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💠 Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Vienna 1873
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#Vienna_1873
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💠 Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Vienna 1873
🔰 The Vienna 1873 chess tournament was a side event of the world exhibition of 1873, the fifth since the first Great Exhibition in London in 1851.
🔰During the epidemic, the tournament took place in the rooms of the Wiener Schachgesellschaft from June 21 to August 29. The time limit was twenty moves per hour. It was a twelve player tournament. Each participant played every other for a match for two points with a maximum of three games. There were eleven rounds of match competitions. Every short match had to be ended within two days. If the overall score gave no winner (1:1,=1 or 0:0,=3), the result was drawn with a half point given to each player. Wilhelm Steinitz won the tournament after a play-off with Joseph Henry Blackburne (2–0). Almost everyone now conceded that Steinitz was the strongest chess player in the world.
🔰Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria, Baron Albert Salomon von Rothschild and Baron Ignaz von Kolisch contributed large sums to the prize fund. The prizes winners were: Steinitz 10 points & winner of playoff (1000 guldens (F) & 200 golden ducats), Blackburne 10 points (600 F), Anderssen 8½ points (300 F), Rosenthal 7½ points (200 F). Scores of the other players were: Paulsen and Bird 6½, Fleissig and Meitner 3½, Heral, Schwarz and Gelbfuhs 3, Pitschel 1.
✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download "Vienna 1873 Games Database" by PGN format👇
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💠 Chess History - Tournaments
▪️ Vienna 1873
🔰 The Vienna 1873 chess tournament was a side event of the world exhibition of 1873, the fifth since the first Great Exhibition in London in 1851.
🔰During the epidemic, the tournament took place in the rooms of the Wiener Schachgesellschaft from June 21 to August 29. The time limit was twenty moves per hour. It was a twelve player tournament. Each participant played every other for a match for two points with a maximum of three games. There were eleven rounds of match competitions. Every short match had to be ended within two days. If the overall score gave no winner (1:1,=1 or 0:0,=3), the result was drawn with a half point given to each player. Wilhelm Steinitz won the tournament after a play-off with Joseph Henry Blackburne (2–0). Almost everyone now conceded that Steinitz was the strongest chess player in the world.
🔰Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria, Baron Albert Salomon von Rothschild and Baron Ignaz von Kolisch contributed large sums to the prize fund. The prizes winners were: Steinitz 10 points & winner of playoff (1000 guldens (F) & 200 golden ducats), Blackburne 10 points (600 F), Anderssen 8½ points (300 F), Rosenthal 7½ points (200 F). Scores of the other players were: Paulsen and Bird 6½, Fleissig and Meitner 3½, Heral, Schwarz and Gelbfuhs 3, Pitschel 1.
✔️ The final standings and crosstable was as above👆
✔️ Download "Vienna 1873 Games Database" by PGN format👇
#chess_history_tornaments
#Vienna_1873
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♦️ Today is birthday of Zoltán Almási
Hungarian chess grandmaster
🌺 🌹🌷🌸💐☘️🌹 Happy birthday Zoltan 👏👏👏👏
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Hungarian chess grandmaster
🌺 🌹🌷🌸💐☘️🌹 Happy birthday Zoltan 👏👏👏👏
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Congrats to Fabiano Caruana on winning his match against Wesley So and earning the fourth ticket to #LondonChessClassic taking place on December 11-17, 2018.
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11th Olympiad, Amsterdam1954, round 9,West Germany v. USSR. Board 2, Vasily Smyslov faces Lothar Schmid; behind, on Board 1 Wolfgang Unzicker is considering his move v. Mikhail Botvinnik.
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Amsterdam,1954. Winners of the 11th Olympiad, the USSR team- left to right, Aleksandr Kotov, Efim Geller, Vasily Smyslov, David Bronstein, Paul Keres, Mikhail Botvinnik, Igor Bondarevsky.
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I can see the combinations as well as Alekhine, but I cannot get into the same positions.
🔸 Rudolf Spielmann
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🔸 Rudolf Spielmann
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Fischer holds out his fists to let Larsen pick who has white for the first game of the candidates match, 1971.
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33.f3??
33. N6e4! Bxe4 34. f3 Bxf3 35. Nxf3 Qxh5 36.b4
Black is still better, but if it's a win, it's certainly not an easy one.
33...Qd4+ 34.Rf2 Ra8 35. Qc7 Ra1+ 36.Nf1 Rxf1!+ 0-1 if 37.Kxf1 Qd1#
33. N6e4! Bxe4 34. f3 Bxf3 35. Nxf3 Qxh5 36.b4
Black is still better, but if it's a win, it's certainly not an easy one.
33...Qd4+ 34.Rf2 Ra8 35. Qc7 Ra1+ 36.Nf1 Rxf1!+ 0-1 if 37.Kxf1 Qd1#
26.Nxf6!!
A decoying combination by the 43-year-old Hungarian GM.
26...Kxf6 27. Bd4+ Ke7 28. d6+ Qxd6 29. Re1+ Kd7 30. Qa4+ Kc7 31.Re7+ Kd8
31... Qxe7 32. Qc6+ +-
32. Bf6 Nc5 33.Rxf7+ 1-0
A decoying combination by the 43-year-old Hungarian GM.
26...Kxf6 27. Bd4+ Ke7 28. d6+ Qxd6 29. Re1+ Kd7 30. Qa4+ Kc7 31.Re7+ Kd8
31... Qxe7 32. Qc6+ +-
32. Bf6 Nc5 33.Rxf7+ 1-0
21. Rff3?
21. Bf4! with the idea of clearing the d2-square for the knight would be logical.
A) 21...e5 22. Bh6 Bg7 23.Nd2 +/-
B) 21...Qc6 22.Nd2 =
21... Bg7 22. Bxb4 Nf4 23. Rxg7+ Rxg7 24. Rxf4 Qxf4+ 25. Nd2 d5 -+
21. Bf4! with the idea of clearing the d2-square for the knight would be logical.
A) 21...e5 22. Bh6 Bg7 23.Nd2 +/-
B) 21...Qc6 22.Nd2 =
21... Bg7 22. Bxb4 Nf4 23. Rxg7+ Rxg7 24. Rxf4 Qxf4+ 25. Nd2 d5 -+