Harry Nelson Pillsbury

Harry Nelson Pillsbury ( born December 5, 1872 in Somerville, Massachusetts, † June 17, 1906 in Philadelphia ) was an American chess player.

Life

Pillsbury learned at the age of sixteen years, the game of chess; he made then but rapid progress.

His greatest achievement was the victory in the international tournament of Hastings in 1895, which he won world champion Emanuel Lasker and the entire world at that time before the elite.

In 1896, he was at times guidance in the Master tournament in St. Petersburg, whose victory would probably mean a match with Lasker for the world championship title. But his famous defeat against Lasker there threw him off track mentally: He lost from then five of the last eight games and was only third.

In 1898 he scored in the Emperor 's Jubilee Tournament in Vienna the same score as Siegbert Tarrasch, but lost in the playoff for the first prize. In 1900 he won in Munich on points with Carl Schlechter and Géza Maroczy Place 1 After Maroczy had resigned from the jump-off for the first prize for health reasons, was Pillsburys confrontation with Evil a draw.

Furore also made his ideas in a blind simultaneous game whose mental efforts of many of his contemporaries were regarded as the cause of his early death at only 33 years. In fact, he died of syphilis.

His best Historical Elo rating was 2816th This he reached in July 1901. He was over sixteen months in the years 1903 and 1904 the world's best players.

In the main variant of the Orthodox defense ... b7 - b6 7 results after 8 c4xd5! e6xd5 by building Se5, Bd3, f4, 0-0 to Pillsbury attack.

Games

• Pillsbury - Lasker, St. Petersburg 1896