Curt von Bardeleben
Curt Carl Alfred von Bardeleben ( born March 4, 1861 in Berlin, † January 31, 1924 ) was a German chess player and chess theorist of the 19th century; by profession he was a journalist.
Family
Curt von Bardeleben came from an old noble family of Magdeburg and was the son of Richard of Bardeleben (1821-1896), director of the Literary Bureau of the Royal Prussian State Ministry, and the Anna Wilhelmy ( 1836-1903 ).
Bardeleben married his first wife, on September 13, 1902 in Schöneberg near Berlin Hedwig Beyer (* June 24, 1870 in Eibenstock; † 10 June 1959 Bischofswerda ). This marriage ended in divorce after just one year on 19 December 1903 in Berlin again.
His second wife Bardeleben married April 18, 1906 in Schöneberg Catherine Box Mayer ( born February 8, 1875 in Osterhofen; † ..... ). This marriage was divorced a few months after the wedding.
Finally Bardeleben married his third wife already on February 12, 1907 in Berlin Elisabeth BOEHNCKE. This third marriage ended in divorce.
Life
Bardeleben inherited a large fortune, which he could easily earn his livelihood. So he devoted himself entirely to chess.
Bard life parents moved from Berlin to Weimar, where Bardeleben obtained his high school diploma. He learned the game of chess was ten years old and was still during his school days as the best player in Weimar. In 1880 he began in Leipzig to study law, which he continued in Berlin in 1884, but then dropped out in favor of journalism. In his time in Leipzig he became a member of the chess club Augustea, 1881, he won the main tournament of the German Chess Federation in Berlin, and so became a master. In 1883 he won the London Vizayanagaram tournament, the tournament reserve for Great International Master Tournament. He scored in the 80s and 90s of the best players in the German Empire; in addition to the shared first prize in Leipzig in 1888, his greatest successes, the ( shared ) wins in the championship tournaments of the German Chess Federation in Kiel in 1893, Coburg 1904. 1889 he was defeated in a race to the eventual champion Emanuel Lasker just with 1,5:2, 5 ( 1, -2, = 1). His draw in competition with Joseph Henry Blackburne in 1895 ( 3, -3, = 3) was also a sporty hit as was his victory over Richard Teichmann 1895 6-4 ( 3 -1 = 6).
He was also known as an eccentric, of which probably also his three marriages are likely to have suffered. Example, it was reported that he specifically a service man sent across Berlin to allow a portion to get fresh butter in a local coffee shop. Also he sent by a messenger his surrender in the most famous lost him game against Wilhelm Steinitz in Hastings in 1895, after he had previously been removed from the tournament hall without a word.
After he had lost his fortune by inflation, his life ended in January 1924 most reportedly tragic suicide. He rushed out of the window of his Berlin apartment situated on the fourth floor. The Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, who was living in Berlin at the time, was by this event at the conclusion of his novel The Luzhin inspired defense ( 1930). However, the suicide version contradicted Jacques Lousy and Bernhard Kagan in obituary: "Most likely he has suffered from severe hardening of the arteries, get a slight dizziness or rush of blood to the head and to get some fresh air came to the provided with a low parapet open window, where he lost and tumbled down the ascendency [ sic]. "
Curt von Barde life urn funeral took place on 7 February 1924 on the establishment of the city cemetery in Berlin anonymous mass grave.
Games
- Steinitz - von Bardeleben, Hastings 1895
Publications
- Criticism of the Ruy Lopez, Leipzig 1885
- The Vienna Game, Leipzig 1893
- The Queen's Gambit in addition to the Queen's Pawn Game, Leipzig 1905
- The endgame in chess, Berlin 1916
- History of chess, Berlin 1924