by National Life Master Loal Davis Wilhelm Steinitz May 18th 1836 Max Euwe May 20th 1901 Anatoly Karpov May 23rd 1951 The complete PGN notation of the games/notes below are contained in their entirety within the Comments to this post. Vienna – 1860 White “Steinitz, Wilhelm” Black “P”… Continue reading
by National Life Master Loal Davis Mikhail Tchigorin & William Steinitz 1892 The 2018 World Championship Match between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will be held November 9th through the 28th in London. In thinking forward to that match, I was also thinking backward to blunders in… Continue reading
Wilhelm Steinitz Steinitz was the first chessplayer to be called world champion, a title he claimed after his 1865 match with Anderson. He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece, and players set out to… Continue reading
by National Life Master Loal Davis Wilhem Steinitz The first World Champion came up with an incredible Knight’s Tour in the Ruy Lopez that is still used today. In the first game he takes out “The Black Death” and in the second the “Father of Russian Chess” in a World… Continue reading
by National Life Master Loal Davis Wilhelm Steinitz Steinitz won every serious match he played from 1862 until 1892 inclusive, sometimes by wide margins. After beating Anderssen in 1866, he was generally regarded as one of if not the World’s strongest player – though there was no official title at… Continue reading
Bobby Fischer Bobby Fischer’s Top Ten Players of All Time. His insights into these players is remarkable and he may well hit the nail on the head in the evaluation of their strengths and weaknesses. Paul Morphy Howard Staunton Wilhelm Steinitz Siegbert Tarrasch Mikhail Tchigorin Alexander Alekhine Jose Capablanca… Continue reading
by National Life Master Loal Davis . The King’s Gambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 White offers a pawn to divert the Black e-pawn so as to build a strong centre with d2–d4. Theory has shown that in… Continue reading
Odds is a term used in chess when things are not ‘even’ – or in this case when the material is not even. This handicap play used to be much more prevalent than it is today – and much has been lost. This used to be the way… Continue reading
Wilhelm (later William) Steinitz (May 17, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was an Austrian-American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894. Some contemporaries and later writers described him as world champion since 1866, when he won a match against Adolf Anderssen. Steinitz lost his… Continue reading
