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Isidor Gunsberg vs Hermann von Gottschall
4th DSB Congress, Hamburg (1885), Hamburg GER, rd 17, Jul-25
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Anderssen Variation (C77)  ·  1-0

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White to move.
ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 9 v010218 (minimum 6s/ply)better is 8...Ng4 9.Nf1 Nxe3 10.Nxe3 b5 11.Bc2 g6 12.b4 a5 13.a4 = -0.13 (22 ply)= +0.50 (22 ply) after 9.Bxd7+ Qxd7 10.Qb3 b6 11.d4 Ng6 12.O-O Be7 13.h3 O-O better is 9...Ng4 10.Nf1 Nxe3 11.Nxe3 g6 12.d4 Bg7 13.dxe5 dxe5 = +0.06 (21 ply) ⩲ +0.57 (20 ply)better is 11.d4 O-O 12.O-O b5 13.Re1 Qc8 14.Kh2 c5 15.d5 Re8 16.a4 = +0.30 (20 ply)= -0.20 (20 ply) 12.d4 c5 13.Qd1 exd4 14.cxd4 Nh5 15.O-O Nhf4 16.Kh1 b5 = +0.20 (20 ply) ⩱ -1.27 (21 ply) 13...a5 14.a4 Qe8 15.Qd1 b5 16.g4 b4 17.c4 Nf4 18.Bxf4 ⩱ -0.80 (20 ply) 14.Bb3 Ba4 15.h4 Bxb3 16.axb3 h5 17.Bg5 b5 18.Bxf6 Nf4 = +0.23 (22 ply) 14...Qxa2 15.Bb1 Qa1 16.Nb6 Rad8 17.Nd2 Be6 18.c4 Qa5 ∓ -1.67 (25 ply) ⩱ -0.65 (20 ply) after 15.Bd2 b5 16.Ne3 b4 17.g3 a5 18.h4 Rfb8 19.h5 bxc3 better is 16...d5 17.g5 hxg5 18.Bxg5 d4 19.c4 Rfe8 20.Nh4 Nf4 ⩱ -0.73 (18 ply)= 0.00 (20 ply)better is 19...Nh4 20.Ngf3 Ng6 21.Ng5 Nh4 = 0.00 (25 ply) 20.h4 Qa5 21.h5 Nf4 22.Bxf4 b3 23.a3 bxc2 24.h6 g6 25.Be3 ⩲ +0.59 (22 ply) 20...Nf4 21.Bxf4 exf4 22.h4 a3 23.b3 Rae8 24.Bc2 d5 ⩱ -1.27 (20 ply) ⩲ +1.08 (21 ply) 22.h4 a3 23.b3 Nh7 24.Nxh7 Kxh7 25.Bc2 Bf6 26.h5 Nf4 ⩲ +1.10 (22 ply) 22...Nh7 23.Nxh7 Kxh7 24.h4 Bf6 25.Nf3 Nf4 26.Bxf4 exf4 = +0.07 (23 ply) ⩲ +1.03 (23 ply) 23...Nf4 24.Bxf4 exf4 25.Qxf4 Qe7 26.h5 a3 27.b3 Nh7 ⩲ +0.77 (23 ply)+- +4.07 (20 ply)better is 25.f4 b3 26.a3 N6h7 27.Nxh7 Ne6 28.f5 Kxh7 29.Nf3 Bf6 +- +5.83 (19 ply) 25...g6 26.Nxf7 Qxf7 27.hxg6 Nxg6 28.Nh4 Nxe4 29.Qxg6+ ± +2.44 (18 ply)+- +6.04 (21 ply)+- mate-in-9 after 32.Qg6 a3 33.Qxd6 axb2+ 34.Kb1 Rf7 35.Bxf7+; 32...Bh4 33.Qxh4 Qxe8 34.Nf6+ Kf7 35.Rxg7+ Kxg7 36.Nxe8+ +- mate-in-81-0

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Jun-14-05  Knight13: I don't like 8. Nbd2 because if Black plays 8... Ng4 and the active bishop is gone. You know that Bishops are better in open games.

Good game, thou.

Jun-14-05  aw1988: This is a) not (yet) an open game and b) after Ng4 white just plays Nf1 and recaptures with the knight, therefore securing it in a nice position.
Jun-14-05  Knight13: <b) after Ng4 white just plays Nf1 and recaptures with the knight, therefore securing it in a nice position.> I'll give White a nice position. But I control the dark-squares.
Jun-14-05  aw1988: What dark squares do you control?
Oct-07-08  Trigonometrist:

An elegant finish:

32... fxe3
33.♘f6+ ♔f8
34.♕h8+ ♔e7
35.♕xg7+ ♔e6
36.♗f7+ ♔e7
37.♗d5#

Jan-04-09  WhiteRook48: black'll be at least a piece down if white doesn't see the mate I mean the exchange down
Jul-02-13
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  Phony Benoni: This was from the last round at Hamburg, with Gunsberg on the verge of his first great success. If he wins, he finishes first; lose and he's sixth. (There was five-way tie for second.)

Gunsberg came through in fine style. Ten years later, when facing Pillsbury in the last round at Hastings, did he think wistfully of his own decisive game?

Pillsbury vs Gunsberg, 1895

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