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| Feb-06-08 | | chessamateur: <Kaspy2> I don't think those were his exact words. In his book he made the observation that 'Les pions sont l'ame du jeu' (the pawns are the life of the game). Over time this phrase has become known as "the pawns are the soul of chess." which were not his exact words. |
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| Feb-06-08 | | euripides: 'L'a^me' is usually translated 'the soul', not 'the life'. |
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| Mar-25-08 | | Knight13: 13...exf3 14. Ngxf3 Nh5 looks strong.
15...Nxd5! instead of 15...cxd5 looks more active and better. |
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| Sep-13-08 | | just a kid: <nimh>I don't think 4.c3 should be classified as a mistake.It may not be the best move,but it is a pretty okay move. |
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| Sep-13-08 | | just a kid: <knight13>I agree with your 1st part of your post,but I am not sure that Nxd5 is better than cxd5.He isolates his e4 pawn.He also gives a better chance of the bishop becoming active on the a2-g8 diagonal.Plus the e4 pawn has to guarded by pieces and no pawns. |
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| Feb-23-09 | | WhiteRook48: 2. Bc4 is not much of a move. Remember "Knights before bishops" |
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Feb-23-09
 | | James Demery: Philidor goes by his own rules and he used to rock the house. |
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| Sep-17-09 | | Wayne Proudlove: C'etait un jeu d'echecs "blindfold". Je crois qu'il y avait trois personnes qui jouent contre lui. Mais a ce temps il est possible pour quelqueun de jouer plus de vingt jeux a la fois, n'est-ce pas? Peut-etre parce qu'il est plus facile de lire les notations modernes. :) |
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| Sep-17-09 | | vonKrolock: trois ou même quatre parties simultanées à l'aveugle provoquaient un grand bruit à ce temps là... plus tard, les specialistes ont [elevé le nombre jusqu'à plusiers dizaines. |
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| Apr-02-11 | | squaresquat: The pawn structure determines the spirit of the game; it is the spirit which gives life...heh heh heh |
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| May-31-11 | | goodenov: For all the praise and analysis this game received, Brueh could have drawn this game as late as move 47. with 47.Rd7+ Ke6 48.Rd8. If Black gets too frisky he can even lose. |
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Mar-15-14
 | | MJCB: Isn't 47. ♖d7+ ♔e6 48. ♖d8 met with ♖d1 mate?
But ♖d7+ ♔e6 ♖e7+ followed by ♖xd3 looks more promising
On 47. ♖d7+, I would play ♔g6, and on 47. ♔d1 f2+ |
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| Dec-13-14 | | Christoforus Polacco: <MJCB>
Remember that before 47th move the pawns are still on 'f4' and 'h5' |
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Jan-01-15
| | MJCB: Christoforus Polacco: you are right actually! My mistake. Thanks. |
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| Apr-19-15 | | Atking: When you look as the game won by Carlsen yesterday vs Caruana you found some points of the actual game. More than 200 year latter... some ideas are still alive. |
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| Jan-13-16 | | TheFocus: From a blindfold simultaneous exhibition in London, England on May 8, 1783 at Parsloe's Chess Club. Philidor won the other two games in this exhibition. See <Quarterly for Chess History>, #4, 2000, pg. 392-393. |
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| Jan-13-16 | | TheFocus: Actually drew one and won the other of the two. |
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| Apr-12-16 | | juanhernandez: excellent game !!! |
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| Dec-18-18 | | GumboGambit: Fine game for Philidor, but Bruehl and Unusual Punishment for White. |
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| Jan-06-23 | | generror: A really fine and tense game by both players, who both play unusually responsible and solid chess. Philidor actually only wins because Bruehl blunders a very tricky endgame that turns out to be actually drawn because White could have forced threefold repetition. (Of course, back then there probably wasn't such a rule.) Sure there's many inaccuracies and some mistakes by both players, in compared to other early games, this is really solid. Philidor has the advantage during most of the game. He nearly blunders it, ironically by taking with the wrong pawn: After <24...bxc4>, Stockfish evaluates the position to nearly equal (its line goes <25.b3 Ba3 26.Rc2 cxb3 27.Nxb3>); <24...dxc4> would have been better, probably because the isolated d-pawn now is a nice target for black. The most interesting thing is the endgame however. Even though it looks very favourable for Philidor, after <38...Nxf4?!> the game is actually drawn. Because, to my amazement, White can actually force a threefold repetition if Black wants it to prevent to promote first. Unfortunately, Bruehl misses it at the final moment: 
click for larger view<47.h6??> is the decisive blunder, while <47.Rd7+> was the rescue. White's king just can't get go away, but he also can't get at the pawn without letting the h-pawn promote. (It really is an incredibly tricky and nasty and instructive position that's definitively rewarding some studying!) After <47...f3>, White has no way to stop Black from promoting and, to his credit, promptly resigns. Analyzing this game was really rewarding and surprising, it really deserves more recognition, especially because of that crazy endgame. |
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Aug-24-24
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: A relic from the days when playing one game blindfold was considered remarkable. Philidor v. three? Shocking. |
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Aug-24-24
 | | HeMateMe: Terrific pun! Let's give Bruehl some credit for lasting well into the endgame. |
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| Aug-24-24 | | areknames: Love the pun, hehe! |
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Aug-26-24
 | | Honza Cervenka: 24...bxc4(??) was a serious positional mistake from Philidor's part. I guess that under normal conditions (being not blindfolded) he would have played 24...dxc4 creating thus mobile Pawn majority on the Queenside and liberating d5 for his Knight with rather easy technical win of the game. |
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| Nov-27-24 | | pawndude88: The best pun in at least 200 years! |
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