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| Dec-06-08 | | brankat: <fred lenox> Thank You for this very fine discourse on the Spielmann book! I found Vladimir Vukovic's work: 'The Chess Sacrifice" quite useful, too. |
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| Jan-15-09 | | fred lennox: Thanks brankat. I have heard of the vukovic's book but haven't read it. |
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| May-05-09 | | WhiteRook48: Happy birthday to the sacrificial wizard! |
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| May-28-09 | | laskereshevsky: Quote of the Day
<I can see the combinations as well as Alekhine, but I cannot get into the same positions. > --- Spielmann
Can be said about KARPOV is his best days:
<I can get into the same positions as well as Alekhine, but i cannot see the same combinations> |
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| Jul-25-09 | | percyblakeney: I was in Stockholm today and got the idea to look for Spielmann’s grave. It took me some time to find it at Norra Begravningsplatsen since the Jewish cemetery alone has close to 5000 graves, but eventually I succeeded and this is how it looks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/percyb... |
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| Jul-26-09 | | Xeroxx: <percyblakeney>
Det var en fin sten. |
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| Jul-26-09 | | percyblakeney: <Xeroxx>
"En genial mästare och en ädel människa" låter som en beskrivning han förtjänar. Spielmann is probably the strongest player buried in Sweden, there's also Ståhlberg who gets a higher ranking on all Chessmetrics lists but I'd place Spielmann ahead of him. The latter scored rather good results against Capablanca, Lasker, Alekhine and Rubinstein (+16 -22 =29 in career total against these four), and had several successful top tournaments. Ståhlberg has a total of +3 -23 =22 against Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian and Spassky, and his tournament achievements with the top players present seem slightly weaker than Spielmann's. For more on the subject graves of chessplayers see http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Dec-08-09 | | Caissanist: I wonder if the Swedish word "genial" means "genial" or "genius". Spielmann was of course well known for being both. |
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| Dec-08-09 | | Caissanist: QOTD: "Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine." |
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| Dec-09-09 | | whiteshark: Quote of the Day
" We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a chessplayer's nature." -- Spielmann |
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| Dec-24-09 | | timhortons: im lucky to come across the book " rodulf spielmann master of invention" by niel mcdonald and it cost me 4.99 canadian to have it! |
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| Apr-02-10 | | rich187113: I don't like his style. |
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| Apr-03-10 | | percyblakeney: <I wonder if the Swedish word "genial" means "genial" or "genius"> The last words on the stone should be approximately "a brilliant master and a noble man" in English. |
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| May-05-10 | | wordfunph: Rudolf Spielmann and other players were invited to stay on in Moscow after the 1935 tournament. He absolutely refused to stay, because he hated the beer there! He moved in with his sisters in Holland and was happy to play an occasional simul, where he earned the money for a decent lunch. |
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| May-05-10 | | thegoodanarchist: <percyblakeney:
Spielmann claims that he always felt ashamed of himself when analysing with Lasker. If you thought you had found an interesting move Lasker had already seen the refutation and was far ahead in some more complicated line. Playing Capablanca was more exhausting, ... Spielmann says that he was thinking hard all the time while Capablanca strolled around looking at the other games and discussing with people. As soon as Spielmann made his move Capablanca usually just strolled past the table and answered immediately, to return to other> This is a very interesting post. It makes me wonder about the Capablanca-Lasker match in 1921. I expect that Capa worked hard at the board in the match, to achieve the crown he chased for so many years. Do you have any info on that, PB? |
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| May-05-10 | | Everett: <Laskerreshevsky <I can see the combinations as well as Alekhine, but I cannot get into the same positions. > --- Spielmann
Can be said about KARPOV is his best days:
<I can get into the same positions as well as Alekhine, but i cannot see the same combinations>> I'm hoping you meant <I can get into the same positions as well as KARPOV, but I cannot subtly and accurately convert them while giving my opponent no chance whatsoever> However, ff you are somehow equating Karpov with someone who can't see every combination out there, then you are mistaken.... and Alekhine would not be able to convert the kind of positions that Karpov reveled in. |
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| May-05-10 | | drnooo: Percy's words are truly fascinating: they really open up a vista on the chess of the truly great ones of the 20s and 30s. They also explain spielmans results against Capa: once again we have the greatest of them all practically in tennis shorts strolling about the room treating a GM tourney like a simul.
Oh there he's made another move I expected. Bang. Take that. Now lets see what he does with that, meanwhile what the devil is Alekhine doing a few boards over and has Nimzowitch once again demonstrated his uncanny ability to confuse both himself and his opponent. Probably. Well, lets go see, and I will be right back Rudolf when you make your next move that I expect, though perhaps I should really start not running off too quickly against this guy since he IS starting to make a few darned good moves. Spelman was there right in the heart and thick of things. Very interesting what he had to say about Lasker. Also throws light on how shallow Fischer's take on Lasker (very early on admittedly, later it seems he recanted) was, a mere coffeehouse player. If he was, a lot of us could use his brand of java. |
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| May-05-10 | | thegoodanarchist: < drnooo:
Spelman was there right in the heart and thick of things. Very interesting what he had to say about Lasker. Also throws light on how shallow Fischer's take on Lasker (very early on admittedly, later it seems he recanted) was, a mere coffeehouse player. If he was, a lot of us could use his brand of java.> Indeed! And what I find even more perplexing is that Fischer put Tal in his top 10 list, yet he maintained that Tal's play was unsound. Go figure... |
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| May-05-10 | | WhiteRook48: awesome sacrificial player |
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| Aug-08-10 | | suenteus po 147: Spielmann wins an early four-man tourney in quadruple rounds: Game Collection: Stockholm 1919 |
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| Aug-09-10 | | vonKrolock: <suenteus po 147: Spielmann wins an early four-man tourney in quadruple rounds: Game Collection: Stockholm 1919> Great, this is a particullarly interesting event. Well known since the seventies thanks to a Spanish book by Eceizabarrena Gaba & Alvarez Cela, that included the games of the Bogoljubov vs Rubinstein, 1920 match. Initiative worth of praise, because otherwise it would be very hard if not impossible to reach the material back then, even if the book was a very simple presentation, with glued single leafs that would start to fly off after some reading (really very annoying in windy conditions). But those were the times |
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| Aug-09-10 | | suenteus po 147: <vonKrolock> Thanks for that. As with all my collections, I'm always looking for additional info to help flesh out the material in the collection introduction (usually bare bones). If you have anything to add from the book you mention I would greatly appreciate it :) |
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| Aug-09-10 | | vonKrolock: If memory serves, there was actually very few (I was almost saying 'nothing') more than the game scores and standard unlinked bios for each player ( when all information was laying in libraries, this was already a gift from the gods) :) |
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| Mar-18-11 | | theagenbiteofinwit: My favorite Spielmann quote : <How can I favorably turn matter into energy?> |
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| Jul-04-11 | | JoergWalter: Capablanca on San Sebastian 1912:
<Spielmann and Nimzowitsch, who tied for second and third prizes, are today the best two exponents of the brilliance of the old school, under the theory of the modern school. In other words, whilst recognizing the solid points of the modern school, they attack with the determination and brilliance which characterized the old players. Their play is similar in some respects. Both play things which other masters leave to one side, and the continuations they choose, although very brilliant, are not the result of the depth of knowledge which enables them to see certain victory, but are due to the influence of what is called “positional judgment”. That is to say, they do not see a combination through to the end and cannot be certain what is going to happen; but they believe it is good and that the position they will obtain will give them an attack which ought to win one way or another, and they thus embark upon that line, even sacrificing pieces to carry out their plans. It sometimes happens that they were wrong and that they lose; but sometimes also, despite the fact that they have been wrong, the resulting position is so difficult that the opponent does not see the correct course, misses his way and loses. Despite these similarities, their styles are different in important respects. Spielmann is a purely attacking player. Nimzowitsch is a great positional player and his middle-game tactical skill is, in my view, superior to that of any other competitor at San Sebastián. Spielmann is better in the endgame since the Russian expert, for some reason that I cannot explain, is weak in this phase of the game and he sometimes loses a difficult endgame without any reason.> |
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