Akiba rubinstein biography of michael jackson

Playchess training with FM Dennis Monokroussos

A lot has changed the last 100 years. For instance, the current world champion may not be the clearly strongest player (at least judging by the rating list), but in 1910...

it may have been the same story. Emanuel Lasker barely survived a challenge to Karl Schlechter that year, and while he (Lasker) was most likely stronger than José Capablanca (the closest approximation to Magnus Carlsen at the time), it's entirely possible that the best player at that moment was the great Akiba Rubinstein (1882-1961).

During the few years from around 1909 up to the beginning of WWI, Rubinstein was the dominant figure in tournament chess, winning most events and in glorious style.

He was an openings innovator who could play sharp and quiet positions extremely well, and his endgame technique was fantastic by any standard – he was probably the best endgame player o