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Mikhail Chigorin vs Dionisio Martinez
6th American Chess Congress, New York (1889), New York, NY USA, rd 24, May-02
King's Gambit: Declined. Classical Variation (C30)  ·  1-0

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ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 9 v010218 (minimum 6s/ply)better is 4...Nf6 5.Bc4 O-O 6.d3 a6 7.h3 Nc6 8.Bb3 b5 9.f5 = -0.10 (27 ply) 5.fxe5 dxe5 6.Nxe5 Nf6 7.Qe2 Qe7 8.Nf3 Nc6 9.d3 Bg4 = +0.47 (27 ply) 5...Nf6 6.fxe5 dxe5 7.Qe2 b5 8.Bb3 Nc6 9.a4 Rb8 ⩱ -0.55 (18 ply) 6.fxe5 dxe5 7.Qe2 b5 8.Bd5 Nge7 9.a4 O-O 10.axb5 = +0.25 (22 ply) 6...Nf6 7.h3 O-O 8.Rf1 h6 9.Bb3 Nh5 10.Ne2 exf4 11.d4 ⩱ -0.67 (16 ply) 7.Rf1 f5 8.h3 Bxf3 9.Qxf3 Qh4+ 10.g3 Qxh3 11.Be3 Bxe3 = +0.15 (21 ply) ⩱ -0.78 (23 ply) 9.Qf2 Nb3 10.Qg3 Nxa1 11.fxe5 Ne7 12.Qxg7 Kd7 13.Qg4+ ⩱ -0.61 (20 ply) ⩱ -1.41 (21 ply) 12...Qd4 13.Ne2 Qd6 14.Bxf7+ Kf8 15.Bc4+ Nf6 16.b4 Bxb4 ⩱ -0.59 (22 ply) ± +2.37 (22 ply)better is 13...Rf8 14.Rxf6 Qd7 15.Be3 Bb4 16.Kc1 O-O-O 17.Kb1 Bxc3 ± +1.78 (21 ply) ± +2.44 (23 ply) 15...Rf8 16.Rf5 Kb8 17.Qxe5 Bd6 18.Qg7 Rxf5 19.exf5 Qe8 +- +2.51 (21 ply)+- +9.86 (27 ply)18...Kb8 19.Rxb7+ Kc8 20.Nb6# +- mate-in-21-0

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Kibitzer's Corner
Aug-05-05
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  chessgames.com: We recently received this game designated as 'Chigorin vs Schiffers, St. Petersberg, 1895." Does anybody know if that is credible?
Aug-05-05  sneaky pete: Not credible. The game is not in the Russian 1999 collection by Soloviov and Khalifman, but is given as Chigorin vs Martinez, New York, 1889, in "KGD: classical defences" by Colin Leach. Chigorin played a 13 game match against Schiffers in St.Petersburg, 1895, but this game is not from that match. He did play the same KGD line however in a tournament game against Martinez: Chigorin vs D M Martinez, 1889.
Sep-06-05  Autoreparaturwerkbau: As Steinitz annotated 4...a6 was very unnecessary move. Black probably wanted to stay with black bishop on diagonal a7-g1.
Dec-22-08  YoungEd: Do you suppose that 5. ...b5 makes any sense? At least it's a semi-logical follow-up to the questionable 4. ...a6. Chigorin cleans up nicely at the end!
Jul-17-09  Knight13: 4...Nc6 seems to be the right move.
Jul-17-09  Knight13: See Chigorin vs D M Martinez, 1889 for an 18-move version of this game.
Sep-06-09  Dravus: Chigorin defeats Dean Martin in the Big Apple. If he can make it there ...
Oct-01-11  Shams: <Knight13> 4...Nf6 first is better. 4...Nc6 is a slight error due to 5.Bb5.

As for the game: if it's the 12th move of a King's Gambit, you're Black, and you're just now moving your king's knight for the first time, something has probably gone tragically wrong.

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