory, but the work left him little time for more than theory pieces in magazines and sporadic tournament play. Around year 1908 he married to Vilhelmine Jacobine Jensen (born 1877 in Helsingör) whose father was also a timber merchant. They had one son. Main sources: Wikipedia article: Orla Hermann Krause and Danish population records. Historical rating: http://www.edochess.ca/players/p603... or http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/.... *If the Krause there is really him (http://www.edochess.ca/tournaments/...).

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page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 47  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Rosendahl vs O Krause   1-0 27 1894 Copenhagen C33 King's Gambit Accepted 2. O Krause vs J Moller   0-1 29 1899 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense 3. J Giersing vs O Krause   0-1 41 1899 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C55 Two Knights Defense 4. S E Vaage vs O Krause   0-1 30 1899 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C49 Four Knights 5. S Abersten vs O Krause   0-1 29 1899 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C55 Two Knights Defense 6. O Krause vs F Englund   1-0 39 1899 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C11 French 7. C Rydberg vs O Krause   0-1 51 1899 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C67 Ruy Lopez 8. O Krause vs A Rosendahl   1-0 37 1899 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C77 Ruy Lopez 9. V Nielsen vs O Krause 0-1 38 1899 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C21 Center Game 10. O Krause vs S Pritzel   0-1 53 1899 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 11. G W Richmond vs O Krause   1-0 35 1905 Hastings - Copenhagen D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 12. J Moller vs O Krause   1-0 39 1907 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 13. Maroczy vs O Krause   1-0 45 1907 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen B21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4 14. O Krause vs Schlechter   0-1 26 1907 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen B58 Sicilian 15. O Krause vs P Leonhardt 0-1 33 1907 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C38 King's Gambit Accepted 16. O Krause vs J Moller ½-½ 56 1907 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen B56 Sicilian 17. O Krause vs Maroczy   ½-½ 30 1907 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C00 French Defense 18. Schlechter vs O Krause 1-0 34 1907 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen D05 Queen's Pawn Game 19. P Leonhardt vs O Krause   ½-½ 32 1907 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense 20. O Krause vs B Leussen 1-0 11 1908 Copenhagen C41 Philidor Defense 21. E Jacobson vs O Krause   ½-½ 45 1916 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C47 Four Knights 22. O Krause vs S O Svensson 1-0 29 1916 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C77 Ruy Lopez 23. M Marchand vs O Krause   ½-½ 34 1916 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C49 Four Knights 24. O Krause vs O Lowenborg   ½-½ 40 1916 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen B15 Caro-Kann 25. J Giersing vs O Krause   ½-½ 48 1916 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen C49 Four Knights  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 47

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Sep-25-07    candide1500: wow no kibitzing or further information on this early chess theorist?? hmmm interesting that he worked with nimzo, i have never come across the name in any of his writings.... Sep-25-07    whiteshark: Here is another <Krause> move: <1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 <6.Nh4!?>> (Former world champion Alexander Alekhine gave credit for this knight move to <Orla Hermann Krause>, a Danish analyst who found many new ideas in the Slav defense in the 1920s. White wastes time to eliminate the ominous black's queen bishop at all costs. The leading alternative today is 6.Ne5.) <6...Bg4> (In the game Alekhine-Stolz, Bled 1931, black played 6...e6, which Alekhine considered natural and good. He wrote: "White will enjoy a pair of bishops [after 7.Nxf5 exf5 8.e3], but as long as black is able to control the central squares he should not have much to fear." Most common is the retreat 6...Bc8. Alekhine advocated 7.e3 e5 8.Bxc4 exd4 9.exd4 "with slightly better prospects for white." Garry Kasparov picked up this line almost 60 years later but without much success. More interesting is the piece sacrifice 7.e4 e5 8.Bxc4 exd4 9.Nf3!?, for example 9...dxc3 10.Bxf7+ Ke7 11.Qb3 with messy prospects.) .... Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/w... Oct-20-07    candide1500: ahh nice post whiteshark and thanks for the link!! Aug-22-08    myschkin: . . . His name is attached to the <Krause Variation> in the Queen's Pawn Opening (1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 c5!?). He analysed it for the Austrian chess magazine "Wiener Schachzeitung" in 1929. It is essentially a Queen's Gambit Reversed, with Black a tempo behind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orla_H... Nov-03-09    Birthday Boy: Happy Birthday!!!Orla Hermann Krause!!! Mar-04-11    GrahamClayton: Krause was responsible for the creation of the Krause Variation in the Slav Defence in the 1920's: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Nov-03-11    whiteshark: <Player of the Day> He tied for 4-6th at Wilhelmshaven 1892, took 2nd, behind Andreas Rosendahl, at Copenhagen 1895, took 2nd at Copenhagen 1899 (the 2nd Nordic Championship, Jorgen Moeller won), took 5th at Copenhagen 1907 (the 7th Nordic-ch, Paul Saladin Leonhardt won), shared 2nd, behind Paul Johner at Copenhagen 1916 (the 9th Nordic-ch), tied for 4-8th at Copenhagen 1924 (the 12th Nordic-ch, Aron Nimzowitsch won), and tied for 5-8th at Copenhagen 1934 (the 16th Nordic-ch, Nimzowitsch won). Krause played for Denmark at first board (+4 –5 =6) in the 1st Chess Olympiad at London 1927, and won team silver medal there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orla_H... Nov-03-11    sfm: He wrote a small book too, about the beginning position in chess! He concluded that it was drawn, which is less obvious than one might think. Never saw the the book, it is hard to find. Nov-03-11    Shams: <sfm> More interesting than his conclusion (that chess is drawn) is how confident he was in it. Do you recall? Nov-04-11    Caissanist: Edward Lasker is quite contemptuous towards Krause in his book <Chess Secrets>. Lasker portrays him as a self-important hack who called himself a "theoretician" because he couldn't really play, and whose published variations were unreliable for that reason. Nov-04-11    TheFocus: Nimzowitsch thought quite highly of Krause. Nov-04-11    Caissanist: I have heard a lot of criticism of that book over the years so I wouldn't call it 100% reliable; still, I thought his perspective was interesting. Most of Lasker's trash talk comes in the context of a game in which he wiped out Yates thanks to the latter's ill-advised decision to follow some of Krause's published analysis. To hear Lasker tell it, he and Teichmann had thought the Krause analysis ridiculous on its face, sat down to analyze it, and found a bust rather easily. Lasker then used the move to ambush Yates a few months later. The game's not in the database yet, one of these days I'll get around to uploading it. Mar-28-12    Tabanus: <whiteshark: He ... took 2nd, behind Andreas Rosendahl, at Copenhagen 1895> Anyone knows about this tournament? The game J Moeller vs J A Ros, 1895 is from Stockholm 1897. Searching on the Danish words "skak københavn 1895 rosendahl" in Google I get 63.000 hits, mostly in English, all apparently repeating each other. Jeremy Gaige's index also lists Copenhagen 1895. Seaching Google advanced for Danish sites only, however, produces nothing (?) and it's not listed in http://storiascacchi.altervista.org.... Perhaps I should try harder. Mar-28-12    Calli: DeFelice in Chess Results gives a crosstable for "Copenhagen 1895 (1894-95?)". It's a double round event with 8 players. Andreas Christian Rosendahl 11.5, Krause 10, Vielhelm Nielsen 9, J H Giersing 8, Jorgen Moller 8, Axel Carl Martin Pritzel 6.5, F. Schroder 2, Karl Koppel 1. Mar-29-12    Tabanus: <Calli> Thanks. Yes it's the same players as in Gaige's index, and http://www.edochess.ca/tournaments/.... I can't find any games, but perhaps there are some in Skakbladet 1895ff which I believe Rosendahl was the first editor of. Apr-05-12    Tabanus: Perhaps someone knows when Krause was the editor of the chess magazine Skakbladet? If he ever was. Sep-29-13    GrahamClayton: Krause was also responsible for this variation of the Petroff Defence: 1.e4 e5 2. ♘f3 ♘f6 3. ♘xe5 d6 4. ♘f3 ♘xe4 5. d4 d5 6. ♗d3 ♗e7 7. 0-0 ♘c6 8. ♖e1 ♗g4 9. c3 f5 10. c4 May-18-14    Caissanist: The game I referred to above (in which Edward Lasker defeated Yates after Yates followed some of Krause's analysis) is in the Chessgames database now: Ed. Lasker vs Yates, 1913 . Nov-03-16    TheFocus: Happy birthday, Orla Krause.

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