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May-11-08
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| kingscrusher: Hi all
I know this game hasn't been kibitzed on a while. What interests me is that Rybka thinks Nxh2 is stronger than Qh4 
click for larger viewAnalysis by Rybka 2.3 mp 32-bit :
1.  (-2.27): 22.Rfe1 Nf1 23.Qg4 Ne3 24.Qh3 Bxe4 25.Nxe4 Rc2 26.Rxe3 Bxe3 27.Qxe3 Qh4+
2. (-2.34): 22.Rfc1 Nf1 23.Qg4 Ne3 24.Qh3 h6 25.Re1 Bxe4 26.Nxe4 Rc2 27.Rxe3 Bxe3 28.Qxe3 Qh4+ |
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May-11-08
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| kingscrusher: Maybe it is because it is assuming that h3 would be played and not g3 after black plays Qh4. |
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| Jun-28-08 |
| Whack8888: This is my favorite game ever -- the way Rubinstein plays is inspirational -- he combines a calm almost lazy sort of approach with indifferent reckless fury. Hurrah! |
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Dec-04-08
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| LIFE Master AJ: For those of you who have not seen it, my annotations can be found at the following website, http://www.geocities.com/lifemaster.... |
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Dec-10-08
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| Karpova: After 20...Ng4
click for larger viewJose Raul Capablanca: <With this move and the following ones Rubinstein shows his brilliant combinative powers. This is one of the qualities which makes him today one of the most formidable players in the world.> From page 118 of the 15 August 1912 "Capablanca-Magazine". Source: Source: Page 53 of Winter, Edward: "Capablanca: a compendium of games, notes, articles, correspondence, illustrations and other rare archival materials on the Cuban chess genius Jose Raul Capablanca, 1888-1942.", Jefferson, North Carolina, 1989 |
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| Dec-31-08 |
| WhiteRook48: ....Rxc3!! and ....Rd2!! go Rubinstein! Wait a minute... where?? |
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Jan-06-09
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| SuperPatzer77: Hey, Chess Folks!! This is one of the favorite chess games played by Akiba Rubinstein! <WhiteRook48: ....Rxc3!! and ....Rd2!! go Rubinstein! Wait a minute... where??> <WhiteRook48> Hee Hee! Can't you see Akiba Rubinstein's brilliant moves? After 25...Rh3!, Georg Rotlewi resigned because the mating threat of Rxh2# was inevitable - 26. Bd4 Bxd4, 27. Rf2 Bxf2 - Now White has no defense against 28...Rxh2# Akiba Rubinstein's beautiful combinations in the 1907 chess game are pinning, deflection and space clearance. Well, let's take our hats off to Akiba Rubinstein - Of course, it is Rubinstein's Immortal!! SuperPatzer77
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| Jan-06-09 |
| Anyi: In the Lärobok 1921 it is presumably Rubinstein who annotates this game (it's one of the example games for the Queen's Gambit). I hope that the copyright question will be solved soon, so that I can publish the translation of his annotations to this great piece of chess art on my website. |
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Jan-06-09
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| blacksburg: wait, what? rubinstein annotated this game? ooohhh, i wanna read it! what's a Larobok? |
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| Jan-06-09 |
| DarthStapler: There's an error on the note to move 22, when Tartakower says after 22. h3 Rxc3 23. Bxc3 Bxe4+, Bxe4 isn't check since the h - pawn moved on move 22, not the g - pawn. If it was check, then the suggested followup for white, 24. Qxg4 would not be possible |
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| Jan-06-09 |
| cyclon: It just might be possible to earn fame and `stay in the books` playing only ONE game of this magnitude, like `coming and going`. Though, with A. Rubinstein this was n`t the case. |
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| Jan-06-09 |
| Anyi: <blacksburg> When Rubinstein lived in Sweden he was asked to revise the Swedish chess handbook (in Swedish "Lärobok") together with Spielmann and Réti (and even Nimzowitsch contributed a few pages). In the foreword the editors (who were also the sponsors), the Collijn brothers, write that Rubinstein dealt with the closed games. He was the only one of the four to play regularily d4, so one can assume that he wrote the chapter on the Queen's Gambit (where his immortal game appears, and also a game only Rubinstein could now, namely a game from his match against Teichmann). |
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Jan-06-09
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| blacksburg: thanks, i've never heard of this. how unfortunate, copyright issues. :( |
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Jan-06-09
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| Richard Taylor: I've known this game for about 40 years and every time I see it is like hearing the most fantastically beautiful music I have ever heard.
I have just been playing over some Rubinstein games again - he played so many beautiful and deep, and instructive games. The war meant he didn't get a shot at Alekhine or maybe it was Capablanca... He was at least their and Lasker's equal.
Incredible game, incredible... |
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Jan-06-09
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| blacksburg: an often overlooked, but very instructive, move in this game is 10...Qe7, offering a pawn for open lines against the white king. <The war meant he didn't get a shot at Alekhine or maybe it was Capablanca...He was at least their and Lasker's equal.>
he did have the pleasure of spanking each of them in their first games, though. :) |
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Jan-06-09
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| Bishoprick: Beautiful combinational game from a man who is mostly remembered as a "positional" and endgame player. And of course, before the war, Rubenstein was probably the strongest player in the world. The war basically left him a broken man, perpetually bothered by a buzzing fly. Sad. . . |
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| Jan-06-09 |
| KOCMOHAYT: one of the best games from aesthetic point of view. Coup de grace is fairly quick and efficient. Fireworks! I love this game. |
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| Jan-06-09 |
| Anyi: <Bishoprick>: <The war basically left him a broken man, perpetually bothered by a buzzing fly>
This is not true: Rubinstein won more prizes for beautiful games after WWI than before it. And he worked on a chess book after WWI (see Lärobok above). Apart from that, he had two children with his wife during and after WWI and probably not so much time for practicing any more (you are invited to read my essay on him: http://rubina.yfw24.de/) I had a look at the annotations to this game in the Lärobok (1921); there are only few, pointing out the weekness of the Qd2 move, among others. However, the collection of games in the Lärobok is an assembly of tactic games by Rubinstein, and in the book there is obviously an attempt to present Rubinstein as an attacking player (I presume this is the way he wanted to be seen) and not predominantly as an endgame specialist . He was in his best games one of the best positional and attaking players, as this game clearly shows. |
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Jan-06-09
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| Karpova: <Anyi>
A question with regards to your above post: Some people claim that Rubinstein was already mentally unstable prior to WW1 and that it didn't get that much worse after the War. What do you think about that? Do his pre-WW1 results strike you as significantly unstable (with his worst result being the equal score at St. Petersburg 1914)? (This should not be regarded as an antithesis to your above post) |
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Jan-06-09
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| kevin86: This game is truly immortal:After all,it is very rare that a player sacs his queen IN THE PROCESS of offering the rooks in turn. In the end,the true goal-mate-is inevitable. |
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| Jan-06-09 |
| Anyi: <karpova>
Rubinstein's level and constancy of performance before 1913 is higher than any other player's of his age, and fatigue (and as I suggest in my essay, other distractions) may have led to the 1914 St. Petersburg disaster. My intution says that Rubinstein had to face a lot of envy throughout his career, and that this showed in all those anectodes that sprang up like mushrooms after WWI when his performances got less successful and his depression set in, but from an objective point of view he was still a successful player up to 1931 (compared with other players of his time). A matter that deserves an essay (and you have already worked on the statistics of his performances). I'm actually about to start an essay on this topic and on Rubinstein's social status among his colleagues. |
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Jan-06-09
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| Karpova: <Anyi>
I agree with you. Regarding the pre-WW1 era I came to the same conclusion (especially if you compare the results to those of players who played matches for the WC title - Marshall and Janowski). |
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| Jan-06-09 |
| WhiteRook48: why do we have to recycle a game of the day on with the same pun? |
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Jan-06-09
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| SuperPatzer77: <WhiteRook48: why do we have to recycle a game of the day on with the same pun?> <WhiteRook48> It beats the heck out of me. You don't have to ask us the Chess folks why but just ask the chessgames.com people why. However, we gotta take our hats off to Akiba Rubinstein - one of the greatest chess players - It is, of course, Akiba Rubinstein's Immortal. You gotta ask any grandmasters about his tactical moves. Even Kasparov likes the way Rubinstein played in chess. SuperPatzer77 |
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Jan-09-09
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| LIFE Master AJ: This game IS pretty, I am always puzzled by the critics of this game. My position has always been when you cannot appreciate the raw beauty of this game, then you you cannot see the forest for the trees. |
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