Shankland channels his inner Carlsen again to score another 2800+ performance to win the Capablanca Memorial and climb to world no. 30!
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Halfway through Summer Chess Classic Group A. Vasif Durarbayli solely leads the tournament with 4.5/5 points. Varuzhan Akobian comes close second with 4/5.
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🔘 Aaron Nimzowitsch
🔘 Danish-Russian chess Grandmaster and Writer
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🔘 Aaron Nimzowitsch
🔘 Danish-Russian chess Grandmaster and Writer
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☑️ #about_Nimzowitsch
🔘 Aaron Nimzowitsch
🔘 Danish-Russian chess Grandmaster and Writer
♦️ Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess grandmaster and influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns.
🔹 Full name: Aron Nimzowitsch
🔹 Country: Russia & Latvia & Denmark
🔹 Born: 7 November 1886
Riga, Russian Empire
🔹 Died: 16 March 1935 (aged 48)
Copenhagen, Denmark
♦️ Nimzowitsch is considered one of the most important players and writers in chess history. His works influenced numerous other players, including Savielly Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian, and his influence is still felt today.
🔸 He wrote three books on chess strategy:
Mein System (My System), 1925, Die Praxis meines Systems (The Practice of My System), 1929, commonly known as Chess Praxis, and Die Blockade (The Blockade), 1925, though much in the latter book is generally held to be a rehash of material already presented in Mein System. Mein System is considered to be one of the most influential chess books of all time. It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.
🔸 Nimzowitsch's chess theories, when first propounded, flew in the face of widely held orthodoxies enunciated by the dominant theorist of the era, Siegbert Tarrasch, and his disciples. Tarrasch's rigid generalizations drew on the earlier work of Wilhelm Steinitz, and were upheld by Tarrasch's sharp tongue when dismissing the opinions of doubters. While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound—core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood—beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.
♦️ A memorable game by Nimzowitsch which known "The Immortal Zugzwang Game" in chess world!👇🏼
🔘 Friedrich Saemisch vs Aron Nimzowitsch
🔘 Copenhagen (1923), Copenhagen DEN, rd 6, Mar-09
🔘 Queen's Indian Defense: Classical. Traditional Variation Nimzowitsch Line (E18)
♦️ Review and download Analysed by Nimzowitsch PGN file👇🏼
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🔘 Aaron Nimzowitsch
🔘 Danish-Russian chess Grandmaster and Writer
♦️ Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess grandmaster and influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns.
🔹 Full name: Aron Nimzowitsch
🔹 Country: Russia & Latvia & Denmark
🔹 Born: 7 November 1886
Riga, Russian Empire
🔹 Died: 16 March 1935 (aged 48)
Copenhagen, Denmark
♦️ Nimzowitsch is considered one of the most important players and writers in chess history. His works influenced numerous other players, including Savielly Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian, and his influence is still felt today.
🔸 He wrote three books on chess strategy:
Mein System (My System), 1925, Die Praxis meines Systems (The Practice of My System), 1929, commonly known as Chess Praxis, and Die Blockade (The Blockade), 1925, though much in the latter book is generally held to be a rehash of material already presented in Mein System. Mein System is considered to be one of the most influential chess books of all time. It sets out Nimzowitsch's most important ideas, while his second most influential work, Chess Praxis, elaborates upon these ideas, adds a few new ones, and has immense value as a stimulating collection of Nimzowitsch's own games accompanied by his idiosyncratic, hyperbolic commentary which is often as entertaining as instructive.
🔸 Nimzowitsch's chess theories, when first propounded, flew in the face of widely held orthodoxies enunciated by the dominant theorist of the era, Siegbert Tarrasch, and his disciples. Tarrasch's rigid generalizations drew on the earlier work of Wilhelm Steinitz, and were upheld by Tarrasch's sharp tongue when dismissing the opinions of doubters. While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound—core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood—beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.
♦️ A memorable game by Nimzowitsch which known "The Immortal Zugzwang Game" in chess world!👇🏼
🔘 Friedrich Saemisch vs Aron Nimzowitsch
🔘 Copenhagen (1923), Copenhagen DEN, rd 6, Mar-09
🔘 Queen's Indian Defense: Classical. Traditional Variation Nimzowitsch Line (E18)
♦️ Review and download Analysed by Nimzowitsch PGN file👇🏼
@unitychess
@Saemisch-Nimzowitsch 1923.pgn
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🔘 Friedrich Saemisch - Aron Nimzowitsch, Kopenhagen (1923)
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🔘 Notes by Nimzowitsch’s "My System"
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🔘 PGN format
🔘 Notes by Nimzowitsch’s "My System"
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🔸Back Row Left to Right: Bryson Gregory, Dan Tinlin
🔸Middle Row Left to Right: Talaibek Osmonbekov, Grandmaster Rogelio Barcenilla, Dan Nguyen, and Tony Yim
🔸Front Row: Jonathan Martinez
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🔸Middle Row Left to Right: Talaibek Osmonbekov, Grandmaster Rogelio Barcenilla, Dan Nguyen, and Tony Yim
🔸Front Row: Jonathan Martinez
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24.Nf4?
White loses an important tempo.
Better is 24.h4! g5 25.c5 Bb8 26.h×g5 Q×g5 27.c×b6 h4 28.g×h4 Q×h4 29.Kf1 +/-
24...g5 25.Nd3 h4
White loses an important tempo.
Better is 24.h4! g5 25.c5 Bb8 26.h×g5 Q×g5 27.c×b6 h4 28.g×h4 Q×h4 29.Kf1 +/-
24...g5 25.Nd3 h4
30.e6!
White has more than enough compensation for the pawn due to the weaknesses created in opponent's camp.
30...Q×e6 31.e4! f4 32.e×d5 c×d5 +/-
White has more than enough compensation for the pawn due to the weaknesses created in opponent's camp.
30...Q×e6 31.e4! f4 32.e×d5 c×d5 +/-
33.R×c8?
Sevian could have gained an advantage with 33.R×d5! B×d5 34.B×d5 Q×d5 35.R×c8 +/-
33...R×c8 34.Qd2 Re8 35.B×d5 Q×d5 36.Q×d5 B×d5 37.R×d5 f×g3 38.R×g5+ Kf7 39.f×g3 Re2 =
Sevian could have gained an advantage with 33.R×d5! B×d5 34.B×d5 Q×d5 35.R×c8 +/-
33...R×c8 34.Qd2 Re8 35.B×d5 Q×d5 36.Q×d5 B×d5 37.R×d5 f×g3 38.R×g5+ Kf7 39.f×g3 Re2 =
42...Kg5??
42...Kh5 43.Kf2 Rd3 and Black has good drawing chances.
43.Rf8! Re2
A) 43...Bd6 44.Bc1 B×f8 45.B×e3+ Kg4 46.B×b6 a4 47.Bc7 +-
B) 43...R×g3+ 44.Kf2 Bd6 45.Rg8+ Kh4 46.R×g3 B×g3+ 47.Ke3 +-
44.Bf6+ Kg4 45.R×b8 +-
42...Kh5 43.Kf2 Rd3 and Black has good drawing chances.
43.Rf8! Re2
A) 43...Bd6 44.Bc1 B×f8 45.B×e3+ Kg4 46.B×b6 a4 47.Bc7 +-
B) 43...R×g3+ 44.Kf2 Bd6 45.Rg8+ Kh4 46.R×g3 B×g3+ 47.Ke3 +-
44.Bf6+ Kg4 45.R×b8 +-
20.a4!
Nimzowitsch once remarked that a Master will play a move on the wing, but his mind will be in the center. It is indispensable to Carlsen's strategy that he breaks down Black's control of the c4-square and so acquires it as a base for his bishop.
20...Nxa4 21.Nxa4 bxa4 22.Nd4 The knight dominates the center as Black has no piece or pawn that can oppose it.
Nimzowitsch once remarked that a Master will play a move on the wing, but his mind will be in the center. It is indispensable to Carlsen's strategy that he breaks down Black's control of the c4-square and so acquires it as a base for his bishop.
20...Nxa4 21.Nxa4 bxa4 22.Nd4 The knight dominates the center as Black has no piece or pawn that can oppose it.