Lindehn was important for the development of a new opening, the Danish Gambit. In the period 1856-1879 many of his games were published in various magazines and newspapers with annotations by Staunton, Steinitz, Mackenzie and Blackburne among others, including victories against prominent masters such as Steinitz, Kolisch and Mackenzie. He never played in any serious …
This is an interesting example of often made mistakes in chess history research. The unwillingness or inability to find or read the original sources and blindly repeating faulty research. But let us first answer the question. According to both German and Danish sources the inventor was the Danish player Vilhelm Henrik Dreier (1798-1865). He was …
The best way to decide is to ask the man himself. From the Chess Review 1938 no. 2 page 30:
Kimuto & Allies – Alexander AlekhineTokyo (blindfold simul), January 20, 19331. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Bg5 Bxc3 8. bxc3 Qe7 9. Re1 Nd8 10. d4 Ne6 11. Bc1 Rd8 12. Nh4 Nf8 13. Qe2 Ne8 14. Nf5 Bxf5 15. exf5 f6 …
On his way back to Sweden from the 1931 Prague olympiad 23-year old Gideon Ståhlberg visited the Aros chess club in Aarhus, Denmark on July 30th. He gave a lecture and showed the club members 5 of his games from Prague, wins against Cruusberg, Weenink, and Erdélyi, a draw against Bogoljubow and a loss against …
Andor Lilienthal’s queen sacrifice is too well-known to go into detail with here, but the stories surrounding the game are quite interesting. First the game: Andor Lilienthal – José Raúl Capablanca Hastings, 1 January 1935 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 b6 6. f3 d5 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bh4 Ba6 …
The daily bulletin of the 1976 Chess Olympiad in Haifa was pretty bare-boned. It had little besides games and results, but occasionally a caricature broke the monotony. Here follows a collection of the best and most interesting sketches.
From Prager Tagblatt, 13 August 1933: Played in the 15th and last round of the German Championship on 11 July 1933 at Bad Pyrmont. Jakob Adolf Seitz – Efim Bogoljubow Notes by Seitz 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 b5 Half Indian, half Polish. Sämisch played like this against Thomas at the 1925 Marienbad tournament. 3. a4 …
Baruch H. Wood (1909-1989) is mainly known as publisher and editor of Chess for more than 50 years. But he also wrote an interesting weekly column for Illustrated London News from 1949 to 1979. This is a collection of Wood’s recollections and observations on Alexander Alekhine and his personality from Illustrated London News. Alekhine loses Alekhine …
The Portuguese champion Francisco Lupi told a bizarre story in Chess, April 1947: We arrived at Cáceres, a little Spanish town, Dr. Alekhine and I, at the beginning of December, 1945. We were strolling down a road, when he suddenly stopped as if he had seen a demon: “I’m done for!” he said, “It is …