Nezhmetdinov chess biography (1/3)

Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fod6_K8ofY

The Soviet Chessmaster Rashid Nezhmetdinov was one of the most feared attacking players in chess history. Although not well known in the west, he won many brilliancy prizes and defeated most of the best players of his era, including Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky, David Bronstein, Efim Geller, Lev Polugaevsky, Isaak Boleslavsly, Salo Flohr, Andor Lilienthal, Gideon Stahlberg, and many other strong grandmasters.

Written by Jessica Fischer

Narrated by Richard Dewoskin

Researched by Jessica Fischer, Annie Kappel, Larry Crawford, Chancho, and Thanh Phan.

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[KBoogs719]

What opening is that@15:23, 1.e4, Nf6 2. then here white skips a move the knight jumps illegally to e4 then captures the king, the knight actually captures the king, is that checkmate?

[jessicafischerqueen]

@KBoogs719 It's just a symbolic demonstration of the power of Alekhine's Defence. At this time, Mikenas was one of the leading theorists in this opening, and it was one of his most dangerous weapons with black against 1.e4

[KBoogs719]

@jessicafischerqueen , im sorry jessica perhaps my sarcasm is misplaced, i am aware of the opening and the name of it, i just wanted to point out how the black knight moved first illegally then captured the king, without delivering check i might add, and then checkmated the king all by himself, i thought in a video of this quality such a mistake was glaring, thats all. I couldn't believe it was an actual mistake on ur part, so i was wondering, no offense intended, pardon me.

[jessicafischerqueen]

@KBoogs719 No worries, I certainly didn't take offense to your post. I did make that mistake on purpose as a visual dramatisation of Mikenas' prowess with Alekhine's defence.

[marty0mart]

Hi Jessica, I was just wondering who the narrator is in these videos? He has an interesting voice/accent.

[jessicafischerqueen]

@marty0mart He is my man Richard Dewoskin, If you click on the "show more" button underneath the video, it will tell you who did what, exactly. Several of my friends helped me research this project.

[kingscrusher]

Brilliantly well done bio videos! I have covered some nez games in my recent chessbase broadcast. I urge everyone to add this video to their favorites! One of my most high rated game videos ever was a nez game - positional queen sacrifice game vs chernikov.

[Catsfaith]

Very well put together!

Love going from reading about him to seeing footage and hearing a narration of the activities during his time

[aleksandrpondios]

Indeed he was and i dont know if he still is-the one and only to achieve master level both in chess and checkers.

[Zonnebril70]

Well done, as always :)

Stony from CG.

[leandroearth]

Very nice...

this voice it's very spetacular... beautiful...

[lovelyjubbaly]

It's rare that I come back to watch anything twice on youtube but Jessica's documentaries are great. Well done Jess! This one in particular about Nez is particularly good because he's pretty much unknown to many people but what a fantastic player Rashid was and his games will keep him immortal. Quite honestly FIDE should bestow the title of Grandmaster posthumously to Rashid Nezhmetdinov, he more than any other player deserves that title.