Aron Nimzowitsch is one of my faves...and I have studied his games
and books exstensively. The only reason I have gotten to the level I
have is due to my love for the attacking style of Morphy, Charousek,
and Chigorin...but learning how to hold a position from Nimzo.
Taken from a website...Alekhine never played him in a match...why?
Cause he would have lost.
After his tournament victory in Carlsbad 1929 (ahead of Capablanca,
Spielmann, Rubinstein, Vidmar and Euwe, Bogoljubov came eighth)
Nimzowitsch wrote: "The chess-world is obliged to organize a match
between the world champion and the winner of the Carlsbad
tournament, indeed, this is a moral obligation. If on the other hand
the chess world would stay deaf to its obligation, that would amount to
an absolutely unforgivable omission, carrying with it a heavy burden of
guilt. (N1) Nimzowitsch struck this moral note because he lacked funds
and he was not practical enough to find sponsors himself, apart from
that Alekhine didn't much like the idea of playing a match against an
opponent that might take away his cherished title of world champion.
Besides Nimzowitsch, a revanche-match was also not granted to
Capablanca. A month after the Carlsbad tournament the match
Alekhine-Bogoljubov started, won by the former with +11 -5 =9. Five
years later this match was repeated and Aljechin showed that the
result had been no accident, even though he took it a bit more easy:
+8 -3 =15. A year later Nimzowitsch was dead.
Dave
Thanks kirk...I have been begging for a little more talk on this man. I
of course own "My System" as well as "Chess Praxis" and "Blockade".
This man has taught me alot...and I am being serious when I say I
really feel Alekhine was afraid of him. So no title shot.
We have a few in history that were deserving of being world champion
but never got the shot...Samuel Reshevsky...Rueben Fine...Paul
Keres...David Bronstein (who was made to lose)....Akiba
Rubenstein...and probably more that others could name.
But Nimzo heads the list. And it really impresses me that the only
book on chess that you do own would be "My System"
Maybe adding "500 Master Games of Chess" by Tartakower could be
your next investment...and a Bobby book.
Dave
one of my favorite players. He was very innovative and got alot of crap
about it by the "heads" back then...especially when he was supposed
to help the team beat the Americans in the Olympiad.
I have every book by him that I can find..and of course it includes the
classic 1953 Zurich tourney...but this is not the best tourney book...I
still have yet to purchase ( and I feel really bad about owning such a
library and this one is not in it) the New York 1924 book by Alekhine.
Anybody out there got this and want to sell or trade?
Dave