Friedrich Sämisch (20 September 1896 – 16 August 1975) was a German chess player and chess theorist. He was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950.
Sämisch was a bookbinder before taking up chess full-time. As a player, he had a reputation for getting into time trouble though somewhat inconsistently he was a fine player of lightning chess.[1] He was also said to be a fine player of blindfold chess, with world champion Alexander Alekhine observing: 'Of all the modern masters that I have had occasion to observe playing blindfold chess, it is Sämisch who interests me the most; his great technique, his speed and precision have always made a profound impression on me'.[2]
In 1922 he won a match in Berlin against Réti (+4−1=3).
Perhaps his most famous game is his loss to Nimzowitsch at Copenhagen 1923 in the Immortal Zugzwang Game. He also played many beautiful games though, one of them being his win against Grünfeld at Karlovy Vary 1929, which won a brilliancy prize. In the same tournament he also won against José Raúl Capablanca. The former world champion lost a piece in the opening but did not resign, which usually happens in such cases in grandmaster games, but to no avail, this disadvantage being too much even for a player of his class.
At the age of 73, in 1969, Sämisch played a tournament in memoriam of Adolf Anderssen in Büsum, Germany, and another tournament in Linköping, Sweden, but lost all games in both events (fifteen in the former and thirteen in the latter) on time control.
^Burgess, Graham; Emms, John; Nunn, John (2010). The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games. London: Constable & Robinson Ltd. p. 111. ISBN978-1-84901-368-0.
Chicco, Adriano; Porreca, Giorgio (1971). Dizionario enciclopedico degli scacchi (in Italian). Milan: Mursia. ISBN9788842588894.
External linksedit
Fritz Saemisch games at 365Chess.com
Friedrich Saemisch player profile and games at Chessgames.com
January 01, 1970
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