Art of Sacrifice in Chess (eBook)

Rudolf Spielmann (Autor)

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2012
224 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-14306-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A Grandmaster shares secrets from 40 years of tournament play, outlining hard-won lessons that enable players to win games by giving up pieces. Suitable for players at every level.

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"e;The beauty of a game of chess is usually appraised, and with good reason, according to the sacrifices it contains. On principle we incline to rate a sacrificial game more highly than a positional game. Instinctively we place the moral value above the scientific. We honor Capablanca, but our hearts beat higher when Morphy’s name is mentioned."e; — Introduction.Perhaps the strongest Austrian-born grandmaster of the20th century, Rudolf Spielmann (1883–1942) defeated such world-class opponents as Nimzovich, Tartakower, Bogoljubov — and even the great Capablanca. Among the reasons for his success was his mastery of the art of sacrifice. In this ground-breaking classic, distilled from 40 years of tournament play, he outlines the hard-won lessons that enable a player to win games by giving up pieces!Drawing on dozens of his own games against such topflight players as Schlechter, Tartakower, Bogoljubov, Reti, Rubinstein and Tarrasch, Spielmann describes and analysis various type of sacrifices: (positional, for gain, mating) and real sacrifices: (for development, obstructive, preventive, line-clearance, vacating, deflecting and more). The result was the first systematic attempt to explain and exploit the theory of chess sacrifice; it remains an extremely helpful and useful weapon in the arsenal of chess players at every level.

Inhalt

INTRODUCTION1. THE VARIOUS TYPES OF SACRIFICESSHAM SACRIFICES 11 Positional SacrificesEXAMPLE 1: Spielmann-Pirc, Match, 1931EXAMPLE 2: Spielmann-Schlechter, Ostend, 1906EXAMPLE 3: Pirc-Spielmann, Match, 1931 Sacrifices for GainEXAMPLE 4: Bogolyubov-Spielmann, Magdeburg, 1927EXAMPLE 5: Spielmann-Muller, Ebensee, 1933Mating Sacrifices EXAMPLE 6: Spielmann-Honlinger, Match, 1929EXAMPLE 7: Spielmann-Dr. Tartakover, Marienbad, 1925EXAMPLE 8: Spielmann-Grunfeld, Carlsbad, 1929EXAMPLE 9: Spielmann-L'hermet, Magdeburg, 1927REAL SACRIFICESSacrifices for Development EXAMPLE 10: Schories-Spielmann, Scheveningen, 1905EXAMPLE 11: Dr. Bernstein-Spielmann, Ostend, 1906Obstructive SacrificesEXAMPLE 12: Spielmann-Landau, Match, 1933EXAMPLE 13: Spielmann-Honlinger, Vienna, 1933EXAMPLE 14: Spielmann-Bogolyubov, Match, 1932EXAMPLE 15: Spielmann-Walter, Trentschin-Teplitz, 1928 Preventive (or Anti-castling) SacrificeEXAMPLE 16: Spielmann-Duras, Scheveningen, 1905 70 EXAMPLE 17: Spielmann-Mieses, Match, 1910EXAMPLE 18: Mieses-Spielmann, Match, 1910EXAMPLE 19: Gereben-Spielmann, Sopron, 1934Line-Clearance SacrificesEXAMPLE 20: Spielmann-Flamberg, Mannheim, 1914EXAMPLE 21: Spielmann-Eljaschoff, Munich, 1903EXAMPLE 22: Spielmann-Griinfeld, Teplitz-Schonau, 1922Vacating SacrificesEXAMPLE 23: Spielmann-Janowski, Giuoco Piano, Carlsbad, 1907EXAMPLE 24: Spielmann-Reti, Abbazia, 1912Deflecting or Decoy SacrificesEXAMPLE 25: Spielmann-Forgacs, Hamburg, 1910(Castled) King's Field SacrificeEXAMPLE 26: Spielmann-Dekker, Bussum, 1934EXAMPLE 27: Leonhardt-Spielmann, Nuremberg, 1906EXAMPLE 28: Spielmann-Duras, Ostend, 1907EXAMPLE 29: Spielmann-Bogolyubov, Match, 1932EXAMPLE 30: Becker-Spielmann, Vienna, 1926King-Hunt SacrificesEXAMPLE 31: Rubinstein-Spielmann, San Sebastian, 1912 148 EXAMPLE 32: Spielmann-Rubinstein, Vienna, 1933 154 2. SACRIFICIAL VALUETHE EXCHANGE SACRIFICEEXAMPLE 33: Dr. Treybal-Spielmann, Teplitz-Schonau, 1922EXAMPLE 34: Spielmann-Dr. Tarrasch, Carlsbad, 1923EXAMPLE 35: Spielmann-Dr. Tartakover, Munich, 1909THE QUEEN SACRIFICEEXAMPLE 36: Spielmann-Maroczy, Vienna, 1907EXAMPLE 37: Spielmann-Moller, Gothenburg, 1920 EPILOGUEINDEX OF OPENINGS

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Chess
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Abenteuer / Spielgeschichten
• ISBN-10: 0-486-14306-6 / 0486143066
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-14306-4 / 9780486143064