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Tiger Hillarp Persson's victory in our best game of 2018 recalls another legendary victory: Short vs. Timman, 1991! ‼️🤩‼️
The triumphant 30.Kf4!! leads to an even more striking finish than Short's.
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Tiger Hillarp Persson's victory in our best game of 2018 recalls another legendary victory: Short vs. Timman, 1991! ‼️🤩‼️
The triumphant 30.Kf4!! leads to an even more striking finish than Short's.
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Judit Polgar:
Happy New Year 2019!
Happy New Year 2019!
#Nimzowitsch
🔵 Aron Nimzowitsch
Danish-Russian chess master and writer
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🔵 Aron Nimzowitsch
Danish-Russian chess master and writer
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🔵 About Aron Nimzowitsch
🔹 Aron Nimzowitsch
🔹 Danish-Russian chess master and writer
📚 Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess grandmaster and influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns.
📚 Aron Nimzowitsch, born in Riga, Latvia in 1886, came to prominence in the chess world just before the First World War. He was Russian Champion in 1913 (jointly with Alexander Alekhine) at St.Petersburg. He won a string of international events in the mid-1920s which led him to challenge Jose Raul Capablanca to a World Championship match in 1925, but negotiations dissolved after monetary backing could not be found. He took first place at Copenhagen (1923), Dresden (1926), Karlsbad (1929) and Frankfurt (1930).
📚 Nimzowitsch's chess theories flew in the face of convention. He had a lengthy and somewhat bitter conflict with Siegbert Tarrasch over which ideas constituted proper chess play. While Tarrasch refined the classical approach of Wilhelm Steinitz, that the center had to be controlled and occupied by pawns, Nimzowitsch shattered these dogmatic assumptions, and proposed the controlling of the center with pieces from afar. In this way, the opponent is invited to occupy the center with pawns which thus become the targets of attack. This idea became known as the hypermodern school of chess thought.
📚 Nimzowitsch, along with other hypermodern thinkers such as Richard Reti, revolutionized chess, proving to the chess world that controlling the center of the board mattered more than actually occupying it. Nimzowitsch is also a highly-regarded chess writer, most famously for the 1925 classic My System, to this day regarded as one of the most important chess books of all time. Other books include Chess Praxis, which further expounds the hypermodern idea, and the seminal work The Blockade, which explores the strategy implied by his famous maxim, "First restrain, then blockade, finally destroy!"
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♦️ A memorable game by Nimzowitsch 👇
🔸 Aron Nimzowitsch vs Rudolf Spielmann
🔸 Hamburg (1910), Hamburg GER, rd 4, Jul-21
🔸 Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation (C45)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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🔹 Aron Nimzowitsch
🔹 Danish-Russian chess master and writer
📚 Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess grandmaster and influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns.
📚 Aron Nimzowitsch, born in Riga, Latvia in 1886, came to prominence in the chess world just before the First World War. He was Russian Champion in 1913 (jointly with Alexander Alekhine) at St.Petersburg. He won a string of international events in the mid-1920s which led him to challenge Jose Raul Capablanca to a World Championship match in 1925, but negotiations dissolved after monetary backing could not be found. He took first place at Copenhagen (1923), Dresden (1926), Karlsbad (1929) and Frankfurt (1930).
📚 Nimzowitsch's chess theories flew in the face of convention. He had a lengthy and somewhat bitter conflict with Siegbert Tarrasch over which ideas constituted proper chess play. While Tarrasch refined the classical approach of Wilhelm Steinitz, that the center had to be controlled and occupied by pawns, Nimzowitsch shattered these dogmatic assumptions, and proposed the controlling of the center with pieces from afar. In this way, the opponent is invited to occupy the center with pawns which thus become the targets of attack. This idea became known as the hypermodern school of chess thought.
📚 Nimzowitsch, along with other hypermodern thinkers such as Richard Reti, revolutionized chess, proving to the chess world that controlling the center of the board mattered more than actually occupying it. Nimzowitsch is also a highly-regarded chess writer, most famously for the 1925 classic My System, to this day regarded as one of the most important chess books of all time. Other books include Chess Praxis, which further expounds the hypermodern idea, and the seminal work The Blockade, which explores the strategy implied by his famous maxim, "First restrain, then blockade, finally destroy!"
🌐 WIKIPEDIA & CHESSGAMES.COM
♦️ A memorable game by Nimzowitsch 👇
🔸 Aron Nimzowitsch vs Rudolf Spielmann
🔸 Hamburg (1910), Hamburg GER, rd 4, Jul-21
🔸 Scotch Game: Schmidt Variation (C45)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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@Nnimzowitsch-Spielmann 1910.pgn
629 B
🔸 Aron Nimzowitsch - Rudolf Spielmann, Hamburg (1910)
🔸 PGN format
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🔸 PGN format
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🔸chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2018
🔸Round 4
⚪️Wojtaszek,Radoslaw (2727)
⚫️Vaibhav,Suri (2597)
🔸1-0
🔸Round 4
⚪️Wojtaszek,Radoslaw (2727)
⚫️Vaibhav,Suri (2597)
🔸1-0
31.Ra2?! [Wojtaszek covers the second rank. However, This move was unnecessary and he missed a golden opportunity to win material.]
[31.Nb7+! Kd7 32.Rxc6 Kxc6 33.Nd8+ Kd7 34.gxh6! h7 34...gxh6 35.Nxf7 Rb2+ 36.Kf3 h5 37.Ra5 Ke7 38.Ng5 Rb6 39.Ne4 a6 40.Rxh5+–]
31...Ke7 32.f4 h5 33.Rac2 Nd6 34.Ra2 Rc7?! [Black didn't manage to find the correct defence.]
[34...a6! would be correct: 35.Rxa6?! (35.Rca1²) 35...Rxa6 36.Nxa6 Rb2+ 37.Kf3 Nf5 38.Nc5 Rh2 39.Ra1 Rh3+ 40.Kf2 Rxe3=]
35.Rca1±
1–0
[31.Nb7+! Kd7 32.Rxc6 Kxc6 33.Nd8+ Kd7 34.gxh6! h7 34...gxh6 35.Nxf7 Rb2+ 36.Kf3 h5 37.Ra5 Ke7 38.Ng5 Rb6 39.Ne4 a6 40.Rxh5+–]
31...Ke7 32.f4 h5 33.Rac2 Nd6 34.Ra2 Rc7?! [Black didn't manage to find the correct defence.]
[34...a6! would be correct: 35.Rxa6?! (35.Rca1²) 35...Rxa6 36.Nxa6 Rb2+ 37.Kf3 Nf5 38.Nc5 Rh2 39.Ra1 Rh3+ 40.Kf2 Rxe3=]
35.Rca1±
1–0
25...Nb6! [The knight threatens to penetrate White's's camp through the weak light squares.]
[25...e4 26.f3 Be5 27.Nf4 Nxf4 28.gxf4 Bf6³; 25...Qc4 26.Qd2 e4 27.Nf4 Nxf4 28.Qxf4 (28.gxf4 Bf6µ) 28...Bxc3+ 29.bxc3 Qxc3+ 30.Kf1 Qxa3µ]
26.Be7 Nc4 27.h5 gxh5 28.b4 e4 29.Nf4 Bxc3+ 30.Kf1 [30.Qxc3 Qb1+ 31.Qc1 Qxc1#]
30...Bd2 31.Qd1 Ne3+!! [A brilliant knight sacrifice in order to trap the enemy queen.]
32.fxe3 Bb3 33.Bh3 Bxd1 34.Bxf5+ Kg7 35.Be6 Qxe6 [35...Qxe6 36.Nxe6+ Kf7–+; 35...Qb1! 36.Kg2 Bxe3–+]
0–1
[25...e4 26.f3 Be5 27.Nf4 Nxf4 28.gxf4 Bf6³; 25...Qc4 26.Qd2 e4 27.Nf4 Nxf4 28.Qxf4 (28.gxf4 Bf6µ) 28...Bxc3+ 29.bxc3 Qxc3+ 30.Kf1 Qxa3µ]
26.Be7 Nc4 27.h5 gxh5 28.b4 e4 29.Nf4 Bxc3+ 30.Kf1 [30.Qxc3 Qb1+ 31.Qc1 Qxc1#]
30...Bd2 31.Qd1 Ne3+!! [A brilliant knight sacrifice in order to trap the enemy queen.]
32.fxe3 Bb3 33.Bh3 Bxd1 34.Bxf5+ Kg7 35.Be6 Qxe6 [35...Qxe6 36.Nxe6+ Kf7–+; 35...Qb1! 36.Kg2 Bxe3–+]
0–1
34.hxg5 [34.Bh3! Rf6 35.Ra1 Rf7 36.Qd1 g4 37.Bg2 Qc8 38.Ra2 Rb7 39.e4 h5 40.exf5 Rxf5 41.Re4 Rbf7 42.Rae2 d5 43.Re8 Qd7 44.cxd5 cxd5 45.R2e5 Rxe5 46.Rxe5 Bg7 47.Rxd5+–; 34.Ra1! Re8 35.hxg5 hxg5 36.Ra6 Qb7 37.Ra4 Rb8 38.Rxd6 Qb1+ 39.Bf1 Qxd3 40.Rxd3 Rb7 41.Rd8 Kg7 42.Ra6 Rf7 43.f4 gxf4 44.gxf4 Rc7 45.Ra2 Rf7 46.Kf2 Kf6 47.Raa8 Bg7 48.Rd6+ Ke7 49.Rad8 Bc3 50.Be2 Ba5 51.R8d7+ Kf8 52.Bh5 Rxd7 53.Rxd7 Rxc4 54.Rf7+ Kg8 55.Rxf5±]
½–½
½–½