Acknowledgments xi ♦ Part 2.1925-1929 Signs of Progress 22 Preface 1 1925 22 Introduction 3 Jagerklause Tournament 1925 22 ♦ Prologue. 1900-1918 5 Berlin Championship 1925 23 The 1914-1918 War and Its Aftermath 5 1926 26 First Chess Club: Springer-Berlin 5 Berlin Championship 1926 26 ♦ Part 1.1919-1924 Venturing Forth 8 A Change of Clubs 28 Berlin Club Championship 1926 28 1919 8 Scharfrichter: The Executioner of Berlin 28 1920 8 Berlin 1920—German Chess Federation Congress 9 1927 28 Berlin Championship 1927 28 1921 9 Berlin 1927—2nd Congress of the German Chess Berlin Championship 1921 9 Association 30 Maroczy and Tartakower 10 Berlin Team Championship 1927-28 31 Published Chess Problems 11 Employment 31 Blitz Tournament and Consultation Game 12 1928 32 1922 12 First Editorial Position 32 Berlin Championship 1922—First Tournament Freie Schachvereinigung 1928 33 Success 12 Club Events 15 Gaining the Master Title 34 Bad Oeynhausen 1922—22nd Congress of the Wiesbaden 1928 35 German Chess Federation 15 No Respect for the Law 36 Berlin-Stockholm Match 1928 36 1923 17 First International Masters' Tournament 37 Berlin Championship 1923 17 Blitz Tournaments 41 1st Congress of the Brandenburg Chess Association 17 Berlin Club Championship 1928-29 42 Frankfurt 1923 18 1929 42 Winners' Group 19 Copenhagen-Berlin Match 1929 42 1924 20 Berlin Chess Cafes 43 Berlin Championship 1924 20 Berlin Championship 1929 44 New Chess Periodical 20 Bremen Chess Promotion 45 Winter Tournament of the Schachverein 1876 20 German Championship—Duisburg 1929 45

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♦ Part 3.1930-1932 Making His Mark 51 Physician Heal Thyself: Richter and “Dr. Zabel” 103 1930 51 New Chess Pieces (Schachfiguren Bundesform) 104 Wilmersdorf Jubilee 1930 51 Bad Niendorf1934 104 Berlin, Four Masters Tournament 1930 52 Drawing Conclusions 111 Naming Rights ... and Wrongs 53 German Team Championship 1934 111 Berlin Championship 1930 54 “Dr. Zabel” Consults Again 113 Swinemiinde 1930 54 En Passant: Deaths 114 Hamburg Olympiad 1930 56 1935 115 Berlin Club Championship 1930-31 60 Berlin Master Tournament 1935 115 Berliner Schachgesellschaft Championship 1930 60 Move to Karlshorst 118 Yearbook—Berliner Schachfuhrer 61 Olympiad Training 118 1931 61 Berlin Team Tour 1935 118 Then He Took Berlin: Stoltz of Sweden 61 Swinemiinde 1935 120 Aleister Crowley in Berlin 62 German Champion—Bad Aachen 1935 1 21 German Championship—Swinemiinde 1931 62 Berthold Koch 126 Prague Olympiad 1931 65 Bad Nauheim 1935 127 Bled 1931: Richters Nonappearance 71 Losing Beautifully: A Combinational Masterpiece 130 Cottbus to Berlin 71 Zoppot 1935 1 31 Berliner Schachgesellschaft Championship 1931-32 72 Here Be No Dragons 73 ♦ Part 5.1936-1939 At His Creative Best 135 1932 73 1936 135 Berliner Schachgesellschaft Winter Tournament 74 German Team Championship 1935-36 1 35 Schachverein 1876 Club Championship 74 Berlin Championship 1936 135 KzeZ 1932 74 Opening Ideas 137 Richters Opinion about Draws 75 Publication of Kombinationen 137 Hamburg, Four Masters Match-Tournament 1932 76 Recuperation 137 BerZzTz Championship 1932 77 Swinemiinde 1936 138 Swinemiinde 1932 79 Podebrady 1936 140 Opening Innovation 81 Munich 1936—The Unofficial Olympiad 148 Stargard 1932 83 1937 159 Bruno Moritz 84 Berlin Championship 1937 160 Berlin-Hamburg Telephone Match 1932 85 Berliner Schachgesellschaft Jubilee Tournament Berliner Schachgesellschaft Championship 1932-33 85 1937 162 Bogoljubow Consultation Game and Interview 88 Berlin-Hamburg Telephone Match 1937 165 ♦ Part 4.1933-1935 Adapting to Change 90 Bad Elster 1937 165 1933 90 Bad Saarow 1937 167 “Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation” 90 Tournament Losses 170 Berlin Championship 1933 90 German Championship 1937 171 Reorganization of German Chess 94 A Forced Move 174 Bad Aachen 1933 94 Berlin 1937 (Christmas) 174 Germany and FIDE 96 En Passant: Deaths 174 Swinemiinde 1933 97 1938 174 Bad Pyrmont 1933 98 Berlin Club Championship 1938 175 Bad Salzbrunn 1933 1 00 Germany-Austria Friendship Tournament 1938 1 76 1934 101 An Opening Innovation 177 Promoting Chess 101 Berlin Championship 1938 178 BerZzzz (West District) Championship 1934 102 Germany-Scandinavia Match 1938 1 79 Table of Contents LX

Bad Harzburg 1938 1 80 Chess Life 246 Polishing the Polish 182 Soviet Military Administration 247 German Championship 1938 1 83 Chess Periodicals 248 En Passant: Deaths 187 Looking for Problems 248 1939 187 Surfacing Slowly 249 Berlin Club Championship 1939 1 87 Publishing Success 250 Best Games 188 1948 251 Germany-Hungary Match 1939 188 BerZzTz Championship 1948 251 Stuttgart 1939 190 Chess Journalism 255 German Club Championship—Stuttgart 1939 1 95 Radio 256 Bad Oeynhausen 1939 1 96 1949 256 Olympiad and War 199 Four Cztz'es Match-Tournament 1949 256 Correspondence Chess 199 BerZzn Championship 1949 256 ♦ Part 6.1940-1945 The War Years 202 German Championship 1949 258 A New Phase 260 1940 202 Another Visit from the Doctor 260 Berlin Club Championship 1940 202 Berlin-East Germany Match 261 Schachgesellschaft Club Championship 1940 203 Berlin-Karlsbad Match 1940 203 ♦ Part 8.1950-1959 The Two Germanys 263 Schachgesellschaft Training Tournament 1940 203 1950 263 Schlage Memorial Tournament, Berlin 1940 204 Berlin Team Championship 1950 263 Chess for the Military 206 BerZzn Championship 1950 263 German Championship—Bad Oeynhausen 1940 206 A New Generation 265 Cracow-Krynica- Warsaw 1940 210 International Affairs 265 Krynica 211 LoeaZ Matters 266 Warsaw 212 Berlin-East Germany Match 266 1941 214 1951 267 Schachgesellschaft Club Championship 1941 214 BerZzTz Championship 1951 267 Berlin Club Championship 1941 215 Berlin-East Germany Match 268 Berlin Championship 1941 216 Public Relations 269 German Championship—Bad Oeynhausen 1941 216 1952 270 Munich 1941 220 BerZzn Championship 1952 271 1942 230 Short Games, Long Praise 272 Drafted 230 Consecutive Losses 273 Publishing Success 230 1953 274 Munich 1942 231 A New Phase 274 Pressing Problems 242 “My Opinion on the Chess Problem” 274 Publish and Be Praised 243 East Berlin-West Berlin Match 278 1943-1944 244 1954-1956 279 A Deteriorating Situation 244 1957 279 1945 245 Berlin-Hamburg Match 1957 279 FaZZ of Berlin 245 Berlin Championship 1957 279 Prisoner of War 245 More of Richters Opinions 281 ♦ Part 7.1946-1949 Rebuilding 246 1958 282 1946-1947 246 Munich Olympiad 1958: Richter Honored 282 Starting Over 246 1959 283 X Table of Contents

♦ Part 9.1960-1969 The Final Years 285 McCutcheon Variation: 4. ... Bb4 326 Memories of 50 Years in Chess 287 Anderssen-Richter: 4. ... Be? 5. Bxf6 Bxf6 6. e5 Endgame Preparation 289 Be? 7. Qg4 326 In Memoriam 290 Ruy Lopez 328 Last Words and Recommended Reading 291 Ruy Lopez: Open Variation 329 Richters Burial Plot 291 Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense Deferred 330 ♦ Appendix D: Richter’s Openings Appendices with Black 332 Budapest Defense 332 ♦ Appendix A: Additional Games 293 Budapest Gambit: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ne4 332 ♦ Appendix B: Tournament and Match 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ne4 4. various 333 Results 315 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ne4 4. Nf3 Nc6 333 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ne4 4. Nf3 Nc6 Berlin Championship 315 5. Nbd2 Nc5 334 German Championship 316 Polish Defense: 1. d4 b5 and 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 b5 334 Others 316 1. d4 b5 334 Matches—Team and Individual 317 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 b5 335 ♦ Appendix C: Richter’s Openings Scandinavian Defense: 1. e4 d5 335 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 336 with White 318 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. d4... 336 Queens Pawn: Richters Opening 318 Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer Variation 321 Notes 339 The Positional Approach 323 Bibliography 347 And Then Along Came Rauzer 324 French Defense 325 Index of Opponents 351 Winawer Variation: I. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 325 Index of Annotators 353 Rubinstein Variation: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 325 Index of Openings—Traditional Names 354 Burn Variation: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Index of Openings—ECO Codes 356 dxe4 326 General Index 358