The Project will continue with game mapping of the Lasker - Capablanca World Championship Match (1921) and the Kasparov - Kramnik World Championship Match (2000).

<Equipment>:

Since completing the first part of the Project, mapping the 1910 and 2008 world championship matches, hardware and software have been upgraded for the next part of the Project involving the 1921 and 2000 matches. For the duration of this phase of the Project, equipment will consist of an Intel i5 CPU 760 @ 2.80GHz with 3.46GB of RAM, and a 1.024GB hash tables setup. Shredder 11 has been replaced by Deep Shredder 12.

<Methodology>

The dual sliding methodology described at User: game mapping project is being retained, except that every move will be evaluated (at least twice) at <20 ply> in lieu of the twice+ <16 ply> benchmark set for the first phase of the Project.

<Rubinstein Project>

The following is my suspended project in respect of the late great Akiba Rubinstein.

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Akiba Rubinstein is my subject of study.

For an excellent short biography, and a collection of games by this great master, including his matches against Schlechter, Bogolyubov and Marshall, click on <Archives> collection at Game Collection: Akiva Rubinstein. For other information about Rubinstein's life and times, the bio (including links) on his player page, and discussion under that bio provides considerable information. In addition, User: Anyi 's website at http://rubina.yfw24.de/ is dedicated to Rubinstein, and User: RubinsteinLife is some additional information by User: Karpova.

However, the best overview of Rubinstein and Polish chess during his lifetime can be found at <jessicafischerqueen>'s excellent three part YouTube documentary starting here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi3h....

Some other useful and interesting links:

* http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... (Capablanca on Rubinstein)

* http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... (Alekhine on Rubinstein 1929 - mentioned below the photo of Capablanca)

* http://www.olimpbase.org/1930/1930p... (Polish team results in the 3rd Olympiad, Hamburg)

* http://www.olimpbase.org/1930/img/p... (photo from the Olympiad in Hamburg)

* http://www.olimpbase.org/players/n1... (article by Terry Crandall)

* Akiba Rubinstein (kibitz #630) and Akiba Rubinstein (kibitz #647) (excerpts from chesshistory.com articles by W.Winter, given by User: Karpova)

*Akiba Rubinstein (kibitz #795) (description of Rubinstein's play by Reti - given by User: Karpova)

* http://jewishchesshistory.blogspot.... (simul game against 9 year old Nussdorf)

* http://picasaweb.google.de/AnitaEva... (Rubinstein gallery of photos (on User: Anyi's website)

* http://www.evrado.com/chess/autogra... (autographed line drawing of Rubinstein)

* http://www.kramnik.com/eng/intervie... (Kramnik's comments on Rubinstein (in the section dealing with Lasker)

* http://www.time.com/time/magazine/a... (short article by Time magazine from 12 August 1929)

* http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/k... ("The Rubinstein Family")

* http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/sta... and http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/sta... (obituaries)

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Rubinstein's record against the best players of his day is impressive. The only player to have proved to have had Rubinstein's full measure was that dark genius, Alexander Alekhine . Alekhine beat Rubinstein 8 to 5 (thanks <Karpova>), with 2 draws. (Rubinstein won their first four games). Even so, it's worth noting that Alekhine only gained his ascendancy during their last few games when Rubinstein was well and truly succumbing to his problems and Alekhine was at his peak, leading up to and subsequent to winning the world championship.

The only other player to have a plus score against Rubinstein (apart from the odd one-off game) was Emanuel Lasker with 2 wins against 1 loss, with 3 draws. Their final game gave Lasker the edge.

This site has been set up to store the some of the information from my Project concerning Akiba Rubinstein, while I complete my Game Mapping Project that I'm running on my forum and in my bio. - User: bridgeburnerr

Rubinstein's record against the best players of his day is impressive. The only player to have proved to have had Rubinstein's full measure was that dark genius, Alexander Alekhine . Alekhine beat Rubinstein 8 to 5 (thanks <Karpova>), with 2 draws. (Rubinstein won their first four games). Even so, it's worth noting that Alekhine only gained his ascendancy during their last few games when Rubinstein was well and truly succumbing to his problems and Alekhine was at his peak, leading up to and subsequent to winning the world championship.

The only other player to have a plus score against Rubinstein (apart from the odd one-off game) was Emanuel Lasker with 2 wins against 1 loss, with 3 draws. Their final game gave Lasker the edge.

Against other players who had played World Championship matches during their careers, Rubinstein:

- tied Jose Raul Capablanca 1 to 1, with 7 draws.

- beat Carl Schlechter 6 to 2, with 13 draws.

- beat Frank James Marshall 11 to 9, with 15 draws

- beat David Janowski 5 to 3

- tied Efim Bogoljubov 14 to 14, with 10 draws

- beat Siegbert Tarrasch 8 to 0, with 12 draws

- beat Mikhail Chigorin 3 to 2

- tied Max Euwe 2 to 2, with 1 draw

Of the others, Rubinstein:

- beat Savielly Tartakower 8 to 6, with 11 draws.

- beat Aron Nimzowitsch 7 to 6, with 9 draws.

- beat Richard Reti 9 to 4, with 8 draws.

- beat Milan Vidmar 4 to 3, with 6 draws

- beat Geza Maroczy 5 to 1, with 8 draws

- beat Richard Teichmann 4 to 3, with 9 draws

- beat Rudolf Spielmann 15 to 12, with 8 draws

- beat Jacques Mieses 9 to 6, with 5 draws

- beat Georg Salwe 17 to 2, with 8 draws (see results of matches between these two below)

- beat Oldrich Duras 9 to 2, with 2 draws

- beat Erich Cohn 5 to 0, with 1 draw

- tied Ossip Bernstein 1 to 1, with 6 draws