Charousek vs Suechting – the battle continues

Dennis Monokroussos writes:

Last week we took a quick look at Rudolf Charousek’s crushing win over world champion Emanuel Lasker before moving on to our main game, Charousek’s win against Hugo Suechting from Berlin 1897. After a thorough examination of the opening, that old club favorite called the Colle System, we were just starting to take a delve into the meat of the game. As we saw, the middlegame was incredibly sharp, with Suechting holding on by a thread – we’ll see if Charousek could have snapped it. As things transpired, Suechting’s resourceful dividends might have even won the game, but after an inaccuracy the game headed to an unclear ending. From there Charousek outplayed his opponent rather easily, but, as we’ll see, it’s not clear that this reflected the objective merits of the position. We’ll examine this ending thoroughly, as I think there are some useful lessons to be learned.

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Dennis Monokroussos is 39, lives in South Bend, IN, and is an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

He is fairly inactive as a player right now, spending most of his non-philosophy time being a husband and teaching chess. At one time he was one of the strongest juniors in the U.S., but quit for about eight years starting in his early 20s. His highest rating was 2434 USCF, but he has now fallen to the low-mid 2300s – "too much blitz, too little tournament chess", he says.

Dennis has been working as a chess teacher for seven years now, giving lessons to adults and kids both in person and on the internet, worked for a number of years for New York’s Chess In The Schools program, where he was one of the coaches of the 1997-8 US K-8 championship team from the Bronx, and was very active in working with many of CITS’s most talented juniors.

When Dennis Monokroussos presents a game, there are usually two main areas of focus: the opening-to-middlegame transition and the key moments of the middlegame (or endgame, when applicable). With respect to the latter, he attempts to present some serious analysis culled from his best sources (both text and database), which he has checked with his own efforts and then double-checked with his chess software.

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