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| Jan-04-05 | | cuendillar: Go back one move at the "better is" and there is an analysis of that move. Just click the alternate move listed below the scoresheet. I think the stars symbolises places where such branches exists |
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| Dec-20-05 | | Eatman: The book on Steinitz (written around 1970) mentions that 7.... f5 is much preferable over to 000 as in game, but I guess Portischs later g5 is really good too.
I've been itching to try this variation as white some time in a real game. |
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| Feb-01-06 | | MorphyMatt: the best king march of all is Weenink vs Gans, 1936 |
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May-21-06
 | | offramp: In this position, after 25.P-R5
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black, although he is a pawn and the exchange up, is already lost. Kasparov pointed out that 28.Q-N4 is alightly better, and he gives the line
click for larger view28...K-B2 29.N-R8+ K-B1 30.BxBP+ R-Q2 31.BxR+ K-Q1 32.Q-N6+ KxB 33.QxQP+ and mate next move. |
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Jun-29-06
 | | OBIT: For an utterly mind-blowing king walk game, there is
R Steel vs NN, 1886. In that game, not only does Steel march his king across the board, he sacrifices his queen and both rooks in the process. (OK, the authenticity of this game is highly suspect, but let's not be party poopers...) |
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| Mar-21-07 | | Emma: Brilliant! it's great watching white slowly consolidate and then go onto the attack. Steinitz was really a fearless player. |
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Mar-21-07
 | | Richard Taylor: In this game I walked my King from g7 via b7 and then finally it gets to e3 when my opponent resigns! [Event "Autumn Cup ACC"]
[Site "Auckalnd Chess Centre"]
[Date "2006.05.22"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Remy Bessat"]
[Black "Richard Taylor"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Qe7 7. Nc3 c5 8.
e3 Bxc3 9. Bxc3 Ne4 10. Rc1 d6 11. O-O O-O 12. dxc5 bxc5 13. Qc2 Nd7 14.
Ba5 f5 15. Rfd1 Ndf6 16. Rd3 Bc6 17. Nd2 Rab8 18. Nxe4 Bxe4 19. Bxe4 Nxe4
20. Rb3 Qd7 21. f3 Ng5 22. Rxb8 Rxb8 23. Rf1 Qb7 24. Qg2 Qxb2 25. h4 Nf7
26. f4 Qa3 27. Bc7 Rf8 28. Qd2 Rc8 29. Ba5 Rb8 30. Bc3 Qa4 31. Qe2 Rb6 32.
Rd1 Qc6 33. g4 Nh6 34. gxf5 Nxf5 35. Qh5 g6 36. Qg5 Qf3 37. Qd8+ Kf7 38.
Qf6+ Ke8 39. Qxe6+ Ne7 40. Re1 d5 41. Qe5 Qg3+ 42. Kf1 Qh3+ 43. Ke2 Qg2+
44. Kd3 dxc4+ 45. Kxc4 Qxa2+ 46. Kd3 Qa6+ 47. Kd2 Rd6+ 48. Kc1 Qc6 49. Qh8+
Kd7 50. Qxh7 Qe4 51. Qg7 Kc6 52. Qh8 Kb7 53. Qe8 Rb6 54. Qd7+ Ka6 55. Bb2
Nc6 56. Qc8+ Kb5 57. Re2 Nb4 58. Qd7+ Kc4 59. Qf7+ Kd3 60. Rd2+ Kxe3
0-1
I got into time difficulty about move 36. |
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Mar-21-07
| | Richard Taylor: Here is the final postion:
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| Mar-21-07 | | chocobonbon: For closers how about 32.Qa8+ Kb7; 33.Nd5+ Kc6; 34.Ra6# |
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| Mar-21-07 | | RandomVisitor: After 5.Ke2:
1: Wilhelm Steinitz - Louis Paulsen, Spa Tournament 1870
click for larger viewAnalysis by Rybka 2.3 mp 32-bit : 17-ply
1. ³ (-0.59): 5...b6 6.Qd2 Ba6+ 7.Kd1 Bxf1 8.Nf3 Qh5 9.Rxf1 g5 10.d5 Ne5 11.Nb5 Bd6 12.Qe2 2. ³ (-0.36): 5...Nf6 6.Nf3 Qg4 7.e5 Nh5 8.Nd5 Kd8 9.Kf2 Ne7 10.Nxe7 Bxe7 11.Bc4 Rf8 12.Re1 |
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| Mar-21-07 | | schnarre: Been a while since I played a Steinitz Gambit (*begins to dust off cobwebs*) |
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| Mar-21-07 | | kevin86: If the old Kansas City Chiefs and Hank Stram popularized the "moving pocket",the chess version was Steinitz' king wanderings. A very unusual way to "castle" Ke2-e3-f3-e3-f2,Rf1,Kg1. The final pin mate doesn't at first look like a checkmate that it is. |
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| Mar-21-07 | | Jaymthetactician: Wow that's pretty funny, I annotated this game via the Shredder database, I said about the Ke3-f2-g1 move: "And he's the guy who said the Kings an attacking piece :D" I notiee that Steinitz has horrible luck when an opponent plays 5...d5! instead. |
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| Mar-21-07 | | Themofro: Beautiful game by Steinitz. Some other games I consider great king marches, the one previuos mentioned by MorphyMatt, the Nigel Short one, and a more defenxive and lesser known one by Danielsen. H Danielsen vs Pokorna, 2003 black does have a perpetual check, so not forced, but whites king covers a huge distance and has a great endgame by white. |
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| Mar-21-07 | | micartouse: <Jaymthetactician> is right. It seems to me he's admitting that the king belongs in a castled position. The king stroll was begging for open lines, and Paulsen didn't oblige so the whole business leaves me with an unaesthetic dirty feeling. Now the tactics of the game beginning with 21. b6! are really what I find beautiful. |
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Mar-21-07
 | | keypusher: Here's another amazing king-walk that doesn't seem to have been posted to this page yet. Chigorin vs H Caro, 1898 |
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| Mar-21-07 | | Gypsy: Tarrasch vs Reti, 1922 |
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Dec-17-08
 | | chancho: Paulsen must have been scratching his head and wondering how it was possible for Steinitz to play something like 5.Ke2 and get away with it. |
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| Jan-05-09 | | WhiteRook48: the king is a fighting piece! |
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| May-29-09 | | Fanacas: This is one of my faforit games i love the opening, and i always enjoy how steinits tried strange things like 3.f6 in the spanisch or his strange steinitz attack in the french. |
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Jul-15-09
 | | Honza Cervenka: <chancho: Paulsen must have been scratching his head and wondering how it was possible for Steinitz to play something like 5.Ke2 and get away with it.> 5.Ke2 is quite forced. The "weird" move is 4.d4 instead of natural 4.Nf3 but still it could not be any surprise for Paulsen here as this "Steinitz Gambit" was no novelty in this game. Also it should be mentioned here that this line has purely positional reasoning in classical sense and it was no odd psychological trick or risky adventurous sideline for Steinitz. Steinitz thought that control of centre in the opening (with Pawns if possible) is the most important factor which can produce significant or even decisive advantage and he was ready to sac a Pawn or castling for that without hesitation. And it worked for him in this line quite well. Only much later it was established by deep analysis and long practice that with optimal play white must fight for equality in this line instead of having positional advantage but even today it is possible to play it with success against unprepared opponent. In 1870 it was quite respectable opening though there were not much eager followers of Steinitz then as it was a bit too nonconforming. But other players like Chigorin or Charousek used it as well occasionally. |
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Jul-15-09
| | chancho: Thanks <Honza>. |
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| Sep-18-09 | | WhiteRook48: 4 d4 the theoretical novelty |
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| Apr-24-10 | | ariel el luchador: Steinitz jugó bárbaro,pero paulsen no entiendía que jugaba es un desproposito que se hayan ganado partidas con el gambito Steinitz. |
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| Aug-26-10 | | Garech: I agree, a beautiful game from Steinitz. Not only for the king-aggressive opening which won him his beloved bishop pair but also the middlegame attack - 21. b6! deserves an exclamation mark. If black plays ...cxb6 then 22. Rxf6! is completely winning as if black answers with Qxf6 next comes Nd5! And black will have to give up his queen in order to stop himself from being mated via Qc3+ and white capturing the rook on d8 a couple of moves later with mate. However, Steinitz blundered, effectively, in the game contination after 21. ... axb6 with Rxf6 - although the exchange sac is strong and leads to very active play, the position is made equal. Much stronger was 22. a5! and white has a very promising position. 25. f5?? was almost certainly the decisive mistake. A better defence was b5, although the position is still good for white. Black had made several innaccurate moves by that stage anyway (most notably 24. Qg7 - h8 was the correct, albeit passive, square for the queen) and allowed Steinitz to gain a second advantage, after losing the first. From move 25 onwards Steinitz attacked mercilessly and accurately: 26. axb6 was very nice, leaving his bishop to hang in order to generate a game-ending attack: if 26 ... fxg4 next would come Ra8+! Kxa8 Qa5+ Kb8 bxc7+ forcing Qxc7 to avoid mate and now Qxc7+ Ka8 Qxd8+ and it's all over. 27. Nxb6 also was great, once again letting the g4 bishop fall but this time for a mating attack. If 27 ... fxg4 now Ra8+ Kc7 Qc3+ Kxb6 Qa5+ Kc6 d5+ Kd7 Qxd8+ - all forced. 29. f6 wasn't anywhere near as strong as Ra8+ but by that stage white is completely winning anyway and there are many paths to victory. 32. Nd5 effectively wins the black queen but misses a mate in 5: Qa8+ Kc7 Qa5 and black has 5 legal moves but all of them result in mate in 3 e.g. Kb8 Nd5 and there is no way to defend both the mate on a8 and the rook on d8, which will be captured with mate. All in all a powerful game from I think a somewhat under-appreciated ex-world champion. Fischer was one of his greatest admirers and it's easy to see why - he had a very original and deep style. Kudos! |
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sac: 22.Rxf6