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This biography explores the life and chess career of Arthur Kaufmann, an early 20th century Romanian-born grandmaster-level player. A contemporary of luminaries such as Capablanca, Reti, Schlechter, Spielmann, and Tartakower, Kaufmann remained an enigma despite his high level play.
Through an analysis of primary sources, including correspondence, diaries and other archival material, Kaufmann's chess career is reconstructed in detail. His tournament and match play games from the early 1890s to the 1910s are explored, as are his little known matches against some of the top players of his time and his participation in the Trebitsch memorials in wartime Vienna.
The book also offers an unprecedented account of Kaufmann's close relationship with Arthur Schnitzler, the famed Austrian dramatist, whose diary offers important clues to Kaufmann's life and work as a philosopher. There is a collection of 71 Kaufmann games with detailed annotations and diagrams.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Mihail Marin
Preface
A Note to the Reader
PART I—The Life (1872-1938) and Chess Career
1. 1872-1900: A Student in Vienna
2. 1901-1910: Intermission
3. 1911-1914: Back to Chess
4. 1915-1916: Chess in a "Gigantic Hospital"
5. June 1917: Breakdown
6. 1918-1919: Out of Vienna to Mariazell and Kiev
7. 1919-1920: Taking On Einstein
8. 1920-1922: Altaussee
9. 1923-1938: An Inscrutable Endgame
PART II—The Chess Games
PART III—Appendices, Sources and Indexes
Appendix A: Kaufmann and Chess Theory
Appendix B: Tournament Crosstables
Appendix C: Kaufmann's Tournament and Match Record
Appendix D: Kaufmann's Results Against Leading Masters
Appendix E: Two More Kaufmann Games?
Appendix F: An Encounter with Alekhine?
Appendix G: A Kaufmann Imaginary Letter
Appendix H: The Unpictured Kaufmann
Appendix I: Brief Biographies of Notable Players
Sources and Bibliography
Index of Openings
Index of Opponents
Index of Illustrations
Index of Other Games
General Index
