Re: [Cz-L] Chess Fever - Rudolf Spielmann, the Last Knight of the King's Gambit in Czernowitz

Things have changed in chess during those 78 years. last year Kasparov
defeated in TA : 30 to 0 a group of players limited to 2000 ELO points. No
doubt Spielmann was not the best chess player in 1934, some 4 or 5 were
stronger, and may be some Czernowitzers were quite good, but the 14 draws
show that top chess at the time was not so far distanced from good amateur
play as it is to-day. Like the richer grow richer and the poorer poorer, in
chess we have the distance between professionals to amateurs growing and
getting insurmountable in time.

And who might have been the 3 happy winners? Unfortunately no names
mentioned, also if he had in all games the white pieces, as it is usual
to-day in simultaneous play.

Berti.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com> wrote=
:

> Czernowitzers...
>
> From "today's" edition of "Der Tag", i. e. 19.01.1934/2012, as always
> online available at
>
> http://czernowitzdaily.blogspot.com/
>
> we learn that Rudolf Spielmann, the famous "Chess Player of the Romantic
> School" (Wikipedia), visited Czernowitz and played simultaneous chess
> against 32 players from Czernowitz (15 win, 14 draw, 3 loss).
>
> Rudolf Spielmann was born on May 5, 1883. He was known as "the Master of
> Attack" and also "the Last Knight of the King's Gambit". His daredevil pl=
ay
> was full of sacrifices, brilliancies, and beautiful ideas. Despite strong
> opposition at that time with players like Alekhine, Capablanca, Emanuel
> Lasker, Tarrasch, Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, and Tartakower, Spielmann scor=
ed
> well in numerous tournaments. [=85] He is also remembered today as the au=
thor
> of the classic book The Art of Sacrifice in Chess. [=85] As a Jew, Spiel=
mann
> had to flee from the Nazis. He escaped to Sweden and died in Stockholm in
> great poverty on August 20, 1942. (Supreme Chess)
>
> Please find some outstanding pictures and a video clip at our Ehpes.com
> Blog
>
>
> http://ehpes.com/blog1/2012/01/18/rudolf-spielmann-the-chess-player-of-th=
e-romantic-school/
>
> and PLEASE NOTE, that on the picture taken in Karlsbad in 1907, you'll
> discover Rudolf Spielmann, but the most famous Czernowitzer chess player
> Georg Marco as well!
>
> Chess!
>
>
> Edgar Hauster
> http://hauster.blogspot.com/
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