" The fact is that I'm a marvellous player, even if the whole chess world bursts with envy. "
Tricks of the nimzo
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May suggest?!?! Maybe he's talking like this because he needs to draw attention to himself and make money. Kind of like the WWE wrestlers who try to put on big shows.
Poets were big stuff back in the day too. Celebrities. It's directly related to there not yet being television. Back then you invited touring chess players over for tea and enjoyed an evening of them taunting you because there was no Battlestar Gallactica on the tube. This guy was a riot. I don't know what he looked like so I'm choosing to picture him as having an aggressively pointy beard with an opium pipe in hand.
May 30, 2008
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lol, that's rather humorous
I would have liked to see Nimzowitsch's face if Black played the forced mate in 4 on move 21.
21...Qb1+ 22. Nc1 Rxc1+ 23. Bxc1 Ba4+ 24. Kd2 Qc2#
When I see Bb5 in the French I smile.
May 30, 2008
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#8
to answer a few questions the guy had no beard was a cleancut chubby fellow with that haircut that is parted down the middle and curled up.
oh and all I mean ALL of his annotations sound like this. even when he loses.
and to engwannabe its not a forced mate if he brings the bishop down instead of the knight.
Jun 6, 2008
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Cloyescapade wrote:
to answer a few questions the guy had no beard was a cleancut chubby fellow with that haircut that is parted down the middle and curled up.
oh and all I mean ALL of his annotations sound like this. even when he loses.
and to engwannabe its not a forced mate if he brings the bishop down instead of the knight.
Yeah it is.
21...Qc1 + 22. Bc1 Rxc1+ 23. Nxc1 (23. Kd2 Rc2#) Ba4+ 24. Kd2 Qc2#
Cloyescapade wrote:
So one of my alltime favorite players is Aron Nimzowitsch, so i thought i would share a couple of his gamCan es through my next few posts. The game notes were actually written by Nimzowitsch and commented through out the game. By all accounts he was very likable, but his notes may suggest he was a bit proud of himself. The first comment are from his game notes. enjoy.
AN INGENIOUS EXAMPLE OF MY SYSTEM by Aaron Nimzowitsch -
Anderssen started the sacrificial style, Morphy and Gruenfeld
the pure attacking style, Steinitz the positional style,
Tarrasch the scientific style, Lasker the style of styles,
Capablanca the mechanical style, Alekhine a style as brilliant
as sunlight. But it is a generally known fact that originality
and modernism were introduced by me as my own personal
inventions and enthusiastically imitated (without being fully
understood) by the whole world of chess. For the ridiculously
small sum of ten marks, the reader can confirm all this in my
monumental work, My System, published by B. Kagan. Before my
time, chess was so naive and undistinguished! One or two
brutal opening moves, each one involving a vulgar, obvious
threat, a common, banal sacrifice, a painfully elementary,
bestially raw checkmate - such, more or less, was the course
of chess games before my heyday set in. Then I appeared on the
scene and the chess world paid heed. The hegemony of matter
was shattered at a stroke and the era of the spiritual
began. Under my creative guidance, the chessmen, hitherto
nothing but highwaymen, pirates and butcher boys, became
sensitive artists and subtle instruments of immeasurable
profundity. But why waste words !--accompany me, dear reader to the dizzy heights of the following game.
So one of my alltime favorite players is Aron Nimzowitsch, so i thought i would share a couple of his gamCan es through my next few posts. The game notes were actually written by Nimzowitsch and commented through out the game. By all accounts he was very likable, but his notes may suggest he was a bit proud of himself. The first comment are from his game notes. enjoy.
AN INGENIOUS EXAMPLE OF MY SYSTEM by Aaron Nimzowitsch -
Anderssen started the sacrificial style, Morphy and Gruenfeld
the pure attacking style, Steinitz the positional style,
Tarrasch the scientific style, Lasker the style of styles,
Capablanca the mechanical style, Alekhine a style as brilliant
as sunlight. But it is a generally known fact that originality
and modernism were introduced by me as my own personal
inventions and enthusiastically imitated (without being fully
understood) by the whole world of chess. For the ridiculously
small sum of ten marks, the reader can confirm all this in my
monumental work, My System, published by B. Kagan. Before my
time, chess was so naive and undistinguished! One or two
brutal opening moves, each one involving a vulgar, obvious
threat, a common, banal sacrifice, a painfully elementary,
bestially raw checkmate - such, more or less, was the course
of chess games before my heyday set in. Then I appeared on the
scene and the chess world paid heed. The hegemony of matter
was shattered at a stroke and the era of the spiritual
began. Under my creative guidance, the chessmen, hitherto
nothing but highwaymen, pirates and butcher boys, became
sensitive artists and subtle instruments of immeasurable
profundity. But why waste words !--accompany me, dear reader to the dizzy heights of the following game.
I don't believe this game has ever been played by Nimzowitsch, nor i believe, that he wrote such bullshit. Tell me the source!!! I can see, your thread only as a parody, a joke. Indeed, in his own book "My system", a few remarks of el Gran Maestro , especially in sharp opening lines, look silly from our modern prospective.
Don't forget also, that at the time of Nimzowitsch, the chessmasters were poor, this explains some funny "selfadvertisements"...
But anyway, that book is the best ever written in chess: who as ever explained with such clarity the need of "bloqueur", "prophylaxis" and "overprotection" (Petrosian once said , he would have been nothing without it...) And there are so marvellous examples , illustrations of his principles, "queenless middlegames", endgames ...
Okay, since we take things like this seriously, maybe do a bit of research before ranting. It was said that Kmoch wrote this dialogue and presented it to his FRIEND, Nimzovitch. Kmoch appreciated it, and simply wanted to make a joke. So he created it in good humor - the epitome of overprotection. You may not know it, but Nimzovitch is famous for a French style opening with White where he sacrifices his d-pawn and overprotects his e-pawn, using it for a thorn in Black's heel, and he won. Overprotection is not bad in itself - I have used Nimzo's theory of overprotection in fighting for a square - for example, f5. I set up (note that this takes a while - I haven't attempted it in years - might be time to uncork again! :-) ) f4 Nf3 e3 d4 Bd3 0-0 c3 Nbd2 Re1 Nf1 Ng3 Rf1 Qc2 with plans of Nh4 and f5 - the simple idea is that f5 is a springboard for White's pieces to attack the kingside. The downside is that Black can easily see White's plans and prepare a sufficient defense. But here is a cool thought - I can set up that idea, and still have it available, but then play to control the queenside while my opponent fights to defend on the kingside. Personally, if they are not prepared, the kingside attack is quick and lethal.
yeah, this is a good setup against a computer with medium strength: he will play c7-c5, and then later the BIG POSITIONAL MISTAKE c5-c4. After that mistake, his queenside attack comes to a standstill, and white will mate calmly with e3-e4-e5 , and later f2-f4-f5-(and perhaps f6).
I won many game against computers with this trick.
Needless to say that many players with rating less than 2100 will even not acknowledge that c5-c4 is generally a positional mistake here...
So one of my alltime favorite players is Aron Nimzowitsch, so i thought i would share a couple of his games through my next few posts. The game notes were actually written by Nimzowitsch and commented through out the game. By all accounts he was very likable, but his notes may suggest he was a bit proud of himself. The first comment are from his game notes. enjoy.
Anderssen started the sacrificial style, Morphy and Gruenfeld
the pure attacking style, Steinitz the positional style,
Tarrasch the scientific style, Lasker the style of styles,
Capablanca the mechanical style, Alekhine a style as brilliant
as sunlight. But it is a generally known fact that originality
and modernism were introduced by me as my own personal
inventions and enthusiastically imitated (without being fully
understood) by the whole world of chess. For the ridiculously
small sum of ten marks, the reader can confirm all this in my
monumental work, My System, published by B. Kagan. Before my
time, chess was so naive and undistinguished! One or two
brutal opening moves, each one involving a vulgar, obvious
threat, a common, banal sacrifice, a painfully elementary,
bestially raw checkmate - such, more or less, was the course
of chess games before my heyday set in. Then I appeared on the
scene and the chess world paid heed. The hegemony of matter
was shattered at a stroke and the era of the spiritual
began. Under my creative guidance, the chessmen, hitherto
nothing but highwaymen, pirates and butcher boys, became
sensitive artists and subtle instruments of immeasurable
profundity. But why waste words !--accompany me, dear reader to the dizzy heights of the following game.