Akiba Rubinstein was a Polish grandmaster. He is best known for his incredible winning streak in , when he won 5 consecutive tournaments. In a match was agreed upon between World Champion Emanuel Lasker and Rubinstein, unfortunately this event never took place because of World War I. Rubinstein is considered to be one of the strongest players to never win the world championship.
Playing Style
Rubinstein's playing style was both positional and endgame-oriented. He was particularly talented in the opening and endgame phases, his knowledge and understanding of rook endings was far ahead of his time. IM Jeremy Silman ranked him as a top 5 endgame player of all time. Rubinstein's style was not confined to solely positional and endgame play, in this example we see Rubinstein conducting a brilliant attack. How often does one get to see white pawns on h6 and g6 simultaneously?
Early Days to World Class Player
Rubinstein learned to play chess at the age of In , he made the decision to devote himself to chess full-time. Within the next few years, Rubinstein showed that he was among the strongest players in the world. In , Rubinstein won th
Akiba Rubinstein Miscellanea
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Akiba Rubinstein (see below)
On page of ’s (highly unreliable) Dictionary of Modern Chess (New York, )W.H. Watts is quoted as saying that Akiba Rubinstein knew ‘by heart almost every game that has ever been played’.
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See Memory Feats of Chess Masters.
From New in Chess, issue 1, page 11 (September ):
‘The rule that a player must move his king as punishment after an illegal continuation was taken from the book after the San Sebastián tournament in , when Rubinstein gave the sealed move Kc2-c7 at adjournment in order to peacefully study at home which king move he would choose in the remaining pawn endgame.’
‘Taken from the book’ is meant in the sense of ‘removed’. Soltis’s Lists book (page 41) gives the same story – ‘perhaps apocryphal’. Is it?
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Paul Timson (Whalley, England) writes:
‘I would think the story is almost certainly apocryphal. None of Rubinstein’s games at San Sebastián, fits the description given. I would also ask whether the rule referred to ever applied to sealed moves anyway. Just possibly the story derived from another incident involving Rubinstein and the sealed move. This was th
Rubinstein Move by Move Zenon Franco
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Akiba Rubinstein
Polish chess player. Date of Birth:
Country: Poland
Content:
- Biography of Akiba Rubinstein
- The Struggles and Legacy
Biography of Akiba Rubinstein
Akiba Rubinstein (December 12, , Stawiski, Poland – March 15, , Antwerp, or according to other sources, Brussels) was a Polish chess player, considered one of the greatest chess strategists of all time. Prior to World War I, he was regarded as the main rival to Lasker in the fight for the World Chess Championship title. However, after the war, his game lacked consistency, with notable successes being followed by equally notable failures. Nevertheless, few of his contemporaries could boast such a successful tournament career. Rubinstein won the first prizes in international tournaments on eight occasions: Ostend (, along with O. Bernstein), Karlsbad (), Saint Petersburg (, along with E. Lasker), San Sebastian (), Pistyan (), Breslau (, along with Duras), Vienna (), and Marienbad (, along with Nimzowitsch). He won numerous matches against renowned players such as Salwe (Łódź, , +=4), Marshall (Warsaw, , +=1), Teichmann (Vienna, , +=1), Mieses (Berlin, , +=2), Schlechter (Berlin, , +=3), and Bogo
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