Salomon Flohr
Notable Games

Salomon Flohr

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Notable Games

  • 1930.01.13 Flohr, Salo vsLandau, Salo 1-0 Semi-Slav Defense: Quiet Variation 36 moves Antwerp Anvers 6Masters Antwerp 1930. An early-career win over the Dutch master Salo Landau in a Semi-Slav; chessgames.com highlights it among Flohr's notable games as an example of his emerging positional technique.
  • 1931.09.06 Flohr, Salo vsTartakower, Saviely 1-0 Semi-Slav Defense: Stonewall Defense 44 moves Bled International Bled 1931. At one of the strongest tournaments of the era — Alekhine's celebrated runaway win — the 22-year-old Flohr defeated the veteran grandmaster and theorist Savielly Tartakower, a marker of his arrival among the world elite.
  • 1931.09.14 Flohr, Salo vsSpielmann, Rudolf 1-0 Queen's Gambit Declined: Modern Variation, Normal Line 55 moves Bled International Bled 1931. Flohr outplays the famed attacker Rudolf Spielmann in a Queen's Gambit Declined, converting a strategic edge over 55 moves at the great double-round tournament.
  • 1932.02.27 Flohr, Salo vsSultan Khan, Mir 1-0 Slav Defense: Schlechter Variation 44 moves Match Flohr-Sultan Khan +2-1=3 Match win over Mir Sultan Khan, London 1932. In their six-game match (which Flohr took +2-1=3), Flohr beat the intuitive Indian-born British champion in this Slav to help secure the contest.
  • 1932.03.25 Flohr, Salo vsEuwe, Max 1-0 Semi-Slav Defense 46 moves Match Euwe-Flohr (1)+2-2=4 Match vs Max Euwe, Amsterdam 1932, game 1. A classic praised as a virtually perfect strategic game by White against the future World Champion; the 16-game match was ultimately tied 8-8.
  • 1933.06.23 Flohr, Salo vsKashdan, Isaac 1-0 English Opening: Mikenas-Carls Variation 30 moves Olympiad-05 Folkestone Olympiad 1933. A crisp 30-move win over the American star Isaac Kashdan using the Mikenas-Carls line of the English — a variation later associated with Flohr's name.
  • 1933.11.28 Botvinnik, Mikhail vsFlohr, Salo 0-1 Caro-Kann Defense: Panov Attack, Modern Defense 40 moves Match Botvinnik-Flohr +2-2=8 From the 1933 Botvinnik-Flohr match. Playing Black, Flohr beat the future World Champion in Botvinnik's own favourite Panov Attack against the Caro-Kann — a defence Flohr helped pioneer. The match ended level, +2-2=8.
  • 1935.08.18 Flohr, Salo vsStoltz, Gosta 1-0 Queen's Gambit Accepted: Mannheim Variation 49 moves Olympiad-06 Warsaw Olympiad 1935. A model technical win over Gösta Stoltz that OlimpBase singles out as an interesting game of the event — two small advantages, an extra pawn and queenside pressure, converted cleanly. Flohr took individual gold on board one, undefeated.
  • 1935.08.27 Flohr, Salo vsKeres, Paul 1-0 Queen's Gambit Declined: Barmen Variation 20 moves Olympiad-06 Warsaw Olympiad 1935. A 20-move miniature crushing the 19-year-old Paul Keres on his international debut, winning material out of the opening. Flohr won the board-one gold medal at this Olympiad.
  • 1936.06.02 Flohr, Salo vsLasker, Emanuel 1-0 Queen's Indian Defense, with e3 35 moves Moscow International-03 Moscow 1936. A smooth positional win over former World Champion Emanuel Lasker, then 67, at the tournament where Flohr was a leading force among the world's best.
  • 1936.08.12 Flohr, Salo vsCapablanca, Jose Raul 1-0 Queen's Gambit Declined: Tartakower Defense, Makogonov Exchange Variation 64 moves Nottingham International Masters Nottingham 1936. Flohr's only decisive game against former World Champion José Raúl Capablanca — the sole loss Capablanca suffered on the way to sharing first at one of history's strongest tournaments.
  • 1936.08.14 Flohr, Salo vsLasker, Emanuel 1-0 Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defense 38 moves Nottingham International Masters Nottingham 1936. Flohr beats Emanuel Lasker again in the great five-champions tournament; together with his win over Capablanca it made Flohr the only player to defeat both Lasker and Capablanca at Nottingham.
  • 1936.08.20 Flohr, Salo vsVidmar, Milan Sr 1-0 Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense, Rubinstein Variation, Flohr Line 58 moves Nottingham International Masters Nottingham 1936. A showcase of Flohr's endgame mastery against Milan Vidmar — patient restriction of the queenside converted into a won ending, in the QGD line that carries the Flohr name.
  • 1939.01.24 Flohr, Salo vsBondarevsky, Igor Tsakharovich 1-0 Dutch Defense: Nimzo-Dutch Variation, Alekhine Variation 77 moves Leningrad & Moscow Leningrad/Moscow 1939. A long, hard-fought win over Igor Bondarevsky at the training tournament Flohr won ahead of Reshevsky and Keres — one of his last great pre-war successes.
  • 1944.06.04 Flohr, Salo vsRavinsky, Grigory Ionovich 1-0 Slav Defense: Alekhine Variation 34 moves URS-ch13 Final 13th USSR Championship, Moscow 1944. In his Soviet-championship debut Flohr, as White, gave up his queen for rook and bishop (22.Qxc8+ Rxc8 23.Rxc8+) and won by force — a sharp tactical finish that dispels his 'drawing master' reputation.
  • 1965 Flohr, Salo vsLarsen, Bent 1-0 Sicilian Defense: Accelerated Dragon, Maróczy Bind, Breyer Variation 39 moves Noordwijk Noordwijk 1965. Late in his career Flohr defeated the leading Candidate Bent Larsen in a Maróczy Bind — described as his last great victory.
  • 1931.08.31 Flohr, Salo vsMaroczy, Geza 1-0 Semi-Slav Defense: Bogoljubow Variation 52 moves Bled International Bled 1931 — a 52-move win with White against Geza Maroczy. Selected in Savielly Tartakower and Julius du Mont, 500 Master Games of Chess, game 408 (PDF page 280).
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