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Serendipity in the Chess Olympiad 30 years ago – the Ribli-Ljubojevic game

Submitted by cgs on Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:33am.

The victory in the Chess Olympiad never came of itself. In 1978 in Buenos Aires was the Olympiad. There were 66 teams of men and 32 of woman. It’s a pleasure that the number of teams in Dresden grew to 146 and 111. But the serendepity we could ... Read more »

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Take the bull by the horns – Alekhine’s beauty prize game in the Olympiad

Submitted by cgs on Sat Nov 15, 2008 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 19... Read more »

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The battle of light cavalry – and those amazing men.

Submitted by cgs on Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:16am.

When the Queen and Rooks all has left us for ever than begins the battle of light cavalry. In our case they are the two Bishops against the two Knights on the other side. This is the third side of medal as I had wrote in the previous article. Of c... Read more »

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Two Knights against two Bishops – when the Bishops are in the limelight.

Submitted by cgs on Wed Oct 1, 2008 4:08am.

Let us see the reverse of the medal! Now the Bishops will be the protagonists as in the previous article were the Knights. In the first game again Chigorin will be the magician. When the game has open characteristic than is good choice the pair of... Read more »

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Two Bishops against two Knights – in the Em. Lasker - Chigorin game

Submitted by cgs on Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:43am.

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin fought a great battle for the sake of the case that he could to reveal the real essence of chess-art. In this battle played an important part those literary debates where he was at iusse with one of „Steinitz-Tarrasch ... Read more »

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Perpetual check or victory in an Alekhine – Maróczy game

Submitted by cgs on Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:21am.

In the London Tournament in 1922 Alekhine remained unbeaten in spite of next game, which indicated winning position for Maróczy at the ending. The 30 years old Alekhine would has been defeated by 52 years old Maróczy, but the Hungarian grandmast... Read more »

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Maróczy Memorial Tournament in 1952 (the last part: 11th)

Submitted by cgs on Mon Sep 8, 2008 11:34am.

Maróczy’s meetings with Tschigorin, Bird, Owen. March, 1950. In the „Magyar Sakkvilág” (Hungarian Chessworld) Dr. Árpád Vajda congratulates Maróczy on his 80th Birthday. January, 1951. The n... Read more »

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Quintette of Queen’s endgames - Maróczy is the conductor

Submitted by cgs on Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:07am.

Géza Maróczy was the uncrowned King of Queen’s endgames. I’ll bring the news from 1925, I’ll browse in the „Magyar Sakkvilág” (Hungarian Chessworld) magazine. There are the commemorations for the ... Read more »

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Maróczy Memorial Tournament in 1952 (10th part)

Submitted by cgs on Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:12am.

Inter armas silent musae. One voluntary banishment, one world war: between 1908 and 1920. At that time Maróczy was far away from chess. After 1920 Maróczy achieved successes of teaching. Among his students was Max Euwe the later ... Read more »

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Maróczy Memorial Tournament in 1952 (9th part)

Submitted by cgs on Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:24am.

The Hungarian engineer is forced to accomplish his calculations on the chessboard 100 years ago Maróczy left off the chess-playing on order that to sustain his family by his work. Nowadays to imagine that the best chess-player of the ... Read more »

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