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Samuel Reshevsky vs Ladislaus von Dory
Simul (1920) (exhibition), Berlin GER, Jan-14
King's Gambit: Accepted. Cunningham Defense Bertin Gambit (C35)  ·  1-0

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White to move.
ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Stockfish 11 (minimum 30s/ply) 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 c6 4.Bb3 d5 5.Nf3 Bd6 6.Nc3 d4 7.Ne2 = +0.32 (36 ply) ⩱ -1.07 (36 ply) 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 g5 5.h4 g4 6.Ng1 Bh6 7.Nc3 c6 8.a3 = -0.31 (35 ply) 3...Qh4+ 4.Kf1 d6 5.Nc3 Ne7 6.d4 Bg4 7.Nf3 Qf6 ⩱ -1.07 (35 ply)better is 4.Nc3 Bh4+ 5.Kf1 d6 6.d4 Bg5 7.h4 Bh6 8.Nh3 Be6 = +0.13 (37 ply)= -0.50 (37 ply) after 4...Nf6 5.d3 d5 6.exd5 Nxd5 7.Nc3 c6 8.Bxd5 cxd5 5.Kf1 Be7 6.d4 Nf6 7.e5 Nh5 8.Ng5 Bxg5 9.Qxh5 d5 = 0.00 (40 ply) ⩱ -1.10 (38 ply)better is 7.Nxh2 d5 8.Bxd5 Qg5+ 9.Kh1 Nf6 10.d3 Qg6 11.Nc3 Bg3 ⩱ -0.52 (38 ply) 7...d5 8.exd5 Nh6 9.Nxh4 Qxh4 10.Qe1+ Qxe1 11.Rxe1+ ⩱ -1.18 (38 ply) ⩲ +1.20 (40 ply) 8...d5 9.Bxd5 O-O 10.Bxh6 gxh6 11.Ne5 Nc6 12.Nxf7 Qe7 ⩲ +0.85 (37 ply)+- +7.13 (38 ply) after 9.Nc3 O-O 10.Bxh6 d5 11.Nxd5 Qxe4 12.Nxc7 Qc6 13.Bf4 10.Nc3 Rg8 11.Ne5 Rg1+ 12.Rxg1 hxg1=Q+ 13.Qxg1 Qg5 +- +6.59 (42 ply) 10...Nc6 11.Rxf7 Qg5 12.Nf3 Qg3 13.Nc3 d5 14.Ne2 Qd6 ⩲ +0.66 (39 ply)+- +7.09 (41 ply) after 11.Nxf7 d5 12.Nc3 Qxf7 13.Nxd5 Qg6 14.Nxf6+ Kd8 15.Qf3 better is 13.Rf3 Qe1+ 14.Bf1 Rxf7 15.Rxf6 Qe7 16.Rf4 Kf8 17.Nc3 +- +7.97 (41 ply) 13...Qh4+ 14.Qxh4 Bxh4 15.Nc3 d5 16.Nxd5 Rxf7 17.Rxf7 +- +2.92 (43 ply)+- mate-in-14 after 14.Nd2 Qxd2+ 15.Kh1 d5 16.Rae1+ Qxe1 17.Rxe1+ Be6 14...Qg6+ 15.Qxg6 hxg6 16.Rxf6 d5 17.Bxd5 Nd7 18.Rf1 Nb6 +- +4.53 (42 ply)+- +12.37 (36 ply)1-0

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Jul-31-04  DanielBryant: What might have been an improvement on move 7 for Black?
Jul-31-04  Calli: 7...d5 is the main line see Morphy vs Bird, 1859
Dec-13-04  GreenDayGuy: Perhaps after 14... Qg6+ 15. QXQ PXQ offers black good endgame chances. Two connected passed pawns will be hard to stop.
Jun-01-05  refutor: after 3.Bc4 Be7 is there something stronger than 4.Nf3?
Jun-02-05  iron maiden: <refutor> I used to always play 4. d4 here. Nf3 is probably the best though.
Jun-02-05  square dance: the main thing for all king's gambiteers to remember about the cunningham is that white just has to get the king bishop off of f1 before black can set up its Q+B battery and play Bh4+. if not your king ends up on e2. lets say you play 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf 3.Nf3 Be7 4.d4 Bxh4+ 5.NxB QxN 6.Ke2(6.g3 fxg 7.hxg QxR) but, to answer <refutor>'s question, i think that after 3.Bc4 Be7 4.Nf3 is the strongest move as the cunningham is usually, as far as i can tell, a defense to the king's knight gambit.
Jun-02-05  refutor: <square dance> i always liked the three pawns gambit 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf 3.Nf3 Be7 4.Bc4 Bh4+ 5.g3 fxg3 6.O-O gxh2+ 7.Kh1
Jun-02-05
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  beatgiant: <GreenDayGuy>
<14... Qg6+ 15. QXQ PXQ offers black good endgame chances> Actually, that looks hopeless to me after 14...Qg6+ 15. Qxg6 hxg6 16. Rxf6, and the pawns are not a factor since White threatens a crushing attack with 17. Nc3, 18. Re1+ etc.
May-26-07  gBizzle: this game just goes to show that kings gambit players suck, along with their opponents
Aug-15-07  xeroxmachine: "this game just goes to show that kings gambit players suck, along with their opponents"

haha

Aug-15-07  Karpova: Reshevsky was a nine year old child at that time.
Aug-15-07  Petrosianic: Actually 11. They sort of fudged his age a bit as a child prodigy. He was really born in 1909.
Aug-15-07  RookFile: Was he really? Everything I ever read said 1911. I remember when I played Reshevsky in a postal game in the 1980's... Chess Life was saying he was born in 1911.

I mean Reshevsky wouldn't have cared.... the guy was over 70.... if he was born in 1909, why didn't he correct all of us?

Jun-12-09  WhiteRook48: Black was such a patzer

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