Akiba Rubinstein Puns

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The way it's described by hanging pawns in A Rook Endgame Lesson with Akiba Rubinstein at 29:09 (the game is discussed from 22:48 until 31:21) makes me think it's some ordinary expected move while alekhine is already losing. but according to engine: there is a good move (or at least a better move), and the only good move here is Ke6. but then the evaluation goes from 0.6 to 3.2 for Rxb5.

the way this game is being described sounds as if alekhine's been doomed from the start of the endgame and didn't have any chances of winning or drawing in between and then it's just a matter of rubinstein to convert the win and it's like rubinstein does this perfectly. but it seems like there could've been some chance for Ke6 instead of Rxb5.

What's going on?

Similar question: Ulf Andersson vs Robert Huebner 1981 rook endgame: the mistake here is Rd8 right?

I just started to create content on youtube. My first idea was to make great historical context of each game. However after couple of videos I realized that the movies become too long for regular chess player. I am working now on making them shorter, choosing only most interesting information about players... but still. It's not always possible.

I began from series about Akiba Rubinstein, father of perfect rook endings... and pawn endings as well. He is also considered as the first player in the history who created the logical bridge from the opening to the endgame. Pick of his career was in the years 1909-1912 when he defeated Lasker and Capablanca - with the same famous move: Qc1. He should play the match for world champion title, however Lasker created too high entry fee. Anyway, pretty interesting story how determined boy from small town could get one of the best players in the World (by chessmestrics considered as number 1 for some period of time).

The first movies of the fresh new channel:
Rubinstein - Bartoszkiewicz, Białystok 1902

Salwe - Rubinstein, Łódź 1903
Rubinstein - Salwe, Łódź 1903

Chigorin - Rubinstein, Kiev 1903
Schiffers - Rubinstein, Kiev 1903
Rubinstein - Bernstein, Kiev 1903
Yurevich - Rubinstein, Kiev 1903

I tried to tell most interesting stories in each of videos but if you don't like it, just pass straight to the games.
Moving forward with content - soon famous Rubinstein endings! Yay!

Still need a lot of improvements, tips, advises, constructive critic... warm support and cold hate are also welcome ;)

White starts and win. Can you beat Akiba Rubinstein in this endgame?

Position occurred at crazy Ostende 1906 tournament.
Ossip Bernstein (2662) vs Akiba Rubinstein (2638)

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Analysis with commentary is coming. Stay tuned.

As it is still one of my favorite players and I can't find much about great Akiba on youtube, I decided to make a series about Rubinstein. Not sure how many games i can cover but there is a lot available :) Beginning of course from the first ever recorded game + stories + memes. Later want to focus on his genius in the rook and pawn endgame. But it will definitely take couple of weeks or even months to get there :) Anyway I hope it can be useful for the players who struggle in this element... and at the same time are lazy to study with books ;)

That's the link to the first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wPlJqFWPwg

In the description I always add the link to lichess Studies of the games which I prepare before recording the video.

Akiba Rubinstein was an extremely strong player whose career was cut short by mental illness, which first manifested when he was continually bothered by an imaginary fly. He was due to play Lasker in a world championship match, but WW1 intervened. In 1922 he won five of seven brilliancy prizes on offer in a single tournament. His last 30 years were spent in a sanatorium or being cared for by his family

He was very highly regarded by his peers and you could make a small book of quotes about Rubinstein. His endgame play was peerless but he could mix it up if the position required as demonstrated by Rubinstein's Immortal.

People said Rubinstein's talent was god-given, but Rubinstein had a different explanation:

"60 days a year I play in tournaments, 5 days I rest, and 300 days I work on my game"

Bonus quote: Talk about playing the board and not the man, Rubinstein was once asked who he was paired against and replied:

"Tonight, I am playing against the Black pieces."

Excluding Bobby Fischer (no disrespect, but everyone knows the Bobby Fischer story)...

I'm curious to learn about some other chess players who perhaps had to overcome some unique adversity, be it a difficult childhood, political/societal oppression, personal loss, etc.

Chess players for whom chess was not just a matter of passion or obsession, but survival, stability or escape.

Or, simply any chess player who has an interesting story for any reason. I'll take anyone with an interesting story.

List of your responses in no particular order:

• Tigran Petrosian - Wiki - Thread
• Jordan van Foreest - Wiki - Thread
• Wesley So Wiki - Thread - Thread 2
• Victor Korchnoi Wiki - Thread
• Paul Keres Wiki - Thread
• Viswanathan Anand Wiki - Thread
• Miguel Najdorf Wiki - Thread
• Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry [Wiki] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Milner-Barry) - Thread
• Judit Polgár Wiki - Thread
• Susan Polgár Wiki - [Thread](https://www.redd

We as a society are obsessed with ranking things, particularly when it comes to sports, and I too am addicted to rankings. For chess players, it has long be said it is hard to compare player to player like Carlsen vs. Fischer or Kasparov vs. Lasker, because they never played one another. However, what if we compare each players record vs. the best of all time to see who dominated the best players of their time the most? I utilized chessgames.com to find the head-to-head records.

First I assembled a list of all the world champions (not the PCA and other one off champions in the 90s and 2000s) and some wildcards, mainly people who played in multiple world championships, tied a world championship, or the best players to never be world champion. This list is:

World Champions: Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Carlsen

Wild Cards: Mikhail Chigorin, Akiba Rubinstein, David Bronstein, Paul Keres, Viktor Korchnoi, Veselin Topalov

Here are the winning percentages of each player based upon their all-time records vs. the field:

1. Emanuel Lasker - 61.71%
2. Garry Kasparov - 55.90%
3. Bobby Fischer - 54.33%
4. Jose Capablanca - 53.54%
5. Alexander Alekhine - 53.31%
6. Magnus Carlsen - 53.25%
7. Anatoly Karpov - 52.63%
8. Vladimir Kramnik - 52.33%
9. Mikhail Botvinnik - 52.21%
10. Vishy Anand - 49.85%

UPDATE: After some further review of potential wildcards, I added Efim Geller given his suprisingly plus record against many world champions. Efim finished with a 50.00% WP against the field placing him tenth!

The list now looks like:

1. Emanuel Lasker - 61.71%
2. Garry Kasparov - 55.97%
3. Jose Capablanca - 53.54%
4. Alexander Alekhine - 53.31%
5. Bobby Fischer - 53.28%
6. Magnus Carlsen - 53.25%
7. Anatoly Karpov - 52.69%
8. Vladimir Kramnik - 52.33%
9. Mikhail Botvinnik - 51.58%
10. Efim Geller - 50.00%
11. Vishy Anand - 49.85%
12. David Bronstein - 49.61%
13. Tigran Petrosian - 49.39%
14. Vassily Smyslov - 49.25%
15. Boris Spassky 49.02%
16. Paul Keres - 48.48%
17. Viktor Korchnoi - 46.69%
18. Akiba Rubinstein - 44.87%
19. Mikhail Chigorin - 44.64%
20. Max Euwe - 44.16%
21. Mikhail Tal - 44.02%
22. Veselin Topalov - 43.24%
23. Wilhelm Stenitz - 41.90%

Hey. I've searched through and through and couldn't find anything about Akiba Rubinstein on Levy's channel, bar the "we rate historic grandmasters with Hikaru" video. According to the internet he used to be #1 rated player for quite some time but I can't find much content about him as he's not as famous as Lasker or Capa (and rightfully so looking at his achievements) or other historic players. There are like 3 or 4 games on agadmator channel and that's it. I do t know, maybe his matches were boring as hell but after all he was number 1 rated for some time. I'd love to see it because historical games are easier to understand for me (around 1350 irl) and because he's i believe best polish player of all time and some folks have been saying lately that JKD should be treated as best polish player ever just for joining the candidates tournament. I'd love to see some recognition to Akiba, but maybe it's just me.

Sorry if you take it as a shitpost, didn't know where should I head with those thought.

I guess the concept didn't work

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

From chess24:

1. Garry Kasparov
2. Magnus Carlsen
3. Bobby Fischer
4. Emanuel Lasker
5. Alexander Alekhine
6. Anatoly Karpov
7. José Raúl Capablanca
8. Mikhail Botvinnik
9. Viswanathan Anand
10. Paul Morphy
11. Vladimir Kramnik
12. Tigran Petrosian
13. Wilhelm Steinitz
14. Vasily Smyslov
15. Mikhail Tal
16. Boris Spassky
17. Max Euwe
18. François-André Danican Philidor
19. Fabiano Caruana
20. Viktor Korchnoi
21. Veselin Topalov
22. Paul Keres
23. Akiba Rubinstein
24. Howard Staunton
25. David Bronstein
26. Adolf Anderssen
27. Johannes Zukertort
28. Louis-Charles Mahé de la Bourdonnais
29. Bent Larsen
30. Samuel Reshevsky
31. Efim Bogoljubov
32. Reuben Fine
33. Levon Aronian
34. Siegbert Tarrasch
35. Vasyl Ivanchuk
36. Carl Schlechter
37. Harry Pillsbury
38. Efim Geller
39. Boris Gelfand
40. Mikhail Chigorin
41. Jan Timman
42. Miguel Najdorf
43. Szymon Winawer
44. Peter Leko
45. Géza Maróczy
46. Gata Kamsky
47. Lev Polugaevsky
48. Lajos Portisch
49. Sergey Karjakin
50. Aron Nimzowitsch

Your thoughts/opinions?

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

The way it's described by hanging pawns in A Rook Endgame Lesson with Akiba Rubinstein at 29:09 (the game is discussed from 22:48 until 31:21) makes me think it's some ordinary expected move while alekhine is already losing. but according to engine: there is a good move (or at least a better move), and the only good move here is Ke6. but then the evaluation goes from 0.6 to 3.2 for Rxb5.

the way this game is being described sounds as if alekhine's been doomed from the start of the endgame and didn't have any chances of winning or drawing in between and then it's just a matter of rubinstein to convert the win and it's like rubinstein does this perfectly. but it seems like there could've been some chance for Ke6 instead of Rxb5.

What's going on?

Similar question: Ulf Andersson vs Robert Huebner 1981 rook endgame: the mistake here is Rd8 right?