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Garry Kasparov described this game as "Rubinstein's truly 'immortal' game"

Rotlewi versus Rubinstein was a game of chess played in Łódź, Poland in December 1907 by Gersz Rotlewi (as White) and Akiba Rubinstein (as Black).

It featured a brilliant sacrifice (of a queen and rook for two minor pieces) by Rubinstein to win the game in an example of an overload( is a chess tactic in which a defensive piece is given an additional defensive assignment which it cannot complete without abandoning its original defensive assignment.).

Garry Kasparov described the game as "Rubinstein's truly 'immortal' game" and "his most famous creation" -My Great Predecessors Volume 1

Puzzle: Find only one move after that White will resign 

Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (12 December 1882 in Stawiski, Poland – 15 March 1961 in Antwerp, Belgium) was a famous Polish chess Grandmaster at the beginning of the 20th century. He was scheduled to play a match with Emanuel Lasker for the world championship in 1914, but it was cancelled because of the outbreak of World War I. In his youth, he astonished the chess world, defeating many famous players, including Capablanca and Schlechter - however, his later life was plagued by mental illness.

He was one of the earliest chess players to take the endgame into account when choosing and playing the opening. He was exceptionally talented in the endgame, particularly in rook endings, where he broke new ground in knowledge. Jeremy Silman ranked him as one of the five best endgame players of all time, and a master of rook endgames. Source: en.wikipedia.org

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  • 11 months ago

    jempty_method

    I'm studying Botvinnik-Tal 1960 and the 12th game reaches almost the same exact position except with Black's (Tal's) pawn on it's original a7:

    http://www.chess.com/games/view.html?id=96619

    If you use the game explorer you will find 37 games from the above position, including games by other world champions including Alekhine, Euwe and Lasker, and another game Tal is White instead of Black.

  • 11 months ago

    ChessisGood

    Nice game! I just saw that position in the Tactics Trainer a couple of days ago.

  • 11 months ago

    VULPES_VULPES

    I saw that game in a chess book I have!

    He's was truly immortal!

  • 11 months ago

    Dhruv_Joshi

    Truly, a nice sacrifice!

  • 11 months ago

    JoeTheV

    Amazing game by Rubinstein. If I remember correctly there were annotations by Tartakower and Schlecter that said that 10.Qd2? and 17.f4? paved the way for White to be crushed by Rubinstein.

  • 11 months ago

    MAGICIANFROM_KURNOOL

    Brilliance from Rubenstein !! This video is there on youtube with good commentry..

  • 11 months ago

    Medtner2

    Georg was fool, greedy! 

  • 11 months ago

    kvlc

    I've heard elsewhere that the game took place in 1907.

  • 11 months ago

    F22Raptor

    Awesome game from Rubenstein!  although I had seen it before.

  • 11 months ago

    Caliphigia

    Are you sure about the the date? I might be wrong, but as far as I can remember, the game was played in 1917?

  • 11 months ago

    diomed1

      Great combination, thanks.

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