Adolf Albin vs Siegbert Tarrasch (1892)

Adolf Albin vs Siegbert Tarrasch
7th DSB Congress 1892 · Italian Game: Classical Variation. Greco Gambit Traditional Line (C54) · 1-0

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Jul-30-04		nikolaas: Tarrasch said about this game: “I carelessly played a little known line from Bilguer. My opponent, instead of making the weak reply according to theory, immediately found a much better one and reached an advantageous position. Thus I lost a game due to my good memory and the bad one of my opponent!”

Jul-30-04		mjk: And that weak move would be?

Jul-30-04		nikolaas: <mjk> Still according to Tarrasch, it would be 14.Qxe8.

Oct-11-04		tamar: Albin replied in a letter to Wiener Schachzeitung in 1908 (quoted from Skittles Room on chesscafe) "My whole audacity - that to win against the invincible – consisted in the fact that I did not follow the same chess habits as many did against Tarrasch, but I chose to follow my own path into a variation which was regarded as wrong by theory. Here is the game which generated so much emotion and interest in the world of chess. I am asking now: where is the luck in this perfectly played game? It is possible that Mr Tarrasch – so much used to relying on complete analysis – became a bit jumpy because of my independence, but his game was lost after Qa4-Qd1."

Oct-13-04		Lawrence: Rather than Tarrasch's 13.....Qe8, Junior 8 suggest 13.....Qb6 (eval. -0.70). In any case, T.'s 14.....Ng5 was also poor, J8 finds 14.....Bf5. Nothing perfect about Albin's game: 21.Qd2 or 21.Rxf4 would have been much stronger than what he played.

Apr-18-10		ballroomblitz: "to Lawrence" hey man, what about respect for this great victory of unknown Albin against Tarrasch? Please check this game again (now we are in 2010), meanwhile, perhaps you are a little wiser ...

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