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| Sep-06-08 |
| 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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| Sep-29-08 |
| ivan verdiskel: in russia we call tis set of moves yakenblak. were a plyer set mind to attack but get sting by bees! |
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| Oct-08-08 |
| CharlesSullivan: To demonstrate the complexity of this game, here is Kasparov, one of the greatest attacking players in history, flubbing the analysis [on p.24 of "My Great Predecessors, Part I"] of Steinitz's improvement at the 18th move: 18... xa1+ 19. e2 b2! Kasparov continues 20.d2!  xg1! 21.e5 a6 22. xg7+ d8 23.xf7 and reaches this position:
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Kasparov has gone into this variation trying to show that "White's attack, in my view, is sufficient only for a draw." But here he (and his circa-1999 computer) overlooks <23...h6+!> and Black wins (according to Rybka & Zappa). White has many ways to play, but all lose; one possible continuation is 24.f6+ c8 25.xh6 c6 26.f6 b7 27.f5  ad8 and Black, with almost <2 extra rooks> and a solid-enough position, will win this:
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| Oct-08-08 |
| CharlesSullivan: Since we have seen that, after 18...Qa1+ 19.Ke2 Qb2! 20.Kd2! Bxg1! 21.e5 Ba6*, Kasparov's 22.Nxg7+ Kd8 23.Qxf7 loses to 23...Nh6+! we should look for a better 22nd move. Here is the position:
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White has a (fairly obvious move) that begins encircling the Black king and which forces Black to take a draw by perpetual check. That move is <22.Nc7+!> and the main variation is 22...Kd8 23.Qxa8 Bb6 24.Qxb8+ Bc8 25.Nd5! Ba5+! 26.Ke3! Qxc2! (the safest way to draw) 27.Qxa7 and now the mating threats force 27...Qd2+ 28.Kf3 Qd1+ 29.Kg3 Qe1+ 30.Kg2 Qe2+ etc. *By the way, Kasparov is right when he says that 21...Bb7 leads to a draw, assuming best play. |
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| Oct-10-08 |
| mjmorri: This game was one of the two games featured in the chess article in the Encyclopaedia Britannic (9th edition 1878-1888). The other was a game by Morphy. T W Barnes vs Morphy, 1858 Regarding the present game, I will quote from that chess article: "The manner in which White in the first game forces the victory, though losing piece after piece, scarcely finds a parallel in the records of chess strategy." This statement is as true today as it was when it was written 130 years ago. |
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| Oct-10-08 |
| mjmorri: All of you people who are using a computer to analyse this game ought to be run out of town. Does this game have any flaws? - Yes
Is Anderssen's play brilliant - Absolutely!! |
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Nov-17-08
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| LIFE Master AJ: Since many of the links that I originally gave no longer work ... http://www.geocities.com/lifemaster...
http://www.lifemasteraj.com/old_af-... http://www.worldchessacademy.com/An... |
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| Dec-03-08 |
| WhiteRook48: weird....Wikipedia does NOT have a good java animation. |
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| Dec-07-08 |
| WhiteRook48: Sacrifices are amazing |
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| Dec-23-08 |
| WhiteRook48: There was a Short v Kasparov game that stayed the same with this until move 6 |
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| Jan-23-09 |
| WhiteRook48: how is 10. g4 a mistake? |
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| Feb-03-09 |
| WhiteRook48: incredible sacrifices |
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| Feb-27-09 |
| 1. h4: <WR48>
Actually, in the kaspy-short game you're talking about, it was an exhibition and they were forced to play those first 6 moves. |
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| Mar-09-09 |
| WhiteRook48: <1. h4> I thought they were only forced to play the first 4 moves |
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| Mar-14-09 |
| 1. h4: Sorry, yeah, first 4 moves. |
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| May-24-09 |
| steve123456: Instead of 20...Na6, I think Kieseritsky should play 20....Ba6(White couldn't force checkmate with an open square) |
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| May-31-09 |
| steve123456: But then Anderssen could move 21.Nc7+...Kd8 22.Qxa8, and Anderssen would surely win with such a positional advantage. |
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| Jun-24-09 |
| kooley782: Hello, everyone. I'm kooley782. I just activated my account, so I will begin kibitzing. My favorite player is Anderssen, so why not kibitz on the Immortal Game? :) You can see some of my internet games on http://chessinstruction.wordpress.c.... My coach is the one annotating the games. I'm about 1500-1600 rating-wise, but I'm looking to change that REAL soon. :) Well, see everyone around the site! Regards,
Kooley |
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Jul-05-09
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| pier daniele: This game is fully annotated on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immort...
(English)
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'immo...(scacchi)
(Italian) |
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Jul-06-09
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| pier daniele: I'm a beginner, so I apologize in advance if my question would be silly. Why 20.Kg2 is a such terrible move? I did that in "Guess the move" and I got -3 points!! But I can't understand my error ... |
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| Aug-20-09 |
| tommy boy: <pier daniele> because there would be a Q+K pin position if Black plays Bb2. |
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| Aug-26-09 |
| GrahamClayton: The position after Black's 20th move was featured on a postage stamp released by the South American country of Surinam: http://www.tri.org.au/chess/Surinam... |
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| Oct-01-09 |
| sfm: <pier daniele: I'm a beginner, so I apologize in advance if my question would be silly. Why 20.Kg2 is a such terrible move?>
It is not that terrible! I think that most master players, in a blitz game, including myself, intuitively would have played 20.Kg2.
But it is a big mistake. After that move, if Black play 20.-,Na6 it makes no difference. But Black plays 20.-,Bb7, our nice combination is gone and it looks like Black wins. |
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| Oct-20-09 |
| Qb6: Why didn't Black play 20. ... Ba6, creating flights for his king? |
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