Apr-23-25 Rubinstein vs A Nimzowitsch, 1907
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nizmo11: as <MordimerChess> points out 9.Nb5 d4 10.a3! was very strong. This was played 80 years later in
S Polgar vs G Olarasu, 1988 . I assume both saw the trap that finally got its victim in A Jankovic vs O Zierke, 2009 |
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Apr-20-25 H Caro vs A Nimzowitsch, 1905
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nizmo11: Marco also laughs at this sac : "Black proceeds with a nebulous sacrificial combination, which soon helps him into a cool grave" (Skjoldager and Nielsen, p.38).
In fact, white has some advantage, but in this position 26...a4 is one of Stockfish's top choices, just instead of ... |
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Apr-20-25 A Nimzowitsch vs L Forgacs, 1905
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nizmo11: G. Marco writes in tournament book on move 23: "23...Bd6!, Nimzowitch has his own way to assault on opponent but Fleischmann is not impressed." <Skjoldager and Nielsen, p.37>
Computer shows that after 23...Bd6?! 24.Bxg7 Bf8 white could have saved the game with 25.Rh3!:
... |
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Apr-06-25 V Rauzer vs V Makogonov, 1934
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nizmo11: Not the Rauzer variation, but accorging Kontantinopolsky 7.♕f3 was Rauser's invention:"One of Rauzer's most ingenious inventions which he fearlessly tested in early 1934 in the Kiev competition and correspondence game." (<Obsession, A Chess Biography of Vselevod Rauser, ... |
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Jan-14-25 Ljubojevic vs Van der Wiel, 1986 
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nizmo11: Wonderful game! Are there any contemporary analysis? I see that van der Wiel repeated the variation 9 years later in H A Gretarsson vs Van der Wiel, 1995 , when white found the stronger 15.Ng5 In the Ljubo's game computer shows, he could have played 27.Rxd3, when after 27...Rc2 28. ... |
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Jan-08-25 Bogoljubov vs Stahlberg, 1930
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nizmo11: Here
[DIAGRAM] 55.Rh1? should have lost: 55...Rc4! (cutting the king) 56. f6 c2 57.f7 Rf8 58.Rf1 Rf8 The more natural 55. Kf4 c2 56.Rh1 leads to the drawn R vs N after 56...c1D 57.Rxc1 Rxc1 58. Ke5! Rc5+ 59. Ke6 Ke4 60. f6 Rc6+ 61. Ke7 Ke5 62. f7 Rc7+ 63. Ke8 Ke6 64. f8N+ |
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Jan-07-25 Lars Wasastjerna 
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nizmo11: Lars Wasastjerna (10.3.1866‒14.8.1949) and his brother Björn (30.6.1860‒29.4.1928) were both founding members of Helsinki CC.
<tehtaväniekka 2016 no 2> contains an article "150 years since the birth of LW" on his
achievements as a problemist. |
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Jan-06-25 Biographer Bistro 
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nizmo11: I submitted Dorpat CC - Helsinki CC games following <tabanus>
I also found that these games are in
<Baltische Schachblätter, issue 4>, games 103 and 104 with additional sources from Latvian newspapers. Also p. 237
"The two games were led on Dorpat side first by ... |
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Jan-01-25 Lasker vs Pillsbury, 1899 
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nizmo11: <FM David H. Levin>
Tablebase tells that the position after 59.Rc3 Rf8 is a win. The winning idea is to retreat the King for a moment back to f2: for example
60.Ke3 Re8+ 61.Kf2 Rf8 and here
[DIAGRAM]
play 62. Rc1! White will then advance with King again, and respond to Rf8 |
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Dec-26-24 Nordic Congress, Copenhagen (1907) 
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nizmo11: <Tabanus>
The Nordic congress 1907 was in Copenhagen, not in Stockholm, isn't it? |
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