Happened Today in the Chess World - Feb 21, 2024

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Polish Championship, Lodz 1927: Akiba Rubinstein plays Saviely Tartakower 
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Today, we remember Grandmaster Saviely Tartakower, born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on February 21, 1887.
From the horror of the pogroms to the massacres of WWI, from the resistance as Lieutenant Cartier to the dignified indigence of a chess professional based on saving three coins to lose at the gaming table, the life of Saviely Tartakower can be condensed in the Cartesian's motto, which becomes a universal aphorism of the 64 squares. 
Three times Polish Champion and one-time French Champion, Tartakover coined the term "hypermodern school," a current of thought that Richard Reti, Aaron Nimzowitsch, and Gyula Breyer also embraced.
Tartakover's contribution to the opening is simply amazing: in 1929, he invented the Catalan, besides important variations that are named after him in the Ortodox and the Caro-Kann.
Tartakower defeated two world champions, Alekhine and Euwe.

Saviely Tartakower-William Winter, Hastings, 1935/36
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