Akiba rubinstein biography of albert
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Castalia
Dear Friends,
I’m happy to announce the publication of a book on the cutting-edge, super-relevant topic of early 20th century chess history. It’s called A Century of Chess: 1900-1909.
I’ve been sort of pleased with myself, tbh, that I’ve written only a limited amount about chess here, but the truth is that chess takes up some absurd percentage of my brain space. For some time, I’ve had this neurotic, obsessional habit of working my way chronologically through chess history. For a while, it was just a way to pass the dead time during a day. Then it became a blog on chess.com. And now it’s a book, edited by FIDE Master Carsten Hansen and with game annotations by Grandmaster Cyrus Lakdawala. I’ll share a follow-up post when it’s actually published.
The book is meant for people who are already pretty serious about chess — so not for everyone, although I know that there are a number of chessheads here. The idea with A Century of Chess is to cover chess history in a way that (as far as I know) has never exactly been done before — player by player and tournament by tournament, so that the evolution of chess theory and the sort of artistic interplay between the leading players becomes clear.
There are a few points that I’ve been trying to get at in this enterp
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Akiba Rubinstein Miscellanea
Edward Winter
Akiba Composer (see below)
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See Memory Feats of Cheat Masters.
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The youngest and the greatest
The youngest and the greatest
With the advent of Magnus Carlsen as the new world champion, the 16th in the line of classical chess, we decided to compile a few lists regarding the records and results, the stats and the facts.
Youngest number one
Less than two months after this picture, Magnus Carlsen
would be the youngest world number one in historyThere is no question the World Champion is the youngest number one player in the world, but can you name the second youngest? Hint: it may surprise you. What about the third, and the fourth? For players preceding the FIDE ELo system, we have resorted to the calculations and results published by Chessmetrics. Even if the ratings do not agree with FIDE's, they still calculate quite well who the best performing players are at a given moment.
When the January 1996 ratings list came out, both Vladimir Kramnik and Garry Kasparov held the exact same 2775 rating. Although Kramnik was shared first, and not sole first, there is no reason why it should not count. According to Chessmetrics, Bobby Fischer was the top performing player in February 1964, and if one counts it as a ratings list published on the first of the month, he would have been 20 years 10 months and 23 days old.
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