Bogoljubow told him, “That is just the way you play chess. You maneuver and stall endlessly, until your opponent finally comes along with a herring (i.e. a mistake). Then you leap like lightning on your miserable victim and gobble him up.”
The following game is an example. It was played in the 1923 Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia tournament. Twenty-two masters were invited, but only seventeen were able to accept. Friedrich Saemisch was brought in to create an even number of players.
Alekhine dominated for much of the tournament until the penultimate round, where his loss to Rudolf Spielmann allowed Geza Maroczy to catch up. Ewfim Bogoljubow also managed to tie when in the final round he defeated Karel Treybal.
Dr. Savielly Tartalower (1887-1956) was born in Russia and moved to Vienna at age 17. He became a doctor of law in 1909, but he never practiced it.
During World War I, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army. In 1918, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, he became a Polish citizen (although he did not speak Polish).
During World War II, he served in the Free French Army under General Charles de Gaulle. His French colleagues found his name too difficult to pronounce, so he changed it to Lieutenant Dr. Georges Cartier. He became a French citizen after World War II.
British IM and chess author once called Tartakower the “hero of a hundred tournaments.”
In addition to chess books, he also wrote a screenplay and a collection of poems. He worked for more than 30 chess magazines in multiple countries and his newspaper correspondence appeared in 11 languages.
His opponent, Sir George Thomas (188101972), was born near Istanbul, Turkey. He learned chess from his mother, Lady Edith Thomas, who won one of the first women's tournaments, held in Hastings in 1895.
Thomas was the City of London Chess Club champion in 1911 and played in his first British chess championship in 1920, taking second place. He won the title in 1923.
Thomas' greatest achievement was his tie for first place at Hastings, 1934/35 with Max Euwe and Salo Flohr, finishing ahead of and defeating both Jose Raul Capablanca and Mikhail Botvinnik. He retired from competitive chess in 1950.
In the following game things were pretty even, let’s say boring, until Thomas slipped up at move 27 then Tartakower mercilessly gobbled up the point in a unique ending. Tartakower had a R+B+P vs. R+4Ps that eventually ended up with a R vs. 3Ps.
Savielly Tartakower–George Thomas1–0A45Carlsbad9Carlsbad CSR09.05.1923Stockfish 16
D01: Veresov Opening 1.d4 f6 2.c3 This rarely played opening, the
invention of Julius Breyer, wa favorite with a few adventurous spirits of the
day...besides Tartakover, JacquesMieses sometimes played it. d5 3.g5
The opening is sometimes ca;;ed the Richter-Veresov Attack after the named
after the German Kurt Richter and later the Soviet master Gavriil Veresov, who
played it frequently and developed its theory. Gowever, in the early days
Tartakower played it regularly in the 1920s. The way he played it generally
led to a closed, maoeuvring game. bd7 Rather tame' 3...Bf5 is commonly
played. 4.f3 The idea is to build up a P-center with e4. The alternative is
4.Nf3. 4.f3 e6 5.e4 h6 6.xf6 xf6 7.e5 d7 with a fully equal
position. 4...c6 A solid move. Black prepares a counterattack with ...Qa5 5.e4 dxe4 6.fxe4 a5 6...b6 can be safely met by 7.e5 d5 8.f3
wutg a good position. Note that black should avoid... xb2 9.xd5 cxd5 10.b1 a3 10...xa2 Black's Q is in grave danger. 11.d3 e6 12.0-0 e7 13.xe7 xe7 14.d2 The black Q is trapped. 11.d3 e6 12.0-0 White's
development and black's camped position are well worth the P he has givem up. 7.d2 7.e5 is met by e4 8.d2 xd2 9.xd2 g6 with a satisfactory game.
7...e5 White's center is under strong pressure. 8.f3 8.xf6 xf6 9.dxe5 g4 10.f3 e6 11.d1 b4 12.c3 e7 Black has the more active
position. Chernyshov,K (2536)-Rogic,D (2457) Ohrid 2001 8.dxe5 xe5 9.xf6 gxf6 10.d3 g4 11.ge2 c5 12.d1 b6 Un spite of the situation of his Ps
on the K-side black has excellent prospects here. Ekdyshman,M (2351)-Nemeth,M
(2492) Zalakaros HUN 2014 8...e7 8...exd4 9.xd4 b4 10.d3 0-0
with equality. Shkurikhin,I (2371)-Bragin,A (2281) Tomsk 2007 9.c4 exd4 10.xd4 b6 10...c5 was suggest by Reinfeld as leading to interesting
complications which sounds about right. For example... 11.d2 b4 12.0-0-0 h6 13.e5 11.d2 c5 The capture of theb- Pawn would not be to black's
advantage. 11...xb2 12.b1 a3 13.e5 b6 14.xf7+ xf7 15.exf6 gxf6 16.0-0 with a danferous attack. Black cannot play... fxg5 17.xg5+ g8 17...e8 18.be1 c5+ 19.h1 f8 White has a snappy finish... 20.xe7+ xe7 21.e1 White is winning. 18.f7 12.b3 e5 13.e3 c4 14.xc5 xd2 15.xe7 xb3 16.axb3 xe7 The simplifications indicate that Thomas would be
content with a draw and it appears that Tartakower does not have any chance of
winning especially in view of his weak e-Pawn. However, in 1923, Tartakower
was one of the best players in the world in a group of players behine
Capablanca, Alekhine, Lasjer and Rubinstein, Holding a draw agsainst him is
going to be very difficult. It should be noted that when this game was played
Thomas was pretty good himself...Chessmetrics puts him in the world's top 25
best players. 17.e5 g4 18.0-0 f5 18...f6 looks plausible, but it
favors white after 19.ae1 f5 19...xe5 20.xe5 fxe5 21.xe5+ 20.h3 h6 21.e6 and white is better. 19.d4 g6 It's a small thing, but an
important point in Tartakower's hands, that black's minor pieces are nit well
placed. 20.ae1 hd8 21.f4 h5 22.h3 h6 23.g4 Tartakower
makes a small slip hwith this move. 23.a4 brings the N to a strong
position. ac8 24.c5 b6 25.b7 followed by Nd6 23...hxg4 24.hxg4 c5 25.f5+ xf5 26.gxf5 Thomas has eliminated one of his poorly placed pieces. d2 Black hopes for further simplification by exchanging Rs after 27.Re2 27.f6+ Tricky! Exchanging Ps looks uninviting, but that's exactly what black
should do. e6 This loses...a surprising lapse by Thomas! The
sea lion now comes wide awake. 27...gxf6= and Black has nothing to
worry. 28.exf6+ d7 29.e7+ c6 and there is no way for white to make any
headway. 28.fxg7 e7 28...g8 29.e4 xc2 30.g5+ e7 31.xf7+
and wins. 29.e4 Gaining valuable time. xc2 30.h4 Tartakover thought
this was more forceful than 30.Nf6 g8 Black has hope that as white's Ps
disappear his chances of saving the gamne increase, but, in fact, white has a
decisive advantage. 30...g8 31.h8 e6 32.f6 xb2 33.xg8 xb3 34.f6 g3+ 35.f2 and black is lost after xg7 36.xa8 g6 37.e8+ f5 38.f1 f4 39.e2+ g5 40.e3 a6 41.h8 h6 42.e4+ g6 43.f6+ g7 44.fxh6 c4 45.f6 c3 46.e8# 31.xh6 xg7+ 32.h1 xb2 33.d6 g6 33...gg2
makes it more difficult for white. The win is there...theoretically at least! 34.xb7 gf2 35.a1 a2 36.xa2 xa2 37.c6 c4 38.xc4 f6 39.exf6+ xf6 40.c5 e5 41.g1 41.a4 xa4 42.xa4 d5 is a draw... 43.g2 c6 44.c3 c5 45.a2 d4 46.f3 d3 47.c1+ c3 48.e4 b2 49.d5 xc1 50.b4 b2 51.c4 a3 52.c5 b3 53.b5 a6+ 54.xa6 xb4 41...d6 42.e4+ e5 43.f1 h2 44.e1 b2 45.c5 d5 46.c3 b1+ 46...h2 47.a4 g2 48.d1 h2 49.c1 g2 50.c2 and the K escapes the first rank. 47.e2 c6 48.d3+ b5 49.d2 b6 50.c8 h1 51.c3 h5 52.f8 b5 53.f4 a5 54.e4 h3 55.e5+ b6 56.f5 e3 57.d5 e2 58.e5 g2 59.f5 h2 60.c5 b5 61.a4+ a6 62.f6+ b7 63.c5+ b8 64.c4 c7 65.b5 a2 66.e6 a1 67.c6+ d8 68.a6 e7 69.xa5 etc. 34.xg6 fxg6 The ending is most
difficult, but being one of the world;s top players, Tartakower is up to the
task. 35.e6 xb3 36.c8+ e8 37.e7 Rememebr back in the
opening when the e-Pawn was looking rather sickly? Now it has been transformed.
White threatens Nd6+ and mate. d3 38.f1 h3+ 38...e3 39.f8+ d7 40.d8+ c7 41.e8 39.g2 h8 40.d1 Intending Rd8+ and mate. f7 41.f3
The idea is to bring the K to the Q-side. 41.d8 also wins. e8 42.f3 c4 43.e4 Black is lost here. Just as an example... b5 44.e5 c3 45.xe8 xe8 46.e6 mate enxt move 41...xc8 42.d8 xe7 43.xc8 The Ps are no
match for the R...at least not in Grandmaster's hands. d6 44.e4 The
ending is easily won for white because the Ps are not sufficiently advanced to
give him any difficulty. Tartakower's play is very instructive though. b6 45.g8 c6 46.xg6+ b5 47.d3 b4 48.g1 b5 49.a1 c4+ 50.d4 b3 51.b1+ a4 52.c3 a5 53.h1 b6 54.h6+ Black resigned 54.h6+ Stockfish is
announcing mate in 24. c5 55.h5+ b6 56.d4 c6 57.h6+ b7 58.c5 c3 59.xb5 c2 60.h1 c7 61.c5 d7 62.c1 e6 63.d4 f5 64.xc2 a6 65.a2 a5 66.a4 This mates one move quicker than taking the P. g4 67.e4 g5 68.e5 g6 69.xa5 g5 70.a4 g6 71.e6 g5 72.b4 g6 73.g4+ h5 74.f5 h6 75.f6 h7 76.h4+ g8 77.h3 f8 78.h8# 1–0
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