Eliskases games

Germany, Bad Harzburg, White had just played Bc8, trying to neutralize the Black Bishop. Vienna, Lagging in development, White has put his hopes on the Bishop pair…. This is a beautiful game! Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 Nc6 5. Nf3 d6 6. Qxc3 O-O 8. Bb2 e5 Qc2 a5 Bxa1 c5 Nxe5 dxe5 Qc1 Ne4 Ra2 Ba4 Rd2 Bb3 Kf3 Ra4 Kf2 Bd5 Ke1 Bb3 Kf2 Rg4 Rxh4 Kh3 Rg8 Be6 Kg1 Rh3 Kg3 Ra2 Rxa2 Bxa2 Kh4 Bf7 Kg5 Kd3 Bxd2 Rxd2 Rh1 Ke3 Rd1 Kf3 Rd7 Be8 Kf6 h4 Rh7 Rg4 Kh2 h5 Rc6 Nd7 Kg3 Kf7 Kf4 Rd5 Ke4 Rb5 Rc7 Ke6 Bd2 Rb5 Kd4 Rf5 Be3 Kf7 Kc3 Ke7 Kd4 Kf7 Kc4 g5 Rd6 gxf4 Rd5 Ke6 Rxf5 Kxf5 Kd5 b5 Kc6 Ke4 Kxd7 Gausel, Einar.

Harikrishna, Pendyala. Queen's pawn game. Nf3 Nf6 3. Qc2 dxc4 5. Bd2 a5 9. Nc3 Bg7 Nxd5 Qxd5 Bd3 O-O O-O Qd8 Be4 Bg4 He was , however, a player of serious quality. Engels followed up this result with four consecutive first prizes in national events, beforee he came to the biggest test of his career. Dresden was another preparation event for the Olympiad. This time two stellar names were to take part. Alexander Alekhine, and the fastest rising star of them all, Paul Keres.

In the last round Engels faced the tounament tail-ender, Henrik Grob, who had lost all of his games up to that point. A win would have guarrenteed him at least a share of first prize - Engels got the advantage, but failed to convert it to a win, while Alekhine won his last roud game to finish in clear first.

Again, 'Nearly'. Again it seems that his nerves faied him at the decisive moment. Indeed, Georg Keiniger was to later refer to Engel's extreme nervousness at the board. As Alekhine remarked, there is no dobut that Engels was the star of the event.

The games mentioned by him are given here. Engels score is as in the above table. I believe that after the Olympiad, Engels spent some time in Iceland working for the Icelandic Chess Federation as a trainer and coach.

Whilst he was there he took part in two small tournaments, taking first prize in both, before returning to Germany. As you can see from the results table, was a busy year for Engels, with a number of events taking place in Germany.

Bad Oenhausen was a strong event. Eliskases was at the top of his game, whilst, unusaully, Engels struggled against his rivals. Ludwig Engels. A Tribute to a Forgotten Chessmaster. Updated: Feb 10, , AM. His career record, as given in Brasilbase.

Around - at the age of 16 - he joined one of ther most important chess clubs in Germany - The Dusseldorfer Schachverein Now known as Dusseldorfer Schachverein It is clear that he was a huge talent, and he developed very quickly.

I have discussed the Hauppturnier system elsewhere. The Congress was held in Duisburg, and was the first 'Nearly' of Engels career. A page from Wiener Schachzeitung. The next event for Engels was to be the Olympiad.

The story of the event can be found in various places. Once the German team - augmented by the two Austrians, Eliskases and Becker- had been selected, there seems to have been some debate over the boaard order. Eliskases was, rightfully, to be on board one. It was decided to put Michel on second board, because he had the reputation for being very solid and difficult to beat, while the more aggressive Engels was to be on board three to try to score wins against the slightly weaker opposition.

The plan worked out very nicely! There are photographs of all the teams at the event.