Notable Games
Salomon Flohr
16 celebrated games · 422 in the full archive
◈The games that made the legend
Flohr – Landau · 1930 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Tartakower · 1931 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Spielmann · 1931 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Sultan Khan · 1932 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Euwe · 1932 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Kashdan · 1933 · 1–0
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.
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Botvinnik – Flohr · 1933 · 0–1
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.
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Flohr – Stoltz · 1935 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Keres · 1935 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Lasker · 1936 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Capablanca · 1936 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Lasker · 1936 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Vidmar · 1936 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Bondarevsky · 1939 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Ravinsky · 1944 · 1–0
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.
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Flohr – Larsen · 1965 · 1–0
Noordwijk 1965. Late in his career Flohr defeated the leading Candidate Bent Larsen in a Maróczy Bind — described as his last great victory.
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