Kurt Richter

A Chess Biography with 499 Games

Alan McGowan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2018
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6906-9 (ISBN)

Infos

German master Kurt Richter (1900-1969) made significant contributions to the chess world as a player, and as an editor and author. This overview of his life and games sheds light on a player who should be better known, with much never-before-seen material. Examples of his entertaining writings on chess are included.

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German master Kurt Richter (1900-1969) made significant contributions to the chess world as a player, and as an editor and author. Unassuming in real life, Richter was a fearsome opponent who expressed himself mainly through his over-the-board results, as well as through his chess journalism and literary output. He was responsible for several innovative openings, some of which gained renewed status in later years.

This overview of his life and games sheds light on a player who should be better known, with much never-before-seen material. Examples of his entertaining writings on chess are included, some featuring his fictitious student opponent, Dr. Zabel. A wide selection of games illustrates the surprising combinations and brilliant style of play that earned him the title "The Executioner of Berlin."

Autor

Alan McGowan has been associated with Cathcart Chess Club in Glasgow, Scotland and the Kitchener-Waterloo Chess Club in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.  He has helped edit Scottish Chess and Chess Canada Échecs and is the historian for Chess Scotland. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario.

Inhalt

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

♦ Prologue. 1900–1918

The 1914–1918 War and Its Aftermath

First Chess Club: ­Springer–Berlin

♦ Part 1. 1919–1924 Venturing Forth

1919

1920

Berlin 1920—German Chess Federation Congress

1921

Berlin Championship 1921

Maróczy and Tartakower

Published Chess Problems

Blitz Tournament and Consultation Game

1922

Berlin Championship 1922—First Tournament Success

Club Events

Bad Oeynhausen 1922—22nd Congress of the German Chess Federation

1923

Berlin Championship 1923

1st Congress of the Brandenburg Chess Association

Frankfurt 1923

Winners’ Group

1924

Berlin Championship 1924

New Chess Periodical

Winter Tournament of the Schachverein 1876

♦ Part 2. 1925–1929 Signs of Progress

1925

Jägerklause Tournament 1925

Berlin Championship 1925

1926

Berlin Championship 1926

A Change of Clubs

Berlin Club Championship 1926

Scharfrichter: The Executioner of Berlin

1927

Berlin Championship 1927

Berlin 1927—2nd Congress of the German Chess Association

Berlin Team Championship 1927-28

Employment

1928

First Editorial Position

Freie Schachvereinigung 1928

Gaining the Master Title

Wiesbaden 1928

No Respect for the Law

Berlin–Stockholm Match 1928

First International Masters’ Tournament

Blitz Tournaments

Berlin Club Championship 1928-29

1929

Copenhagen–Berlin Match 1929

Berlin Chess Cafés

Berlin Championship 1929

Bremen Chess Promotion

German Championship—Duisburg 1929

♦ Part 3. 1930–1932 Making His Mark

1930

Wilmersdorf Jubilee 1930

Berlin, Four Masters Tournament 1930

Naming Rights … and Wrongs

Berlin Championship 1930

Swinemünde 1930

Hamburg Olympiad 1930

Berlin Club Championship 1930-31

Berliner Schachgesellschaft Championship 1930

Yearbook—Berliner Schachführer

1931

Then He Took Berlin: Stoltz of Sweden

Aleister Crowley in Berlin

German Championship—Swinemünde 1931

Prague Olympiad 1931

Bled 1931: Richter’s Nonappearance

Cottbus to Berlin

Berliner Schachgesellschaft Championship 1931-32

Here Be No Dragons

1932

Berliner Schachgesellschaft Winter Tournament

Schachverein 1876 Club Championship

Kiel 1932

Richter’s Opinion about Draws

Hamburg, Four Masters Match-Tournament 1932

Berlin Championship 1932

Swinemünde 1932

Opening Innovation

Stargard 1932

Bruno Moritz

Berlin–Hamburg Telephone Match 1932

Berliner Schachgesellschaft Championship 1932-33

Bogoljubow Consultation Game and Interview

♦ Part 4. 1933–1935 Adapting to Change

1933

“Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation”

Berlin Championship 1933

Reorganization of German Chess

Bad Aachen 1933

Germany and FIDE

Swinemünde 1933

Bad Pyrmont 1933

Bad Salzbrunn 1933

1934

Promoting Chess

Berlin (West District) Championship 1934

Physician Heal Thyself: Richter and “Dr. Zabel”

New Chess Pieces (Schachfiguren Bundesform)

Bad Niendorf 1934

Drawing Conclusions

German Team Championship 1934

“Dr. Zabel” Consults Again

En Passant: Deaths

1935

Berlin Master Tournament 1935

Move to Karlshorst

Olympiad Training

Berlin Team Tour 1935

Swinemünde 1935

German Champion—Bad Aachen 1935

Berthold Koch

Bad Nauheim 1935

Losing Beautifully: A Combinational Masterpiece

Zoppot 1935

♦ Part 5. 1936–1939 At His Creative Best

1936

German Team Championship 1935-36

Berlin Championship 1936

Opening Ideas

Publication of Kombinationen

Recuperation

Swinemünde 1936

Poděbrady 1936

Munich 1936—The Unofficial Olympiad

1937

Berlin Championship 1937

Berliner Schachgesellschaft Jubilee Tournament 1937

Berlin–Hamburg Telephone Match 1937

Bad Elster 1937

Bad Saarow 1937

Tournament Losses

German Championship 1937

A Forced Move

Berlin 1937 (Christmas)

En Passant: Deaths

1938

Berlin Club Championship 1938

Germany–Austria Friendship Tournament 1938

An Opening Innovation

Berlin Championship 1938

Germany–Scandinavia Match 1938

Bad Harzburg 1938

Polishing the Polish

German Championship 1938

En Passant: Deaths

1939

Berlin Club Championship 1939

Best Games

Germany–Hungary Match 1939

Stuttgart 1939

German Club Championship—Stuttgart 1939

Bad Oeynhausen 1939

Olympiad and War

Correspondence Chess

♦ Part 6. 1940–1945 The War Years

1940

Berlin Club Championship 1940

Schachgesellschaft Club Championship 1940

Berlin–Karlsbad Match 1940

Schachgesellschaft Training Tournament 1940

Schlage Memorial Tournament, Berlin 1940

Chess for the Military

German Championship—Bad Oeynhausen 1940

Cracow–Krynica–Warsaw 1940

Krynica

Warsaw

1941

Schachgesellschaft Club Championship 1941

Berlin Club Championship 1941

Berlin Championship 1941

German Championship—Bad Oeynhausen 1941

Munich 1941

1942

Drafted

Publishing Success

Munich 1942

Pressing Problems

Publish and Be Praised

1943–1944

A Deteriorating Situation

1945

Fall of Berlin

Prisoner of War

♦ Part 7. 1946–1949 Rebuilding

1946–1947

Starting Over

Chess Life

Soviet Military Administration

Chess Periodicals

Looking for Problems

Surfacing Slowly

Publishing Success

1948

Berlin Championship 1948

Chess Journalism

Radio

1949

Four Cities ­Match-Tournament 1949

Berlin Championship 1949

German Championship 1949

A New Phase

Another Visit from the Doctor

Berlin–East Germany Match

♦ Part 8. 1950–1959 The Two Germanys

1950

Berlin Team Championship 1950

Berlin Championship 1950

A New Generation

International Affairs

Local Matters

Berlin–East Germany Match

1951

Berlin Championship 1951

Berlin–East Germany Match

Public Relations

1952

Berlin Championship 1952

Short Games, Long Praise

Consecutive Losses

1953

A New Phase

“My Opinion on the Chess Problem”

East Berlin–West Berlin Match

1954–1956

1957

Berlin–Hamburg Match 1957

Berlin Championship 1957

More of Richter’s Opinions

1958

Munich Olympiad 1958: Richter Honored

1959

♦ Part 9. 1960–1969 The Final Years

Memories of 50 Years in Chess

Endgame Preparation

In Memoriam

Last Words and Recommended Reading

Richter’s Burial Plot

Appendices

♦ Appendix A: Additional Games

♦ Appendix B: Tournament and Match Results

Berlin Championship

German Championship

Others

Matches—Team and Individual

♦ Appendix C: Richter’s Openings with White

Queen’s Pawn: Richter’s Opening

Sicilian Defense: ­Richter-Rauzer Variation

The Positional Approach

And Then Along Came Rauzer

French Defense

Winawer Variation: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4

Rubinstein Variation: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 d×e4

Burn Variation: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 d×e4

McCutcheon Variation: 4. … Bb4

Anderssen-Richter: 4. … Be7 5. B×f6 B×f6 6. e5 Be7 7. Qg4

Ruy Lopez

Ruy Lopez: Open Variation

Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense Deferred

♦ Appendix D: Richter’s Openings with Black

Budapest Defense

Budapest Gambit: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. d×e5 Ne4

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. d×e5 Ne4 4. various

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. d×e5 Ne4 4. Nf3 Nc6

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. d×e5 Ne4 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Nbd2 Nc5

Polish Defense: 1. d4 b5 and 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 b5

1. d4 b5

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 b5

Scandinavian Defense: 1. e4 d5

1. e4 d5 2. e×d5 Nf6

1. e4 d5 2. e×d5 Nf6 3. d4…

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Opponents

Index of Annotators

Index of Openings—Traditional Names

Index of Openings—ECO Codes

General Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.11.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 93 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, indexes
• Verlagsort: Jefferson, NC
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 216 x 279 mm
• Gewicht: 1148 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• ISBN-10: 1-4766-6906-6 / 1476669066
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4766-6906-9 / 9781476669069
• Zustand: Neuware