On 12th November 1929, one day after the finish of Alekhine – Bogoljubow 1929 World Championship match, the former champion Jose Raul Capablanca sent a letter to Alekhine in which he informed him he „confirmed…
Learn From Mark Dvoretsky – Part Six – The “Trunk”
The “Trunk” The following exercise is taken from chapter two of Dvoretsky’s Analytical Manual. This is what Dvoretsky had to say about this chapter: From our search for brilliant combinations, we turn to the more prosaic, though…
Learn From Mark Dvoretsky – Part Five – The “Shrub”
The “Shrub” The following exercise is taken from chapter four of Dvoretsky’s Analytical Manual. In this chapter, the reader’s goal is trying to find the best Candidate moves for the Black side of the two…
Alekhine – Bogoljubow World Championship Match 1929
Already in Buenos Aires, immediately after their World Championship match in 1927, Alekhine and Capablanca met to discuss the conditions regarding the potential Alekhine – Capablanca rematch. According to Kasparov (Garry Kasparov On My Great…
Alekhine – Capablanca World Championship Match 1927
After Capablanca’s victory against Lasker in 1921, the latter claim he will no longer participate in World Championship matches. The first player to challenge Capablanca, immediately in 1921, was Akiba Rubinstein, the Polish champion and…
Greatest chess players of all time
Greatest chess players of all time? In Animal Farm, George Orwell has written an immortal sentence: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others In the history of chess, there were…
Lasker – Capablanca World Championship Match 1921
November 19, 1888, is one of the most important dates in chess history. On this day, one of the greatest natural talents, the Cuban genius Jose Raul Capablanca, was born. Capablanca was a prodigy in…
Lasker – Janowsky World Championship match 1910
You might recall that in 1899, David Janowsky, one of the leading masters of the late 1890s and early 1900s, issued a formal challenge to Lasker. Due to the disagreement regarding the number of games…
Lasker – Schlechter World Championship Match 1910
After his successful title defence against Tarrasch in 1908, Lasker could not rest on his laurels. The list of challengers waiting for their turn was growing every day. On December 2, 1908, Austrian master Karl…
Lasker – Tarrasch World Championship Match 1908
In 1907, a strong chess tournament in Ostend. Since Lasker was playing his match against Marshall, he was absent. The organizers declared that they would do everything in their might to organize a match between…
Chess study 25 – Martin Minski study
Chess study 25: Martin Minski study Long time ago, I have posted the brilliant Mitrofanov study on this blog. I never thought that the beauty of that study might be surpassed, but today we have…
Lasker – Marshall World Championship Match 1907
After his successful title defence in match against Steinitz in 1896, chess world would have to wait for long 11 years for another World Championship match. First of all, in 1896, Lasker opted to take…