And you call yourselves chessplayers?
Bah!
Video of Alekhine playing blitz
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Apr 3, 2017
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#5
Damn, look how dressed up they are, in their suits with hair slicked back.
I'll play in some dirty old jeans and a hoodie lol.
urk wrote:
Nobody cares?
And you call yourselves chessplayers?
Bah!
And you call yourselves chessplayers?
Bah!
Of course I care, Alekhine is my favorite chess player.
Apr 3, 2017
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#8
Super cool. It appears to translate to "Berlin will host the world chess championship"...or something close to that. The opening credits say 1929, which was one of the years Alekhine played Bogoljubov for the title. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=54141
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"The organizers insisted on this, in order to raise money from ticket sales.[14] Only those cities that contributed to the purse would be allowed to host the match: Wiesbaden (games 1-8; 24-25), Heidelberg (games 9-11), Berlin (games 12-17), The Hague (games 18-19; 23), Rotterdam (game 20), and Amsterdam (games 21-22).[15] Emanuel Lasker served as arbiter in the Berlin games.[16]"
Apr 3, 2017
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#9
Lasker with that cigar looks like Groucho Marx could take his place at any moment... :-)
Fantastic footage!! Shame it is only 0:35 minutes long...
Apr 3, 2017
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#10
why is nobody hitting the clock? or at least lasker, for smoking their faces?
Apr 3, 2017
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#11
Maybe it's the 10 second rapid transit chess they used to play.
I don't know how that worked.
There don't appear to be buttons on the top of the clock.
I don't know how that worked.
There don't appear to be buttons on the top of the clock.
It looks like he's playing 5 minute speed chess with Bogoljubov while Emmanuel Lasker looks on.