Friedrich Sämisch

This article deals with the chess player; for the Prussian Minister of Finance and President of the Reich Audit Office, see Friedrich Saemisch .

Friedrich Sämisch, around 1928
Association	German Empire
Born	September 20, 1896 Charlottenburg
Died	August 16, 1975 Berlin-Wannsee
title	Grand Master (1950)
Best Elo rating	2665 (July 1929) ( Historic Elo rating )

Friedrich "Fritz" Sämisch (born September 20, 1896 in Charlottenburg near Berlin, † August 16, 1975 in Berlin-Wannsee ) was a German chess player .

Life

Samisch learned the trade of bookbinder from 1910 to 1914 . Since 1915 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . He was seriously wounded twice and had to spend more than two years in hospitals. During this time, Sämisch turned seriously to the game of chess, which he "discovered and learned by himself" in 1910. After temporary memberships in the “Workers' Chess Club” in Charlottenburg and in the “Springer” chess club, his active tournament play began in autumn 1918 when he joined the Berlin chess society. There Sämisch was able to achieve 2nd place in his first tournament, the club's winter tournament. In the championship of Berlin in 1918 he was third, in the championship of Berlin in 1919 he shared 2nd – 4th. Space. In the summer of 1920 he won the main tournament of the German Chess Federation. In 1921 he finished second behind Ehrhardt Post at the German Championship in Hamburg . In light of these successes, he decided to make a living as a professional chess player.

In the 1920s he was one of the strongest players in Germany. His greatest successes were a competitive victory against Richard Réti in 1922 (4 wins, 1 loss, 3 draws), the victory in the Vienna tournament in 1921 and 3rd place behind Alexander Alekhine and Akiba Rubinstein at the international tournament in Baden-Baden in 1925. 1929 in Duisburg he was third in the German individual championship , which Carl Ahues won. Samisch is also one of the few players who could win a game against José Raúl Capablanca , who was almost invincible at the time . After an opening mistake by the ex-world champion, Sämisch won a figure and the game in her game in Karlsbad in 1929.

He took part with the German team in the 1930 Chess Olympiad in Hamburg and took third place, and he achieved the same success at the unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich in 1936 .

Although Samisch was a very good blitz chess player, he could not divide his thinking time correctly in tournament games, which cost him many points. A curiosity occurred at a tournament in Linköping in 1969, when he lost all his games by exceeding the cooling off period. In addition, Sämisch holds the record for the shortest game lost by timeout . Despite a cooling off period of two and a half hours he passed in a game in 1938 in Prague in the 12th train your mind .

Samisch was also known for his simultaneous and blind simultaneous events, with the latter playing against up to 20 opponents at the same time.

Samisch lost a game against Aaron Nimzowitsch in 1923 , which went down in chess history as the " Immortal Zugzwang game ".

Fritz Sämisch was appointed Grand Master by FIDE in 1950 . He reached his best historical Elo rating of 2665 in July 1929.

Game example

Chamois-Capablanca

	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 62. g7

In the following game, Sämisch defeated the ex-world champion Capablanca with the white stones in the high-class tournament in Karlsbad in 1929 .

Samisch – Capablanca 1-0

Carlsbad, August 19, 1929

Nimzowitsch-Indian Defense , E24

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3 + 5. bxc3 d6 6. f3 e5 7. e4 Sc6 8. Be3 b6 9. Bd3 Ba6 10. Qa4 Bb7 11. d5 Qd7 12. dxc6 Bxc6 13. Qc2 0–0–0 14. Ne2 De6 15. Bg5 h6 16. Bxf6 Qxf6 17. 0–0 h5 18. f4 Qh6 19. Tae1 The8 20. f5 Qe3 + 21. Kh1 Qc5 22. Qc1 f6 23.Rf3 Rh8 24. Qb2 a5 25.Rb1 h4 26.Nd4 Bd7 27.Nb3 Qc6 28.Nxa5 Da8 29.Nb3 h3 30.g3 g6 31. fxg6 f5 32.Qc2 Rhg8 33. Nd2 f4 34. gxf4 Rxg6 35. f5 Rg2 36.Rg1 Rdg8 37.Rxg2 hxg2 + 38.Kg1 Qxa3 39. Rg3 Rxg3 40. hxg3 Ba4 41. Qb1 Qxc3 42.Nf3 Bb3 43. Kxg2 Bxc4 44. Bxc4 Qxc4 45. Kf2 d5 46. exd5 e4 47. Nd2 Q2xd5 48. Nd2 Q2xd5 Qxe4 Qb5 + 50. Kf3 Qa5 51. Nc4 Qa1 52. g4 Qf1 + 53. Kg3 Qg1 + 54. Kh4 Qh2 + 55. Kg5 Kb8 56. Kg6 Ka7 57. g5 b5 58. Ne5 c5 59. Qd5 Qc2 + 60. Kf6 b4 61. g6 b3 62. g7 1-0

Opening variations

Variants in two chess openings are named after Samisch .

	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

The Samisch system of the King's Indian Defense : 5. f2 – f3

	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

The Samisch variant of the Nimzo-Indian Defense : 4. a2 – a3

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Friedrich Sämisch on chessgames.com (English)
• Compositions by Friedrich Sämisch on the Schwalbe's PDB server

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Samisch: Statistical memories. In: Deutsche Schachrundschau Caissa . 14/1952, pp. 262-264.
2. ↑ E. (hrhardt) Post : The 20th Congress of the German Chess Federation (E. V.) in Berlin 1920. Leipzig 1920, p 44 f.
3. ^ After World War I: 1st main tournament in 1920 in Berlin on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
4. ↑ German individual chess championship 1921 in Hamburg on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
5. ↑ German individual championship 1929 in Duisburg on TeleSchess (table and games)
6. ↑ Friedrich Sämisch's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Friedrich Sämisch's results at unofficial Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 74.