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326:. He embarked on an exhibition tour of the United States in early 1928; although a match with reigning US chess champion Frank Marshall was proposed along with an international tournament, it never materialized. He tied third with Max Euwe at Bad Kissingen and then delivered a poor performance in Berlin. Rubinstein had his best post-WWI showing during 1929, when he dominated the Ramsgate tournament in Britain and had excellent showings at Carlsbad and Budapest. He won Rogaška-Slatina.
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offered to play him in a match if he could raise the money, which once again he was unable to do. At
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As the 1930s started, Rubinstein contested the San Remo tournament, coming in fourth. He played well in a few
Belgian events that year, and then third place at Scarborough. His performance at Liege was weak, possibly due to exhaustion. He skipped Bled 1931 despite an invitation, played well at
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guards impounded most of the prize money he had won. Rubinstein closed out 1922 with another appearance at
Hastings, which he won, but his tournament record during 1923 was disappointing as he came in just twelfth place at Carlsbad and tenth at Maehrisch-Ostrau.
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family. He was the youngest of 12 children, but only one sister survived to adulthood. Rubinstein learned to play chess at the relatively late age of 14, and his family had planned for him to become a rabbi. He trained with and played against the strong master
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consistency as it had pre-1914. He and his family moved to Sweden following the
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living at home with his family and in a sanatorium because of his severe mental illness. Rubinstein is a tragic, mentally ill character in the novel
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about chess masters, obsession and revenge, by Italian writer
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master
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1621:"Gelfand at Crestbook Part I | Interview, part 2 of 2"
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pieces in which Rubinstein beat former Czech champion
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and in 1903, after finishing fifth in a tournament in
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in 1914, but it was cancelled due to the outbreak of
1456:"International Tournament St Petersburg 2-28.2.1909"
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RUBINSTEIN'S Chess Masterpieces: 100 Selected Games
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1755:Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces/100 Selected Games
1552:"Akiba Rubinstein's Later Years by Edward Winter"
1444:, Translated by Barnie F. Winkelman (Dover 1960).
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434:He originated the Rubinstein System against the
1733:Twelve Great Chess Players and Their Best Games
1688:Akiba Rubinstein's Later Years by Edward Winter
1167:1954 Botvinnik–Smyslov world championship match
124:(1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish
50:Russian Empire (1880-1917) → Poland (1918-1926)
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1526:The Rating of Chessplayers, Past and Present
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1302:"The Life and Chess of Akiba Rubinstein"
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172:Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein was born in
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1824:. Milford, CT: Russell Enterprises.
1802:. Milford, CT: Russell Enterprises.
1649:. Thinker's Press. pp. 223–26.
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1271:"Rubinstein-Alekhine, Karlsbad 1911"
1735:. New York: Dover. pp. 14–28.
1713:. International Chess Enterprises.
1288:Edward Winter, Chess and Jews, 2003
423:ranked him as one of the five best
366:-occupied Belgium. Chess historian
132:. Rubinstein was granted the title
1860:. Stockholm: Verendel Publishing.
1623:. Chess in Translation. 6 May 2012
1147:. The game featured a spectacular
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273:St. Petersburg tournament in 1909
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1711:Akiva Rubinstein: Uncrowned King
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1757:. Barnie F. Winkelman. Dover.
1249:The date of Rubinstein's death
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2274:Category:Polish chess players
1366:The World's Great Chess Games
1338:The Oxford Companion to Chess
2269:List of Polish chess masters
1881:player profile and games at
822:Rubinstein vs. Vidmar, 1908
2446:Polish emigrants to Belgium
1898:Akiba Rubinstein Foundation
1647:C.J.S. Purdy on the Endgame
1119:A game full of tactics and
244:at this time. Ratings from
122:Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein
42:Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein
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2396:20th-century chess players
2264:List of chess grandmasters
1842:. London: Everyman Chess.
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1179:List of chess grandmasters
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1110:Position after 24...Bg6+
134:International Grandmaster
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2391:People from Kolno County
2330:Hamburg 1930 (champions)
1840:Rubinstein: Move by Move
406:to describe chess moves.
153:World Chess Championship
1509:How Life Imitates Chess
1400:. Siles Press. p.
1343:Oxford University Press
787:Position after 20.Rxd5
448:Queen's Gambit Accepted
440:Queen's Gambit Declined
33:Rubinstein c. 1907/1908
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381:The Lüneburg Variation
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308:London 1922 tournament
265:Harry Nelson Pillsbury
213:, and shared first at
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1798:(2018, 2nd edition).
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2426:Jewish chess players
2050:Krzysztof Jakubowski
1528:, Arco, p. 66,
312:Jose Raul Capablanca
141:José Raúl Capablanca
130:World Chess Champion
2436:Holocaust survivors
2416:Chess theoreticians
2355:Kazimierz Makarczyk
2185:Włodzimierz Schmidt
2100:Marcin Krzyżanowski
2030:Mirosław Grabarczyk
1960:of Grandmaster (GM)
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501:Rubinstein Memorial
301:1931 Chess Olympiad
293:1930 Chess Olympiad
207:Carlsbad tournament
2406:Chess Grandmasters
2345:Ksawery Tartakower
2328:3rd Chess Olympiad
2245:Radosław Wojtaszek
2215:Ksawery Tartakower
2180:Daniel Sadzikowski
2135:Michał Matuszewski
2125:Mieczysław Najdorf
2120:Bartłomiej Macieja
2040:Bartłomiej Heberla
2010:Jan-Krzysztof Duda
1952:Chess players for
1903:2021-12-10 at the
1587:on 29 January 2013
1460:Russian Chess Base
1277:. 12 January 2010.
455:opening variations
404:algebraic notation
402:This section uses
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2235:Tomasz Warakomski
2115:Arkadiusz Leniart
2020:Grzegorz Gajewski
1995:Łukasz Cyborowski
1970:Rafał Antoniewski
1893:Supreme Chess bio
1866:978-91-519-7645-7
1848:978-1-78194-314-4
1830:978-1-888690-51-4
1808:978-1-941270-88-2
1786:978-1-85744-619-7
1567:, pp. 477–88
1535:978-0-668-04721-0
1511:by Garry Kasparov
1493:Vladimir Nabokov,
1454:Alexey Popovsky.
1411:978-1-890085-10-0
1300:Anderson, Lucas.
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2130:Tomasz Markowski
2105:Robert Kuczyński
2095:Michał Krasenkow
2090:Maciej Klekowski
2085:Robert Kempiński
2070:Radosław Jedynak
1990:Krzysztof Bulski
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