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Akiva Rubinstein Volume 1 Uncrowned King Akiva Rubinstein Volume 1 Uncrowned King IM John Donaldson IM Nikolay Minev 2018 Russell Enterprises, Inc. Milford, CT USA 1 Akiva Rubinstein Volume 1: Uncrowned King © Copyright 2006, 2018 John Donaldson & Nikolay Minev All Rights Reserved ISBN: 978-1-941270-88-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-941270-89-9 This edition is fondly dedicated to the memory of Nikolay Minev (1931-2017) Published by: Russell Enterprises, Inc. P.O. Box 3131 Milford, CT 06460 USA http://www.russell-enterprises.com [email protected] No part of this book may be used, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any manner or form whatsoever or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the express written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. Cover design by Janel Lowrance Printed in the United States of America 2 Table of Contents Introduction to the Second Edition 4 Introduction to the First Edition 6 A Rubinstein Primer 9 Tournament and Match Record 10 1882-1904: The Young Rubinstein 12 1905 33 St. Petersburg 1906 43 Lodz 1906 51 Ostende 1906 58 1907 76 1907-08 117 Vienna 1908 126 Prague 1908 140 Lodz 1908 153 Rubinstein-Marshall Match 1908 166 St. Petersburg 1909 175 Rubinstein-Mieses 1909 198 Vilna 1909 203 Warsaw 1909 209 1910 210 San Sebastian 1911 217 Carlsbad 1911 227 Warsaw City Championship 1911 244 San Sebastian 1912 246 Pistyan 1912 259 Breslau 1912 268 Vilna 1912 281 The Years of World War I 296 1919 323 1920 336 Non-Tournament Games 1906-1920 354 Addendum 377 Bibliography 387 Players Index 389 Openings Index 392 ECO Codes Index 393 Annotator Index 395 Index of Illustrations 396 General Index 397 3 Introduction to the Second Edition This year marks the one hundred and first anniversary of Akiva Rubinstein’s re- ceiving the master title at Barmen. As we noted in the first edition, it might seem a bit strange to devote so much attention to a player from so long ago. The an- swer, we believe, is that in many ways Rubinstein was a truly modern player and his games are still very relevant today. This is an opinion not only held by us. Two recent books concerned with some of the greatest players of all time, My Great Predecessors: Part 1 by Garry Kasparov and Learn from the Legends by Mihail Marin both devote chapters to Rubinstein. Among today’s top players Boris Gelfand has mentioned on more than one occasion that the great Akiva is one of his heroes and it is no accident that he and many other top players readily contrib- uted to Viktor Glatman’s Akiba Rubinstein’s Chess Academy. The eleven years that have past since the publication of our first volume on Rubinstein have yielded some new information. Nick Pope deserves credit for the biggest find, unearthing five new games of Rubinstein’s from the mammoth Ostende 1906 tournament. There are several events from Rubinstein’s early ca- reer, where quite a few games are missing, but Ostende 1906 is the only one played in Western Europe. Thanks to Nick’s find we now have 19 games and fragments of the 30 Rubinstein played in the Belgian port. It’s likely that this is how things will stand as Tony Gillam has spent many years researching Ostende 1906 and recently published a book on the event. Alan Smith has found the remaining moves of Rubinstein-Nimzovitch, San Sebastian 1912, and Per Skjoldager has discovered the actual position of the ad- journed game Rubinstein-Nimzovitch, Vilna 1912, along with comments about the game from Nimzo’s column in the Rigaer Rundschau. These comments from the original German have been translated by Hans Baruch and give a good idea of what happened in the game (we have no actual moves). It’s likely that scraps of information like these are precisely the new discoveries researchers will make in the future. Most primary source material has been thor- oughly picked over, the exception being some years of the Neue Lodzer Zeitung. The chess column of this paper, which appeared in the Saturday supplement, is potentially a gold mine of material regarding Rubinstein’s early career. In theory libraries in Poland plus those in major cities of the Russian empire like Helsinki, Riga. Moscow and St. Petersburg would all be likely repositories but one hun- dred years and many upheavals have made it a hard to find item. One bright spot for Rubinstein fans looking for new material comes from the generosity of Simon Constam. Several decades ago Simon did a tremendous amount of research on Rubinstein. He spent time in Holland and Belgian at vari- ous libraries and befriended Rubinstein’s sons Jonas and Sammy. In this book you will find some of his discoveries from Akiva’s tour of Holland in 1920 in- 4 cluding a fragment from the Rotterdam Quadrangular and some very interesting non-tournament efforts. A curiosity from the early 20th century was the practice of strong local players taking every chance they had to play a visiting hero. This might mean the local would not only face the master in a tournament but also in consultation games and even simuls! One of the players to do this in Holland, Rubinstein’s country- men Samuel Factor, would soon move to the United States where he won several Western Chess Association championships. Volume 2 will have many more of Simon’s finds including over a dozen pictures from the Rubinstein family ar- chives and numerous training games between Akiva and his younger son Sammy. Note that we have changed the spelling of Rubinstein’s name for this volume from Akiba to Akiva, as it appears in Jewish sources. We are currently working on the second edition of volume two, which will cover the remainder of Rubinstein’s life (1921-1961) and would love to hear from read- ers who might have any of the following games: Gothenburg 1920/21: Appelberg. Triberg 1921: Selezniev-R (rd 1), Selezniev-R (rd 4) and Spielmann-R (rd 6) Hastings 1922/23: Yates and E.G. Sergeant. Southport 1924: Wright. London 1925: both games with Thomas. Lodz 1927: Kohn, Blass and Friedman. Warsaw 1927: Makarczyk Chicago 1928: any from the simul R most likely gave in mid-March. Rogaska Slatina 1929: Maróczy, and Honlinger. Prague Olympiad 1931: Erdelyi, E. Steiner, and Grunfeld. Antwerp 1931: Baert, De Mey, and Perquin. Warsaw (?) 1931: match with H. Friedman ??? Please contact us at [email protected] or John Donaldson - Mechanics’ Chess Di- rector, 57 Post Street, Room 408, San Francisco, CA 94104. We would like to thank all of our helpers from the previous edition and add Ricardo Alvarez Cela, Simon Constam, Nathan Divinsky, Mark Donlan, Anthony Gillam, Burt Hochberg, Peter Holmgren, Holly Lee, Jason Luchan, Michael Negele, Nick Pope, Per Skjoldager, Alan Smith and Edward Winter for this volume. This book is fondly dedicated to Holly Lee and Elena Minev. John Donaldson Nikolay Minev August 2006 5 St. Petersburg 1909 (229) Rubinstein - Perlis 22.Bxb7 Rxd1 23.Rxd1 Rd8 24.Bd5, St. Petersburg (5) 1909 White stands better. Queen’s Gambit Tarrasch [D34] 21.Qh5 Bxe4 22.Bxe4 fxe4 23.f5 Notes by Lasker. Qf6 24.Rf4 Kh8 cuuuuuuuuC 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c5 3.c4 e6 4.cxd5 {rdwdrdwi} exd5 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.g3 c4 7.Bg2 Be7 8.0-0 Nf6 9.Ne5 0-0 10.Bg5 {0pdwgpdp} Be6 11.f4 Nxe5!? 12.dxe5 d4 {wdwdw1wG} 13.exf6 gxf6 14.Bh6 dxc3 {dwdwdPdQ} 15.bxc3 cuuuuuuuuC {wdpdp$wd} {rDw1w4kD} {dw)wdw)w} {0pDwgpDp} {Pdwdwdw)} {wDwDb0wG} {dwdRdwdK} vllllllllV {DwDwDwDw} 25.Rg4? {wDpDw)wD} {Dw)wDw)w} White’s only wrong move. Here {PDwDPDB)} 25.Rh4 could decide the game quickly. If 25...Rad8 then 26.Rdf1, and if {$wDQDRIw} 25...e3 26.Bg5 Qxf5 27.Bf6+!. vllllllllV Much better than 15.Bxf8?!, because of 25...Rg8 26.Be3 Rxg4 27.Bd4 15...cxb2 16.Bxe7 Qxe7 17.Rb1 c3 Rg7 28.Bxf6 Bxf6 29.Qe2 Re8 18.Qc2 Qc5+ 19.Kh1 Rd8 20.Rbd1 30.Qxc4 e3 31.Re1 Rgg8 32.Kg2 Rxd1 21.Rxd1 Bxa2, threatening Re7 33.Kf3 Rge8 34.Re2 b6 ...Bb3 or ...b5-b4-b3. 35.h4 h6 36.Qc6 Kg7 37.Kg4 h5+ 38.Kf4, Draw 15...Qb6+ 16.Kh1 [Time: White 2:32, Black 2:30] [Authors’ note: Recent theory consid- (230) Burn - Rubinstein ers as better and leading to a 16.e3 St. Petersburg (6) 1909 slight edge for White.] Ruy Lopez [C77] 16...Rfd8 17.Qc2 Bd5 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 Premature. First Black should play 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.d3 b5 17...f5, and if 18.Rab1 Qe3, threaten- 7.Bb3 d6 8.a4 Rb8 9.axb5 axb5 ing 19...Rd2. 10.0-0 0-0 11.Ne2 Be6 12.c3 d5 13.Ng3 dxe4 14.dxe4 Qxd1 18.e4 Bc6 19.Qe2 f5 20.Rad1 15.Bxd1 Bc4 16.Re1 Bc5 Re8 17.Bc2 Nd7 18.Nf5 Ra8 19.Be3 g6 20.Nh6+ Kg7 21.Ng4 Bxe3 After 20...Bxe4 21.Bxe4 Qxh6 22.Nxe3 Nb6 23.b3 Be6 24.Ng5 183 Akiva Rubinstein: Uncrowned King b4 25.Nxe6+ fxe6 26.cxb4 Nxb4 (L) Better was to keep the bishop; e.g., 27.Rec1, Draw 17.Rac1 Ne6 18.Nd5, etc. [Time: White 1:28, Black 1:38] (R) A surprising decision. White ex- changes his strong bishop. Rubinstein’s (231) Rubinstein - Mieses idea will be clear after the 19th move.
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