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| Aug-02-03 | | Kenkaku: Another famous game. Pillsbury supposedly studied his loss to Lasker in St. Petersburg extensively, and with the help of his good friend William Napier (who is also in this database) came up with this new line. Notice that up through move six this game is a carbon copy, Pillsbury taking his revenge for his St. Petersburg loss eight years later by besting Lasker's opening line. |
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| Dec-10-03 | | Sarimanok: Why not 7...Nxd4? |
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| Dec-10-03 | | Kenkaku: The following line looks to be much better for Black, but upon deeper inspection - it turns out to be a lot better for White: </= 7...Nxd4?!; This looks like it wins material ... but eventually White will trap the Black Knight in the corner. 8.Bxd8 Nc2+; 9.Kd2 Nxa1; 10.Bh4! Bb4!?; Black tries to use the pin to extricate the Knight. ( Maybe Black should play: 10...f6!?; instead ... but this will not change the fate of the stranded cavalry
on the a1-square. )
11.e3 Bd7; 12.Be2 dxc4; 13.Bxc4 Rc8; 14.Bd3 Nb3+; 15.axb3 f6; 16.Nd4! 0-0; 17.Nc2, '±' and White is probably (close to) winning, as he has two clear minor pieces for the Rook he lost. (At least "+/" ...maybe "+/-".) http://www.angelfire.com/games3/AJs... |
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| Dec-10-03 | | D.A. KALIM: <Sarimanok> SALAM! I'm not very good at chess but i here's my idea anyway. 7...Nxd4 8.Bxd8 ( 8...Nxf3+ 9.exf3 Kxd8 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Nxd5 a pawn up with Rd1 and Ne5 to play. |
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| Jan-11-04 | | CambridgeSprings1904: Black's move 18 is incorrect on this site, as it is in most game collections. Black actually played 18...Qb5 (not 18...Qb4).
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/home... |
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Jan-12-04
 | | tamar: <CambridgeSprings1904 "Black's move 18 is incorrect on this site, as it is in most game collections. Black actually played 18...Qb5 (not 18...Qb4.)">
Thanks. 18...Qb5 makes sense. That move has puzzled me ever since I analyzed the game with Fritz last year and saw that Lasker was winning -.77 after
18...Qb4 19 f4 when Fritz produced instantly 19...Bb5! with a nasty pin that breaks white's initiative. Of course with 18...Qb5 that square is not available to the bishop.
The continuing confusion is made possible by the fact that black's next queen move is to c5 which is legal from both b5 and b4.
Lasker actually played the opening well.
His slip-up was 19...exf4 when Pillsbury shook off "the insomnia and restlessness" (Sergeant) that plagued him and foreshadowed his early death and played an inspired series of moves with 20 Qd4. |
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| Feb-10-04 | | Whitehat1963: Pillsbury gives Lasker a beating! |
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May-04-04
 | | LIFE Master AJ: <Kenkaku>
Thanks for the comment and the link.
(I am the guy who spent about 15 years analyzing this game before I felt brave enough to share my thoughts with anyone. I also did a tremendous amount of research as concerns this game.) My thoughts? I think Pillsbury knew he was dying ... and decided to give this one all he had. He also used an idea that A. Hodges had said Pillsbury had shown him shortly after the loss to Lasker.
(I read this somewhere, maybe in an old magazine reprint. Years later, someone asked why Pillsbury did not use his new idea right away. Initially, Pillsbury thought his ailment was temporary, and eventually he would recover. He had assured his sponsors that - in a match - Lasker would have a new problem to solve in the opening in every single game he played. After it was clear - even to Pillsbury - that he was dying, he obviously felt no reason to hold anything back.) |
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May-04-04
| | LIFE Master AJ: By the way ... for a long time there was a controversy over which move Pillsbury really played here. (...Qb4; or ...Qb5) E. Winter settled this in one of his "Chess Notes." See http://www.chesscafe.com/ |
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| Feb-03-06 | | Whitehat1963: The combination that Pillsbury carries out beginning move 22 is beautifully crafted. |
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| Feb-03-06 | | Steppenwolf: Truly remarkable game. Lasker never had a chance. |
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Feb-03-06
 | | chancho: Jacques Hannak in his book on Lasker, "The Life Of A Chessmaster".Wrote about this game in pg 107, the following: <"And thereby hangs a tale which chess players all over the world have been enjoying for half a century. Remember Lasker's sensational triumph over Pillsbury in the St. Petersburg 'Grand-Master Tournament' of 1895-96, the game that won the brilliancy prize and turned the tables of the tournament in Lasker's favor. Now in that game, as soon as Pillsbury had made his 7th move he felt that he should have made another move, never tried in that variation and yet - so it seemed to Pillsbury - likely to lead to a rather more advantageous line. That very night, after his shattering defeat, Pillsbury sat down for many hours, analysing his new idea and satisfying himself that indeed it would have given him the advantage. During the next few weeks and months he burned a good deal more midnight oil in the privacy of his room, analysing his new variation as thoroughly as he knew how; but he did not tell anybody about it. Since the opening concerned was a variation of the Queen's Gambit very popular in those days, Pillsbury had countless opportunities to give his new line the practical test; but he would not waste his precious discovery on any of the small fry, whereby divulging his great secret; he would spring that on no one less than Lasker. It had become almost an obsession with Pillsbury, yet the years rolled by and the opportunity never arose. Whenever he did play Lasker, Pillsbury either did not have the white pieces or it so happened that he could not steer the opening into that particular variation. At long last,(1904) already a doomed man and playing in what was to be his last major tournament, Pillsbury got the chance he had worked for, yearned for, and dreamed about for eight long years and four months to a day."> |
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| Feb-03-06 | | Whitehat1963: Great post, <chancho>, thanks! |
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| Apr-03-06 | | blingice: 30. Ne5!! If anything in chess ever reminded me of that voice from the "Mortal Kombat" games that says "FIIIIINISH HIM!!!", it was surely this move, with an unstoppable checkmate threat, a rook threat, and a bishop threat. |
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| Apr-05-06 | | CookieNapster: A very good game indeed!!!!! |
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| Jun-17-06 | | GeauxCool: Lasker's mistakes were accepting the challenge with 13.Qxb2?!, then stumbling into a bad position with 19.exd4? -Fine |
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| Jul-13-06 | | RookFile: Beautiful game by Pillsbury. |
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| Jul-19-06 | | notyetagm: Anyone recall in which issue of Chess Life magazine this game was featured in the Solitarie Chess column? |
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Dec-30-06
 | | Phony Benoni: I was curious to find out what happened in this variation after the game, and did a bit of searching. Of games in the database, 7.Qh4 was played 3 times with a 50% result: Blackburne vs Showalter, 1889 (1-0), Pillsbury vs Lasker, 1895 (0-1; the famous game), and, ironically enough, Lasker vs Spielmann, 1900 (½-½), which appears to be a casual game at the Vienna Chess Club. Since Pillsbury unleashed 7.Bxf6, everybody has followed his lead. Out of a total of 5 games ... a 50% result again! Znosko-Borovsky vs S Izbinsky, 1905 (0-1); Dus Chotimirsky vs Znosko-Borovsky, 1905 (0-1 again, from the same tournament(!); apparently Z-B knew this line backwards and forwards); Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1942 (½-½); Szabo vs W Heidenfeld, 1951 (the equalizing 1-0). The kibitzes for this game suggest that Lasker played the opening well enough but went astray in the early middlegame, and these results would seem to bear that out. |
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| Feb-01-07 | | ianD: Great game I love the number of pins and threat of forks in this game. Nice tactical game using simple principles. |
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| Feb-01-07 | | laskereshevsky: No one was able to out-played Lasker in his best years, unless HARRY NELSON......In the 4 players round-robin at ST.PETERSBURG 1895/96 ( LASKER STEINITZ PILLSBURY TCHIGORIN ) after 3 rounds pillsbury was clearly on the edge, LASKER was pushed in 2°place by a =1 -2 against him....As well-know in their 4°round inconter finally LASKER was able to win ( to acheive it was necessary one of the ever-best LASKER'S game....) after what PILLSBURY ( infortunately..) collapsed, and newer was like before. |
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| Feb-01-07 | | laskereshevsky: In the same 1896 at NUREMBERG, PILLSBURY was clearly in the shadow, as show the 8°round placings: Walbrodt 6.5 on 8
Lasker 6/7 Steinitz 6/8
Tschigorin 5/7 Tarrasch-Janowski 5/8
Maroczy 4.5/7 Schlechter 4.5/8
PILLSBURY 4/7 Blackburne-schiffers 4/8
.....8 Players
BUT, when they meet at the following 9°round, HARRY, like a bull in the arena, crashed EMANUEL in a 1°brillancy prize game...( in a 171 game's tournament....) |
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| Feb-01-07 | | laskereshevsky: In the above game, at the 1904 CAMBRIDGE-SPRINGS tournament...the same story!!!
at the 5°round the pairing show:
Janowski 4.5
Marshall-Lasker-Teichmann(!)-Mieses(!!) 4
PILLSBURY-Schlechter-Showalter 2.5
......8 Players
At the 6°round another PILLSBURY's masterpiece......in the last years of H.N.P. life,looks like LASKER was the "TORERO'S RED CAPE" shaked in front of the "AMERICAN BULL"..... CHAPEU, MOUNSIER HARRY......
( from a LASKER estimator...) |
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May-07-07
 | | FSR: This game is the chessic equivalent of Lesley Gore's song "Judy's Turn to Cry," the sequel to her song, "It's My Party." At St. Petersburg Pillsbury was crying, but here it's "Lasker's Turn to Cry." |
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| Oct-23-07 | | notyetagm: 25 ♗e2-c4!, 26 ♖f1xf5+!
One tactical blow after another, very powerfully played by Pillsbury. |
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