Notable Games
Savielly Tartakower
15 celebrated games · 567 in the full archive
◈The games that made the legend
Tartakower – Schlechter · 1909 · 1–0
A 33-move King's Gambit Declined win over Carl Schlechter at the St Petersburg Chigorin Memorial 1909, one of the early victories Tartakower's contemporaries most often commended.
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Tartakower – Marshall · 1910 · 1–0
A 51-move French Defense win over the American star Frank Marshall at the 17th DSB Congress in Hamburg 1910, the strong event won by Schlechter.
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Tartakower – Euwe · 1921 · 1–0
A 17-move miniature against the young Max Euwe, the future World Champion, at the Budapest Invitation Masters 1921, finishing with 17.Be7 to trap the queenside.
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Tartakower – Rubinstein · 1921 · 1–0
An Evans Gambit Declined win over Akiba Rubinstein at the Den Haag International 1921, a game Tartakower thought well enough of to annotate in his own Best Games.
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Alekhine – Tartakower · 1922 · 0–1
A 31-move win with Black over Alexander Alekhine at Bad Pistyan 1922, where Tartakower defeated both eventual co-winners, Alekhine and Bogoljubow.
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Tartakower – Bogoljubow · 1922 · 1–0
A 68-move Two Knights Defense win over Efim Bogoljubow at Bad Pistyan 1922; it was the only game Bogoljubow lost on his way to sharing first.
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Tartakower – Marshall · 1924 · 1–0
An English Opening win over Frank Marshall at the great New York 1924 tournament, the double round-robin famously won by Emanuel Lasker.
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Tartakower – Bogoljubow · 1927 · 1–0
A hard-fought 49-move Ponziani win over Efim Bogoljubow at the London British Empire Club 1927, the sort of scrap in which Tartakower relished outplaying a leading rival.
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Tartakower – Przepiorka · 1929 · 1–0
A 16-move Caro-Kann miniature against Dawid Przepiorka at the Budapest Szen Memorial 1929, the short, expressive game from which Tartakower said he derived the most pleasure.
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Tartakower – Sultan Khan · 1930 · 1–0
A 57-move French Defense win over Mir Sultan Khan at Liège 1930, the decisive last-round game with which Tartakower overtook Sultan Khan to take first prize.
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Tartakower – Rubinstein · 1931 · 1–0
A 15-move Ruy Lopez miniature against Akiba Rubinstein at the Rotterdam Four Masters 1931, one of Tartakower's sharpest short wins over an elite opponent.
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Tartakower – Maroczy · 1933 · 1–0
A 26-move Slav Defense win over the veteran Geza Maroczy at the 1933 Folkestone Olympiad.
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Tartakower – Najdorf · 1935 · 1–0
A 21-move win over a young Miguel Najdorf in their 1935 match, played the year Najdorf was making his name in European chess.
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Tartakower – Keres · 1935 · 1–0
An English Opening win over the rising 19-year-old Paul Keres at the 1935 Warsaw Olympiad, where Tartakower took an individual bronze on board one for Poland.
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Tartakower – Fine · 1937 · 1–0
A 28-move French Defense win over the American grandmaster Reuben Fine at the strong Kemeri 1937 tournament.
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