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 Chess History2, because of its theoretical importance in regards to the Queens Gambit declined. It takes place at the start of the 1927 Match with Capablanca. No one thought Alekhine could win. In fact they said he would not win a single game. Alekhine himself said he did not know how he could win six games from Capa but at the same time he did not know how Capa could win six games from him!! So the Greatest Positional player of all time met the greatest attacking player of all time!! this is what happened; p.s,i will post the other 4-parts as we go along and lastly i will post a voice recorded interview with the Master, www.youtube.com |
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Alekhine video on Morphy (6), Steinitz (6), Fischer (5) and others. Definitely a labor of love on chess history. |
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part 1 the beginning www.youtube.com |
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Part 3 as in a class by himself. A.Nimzwitsch remarked ''he treats us like patzers!''. Oh how i wish he had again played Capablanca!!! much like i wish Fischer had played Karpov. A great loss for the chess world. www.youtube.com |
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A voice from the past www.youtube.com |
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all the Russians after his death knew...... Clubs all over the Soviet Union. Alekhines Collection of games and the concepts therein became the Foundation of What was to become the Domination of Russian chessplayers that would last until the advent of Fischer. ..... ] Botvinnik wrote that the Soviet School of chess learned from Alekhine's fighting qualities, capacity for self-criticism and combinative vision. [103] Alekhine had written that success in chess required "Firstly, self-knowledge; secondly, a firm comprehension of my opponent's strength and weakness; thirdly, a higher aim – ... artistic and scientific accomplishments which accord our chess equal rank with other arts Alekhine's style had a profound influence on Kasparov, who said: "Alexander Alekhine is the first luminary among the others who are still having the greatest influence on me. I like his universality, his approach to the game, his chess ideas. I am sure that the future belongs to Alekhine chess Bobby Fischer, in a 1964 article, ranked Alekhine as one of the ten greatest players in history. [91] Fischer, who was famous for the clarity of his play, wrote of Alekhine, "Alekhine has never been a hero of mine, and I've never cared for his style of play. There's nothing light or breezy about it; it worked for him, but it could scarcely work for anyone else. He played gigantic conceptions, full of outrageous and unprecedented ideas. ... [H]e had great imagination; he could see more deeply into a situation than any other player in chess history. ... It was in the most complicated positions that Alekhine found his grandest concepts. and Edward Winter called him "the supreme genius of the complicated position."[87] Some of Alekhine's combinations are so complex that even modern champions and contenders disagree in their analyses of them.[88] Nevertheless, Garry Kasparov said that Alekhine's attacking play was based on solid positional foundations,[88] and Harry Golombek went further, saying that "Alekhine was the most versatile of all chess geniuses, being equally at home in every style of play and in all phases of the game |
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here is Morphy's grave site as well as.. www.chesshistory.com |
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Thanks for the post! |
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Morphy video www.youtube.com |
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A game by my Father. Laszlo Polgar"s book;.. Chess 5334 problems-combinations and games. Scaravella-Kirschstein (B14, USA 1949) 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. ed5 cd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Bg5 dc4 7. Bc4 Be7 8. Nf3 a6 9. 0-0 0-0 10. Rc1 Nbd7 11. Qe2 b5 12. Bb3 Bb7 13. Rfd1 Re8 14. Ne5 b4 15. Nf7! Kf7 16. Qe6 Kg6 17. Qf7 Kg5 18. Qg7 Kf5 19. Bc2 Ke6 20. Re1 Kd6 21. Qg3 Kc6 22. Re6, winning. |
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Thank you Shamash for finding this game!! |
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A brigade commander shows us how to hunt a King . . . Arzimaydi. |
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