Daniel Grinberg - the magazine "Midrash"
mysterious relationship of Jews to chess, visible to the naked eye in the rankings of the greatest chess players of all time, for years the subject of endless speculation and pseudo-scientific theories.
causative factors, decisive with exceptional abilities to play on a 64-field grid, divided in turn into the white and black squares, already discerned in all things: the specificity of the Talmud, the tendency to speculative thinking, mathematical and linguistic abilities, traits of the Jewish religion, but also in history general conditions of life and in the occupational structure.
also often invoked in the developed historically distinct psychological abilities conducive to this type of competition, which requires the game of chess - a combination of perfect memory, the invention of intellectual concentration, patience and strong will. Needless to say, that the vast majority of constructed explanations that do not meet the basic requirements of logic and science studies. To this day, for example, no one explained why speculative or mental abilities representatives of the "chosen people" does not show up with a similar power of, say, the game of bridge sports.
To balance should also point out a few voices złośliwców, trying to undermine the thesis of the special abilities "of the tribe of David" or a special contribution to chess. The counterpart of the famous pamphlet of Richard Wagner from 1850, demaskującego alleged inferiority and wtórność "Jewish music" is a collection of articles and Jewish Aryan Chess (1943), written by Capablanca slayer prohitlerowsko oriented, multi-world champion Russian Alexander Alechina.
can be from him learn that Emanuel Lasker and his ilk trying to bring the beautiful game of chess astray, overcame a defensive game, while its true beauty is revealed only in the offensive, which is characterized Aryan players. "Jewish chess" is characterized, in his opinion, opportunism, cunning, and the quest for victory at any cost.
Alechin obviously could not foresee that the unparalleled master of the dynamic, offensive game will be twenty years later, Bobby (Robert James) Fischer of Brooklyn, he should remember, however, that the creator Hypermodern School, seeking effective antidote to the defensive advantage in Modern School, Wilhelm Steinitz, was a Hungarian Jew Richard Reti (1889-1929). The myth of the alleged homogeneity of Jewish chess players effectively dispelled recently Ganzo Julio in "Chessology", pointing out that three of the four theoretical trends that make up the modern chess originated by people of Jewish origin: the tendency psychological - by Lasker, scientific - Tarrasch and "Energy" [sic !] - Breyer. Unsuspected survived only a brilliant Cuban mainstream position - Capablanca, a master of combining the game. entire article ...
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