The Legend: Akiba Rubinstein – GM Mac Molner – 2015.07.09

Grandmaster Mackenzie Molner profiles one of the best endgame players of all time, Akiba Rubinstein. Rubinstein earned an opportunity to play for the World Championship in 1914, but never did due to the World War I.

Georg Rotlewi vs Akiba Rubinstein, Lodz (1907): D02 Queen’s pawn game
Rubinstein vs Emanuel Lasker, St Petersburg (1909): D30 Queen’s Gambit Declined
Rubinstein vs Jose Raul Capablanca, San Sebastian (1911): D33 Queen’s Gambit Declined, Tarrasch, Schlechter-Rubinstein system

Openings include:
E40 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3
C10 French, Rubinstein variation
D61 Queen’s Gambit Declined, Orthodox defence, Rubinstein variation
D32 Queen’s Gambit Declined, Tarrasch defence
D35 Queen’s Gambit Declined, exchange, positional line
C48 Four knights, Rubinstein counter-gambit, Bogolyubov variation

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