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| Nov-29-14 | | Knight13: Nobody ever said it was good, but the Damiano Defense is actually playable for Black. Chigorin enjoyed finding exceptions and trying out new things, e.g. the Chigorin Defense. If anything, Schiffers should be the one deserving of more criticism here, not Chigorin, for not winning the game. |
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May-22-15
 | | offramp: <Knight13: Nobody ever said it was good, but the Damiano Defense is actually playable for Black....> The most diamantesque chess player is Sam Sloan, a player that I really like. His record would be better if he did not play the Damiano all the time as black. He knew both Fischer and Whitaker. Check out his incredible match with "Bill" William Brock. |
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Jun-22-17
 | | al wazir: <patzer2: The move 22...Rxh1+! is a decoy tactic Chigorin failed to play for a mate-in-six, as pointed out by <Honza Cervenka>. The combination with 22...Rxh1!+ is listed as the solution to number 1170 in Chess Informant's 1980 "Encyclopedia of Chess Middlegames," and is categoriezed there as a decoy (spelled "dicoying" in this multi-language reference book). Black's first two moves are decoys in the combination <22...Rxh1+! 23. Nxh1 Bh2+! 24. Kxh2 Rh8+ 25. Kg3 Nf5+ 26. Kg4 Rh4#>. P.S. Black also missed this same mate by not playing 23...Rxh1+!> 23...Rh1+?? 24. Nxh1 Bh2+ 25. Kxh2 Rh8+ 26. Kg3 Nf5+ 27. Kxf3. The mating combination beginning with ....Rh1+ works only after 23...Bc6 24. Qxa7?? Maybe the score of the game has changed since those earlier comments were posted? |
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| Jun-22-17 | | Eusebius: <al wazir>
Thank you for this. I was also confused about this post. 24...Rh1+ is the right move (and not 23...Rh1+) |
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Jun-22-17
 | | Honza Cervenka: <al wazir> Yes, I guess that there was added a repetition of moves after 17.Kh1 Be5 18.Kg1 (18...Bh2+ 19.Kh1 Be5 20.Kg1) which is sometimes omitted in sources mentioning this game. In current gamescore the missed mating combo starts in moves 24 or 25 of black. Btw, even without 24.Qxa7(?) allowing mate in six moves white seems to be in big troubles in the position after 23...Bc6. For example, 24.Qe2 Nf5 25.Ne4 Nd4 or 24.Qa3 Nf5 25.Re1 Bxg3 26.fxg3 Nd4 is quite overwhelming, and white is probably lost despite of his huge material advantage. Instead of 26...Nxg3 it was better to play 26...Bxb2 27.Rad1 Nxe3 28.Rxd8+ Rxd8 29.Ne2 (white cannot play 29.Re1 or 29.Rb1 for 29...Bd4 with decisive threats) 29...Nxf1 with R+2B+2P for Q+N. |
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| Jun-22-17 | | morfishine: The game score must be incorrect since after 22...Rxh1+ 23. Nxh1 Bh2+ 24. Kxh2 The studied move <24...Rh8+> is not possible since the Black Knight is on <g8> ***** |
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Jun-22-17
 | | Sally Simpson: Hi Morf.
I think they have the move number wrong, the combo starts here with Chigorin to play his 24th move. 
click for larger viewVery easily missed OTB. You are a Queen missing and have to sac a Rook and Bishop and foresee a very uncommon mid-board mating pattern. 
click for larger viewChigorin had a chance to play it again on move 25. If it he had played it then the game would be up there with the 'Immortal' and 'Evergreen'. I would like not to have to been the one who pointed out the missed win to Chigorin. It must have been soul shattering, akin to Da Vinci deciding to paint out the smile in the Mona Lisa. |
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Oct-29-21
 | | Phony Benoni: Note to solvers: Today's puzzle was not solved iin the game. You'll have to think outside the score to find the solution. |
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| Oct-29-21 | | NBZ: Thanks <Phony Benoni>. This would have been a really pretty combination, a shame Chigorin did not find it. Needless to say, I did not either. It almost could be a Saturday or Sunday puzzle. It does feature a series of checks that forces mate, but the first two moves are not easy to find! |
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| Oct-29-21 | | Brenin: Thanks for the hint, <PB>! Down by Q for B, Black needs to winkle the White K out of its leaky fortress, and 24 ... Bxg3 is too slow, so let's sacrifice a few more pieces with 24 ... Rh1+ 25 Nxh1 Bh2+ 26 Kxh2 Rh8+ 27 Kg3 Nf5+ 28 Kf4 or Kg4 Rh4# (as others have shown, years ago). |
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| Oct-29-21 | | mel gibson: Stockfish 14 says mate in 6.
24... Rh1+
(24... Rh1+ (♖h8-h1+ ♘g3xh1 ♗e5-h2+ ♔g1xh2 ♖d8-h8+ ♗c1-h6 ♖h8xh6+ ♔h2-g3
♘e7-f5+ ♔g3-f4 ♖h6-h4+) +M6/103 11) |
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| Oct-29-21 | | TheBish: I was familiar with the combination, but had forgotten that Chigorin missed it! |
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| Oct-29-21 | | agb2002: A bit too famous. |
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| Oct-29-21 | | drollere: i thought 24. .. Bxg3, 25. Qa8+ Kd7, 26. Rd1+ Ke6, 27. Re1+ Kf7 looked fine for black. like chigorin, i didn't see the intricate middle board mate. |
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| Oct-29-21 | | Nosnibor: Never seen this game before but got Black`s first move within one minute. Interesting finish. |
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| Oct-29-21 | | Cellist: I wanted to play either 24. ... Bxg3 or Bf3, the latter controlling d1 against a potential R check should White play 25. Qa8+ and force Black's king to d7, but neither works. Bxg3 leads to a draw, and Bf3 looses big time. Sorrow! |
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| Oct-29-21 | | saturn2: I had 24...b6 at first glance. It protects a8 and fends off 25. Qa6+ by Bb7. This black bishop is the superstar on the board, defends and attacks. |
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Oct-29-21
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| Oct-29-21 | | saturn2: 14.Bf4 and white wins easily |
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| Oct-29-21 | | saturn2: or 14. h3 |
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| Oct-29-21 | | TheaN: Bit of mind blowing game that still shows the volatility of the game as long as you deviate early enough. Though 2....f6 might not be the way to do so, Chigorin shows the concept of getting into an objectively terrible position, able to win #6 with <24....Rh1+! 25.Nxh1 Bh2+! 26.Kxh2 Rh8+ 27.Bh6 Rxh6+ 28.Kg3 Nf5+ with Rh4#>. I don't actually blame Chigorin for missing this, as the first <two> clearances do nothing else but block h1 so the White king is forced up the board. To add insult to injury however, Schiffers blatantly accepts a draw in what is an almost trivial defendable position: 34.Kd4 Rd2+ 35.Qd3 +- and what exactly is Black going to do with the immense material deficit? 34....Rg4+ 35.Kc5 +- and 34....Rh4+ 35.Kc3 +- all take some time to calculate a successful king walk, but it works. |
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| Oct-29-21 | | AlicesKnight: This is too well-known to be a POTD - ....Rh1+ followed by ....Bh2+ with mate in 3 - but Chigorin played ... b6 to secure his K. I think I would have missed it too ... |
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| Oct-29-21 | | Ian McGarrett: I must have seen this combination before because the solution just sort of jumped out at me. |
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Jan-23-24
| | Sally Simpson: The good news is that although Chigorin did not find the win...
click for larger view24...Rh1+
...which would have raised this game to an immortal status, he did in fact get to play it in a living chess display given by him and Schiffers in 1897. see C.N. 7932 for more details describing the living pieces and more background on the actual game played. |
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Apr-06-25
 | | MissScarlett: Winter asks in C.N. 7932, who was the first to discover the missed win. Three candidates are cited. Robert Buckley (by Mason), <Mr. Fison> (in the Morning Post) and Schiffers (in the American Chess Magazine). i) Buckley's weekly column in the <Birmingham Daily Gazette> of June 9th 1897, p.8: <For the last few weeks an extraordinary game between Schiffers and Tchigorin has been going the round of the English and Continental chess columns, and everywhere the greatest surprise has been shown that Tchigorin should have contrived to draw, after having adopted a defence so universally condemned as the Damiano. None but Tchigorin could have done it, they said, and everywhere the combination by which the perpetual check was obtained has been lauded as of almost supernatural brilliancy. We, however, submit that Tchigorin played badly, that he missed the right continuation, and at the same time the opportunity of placing on record a game like those of Anderssen against Kieseritski, Anderssen against Dufresne, Zukertort against Blackburne, and Pollock against Weiss.> ii) The <Morning Post> of June 7th 1897, p.3: <Mr. Bernard Fison sends the following beautiful variation by which Tchigorin might have won the game with Schiffers published last week.> iii) C.N. 7948: <Responding to the request in C.N. 7932, Peter Anderberg (Harmstorf, Germany) supplies the Schiffers v Chigorin game-score as published in the St Petersburger Zeitung of 12 (24) May 1897, page 2 [...] It will be noted that Chigorin’s missed win was indeed pointed out by Schiffers.> |
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