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Andre Lilienthal
Lilienthal 
 

Number of games in database: 794
Years covered: 1929 to 1980
Last FIDE rating: 2385
Overall record: +270 -169 =355 (56.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Nimzo Indian (58) 
    E46 E33 E24 E26 E28
 King's Indian (46) 
    E80 E60 E70 E83 E81
 Orthodox Defense (45) 
    D51 D50 D61 D59 D55
 Queen's Gambit Declined (32) 
    D37 D30 D31 D38 D06
 Slav (30) 
    D19 D18 D11 D10 D16
 French Defense (27) 
    C12 C13 C11 C07 C15
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (68) 
    C98 C77 C90 C86 C84
 French Defense (52) 
    C14 C01 C11 C13 C00
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (46) 
    C98 C90 C86 C84 C92
 Grunfeld (42) 
    D85 D97 D98 D81 D95
 King's Indian (35) 
    E67 E68 E60 E69 E95
 Nimzo Indian (27) 
    E38 E33 E46 E49 E53
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Lilienthal vs Capablanca, 1935 1-0
   Lilienthal vs Najdorf, 1948 1-0
   Lilienthal vs Bondarevsky, 1940 1-0
   Lilienthal vs Smyslov, 1941 1/2-1/2
   Lilienthal vs Flohr, 1935 1/2-1/2
   Lilienthal vs Botvinnik, 1940 1-0
   Koblents vs Lilienthal, 1945 0-1
   Botvinnik vs Lilienthal, 1941 0-1
   Lilienthal vs G Negyesy, 1931 1-0
   Lilienthal vs Tolush, 1947 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Ujpest (1934)
   Sitges (1934)
   Warsaw Olympiad (1935)
   USSR Championship (1940)
   Moscow Championship (1949)
   Trade Unions Championship (1938)
   10th Hungarian National Tournament (1932)
   Moscow Championship 1944/45 (1945)
   Moscow Championship (1942)
   Parnu (1947)
   Stockholm Olympiad (1937)
   Saltsjobaden Interzonal (1948)
   USSR Championship (1945)
   Folkestone Olympiad (1933)
   USSR Championship (1948)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   0ZeR0's collected games volume 116 by 0ZeR0
   Moscow 1936 by JoseTigranTalFischer
   Moscow 1936 by suenteus po 147
   Moscow 1936 by igiene

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ANDRE LILIENTHAL
(born May-05-1911, died May-08-2010, 99 years old) Russia (federation/nationality Hungary)
PRONUNCIATION:
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Andre Arnoldovich Lilienthal was born in Moscow to Hungarian parents. He was taken to Hungary at the age of two, but emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1935.

Awarded the GM title in 1950 he won the Moscow Championship 1939-40 and became (jointly with Igor Bondarevsky) USSR Champion in 1940 [rusbase-1] ahead of Vasily Smyslov, Paul Keres, Isaac Boleslavsky and Mikhail Botvinnik. He retired in 1976, returned to Hungary and remained well liked and respected.

He had the distinction of having met or played every World Chess Champion (with the exception of Steinitz) and was the world's oldest living grandmaster for quite some time.

Wikipedia article: Andor Lilienthal

Last updated: 2017-11-28 03:02:24

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 page 1 of 32; games 1-25 of 794  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Lilienthal vs Kertesz 1-0311929BudapestA50 Queen's Pawn Game
2. Lilienthal vs M Romi 1-0311930Paris-chTA50 Queen's Pawn Game
3. M Romi vs Lilienthal  0-1331930ParisA45 Queen's Pawn Game
4. Lilienthal vs Tartakower 1-0421930ParisB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
5. J Mieses vs Lilienthal 1-0161930ParisC01 French, Exchange
6. T Regedzinski vs Lilienthal  1-0421930Stubnianske TepliceA15 English
7. Lilienthal vs D May 1-0321930Stubnianske TepliceC13 French
8. Pirc vs Lilienthal  0-1601930Stubnianske TepliceE16 Queen's Indian
9. Lilienthal vs H Steiner  1-0211930Stubnianske TepliceA04 Reti Opening
10. Lilienthal vs B P Reilly  1-0211931Lilienthal-ReillyD62 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
11. Lilienthal vs J Szekely 0-1361931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialD43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
12. L Steiner vs Lilienthal  1-0441931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialC14 French, Classical
13. Lilienthal vs G Negyesy 1-0251931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialD41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
14. J Michlo vs Lilienthal 0-1771931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
15. Lilienthal vs S Gruber  1-0281931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
16. Maroczy vs Lilienthal  ½-½351931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialC46 Three Knights
17. Lilienthal vs R Pikler  1-0521931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
18. G Lovas vs Lilienthal  0-1321931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialA46 Queen's Pawn Game
19. Lilienthal vs E Steiner  ½-½361931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
20. K Havasi vs Lilienthal 1-0351931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
21. Lilienthal vs M Szigeti  1-0251931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialD61 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack
22. L Wiesel vs Lilienthal  0-1231931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialA46 Queen's Pawn Game
23. Lilienthal vs P Rethy  1-0531931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialD02 Queen's Pawn Game
24. K Sterk vs Lilienthal  ½-½311931HUN-ch Szavay MemorialC01 French, Exchange
25. K Havasi vs Lilienthal  0-1841932Budapest, HungaryE24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
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May-05-08
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  ketchuplover: What Brankat said :)
May-06-08  stanleys: Better later than never: Happy birthday Mr Lilienthal!
May-06-08  gus inn: Happy Birthday !
May-09-08  stanleys: Very nice interview with Lilienthal(in Russian) at: http://www.rg.ru/2008/05/08/lilient...
Aug-31-08  myschkin: . . .

Photo:

http://www.chessbase.com/images2/20...

(with David Bronstein)

Dec-29-08  Karpova: From page 77 of "CHESS", January 1946:

<The difficulty of deciphering chess masters' game scores is proverbial among chess journalists. We think the worst offender beyond any doubt was Lilienthal who is (or was) almost illiterate. His game scores outdid the prescriptions of the most frabjous physician. They were a cross between the most rabid work of the best impressionist painters and the work accomplished by the average child of two when it first dips its dummy into an ink-pot.>

Source: C.N. 5867
Link: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Feb-09-09  laskereshevsky: could b interesting to know ab. how many tournaments Lilienthal might say...

< on this, I am the only alive player....>

OK, is not so difficoult to find it.... but in this moment im to lazy!...

Feb-09-09  percyblakeney: <could b interesting to know ab. how many tournaments Lilienthal might say...

< on this, I am the only alive player....>>

That must be many, he could be the only player alive for the last 34 years from Budapest 1931 and Paris 1933. Lilienthal may also be the player with the most years since his highest Chessmetrics rating (75 years, in 1934). Smyslov's top rating was in 1956.

Feb-15-09  WhiteRook48: this must be a long liver
May-05-09  wordfunph: Happy 98th Birthday GM Andre Lilienthal!!! I think you're the oldest living GM today..
May-05-09  whiskeyrebel: Perhaps the longest living gm ever? does anyone happen to know?
May-05-09  vonKrolock: quote of the day: < "Another defect of Lilienthal is the little attention which he lends to his physical form , with the result that, in many championships, he could not support until the end the tension of the fight"> Kotov & Yudovich, back in the 50's...

Happy 98th birthday, Lilienthal!!

May-05-09  duchamp64: Happy Birthday Andor!! -- and many more to come. A fan from the USA.
May-05-09  stanleys: Happy birthday Mr Lilienthall !!!
May-05-09  WhiteRook48: Happy 98th Birthday!!
May-05-09  whiteshark: Many happy returns!
May-05-09  diagonal: ...born 1951 Karpov , ...born 1931 Korchnoi, ...born 1921 Smyslov, ...born 1911 Andor Arnoldovich Lilienthal...

Happy birthday to the World's oldest Chess Grandmaster; celebrating his 98th birthday today in good health! Congratulation and many more happy years!

May-28-09  TheaN: I was wondering, is Lilenthal still playing, albeit being unofficially, obviously?
Aug-17-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  dorsnikov: just to give you an idea how old this guy is...he played Jacques Mieses, born 1865 and Emmanual Lasker born 1869!! and he's still living!! fantastic !!
Sep-11-09  WhiteRook48: and beat Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine
Oct-21-09  kramputz: Lilienthal was a communist that's why he went to the USSR. So was Rakosy, Kadar, Kun and many others.
Nov-07-09  vonKrolock: Already in this century, appeared <"90 лет жизни шахмати&- #1089;та"> , or 'The Ninety Years of a Chessplayer' - memories, some games not included in his volume of "Selected Games", etc, for instance: L vs Reilly, Nice 1931; L vs Tartakower, Paris 1933 1-0 27 moves; vs < Коцхер> <?! transliteration ?!>, Madrid 1934; further a few other games from events like Olympiads, or Tournaments like Hastings etc, of course more likely featuring already in the online databases
Nov-07-09  vonKrolock: <vs < Коцхер> <?! transliteration ?!>, Madrid 1934> I mean

август 1934 года. Мадрид. Ферзевы&- #1081; гамбит, А.Лилиен- таль - Коцхер.

1.d4 d5 2.c4 Kf6 3.c:d K:d5 4. Kf3 Kc6 5. e4 Kf6 6.Kc3 Cg4 7.d5 C:f3 8.g:f Ke5 9.f4 Ked7 10.e5 Kg8 11. e6 Kb6 12.Фh5! G6 13.Cb5+c6 14. d:c g:h 15.C:b+Kd7 16. e:d+Ф:d7 17. b:a8Ф+ и мат

Dec-26-09  PhilFeeley: The following game is analyzed by Kevin Spraggett on his blog (http://kevinspraggett.blogspot.com/ Dec. 26, 2009):

Lilienthal A. - Finogenov M.
Kuibyshev, 1942.
1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3 6. bxc3 Qc7 7. Nf3 Ne7 8. Bd3 c4 9. Be2 Bd7 10. a4 Qa5 11. O-O Bxa4 12. Ba3 Qxc3 13. Bxe7 Bxc2 14. Qc1 Kxe7 15. Ra2 Nc6 16. Rxc2 Qa5 17. Qg5 Kf8 18. Qf4 Qc7 19. Ng5 Qe7 20. Bxc4 dxc4 21. Rxc4 Rd8 22. Rfc1 h6 23. Ne4 Nxd4 24. Rxd4 Rxd4 25. Nd6 Qc7 26. g3 g5 27. Qe3 Qb6 28. Qf3 Rxd6 29. Qf6 Rd8 30. Qxh8 Ke7 31. Qxh6 a5 32. Qxg5 Ke8 33. h4 a4 34. h5 a3 35. h6 a2 36. h7 Kd7 37. Qf6 Rf8 38. h8=Q Rxh8 39. Qxf7 Kd8 40. Qf6 Kd7 41. Qg7 [1:0]

Jan-05-10  laskereshevsky: <Sep-11-09 WhiteRook48: and beat Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine>

In true, there are no evidences of the victory over Alekhine in a serious game.

Would I like it very much cause ANDOR is one of my chess heroes, but till nowadays, unfortunatly, no one was able to find the scoreshit of that fantomatic game...

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