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The Batsford Book of Chess Records

304 Seiten, kartoniert, Batsford Chess, 1. Auflage 2005

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Foreword:

The idea for this book has accompanied me throughout my chess life - which began when I was a thirteen-year-old schoolboy, in other words impossibly late. No sooner had I learnt the moves of the pieces and the name of the current World Champion than I grew curious to know who the world record holder was - by analogy with other sporting activities that interested me. I remember being astonished to discover that in chess there was no such person....
Years passed. Chess became my favourite recreation, and in due course it was happily linked to my work as a Journalist. While managing a programme called 'Four Knights Club' on what was then Central Television, I began seriously collecting facts and putting together a sketch (as you might call it) of those records which did after all exist in this ancient game of the mind. Unfortunately the task remained unfinished; Soviet TV programmes on 'intellectual' themes in the 1970s were prone to be whittled down....
More years, and decades, elapsed. Then, half way through the 1980s, a book by the English author Ken Whyld came into my hands. I was positively spellbound by its title - Chess: The Records. However, a mere three of its 176 large-size pages proved to be devoted
to records in the sense that interested me, and even those three referred largely to compositions, mathematics in chess, and the like. Apart from that, the contents were those of a high-quality reference book: the names of Champions of the principal chess-playing nations, tables of the most important tournaments, some superb photos....
I shared my feelings with my best friend Mikhail Tal. Suddenly he promised to contribute a preface to the book which absolutely had to be written. Alas, the manuscript only took shape long after the day when Tal - himself the holder of several chess records - departed from this world. I continue nonetheless to regard him as the godfather of this book, the like of which has not been seen before in world chess literature. In addition I wish to thank all those who have generously helped in its creation - above all Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh, whose immense erudition helped me out of more than one stalemate Situation.
In what specific fields did I look for records, and by what criteria did I decide on the record holders? The criteria were fluid, and it would be naive to expect a work of this kind to be free from inaccuracies or indeed outright errors. The quantity of chess material is too large (or rather, vast!) for that; there is always the likelihood that something has been left out or not given due recognition, something in fact which might not have found its way into the contemporary periodicals or books. Therefore, friends, any amendments you can offer will be gratefully received.

_______________________

Who were the most successful and unsuccessful chess players in history? Which combination was calculated furthest ahead? Which chess contest offered the biggest prizes? Which player thought for longest over a move? This fascinating collection of chess superlatives has the answers to all these questions.
The book covers all aspects of chess from the trivial to the monumental, and includes the following chapters:
Games: the shortest and the longest chess games, the most spectacular king marches and knight's tours, the longest sequence of checks and the records for multiple pawn promotions.
People: Charts meteoric careers and falls from grace, lists some of the luckiest and unluckiest players in history, and reports the chess achievements of famous people from scientists to monarchs, musicians to footballers.
Tournaments, matches and events: lists the most peaceful and most bloodthirsty contests, the most persistent chess traditions, and those mysterious games that never happened but still appear in magazines and books.
· Around the chequered board: contains a miscellany of chess records, such as records for simultaneous displays and the record number of mistakes in a chess publication.
Packed with entertaining facts and figures, annotated games and biographical details, this book is a must for all chess lovers.
Foreword:

The idea for this book has accompanied me throughout my chess life - which began when I was a thirteen-year-old schoolboy, in other words impossibly late. No sooner had I learnt the moves of the pieces and the name of the current World Champion than I grew curious to know who the world record holder was - by analogy with other sporting activities that interested me. I remember being astonished to discover that in chess there was no such person....
Years passed. Chess became my favourite recreation, and in due course it was happily linked to my work as a Journalist. While managing a programme called 'Four Knights Club' on what was then Central Television, I began seriously collecting facts and putting together a sketch (as you might call it) of those records which did after all exist in this ancient game of the mind. Unfortunately the task remained unfinished; Soviet TV programmes on 'intellectual' themes in the 1970s were prone to be whittled down....
More years, and decades, elapsed. Then, half way through the 1980s, a book by the English author Ken Whyld came into my hands. I was positively spellbound by its title - Chess: The Records. However, a mere three of its 176 large-size pages proved to be devoted
to records in the sense that interested me, and even those three referred largely to compositions, mathematics in chess, and the like. Apart from that, the contents were those of a high-quality reference book: the names of Champions of the principal chess-playing nations, tables of the most important tournaments, some superb photos....
I shared my feelings with my best friend Mikhail Tal. Suddenly he promised to contribute a preface to the book which absolutely had to be written. Alas, the manuscript only took shape long after the day when Tal - himself the holder of several chess records - departed from this world. I continue nonetheless to regard him as the godfather of this book, the like of which has not been seen before in world chess literature. In addition I wish to thank all those who have generously helped in its creation - above all Grandmaster Yuri Averbakh, whose immense erudition helped me out of more than one stalemate Situation.
In what specific fields did I look for records, and by what criteria did I decide on the record holders? The criteria were fluid, and it would be naive to expect a work of this kind to be free from inaccuracies or indeed outright errors. The quantity of chess material is too large (or rather, vast!) for that; there is always the likelihood that something has been left out or not given due recognition, something in fact which might not have found its way into the contemporary periodicals or books. Therefore, friends, any amendments you can offer will be gratefully received.

_______________________

Who were the most successful and unsuccessful chess players in history? Which combination was calculated furthest ahead? Which chess contest offered the biggest prizes? Which player thought for longest over a move? This fascinating collection of chess superlatives has the answers to all these questions.
The book covers all aspects of chess from the trivial to the monumental, and includes the following chapters:
Games: the shortest and the longest chess games, the most spectacular king marches and knight's tours, the longest sequence of checks and the records for multiple pawn promotions.
People: Charts meteoric careers and falls from grace, lists some of the luckiest and unluckiest players in history, and reports the chess achievements of famous people from scientists to monarchs, musicians to footballers.
Tournaments, matches and events: lists the most peaceful and most bloodthirsty contests, the most persistent chess traditions, and those mysterious games that never happened but still appear in magazines and books.
· Around the chequered board: contains a miscellany of chess records, such as records for simultaneous displays and the record number of mistakes in a chess publication.
Packed with entertaining facts and figures, annotated games and biographical details, this book is a must for all chess lovers.
Weitere Informationen
EAN 9780713489460
Gewicht 375 g
Hersteller Batsford Chess
Breite 13,7 cm
Höhe 21,5 cm
Medium Buch
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
Autor Jakow Damski
Sprache Englisch
Auflage 1
ISBN-10 0713489464
ISBN-13 9780713489460
Seiten 304
Einband kartoniert
007 Foreword
009 Part One: Games
059 Part Two: People
129 Part Three: Tournaments, Matches, Events
234 Part Four: Around the Chequered Board
299 Index of Chapter Sections
301 Index of Players
Interested in the shortest or longest game? Or the longest king walk? All these and more you shall find in this compressive work from the Russian chess journalist Yakov Damsky.
Did you know that Max Euwe did held the title of ex world champion for the longest time - 44 years - and the great Emanuel Lasker reigned over the chess kingdom for the longest - 26 years, 11 months and two days ?
Alekander Alekhine kept the championship title for more than 16 years, Garry Kasparov for nearly 15 years and Mikhail Tal’s reign turned out to be the shortest of all time with one year and five days.
Pawns are important but the game from Frank Marshall with the wing gambit still stands as a record for making 14 pawn moves, Damsky gives the black player a NN but in my database I found the name Ragozin.
Marshall,F - Ragozin,V New York, 1940
1.e4 c5 2.b4 cxb4 3.a3 Nc6 4.axb4 Nf6 5.b5 Nd4 [5...Nb8 6.e5 Qc7 7.d4 Nd5 8.c4 Nb6 9.c5 Nd5 10.b6 Qd8 11.Rxa7 Rxa7 12.bxa7 Qa5+ 13.Nc3!! Nxc3 14.axb8Q Nxd1+ 15.Bd2! Kujoth--Faschingbauer/USA/1950/1:0] 6.c3 Ne6 7.e5 Nd5 8.c4 Ndf4? 9.g3 Ng6 10.f4+- Ngxf4 11.gxf4 Nxf4 12.d4 Ng6 13.h4 e6 14.h5 Bb4+ 15.Bd2 Bxd2+ 16.Nxd2 Ne7 17.Ne4 Nf5 18.h6! g6 19.Nf6+ Kf8 20.Nf3 d6 21.Ng5 dxe5 22.dxe5 Qxd1+ 23.Rxd1 Ke7 24.Rh3 b6 25.Bg2 Rb8 26.Ngxh7 1-0
The material in this book is divided into four sections: Games, People, Tournaments, Matches and Events and at last Around the Black and White Board but although there is an excellent index of chapter sections and player index it is still difficult to find your way throw this book.
So I would like to suggest to take up this book with Christmas and I can ensure you that you are going to have with this book the time of your life!
Conclusion: A remarkable book!

With kind permission of the author John Elburg (www.chessbooks.nl)
Interested in the shortest or longest game? Or the longest king walk? All these and more you shall find in this compressive work from the Russian chess journalist Yakov Damsky.
Did you know that Max Euwe did held the title of ex world champion for the longest time - 44 years - and the great Emanuel Lasker reigned over the chess kingdom for the longest - 26 years, 11 months and two days ?
Alekander Alekhine kept the championship title for more than 16 years, Garry Kasparov for nearly 15 years and Mikhail Tal’s reign turned out to be the shortest of all time with one year and five days.
Pawns are important but the game from Frank Marshall with the wing gambit still stands as a record for making 14 pawn moves, Damsky gives the black player a NN but in my database I found the name Ragozin.
Marshall,F - Ragozin,V New York, 1940
1.e4 c5 2.b4 cxb4 3.a3 Nc6 4.axb4 Nf6 5.b5 Nd4 [5...Nb8 6.e5 Qc7 7.d4 Nd5 8.c4 Nb6 9.c5 Nd5 10.b6 Qd8 11.Rxa7 Rxa7 12.bxa7 Qa5+ 13.Nc3!! Nxc3 14.axb8Q Nxd1+ 15.Bd2! Kujoth--Faschingbauer/USA/1950/1:0] 6.c3 Ne6 7.e5 Nd5 8.c4 Ndf4? 9.g3 Ng6 10.f4+- Ngxf4 11.gxf4 Nxf4 12.d4 Ng6 13.h4 e6 14.h5 Bb4+ 15.Bd2 Bxd2+ 16.Nxd2 Ne7 17.Ne4 Nf5 18.h6! g6 19.Nf6+ Kf8 20.Nf3 d6 21.Ng5 dxe5 22.dxe5 Qxd1+ 23.Rxd1 Ke7 24.Rh3 b6 25.Bg2 Rb8 26.Ngxh7 1-0
The material in this book is divided into four sections: Games, People, Tournaments, Matches and Events and at last Around the Black and White Board but although there is an excellent index of chapter sections and player index it is still difficult to find your way throw this book.
So I would like to suggest to take up this book with Christmas and I can ensure you that you are going to have with this book the time of your life!
Conclusion: A remarkable book!

With kind permission of the author John Elburg (www.chessbooks.nl)

______________________

Trivial Pursuit ist eines der erfolgreichsten Spiele der letzten 25 Jahre. Das Grundprinzip ist einfach: Die Spieler ziehen auf einem Spielfeld umher und stellen sich gegenseitig Fragen nach „trivialen” Fakten und Daten aus unterschiedlichen Wissensgebieten. Für die richtige Antwort gibt es eine Belohnung, ein so genanntes „Tortenstück”, mit der die Spielfiguren gefüllt werden. Jedem Wissensgebiet ist dabei eine bestimmte Farbe zugeordnet und wer zuerst sechs „Tortenstücke” unterschiedlicher Farbe beisammen hat, gewinnt. Entwickelt wurde das Spiel von den Kanadiern Scott Abbott und Chris Haney, die im Dezember 1979 bei einem Streit, wer von ihnen der bessere Scrabblespieler ist, auf die Grundidee von Trivial Pursuit verfielen.
Das Spiel entwickelte sich schnell zu einem Kassenschlager. 1984 wurden allein in den USA 20 Millionen Exemplare verkauft, weltweit gingen bis Ende 2004 88 Millionen Exemplare über den Ladentisch und bald gab es Spezialausgaben zu bestimmten Gebieten, die sich z.B. auf die Star Wars Filme, die 80er Jahre oder die Fußballweltmeisterschaft konzentrierten. Schach war bislang kein Thema.
Sollte dies je anders werden, so würden Bücher wie Andy Soltis’ Chess Lists, Alex Dunnes 2010 Chess Oddities und Rolf Volands Schachkaleidoskop eine große Hilfe für den Trivial Pursuit-begeisterten Schachfan darstellen. Sie alle beschäftigen sich mit Schachfolklore, dem Ungewöhnlichen, Kuriosen, den abseitigen Rekorden und Zufällen aus der Schachgeschichte. Andy Soltis tut dies mit über 70 Listen zu so unterschiedlichen Themen wie „The Nine Worst World Championship Games”, „The Great Rivalries”, „Ten Famous Patrons”, „Four Cases of Middlegame Zugzwang”, „Eighteen Novels with Chess Themes”, „Five Eagerly Awaited Books” und vielen mehr. Da Schadenfreude bekanntlich die reinste Freude ist, dürfen auch Listen mit „Their Worst Games” und den „Eleven Costliest Blunders” nicht fehlen. Ein anregendes, vergnügliches und informatives Buch.
Eine bunte Mischung an Geschichten, Fakten und Kuriositäten enthält auch Alex Dunnes 2010 Chess Oddities. Wie Dunne in der Widmung womöglich nicht ganz ernsthaft erzählt, sollte das Buch eigentlich Chess is Better than Sex heißen, aber auf den Rat seiner 90-jährigen Mutter und seiner Frau entschied er sich doch für einen anderen Titel. Aber auf ein Kapitel zum Thema wollte er nicht verzichten. Darin erfährt man u.a. dass Barbara Streisand mit Bobby Fischer zur Schule ging, MAD-Hefte mit ihm tauschte und angeblich in ihn „verknallt” war, oder dass sich eine Frau namens Edvige Ruinstein von ihrem Mann scheiden ließ, weil ihr Mann, Mr. Ruinstein, „so vom Schach besessen war, dass er sich weigerte, zu arbeiten und für den Unterhalt ihrer zwei Kinder zu sorgen”.
Doch bei Dunne steht tatsächlich das Schach im Vordergrund. So widmet er ein Kapitel „The Five Most Instructive Games ever Played”, führt in einem anderen zwanzig kurze und kürzeste Partien auf und stellt in einem langen Abschnitt die besten und die schlechtesten Partien der Weltmeister vor. Unter der Überschrift „Unusual” präsentiert er kuriose Studien und Partien, z.B. „die Partie, die von der größten Konzentration von Schachtalent, die es je gegeben hat, gespielt wurde”. Das geschah 1952 im Rahmen der Vorbereitung der sowjetischen Mannschaft auf die Schacholympiade Helsinki, die erste Olympiade, an der die Sowjetunion überhaupt teilnahm. Juri Awerbach, Efim Geller und Tigran Petrosian spielten Weiß gegen Paul Keres, Alexander Kotow, Alexander Tolusch und Isaac Boleslawski, die sich über die richtige schwarze Strategie einig werden mussten. Wie bei dieser Besetzung kaum anders zu erwarten, setzten die Schwarzen schon bald auf Angriff. Nach dem 19. Zug kamen Michail Botwinnik und Wassili Smyslow den Weißspielern zu Hilfe, aber konnten die Niederlage nicht abwenden.
1.d4 Sf6 2.c4 e6 3.Sc3 Lb4 4.a3 Lxc3+ 5.bxc3 Sc6 6.f3 b6 7.e4 La6 8.Lg5 h6 9.Lh4 Dc8 10.Ld3 Sa5 11.De2 Db7 12.f4 Dc6 13.d5 Da4 14.e5 Db3 15.Kf2 Dxc3 16.Sf3 Sxd5 17.Thc1 Db3 18.Kg3 Sxf4 19.Kxf4 g5+ 20.Kg4 gxh4 21.Sd4 Da4 22.Df3 Sc6 23.Sxc6 dxc6 24.Df6 Kd7 25.Dxf7+ Kc8 26.De7 Da5 27.Dxe6+ Kb7 28.Lg6 Thg8 29.Kxh4 Dd2 30.Dg4 Tad8 31.Td1 Df2+ 32.Kh3 h5 33.Df5 De3+ 34.g3 Tdf8 35.De4 Dg5 36.Lh7 Tg7 37.Tac1 Tf2 38.Dxc6+
38...Kb8 und Weiß gab auf.
Obwohl nicht ganz so originell und stilsicher wie Soltis’ Buch, bietet 2010 Chess Oddities so alles in allem doch hohen Unterhaltungswert.
Auf Alex Dunnes Frivolitäten verzichtet der in Leipzig geborene Übersetzer, Reisejournalist und Schachautor Rolf Voland gerne. In seinem Schachkaleidoskop erzählt er „Wissenswertes, Amüsantes und Rätselhaftes aus 1.500 Jahren Spielgeschichte”: interessante Geschichten über das glückliche oder unglückliche Leben bedeutender Schachspieler oder Anfänge und Entwicklung der Schach- und Turniergeschichte. Voland berichtet von „Rekorden aus der Weltmeisterschaftsgeschichte 1886-2000”, untersucht das „Phänomen ‘Angstgegner’” oder nimmt einen Turniersieg von Géza Maróczy mit 143/4 Punkten als Ausgangspunkt für eine Betrachtung über den Kampf der Turnierorganisatoren gegen blutleere Remispartien. Volands Buch ist unterhaltsam und mit einem Preis von nur 8,00 Euro zudem sehr günstig.
Auch Yakov Damskys Batsford Book of Chess Records möchte zeigen, wie vielfältig und faszinierend das Schach und seine Geschichte ist. Damsky fragt sich, wer der gebildetste Schachweltmeister war und welche bedeutende Personen Schach gespielt haben, präsentiert die längsten und die kürzesten Partien, wagt einen Ausflug in den Mystizismus, schreibt über die begabteste Schachfamilie und erzählt zahllose Anekdoten aus der Schachgeschichte. Aber so unterhaltsam Damskys Material ist, so sehr langweilt sein Buch. Denn Damsky ist geschwätzig und scheint rhetorischen Bombast und pompöse Klischees für guten Stil zu halten. Ein Beispiel: Der Abschnitt „Profession: champion”, in dem Damsky über Kuriositäten rund um den Meistertitel berichtet, beginnt so: „First place, the top step on the winner’s podium - this is what literally everyone aims for. It is no accident that a special commission at the end of the twentieth century demonstrated that our game of the intellect is a sport, and that chess ought therefore to be accepted into the great Olympic family. And of course, a victory is especially heartwarming if the victor starts to be called a champion just after it.” Zwei dieser drei Sätze sagen nichts anderes, als dass Gewinnen Spaß macht und ein Meistertitel besonders schön ist. Der dritte erklärt ohne Zusammenhang zu dem Satz davor oder danach und mit Berufung auf eine nicht weiter benannte Kommission, warum Schach olympische Sportart sein sollte - was mit dem Thema des Kapitels nur wenig zu tun hat. Wenig später heißt es: „And yet many people have contrived to win championships several times over. Within a specific country, especially one where mass interest in chess is in its early stages of development, the game has tended to be dominated by a very narrow group of players, one of whom gains the highest national honours more often than the rest.”
Zum Vergleich Soltis’ Behandlung des gleichen Themas: Unter dem Titel „Sixteen Long-Reigning National Champions” schreibt er: „There are some players who seem to hold their country’s national title forever. Here are some of the longest-reigning” (S.124), wonach die einzelnen Namen folgen. Den Anfang macht der Däne Erik Andersen, über den Soltis schreibt: „Although he died in 1938 at the age of 33, Andersen won the Danish championship 12 times, including eight years in a row” (S.124). Bei Damsky liest sich das so: „In the years 1926-1936 the Dane Erik Andersen only once conceded the palm of victory to another participant in his country’s championship, which he won 12 times in all” (S. 101).
Eine generelle Gefahr bei Büchern über Schachfolklore ist, dass sie Legenden und Mythen, die Schachjournalisten oder Autoren aus Nachlässigkeit oder um einer guten, wenngleich erfundenen Geschichte zu Liebe, irgendwann einmal in die Welt gesetzt haben, und die danach immer wieder abgeschrieben wurden, ein weiteres Mal bekräftigen. Auch in dieser Hinsicht leistet sich Damsky einen schweren Lapsus. Er fragt „wer der gelehrteste oder bedeutendste Schachfan” ist, und antwortet mit einer schwärmerischen Eloge auf die Schachbegeisterung des kürzlich verstorbenen Papstes „probably the most eminent figure who ever played chess. ... At an advanced age, this holder of the supreme spiritual office continued playing chess by correspondence (albeit under a pseudonym) ... and a personal representative of the Pope stated that his Holiness devoted two hours to chess every day. ... In 1987 the English journal The Problemist even published a problem he had composed in his youth. ... In a word, while chess did not become central to the life of God’s ... representative on earth, it occupied a favoured corner of his heart” (S.111-112).
Wie schön. Das Problem ist nur, dass Papst Johannes Paul II kein Schachfan war. Wie der polnische Schachhistoriker Tomasz Lissowski in einem Aufsatz im Quarterly for Chess History 4/2000, S. 306-310 nachgewiesen und vom Papst mit einer handschriftlichen Postkarte bestätigt bekommen hat, ist die angebliche Schachleidenschaft des Papstes nichts als die Erfindung eines Witzboldes, der eine entsprechende Geschichte an die französische Zeitschrift Europe Echecs geschickt hatte, wo die Redakteure auf diesen Schwindel hereinfielen. (Lissowskis Artikel ist auch im Internet unter www.astercity.net/~vistula/vatican.htm nachzulesen.) Und weil diese Geschichte so schön ist, und weil man sich Papst Johannes Paul II so gut als Schachfan vorstellen konnte, und weil Europe Echecs eigentlich eine zuverlässige Quelle darstellt, wurde diese Anekdote immer und immer wieder neu erzählt und reproduziert. Damsky selbst schreibt an anderer Stelle „there are not, never have been and never will be any factual books without errors” (S.288) und tatsächlich hat kaum ein Schachbuchautor oder Journalist die Zeit und die Ressourcen, um alles Material stets genauestens zu prüfen - aber bevor man einen Nichtschachspieler zu dem geschichtlich „bedeutendsten” Schachliebhaber aller Zeiten ernennt, wäre mehr Recherche und weniger Bombast nicht schlecht gewesen.

Johannes Fischer, Zeitschrift KARL