| Jul-14-07 | | BlueMooner: Sensational speculative sacrifice 13...Nxe5! was fairly outrageous, particularly as it was seusequently followed by two further pawn sacrifices, but ultimately led to an unstoppable attack. |
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Jan-28-09
 | | Honza Cervenka: When white played 12.f4 with idea to prevent e7-e5 he had to be quite in shock after Spielmann's 12...e5!?? followed by sac of piece. It is hard to believe that the sac can be sound but the defence against fierce attack on the King in the centre was too difficult for white. Instead of 24...Re4 Spielmann could have sealed the fate of game immediately by 24...Rxe2! 25.Kxe2 (25.Rxe2 Bc4) 25...Bxf2 26.Qxf2 Bc4+ etc. but white did not escape his doom missing his last chance for viable defence 25.Rc1!? Very Spielmannish game! |
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| Aug-02-09 | | birthtimes: Spielmann's 12th move must have come as quite a shock to Gruenfeld, as it was the exact type of move that Gruenfeld thought he would be preventing by his 12th move! Spielmann recognized that White was making too many pawn moves at the expense of development, and saw that a preventive, anti-castling sacrifice was called for. As Spielmann explains in his innovative masterpiece, "The Art of Sacrifice in Chess," it is in most cases "highly advantageous to prevent the opponent from castling. This therefore calls for willingness, when opportunity offers, to sacrifice material. The King, confined to his original square, not only hinders the development of his own forces; his position also facilitates the immediate launching of the hostile attack. This is particularly the case if one or even two center files are open. In order to create such a desirable state of affairs, the attacker need not shrink from giving up a Pawn and at times even a piece." It is extremely refreshing to see that Spielmann most definitely practiced what he preached! |
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Nov-06-17
 | | cwcarlson: 21.♔f1?-+; 21.♕e3 ♕h4+ 22.g3 ♗g3+ 23.♕g3 ♕g3+ 24.hg ♗h1 25.♔f2= Houdini. |
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Feb-12-25
 | | plang: Both Bogdanovich's "A Chess Biography of Rudolf Spielmann" and Lipnitsky's "Questions of Modern Chess Theory" have Gruenfeld as having played White in this game but, apparently, they are incorrect. |
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| Feb-12-25 | | stone free or die: <plang> Or maybe not. The game is unsourced, making it a generic <CG> game, i.e. untrustworthy. |
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Feb-12-25
| | plang: I based my conclusion on searching Gereben for 1934. He played several other opponents at the same event. So, unless all those games were also played by Gruenfeld I assume that Spielmann's opponent in this game was, in fact, Gereben. |
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| Feb-12-25 | | stone free or die: <plang> please see here: https://www.365chess.com/tournament... |
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Feb-12-25
 | | Stonehenge: <As is well known, Ernő/Ernst Grünfeld of Sopron (1907-88) changed his name to Ernő Gereben, and in the Spielmann game either Grünfeld or Gereben may be used, as long as no impression is given that the player was the E. Grünfeld (1893-1962). That impression was given when the game appeared, with Spielmann’s notes, on pages 224-225 of the December 1934 Chess Review> C.N. 10752 |
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Feb-12-25
 | | perfidious: The confusion round Jocha/Adorjan was quite enough; at least there was only one Adorjan, so as to avoid things being totally buggered on that front. |
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Feb-12-25
| | plang: Thanks for the clarification.
As for the "As is well known" I will just classify myself as a happy ignoramus. |
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| Feb-13-25 | | stone free or die: I got confused too, understandably. As did many of the online databases. It seems he changed his name in 1935.
I'm of the opinion that the PGN and xtabs (crosstables) should have the name of the player at the time of the game/tournaments. That way nothing needs to be revised in the future to follow changes. This is a good policy I think, especially for printed publications. Of course, <CG> being a modern db, it could have a user option to update the name, but not as a general policy. If <plang> had come here and seen "Erno Gruenfeld" instead of "Ernst Gruenfeld" then there'd be far less chance of confusion, and the game would match up with the source (likely being one of the potential sources previously mentioned) |
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| Feb-13-25 | | stone free or die: Hey, wait a second. Wiki claims the name he originally used was Ernst Gruenfeld: <Born in Sopron, a Hungarian town at the Austrian border, Ernő Gereben used, until 1935, the German-language form of his name, Ernest (or Ernst) Grünfeld. In 1926, he tied for 1st–2nd in Körmend.> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern%C...
This is wrong isn't it? Did he use Erno or not when he was Gruenfeld? |
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| Feb-13-25 | | stone free or die: Yes, it was "Erno Gruenfeld", as Winter said. Here's Spielmann's write-up about <Sopron 1934> in WSZ: https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/... Looks like the games all come from <Sept 1934>. Wish Spielmann took the time to prepare a full xtab, but he did give the final scores. |
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sac: 13...Nxe5