Less common intresting chess players ?

Does anyone have a passion for a chess player who is semi unknown ?
We all love our Tal's and Ruy Lopez's, but everyone knows them.....so intresting lesser known chess players :-)

Id have to pick Blackburne as one of mine, he was a very aggressive player, who often shows a total disregard of material, instead pressing for development and attacking advantage. His games also contain many of the opening traps and mates in various forms and threats. Well worth looking at :-)


Heres one of his games, he often did his own annotation.

[Event "London"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Bird Henry E"]
[Black "Blackburne Joseph"]
[ECO "A02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "60"]

1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 d6 3.exd6 Bxd6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.d4 {As is stated before this is inferior to d3 or c3.}
Ne4 6.Qd3 f5 7.Nc3 O-O {Giving up another Pawn for a rapid development.}
8.Nxe4 fxe4
9.Qxe4 Bf5 {Pawns are not to be counted in this type of game. White must be prevented from playing e4 at any cost.}
10.Qxb7 {Better not have captured the third Pawn. It loses too much time.}
Nd7 11.Qb3+ Kh8 12.Bg5 Qe8
13.Qe3 {Still further cramping his position.}
Qh5 14.c3 Rab8 15.Qd2 Nb6 16.b3 Nd5
17.Rc1 {To defend the c-Pawn. His game is already lost.}
h6 18.Bh4 Bf4 19.Qb2 Ne3 {Much better than winning the exchange.} 20.Bf2 Rbe8
21.Bxe3 Bxe3 22.c4 Be4 23.Rc3 Bxf3 24.Rxe3 Rxe3
25.gxf3 Qxf3 26.Kd2 {No means of saving the Rook.}
Qxh1 27.Kxe3 Qxf1 28.Kd3 Rf3+
29.Kd2 Rf2 30.Kd3 Qh3+ 0-1

Mike Basman! Check out this game:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1102936

:-)

Basman is wonderful.

I'm a fan of Rudolf Spielmann, the mad sacrificer. Here he gives a schooling to Rubinstein (one of the best players of all time) in the Dutch Defence:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1119753

I love how Spielmann sacrifices a rook, yet ends up a pawn ahead in the endgame.

Here is a list of games with some of his better sacrifices:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1001690

Nezhmetdinov was a brilliant player. Fortunately he is slowly moving to the better-known category🙂

I am a fan of these players: http://www.timeforchess.com/core/playertable.php 🙂

Morozevich too!

He has major cojones.
Playing the KG....
Blindfold, winning: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1250161
Against Anand, winning: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1018654
In wonderful insane unsound fashion against Kasparov, losing: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070825

and also playing the albin! http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1282018

Originally posted by TovMauzer
Nezhmetdinov was a brilliant player. Fortunately he is slowly moving to the better-known category🙂

Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky, who sacrificed his queen against Capablanca and won:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1100030

Charousek, who beat Lasker with the King's Gambit!
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1036173

Originally posted by paultopia
Yea! Yea!
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1102235

Steve "Interesting" Davis
🙂

Genrikh Chepukaitis struck a cord with me in this article at chesscafe

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skittles205.pdf

Edit: Unfortuneately he passed away only last month, what a shame for chess

Chepukaitis was the best. Not only as a chess player, but as a human. He published one book and worked on the second. Unfortunately there is no English translation per my knowledge.

Originally posted by TovMauzer
Chepukaitis was the best. Not only as a chess player, but as a human. He published one book and worked on the second. Unfortunately there is no English translation per my knowledge.

Two names: Klovans and Soultanbeieff

Originally posted by TovMauzer
Chepukaitis was the best. Not only as a chess player, but as a human. He published one book and worked on the second. Unfortunately there is no English translation per my knowledge.