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Mikhail Chigorin vs Wilhelm Steinitz
Steinitz-Chigorin World Championship Match (1889)  ·  Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Slow Variation (C52)  ·  1-0
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Nov-27-07  PADutchImprover: 17 . . . d6? White recovers the two gambited pawns, secures a significantly better pawn formation, and has control of the two open files.

27 f3 White elegantly prepares to drive the black King away from the king pawn.

Nov-27-07  sneaky pete: 17... d6 doesn't deserve a question mark. His only alternative 17... Bd4 18.Nxd4 exd4 19.d6 .. is worse.
Feb-27-08  Knight13: The stuff came at Steinitz too fast.
Feb-27-08  RookFile: You've got to admire Steinitz. No matter how many times Chigorin slapped him around with the Evans Gambit, he always came back looking for more.
Feb-28-08
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  grasser: <RookFile> Imagine the score if Steinitz had played a different opening as Black.
Feb-28-08  RookFile: But then, he wouldn't be Steinitz. There is a place for his bulldog tenacity. The difference between him and Lasker, though, was that Lasker knew when things weren't working, and it was time to try a different course.
Aug-30-10  soothsayer8: Any modern GM would have had little problem with Chigorin's Evan's Gambit. It was interesting to see this WC match as a battle of ideologies, with Steinitz clearly favoring the more positional QG and Chigorin with the aggressive Evan's Gambit.

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