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Lajos Steiner vs Alexander Koblents
Brno (1937), Brno CSR, rd 7, Oct-??
Alekhine Defense: Modern. Panov Variation (B05)  ·  0-1

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Nov-17-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  cwcarlson: 16.♖c1? ♘c3-+; 16.♗c4 ♘c3 17.O-O ♘d5 18.♗g5 ⩱.
Nov-17-17  heuristic: stockfish:
16.
16...

better moves:
20.Rxc3
23...Nc3
(see stockfish analysis)

Sep-03-19  faulty: A fairly tragicomic game.
in short, the players missed three better moves to c3
Nov-22-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen:

The pgn in <chessbase> gives this pairing, but the contemporaneous Latvian journal <Saha Maksla Nr.15 (10.11.1937)> gives reversed colors:

It should be Koblents white vs Steiner black.

http://www.periodika.lv/periodika2-...

Jan-10-22  Retireborn: <Jess> How confident are you about this?

The crosstable here suggests that Koblents could not have won the tournament if he'd lost this game to Steiner.

http://www.thechesslibrary.com/file...

Does anyone have the tournament book?

Apr-13-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: According to Hans Ree, Steiner had the white pieces:

https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=....

He's right the game is in <Schach lebenslänglich: Erinnerungen eines Erfolgstrainers>.

Apr-13-22  Retireborn: Thank you, <Stonehenge>.
Apr-13-22
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  nizmo11: Koblents discusses this game in is autobiography "Memoirs of a chess player" (in Russian 1986) pp. 52-53.
He writes that this game is memorable for several reasons: it decided the first prize of the tournament, was awarded a 'brilliancy' price, and was the first time he won against a strong grandmaster.
He also writes he decided to surprise his opponent by playing Alekhine's Defense - an opening he had never used before.

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