In the process of moving some annotated games from my laptop to my phone, I came back across this gem. This was a brilliant game played in Hastings in 1933. White is the great master Lilienthal, Black is ex-world champion Capablanca. Though Lilienthal never won a WC or was even a contender for the title, he had some brilliant games against several top players of his age. This game was annotated by Tim McGrew. I take no credit except for simply uploading it here for your viewing pleasure. I hope you enjoy the game as much as I do and perhaps some of you can learn something. Enjoy!
Brilliant Game by Lilienthal
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Thanks for the post, my friend!
Thank you! I hadn't seen this one before. What a great game!
You're all very welcome. I've got a ton of annotated games by other people and myself. I think I'll start trying to post one every day or two. Glad you guys enjoyed it.
Thanks!
ironmaidenb wrote:
I'm going to have to see if I can find his book. It may be out of print, but perhaps I can find it online somewhere. Thanks for the info!
He also apparently played chess with Marcel Duchamp, and the composer Sergei Prokofiev at the Café de la Régence of the time, in Paris obviously. Coffeehouses were natural haunts for many of the best players. In his book, “Chess Was My Life,” Mr. Lilienthal described encounters in 1929 with Mr. Capablanca, in the Café Central in Vienna, and with Mr. Lasker and Alexander Alekhine, the fourth world champion, at the Café König in Berlin in October 1929. He was also a coach of a prominent chess player, think it was Smislov, not quite sure.
I think Fischer congratulated L. with this game in 1992 in Sveti Stefan.
Boris Spassky?