Wilhelm Steinitz vs Adolf Anderssen (1866)

Wilhelm Steinitz vs Adolf Anderssen
Anderssen-Steinitz (1866) · King's Gambit: Accepted. Salvio Gambit (C37) · 1-0

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Mar-10-06		Knight13: A game full of tactic trickes for Anderssen, and he fells into some of them. 46. Rf4! was brilliant.

Mar-10-07		plang: 9..Qh3+ doesn't seem to accomplish a lot and loses time; perhaps retreating the queen immediately makes more sense. I don't really understand 12 Bd2; why not 12 Be3 immediately? 19 Bf4 is clever avoiding ..d5 and keeping the initiative. 28 Bf7 is also clever avoiding premature simplification with 28 Bg4.

Jan-08-11		Llawdogg: The young Steinitz defeats the old Anderssen in the romantic style of the day. This is well before Steinitz discovered the principles of positional play and ushered in the modern era of chess. Or so I'm told. The principle followed in this game was: When you have a lead in development, you should open up the center. Steinitz blows it open by pushing e5 and e6!

Jan-31-12		Knight13: <9..Qh3+ doesn't seem to accomplish a lot and loses time; perhaps retreating the queen immediately makes more sense.> Anderssen was trying to lure the king into a more vulnerable position in the center with a tempo (check). However, it didn't do much, as you have pointed out.

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