Richard Teichmann
Notable Games

Richard Teichmann

14 celebrated games · 240 in the full archive
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Notable Games

  • 1895 Tarrasch, Siegbert vsTeichmann, Richard 0-1 Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Anderssen Variation 42 moves Hastings International Masters Hastings 1895, one of the strongest fields ever assembled, and Teichmann — twenty-seven and largely unknown — beats Siegbert Tarrasch with Black. He takes over the a-file, wins the b7 bishop with 35.Rxb7 Qxb7, and grinds down to 42...Nd7 with Tarrasch's position collapsing.
  • 1900.04.05 Teichmann, Richard vsGunsberg, Isidor 1-0 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Anti-Berlin Variation 16 moves London City Club Invitation London 1900, sixteen moves against Isidor Gunsberg, who had contested a World Championship match with Steinitz nine years earlier. Teichmann trades on c6, seizes the centre with 10.d4, and after 15.Rac1 f5 16.Bg5 the black position has no good answer.
  • 1902 Teichmann, Richard vsTarrasch, Siegbert 1-0 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rio Gambit Accepted 41 moves Monte Carlo Monte Carlo 1902 and Tarrasch again, this time with White. The Berlin Defence, Rio Gambit Accepted; Teichmann wins the d5 pawn with 24.Qxd5+, drives the rooks back, and converts with the queenside majority — 36.b5 cxb5 37.axb5 and finally 41.c6.
  • 1903.03.02 Marshall, Frank James vsTeichmann, Richard 0-1 Queen's Gambit Declined 26 moves Monte Carlo Monte Carlo 1903, twenty-six moves with Black against Frank Marshall at the height of his attacking powers. Teichmann answers the rook lift 21.Rg3 with cold accuracy: 22...Ne4 23.Rxe4 Bxe4 leaves Marshall's attack out of pieces, and 26.Nf7 Qxf4 ends it.
  • 1903.03.14 Mason, James vsTeichmann, Richard 0-1 Slav Defense 16 moves Monte Carlo Monte Carlo 1903, twelve days later — a sixteen-move miniature with Black against James Mason. Mason grabs the knight on h6 with 13.Qxh6, and the queen never gets home: 14...f4 15.gxf4 Nf7 16.Qg7 Qd8 and it is trapped.
  • 1903 Teichmann, Richard vsSchlechter, Carl 1-0 King's Gambit Accepted: Bishop's Gambit, Bledow Variation 72 moves Vienna Accepted Kings Gambit Vienna 1903, the great thematic tournament in which every game had to begin as a King's Gambit Accepted. Teichmann takes the Bishop's Gambit against Carl Schlechter, the most impregnable defender of the age, and wins a seventy-two-move rook ending, walking the e-pawn to e7 behind his king.
  • 1904.10.14 Fawcett, Edward Douglas vsTeichmann, Richard 0-1 King's Gambit Accepted: Kieseritzky Gambit, Rice Gambit 17 moves London Rice Gambit London 1904, from the Rice Gambit tournament — an event funded by Isaac Rice to test his own pet line of the Kieseritzky Gambit. Teichmann takes Black, refuses to be swept away, and after 16.Bxf7 Qxd4+ 17.Qf2 Qxf2+ the sacrifices have simply run out.
  • 1907.08.27 Schlechter, Carl vsTeichmann, Richard 0-1 Ruy Lopez: Closed, Averbakh Variation 49 moves Karlsbad-01 International Masters Karlsbad 1907, Schlechter with White, and Teichmann wins with Black in a Closed Ruy Lopez. He liquidates into the ending with 45.Nxd4 exd4+, marches the a-pawn, and by 49...d5 Schlechter's position is beyond saving.
  • 1911.08.25 Teichmann, Richard vsRubinstein, Akiba 1-0 Ruy Lopez: Closed 36 moves Karlsbad-02 International Masters Karlsbad 1911 — the tournament Teichmann won outright, the single great triumph of a career that earned him the nickname "Richard the Fifth" for his habit of finishing fifth. Here he beats Akiba Rubinstein, then the strongest player in the world not named Lasker, with 21.f4, 22.f5 and the knight tour 30.Nh5, 33.Ng7 and 35.Nf5.
  • 1911.08.31 Teichmann, Richard vsNimzowitsch, Aron 1-0 Philidor Defense 58 moves Karlsbad-02 International Masters Karlsbad 1911 again, six days later, against Aron Nimzowitsch. Fifty-eight moves of squeeze rather than sacrifice: Teichmann breaks with 52.f5+, escorts the g-pawn to g7 with 54.g5 and 56.g7, and the knight on g6 finishes the job.
  • 1911.09.14 Teichmann, Richard vsSchlechter, Carl 1-0 Ruy Lopez: Closed 25 moves Karlsbad-02 International Masters Karlsbad 1911, the win over Schlechter — and the record shows what makes it remarkable: it is the same Closed Ruy Lopez line, move for move to 11.Nbd2, that beat Rubinstein three weeks earlier. Twenty-five moves, decided by 19.Bxf7+ Kxf7 20.Ng5+ and 22.Qxh7+.
  • 1911.03.02 Teichmann, Richard vsTarrasch, Siegbert 1-0 Ruy Lopez: Open 98 moves San Sebastian Int Masters-01 San Sebastian 1911, the tournament that introduced Capablanca to Europe — and a ninety-eight-move win over Tarrasch, the longest game in this archive. Bishop and pawns against knight, and Teichmann walks his king from b8 to h7 over the last twenty moves to force the win.
  • 1924.12.07 Rubinstein, Akiba vsTeichmann, Richard 0-1 King's Gambit Declined: Falkbeer Countergambit, Charousek Gambit 29 moves Berliner 4 players Berlin 1924, thirteen years after Karlsbad, and Teichmann beats Rubinstein again — this time with Black in a Falkbeer Countergambit. He pushes the e-pawn to e2 by move twenty-five and Rubinstein, one of the great technicians, cannot stop it.
  • 1909.02.19 Mieses, Jacques vsTeichmann, Richard 0-1 Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Open Variation 25 moves St Petersburg Chigorin Memorial St Petersburg 1909 — a 25-move win with Black against Jacques Mieses. Selected in Savielly Tartakower and Julius du Mont, 500 Master Games of Chess, game 50 (PDF page 47).
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