Chess E-Magazine Interactive E-Magazine Volume 2 • Issue 5 September/October 2011 Albert Einstein Arrested Chess Players and Chess Prison The Geography of Chess and HOW CHESS SPREAD ACROSS THE NATIONS Chess Chess Tournaments Isaac Asimov and Chess White Knight Review Chess E-Magazine Table of Contents contents EDITORIAL- “My Move” 3 4 ARTICLE- Albert Einstein and Chess INTERACTIVE CONTENT FEATURE- Chess in Prison 8 ARTICLE- Arrested Chess Players 11 ________________ • Click on title in Table of Contents HUMOR- How to Annoy Your Opponent 16 to move directly to page. NEWS - Chess News around the World 17 • Click on “White Knight Review” on the top of each HISTORY- Chess Tournaments 18 page to return to Table of Contents. ARTICLE- Isaac Isimov and Chess 23 • Click on red type to continue to next page FEATURE- The Geography of Chess 24 • Click on ads to go to their websites BOOK REVIEW-“Beyond Deep Blue: 28 • Click on email to Chess in the Stratosphere” open by Monty Newborn up email program • Click up URLs to ANNOTATED GAME -Robert McGuire – 29 go to Tibor Weinberger websites. COMMENTARY- “Ask Bill” 31 September-October 2011 White Knight Review September/October 2011 My Move [email protected] editorial -Jerry Wall The great thing about chess is that anybody can play it. From the very young to the elderly, from the very poor to the affluent. It crosses race barriers, economical status, and even intellectual acuity. It can be White Knight enjoyed at any level and in just about any place you can set up a board. In Review this issue we explore the realm of chess by those Chess E-Magazine who are incarcerated in prison. Their bodies are behind bars but they are free to challenge one another intellectually. They are still free to think Executive Editor/Writer and chess is a great way to exercise their minds, Bill Wall plan strategy and just have plain fun. Prisoners [email protected] have a lot of time on their hands and what better way of spending it than in working at being prolific at the game. Many have done just so in Publisher /Editor/ Creative spite of their circumstances. Director We also have a small article on Isaac Asimov, Gerald Wall who enjoyed playing chess. He was my favorite [email protected] science fiction writer and when I was a kid I wrote him and was surprised that he took the time to write back. He was considered one of the world’s Production/ Marketing smartest men and yet discovered he was terrible Steve Wall at chess. He realized it was not based on [email protected] intelligence but on years of studying patterns and hard work. Yes anybody can play chess and enjoy it but to be really good at it is another story. It is For Subscription not how smart you or where you are but how [email protected] dedicated and how hard you work at it. Whether from a prison cell or table one at a top tournament, chess is the rightful persuit of all For Advertising Rates people. [email protected] Jerry Wall © Copyright 2011 Editor All Rights Reserved. Let us know what you think of the magazine. Perhaps you have Unauthorized reproduction, some suggestions for future articles or have other comments. in any manner is prohibited Let us know and drop me a line at: without expressed permission [email protected] from the Author or Editor. www.offthewallchess.com 3 White Knight Review September/October 2011 Feature By Bill Wall Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was teaching post. Someone helped from schizophrenia. born at Ulm in Wurttemberg, him get a job at the Swiss Patent Germany, on March 14, 1879. The Office as an assistant examiner. In 1914 he moved to Berlin as a family moved to Munich in 1880. professor at the local university He may have first played chess He married Mileva in 1903. In and became a member of the in Munich. In 1936, he did tell 1904 his first son, Hans Albert, Prussian Academy of Sciences. a reporter that he played chess was born. He also served as director of as a boy. He grew up in Munich, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of but left at age 15 when his In 1905, at the age of 25, he Physics. parents moved to Italy in 1894. received his doctorate after His parents then sent him to submitting his dissertation "On a In 1915 he presented a series of Switzerland to finish secondary new determination of molecular lectures on the theory of general school, which he completed in dimensions." That same year relativity. 1896. Einstein found competitive he wrote articles on Brownian activities traumatic, so he was motion, the photoelectric effect, In 1919 he divorced Mileva and not so fond of chess, special relativity, and energy married his first cousin, Elsa equivalency. The paper on the Einstein. At age 43, she was 3 In 1896 he renounced his photoelectric effect later won years older than him (he was now German citizenship and enrolled him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 40). in a Swiss technical school. 1921. He graduated with a teaching In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize diploma in 1900 and became a In 1908, Dr. Einstein was licensed in Physics for his work on the Swiss citizen in 1901. in Berne, Switzerland as a teacher photoelectric effect. and lecturer. In 1910, he second In 1902 he had an illegitimate son, Eduard, was born. In 1927, Einstein first met daughter (Lieserl) with Mileva Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) Maric (1875-1948), a Serbian In 1910, Einstein’s second son, at the home of Alexander classmate and mathematician. Eduard, was born in Zurich. He Moszkowski (1851-1934) in Berlin Einstein could not find a died in 1965 in a psychiatric and they became good friends. sanatorium in Zurich, suffering Lasker was world chess champion 4 Continue White Knight Review September/October 2011 from 1894 through 1921 with a said, "I do not play any games. age of 76. PhD in mathematics. Einstein There is no time for it. When I took many walks with Lasker. get through work I don't want Many of Einstein’s friends anything which requires the and acquaintances were chess In 1928 Einstein wrote to Dr. working of the mind." Einstein players, including Paul Dirac Emanuel Lasker, congratulating preferred playing the violin and (1902-1984), Arthur Eddington him on his 60th birthday, calling sailing. Einstein did say he played (1882-1944), Enrico Fermi Lasker a Renaissance (1901-1954), Fritz Haber man. However, Lasker (1868-1934), Werner said he had only met Heisenberg (1901-1976), one genius in his life, “Einstein was an amateur chess Lise Meitner (1878- and that was Jose 1968), Patrick Moore, Capablanca. player. He played chess with his Robert Oppenheimer neighbors and friends. He always had (1904-1967), Max Planck In 1930 Einstein (1858-1947), Isidor Rabi received a patent for a a chessboard set up ...” (1898-1996), Erwin new type of refrigerator. Schroedinger (1887- 1961), Leo Szilard (1898- In 1931 a pamphlet was 1964), Edward Teller (1908-2003) written called One Hundred chess as a boy. Authors Against Einstein. One of In 1937, Einstein's second wife, Einstein was a good friend of the authors was Emanuel Lasker Elsa, died. Dr. Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941). because Lasker did not believe Lasker thought Einstein's theory the theory of relativity. In 1938, Paul Nemenyi, a of relativity was wrong and that Jewish Hungarian scientist, the speed of light was limited Adolf Hitler came into power in fled to America and headed to due to particles in space. Lasker 1933 and there was a nationalist Princeton to consult with Albert did not think there was a perfect hatred of Einstein, accusing him Einstein. He found vacuum. of creating "Jewish physics." a job working for Einstein then fled Germany and Einstein's son, Einstein knew was given permanent residence Hans Albert, at Edward Lasker in the United States. He accepted the University of (1885-1981). On a position at the Institute for Iowa's hydrology one occasion, Advanced Study in Princeton, lab. There are Edward Lasker New Jersey. He was 54 years old strong indications visited Einstein when he first arrived in the USA. that Nemenyi is the at Princeton The director of the Institute was biological father and gave him an Dr. Robert Oppenheimer (1904- of Bobby Fischer. autographed copy 1967). Emanuel Lasker also fled He met Bobby of his book Go and Berlin about the same time that Fischer's mother, Gomoku, written Einstein left. Both of their homes Regina, in 1942, at in 1934. Einstein, were ransacked by the Nazis. the University of in return, gave Colorado. Edward Lasker an Einstein was an amateur chess autographed copy player. He played chess with his In 1939 Einstein of one of his papers neighbors and friends. He always met Dr. Edward on relativity. The had a chessboard set up at home Teller. Teller was an book given to at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, avid chess player, but there is no Einstein later showed up in a New Jersey. He was probably indication they played chess. Baltimore used bookstore. When most active in chess in the late someone told Edward Lasker 1920s and early 1930s. He became an American citizen about this, Lasker replied, "That's in October 1940, at the age of In 1934 Einstein visited friends all right. I left his relativity paper 61. He also maintained his Swiss on the subway." and relaxed with a game of citizenship. chess.