4 Wins : Here is How Morphy, Dr Tarrasch, Nimzovich and Dr Lasker Would Have Done It

Hi folks,

This is a position I have found in an old magazine from the old country that was given by the legendary Vlado Vukovic (1898, Austro-Hungarian Empire - 1975, Yugoslavia), the author of the legendary Art of Attack in Chess.

This is winning for White in a few ways.

After hear from you, I am going to tell you how Morphy, Dr Tarrasch, Nimzovich and Dr Lasker would have done it

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When we are up with Vukovic, here is his his game against another chess legend Dr Siegbert Tarrasch (1862 - 1934)

Re8?

Hi Bumiputra, how you been?

Well I just realized I set up one pawn too many will fix it in a sec...

Actually, there is a bug. When I set up the above position and download it as an image, there is now an additional black rook on g6

Now, Re8 wouldn't work, would it?

Rd8+, the thing to see is the next move It's a double-attack by a very important piece, one of the attacks is a discovered attack on an empty square. Very nice.

Hi @SOSOonagain, gr8 yo stopped by.

It is also good you haven't given the full solution so other people don't get disinterested.

Thanks buddy, you deserve a nice pic from Roaring, erm Punching Pawn

(imagine, to learn, hey, L_E_A_R_N chess in ten, hey T_E_N lessons

I actually can't clearly see any other ways to win. I guess you can combine threats of advancing the c-pawn and mating in other ways?! But Rxb7 for example does not win.

Thanks Roaring Pawn I would like to get your reference with the T_Y_P_E .. but I don't Can you explain?

Edit: I guess it's just your way of really emphasising something? Yeah, ten lessons to actually LEARN chess seems like a tall tale .

By the way, your solution starting with Rd8+ is what Vukovic says would have been the Morphy way

That's nice. It's the most forcing move. So you want it to work. As it happens it does

I am pretty sure the other great masters would have seen it too But I am looking forward to hearing Vukovic's take on their prospective solutions!

Vukovic was an amazing chess fella, educator, author, editor of Chess Herald, where he puts so many chess treats like this one

Here Vlado playing at Vienna 1921

Re1

I will take a shot at this although I am a deprived Nebraskan who has never visited any of the lands of the fabulous Austrian Hungarian empire (Alas!). Dr, Tarrasch playing white would move Rd8, proclaim check and rising from his chair like a resplendent peacock flower at the mere mortals spectating. Poor Nimzovich, playing black, would look up from the notes he has been scribbling, and realizing that Kh7 doesn’t work—Re7 + followed by Rh8 is mate—plays Rg8. Tarrasch plays Kf7. Morphy looks up from his game, realizes there is not an attractive woman anywhere and returns home to fabulous New Orleans like a sensible chap. (I have been to New Orleans and walked by Morphy’s house!) Nimzo sighs “My system needs a little work” and takes the rook on d8. Tarrasch then slams the rook down on h6 and yells MATE! At this point Roaring Pawn rushes into the room and says “Flickas, baby, honey that’s only one variation.” At this point, Roaring smells the stench of an extremely cheap cigar and hears Dr. Lasker drawl “Who needs two? It’s common sense. If you find a variation that works don’t waste your time looking for another.”

Darn the peacock should glower not flower. Auto correct! Turning me into Oscar Wilde on a bad day.

No, sorry, it should be Re3 I guess

You shouldn't move the rook on e6 bumiputra. It's your best placed piece. It prevents black from freeing himself with Ra6.

@Flickas (where is that name from by the way. Flicka means 'girl' in Swedish)

I actually read glower.. not flower. Strange.

Edit: Oh, and lol!

You're right. He has a check from a6...

So maybe Rd3.