According to the ancient pagan custom Alekhine sacrificed his dark-coloured horse
Submitted by on Sun, 01/25/2009 at 8:53am.
In an interesting way in the Hungarian language the chess pieces are called as dark- and light-coloured pieces. The knight is called as hussar, and so thus we have arrived to the dark-coloured horse, which was the next to the last sacrifice of Alekhine. Because he sacrificed his complete set of pieces with the exception of the queen and one bishop which was his checkmate giving piece. It was a serious achievement in 15 moves.
On the first picture there is a dark-coloured horse.
Let me remain at the horses! The ancient pagan Hungarian brought with theyselves a white horse as the legend narrates. For this horse they purchased the territory where they was arriving in 896 AD. This territory was the Carpath-basin. In America Louisiana State was purchased from France in 1803, also symbolically, almost thousand years later. But this more as thousand years old Hungary was broken into pieces after the first World War in 1920. The 2/3 part of the country was distributed between neighbouring countries. Millions of Hungarian are living (still today also) outside frontier of the country. Still we have a lot of white horses, a complete Lipica stud-farm. But we don’t will sacrifice the white horses, …(symbolically 5 million Hungarian), … only on the chessboard, and only the dark- and light-coloured knights, horses not!
On the second picture there is Arpad on a white horse. He was the leader of Hungarian conquerors of 9th century. (Oil painting of Mihaly Munkacsy)
The game was analyzed by Alekhine.
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