Wilhelm Steinitz vs Alexander Belaieff (1873)

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Wilhelm Steinitz vs Alexander Belaieff
Casual game (1873), London ENG
King's Gambit: Accepted. Kieseritsky Gambit Anderssen Defense (C39) · 1-0

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May-06-09		Marmot PFL: Isn't this a cool checkmate by the Morphy of Austria? Later he decided that this kind of chess was flashy and superficial and became a defensive player.

Mar-09-15		heuristic: 12.Qxh4 is only game 13.Rxf4!? 13.e6 g3 14.Re1 Re8 15.Bxe8 Kxe8 16.Qd3 17...Qg4?! 17...Qe7 18.dxe6 Rxg3 19.Rd1+ Bd7 20.Qxg3 18.Qf7!? 18.Qf6#

Mar-20-15		Sargon: Preserved kibitzing from Feb-03-04 from the duplicate game: <m0rphy: During the mid 1950s one Horace Shepherd devised a series of "Chess Miniatures" - films wherein the pieces appeared to move by themselves and jump out of the box.I first saw some of these in 1959 (when I was 13) on a childrens' BBC tv programme called "Focus".Later they were shown by ATV their commercial rival.Fascinated in later life by these films, I investigated and tracked down a company called "Intervision".I was delighted to ascertain there were about 33 separate films on 7 videos, so I bought the lot, later reformatting the original videos onto VHS from the original Beta format when the latter died out about 20 years ago. I later discovered that Shepherd used as his source for these films Irving Chernev's "The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess"(1954).In this book Chernev gives each game a short introduction and it is evident that Shepherd used this narrative when penning the title of each chess game he filmed. This game goes under a title like "The Incomparable Bishops" and it is aesthetically pleasing to see the White Queen sac for the rook and then the Black king caught in a pleasing crossfire from white's bishops.I learnt the moves by heart when I was about 15 as the game appealed to my artistic sense as well.>

Mar-20-15		morfishine: Wow, can you Belaiev this game? *****

Jul-13-18		MissScarlett: This game appears in the <Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News> of September 26th 1891, p.75, as a game played <some years ago in London>. This is more likely than Vienna, because the Russian Beliaev was a long-term resident of England (as, of course, was Steinitz). I don't know if Chernev (see above) gives the location as Vienna. I'll effect the change.

Jul-13-18		Telemus: Bachmann gives London, 1873, but Whitehead gives London, 1866 and has <Beliaev, Alexander Petrovich>.

Jul-13-18		MissScarlett: Is Whitehead's DB very reliable? I only know of it by reputation.

Jul-13-18		areknames: Boden's mate all over again.

Jul-13-18		Telemus: <Is Whitehead's DB very reliable? I only know of it by reputation.> Not error-free, but I take it more seriously than most other databases. It's a shame that the key is lost. https://www.kwabc.org/en/jay-whiteh...

Aug-21-24		MissScarlett: The 1873 dating relies upon the game's first known publication, in the <Westminster Papers>, February 1873, in which the opponent was only identified by the letter <B>. No date or occasion is given. Whitehead may have dated the game to 1866 on the basis that the Westminster CC appears to have been Belaieff's main stamping ground and that Steinitz was expelled from the club in early 1867.

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