Lamentably for the chess world, Lipke retired early from competitive chess, though he continued his involvement in the game at the club level. In 1898, alongside Johann Berger, he was editor of the Deutsche Schachzeitung where he was in charge of the games section. He was also involved in early editions of the Deutsche Schachblatter.
A lawyer who worked in several German cities, Lipke was describe as being a good looking man of pleasing, gentlemanly manners who stood about 6 feet, 4 inches tall. At the board he was described as being rather impulsive and in moments of excitement he impulsively moved “in a hasty and jerky manner; but that only on occasions of momentary forgetfulness.”
Lipke was born at Erfurt, Saxony (a state in eastern Germany). At a young age Lipke lost his father, a Professor of Philosophy at the Erfurt Gymnasium, his indulgent mother allowed free scope to his predilections for music, the theater, science, philosophy and the art of self-defense.
Together with one of his brothers, he learned to play chess in 1887, and soon became enthused, joined the local chess club and quickly improved mostly due to hus association with a well known problem composer by the name of Rudolf L'hermet. During that time he also played correspondence chess.
In the following game Lipke takes out Janowski with ease at the great tournament at Vienna 1898.
Paul Lipke–David Janowski1–0C67ViennaVienna AUH1898Komodo 14 Human
C67: Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense 1.e4 e5 2.f3 c6 3.b5 f6 While not
nearly as popular as 3...a6 the Berlin Defense has long had a reputation for
being solid and drawish. At the tie of this game the defense was popular
because it was a favorite of Emanuel Lasker and others. 4.0-0 By far the
most popular. A much slower alternative is 4.d3 xe4 The main alternative is
4...Bc5 5.e1 d6 6.xe5 e7 7.d3 0-0 8.c3 xe5 9.xe5 f5 This is
risky because it weakens his K-side ever so slightly. 9...c6 10.f3 g6 11.b3 e8 12.b2 d5 is completely equal. Reinderman,D (2542)-Timman,J (2649)
Wijk aan Zee 1999 10.d5 f6 11.e1 11.xf6+ is equally good. xf6 12.f4 e4 13.e1 Correct was 13.Bxe4 with equal chances. d6 14.a5 d7 15.a3 ae8 16.c4+ h8 17.e3 Foerster,S (2070)-Oberhofer,A (2293) Bad Wiessee
GER 2012. In spite of all the time white has lost with the T the chances are
wqual. 11...b6 12.e2N 12.c3 b7 13.b3 h8 14.f1 e4 15.d4
equals. Cordovil,J (2220)-Damaso,R (2430) Loures 1998 12...c6 The logical
followup of 12...Bb7 was better. Janowski now embarks on a plan that only
results in weakening the position of his K. 13.xf6+ xf6 14.d4
f4 15.d3 f7 Janowski evidently intended to transfer the N to a more
active location, bnu it getys stuck here for a long time. There is no real
chance of a successful K-side attack so the positional 15...a5 intending ...
Ba3 os a credible alterbative. 16.e4 g5 17.h4 h6 18.hxg5 hxg5 It's
obvious that black's K-side has suddenly been rather badly compromised, but
how can white take advantage of it? 19.h5 Like this! d8 Black's best
chance is to exchange Qs, but that was not Janowski's style. 19...h6 20.xh6 xh6 21.e5 f7 22.e7 As soon as white develops his B on c1 and
doubles Rs on the e-file black will find himself with a very difficult
position to defend. 20.xf4 A little tactical fireworks are in
order. gxf4 Of course black didn't have to take the B and could have played,
say, 20...d5, but that would npt have neen any better. Besides, in the days
when this game was played sacrifices were rourinely accepted. 21.ae1
White wants to mate with Re8+. h6 Finally realizig that the exchange of Qs
offers some hope, but now it's too late...white has better. 22.g4+ 22.e8+ would be way wrong! xe8 23.xe8+ g7 and black has equalized as there is
no effective continuation at white's disposal. 22...g5 23.f3 Now once
white captures the f0Pawn black has no defense. d5 24.xf4 h6 24...h3
is met tactically. However, even though the ending would be hopeless it was
black's best chance to play on. 25.h7+ xh7 26.xf7+ g8 27.xh3 xf7 28.h7+ g7 28...f8 29.e5 c1+ 30.h2 f4+ 31.h3 e8 32.f5+ xf5+ 33.xf5+ Here, too, white two passed Ps will enable the Q to overpower the two
Rs. 29.e7+ xe7 30.xg7+ e6 31.h6+ d7 32.h7+ d6 33.f4 c5 34.h6+ c7 35.dxc5 bxc5 36.f5 White is winning. 25.e5 g7 26.h5 f5 27.xf5 White threatens Be6+ and mate. f8 Resigning was a better alternative. 28.g4 A nice little tactical trick. xg4 29.e6+ f7 30.g5 f8 31.xg7 xg7 32.h8+ Facing a heavy material loss, black resigned. 1–0
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