Sep-26-20
 | | nizmo11: Vidmar in his comments (quoted in the book Aron Nimzowitch, on the road to chess Mastery) mocks Suchting's moves in this game: 19.a3 (looks indifferent but it has a purpose), 20. Bb4 ("that's why then") 22. Qb4 ("terrible").
33 (White pursues the knight in order to exchange it.)
But was his play so bad?, Clearly White had set a goal to make a draw against an eminent [Grand]master (and perhaps hoping Nimzo would over-extend), and achieves this rather competently by chopping of the wood. |
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Sep-27-20 | | JimNorCal: Yes, Suechting showed little aggression. And Nimzo had a good result at Karlsbad 1911: shared 5th place.
Still, it was not till the 1920s before Nimzo started to win tournaments and achieve recognition as one of the top players. |
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Sep-27-20
 | | keypusher: < JimNorCal: Yes, Suechting showed little aggression. And Nimzo had a good result at Karlsbad 1911: shared 5th place. Still, it was not till the 1920s before Nimzo started to win tournaments and achieve recognition as one of the top players.> I don't know how many tournaments he was winning around 1911, but Nimzowitsch was finishing high in strong tournaments fairly consistently by then and was probably comfortably in the top 10. Chessmetrics even puts him at #2 for a while in 1913, though that's clearly too high. Anyway, he was a lot stronger than Suechting. http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/... |
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Sep-27-20
 | | nizmo11: Nimzowitch was born in November 1886, so he was 24 years old during Karlsbad.
At this point he already had a good tournament record:
- Munich 1906 1st (2. Spielmann, 3 Cohn, small local tournament)
- Ostende 1906: 4th (1-2 Rubinstein, Berstein )
- Karlsbad 1907 : 4th (1. Rubinstein, previous edition of Karsbad)
- Hamburg 1910: 3rd (1. Schlechter )
- San Sebastian 1911: 5th (1. Capablanca)
His match results were not so good, he had lost short matches
to Spielman Munich 1908,+1=1-4) , and Leonhardt (Hamburg 1910, +0 =1 -4) |
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Sep-27-20
 | | nizmo11: More about Nimzowitch and also Rotlewi's status in the chess world 1911-1912:
According the Nimzowitch biography (Skoldager, Nielsen 2012, p. 173) San Sebastian tournament committee planned for a grand 1912 edition of the tournament,
inviting only the best players.
"Invitations were sent to plyers who had manage score at least two 4th places during the last 10 years."
and "Rotlewi and Burn withdrew their entries immediately before the tournament." [I think the latter did wisely here]. also Capa, the previous winner did not participate.Nimzo was invited, and was leading before the last round by half a point but then lost the famous
encounter Rubinstein vs Nimzowitsch, 1912 that gave tournament victory to Rubinstein. |
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Sep-28-20 | | JimNorCal: OK, nimzo and kp, those are good points.
Thanks for the responses. |
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