Archive for August, 2010
The Dutch Defense
Aug 18
The Dutch Defense is a chess opening characterised by the moves 1.d4 f5. Elias Stein (1748 – 1812), an Alsatian who settled in The Hague, recommended the defense as the best reply to 1.d4 in his 1789 book Nouvelle essai sur le jeu des échecs,
David Ionovich Bronstein
Aug 18
David Ionovich Bronstein (born February 19, 1924) is renowned as a leading chess grandmaster and writer. He was born in Bila Tserkva near Kiev, Ukraine. Described as a creative genius and master of tactics by pundits and plaudits the world over, B
Alexander Kotov
Aug 18
Alexander Kotov (August 12, 1913 – January 8, 198) was a chess grandmaster and author. Kotov was born in Tula in Russia to a large working class family. He moved to Moscow in 1939 to study engineering, and also studied chess a great deal.
Mark Evgenievich Taimanov
Aug 18
Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (born February 7, 1926, Kharkov) is a Jewish-born, leading Ukrainian chess player and concert pianist.
He was awarded the International Grandmaster title in 1952 and played in the Candidates Tournament in Zurich in 1
Isaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky (June 9, 1919 Zolotonosha, Ukraine - February 15, 1977) was a Ukrainian - Jewish chess grandmaster.
In 1936, he won third prize in the USSR Junior Championship, held in Leningrad.
In 1938, he won the Ukraine cha
The chess game between Emanuel Lasker and Johann Bauer played in Amsterdam in 1889 is one of the most famous of all time on account of Lasker's sacrifice of both bishops to blow away the pawn cover around his opponent's king and win material.
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Johann Hermann Bauer
Aug 18
Johann Hermann Bauer ( June 30, 1861 – April 5, 1891 ), was an Austrian chess player. He is known mainly for losing to Emanuel Lasker as a result of a brilliant double-bishop sacrifice.
Born in Bohemia (then in the Austrian Empire), as a youth
White: Emanuel Lasker
Black: Johann Bauerr
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1. f4 d5
2. e3 Nf6
3. b3 e6
4. Bb2 Be7
5. Bd3 b6
6. Nc3 Bb7
7. Nf3 Nbd7
8. O-O O-O
9. Ne2 c5
10. Ng3 Qc7
11. Ne5 Nxe5
12. Bxe5 Qc6
13. Qe2 a6
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The Opera Game
Aug 18
The Opera Game was a famous chess game played in 1858 between the American chess master Paul Morphy and two strong amateurs, the German noble Duke Karl of Brunswick and the French aristocrat Count Isouard, who consulted, playing together as par
White: Morphy, Paul
Black: Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard
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1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 d6
3. d4 Bg4?
3...exd4 is usual. 3...f5 is a more aggressive alternative.
4. dxe5 Bxf3
If ... dxe5, then 5. Qxd8+ Kx