Great Players of the Past: Rudolf Spielmann, with GM Ben Finegold
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2023
- Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... GM Ben Finegold discusses two games of Rudolf Spielmann as part of the Great Players of the Past series. This lecture was recorded December 16, 2020, at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta (CCSCATL) in Roswell, Georgia.
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Rudolf with your chess so bright, won't you guide my play tonight.
His name would translate to gameman.
Which either makes him good at games or the father of gameboy.
John Spielman and Ben would be great in a banter chess game.
The first to comment. As a great fan of Finegold, may he live long to continue pumping such high quality content to us.
And prosper
Saying things like "pumping content" is not allowed here. (Or anything overly cringe)
@@berktung8410 says who, motherfucker? You? The only cringe is your comment.
Such good content!!
How about those Lions!? Gatdamn
47:10 Hell, even I could see that after Rd5 White will have real problems not losing material, and unlike me, Capablanca was great at calculating, so I think it's totally clear he just missed Rd5.
Go Ben!! (but stay there)
Oliver is the real MVP here, just follow the green squares
I was torn if you should had mentioned the struggles Speilmann had in life. I understand you have a lot of kids in that class but history is history and a mans life story helps you understand what kind of person he was.
First off he was a Jew living in the most hostile places in Europe against Jews during both WW1 and WW2. The first World War did him bad enough where you can see how bad he lost some of his games.
Now i dont need to remind you what Europe was like during WW2 for Jews and many of the professional chess league organizers were sympathetic to the Nazis and he faced much bigotry in chess at that time as well as watching his brother and sisters get thrown into concentration camps where one brother and sister ended up dying there. His one sister who did manage to survive the camps never recovered mentally from the ordeal and committed suicide not long after.
Rudolf spent most of those years escaping countries the Nazis occupied and trying to make any money he can so he could escape to England or the USA. He ended up in the Netherlands were he was so full of grief he locked himself in his apartment and never came out. After a week or so his friends went to check on him and he was dead. The official report said he died of heart disease but those close to him had said he intentionally starved himself to death.
I know you class is for younger people and for the chess but in a lecture about the best players ever i think its appropriate to know their life story to help understand how and why they played chess the way they did and so that they can see them as a fellow human and not just the ghostly echoes they left on the chess board.
If people are interested in their life then they would look it up just like you did.
For me, I don't care what he did in life, just as I don't care much about fischers life which to some is questionable morally.
Personally I'm here for the chess and the ideas, as well as Ben's analysis and humour. Not a ww1 or ww2 history lesson