Originally posted by Dodger11After a second look, I take back what I said about both sides playing suck chess, Einstein didn't make any errors that I see, and he punished Oppenheimer throughout the game for his oversights. One site claims Oppie was about a 1200 player while at Princeton, and Einstein considerabley better.
Oh, maybe you mean why did Albert win such an obviously flawed game with such suck play by both sides? Because Oppenheimer made more mistakes than he did, I guess.
Yeah Oppenheimer clearly sucked as a chess player. I haven't analyzed the game or anything but clearly Einstien knew about about how to the play the Ruy Lopez Open and Oppenheimer knew only the first couple moves. From then Oppenheimer just kept begging for more punishment.
Only Oppenheimer couldn't have beaten Oppenheimer in that game.
Originally posted by telerionThat's pretty much what i was thinking too 🙂
Yeah Oppenheimer clearly sucked as a chess player. I haven't analyzed the game or anything but clearly Einstien knew about about how to the play the Ruy Lopez Open and Oppenheimer knew only the first couple moves. From then Oppenheimer just kept begging for more punishment.
Only Oppenheimer couldn't have beaten Oppenheimer in that game.
Here's another Oppenheimer game, against the great Gyula Breyer in a simultaneous exhibition :http://snow.prohosting.com/~batgrrl/Oppenheimer.html
Since Breyer died in 1921, Oppie must have been about 15 years old when this was played, indicating an early and long time interest in chess. Strange that he was such a poor player. The game is interesting because Breyer sacs his queen in a spectacular fashion.