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Adolf Anderssen vs Johannes Zukertort
"The Zukes of Hazard" (game of the day Jul-18-2009)
8th WSB Congress, Barmen (1869), Barmen GER, Aug-08
Italian Game: Evans Gambit. Paulsen Variation (C51)  ·  1-0

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Feb-28-03  ughaibu: A very famous game.
Jun-19-03  Ribeiro: A brilliant example of an attack based on a weak h7 square.
Jul-10-03  morphynoman2: Obviously, Zukertort resigned when he saw 29. Qxh7!!
Jul-10-03  crafty: 29. ♕xh7+ ♔xh7 30. f6+ ♔g8 31. ♗h7+ ♔xh7 32. g8=♕+ ♖xg8 33. ♖h3#   (eval Mat05; depth 9 ply; 10M nodes)
Jul-27-03  Saber273: Pieces in perfect position; brilliant attack
Jul-27-03  WhoKeres: Anderssen paid no attention to Zukertort's queenside play. With Anderssen there was never a thought of defense...just attack and hope you mate the opponent before they mate you!
Jul-27-03  Helloween: When you have a combinative mind and the tactical vision of Anderssen, that can be quite an effective style of play. Imagine the praise he received and personal satisfaction he garnered by playing such masterpieces as he did in his lifetime. Against a modern Grandmaster, however, his style might not fare so well.
Dec-19-03  Hidden Skillz: but his style would change too..everybody would develop and adopt to new situations..
Feb-03-04  lordhazol: 14-...f6? black one pawn up but pieces has nowhere to go.14-...c4 leaves a pawn but opens a lot of way blacks blind bishop and knight.Anyway white was better.
Oct-16-04
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  ray keene: hi admin-i just thought i ought to point out that this game is in twice once as 33 moves once as 28 moves-clearly anderssen announced mate if this variation is to be preferred or he carried it out if the other is right-i dont know which is correct so i havent taken steps to delete anything-however it needs to be addressed and one version selected-best wishes
Feb-13-05  aw1988: What exactly is the point of ...f6? Bogoljubow made a similar pointless move. There was no reason to keep anything off of g5.
Feb-13-05  iron maiden: Everything I've read says that Zukertort allowed this game to finish in mate.
Aug-06-05  psmith: I don't know how to link to it, but Zukertort improved in a later game the same year with 18... c4!, going on to win instructively (you'll find the game by clicking on "similar games"). So 14...f6 was not the losing move, 18... b4 was.
Apr-06-06  Averageguy: <aw1988> It's a good multi purpose defensive move, bolstering e5 and blunting any of white's ambitions alomg the long diagonal.
May-15-06  chaarl: I liked the point that 28...QxB instead of 28...Qd6 as played would have allowed Anderssen the unusual possibility of sacrificing 2 queens in 2 moves to give mate. (Qxh7ch, g8=Qch and Rh3 mate)
Jun-08-06  sneaky pete: <aw1988> One reason to play a timely .. f6 is to avoid tactical surprises with Bxg7 .. as in Anderssen vs Steinitz, 1866.

The improvement 18... c4 was seen in W Paulsen vs Anderssen, 1869, which was played, dixit Cafferty & Harding, the day after the Zukertort game under discussion. Anderssen vs Zukertort, 1869 is a casual game from the same Barmen Congress, but as we don't have the exact dates, it remains unclear who fathered 18... c4.

Jan-07-07  Rubenus: This game is analysed in one of Hans Bouwmeester's books and he says that there is nothing wrong with 14. f6.
Jan-22-07  JohnNash: hi!

why not 7...dxc3?

Jan-22-07  Bob726: <John Nash> dxc3 is dangerous because white already has a huge lead in devlopment and is in control of the center with great attacking chances. As you can see from opening explorerOpening Explorer. The suprising nge7 is actully considered black's best move
Nov-05-07  nimh: Rybka 2.4 mp, AMD X2 2.01GHz, 10 min per move, threshold 0.33.

Anderssen 2 mistakes:
15.Kh1 -0.56 (15.Nf4 -0.19)
21.Bxe5 -0.65 (21.Nxe5 -0.10)

Zukertort 3 mistakes:
24...Qxd5 1.59 (24...c4 -0.37)
25...Rd8 4.94 (25...Qc6 1.46)
26...Kh8 317.67 (26...Rxf6 4.86)

May-16-08  mistreaver: Except crafty's line there is also a choice of mate with 29. ♕xh7+ ♔xh7 30. f6+ ♔g8 31. ♗h7+ ♔xh7 32. ♖h3+ ♔g8 33 ♖h8 mate isn't it
Jul-06-08  Miachonzinho: <mistreaver> I was asking me why not 30. ... Kh6?, i concluded it would be a bad move because: If 30. ... Kh6? 31. Rh3#
Dec-14-08  Confuse: <Miachonzinho> Good analysis.
Apr-13-09  WhiteRook48: 29. Qxh7+!! Kxh7 30. f6+ Kg8 31 Bh7+ Kxh7 32 Rh3+ Kg8 33 Rh8# is my line
Jul-18-09  Snosko: 29. Qxh7+ Kxh7 30. Rh3+ Qh6 31. f6+ Rxd6 32. g8+Q#
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