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Úmonín>Klein Lometz, Bohemia1900189df=yes}}Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary>Hungary}}{{chess notation}}Rudolf Charousek (; 19 September 1873 – 18 April 1900) was a Czech born Hungarian chess player.BOOK, Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum, Encyclopaedia Judaica: Blu-Cof,weblink 2007, Granite Hill Publishers, 978-0-02-865932-9, 580, One of the top ten players in the world during the 1890s,Chessmetrics Player Profile: Rezsö CharousekEdo Ratings, Charousek, R. he had a short career, dying at the age of 26 from tuberculosis. Reuben Fine wrote of him "Playing over his early games is like reading Keats's poetry: you cannot help feeling a grievous, oppressive sense of loss, of promise unfulfilled".Reuben Fine, ''The World's Greatest Chess Games, p103, Courier Corporation, 1976, {{ISBN|0486245128}}Charousek was born in Klein Lometz (modern Lomeček) near Prague, Bohemia. At the age of five weeks, his family moved to Debrecen, Hungary, where he became a naturalized Hungarian. They later moved to Miskolc where, at the age of 16, he learned to play chess. Studying law in Kassa, he is said to have copied out the voluminous Handbuch des Schachspiels by hand, unable to afford his own copy. Despite the lack of competition in Kassa, he soon became a strong player, and also qualified as a lawyer. In 1893 he entered a correspondence tournament organised by the Budapest newspaper (:hu:Pesti Hirlap|Pesti Hirlap), in which he eventually shared first place with another up and coming Hungarian master, Géza Maróczy. He joined the Budapest chess club, where he frequently played with Maróczy and Gyula Makovetz, and convincingly defeated Gyozo Exner in a match.Philip W. Sergeant, Charousek's Games of Chess, G. Bell and Sons, London, 1919{{-}}

Notable games

This is Charousek's last round win over the World Champion in his international tournament debut:Charousek-Lasker, Nuremberg 1896 {{Chess diagram small|tright|Charousek - Wollner kdpdbdpl pd pd blqd pl pl rlkl|Position after 16. ...Nc6}}Another of Charousek's games, which Grandmaster Andrew Soltis described as "one of the prettiest ever", was the basis for the sty Last Round by Kester Svendsen,Last Round by Kester Svendsen which Soltis called "perhaps the finest chess short story".Andrew Soltis, "From Russia with Love", Chess Life, October 1993, p. 16. Here is the game with punctuation marks by Soltis:Charousek—Wollner, Kaschau 1893 {{clear}}A variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined is named after him.WEB,weblink D31: Queen's Gambit Declined, 3.Nc3,

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• weblink Four part video series on Charousek by JessicaFischerQueen

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