Aron Nimzowitsch 1928-1935

Annotated Games & Essays

Aron Nimzowitsch, Rudolf Reinhardt

• Publisher: New in Chess
• eBook ISBN:
  9789056915162
• Year: 2014

Aron Nimzowitsch (1886 – 1935) was the most influential chess thinker of the 20th century. His books ‘My System’ (1925) and ‘Chess Praxis’ (1928) had tremendous impact and continue to be printed, sold and read to this day. Every chess player who is serious about improving his game, studies the lessons of this great Russian-born innovator.

During several decades of research German chess historian Rudolf Reinhardt compiled, from an immense variety of sources, all the games Nimzowitsch played after 1928. They are presented with notes by Nimzowitsch himself and, in some cases, by his contemporaries. In addition to the games Reinhardt also collected the articles and essays that Nimzowitsch wrote during the last seven years of his life.

Reinhardt’s collection offers a unique view of the chess world of the late 1920s and 1930s, its top tournaments and the state of theory. More importantly, it portrays Nimzowitsch the chess player and author in the last seven years of his short life. It is all there: the fights, the competitors and the polemics, all in the incomparable style of the master: pointed, elegant, precise and highly original.

The book starts where Nimzowitsch’s second volume Chess Praxis ends. Richard Reinhardt, who died unexpectedly when writing the preface to his monumental collection, did not exaggerate when he called it the unauthorized sequel to the classics Nimzowitsch himself published during his lifetime.
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Table of contents

• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Anthologist’s Foreword
• Preface of the German Publisher
• Introduction (incomplete)
• The Great International Chess Masters’ Tournament in Bad Kissingen 1928
• International Grandmaster Tournament of the Berliner Tageblatt – Berlin 1928
• IV. International Chess Masters’ Tournament Carlsbad 1929
• International Masters’ Tournament in San Remo 1930
• International Chess Masters’ Tournament Liège 1930
• The International Masters’ Tournament at Frankfurt am Main, 1930
• Training Matches in Bern, 1931
• 35th Swiss Chess Championship in Winterthur 1931
• The International Grandmaster Tournament in Bled (Veldes) 1931
• Mixed Masters’ Tournament, Copenhagen 1933
• Stahlberg-Nimzowitsch Match in Gothenburg 1934
• Six-Player Tournament, Stockholm 1934
• Nimzowitsch-Stoltz Match in Stockholm 1934
• International Tournament and 37th Swiss Championship in Zürich, 1934
• Nordic Chess Congress Copenhagen 1934
• The Master and the Amateurs
• Nimzowitsch as a Simultaneous Player
• Various Articles by A. Nimzowitsch
• Some Facts about Nimzowitsch’s Life
• Tribute to Rudolf Reinhardt (by Michael Negele)
• Remembrances of Rudolf Reinhardt (by Andreas Saremba)
• List of Sources
• Index of Games
• Index of Openings