* Savielly Tartakower and J. du Mont.

Tartakower and du Mont remark, " Black conducts the game with superb élan.

Alekhine, Reinfeld, and Tartakower and du Mont do not call 9 ... Nd5!

His works influenced numerous other players, including Savielly Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian, and his influence is still felt today.

Hence in Europe the name Morra Gambit is preferred ; names like Tartakower Gambit and Matulovic Gambit have disappeared.

Tartakower is best remembered for his sharp wit and countless aphorisms which kept his audience bent over with laughter.

For these reasons, the Konstantinopolsky Opening is rarely seen at the top levels of chess, although some grandmasters such as Savielly Tartakower ( who experimented with numerous unusual openings ) have experimented with it.

A famous example is Réti – Tartakower, Vienna 1910, which arose after 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Qd3 e5?!

It was probably named by Tartakower who used both names for this opening, although the chess author Tim Harding has jokingly suggested that " Amar " is an acronym for " Absolutely mad and ridiculous ".

* Tartakower – Makogonov – Bondarevsky System ( TMB system ): 5 ... h6 6 Bh4 0-0 7 e3 b6, is one of the most solid continuations for Black.

Perhaps its most famous use came in the game Tartakower versus Maróczy, New York City 1924.

The name " Orangutan Opening " originates from that game: the players had visited the zoo the previous day, and Tartakower had consulted an orangutan there about what move he should open with the next day.

The position in diagram 1 occurred in an 1898 game between Amos Burn and Harry Pillsbury and also in a 1925 game between Savielly Tartakower and Richard Réti.

Savielly Tartakower described this as " a beautiful game ".

Savielly Tartakower said, " A combination second to none in the literature of the game.

Atkins ( Black ) won the following game at London 1922 against Savielly Tartakower ( White ), then one of the world's leading players.

Tartakower thought highly enough of the game to include it in his book 500 Master Games of Chess. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nxe4 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Bd3 dxe4 7. Bxe4 Bd6 8. d4 Nxd4 9. Nxd4 exd4 10. Qxd4 O-O 11. Be3 Qe7 12. O-O-O Re8 13. Bd5?

For instance, he split with Alekhine, won games against Réti and Savielly Tartakower, both of whom were Top 10 in the world at the time according to the estimated rankings of the website Chessmetrics. com, drew Capablanca and drew a famous game against Emanuel Lasker.

Petrovs placed 3rd-5th at Łódź in 1938, behind Vasja Pirc and Tartakower, and third at Margate in 1938, behind Alekhine and Rudolf Spielmann, defeating Alekhine in their individual game.

the game Ladmann – Tartakower ( Scarborough 1929 ) continued with 3 ... exd4 4. Qxd4 Be7 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Qd1 Ne4 7. Bxe7 Qxe7 8. a3 d6 9. e3 0-0 10. Be2 Qf6 11. Nbd2 Bf5 when both Tseitlin and Borik assess the position as favourable for Black.

the game Menchik – Tartakower ( Paris 1929 ) continued with 3 ... e4 4. Nfd2 d5 5. cxd5?!

Nimzovitsch's colleague Tartakower observed of him, " He pretends to be crazy in order to drive us all crazy.

* 1887 – Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player ( d. 1956 )

* Players still living who, though past their best in 1950, were recognised as having been world class when at their peak: Ossip Bernstein, Oldřich Duras, Ernst Grünfeld, Borislav Kostić, Grigory Levenfish, Géza Maróczy, Jacques Mieses, Viacheslav Ragozin, Akiba Rubinstein, Friedrich Sämisch, Savielly Tartakower, and Milan Vidmar.

Tartakower Gambit: 1. b4 e5 2. Bb2 f6 3. e4 Bxb4 ( 783 games )

Other notable grandmasters against whom he had plus records include Fine, Flohr, Viktor Korchnoi, Efim Geller, Savielly Tartakower, Mark Taimanov, Milan Vidmar, Svetozar Gligorić, Isaac Boleslavsky, Efim Bogoljubov and Bent Larsen.

However, did have the consolation of claiming among his victims Rubinstein and Savielly Tartakower.

Well-known venues for granite climbing include Yosemite, the Bugaboos, the Mont Blanc massif ( and peaks such as the Aiguille du Dru, the Mountains of Mourne, the Adamello-Presanella Alps, the Aiguille du Midi and the Grandes Jorasses ), the Bregaglia, Corsica, parts of the Karakoram ( especially the Trango Towers ), the Fitzroy Massif, Patagonia, Baffin Island, Ogawayama, the Cornish coast and the Cairngorms.

* Maquis du Mont Mouchet in the Auvergne

* Southern Cottian Alps ( It: Alpi del Monviso / Fr: Alpes du Mont Viso )-SOIUSA code: I / A-4. I

* Northern Cottian Alps ( It: Alpi del Moncenisio / Fr: Alpes du Mont Cenis )-SOIUSA code: I / A-4. III

The Isère, Arly, Arve valleys and the Col des Montets separate them from the Savoy Prealps ; the Col Ferret and the Dora Baltea valley separate them from the Pennine Alps ; the Dora Ripariavalley and the Col du Mont Cenis separates them from the Cottian Alps ; the Arc valley separates them from the Dauphiné Alps.

* Mont Blanc Alps ( It: Alpi del Monte Bianco / Fr: Massif du Mont-Blanc )-SOIUSA code: I / A-7. V,

* the Central group ( the watershed between the Little St Bernard Pass and the Col du Mont Cenis )

fr: Bataille du Mont Badon

The department also contains numerous rivers, above and below ground, including the Tarn, whose source is on Mont Lozère, and which flows through the Gorges du Tarn in the Causses.

fr: Mont du Temple

* Monetiers les bains: Notre Dame du Mont Thabor

* Monte Rosa, Mont Blanc du Tacul, Weissmies ( 1855 )

* Aiguille du Dru, Les Bans, Mont Maudit ( 1878 )

fr: Parc national du Mont Kaputar

In the summer months Chamonix is a mecca for alpine mountaineers, drawn to the area by challenges like the north, west and south-west faces of the Dru, the Frendo Spur on the Aiguille du Midi, the north face of the Grandes Jorasses and the massive face climbs on the south side of Mont Blanc.

fr: Parc national du Mont Remarkable

fr: Parc national du Mont William

* August 29, 1961: A military plane split the hauling cable of the Vallee Blanche Aerial Tramway on the Aiguille du Midi in the Mont Blanc massif: six people killed.

* Sky du Mont as Hessen

Its biological distinctiveness was recognised by UNESCO in 1990 when the Réserve de Biosphère du Mont Ventoux was created, protecting an area of 810 square kilometres ( 200, 150 acres ) on and around the mountain.

Every year there are amateur races to climb the mountain as quickly and often as possible in 24 hours, the Ventoux Masterseries and " Les Cinglés du Mont Ventoux ".

Bookseller Gerhard Ludwig, who worked for the influential publisher Neven du Mont in 1941, was dismissed immediately when he got into trouble with the Gestapo for political reasons.

Upon his return to Cologne after his release from Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1946, editor Neven du Mont spotted him and complained about the release of prisoners from the camps-he still saw them as " criminals ".

* 1957: Formation of the STMB ( Société du tunnel du Mont Blanc ), which became ATMB ( Autoroutes et Tunnel du Mont Blanc ) in 1996.