They may not have been very strong players themselves, but many can claim credit for teaching the game’s greatest stars how to set up the board and the difference between a pin and a fork.
With Father’s Day looming, this is an apt time to celebrate the contributions of the game’s chess dads — as instructors, financiers, chauffeurs and progenitors of offspring who, in a few lucky cases, go on to heights in the game the father could never imagine.
The high point of Smyslov pere’s playing career was no doubt today’s first game, when he downed future world champion Alexander Alekhine in a strong tournament in St. Petersburg in 1912. White’s kingside array seems formidable, but Black smartly seeks counterplay with 25 … Rb3! 26. Kf2?! Rd3 27. Qb2 Bd1!, gumming up the coordination of White’s attack.
The elder Thomas Paehtz has had a remarkable career of his own, winning both the East German and unified German national title and competing regularly in strong events across the continent in a career that has spanned five decades. As in today’s first game, a signature Paehtz victory involves beating a future world champion, this time 15-year-old rising Bulgarian star Veselin Topalov at a 1990 event.
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