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May-04-03
 | | Sneaky: Another great original thinker in chess.
Albin's counter-gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5!?) is a good, solid defense despite its reputation. After the mainline continuation 3.dxe5 d4, Black's pieces flow fluidly into play while White has to develop around the "thorn" on d4. |
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| May-05-03 | | Ghilabari: I agree, the albin-countergambit has an unecessarary bad reputation. It has lots of promise and has excellrnt compensation. I have employed this opening a few times before with success. |
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| Aug-11-03 | | morphynoman2: Good information, about Albin, here:
http://www.chessarch.com/excavation... |
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| Feb-10-04 | | PizzatheHut: Ah yes, the originator of the "Albin counter-gambit". So this is who I need to punch in the face. |
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| Feb-20-04 | | capanegra: Adolf Albin: one of the worst players of the Golden Age’s battlefield, and the inventor of one of my favorite openings. |
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| Jul-30-04 | | nikolaas: According to The Oxford companion to Chess, what we call Albin's countergambit is in fact invented by Cavalotti in his game against Salvioli (Milan 1881). |
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Aug-21-04
 | | An Englishman: Good Afternoon: The Chessgames database has four games where Albin played the Albin. His results? One draw, three losses. I'll bet anything that the advocates of the opening understand the gambit much better than the originator! |
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| Aug-21-04 | | Woodpusher: Yes, but look who he played: Teichmann, Chigorin, and Lasker! |
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Oct-11-04
 | | tamar: More light is thrown on this inventive, but not very strong practical player at
http://www.chesscafe.com/skittles/s...
The article gives credit to him for developing ideas which bear the names of other players now. "Albin introduced the so-called Alekhine-Chatard Attack in the French Defence (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.h4!?), which was later popularized by Alexander Alekhine. Albin also contributed heavily to the development of the Albin-Blackburne counter-gambit in the Philidor Defence (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Bg4 4.dxe5 Nd7!?)" |
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| Oct-11-04 | | Kean: He defeated also Tarrasch in Dresden 1892, and seems there was much talk in the time. Maybe that game could be added to his list of notable games. This is from the chescafe article: "Nearly unknown master succeeded in defeating Tarrasch. In a Ruy Lopez game, Albin playing with White came into a better position. At once the news spread in the playing hall: "Tarrasch is losing!" As in that time there was no demonstration wall boards, numerous spectators rushed toward the board on which Albin and Tarrasch struggled. Moreover, the participants of the tournament left their games to see the sensational event. Only Master Shotlender stayed seated in his place with his failing position, looking at the ceiling, as if he was expecting salvation from there. The nicely ornamented tournament room provided a warlike appearance when the struggle for the vicinity of the table with the chess game Albin - Tarrasch began. Improvised protection bands were crushed, and they quickly dragged tables onto which they piled chairs so that the audience could stand on them. In that way whole pyramids of tables and chairs were created and adorned by excited spectators. Among the mob of the several hundreds of spectators, Albin made his winning move. The opponent was left with no salvation. Tarrasch thought for a long time and made a few more moves. After that he crushed his pieces down, made a sign of capitulation, and went out through the door.
The applause reverberated in the tournament hall. Somebody was found who could beat Tarrasch. The biggest daily newspapers from different parts of the world asked to receive the game by telegraph. And Emanuel Lasker, Tarrasch’s main rival, congratulated Albin by dispatch. After several days, Tarrasch, tired and a bit angry, found the occasion to give credit to the winner. The grand master wrote: "I had no bad foreboding when I played a weakly known line from Bilguer’s textbook. But, my opponent didn’t know the line at all. Owing to that fact, his moves were much stronger than the ones noted in that textbook and he came to advance. I lost the game only because of my good memory and opponent’s ignorance" |
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| Mar-31-06 | | Castle In The Sky: Albin must have been an extraterrestrial player, he died in 1920 and played his last game in 1922. |
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Sep-14-06
 | | alexmagnus: Well... He played the opening named after him only in 4 games. What about the 1922 game, he is not the only player who played after his death according to this database. |
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| Sep-14-07 | | whiteshark: Player of the day:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_...
German:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_...
He was author of the first chess book in Romanian, <Amiculŭ Joculu de Scachu Teoreticu şi Practicu>, published in Bucharest in 1872 |
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| Sep-14-07 | | whiteshark: Player of the day:
Here is an interesting report about
<Adolf Albin: The Teacher of Nimzovich?> http://www.chessarch.com/excavation... |
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| Sep-14-07 | | whiteshark: Player of the day:
More findings:
a pdf: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skitt...
a book review: http://chesshistory.com/books/index... essay in Swedish: http://www.jora.se/essayer/albin.htm |
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| Apr-10-10 | | wordfunph: more info on Master Adolf Albin in the book "Adolf Albin in America" by Olimpiu Urcan.. http://www.ukgamesshop.com/Merchant... |
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| Sep-14-10 | | brankat: Died in 1920, played his last game in 1922. Very common in this DBase. Either way, R.I.P. Master Albin. |
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| Oct-01-10 | | Marcelo Brasileiro: Please correct the second word of Albin's book in Rumanian: Jocului. |
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Dec-31-10
 | | Chessical: According to the Swedish essay Albin (snr) died in 1913, although every other source I can find states he died in 1920. "Adolf Albin, died in 1913, but his son Max Adolf Albin Jr who was born in 1870 in Bucharest and died 1 February 1920. Adolf Albin's death is shrouded in mystery, but it is clear that he in 1913 went into an ever deeper depression, which seems to have had to do with his family circumstances. Max Adolf Albin Jr. was born in 1870 in Bucharest and came at a young age with his family to Vienna. After completing studies, he served as professor of linguistics at the University of Vienna. He fell ill, however, with lung disease and left his post to devote himself entirely to playing chess. Among the tournaments in which Max Adolf Albin participated include Vienna 1915. He died in Vienna on 1 February 1920".
Albin appears to have spent much of his early career as a translator/assistant to Dr. Bethel Henry Baron von Stroussberg described in the Hastings Tournament Book as "the German Railway King". He lost this job with the latter's bankruptcy in 1875. Dr Stroussberg seems to have a very colourful high-fying career including a scandalous affair involving the Bank of Commerce of Moscow Here is a translation of a Czech site with a lot of background about Albin's colourful employer: http://translate.googleusercontent.... |
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Mar-31-12
 | | Tabanus: <whiteshark: http://www.jora.se/essayer/albin.htm> Would you have seen. I think we have have to rewrite history? It seems that Albin died in 1913, and that his son <Max Adolf Albin Jr.>, who was also a strong player, is the one who died in 1920. |
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| Mar-31-12 | | whiteshark: Hi, <Tabanus: <I think we have have to rewrite history?>> It seems so though I'm not a chessgames.com biographer at all. <Max Adolf Albin Jr.>'s Swedish simultan as 'replacement for his father' is indeed somehow whimsical. I have no doubt that <Sthig Jonasson> research is trustable. So <Max Adolf Albin Jr.> needs a players page, for the three '1914' games at least. He also played a mini-match against Reti in 1918 (1-1) - so enough work for the wiki-pages to correct it, too. |
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Mar-31-12
| | Tabanus: <I have no doubt that <Sthig Jonasson> research is trustable.> Neither have I. He gives no sources except this piece by Rolf Littorin: http://hem.passagen.se/sthig/meddel... in which it becomes clear (by reference to original sources) that the simul round trip in Sweden January 1914 was by Albin Jr. Hopefully the picture here is of Albin Sr. I'll not be the one to rewrite! |
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Apr-02-12
| | Tabanus: Picture of Albin Jr. in Stockholm 1914: http://www.schack08.se/klubbhistori... |
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| Sep-14-12 | | brankat: R.I.P. master Albin. |
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| Jun-07-13 | | Karpova: I don't think that Adolf Albin died in 1913. I find no obituary in the 'Wiener Schachzeitung' of that time, furthermore he participated in the VI. Leopold Trebitsch Memorial held from 1914.11.12 to 1914.12.31 and he is called <Altmeister Albin> two times on page 216 of the 1914 'Wiener Schachzeitung' and it was also said that he fought with <bewunderungswürdiger Rüstigkeit> (Rüstigkeit = lustiness) which are all indications of his old age so that it is most likely Adolf Albin and not his son Max Adolf Albin Junior. |
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