Carl Schlechter
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| Carl Schlechter |
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| Born | March 2, 1874 Vienna |
| Died | December 27, 1918 Budapest |
| Best Elo rating | 2764 (January 1911) ( historical rating ) |
Carl Schlechter (born March 2, 1874 in Vienna , † December 27, 1918 in Budapest ) was an Austrian chess player .
Life
Carl Schlechter was born into a Catholic family in Vienna; at the age of 13 he started playing chess. His first and only chess teacher was the Hungarian chess composer Samuel Gold .
In 1893 Schlechter took part in a championship tournament for the first time. In the four-player tournament he won ahead of the strong Viennese players Georg Marco and Adolf Zinkl . Then Marco challenged him to a duel. Here all 10 games ended in a draw . Schlechter won the championship tournament of the German Chess Federation three times : 1900 (together with Harry Nelson Pillsbury and Géza Maróczy ), 1904 in Coburg (together with Rudolf Swiderski and Curt von Bardeleben ) and 1910 in Hamburg .
Schlechter had his strongest phase in the years from 1906 to 1911. During this period he was in second place in the subsequently calculated world rankings, played a draw in the fight for the world championship against Emanuel Lasker in 1910 and achieved his best historical rating in 1911 with 2764 Number .
In the world championship fight he was close to winning. Lasker only managed to equalize the fight (1: 1, = 8) and thus claim the title with a win in the tenth and last game. In the last game Schlechter introduced the Schlechter variant in the Slavic Queen's Gambit, which was later named after him, into tournament practice. Because of its enormous sporting importance and its exciting course, the game was analyzed in detail by many grandmasters , including Garri Kasparov in his book series My great predecessors .
Worse was a professional chess player who had no fixed source of income besides chess. He was also an avid domino player . In chess, he was considered an exceptionally fair and honorable player who refused to take advantage of an undeserved advantage such as a delay on the part of the opponent. He also composed more than 170 chess problems , mainly two and three-moveers.
From 1910, Schlechter was an honorary member of the German Chess Federation .
Carl Schlechter died in December 1918 of complications from malnutrition and pneumonia .
In 1995 the Carl-Schlechter-Weg in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.
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Schlechter had sacrificed two pawns to get counterplay, but objectively speaking this should have lost - at this point, however, Lasker had already given up the winning position and was exposed to a strong attack from Schlechter's. After 53. Ra4 – a8 , Lasker did not give a continuous check starting with 53.… Qe1 – e5 +, but instead placed 53.… De1 – b4 54. Kh2 – g2 Qb4 – c5? the game in: 55. Qa2 – a6! Rb5 – b8 56. Ra8 – a7 + Kc7 – d8 57. Ra7xg7 Qc5 – b6 58. Qa6 – a3! left Lasker without a defense, which is why he gave up on the execution of 58 ... Kd8 – c8 .
This faux pas brought Schlechter into the lead, which he forfeited in the last game of the match, so that he narrowly missed the world title.
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From 1892 to 1918 he designed the chess section in the Wiener Allgemeine Sportzeitung . From 1893 to 1914 he was editor of the chess corner in the Wiener Hausfrauen-Zeitung . From 1912 to 1916 he revised Bilguer’s handbook of the game of chess and thus prepared the eighth and final edition.
literature
- Thomas Glavinic : Carl Haffner's love for a tie. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-353-01111-0 (fictional representation of Schlechter's life).
- Warren H. Goldman: Carl Schlechter. Life and times of the Austrian Chess Wizard. Caissa Editions, Yorklyn 1994, ISBN 0-939433-18-4 .
- H. Reitterer, E. Spitzenberger: Bad Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 176.
- Stefan Weiß: Schlechter, Carl Adalbert Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 33 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Replayable chess games by Carl Schlechter on 365Chess.com (English)
- Literature by and about Carl Schlechter in the catalog of the German National Library
- 16 combinations by Carl Schlechter
- Short biography (calendar sheet)
Individual evidence
- ↑ In numerous publications his first name is written as Karl , see for example Wiener Hausfrauen-Zeitung or H. Reitterer, E. Spitzenberger: Schlechter Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 176.
- ^ The International Tournament Munich 1900 (12th DSB Congress). on TeleSchach (cross table and all games).
- ^ The Coburg International Tournament 1904 (14th DSB Congress). on TeleSchach (cross table and all games).
- ^ The International Tournament Hamburg 1910 (17th DSB Congress). on TeleSchach (cross table and all games).
- ↑ Bernhard Kagan : Carl Schlechter, His life and work . Berlin 1920.
- ^ German biography: Schlechter, Carl Adalbert Hermann
- ↑ The game in the (Neue) Wiener Schachzeitung online at anno.onb.ac.at (ANNO - Austrian Newspapers Online, Austrian National Library).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Worse, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Worse, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1918 |
| Place of death | Budapest |