chess mastery, reinfield

Inspired by Hunterknox, i though it might be interesting to reproduce some lessons
from Reinfelds chess mastery. The questions are in the annotations and are
designed as Reinfeld states to help us ask similar questions in our own games. Ill
produce the answers in a wee minute. The book was published in 1939 and i dont
know who owns the copyright, nor do i care.

the answers,

Very interesting game. Could you check what you've written for why 16. ... Be8 is bad - 17. Nxe7 Nxe7 18. Nxf6 is not possible.

Originally posted by Fat Lady
Very interesting game. Could you check what you've written for why 16. ... Be8 is bad - 17. Nxe7 Nxe7 18. Nxf6 is not possible.

You should try transcribing games from pre-1900 books, that's a real challenge! You have to remember, for example, which is the king's knight as you'll get moves like "kings knight to queens square" when there are knights sitting on b2 and f2. Some chess sets in those days had a mark on one of the knights and rooks so they could be distinguished (e.g. the famous red crown on the original Staunton sets).

"17.KtxBch, KtxKt, 18KtxKtP, does that help any?" - Yes, 18. KtxKtP is 18. Nxb7, not 18. Nxf6

Originally posted by Fat Lady
You should try transcribing games from pre-1900 books, that's a real challenge! You have to remember, for example, which is the king's knight as you'll get moves like "kings knight to queens square" when there are knights sitting on b2 and f2. Some chess sets in those days had a mark on one of the knights and rooks so they could be distinguished (e.g. the famous red crown on the original Staunton sets).

Originally posted by Fat Lady
You should try transcribing games from pre-1900 books, that's a real challenge! You have to remember, for example, which is the king's knight as you'll get moves like "kings knight to queens square" when there are knights sitting on b2 and f2. Some chess sets in those days had a mark on one of the knights and rooks so they could be distinguished (e.g. the f KtxBch, KtxKt, 18KtxKtP, does that help any?" - Yes, 18. KtxKtP is 18. Nxb7, not 18. Nxf6

Good posts Robbie- Reinfeld wrote several of the first chess books I ever read.

Originally posted by nimzo5
Good posts Robbie- Reinfeld wrote several of the first chess books I ever read.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
thanks Nimzo, his writing is particularly clear and lucid, he rejects all kinds of pretentious argon. I find these pre computer chess books to be the best reads, i dont know why, there is just something comforting about leafing through a hardback copy where you can see the printers indentations on the thick paper. If there was any interest in this, ...[text shortened]... the other lessons. It seems Nimzo that you must have got off to a great start, regards Robbie.

Originally posted by nimzo5
I think if you dig around you will find a Reinfeld was a lot of players first book. Now if only they were in algebraic... descriptive gives me a headache.

Chernev on Reinfeld.

"I thought I was the only one who saw that The Human Side of Chess was
written with venom. But then, Reinfeld hated impartially!

He hated Morphy, Alekhine, and Capablanca most of all. He hated all chess
players - except those who bought his books. Those he despised!"

Taken from a letter written by Irving Chernev to Edward Winter in 1977.

Poor old Fred gets a bashing from EW here. (right down the bottom).

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter35.html

Here's a game I transcribed today:

chess from a bygone era of romanticism, before the queens pawn became
fashionable. There must a whole host of excellent descriptive games and books that
would be of real interest if reproduced and transcribed.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
you would think a guy with a name like Nimzo might be inclined towards the Nimzio-
Larsen attack beginning with 1.b3, but noooooo 😛