The Artist of Attack. Author of 'The Art of Sacrifice in Chess'. A romantic attacker who refused to compromise in an era moving toward positional play.
One-time purchase · Windows download · UCI compatible · works offline · instant download after purchase
The browser version lets you meet the personality before buying. The installed engine plays locally, in CZUBATRONIC 2400 and your own chess software, with the full personality model.
Spielmann sacrifices on principle. He wrote the book on the art, and his games show the full catalogue: sacrifices for attack, for development, for open files, and the king hunts that follow once the cover is gone.
Against him, the first question of every middlegame is whether your king is truly safe. Castled is not the same as safe, and he demonstrates the difference regularly.
Regular games against Spielmann are a course in attack and defence at once. You learn which sacrifices are sound and which are hopeful, how to accept material without accepting a lost king and how an attack is conducted once it begins. The last Romantic is the clearest teacher of the sacrificial game.
A single game shows part of the personality. Repeated games reveal more: you begin to recognise familiar structures, recurring plans and the kinds of positions this opponent prefers. That is where the collection becomes interesting, because different personalities put different questions to your chess.
Rudolf Spielmann was the last great Romantic, a player who believed in the beauty of sacrifice when the chess world was moving toward cold positional play. His book 'The Art of Sacrifice in Chess' (1935) remains a classic, a love letter to the combinative spirit that defined the era of Anderssen and Morphy. He won numerous strong tournaments in the 1920s and 30s and was among the world's top ten for much of that period. His king hunts were legendary: once the attack began, there was no escape. He fled Austria after the Nazi annexation and died in poverty in Stockholm in 1942.
Notable: Author of 'The Art of Sacrifice in Chess', still in print nearly a century later. Won the Nordic Championship 1934 and numerous major European tournaments.
| Era | Classical |
| Years | 1883–1942 |
| Historical rating (estimated) | 2600 |
| Born | Vienna, Austria, 1883 |
| Title | Leading tournament player (1900s–1930s) |
| Style | King hunts, brilliant sacrifices, romantic attacking chess |
The ChessGate personality of Spielmann, reconstructed from the historical player's games, with their own style, their own plans and their own idea of chess. A chess partner with real character, at any level, whenever you like. Play it inside CZUBATRONIC 2400 and the built-in Coach can flag weak moves and show a stronger one. The engine runs offline on your machine, in CZUBATRONIC 2400 and any UCI chess interface.
| File | ChessGate_Spielmann.exe · 29 MB |
| Runs in | CZUBATRONIC 2400 (as an external engine) and any UCI chess interface |
| Requirements | Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit; any UCI chess interface; CZUBATRONIC 2400 lists it as an external engine |
| Delivery | Instant download after purchase. Installer, no administrator rights; if CZUBATRONIC 2400 is installed, the personality registers itself there as an engine. |
| Works offline | Yes. No account, no server. |
| Packs | – |
| Collection | Complete Personality Collection |
| In the browser | A lighter version of ChessGate Spielmann plays on ChessGate. |