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Siegbert Tarrasch vs Karl Satzinger
Munich (1914), Munich GER
Bird Opening: General (A02)  ·  1-0

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Oct-11-07  ounos: Superb attack by Tarrasch!
Oct-11-07  sambo: indeed!

19.? could be a Thursday puzzle- it's all forced, but still one heck of a line to compute

Dec-26-09  wordfunph: beautiful 19.Qxh7+!
siegbert tarrasch at his best!
Dec-26-09  mysql: nice combination
Dec-27-09
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: Indeed, a great combination. It's probably already too late to save the game, but 15...d4 might have been better.
Jan-23-10
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  Richard Taylor: I found this Q sac and calculated right to the end! This is game 177 in "Tarrasch's Best Games of Chess" edited and commented by Reinfeld with T's notes
Jan-23-10
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  Richard Taylor: Another beautiful mate here is if after 20. Rh3+

20. ... Nh5 21. Rxh5+ Kg8 22. Rh8! Nxh8 23. Nh6# !!

Tarrasch - incredible player.

Jul-05-11  ahmadov: I played through this game on guess the move but failed to gain the average point (40)... :-(
Jul-05-11  ahmadov: 16.Ng4 was something I missed... However, it is an incredible move which could be followed by 17.Nf6+ gxf 18.exf which leaves Black helpless after 19.Qh6 followed by 20.Qg7#
Jan-10-14  TheTamale: Bravo! What a finish!
Jun-04-20
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  Sally Simpson: ***

White to Play.


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Tarrasch at his brilliant best.

Tarrasch's chum, Nimzovitch, would have loved the backward Knight move and subsequent Knight's tour (move 14.)


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Tarrach hops the Knight from c3-d1-f2-g4 and it ends up mating Black on move 24 with Nh6.

Wonderful.

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Jan-10-21  ZoneChess: Wonderfully done and entertaining the crowd with the queen sac. However this is a mate in 8 and there is a mate in 6 with 19. Nh6+ Kh8 20. Bxg7+ Kxg7 21. Rf7+ Rxf7 22. Rxf7+ Kh8 23. Qe5+ Nxe5 24. Rxh7#
Jan-10-21  sudoplatov: Seems like Tarrasch was an early follower of the Danish School.
Aug-01-21  Nosnibor: According to Irving Chernev this was a casual game played at Munich in 1915 and not 1914. There is a further casual game played in Munich 1915 and that is against Thoma.
Dec-10-22
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  GrahamClayton: With both bishops, rooks, knight and queen pointing at Satzinger's king, it is obvious that Tarrasch will win, but the queen sacrifice with 19. Qh7+ leads to a nice finish.
Mar-09-24
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  louispaulsen88888888: This game is also in Great Short Games of the Chess Masters, by Reinfeld
Mar-09-24
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  louispaulsen88888888: Stockfish is not a fan of the backwards Knight move on 14. After 14. Nd1, its evaluation is:

1) +0.33 (27 ply) 14...Nf5 15.e4 dxe4 16.Bxe4 Ra7 17.d3 Rc7 18.R3f2 Qh4 19.Qxh4 Ngxh4 20.g4 Ne7 21.h3 Bd7 22.Nc3 Nhg6 23.Bxg6 Nxg6 24.Ne4 a5 25.Nd6 Bc6 26.Kh2 b4 27.Kg3 a4 28.bxa4 Bxa4

White apparently has the much better 14.g4!

1) +3.47 (26 ply) 14.g4 h6 15.g5 Nf5 16.Bxf5 exf5 17.gxh6 d4 18.Ne2 Qh4 19.Qxh4 Nxh4 20.Rg3 g5 21.Rxg5+ Kh7 22.exd4 cxd4 23.Kf2 Be6 24.Rfg1 Rg8 25.Rxg8 Rxg8 26.Rxg8 Kxg8 27.Nxd4 Bc8 28.Nc6 Kh7 29.Nd8 Kxh6 30.Nxf7+ Kg6

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