Curt von Bardeleben

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Curt von Bardeleben
Surname Curt Carl Alfred von Bardeleben
Association German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Born March 4, 1861
Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia
Died January 31, 1924
Berlin
Best Elo rating 2710 (March 1897) ( historical rating )

Curt Carl Alfred von Bardeleben (born March 4, 1861 in Berlin ; † January 31, 1924 there ) was a German chess player and chess theorist of the 19th century; by profession he was a journalist .

family

Curt von Bardeleben came from the old Magdeburg noble family Bardeleben and was the son of Richard von Bardeleben (1821-1896), director of the literary bureau of the royal Prussian State Ministry , and Anna Wilhelmy (1836-1903).

Bardeleben's first marriage was on September 13, 1902 in Schöneberg near Berlin, Hedwig Beyer (born June 24, 1870 in Eibenstock ; † June 10, 1959 in Bischofswerda ). This marriage was divorced after just one year on December 19, 1903 in Berlin.

In his second marriage, Bardeleben married Katharina Kastenmayer on April 18, 1906 in Schöneberg (born February 8, 1875 in Osterhofen ). This marriage was divorced just a few months after the wedding.

After all, Bardeleben married the actress Elly Bender , née Elisabeth Böhncke, on February 12, 1907 in Berlin . This third marriage also ended in divorce.

Life

Bardeleben inherited a large fortune from which he could easily earn a living. So he devoted himself completely to the game of chess.

Bardeleben's parents moved from Berlin to Weimar , where he graduated from high school . He learned to play chess when he was ten and was still considered the best player in Weimar during his school days. In 1880 he began to study law in Leipzig , which he continued in Berlin in 1884, but then dropped out in favor of journalism . During his time in Leipzig he became a member of the Augustea chess club , in 1881 he won the main tournament of the German Chess Federation in Berlin and was thus a master . In 1883 he won the London Vizayanagaram tournament, the reserve tournament for the Great International Master Tournament. He was one of the best players in the German Empire in the 1880s and 1890s ; In addition to the shared first prize in Leipzig in 1888, his greatest successes are the (shared) victories in the championship tournaments of the German Chess Federation in Kiel in 1893 and in Coburg in 1904. In 1889 he was defeated in a competition by the later world champion Emanuel Lasker with 1.5: 2, 5 (+1 = 1 −2). His draw in the competition with Joseph Henry Blackburne in 1895 (+3 = 3 −3) was just as much a sporting success as his victory over Richard Teichmann in 1895 with 6: 4 (+3 = 6 −1).

He was also known as an eccentric , which is probably what caused his three marriages to suffer. For example, it was reported that he sent a service man across Berlin to get a portion of fresh butter from a certain café. He also sent a messenger to convey his surrender in the most famous game he lost, against Wilhelm Steinitz in Hastings in 1895, after he had previously left the tournament hall without a word.

After losing his fortune to inflation , most of his life ended in January 1924 by suicide . He fell out of the window of his Berlin apartment on the second floor. The Russian author Vladimir Nabokov , who was living in Berlin at the time, was inspired by this event to write the end of his novel Lushin's Defense (1930). However, Jacques Mieses and Bernhard Kagan contradicted the suicide version in obituaries: “He, who suffered from severe hardening of the arteries, had a slight fit of dizziness or a rush of blood to his head and stepped to the open window with a low parapet to breathe fresh air whereby he lost the excess weight [sic!] and fell down. "

Curt von Bardeleben was buried anonymously in the mass grave on February 7, 1924 in the institutional cemetery of the city of Berlin .

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Publications

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The national tournament Kiel 1893 (8th DSB Congress) on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  2. ^ The international tournament Coburg 1904 (14th DSB Congress) on TeleSchach (cross table and all games)
  3. ↑ Cf. for example (“Suicide out of material need”) Otto Borik , Joachim Petzold : Meyers Schachlexikon . Meyers Lexikonverlag, Mannheim 1993, p. 28. ISBN 3411088117 .
  4. ↑ Mieses, in: Kagan's Latest Schachnachrichten , special issue No. 2, 1924, p. 55 f.
  5. ↑ Article: "The funeral of a chess master". In: Vossische Zeitung , No. 70 (Sunday edition), Sunday, February 10, 1924, Sport / Games and gymnastics

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personal data
SURNAME Bardeleben, Curt von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bardeleben, Curt Carl Alfred von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1924
Place of death Berlin