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1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ gxf6 6. Ne2 Bf5 7. Ng3 Bg6 8. h4 h6 9. h5 Bh7 10. c3 Qb6 11. Bc4 Nd7 12. a4 a5 13. Qf3 e6 14. 0-0 Bc2 15. Bf4 Bb3 16. Bd3 e5 17. Be3 Bd5 18. Be4 Qb3 19. dxe5 fxe5 20. Rad1 Bxe4 21. Qxe4 Qe6 22. Rd2 Nf6 23. Qf3 Rg8 24. Rfd1 Rg4 25. Nf5
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A powerful shot, leaving Black with no effective way to stop the threatened mate on d8, e.g. 26...Nd5 27.Qxg4; 26...Be7 27.Qxg4! Nxg4 28.Ng7+ Kf8 29.Nxe6+; or 26...Qc8 27.Nd6+ Bxd6 28.Qxf6 Be7 29.Qh8+ Bf8 30.Rd8+ Qxd8 31.Rxd8+ Rxd8 32.Bxd8 Kxd8 33.Qxf8+.
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26... Rxg2+ 27. Qxg2 Qxf5 28. Rd8+ Rxd8 29. Rxd8+ Ke7 30. Qg3 Nd7 31. Bc7 Qd5 32. c4 Qg5 33. Qxg5+ hxg5 34. Ra8 Ke6 35. Bxa5 f5 36. Bc3 f4 37. a5 g4 38. b4 f3 39. Bd2 Kf7 40. Ra7 g3 41. Rxb7
997: 1007: 992: 1012: 1017: 769: 742: 713: 184:; however, Kashdan dropped out after just a few issues and Horowitz became sole owner. Before that, Horowitz had been a securities trader on 977: 912: 1032: 1022: 982: 232: 813: 788: 756: 693: 685: 666: 967: 31: 242:. He split his "mini-match" of two games against Flohr, and in the 1946 edition of the same event, split his mini-match against 1002: 972: 1027: 167: 987: 847: 200: 278: 634: 257: 46: 626: 143: 208: 962: 957: 142:. He is most remembered today for the books he wrote about chess. In 1989 he was inducted into the 135: 114: 236: 228: 224: 220: 216: 156: 91: 809: 784: 765: 752: 738: 709: 689: 681: 662: 617: 243: 196:. Horowitz dropped out and devoted himself to chess, while the others stayed on Wall Street. 204: 193: 932: 936: 898: 893: 212: 623:, since White's attacked queen has no move that continues to defend the knight on f5. 951: 941: 867: 734: 270: 189: 181: 162: 185: 239: 172: 655:(with Jack Straley Battell), E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1965. LCCN 65-19965 199:
Horowitz was a leading player in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s. He was
160:, writing three columns a week for ten years. He was the owner and editor of 17: 188:. He had been partners with chess masters Maurice Shapiro, Mickey Pauley, 916: 894:"Israel Albert Horowitz vs. Salomon Flohr, USSR–USA Radio Match (1945)" 235:, Horowitz scored one of the only two wins for the U.S. by defeating 180:
magazine was founded in 1933 as a partnership between Horowitz and
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in 1936, 1938, and 1943. In 1941, he lost a match (+0−3=13) with
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magazine from 1933 until it was bought out and taken over by the
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Horowitz vs. Salo Flohr, US vs. USSR radio chess match 1945:
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How to Win At Chess (A complete course with 891 diagrams)
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Al Horowitz
Israel Horowitz (disambiguation)

Brooklyn, New York
International Master
International Master
chess
US Chess Hall of Fame
The New York Times
Chess Review
United States Chess Federation
Chess Life
Isaac Kashdan
Wall Street
Albert Pinkus
Maurice Wertheim
U.S. Open Champion
Samuel Reshevsky
U.S. Chess Championship
Chess Olympiads
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1935
1937
1950
US vs. USSR radio chess match 1945
GM
Salo Flohr
Isaac Boleslavsky
algebraic notation
Danish Gambit

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