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€29.90 On 20 February 1911, an outstanding chess tournament began in the Basque city of San Sebastián (Basque: Donostia). Fifteen chess masters were invited, who had earned the right to participate by getting excellent results in earlier tournaments. Among the participants were the best players of the time, namely Siegbert Tarrasch, Frank James Marshall, Carl Schlechter, Geza Maroczy, David Janowski, Amos Burn, Akiba Rubinstein, Aron Nimzowitsch, Rudolph Spielmann, Milan Vidmar, Ossip Bernstein, Richard Teichmann, Oldrich Duras, Paul Saladin Leonhardt and the young José Raúl Capablanca, who was still unknown in Europe. Of the world’s best players, only Emanuel Lasker was actually missing. Lasker, as well as Henry E. Atkins, had been invited but did not accept the invitation. Instead, Lasker commented on the games of the tournament from Berlin for the New York Evening Post. Lasker married Martha Cohn on 1 March 1911, which was perhaps the reason for ....
€29.90 After 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Black can spoil White s intentions to play the Ruy Lopez, the Scotch Game, the Giuoco Piano or the Evans Gambit by answering with 2. . d6. In a first article on this topic I described that the former World Champion Alexander Alekhine (1892 - 1946) played the Philidor Defence several times and was very successful with it. Since the article met with lively interest and some ChessBase readers also provided interesting hints, I would like to go into some more details and present some more exciting games with this opening. Edward Lasker vs Alekhine - a positional masterpiece The 15-year-old Alexander Alekhine played an interesting game against Edward Lasker in Dusseldorf (Germany) in 1908. Again he chose the Hanham variation, in which Black defends e5 by 3. . Nd7 instead of giving up the the centre by exchanging pawns or risking Philidor s hazardous counterattack 3. . f5?!. Through skilful manoeuvring Alekhine reduced the white ....