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Mar-21-07
 | | Richard Taylor: Here is the final postion:
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| Mar-21-07 | | chocobonbon: For closers how about 32.Qa8+ Kb7; 33.Nd5+ Kc6; 34.Ra6# |
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Mar-21-07
 | | RandomVisitor: After 5.Ke2:
1: Wilhelm Steinitz - Louis Paulsen, Spa Tournament 1870
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1. ³ (-0.59): 5...b6 6.Qd2 Ba6+ 7.Kd1 Bxf1 8.Nf3 Qh5 9.Rxf1 g5 10.d5 Ne5 11.Nb5 Bd6 12.Qe2 2. ³ (-0.36): 5...Nf6 6.Nf3 Qg4 7.e5 Nh5 8.Nd5 Kd8 9.Kf2 Ne7 10.Nxe7 Bxe7 11.Bc4 Rf8 12.Re1 |
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| Mar-21-07 | | schnarre: Been a while since I played a Steinitz Gambit (*begins to dust off cobwebs*) |
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Mar-21-07
 | | kevin86: If the old Kansas City Chiefs and Hank Stram popularized the "moving pocket",the chess version was Steinitz' king wanderings. A very unusual way to "castle" Ke2-e3-f3-e3-f2,Rf1,Kg1. The final pin mate doesn't at first look like a checkmate that it is. |
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| Mar-21-07 | | Jaymthetactician: Wow that's pretty funny, I annotated this game via the Shredder database, I said about the Ke3-f2-g1 move: "And he's the guy who said the Kings an attacking piece :D" I notiee that Steinitz has horrible luck when an opponent plays 5...d5! instead. |
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| Mar-21-07 | | Themofro: Beautiful game by Steinitz. Some other games I consider great king marches, the one previuos mentioned by MorphyMatt, the Nigel Short one, and a more defenxive and lesser known one by Danielsen. H Danielsen vs Pokorna, 2003 black does have a perpetual check, so not forced, but whites king covers a huge distance and has a great endgame by white. |
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| Mar-21-07 | | micartouse: <Jaymthetactician> is right. It seems to me he's admitting that the king belongs in a castled position. The king stroll was begging for open lines, and Paulsen didn't oblige so the whole business leaves me with an unaesthetic dirty feeling. Now the tactics of the game beginning with 21. b6! are really what I find beautiful. |
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Mar-21-07
 | | keypusher: Here's another amazing king-walk that doesn't seem to have been posted to this page yet. Chigorin vs H Caro, 1898 |
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Mar-21-07
 | | Gypsy: Tarrasch vs Reti, 1922 |
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Dec-17-08
 | | chancho: Paulsen must have been scratching his head and wondering how it was possible for Steinitz to play something like 5.Ke2 and get away with it. |
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| Jan-05-09 | | WhiteRook48: the king is a fighting piece! |
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| May-29-09 | | Fanacas: This is one of my faforit games i love the opening, and i always enjoy how steinits tried strange things like 3.f6 in the spanisch or his strange steinitz attack in the french. |
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Jul-15-09
 | | Honza Cervenka: <chancho: Paulsen must have been scratching his head and wondering how it was possible for Steinitz to play something like 5.Ke2 and get away with it.> 5.Ke2 is quite forced. The "weird" move is 4.d4 instead of natural 4.Nf3 but still it could not be any surprise for Paulsen here as this "Steinitz Gambit" was no novelty in this game. Also it should be mentioned here that this line has purely positional reasoning in classical sense and it was no odd psychological trick or risky adventurous sideline for Steinitz. Steinitz thought that control of centre in the opening (with Pawns if possible) is the most important factor which can produce significant or even decisive advantage and he was ready to sac a Pawn or castling for that without hesitation. And it worked for him in this line quite well. Only much later it was established by deep analysis and long practice that with optimal play white must fight for equality in this line instead of having positional advantage but even today it is possible to play it with success against unprepared opponent. In 1870 it was quite respectable opening though there were not much eager followers of Steinitz then as it was a bit too nonconforming. But other players like Chigorin or Charousek used it as well occasionally. |
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Jul-15-09
| | chancho: Thanks <Honza>. |
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| Sep-18-09 | | WhiteRook48: 4 d4 the theoretical novelty |
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| Apr-24-10 | | ariel el luchador: Steinitz jugó bárbaro,pero paulsen no entiendía que jugaba es un desproposito que se hayan ganado partidas con el gambito Steinitz. |
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Aug-26-10
 | | Garech: I agree, a beautiful game from Steinitz. Not only for the king-aggressive opening which won him his beloved bishop pair but also the middlegame attack - 21. b6! deserves an exclamation mark. If black plays ...cxb6 then 22. Rxf6! is completely winning as if black answers with Qxf6 next comes Nd5! And black will have to give up his queen in order to stop himself from being mated via Qc3+ and white capturing the rook on d8 a couple of moves later with mate. However, Steinitz blundered, effectively, in the game contination after 21. ... axb6 with Rxf6 - although the exchange sac is strong and leads to very active play, the position is made equal. Much stronger was 22. a5! and white has a very promising position. 25. f5?? was almost certainly the decisive mistake. A better defence was b5, although the position is still good for white. Black had made several innaccurate moves by that stage anyway (most notably 24. Qg7 - h8 was the correct, albeit passive, square for the queen) and allowed Steinitz to gain a second advantage, after losing the first. From move 25 onwards Steinitz attacked mercilessly and accurately: 26. axb6 was very nice, leaving his bishop to hang in order to generate a game-ending attack: if 26 ... fxg4 next would come Ra8+! Kxa8 Qa5+ Kb8 bxc7+ forcing Qxc7 to avoid mate and now Qxc7+ Ka8 Qxd8+ and it's all over. 27. Nxb6 also was great, once again letting the g4 bishop fall but this time for a mating attack. If 27 ... fxg4 now Ra8+ Kc7 Qc3+ Kxb6 Qa5+ Kc6 d5+ Kd7 Qxd8+ - all forced. 29. f6 wasn't anywhere near as strong as Ra8+ but by that stage white is completely winning anyway and there are many paths to victory. 32. Nd5 effectively wins the black queen but misses a mate in 5: Qa8+ Kc7 Qa5 and black has 5 legal moves but all of them result in mate in 3 e.g. Kb8 Nd5 and there is no way to defend both the mate on a8 and the rook on d8, which will be captured with mate. All in all a powerful game from I think a somewhat under-appreciated ex-world champion. Fischer was one of his greatest admirers and it's easy to see why - he had a very original and deep style. Kudos! |
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Sep-22-10
 | | sevenseaman: Such beauties do not appear ever so often; when they do they leave you sated. |
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| Nov-06-10 | | WhiteRook48: to pin or not to pin |
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| Aug-14-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: I would call this something really original and creative like: "Gee whiz! My King goes for a walk!" John D. (e-mail) Did not check this with Fritz, but 26...c6; looks to be refuted by 27.Ra8+! Yes, I agree, its a cool game, and that Steinitz was vastly beyond his contemporaries. (good stuff, thnks for the note) |
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| Aug-14-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: No - I am pretty sure that I never commented on this game (here) before ... check the earlier comments. |
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| Aug-14-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: 03:55 AM; Sunday / August 14th, 2011
post-note/afterthought
I think I once saw this book in a game somewhere. However, after hunting for many hours, I had to give up, I did not find it. (It was an older book. I was thinking a book of great games by Reinfeld or Horowitz, but I find I no longer have it.) |
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| Aug-14-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: Reinfeld: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n... Horowitz: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n... |
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| Jun-13-12 | | andyatchess: Love the pun "The Royal Stroll" |
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