Aron Nimzowitsch 1928-1935: Annotated Games & Essays
Aron Nimzowitsch (1886 – 1935) was the most influential chess thinker of the 20th century. His books ‘My System’ (1925) and ‘Chess Praxis’ (1928) had tremendous impact and continue to be printed, sold and read to this day. Every chess player who is serious about improving his game, studies the lessons of this great Russian-born innovator.

During several decades of research German chess historian Rudolf Reinhardt compiled, from an immense variety of sources, all the games Nimzowitsch played after 1928. They are presented with notes by Nimzowitsch himself and, in some cases, by his contemporaries. In addition to the games Reinhardt also collected the articles and essays that Nimzowitsch wrote during the last seven years of his life.

Reinhardt’s collection offers a unique view of the chess world of the late 1920s and 1930s, its top tournaments and the state of theory. More importantly, it portrays Nimzowitsch the chess player and author in the last seven years of his short life. It is all there: the fights, the competitors and the polemics, all in the incomparable style of the master: pointed, elegant, precise and highly original.

The book starts where Nimzowitsch’s second volume Chess Praxis ends. Richard Reinhardt, who died unexpectedly when writing the preface to his monumental collection, did not exaggerate when he called it the unauthorized sequel to the classics Nimzowitsch himself published during his lifetime.
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Aron Nimzowitsch 1928-1935: Annotated Games & Essays
Aron Nimzowitsch (1886 – 1935) was the most influential chess thinker of the 20th century. His books ‘My System’ (1925) and ‘Chess Praxis’ (1928) had tremendous impact and continue to be printed, sold and read to this day. Every chess player who is serious about improving his game, studies the lessons of this great Russian-born innovator.

During several decades of research German chess historian Rudolf Reinhardt compiled, from an immense variety of sources, all the games Nimzowitsch played after 1928. They are presented with notes by Nimzowitsch himself and, in some cases, by his contemporaries. In addition to the games Reinhardt also collected the articles and essays that Nimzowitsch wrote during the last seven years of his life.

Reinhardt’s collection offers a unique view of the chess world of the late 1920s and 1930s, its top tournaments and the state of theory. More importantly, it portrays Nimzowitsch the chess player and author in the last seven years of his short life. It is all there: the fights, the competitors and the polemics, all in the incomparable style of the master: pointed, elegant, precise and highly original.

The book starts where Nimzowitsch’s second volume Chess Praxis ends. Richard Reinhardt, who died unexpectedly when writing the preface to his monumental collection, did not exaggerate when he called it the unauthorized sequel to the classics Nimzowitsch himself published during his lifetime.
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Aron Nimzowitsch (1886 – 1935) was the most influential chess thinker of the 20th century. His books ‘My System’ (1925) and ‘Chess Praxis’ (1928) had tremendous impact and continue to be printed, sold and read to this day. Every chess player who is serious about improving his game, studies the lessons of this great Russian-born innovator.

During several decades of research German chess historian Rudolf Reinhardt compiled, from an immense variety of sources, all the games Nimzowitsch played after 1928. They are presented with notes by Nimzowitsch himself and, in some cases, by his contemporaries. In addition to the games Reinhardt also collected the articles and essays that Nimzowitsch wrote during the last seven years of his life.

Reinhardt’s collection offers a unique view of the chess world of the late 1920s and 1930s, its top tournaments and the state of theory. More importantly, it portrays Nimzowitsch the chess player and author in the last seven years of his short life. It is all there: the fights, the competitors and the polemics, all in the incomparable style of the master: pointed, elegant, precise and highly original.

The book starts where Nimzowitsch’s second volume Chess Praxis ends. Richard Reinhardt, who died unexpectedly when writing the preface to his monumental collection, did not exaggerate when he called it the unauthorized sequel to the classics Nimzowitsch himself published during his lifetime.
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ISBN-13: 9789056915162
Publisher: Continental Sales, Inc.
Publication date: 09/17/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
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Pages: 416
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About the Author

During several decades of research, German chess historian Rudolf Reinhardt compiled, from an immense variety of sources, all the games Nimzowitsch played after 1928. They are presented with notes by Nimzowitsch himself and, in some cases, by his contemporaries.
In addition to the games, Reinhardt also collected the articles and essays that Nimzowitsch wrote during that period.

Table of Contents

Foreword Raymond Keene 7

Anthologist's Foreword 9

Preface of the German Publisher 11

Introduction (incomplete) 12

The Great International Chess Masters' Tournament in Bad Kissingen 1928 17

A Blockade Game (Mieses-Nimzowitsch) 26

International Grandmaster Tournament of the Berliner Tageblatt - Berlin 1928 44

The 'Twice-Won' Chess Game (Marshall-Nimzowitscb.) 46

Two Endgames 48

The Early Draw (Nimzowitsch-Capablanca) 51

The Combinational Game (Réti-Nimzowitsch) 54

IV. International Chess Masters' Tournament Carlsbad 1929 68

The Great Success in Nimzowitsch's Chess Career! 69

Long Live Optimism and … Morning Gymnastics! 71

From the Bluebook of Centralization 80

The Carlsbad Game Nimzowitsch-Spielmann in the Light of Chess-Psychology Analysis 113

Lack of Malleability in Playing Style Causes Loss of Game! 114

International Masters' Tournament in San Remo 1930 128

Have the 'Fianchettoed' Bishops Lost Something of Their Popularity? (Ahues-N.) 133

The Winning of a Tournament Game as a Painful Affair.. 141

Are There Chess Truths? (by Dr. S.G.Tartakower) (Bogoljubow-Nimzovvitsch) 142

Something about Defence (Grau-Nimzowitsch) 150

You Think You're Pushing and You Are Pushed (article by R. Spielmann) 152

International Chess Masters' Tournament Liege 1930 160

Liege and Frankfurt or: The Rueful Return to the System 161

The International Masters' Tournament at Frankfurt am Main, 1930 176

Centralization (illustrated by three games from Frankfurt am Main) 191

System and Intuition (Colle-Nimzowitsch / N.-Ahues / Mannheimer-N.) 194

Training Matches in Bern, 1931 199

Three Months as a Chess Teacher in Switzerland 199

The Problem of Defence (N.-Zimmermann, 1.Rd. / N.-Johner) 200

35th Swiss Chess Championship in Winterthur 1931 211

The Curse of the Rigid Line of Defence 214

The International Grandmaster Tournament in Bled (Veldes) 1931 231

Is My Third Prize in Bled to be Considered a Relative Failure? 232

My Play in the Tournament in Bled 233

Mixed Masters' Tournament, Copenhagen 1933 266

An Honourable Defeat (Nimzowitsch-B.Nieken) 277

Stahlberg-Nimzowitsch Match in Gothenburg 1934 282

Stahlberg a New Grandmaster! 282

Six-Player Tournament, Stockholm 1934 297

Further Adventures in Swedenland (Nimzowitsch-Lundin) 297

Nimzowitsch-Stoltz Match in Stockholm 1934 310

My Match against Stoltz 310

International Tournament and 3 7th Swiss Championship in Zurich, 1934 317

Nordic Chess Congress Copenhagen 1934 331

The Master and the Amateurs 339

The Gifted Amateur 339

The Idea of Correspondence Chess 346

Nimzowitsch as a Simultaneous Player 350

A Simultaneous Game in Accord with the Foregoing Lecture (A Game in the Style of Alekhine) 350

Three Months as Chess Teacher in Switzerland 352

Difficult Simultaneous Games 356

Various Articles by A. Nimzowitsch 367

Attack or Defence. On the Strategy of the Struggle of Chess and Life [1928] 367

The Self-Criticism of the Fighter. A Contemporary Reflection [1928] 368

Lasker's All-Encompassing Playing Style [1929] 370

The 'Almost-Combinational' Game - A modern, all too modern occurrence [1929] 371

The Type of Drawing Player à la Capablanca as a Modern Game of Deception [1929] 374

The Mistake and the Sin of Omission - A harmless fairytale 377

On the Significance of Prophylaxis to Chess Strategy and Chess Psychology - Illustrated in a continuity of two positions and one game 378

Is 'Simplicity' Beautiful? [1929] 381

The Russian Game-Style of Old and Now [1929] 382

How Grandmasters Train [1930] 387

In Memory of Michael Ivanovich Chigorin [1933] 391

Nimzowitsch Plays King's Gambit! (game against Schweinburg, Berlin 1934) 395

Some Facts about Nimzowitsch's Life 399

Tribute to Rudolf Reinhardt (by Michael Negele) 403

Remembrances of Rudolf Reinhardt (by Andreas Saremba) 405

List of Sources 409

Index of Games 411

Index of Openings 413

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