Shaw - Playing 1.e4 French Defence & Sicilian Sidelines

Rudolf Spielmann was one of the strongest chess players in the world in the first half of the 20th century. Following his shared second place at the Carlsbad tournament in 1929 with Capablanca, half a point behind Nimzowitsch, he was considered one of the world's top five. His career spread over four decades and included a host of tournament and match victories, such as defeating Bogoljubov over ten games in 1932.

Often known as the Last Romantic in chess with his predilection for the King's Gambit and Vienna Game and love of sacrifices, he bequeathed a rich legacy of ideas and techniques. These combinational and positional master classes are examined here in 213 instructional games and fragments, organized thematically in a way similar to Grigory Bogdanovich's previous volumes on Bogoljubov.

Detailed commentary is provided on games against leading contemporaries. Opponents in this work include five world champions Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, and Botvinnik, as well as Marshall, Janowski, Tarrasch, Tartakower, Nimzowitsch, Reti, Rubinstein, Romanovsky, Bogoljubov, and many others. Bogdanovich's commentary is richly supplemented by that of stars of the epoch and, above all, of Spielmann himself.

The book further contains a biographical sketch and is supplemented by a large number of tournament photographs and portraits. Spielmann's life was ultimately tragic - a lonely death in Sweden aged just 59 as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany following the demise three years earlier of his sponsor, while several family members failed to escape the Holocaust.

Additional materials in the book include a detailed table of tournaments and matches from his career, as well as a translation of Spielmann's fascinating article dating to 1923 called "From the Sickbed of the King's Gambit". 460 pages

Les lignes découlant de 1...e5 dans la partie Anglaise sont hautement représentatives de la trompeuse simplicité que nous évoquions dans la présentation du Starting out : the English. Si, techniquement parlant, l’ouverture est une Sicilienne avec couleurs inversées (bien des variantes ayant effectivement leur pendant dans la Sicilienne classique), la présence d’un temps supplémentaire oblige les deux camps à la plus grande attention et ouvre des possibilités nouvelles. Ce nouveau CD Chessbase, très copieux (330 parties commentées), vous permettra de vous faire une idée complète sur la question. Reste simplement pour les noirs un problème subsidiaire : il vous faudra apprendre un autre système pour faire face à 1.Cf3...

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