Notable Games
Aron Nimzowitsch
15 celebrated games · 266 in the full archive
◈The games that made the legend
Nimzowitsch – Alapin · 1914 · 1–0
A dazzling French miniature (1914): Nimzowitsch offers his queen with 17.Qd8+!! and mates — 17…Bxd8 18.Re8#. One of his best-known brilliancies.
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Nimzowitsch – Bogoljubow · 1920 · 1–0
A 22-move win over Efim Bogoljubov — soon a World Championship challenger — in the French Advance from their 1920 match, the attack crashing through with 22.Rxf6+.
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Nimzowitsch – Hakansson · 1922 · 1–0
A 27-move win in the French Advance — Nimzowitsch's own pet line — the queenside pawn-storm (b4–b5–b6) and 23.Rc7 tearing through to 27.Qxd7+. On his chessgames notable list.
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Saemisch – Nimzowitsch · 1923 · 0–1
The Immortal Zugzwang Game — Copenhagen 1923. Nimzowitsch's positional masterpiece: with the quiet 25…h6 he leaves Sämisch in total zugzwang, every white move losing — a mid-game bind as celebrated as Anderssen's Immortal, and his most famous game.
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Nimzowitsch – Tarrasch · 1923 · 1–0
Karlsbad 1923. A win over Siegbert Tarrasch — the classical dogmatist to Nimzowitsch's hypermodernism — a patient positional squeeze, the rooks and king (to d3) infiltrating.
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Nimzowitsch – Reti · 1925 · 1–0
Baden-Baden 1925. A win over Richard Réti — his fellow hypermodern — in Réti's own Alekhine Defence, Nimzowitsch grinding down a two-bishops endgame.
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Nimzowitsch – Alekhine · 1926 · 1–0
Semmering 1926. Nimzowitsch beats Alexander Alekhine — a year before Alekhine won the world title — and in Alekhine's own Defence, a kingside attack (33.Ng6+) breaking through.
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Johner – Nimzowitsch · 1926 · 0–1
Dresden 1926 — Bent Larsen's favourite game. A model Nimzo-Indian (the defence Nimzowitsch pioneered): he clamps the centre with doubled pawns, then breaks through on the kingside, …Qh3 and …g3 forcing resignation.
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Nimzowitsch – Rubinstein · 1926 · 1–0
Dresden 1926. Nimzowitsch outplays Akiba Rubinstein in a Symmetrical English, the bishop pair telling in the ending (46.Be5). On his chessgames notable list.
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Nimzowitsch – Alekhine · 1927 · 1–0
New York 1927. A second win over Alekhine, at the elite double-round tournament months before he dethroned Capablanca — Nimzowitsch queens first in the pawn race, 55.g8=Q.
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Nimzowitsch – Marshall · 1927 · 1–0
New York 1927. A 30-move attacking win over Frank Marshall — 28.Re8! deflects the queen and 29.Qxf6+/30.Bh6 finish the king.
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Nimzowitsch – Spielmann · 1928 · 1–0
Bad Kissingen 1928. A 27-move win over the great attacker Rudolf Spielmann, twin knight leaps (21.Ndf6+, 22.Nxf6+) winning the exchange and the game.
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Nimzowitsch – Euwe · 1929 · 1–0
Karlsbad 1929. A 27-move win over future World Champion Max Euwe — Nimzowitsch's queen-and-rook attack crashing through, 25.Rxf7+ and 27.Qf8+.
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Mannheimer – Nimzowitsch · 1930 · 0–1
Frankfurt 1930. A French Winawer where Nimzowitsch storms the kingside (…g4, …h4, …Qb1) and queens the a-pawn, 44…a2. On his chessgames notable list.
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Lasker – Nimzowitsch · 1934 · 0–1
Zurich 1934. A Black win in the French over former World Champion Emanuel Lasker at 65, Nimzowitsch grinding out the knight ending in one of his final great tournaments.
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