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Sep-05-07
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| wolfmaster: How can this game not have been GOTD already? |
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Sep-05-07
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| Chessmensch: <zb2cr> Thanks very much for the comment, which confirms and elaborates on my observation. Your point about black's position after 15 is noteworthy and telling. I often observe such things (see my kibitz re Arnason vs. Timman on Sept. 1) but I missed this one. |
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Sep-05-07
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| apple pi: I can't believe this hasn't been GOTD before! I'm a new member; i just assumed the immortal would have been cashed a lot earlier. |
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| Sep-05-07 |
| D4n: BishopofBlunder called that one. |
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Sep-06-07
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| ahmadov: <Domdaniel: My favorite in the dashing romantic style is R Steel vs NN, 1886 -- even if there's some doubt as to whether it was all played over the board.> Yes, that is a true brilliancy... |
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Sep-07-07
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| BishopofBlunder: <keypusher: <How many of us can claim to have won a game in which we were down a Queen, two Rooks, and a Bishop?> <Me!>
Oh, sorry, <Bishop of Blunder>, I just realized you said "won." Never mind...> lol! You had me going for a moment. I was about to demand that you post the PGN! |
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| Sep-07-07 |
| Darth Lasker: <<crafty> 20. ... Ba6 21. Nc7+ Kd8 22. Nxa6 Qc3 23. Bc7+ Qxc7  (eval -0.44; depth 12 ply; 5000M nodes)>Chigorin analyzed this line and the conclusion is: white still wins! |
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| Oct-03-07 |
| m0nkee1: Really like e5 - beutiful move, sealing off a few more squares around blacks king. preventing the queen retreating to defend & offering a big diversion to the opponent.... Am a a big fan of "retro" chess computers (good Saiteks & Novags) they're very greedy and will follow the best line's to get material. making them vulnerable to early checkmates with lots of scafifices. "Old Kentucky" By Blackburne is another beautiful sacrificial game on the site.... |
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| Oct-05-07 |
| jbahadur: This game is very pretty to look at, but there are plenty of blunders. For example, after 18...Qxa1+ 19. Ke2 Qb2, Anderssen is toast, I believe. It's the extra tempo he spends grabbing the rook with his bishop that loses it. |
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Oct-05-07
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| Calli: Its not that simple. See Honza's analysis on page 7, Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851 |
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Oct-17-07
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| notyetagm: Position after 21 ...  e8-d8:
click for larger viewHere White is threatening the snap mate 22  d6-e7#. Black is meeting this threat by having his g8-knight <DEFEND> this e7-mating focal point. But if the Black g8-knight <DEFENDS> the e7-mating square, what Black piece or pawn <DEFENDS> the f6-square? <<<That is, if the Black g8-knight keeps the White d6-bishop from giving mate on e7, what keeps the White f3-queen out of f6?>>> The answer is simple: nothing(!) stops 22  f3-f6+!. Position after 22 f3-f6+!:
click for larger viewThe Black g8-knight is just terribly <OVERWORKED>: it cannot keep the White d6-bishop out of e7 -and- keep the White f3-queen out of f6. White forces mate with 22 f3-f6+!  g8xf6 <deflection from e7> 23 d6-e7#. 
click for larger viewA lovely <PURE CHECKMATE>. |
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Nov-04-07
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| nimh: Rybka 2.4 mp, AMD X2 2.01GHz, 10 min per move, threshold 0.33. Anderssen 4 mistakes:
8.Nh4 -0.59 (8.Rg1 0.28)
10.g4 -1.30 (10.Ba4 0.00)
17.Nd5 1.59 (17.d4 3.24)
18.Bd6 -0.69 (18.Re1 1.53)
Kieseritsky 7 mistakes:
7...Nh5 0.28 (7...Nc6 -0.24)
9...c6 0.00 (9...g6 -0.51)
10...Nf6 -0.32 (10...g6 -1.30)
11...cxb5 0.22 (11...h5 -0.32)
16...Bc5 3.24 (16...Qc6 0.52)
18...Bxg1 1.78 (18...Qxa1+ -0.69)
20...Na6 #3 (20...Ba6 1.18) |
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| Jan-12-08 |
| JimmyVermeer: I have won a game in which I gave my opponent odds of queen, 2 rooks, and 2 bishops. Needless to say, my opponent was an amateur. |
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| Jan-19-08 |
| asiduodiego: This game is beatiful. I read that even if black plays the correct line with 20. ...Ba6 (which avoids mate), White can force moves to regain one of the rooks, and keep an spatial advantage enough to lead to a winning endgame. Excelent game. |
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| Feb-08-08 |
| D.Observer: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immort... for the annotation. |
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Mar-16-08
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| Knight13: Here’s what David Shenk wrote in his book of chess history, <"The Immortal Game,"> about this game after move 1: <“It was quiet beginning for a casual game, held at Simpson’s Grand Divan Tavern, the smoky man’s club and chess café on the Strand boulevard in London. These were the two of the greatest chess players in the world at the time, but very few people were likely watching this throwaway practice game—the real action was a mile away at the St. George’s Chess Club at Cavendish Square, where Anderssen, Kieseritzky, and four-teen other world-class players were competing in chess’s first-ever true international tournament.”> (The international tournament being the London 1851 tournament organized by Howard Staunton) |
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May-05-08
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| ketchuplover: null??????????????????????? |
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| May-05-08 |
| Petrosianic: That's the problem with this place. Too many people running around, screaming "Null" for no reason. |
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| Jul-12-08 |
| JimmyVermeer: This game is listed in Encyclopaedia Britannica, but it transposes all moves from Black's third to White's 5th. It also transposes Black's 8th and 9th moves. Anyone know why that would be? |
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Jul-12-08
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| DukeAlba: Interestingly Kieseritsky has a plus score of (+7 -6 =2) against Anderssen in the Chessgames database... |
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| Aug-12-08 |
| Miachonzinho: Why 19. e5 and not 19. Ng7, with mate on 3? Would Anderssen let his challenger think he would won? |
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Aug-13-08
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| keypusher: <Miachonzinho: Why 19. e5 and not 19. Ng7, with mate on 3? Would Anderssen let his challenger think he would won?> 19. Nxg7+ Qxg7. The point of 19. e5 is cut the queen off from g7. |
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Aug-30-08
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| JonathanJ: this is truly the most overrated game ever, full of stupid blunders. |
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Sep-06-08
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| ravel5184: hee hee hee
I played this on Guess-the-Move and got 66 points
I played it all from memory
hee hee hee |
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| Sep-12-08 |
| afterbirth: What an ending! This is typical though. The player who is initially dominating is consumed in the feeding frenzy of gobbling up his opponents pieces, and in the process fails to adequately protect his king. You can usually assume that with a large point advantage it will mean that the oppossing player will not be able to mount a sufficient offensive attack to do any real damage. But positioning is everything, not point value. It's so easy to fall victim to this type of play. And it is masterful to be able to bait an opponent into this trap. Just goes to show that protecting the king should always be top priority. |
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