Jun-03-06 | | United33: wow triple deadly sacrifiying !! |
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Jun-03-06
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Jun-03-06 | | Eficko: wow what great play by stenitz. yes sneaky knight odds in the muzio is an advantage as lasker once said/showed. |
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Jun-03-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: Un..be..lievable! |
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Jun-03-06 | | Calli: Also see Morphy vs NN, 1857 Apparently a "book" line? |
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Jun-03-06 | | backyard pawn: White's majority of active pieces dominates the board, despite his vast material deficit. That final Qe8 is a beautiful solution to ending the game. |
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Jun-03-06 | | kevin86: Mr. Steinitz and the Wild Muzio-a deadly combination! |
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Jun-03-06 | | THE pawn: euh...ouch? |
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Jun-03-06 | | filipecea: Bravo!
"How many pieces can a man sacrifice?" LOL. Kind of a philosophical question.. |
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Jun-03-06 | | ganstaman: <filipecea> 15. 2 rooks, 2 knights, 2 bishops, 1 queen, 8 promoted pawns. Though playing the KG a piece down puts the number at 13. Ok, so maybe that's not what he meant. |
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Jun-03-06 | | filipecea: <ganstaman> well, in this case I think it's enough for a self-sacrifice! |
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Jun-03-06 | | filipecea: I would love to see, let's say a Topalov sac'ing this amount against Kramnik, for example. Although it's very very unlikely |
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Jun-03-06 | | jamesmaskell: I would love it if such a game actually happened. None of us are going to be hurt by this. I want to see entertaining, exciting chess. This is ruddy incredible! |
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Jun-03-06 | | Mendrys: It's almost as if the whole game starts off as a trap due to the fact of the missing knight. <Calli> is right. This was apparently a "book" line even back then. I imaginge that quite a few players would have fallen for it. It still doesn't take away from the cleverness of the ending. |
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Jun-05-06 | | dakgootje: If i could only just once play a game like this...
Unbelievable, just sac about the whole lot... |
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Feb-24-07 | | sambo: Unbelievable |
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Apr-27-09 | | Fanacas: a friend of mine has played a game like this only he lost but he could have matet the enemy in 4 he only didnt see it :( |
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Nov-19-10 | | Elton: @sevenseaman If 16. Qd5+, there's Qe6 to block it. |
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Nov-19-10 | | sevenseaman: On the spot <Elton>. I saw it and was in time to kill my comment. |
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Jan-11-11
 | | ketchuplover: My board freezes after 14...Kf7 |
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Oct-21-11 | | Llawdogg: Wow! Morphy and Steinitz played nearly the same game! |
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Jul-19-18
 | | Korora: Remember to develop your pieces! |
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Jul-19-18 | | WorstPlayerEver: Nah, 9... Qg7 is pretty nasty. Which leads to the h8 Rook grabbing Qh5+ Qg6 Qe5+ again, however, the difference is: Black wins a tempo by playing d6 (with Bc8 eying at h3). A natural talent I'd say, this van der Meulen... (which simply means 'Miller' in old Dutch, lit. 'from the mill'). |
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