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Nimzowitsch – Jacobsen, Copenhagen 1923
A few days before the game Jacobsen – Nimzowitsch, the two played here with colours reversed. Nimzowitsch shows how to play against an isolani and, at the end, how strong an active rook is in the endgame.
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- White
- Nimzowitsch, Aaron
- Black
- Jacobsen, Egil
- Event
- Internationales Sechsmeister-Turnier
- Place
- Kopenhagen
- Round
- 5
- Date
- 7 March 1923
- Result
- 1-0 (White wins)
In the course
Where the moves come from
From 47... Rg8 on, the moves come only from a continuation in the web source, not reliably from the printed text.
Sources
- Chess Praxis, game 61 (original text, in German)
- My System, part I, 6.4 (diagram 82) (original text not yet published)
- My System, part II, chapter 4 (diagram 183) (original text not yet published)
The quotations from Nimzowitsch on this page are our own translations.
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Position as a list
White
- King e1
- Queen d1
- Rook a1
- Rook h1
- Bishop c1
- Bishop f1
- Knight b1
- Knight g1
- Pawn a2
- Pawn b2
- Pawn c2
- Pawn d2
- Pawn e2
- Pawn f2
- Pawn g2
- Pawn h2
Black
- King e8
- Queen d8
- Rook a8
- Rook h8
- Bishop c8
- Bishop f8
- Knight b8
- Knight g8
- Pawn a7
- Pawn b7
- Pawn c7
- Pawn d7
- Pawn e7
- Pawn f7
- Pawn g7
- Pawn h7
Starting position