Emil Ritter von Feyerfeil

Emil Ritter von Feyerfeil
Association	Empire of Austria
Born	June 13, 1842 Schärding
Died	February 28, 1917 Vienna

Emil Ritter von Feyerfeil (born June 13, 1842 in Schärding , † February 28, 1917 in Vienna ) was an Austrian police advisor and chess master.

Life

From Feyerfeil was in 1873. Police Commissioner, in 1888, Police Superintendent . In 1892 he was appointed to the Ministry of the Interior, and in the same year he was appointed Ministerial Vice Secretary. In 1893 he became head of the Josefstadt Police Department and in 1896 rose to the position of senior police officer with the title of government councilor . In 1907 he retired from active service as a councilor .

Von Feyerfeil was married to Emilie Frein von Giesl since 1879, the older daughter of General Heinrich Giesl von Gieslingen and sister of the diplomat Wladimir Giesl von Gieslingen . Emil Ritter von Feyerfeil died of dropsy in 1917. His wife, who was Empress Elisabeth's chambermaid , outlived him by five years. The von Feyerfeils had a son.

chess

Von Feyerfeil was one of the founding members of the Vienna Chess Society and participated in numerous championships of the society. In 1858, at the first of these tournaments, he was sixth, in 1868 he was second after Adolph Csánk . The year before, he was elected to the club's board of directors. In 1871 he won the championship, in 1875 he finished second in the championship tournament.

In 1889 von Feyerfeil played his only international tournament. He took part in the main tournament of the 6th Congress of the German Chess Federation in Breslau and after losing a playoff with the later world chess champion Emanuel Lasker, he won the second prize. The fact that the playoff came about became famous in chess history due to an incident : two rounds before the end of the tournament, von Feyerfeil led the table, but lost to Paul Lipke in the penultimate round . This game was incorrectly rebuilt after it was abandoned for lunch without the players noticing. Von Feyerfeil's advantageous position turned into a very bad one when he was resumed that afternoon, as one of his peasants was forgotten. In their regular game in the tournament itself, von Feyerfeil defeated Lasker. In Graz 1890 von Feyerfeil shared fourth place.

Game example

from Feyerfeil – Lasker

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

End position after 42nd Qg7 #

Here Feyerfeils' winning game mentioned above, in which he defeated the future world champion Lasker with the white pieces.

from Feyerfeil – Lasker 1-0

Breslau, July 25, 1889

Rejected King's Gambit , C30

1. e4 e5 2. f4 Bc5 3. Nf3 d6 4. Bc4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. d3 Be6 7. Bb5 a6 8. Bxc6 + bxc6 9. f5 Bd7 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bh4 Rb8 12. Rb1 Qe7 13. Qe2 d5 14. Nd1 dxe4 15. dxe4 Qd6 16. Nd2 Qd4 17. Bf2 Qd6 18. 0–0 0–0 19. Nb3 Bb6 20. c4 c5 21. Nc3 Rbe8 22. Rbd1 Qc6 23. Rd3 Nh7 24. Rg3 f6 25. Be3 Kh8 26.Nd5 Rf7 27.Nd2 Ng5 28. Qh5 Ref8 29.Bxg5 fxg5 30.Rxg5 Be8 31. Qh4 Rf6 32.Nxf6 Rxf6 33. b3 Qd7 34. Nf3 Qd3 35. Rg4 Ba5 36. Qg3 Bc3 37. Rxg7 Bf7 38.Rg4 Rd6 39. Qh4 Bd2 40. Nxd2 Qxd2 41. Qe7 Bxc4 42. Qg7 # 1: 0

swell

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Ehn: Ingenious chess in the Viennese coffee house 1750-1918. Vienna 2017, p. 101.
2. ^ Obituary In: Reichspost . March 5, 1917, Retrieved September 16, 2019.
3. ↑ Lived in splendor - died in misery. Empress Elisabeth's chambermaid - starved and frozen to death. In: Illustrierte Kronen-Zeitung . March 14, 1922, accessed September 16, 2019.
4. ↑ Vienna chess newspaper . 1915, No. 1-4, p. 10.
5. ↑ Chess.com: Three Days in Breslau. The Strange Story of How Lasker Became a Master , accessed September 17, 2019.