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Ernst Grünfeld

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in 1950. By the late 1950s he was playing very little chess and he mainly worked on his prodigious library which by now had completely filled the living room in his flat which he shared with his wife and daughter. His last tournament was Beverwijk
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matches and spent much of his spare time studying opening variations. He started a library of chess material which he kept in his small Viennese flat until his death at the age of 68 in 1962.
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The First World War (1914–1918) seriously affected Grünfeld's chances of playing the best in the world as few tournaments were played during this troubled period. He was reduced to playing
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Ernst Grünfeld contributed many articles on openings to chess magazines around Europe. Indeed, before he had turned 20, he was already contributing articles on the
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in Germany, Belgium, and the USSR. His favorite market was in Bulgaria, though, because they used to pay for his work in food rather than in money!
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He developed a reputation as an expert on openings during the 1920s and success over the board soon followed. He was 1st in Vienna (1920) with
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He published several books which were generally well received and he contributed to a seminal account of the
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tournament of April 1922 Grünfeld introduced his most important contribution to opening theory—the
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During the late 1920s and 1930s Grünfeld played top board for Austria in four
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in the Vienna tournament. However, he did not play the opening frequently.
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website he would have been rated around 2715 at his peak (December 1924).
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in 22 moves, and later that year he used it successfully against
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The Queen's Pawn Game and the Queen's Gambit Declined
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