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He carried on playing through the 1950s, 1960s and even into the 1970s, but his results were less convincing. He married the
Argentinian MarĂa Esther Almeda in 1954 and had a son, Carlos Enrico. In 1976, he and his wife went back to the Austrian Tyrol, but the couple failed to settle and returned to
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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Be7 (Orthodox
Defence) 5.e3 0-0 6.Nf3 h6 7.Bh4 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.cxd5 Nxc3 10.bxc3 exd5 11.Qb3 Qd6 12.c4 dxc4 13.Bxc4 Nc6 14.Qc3 Bg4 15.0-0 Bxf3 16.gxf3 Kh8 (Three years later at Noordwijk, Eliskases played 16...Rad8 against Euwe, beating him in 50 moves.)
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Championship match with Alekhine. Documentary evidence later showed that the Nazi regime had scheduled him a 1941 match with the World Champion, but had subsequently abandoned the idea. In 1941, Alekhine spoke out in favour of a match with either
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233:) and previous world champion
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304:Grandmaster
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89:, Argentina
707:Categories
417:References
247:Bad Elster
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492:Eliskases
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288:1951 and
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168:Anschluss
164:Olympiads
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135:in 1952.
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519:(1984).
496:Hans Ree
366:Max Euwe
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259:Hans Ree
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216:Max Euwe
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