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href="https://www.rookhouse.com/author/admin/" title="Kevin Marchese">Kevin Marchese</a></span> on <abbr class="published" title="Friday, April 5th, 2013, 10:35 pm">April 5, 2013</abbr> </p> <div class="entry-content"> <p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1099" src="https://www.rookhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/steinitz2.jpg" alt="Wilhelm Steinitz" width="198" height="244" /></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">The chess world lost a legend in the truest sense of the word when <strong>Wilhelm Steinitz</strong> passed away on April 12th, 1900. Many newspapers and periodicals throughout the world expressed their condolences in the form of published articles, past games, obituaries, etc.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">The <em>New York Times</em> brief account of his life and death in the form of an obituary is shared below, along with the 13th game (fully annotated by Steinitz himself) of his 1894 world championship match against Emanuel Lasker. The game was won by Steinitz and played on the third leg of the match in Montreal, Canada on May 5th , 1894.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">“<strong>STEINITZ’S LIFE HISTORY</strong> – The life history of Steinitz is, up to the last few years, that of a conqueror. He was born at Prague on May 18, 1837. In his boyhood he was considered one of the best chess players of his native city. He then went to Vienna, where he met like success. He went to England in 1862, as the Austrian delegate to a chess tournament. In London he gained world-wide fame by his successful playing with Anderssen and Paulsen. From that time on he made chess playing his profession. He remained in England until 1882, when he came to the United States, where he in due time became a naturalized citizen.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">In the course of his career Steinitz had vanquished Anderssen, Zukertort, Blackburne, Gunsberg, and Tschigorin, and he held a rank far above that of any other chess player. He became so confident in his play that he would often use experimental moves outside of his usual plan of carrying on the game. These experiments often put him in a dangerous postiion, especially when he was playing in tournaments, or in exhibition games, and they were the real cause of his downfall when he met Lasker in his memorable first encounter.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">The negotiations for this match were of the most protracted character, and it was the event of its day in the chess world. It was two years before the champions met. Confident in his ability, the young Prussian player demanded high stakes, and the £400 a side for which he and Steinitz played was a reduction of his original demand. He had beated Bird and Blackburne in matches, and had passed both of them, with Gunsberg and Mason in the Masters’ Tournament of 1892.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">He at length threw down his gauntlet to Steinitz. He had a difference of thirty-two years, and the “new theories” in his favor, for Steinitz was by this time fifty-eight years old. The great series of games was played at New York, Philadelphia, and Montreal between March 15 and May 26, 1894. It resulted in favor of Lasker by ten games to five, with four draws.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><strong>BORNE DOWN BY DEFEAT</strong> – After this defeat Steinitz seemed to decline. He brooded over the result and couldnot be reconciled, owing to the fact that he had not played his usual game, but had used experimental moves. In 1897 he managed to arrange another match with Lasker. This took place at Moscow, and again Steinitz was defeated. This was too much for him. He became so intensely excited that he was placed in a private asylum for the insane in Moscow. After being there for forty days he was released.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">He claimed after his release that his confinement had been unjust and that he was only intensely nervous over the outcome of the game. The United States Consul at Moscow had aided the people at the house where Steinitz was living in having him put in the asylum, and the chess player always vowed that he would have revenge, but he never took any action.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">After returning to the United States Steinitz never again engaged in active chess play. He devoted his whole energies to three things, his practice of the Kneipp cure, the preparation of his books, and the perfection of a wireless telephone. Back of the house in which he lived at 155 East One Hundred and Third Street was a small yard. Every morning, without regard to season or weather, he would carefully dress himself with all but shoes and stockings and walk barefooted up and down the yard for an hour or more.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">After this exercise was completed he would experiment with his wireless telephone. His theory was that he could use his will power to convey words any distance. For hours he would stand in his room trying to “call up” various people he knew in Europe.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">After he was tired of these experiments he would devote his time to writing his books.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><strong>HE BECOMES INSANE</strong> – One of these books he had published and the very day the copies were returned from the printer he became so violently insane that he was sent to Bellevue Hospital. From there he went to Ward’s Island and later he was sent to the Rivercrest Sanitarium at Astoria. He was discharged from there in March last, and returned to his home, where he remained two weeks. Again he had to be sent back to the Manhattan State Hospital, where he remained until his death on Sunday.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">The funeral services will take place at an undertaking establishment at 132 Essex Street this afternoon.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Steinitz was an honorary member of the Manhattan Chess Club, as well as of a number of other clubs in both the United States and Europe. His prowess as a chess player can best be realized from the fact that out of 395 games played with the most renowned chess players of the world from 1863 to 1894, when his downfall began, he won 240 games, lost 71, and 74 were drawn.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">SOURCE</span></strong>: <em>New York Times</em> (August 14th, 1900)</span></p> <p class="rpbchessboard-spacerBefore"></p> <div class="rpbchessboard-chessgame"> <noscript> <div class="rpbchessboard-javascriptWarning"> You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization. </div> </noscript> <div id="rpbchessboard-67441131ddba7-1"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { function renderThisPGN() { RPBChessboard.renderPGN("rpbchessboard-67441131ddba7-1", {"pgn":"[Event \"wc-Steinitz vs Lasker 1894\"]\r\n[Site \"Montreal (CAN)\"]\r\n[Date \"1894.05.05\"]\r\n[Round \"13\"]\r\n[White \"Lasker, Emanuel\"]\r\n[Black \"Steinitz, Wilhelm\"]\r\n[Result \"0-1\"]\r\n[ECO \"C68\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"110\"]\r\n\r\n1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6\r\n\r\n{Probably fully as good as 3…d6, and also\r\nadopted on the presumption that White was probably not so well prepared for it.\r\n}\r\n\r\n4. Bxc6\r\n\r\n{A favorite combination of Winawer; but most masters prefer 4.Ba4.}\r\n\r\n4...dxc6 5. d4\r\n\r\n{Winawer castled at this point, and other masters prefer the slow\r\ndevelopment by 5.d3 and 6.Be3.}\r\n\r\n5...exd4 6. Qxd4 Qxd4 7. Nxd4 c5\r\n\r\n{This is new and\r\nprobably of greater value than the usual 7…Bd6, which places this bishop too\r\nmuch in the way of the hostile pawns. But still better would be the simple 7…\r\nBd7.}\r\n\r\n8. Ne2 Bd7 9. Nbc3 O-O-O 10. Bf4\r\n\r\n{A premature attack which subsequently\r\ncosts time; the bishop should at once have been posted at e3.}\r\n\r\n11...Bc6 11. O-O Nf6\r\n12. f3 Be7 13. Ng3 g6 14. Rfe1\r\n\r\n{14.Bg5 and if 14…h6 15.Be3; or else 14.Rfd1,\r\nboth afterward suggested by Lasker were undoubtedly superior to the text}\r\n\r\n14...Nd7 15. Nd1\r\n\r\n{Mere demonstrative tactics were evidently out of order, and White\r\nretreats his pieces with a view to concentration for operations in the center.}\r\n\r\n15...Nb6 16. Nf1 Rd7 17. Be3 Rhd8 18. b3 c4\r\n\r\n{Black could not allow the opponent to\r\nadvance pawn to c4, as sooner or later it would have enabled White to plant\r\none of his knights at d5 with great effect. Moreover, Black obtains a strong\r\nattack for the pawn sacrificed.}\r\n\r\n19. Bxb6 cxb6 20. bxc4\r\n\r\n{It was White’s best\r\npolicy probably not to accept the proffered pawn, but to continue 20.Nde3\r\ninstead.}\r\n\r\n20...Bb4 21. c3 Bc5+ 22. Kh1\r\n\r\n{Obviously if 22.Nfe3 Rxd1 and wins, and if\r\n22.Nde3 Rd3 23.Rac1 f5! with a strong attack.}\r\n\r\n22...Rd3 23. Rc1 a5\r\n\r\n{23…f5 would\r\nbe premature, and this more quiet advance does important service on the\r\nqueen’s wing in the ending. White is in the mean time much hampered.}\r\n\r\n24. Nde3 f5\r\n\r\n{ADJOURNED}\r\n\r\n25. exf5\r\n\r\n{25.Nd5 might have prolonged resistance, but would\r\nhardly equalize the game: e.g. 25.Nd5 fxe4 26.fxe4 Rf8 27.Rc2 h5, with a\r\nstrong attack.}\r\n\r\n25...gxf5 26. h3\r\n\r\n{If 26.Nxf5 Rxf3 27.Ne7+ Bxe7 28.gxf3 Bxf3+ 29.Kg1\r\nBc5+ 30.Ne3 Rd2 31.a4 Rg2+ 32.Kf1 Rxh2 and if 33.Rc2 Rh1+ 34.Kf2 Rxe1 and wins.\r\n}\r\n\r\n26...Rg8 27. Nd5\r\n\r\n{27.Nxf5 would be again disastrous on account of the same rejoinder, 27…Rxf3.}\r\n\r\n27...Bxd5 28. cxd5 Rxd5 29. Rcd1 Rxd1 30. Rxd1 f4\r\n\r\n{This and the following series of\r\nmoves give Black a winning superiority in position. The white knight is a\r\nprisoner, and the end can be only a question of time.}\r\n\r\n31. Kh2 Re8 32. a4 Kc7\r\n33. h4 Kc6 34. c4 Bb4 35. Kh3 Re1 36. Rxe1 Bxe1 37. Kg4 Kc5 38. Kxf4 Kxc4 39.\r\nKe4 Bxh4 40. g3 Bd8 41. Ne3+ Kb4 42. Kd3 Kxa4 43. Kc2 Kb4 44. f4 Kc5 45. f5 Kd6\r\n46. g4 b5 47. Nd1 Ke5 48. Nc3 b4 49. Na4 Kd4 50. Nb2 b5 51. Kb3 Be7 52. g5 a4+\r\n53. Nxa4 bxa4+ 54. Kxa4 Ke5 55. 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