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Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was born in Stawiski, Congress Poland, to a Jewish family. He was the youngest of 12 children, [a] but only one sister survived to adulthood. [1] [4] [5] Rubinstein learned to play chess at the relatively late age of 14, and his family had planned for him to become a rabbi. [6]
Rotlewi versus Rubinstein is a game of chess played between Gersz Rotlewi and Akiba Rubinstein in Łódź, Poland on December 26, 1907. [1] It features a brilliant queen and rook sacrifice by Rubinstein to force mate .
The opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory.The other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. [1] Many opening sequences, known as openings, have standard names such as "Sicilian Defense".
The King's Indian Attack (or KIA) is a chess opening system where White adopts the setup more commonly seen being played by Black in the King's Indian Defence.The King's Indian Attack is characterised by the following moves: the central pawns are developed to e4 and d3, the knights are developed to d2 and f3, the king's bishop is fianchettoed at g2 following the g-pawn's move to g3, and White ...
This is a list of chess openings, organised by the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings (ECO) code classification system.The chess openings are categorised into five broad areas ("A" through "E"), with each of those broken up into one hundred subcategories ("00" through "99").
Anderssen's Opening is a chess opening defined by the opening move: . 1. a3. Anderssen's Opening is named after unofficial World Chess Champion Adolf Anderssen, who played it three times [1] [2] [3] in his 1858 match against Paul Morphy.
This is a list of chess openings that are gambits. The gambits are organized into sections by the parent chess opening, giving the gambit name, ECO code, and defining moves in algebraic chess notation .
The King's Knight Opening is a chess opening consisting of the moves: . 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3. White's second move attacks the e-pawn. Black usually defends this with 2...Nc6, which leads to several named openings.