The chess games of Arthur Dunkelblum

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Arthur Dunkelblum

A Dunkelblum

Number of games in database: 146
Years covered: 1922 to 1972

Overall record: +15 -57 =73 (35.5%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 1 exhibition game, blitz/rapid, odds game, etc. is excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS

With the White pieces:

Reti System (15)
    A04 A06 A05
King's Indian (13)
    E62 E60 E67 E97 E66
Queen's Pawn Game (8)
    D02 E10 E00 A46
English (6)
    A10 A15 A13
Slav (5)
    D11 D14
Catalan (5)
    E01 E03 E07

With the Black pieces:

Caro-Kann (13)
    B18 B12 B13 B10 B17
Ruy Lopez (9)
    C98 C90 C97 C85 C84
Ruy Lopez, Closed (7)
    C98 C90 C85 C97 C84
Slav (6)
    D11 D17 D15 D16
Queen's Gambit Declined (5)
    D37 D35 D30
French Defense (4)
    C12 C15 C01 C16

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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   G McCurdy vs A Dunkelblum, 1968 0-1
   A Dunkelblum vs A Matanovic, 1958 1/2-1/2
   Aitken vs A Dunkelblum, 1937 0-1
   W Morena vs A Dunkelblum, 1954 0-1

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ARTHUR DUNKELBLUM
(born Apr-23-1906, died Jan-27-1979, 72 years old) Belgium

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Arthur Dunkelblum was born in Podgórze*, Austria-Hungary. He was Belgian champion in 1935 and 1949, and was awarded the IM title in 1957. He played for Belgium in 11 Olympiads: 1928, 1933, 1937, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1966 and 1968, and his best tournament result was at Gijón, Spain in 1950 where he finished 2nd= with Arturo Pomar Salamanca.

*Wikipedia article: Podgórze

Wikipedia article: Arthur Dunkelblum

Last updated: 2018-05-05 05:41:24

page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 146

Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. A Dunkelblum vs Koltanowski	0-1	38	1922	Belgium ch	C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
2. Koltanowski vs A Dunkelblum	1-0	15	1923	Antwerp	B18 Caro-Kann, Classical
3. Koltanowski vs A Dunkelblum	1-0	27	1924	Simul blind 1/10	C55 Two Knights Defense
4. G Oskam vs A Dunkelblum	½-½	16	1926	Antwerp-Rotterdam	C01 French, Exchange
5. A Dunkelblum vs G Oskam	½-½	20	1926	Antwerp-Rotterdam	D35 Queen's Gambit Declined
6. V Soultanbeieff vs A Dunkelblum	1-0	29	1926	Spa	A46 Queen's Pawn Game
7. A Dunkelblum vs J Balogh	½-½	23	1928	The Hague Olympiad	D02 Queen's Pawn Game
8. Kashdan vs A Dunkelblum	1-0	62	1928	The Hague Olympiad	C28 Vienna Game
9. A Dunkelblum vs Prokes	0-1	48	1928	Olympiad	E17 Queen's Indian
10. A Dunkelblum vs W F Wertheim	0-1	20	1928	The Hague Olympiad	D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
11. L Steiner vs A Dunkelblum	½-½	15	1933	Folkestone Olympiad	C12 French, McCutcheon
12. A Dunkelblum vs Stoltz	½-½	29	1933	Folkestone Olympiad	D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
13. J Rejfir vs A Dunkelblum	½-½	38	1933	Olympiad	D16 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
14. A Dunkelblum vs W Winter	½-½	28	1933	Folkestone Olympiad	D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
15. A Dunkelblum vs J Enevoldsen	0-1	39	1933	Folkestone Olympiad	D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
16. A Dunkelblum vs Johan Jacob van den Ende	½-½	36	1936	Vlaanderen-Zeeland	D51 Queen's Gambit Declined
17. A Dunkelblum vs Vladimir Petrov	0-1	34	1936	Match Antwerp - Riga	A92 Dutch
18. Tartakower vs A Dunkelblum	½-½	22	1937	Ostende	B12 Caro-Kann Defense
19. A Dunkelblum vs Koltanowski	½-½	17	1937	Ostend	E60 King's Indian Defense
20. A Reynolds vs A Dunkelblum	½-½	36	1937	Ostend	A34 English, Symmetrical
21. Fine vs A Dunkelblum	1-0	41	1937	Ostend	D37 Queen's Gambit Declined
22. A Dunkelblum vs Keres	0-1	22	1937	Ostend	A46 Queen's Pawn Game
23. Aitken vs A Dunkelblum	0-1	52	1937	7th olm final	B10 Caro-Kann
24. P Trifunovic vs A Dunkelblum	1-0	26	1937	7th olm final	B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
25. A Dunkelblum vs Lilienthal	½-½	30	1937	7th olm final	E38 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, 4...c5


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Sep-07-04		nikolaas: ♕ Arthur Dunkelblum Born in 1906 in Podgorno, Poland. He was a jew and had to move to Antwerp. He became Belgian champion in 1949. In 1957, he got the IM title. He played in a total of 11 olympiads (in one, he defeated Campomanes!).In the 1937 olympiad , one of his opponents (Salo Landau, I think) fell asleep after his 11th move. Dunkelblum wake him up and offered a draw. He died in 1979 in Antwerp, leaving the world with a 1.d4 player less. His most famous game is perhaps his lost game against Reti, but his most beautiful is IMHO A Dunkelblum vs T Panagopoulos, 1950.

Sep-08-04		Lawrence: <nikolaas>, one wonders how he survived WWII. He played in the 1950 Chess Olympics in Dubrovnik and his signature is number 39, on the back of the envelope. Photos of lots of other players, but not of him. http://www.evrado.com/chess/autogra...

Sep-08-04		acirce: Most Jews in western Europe did survive - it was horrible but not near what happened in Poland and much of the rest of eastern Europe like Hungary, USSR etc.

Sep-08-04		nikolaas: Here's a pic. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur...

Oct-09-05		nikolaas: So Gijon 1950 was his best result. Does anybody know something about Gijon 1950? Crosstables, games info..?

Apr-23-06		BIDMONFA: Arthur Dunkelblum DUNKELBLUM, Arthur http://www.bidmonfa.com/dunkelblum_... _

Nov-05-07		whiteshark: player of the day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur... The first mentionend tournament is BEL-ch,Antwerp 1922, where he got 3rd place, when he was only 16 years old. If this table is correct, he was also Belgian Champion in 1935: http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/05%2... a bit confusing, that there a two champions title in Belgium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgia... == link to crosstable Hoogovenstoernooi 1964: http://www.coruschess.com/players.p... Still unclear, when and why they make it to Antwerp.

Jan-04-08		nikolaas: <Whiteshark> You think two champioenship are confusing? Belgian had 5 once. In 1936 the normal Belgian championship was held. The title of international champion of Belgium and that of national champion of Belgium luckily went to the same person (Koltanowski). There was also a revolting group of players "le groupement des joueurs de Belgique", who organised two championships: the international championship of Blgium and the national champiosnhip of Belgium. They were won by respectively Paul Devos and Alberic O'Kelly de Galway. Apart of that there was also a champiosnhip of Flanders won by Anthonus and Peeters. This total of 5 champion in one year is as far as I know a record which even the FIDE could never each. Luckily there is but one title now in Belgium.

Mar-25-08		playground player: <nikolaas> "A revolting group of players"? Just what do you mean by that???

Mar-25-08		Jim Bartle: I suspect he meant "revolutionary" or a group which broke away, not "revolting."

Apr-23-08		brankat: Mr.Dunkelblum certainly had a very fine Olympic record: 11 Chess Olympiads over a period of 40 years.

Apr-23-09		WhiteRook48: what a weird name. Happy birthday!

Jul-07-09		whiteshark: Belated thankx, <nikolaas>!

Jul-07-09		Gejewe: The game vs. Reti was not lost by Arthur Dunkelblum but by a Viennese player. Mr. Dunkelblum was one of the friendliest opponents I ever played. In the late 1970ties - in spite of his age - he was still a regular in the open Dutch blitzchampionship in Zevenbergen. He was very peacefully inclined, but whoever declined his drawoffer, suddenly had a tough fight as some young masters had to admit after being defeated.. His wife was seated next to him all the time, knitting. As a 17 year old myself at the time, I accepted his drawoffer and he generously showed his ideas about the resulting positions. He was something like the mascotte of the Belgian squad and everyone seemed to like him. It was sad to hear one day,a few years later, that this kind man would never play in Zevenbergen again..

Apr-23-16		TheFocus: Happy birthday, Arthur Dunkelblum.

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