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Alexey Shirov vs J Lapinski
Daugavpils 1990  ·  King's Gambit: Accepted. Double Muzio Gambit (C37)  ·  1-0


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Dec-20-05   DeepBlade: <Avarageguy> Ofcourse, 16.Bxc7+ forces the King to Ke8, so the Bishop is pinned, thus it cant recapture the Queen 17.Qf8++. Just the mating pattern Shirov used, but with different move-order. Didnt noticed it, thanks ;)
Dec-29-05   DeepBlade: Here is my KGA Double Muzio Gambit

DeepBlade vs Pawn2

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. O-O Qe7 6. d4 gxf3 7. Qxf3 Bg7 8. e5 Qb4 9. Bxf7+ Kxf7 10. Qxf4+ Ke8 11. c3 Qf8 12. Qg4 Qe7 13. Qh5+ Kd8 14. Bg5 Nf6 15. Qh4 Bh6 16. Bxf6 Be3 17. Kh1 Nc6 18. Bxe7+ Nxe7 19. Qf6 Rg8 20. Qf8+ Rxf8 21. Rxf8++

Another one, DeepBlade vs Pawn2

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. O-O gxf3 6. Qxf3 Qf6 7. e5 Qxe5 8. Bxf7+ Kxf7 9. d4 Qxd4 10. Be3 Qxb2 11. Qxf4+ Nf6 12. Bd4 Qxd4 13. Qxd4 Bg7 14. Nc3 Nc6 15. Qd5+ Kf8 16. Qg5 Kf7 17. Rxf6+ Bxf6 18. Rf1 d6 19. Qxf6+ Ke8 20. Nd5 Kd7 21. Qf7+ Ne7 22. Nf6+ Kd8 23. Re1 Nf5 24. Re8+ Rxe8 25. Qxe8++

Jan-29-06   cornfused: My personal favorite King's Gambit book is Estrin's 1982 work: under the Muzio/Polerio section, it gives 11. Bxf4! as key to the whole 8. Bxf7 Kxf7 9. d4 Qxd4 10. Be3 Qf6 line. Shirov was correct - and his opponent didn't screw up until 11... Ke8. 11...Ne7 was better, but even that doesn't totally save Black. Actually, Estrin's book rates the Double Muzio as at least equal for White.
Feb-04-06   DeepBlade: Blacks main fault was 9. ...Qxd4, because it is the losing line, only way to survive it, is to be alive till the endgame. The Kingside pressure is far too strong for Black.
Aug-20-06   Pepitin17: WOW great miniature
Aug-24-06   Philidor: Such a beauty! Didn't Morphy die in 1884?
Oct-25-06
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  netlava: 16. Bxc7+ Ke8 17. Qf8# would have looked cooler.
Oct-25-06   TrueFiendish: Nah, better to sac the queen and mate with the weaker piece.
Nov-10-06   popski: This game is really one of those 'must see' games. Amazing!!
Jan-24-07   Rubenus: <TheGreatNN>

point 1: You meant Bxf7+

point 2: It is easy to defend (9...Qf5! and black is two pieces up).

point 3: Few people know that so it is still playable against weaker opponents.

Feb-04-07
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  WBP: I like the fact that Shirov plays the more aestheticly pleasing 17. Bxc7,mate, rather than the more obvious 17. Rxf8, Qe8, 18 R(either)xe8, mate.
Feb-11-07   costachess: what about 15. ... Q x d6 ? can anyone reply this move?
Feb-12-07   shalgo: <what about 15. ... Q x d6 ?>

Then 16.Qf8#

Feb-27-07   BDayton: According to Rybka 2.3, 11...Ke8 and 12...Nc6 gave back most of black's initiative. 14...Be7 blew the game wide open, however. Until move 11, black had a clear advantage.
Oct-30-07   flipmo: what about 15 :c x d6?
Feb-01-08   sambo: <what about 15 :c x d6?>

16. Qf8#. The bishop is pinned.

What a fantastic game by Shirov. This is how you play the Muzio!

May-22-08   gambitking: This is my favourite opening and the one i do the best with. For an all out attacker, the moves of O-O! and BxP ch.!! are simply spectacular

The Gambit King

Dec-24-08   WhiteRook48: wow people hardly do sacrifices like this anymore.
First:
Sac of the f-pawn.
Sac of the f3-Knight.
Bishop sac on f7.
Queen sac on f8.
Checkmate.
Dec-31-08
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  computer chess guy: <BDayton: According to Rybka 2.3, .. Until move 11, black had a clear advantage.> I agree Black should have tried a developing move at this point instead of moving the King, but I see no decisive edge for him even with better play. You can't really trust computers very far in these gambit positions. They tend to over-value material vs. the development and attack potential that compensate for the gambit.
May-23-09
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  shakespeare: wow - this is definitely Morphy like playing :-)
Jun-26-09   GrahamClayton: <patzer2>Of course if 9. ..Qf5! is a forced win (as Fritz 8 analyzes) for black, this would be merely academic.

patzer2,
Raymond Keene in the "Complete Book of Gambits" gives White an advantage after 9...Qf5 10.g4 Qg6 11.Bf4 Nf6 12.Be5 d6 13.Bf6 Bg4 14.Qg2 Rg8 15.Kh1 Bf5 16.Qd5. Can you post some of the Fritz 8 analysis?

Jul-05-09   Whitehat1963: Excellent Tuesday puzzle after 15...Kd8.
Aug-27-09   kooley782: This game is amazing-Shirov plays like a romanticist. I mean, who ever plays the King's Gambit anymore? BTW King's Gambit is one of my favorite opening.
Aug-27-09   Soinne: The real blunder is actually 12...Nc6, which allows white to almost equalize. Better was 12...Bc5+. However, the evaluation shifts towards white after: 13. Kh1 Ne7 14. Rae1. In every line, it seems black is punished for underdevelopment.
Aug-27-09
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  KingG: This was possibly my favourite game when I started playing chess seriously. Influenced by games like these and those of Anderssen and Morphy, I also played the King's Gambit all the time, and always tried to sacrifice on f7, whether or not it was sound. Although to be honest in those days, I could barely calculate anything, so I had no way of knowing if a sacrifice was sound or not.

However, as beautiful as this game is, I have often wondered whether or not it is real. Shirov has very little record of playing the King's Gambit, and it seems odd that in one of the few games he has in the opening, he plays such a perfect game. This line of the Muzio has been known for a long time, and I wouldn't be surprised if this whole game hadn't already been printed as analysis somewhere. Not only that, but the refutation(which has been mentioned in an earlier post) to the Muzio has also been known for a long time, so it's not only strange that Black should play this line, but also White.

It's also worth noting that Shirov didn't include this game in his book Fire on the Board. Has he ever annotated this game elsewhere?

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