page 1 of 16; games 1-25 of 391  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Harrwitz vs Zytogorski 0-1 24 1851 London Club C59 Two Knights 2. Anderssen vs B Suhle 0-1 25 1859 Breslau (Poland) C59 Two Knights 3. Anderssen vs De Riviere 1-0 62 1860 Paris (France) C59 Two Knights 4. Anderssen vs NN   1-0 28 1862 Breslau C59 Two Knights 5. Hirschfeld vs Kolisch   0-1 36 1864 Parijs m C59 Two Knights 6. Hirschfeld vs Kolisch 1-0 43 1864 Paris C59 Two Knights 7. Anderssen vs G Neumann   1-0 36 1866 Berlin (Germany) C59 Two Knights 8. Anderssen vs G Neumann   0-1 41 1866 Berlin (Germany) C59 Two Knights 9. De Vere vs Staunton 0-1 24 1866 London consult C59 Two Knights 10. G Neumann vs De Riviere   1-0 22 1867 Paris C59 Two Knights 11. G Neumann vs S Rosenthal ½-½ 41 1867 Paris m1 C59 Two Knights 12. E Schallopp vs Von Reibnitz   0-1 37 1868 Hamburg blindfold simul C59 Two Knights 13. Zukertort vs Gossip   1-0 30 1872 London C59 Two Knights 14. Chigorin vs Beskrowny 1-0 40 1877 Petersburg C59 Two Knights 15. Anderssen vs E Schallopp   0-1 58 1877 Leipzig Offhand C59 Two Knights 16. Chigorin vs E Schmidt   1-0 27 1879 Petersburg (Match) C59 Two Knights 17. F Riemann vs K Pitschel 0-1 35 1879 DSB-1.Kongress C59 Two Knights 18. J Grundy vs D Starbuck   0-1 26 1879 Casual game C59 Two Knights 19. Chigorin vs Schiffers   0-1 41 1880 St Petersburg m1 C59 Two Knights 20. Bird vs Chigorin 0-1 33 1882 Vienna it C59 Two Knights 21. J Mortimer vs Chigorin 1-0 55 1883 Tnmt, London C59 Two Knights 22. K Leffmann vs E Schallopp   0-1 49 1883 DSB-3.Kongress C59 Two Knights 23. C Dupre vs W Siebenhaar 1-0 18 1884 Gouda (Netherlands) C59 Two Knights 24. D M Martinez vs Gunsberg   0-1 32 1889 USA-06.Congress New York C59 Two Knights 25. Showalter vs Chigorin 0-1 40 1889 USA-06.Congress New York C59 Two Knights  page 1 of 16; games 1-25 of 391    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

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Nov-15-05    Averageguy: First! Here is an interesting miniature I played as black in this line. The game went 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.ed Na5 6.Bb5+ c6 7.dc bc 8.Be2 h6 9.Nf3 e4 10.Ne5 Bd6 11.Nc4 Nxc4 12.Bxc4 0-0 13.0-0 Bxh2+ 14.Kxh2 Ng4+ 15.Kg1 Qh4 16.Re1 (I now have a forced mate.) 16...Qxf2+ 17.Kh1 Qh4+ 18.Kg1 Qh2+ 19.Kf1 Qh1+ 20.Ke2 Qxg2# Any comments would be appreciated. Nov-15-05    TheAlchemist: Second! :-) <Averageguy> Very nice! I once had a similar possibility of Bxh2 in one of my games (in the Ulvestad variation), but didn't see it. I still went on to win the game, luckily. I suppose White should have played 15.Kg3, though, he would at least have lasted longer. Good job! Jan-04-06    Benonione: Nice game. Of course 11.Nxc4? and 13.0-0? were very bad moves by white. If white plays normally it's not so easy, but black still has compensation for the pawn. Feb-15-06    notyetagm: The C59 V Malakhatko vs G Timoshenko, 2003 ends in the brilliant 23 ... xf3!!, forcing White to give up his queen to avoid a Blackburne mate. This is a model game in playing the Black side of the Two Knights Defense. In fact, in Jan Pinski's book on this opening, this game is the very first one in the chapter on the main line 4 g5 d5 5 exd5 a5.

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