Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 05:36:39 11/16/03
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I kinda like those suits they wore then! Bow-ties, collars up, gold watches on a
chain, deep pockets for you PDA and chess-set. Cool!
How did Mieses end up in England? Did he fly from Germany because he was Jewish?
I did some research and I read here in an old book that belonged to my dad, by
Reuben Fine, a Dutch translation of "Chess marches on". It was published
shortly after WWII and describes how chess and chessmasters were affected by the
war. Op page 234 Fine writes that Mieses emigrated "some years ago" to Great
Britain. When Hitler came to power, Fine writes, Mieses had the misfortune to be
born a Jew and German chessjournalists took over the chesscolumns that he wrote.
Those columns were his main source of income at the time. So that would suggest
that Mieses only later got to England, and did not play under the British flag
yet in 1913.
Eelco
Nice picture from Aljechin and Capablanca too
[Event "Scheveningen"]
[Site "Scheveningen"]
[Date "1913.07.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Mieses, Jacques"]
[Black "Alekhine, Alexander"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C22"]
[Annotator "Mueller, Karsten"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "1913.08.??"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1997.11.17"]
1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qe3 Be7 5. Bd2 Nf6 6. Nc3 O-O 7. O-O-O d5 8.
exd5 Nxd5 9. Qg3 Bh4 10. Qf3 Be6 11. Be3 Nxc3 12. Rxd8 Nxa2+ 13. Kb1 Raxd8 14.
Be2 Nab4 15. Nh3 Rfe8 16. Nf4 Bf5 17. Rc1 g6 18. g4 Be4 19. Qh3 Bf6 20. Bf3
Bxf3 21. Qxf3 Ne5 {An interesting moment for the assessment of Black's
positional queen sacrifice has arisen. Mieses did not dare to take the b7 pawn
as this opens an attacking road for Black's rook.} 22. Qe2 ({
But Kasparov sheds new light on this (see page 345):"According to Alekhine,}
22. Qxb7 $5 {would have lost due to the combined attack of the f6 bishop and
the rook on the b-file. However after} Rb8 ({Hubner:} 22... Nec6 23. c3 Rb8 24.
Qxc7 Be5 25. Qd7 Red8 26. Qxd8+ Rxd8 27. cxb4 Nxb4 28. Ne2 {
and the position is equal.}) 23. Qg2 $1 {Huebner: The move} g5 {does not contri
bute to the clarification of the situation, e.g. 24.Nh5 Bh8 25.Qf1 etc. (see
lines below)} (23... Nc4 24. c3 Nxb2 (24... Na6 25. Qc6 $1 Rxb2+ 26. Ka1 Reb8
27. Qxc4 R2b5 28. Rc2) (24... Na2 25. Kxa2 Rxb2+ 26. Ka1) 25. cxb4 $1 {
So I ask the readers: How to evalute this position?}) 24. Nh5 (24. Bxa7 Nc4 25.
Bxb8 Nd2+ 26. Ka1 Rxb8 27. Nh5 Bxb2+ 28. Kxb2 Nd5+ 29. Ka3 Ra8+) 24... Bh8 25.
Qf1 (25. Rd1 Nc4 26. Qf3 Na3+ 27. bxa3 Nd3+ 28. Ka2 Rb2+) 25... Nf3 26. Qh1
Rxe3 27. fxe3 Nd2+ 28. Ka1 Kf8 29. Qg2 Nd3 30. Rd1 Bxb2+ 31. Ka2 Nc1+ 32. Rxc1
Bxc1 33. Qd5 Rb2+ 34. Ka1 Rb1+ 35. Ka2 Rb2+ {and in all cases Black draws by
perpetual check. When you have doubts about this or another analysis in
Kasparov's work, please write. Garry welcomes all suggestions!}) 22... c5 23.
Rg1 c4 24. h4 Nd5 25. Nxd5 Rxd5 26. f4 Nd3 27. Qf3 Rb5 28. cxd3 Rxb2+ 29. Kc1
cxd3 30. Kd1 Rc8 31. g5 Rcc2 32. Ke1 Rb1+ 33. Qd1 Bc3+ 0-1
After 22.Qe2
[D]3rr1k1/ppp2p1p/5bp1/4n3/1n3NP1/4BQ2/1PP2P1P/1KR5 w - - 1 1
Betazoid expermental
00:00:02.4 -7,23 1 38 Ne6 Nxf3 Nxd8 Rxd8 Bxa7 Nxh2
00:00:02.4 -0,82 1 86 Qxb7
00:00:02.4 -0,09 2 757 Qxb7 g5 Qxb4 gxf4 Bxa7
00:00:02.4 -0,09 3 1361 Qxb7 g5 Qxb4 gxf4
00:00:02.4 -0,09 4 3965 Qxb7 g5 Qxb4 gxf4 Bxa7
00:00:02.5 -0,10 5 14890 Qxb7 Nbc6 Ne2 Rd7
00:00:02.7 0,22 6 58870 Qxb7 g5 Qxb4 Rb8 Qxb8 Rxb8
00:00:04.3 0,37 7 322572 Qxb7 Rb8 Qxc7 Nxg4 Bxa7 Na6 Bxb8 Nxc7
00:00:06.8 0,09 8 790912 Qxb7 Rb8 Qxa7 Nxg4 Rd1 Nc6 Qxc7 Rxb2+ Kc1
00:00:16.2 -0,09 9 2605900 Qxb7 Nec6 c3 Rb8 Qxc7 Be5 Qxb8 Bxb8 cxb4
00:00:30.5 -0,16 10 5543959 Qxb7 Nec6 c3 Rb8 Qxc7 Be5 Qxb8 Bxb8 cxb4
00:01:49.5 0,00 11 22281669 Qxb7 Nc4 c3 Rxe3 fxe3 Nd2+ Ka1 Nb3+ Kb1 Nd2+ Ka1
Nb3+ Kb1
00:06:23.0 -0,23 12 78630995 Qxb7 Rb8 Qh1 c6 Rd1 Nc4 Bd4 Nd5 Ka1 Rxb2
00:12:30.2 -0,20 13 151877407 Qxb7 Rb8 Qh1 Nc4 c3 Rxe3 cxb4 Nd2+ Kc2
00:43:34.6 -0,20 14 518102774 Qxb7 Rb8 Qg2 Bh8 b3 Nc4 c3 Na6 Ka2 Nxe3
01:42:42.8 -0,33 15 1240927888 Qxb7 Rb8 Qg2 c6 c3 Nbd3 Nxd3 Nxd3 Rc2 c5
I'm not entirely happy with these settings yet. These include to test [Pruning =
MISC_66] * Fixes Diep-Rebel bug. In Diep - Rebel it does the job! In this
position some lines end with perpetual checks Karsten Mueller writes, so maybe
it is a good testposition. So far Rebel thinks that Mieses could have safely
taken the pawn on b7, but -0.33 is not exactly a drawscore either.
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