Take the bull by the horns – Alekhine’s beauty prize game in the Olympiad
Submitted by on Sat, 11/15/2008 at 4:07am.
The day before yesterday began the Chess Olympiad in Dresden, in Germany. In this year was the 30th anniversary that a little country for the first time won before the Soviet Union in the Olympiad and obtained the Gold Medal in Buenos Aires, in 1978. It was Hungary, which country won the first and second Olympiads (1927, 1928) and won in 1936, in Munich (also in Germany, where was an all-against-all tournament on 8-8 chessboard between 21 team, and where Hungarian team won every 20 matches), but later the FIDE annulled this Olympiad. Why? However the nazi Germany was only third. (1.Hungary 110,5 2.Poland 108 3.Germany 106,5) In 1978 in Hungary here was a tremendous enthusiasm that we defeated that soviet union, which beat down the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. In 1978 we respected those Hungarian chess players from Buenos Aires as national heros. Now, after 30 years I describe his names again: Lajos Portisch, Zoltán Ribli, Gyula Sax, István Csom, András Adorján, László Vadász. Of course they are all Grandmasters.
The next game also is connect with the Olympiads. The third Chess Olympiad was in Hambourg, in 1930. (Germany as well) There played Alekhine (who run away from soviet union) this game, and got beauty prize for this game. He demonstrated that he might attack the bull between his horns. In the game this is the f3-pawn which was on the most defended field. On the picture there is the fight with the bull from the palace of Knossos in Crete, Greece.
The game analyzed IM V. N. Panov in 1954.