Richard Teichmann (24 December 1868 – 15 June 1925) was a German chess

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. He was known as "Richard the Fifth" because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments. But in Karlsbad 1911, he scored a convincing win, crushing

Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title International Grandma ...

and

Carl Schlechter Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker. Early life Sch ...

with the same line of the

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José Raúl Capablanca José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he is widely renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play. Capabl ...

called him "one of the finest players in the world". Edward Lasker recounted the witty way in which Teichmann demonstrated the Schlechter win in his book ''Chess Secrets I learned from the Masters'', and generally admired Teichmann's mastery. Throughout his chess career Teichmann was handicapped by chronic eye trouble. He had only one eye, and eye trouble caused him to withdraw from the 1899 London Tournament after only four rounds.

Game record

Teichmann had an almost even score against

Alexander Alekhine Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine, ''Aleksándr Aleksándrovich Alékhin''; (March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already a ...

overall (+3,-4,=4), drawing a match in 1921 (+2,-2,=2) when Alekhine was regarded as a world title challenger to

. He even won as

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against Alekhine in this match at

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1921: :1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.Nc3 f6 6.d4 exd4 7.Qxd4 Qxd4 8.Nxd4 Bd6 9.Nde2 Ne7 10.Bf4 Be6 11.Bxd6 cxd6 12.0-0-0 0-0-0 13.Rhe1 Bf7 14.Nd4 Rhe8 15.f3 Kc7 16.a4 b5 17.axb5 axb5 18.b4 Nc8 19.Nf5 g6 20.Ne3 Nb6 21.Kb2 d5 22.Rd4 f5 23.Ra1 Nc8 24.g4 dxe4 25.Rxd8 Kxd8 26.fxe4 f4 27.Rd1+ Kc7 28.Rf1 g5 29.Nf5 Nd6 30.Ra1 Nc4+ 31.Kc1 Kb6 32.Nd4 h5 33.gxh5 Bxh5 34.Nb3 f3 35.Nd2 Ne3 36.Ra3 f2 37.Na4+ bxa4 38.Rxe3 Rd8 0–1Alekhine vs. Teichmann, Berlin 1921

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They played a seventh tiebreaker game to determine the match winner, a French Defense Alekhine won with the black pieces. Teichmann's records against

Emanuel Lasker Emanuel Lasker (; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Cham ...

and Capablanca were poor (+0−4=0 and +0−2=1); however, he scored wins against all the other leading players of his day, e.g.

(+4−2=21), Frank Marshall (+7−7=17),

Aron Nimzowitsch Aron Nimzowitsch ( lv, Ārons Nimcovičs, russian: Аро́н Иса́евич Нимцо́вич, ''Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich''; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Latvian-born Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimz ...

(+1−1=5),

Siegbert Tarrasch Siegbert Tarrasch (; 5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century. Life Tarrasch was born in Bresla ...

(+5−7=2),

(+5−6=11),

Géza Maróczy Géza Maróczy (; 3 March 1870 – 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess player, one of the leading players in the world in his time. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. Early career G� ...

(+1−2=12) and

David Janowski Dawid Markelowicz Janowski (25 May 1868 – 15 January 1927; often spelled ''David'') was a Polish-born French chess player. The Janowski variations of the Old Indian Defense and of the Queen's Gambit Declined are named after him. Biography B ...

(+4−5=4).

Notes

Famous Quotations

"Chess is 99% Tactics" - Teichmann

References

External links

* 1868 births 1925 deaths 19th-century chess players 20th-century chess players German chess players {{Germany-chess-bio-stub