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Aron Nimzowitsch

1886 - 1935

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Aron Nimzowitsch (Latvian: 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, Nimzowitsch was one of the best chess players in the world. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns and wrote a very influential book on chess theory: My System (1925–1927). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aron Nimzowitsch has received more than 416,644 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Aron Nimzowitsch is the 989th most popular writer (down from 946th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Writer.

Aron Nimzowitsch is most famous for his "Theory of the Endgame" which was published in his book "My System".

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Notable Works

Mein system
1929
My System
Games & Activities
The landmark positional chess training classic in an easy-to-study algebraic format with 419 diagrams.
19295 / 5
Chess praxis
1986
The praxis of my system
1936
Izbrannye partii mezhdunarodnogo turnira v Karlsbade 1929
1981
The Blockade
Games & Activities
"First restrain, then blockade, finally destroy!" was the war cry of the celebrated 1920s writer and World Chess Championship aspirant Aron Nimzowitsch. Subsequently eclipsed by his classic My System, this pioneering work (The Blockade) has now been rescued and published, with a new translation, for the very first time in dual-language format (English and German). The Editor, Philip Hughes, webmaster of the Uncrowned Kings website, has delved into chess history and provided extensive appendices in order to bring the reader a better picture of chess in the 1920s and particularly 1923-4. The chess philosophy developed by Aron Nimzowitsch, the Father of Modern Chess and the godfather of Hyper-modernism, clearly instructs the chess student on many important aspects of the game. The teachings of The Blockade reflect on the chessboard the military thinking of the day, trench warfare and strangulation, as exemplified in the recently concluded First World War. Nimzowitsch's insights remain relevant today and should be regarded as essential reading for the improving player. The introduction to this new edition of The Blockade is written by Grandmaster Ray Keene, author of a celebrated biography of Nimzowitsch and chess correspondent of The Times, The Sunday Times, The Spectator and the International Herald Tribune.
2006

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Over the past year Aron Nimzowitsch has had the most page views in the with 46,515 views, followed by Russian (16,998), and Spanish (7,167). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Breton (93.62%), Slovak (76.08%), and Basque (59.85%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aron Nimzowitsch ranks 989 out of 7,302. Before him are David Grossman, Aristarchus of Samothrace, Prudentius, Jean de Joinville, Richard Matheson, and Christoph Martin Wieland. After him are Assia Djebar, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Waris Dirie, Corinna, John Fowles, and Samuel Richardson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Aron Nimzowitsch ranks 40. Before him are Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Michael Curtiz, Garegin Nzhdeh, Vittorio Pozzo, Henri Coandă, and Paul Tillich. After him are Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, Marcel Dupré, Franz Rosenzweig, Dong Biwu, Edward C. Tolman, and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1935, Aron Nimzowitsch ranks 36. Before him are Hugo Junkers, Oda Krohg, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Johan Halvorsen, Panait Istrati, and John Macleod. After him are Anna Ancher, Paul Bourget, Rashid Rida, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Princess Anastasia of Montenegro.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Aron Nimzowitsch ranks 13 out of 323. Before him are Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), and Jacob Kettler (1610). After him are Gidon Kremer (1947), Peter von Biron (1724), Ernst Johann von Biron (1690), Vera Mukhina (1889), Mischa Maisky (1948), and Andris Bērziņš (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Latvia

Among writers born in Latvia, Aron Nimzowitsch ranks 1. After him are Rainis (1865), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), Barbara von Krüdener (1764), Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876), Aspazija (1865), Vilis Lācis (1904), Maria Skobtsova (1891), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), Anšlavs Eglītis (1906), Yury Tynyanov (1894), and Krišjānis Barons (1835).

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