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| Apr-04-06 | | Jim Bartle: And if it is the GOTD, watch the kibitzes flow in, "How can you have so little imagination, using such an overexposed, famous game as the game of the day?" |
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| Apr-08-06 | | AlexanderMorphy: well it's better that some of the games we've been getting lately...anyway no matter how overexposed this game is, it still deserves a pun and GOTD status! |
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Apr-08-06
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| Apr-14-06 | | IMDONE4: this is an amazing game, one of the few games that have inspired me |
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| Apr-15-06 | | Fast Gun: Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritsky, phew what a mouthful, try saying that after a few pints !! Was that really his name ? |
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Apr-15-06
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| Apr-16-06 | | IMDONE4: Was this actually played in a coffeehouse? I'd be amazed if Anderssen was able to calculate all his sacrifices to the end. |
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Apr-16-06
| | offramp: This game was actually played on a primitive 800-foot high wooden roller-coaster built for London's Great Exhibition. The move 17.Nd5 was played while both players were upside-down! |
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| Apr-16-06 | | Jim Bartle: And proving once against that necessity is the mother of Frank Zappa, this game led to the invention of the magnetic chess set. |
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| Apr-16-06 | | bill68: Jim!!!! It's Bill Glick. If you see this email me at billglick@verizon.net
I'd love to get back in touch!!! |
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| Apr-16-06 | | Jim Bartle: Gotcha, Bill!! I'll write, let you the good and the bad (Alan vs. Humala!!! nightmare city). Damn, now I might have to start acting like an adult here, even tell the truth once in a while. |
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| Jun-19-06 | | dakgootje: Ha, your a dead man, you might even sometimes have to post comments making any sense at all! gonna need some serious training =P |
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| Jul-08-06 | | theArtist: That's my favorite game,simply amazing!! |
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| Aug-17-06 | | fevered cheek: how about 17.d3!! followed by ...Bf8 18.Be5 Qc6 19.Nxg7+ Bxg7 20.Bxg7 and white is totally winning.
click for larger view
postion after 16.Bc5?
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| Aug-27-06 | | mobiegobie: I found it very easy at first glance to see the black queen on 17)Qxb2(and Bishop on e5) as a big threat to white. However, white clearly leads on development and is farther along in his plan. Anderssen did not overreact(as i would have)to the Queen. He realized that his pressure and blacks lack of development would make blacks "threat" insubstantal when paired with whites knock out punches. |
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| Nov-12-06 | | sfm: For many beginners, including once myself, this game has served as a great inspiration. That it is so loaded with errors that both Andersen and Kieseritsky must have had a very bad day does not change that. It remains a classic example of attacking the opponents king vs. materialism.
BTW, from the source I read it, about 35 years ago, the order was 19.-,Qxa1+ 20.Ke2,Bxg1.
The commentator, Mr. Jens Enevoldsen, said (my translation) to Blacks 20th move: "Black seems to believe that it is his duty to capture any piece he possibly can. It is an open question if White after 20.-,Qb2! could still win." He also wrote about 16.-,Bc5: "Even the weakest coffee-house player today would have been smart enough not to play Bc5 before having checked out whether White could answer d3-d4 winning a tempo. Actually this, followed by e4-e5, would have decided within only a few more moves." |
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| Jan-26-07 | | geraldo8187: the immortal game, alongside greco's treasures and morphy's brilliant works are the reasons why i began to take chess seriously. now that i've got fritz, i find that these players made rather poor moves at times. fritz gives kieseritsky an astounding -5.32 after ...Qxa1 if only he followed up with ...Qb2. anyone have suggestions of games with a real lemon of a move that looks brilliant without analysis? |
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| Jan-26-07 | | malthrope: <geraldo8187: the immortal game, alongside greco's treasures and morphy's brilliant works are the reasons why i began to take chess seriously. now that i've got fritz, i find that these players made rather poor moves at times.[...]> All so true, but chess had much more evolving yet to take place and what we see here (from the past) is added to the shoulders of chess giants making chess the royal game it is today! :-) For me (I'm sure many of us from what I'm reading here) it was the great players of the 'Golden Age' of chess that got the chess bug fixed within us. The final picture (game position) of many of these fantastic chess games is where a 'Picture is worth a thousand words' really pays off. ;-) (The Immortal Game - 'Anderssen vs. Kieseritsky' - the position after the final move 23. Be7#): 
click for larger view Additionally, least us not forget the immortal words of the good doctor... "The winner of a game is the one who has made the next to last blunder." - Dr. Sawielly Tartakower
Plus, If you haven't read it yet the chess story, 'The Immortal Game' (F&SF published in 1954) by Poul Anderson (1926-2001) is a lot of fun to read! ;-) The basis of this short story is, of course, this chess game between 'Anderssen & Kieseritsky!'
Regards, - Mal
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| Feb-04-07 | | IMDONE4: Chessgames.com really needs to make this game of the day sometime |
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| Feb-22-07 | | geraldo8187: IMDONE4, quite right. this is the immortal game and has not been chosen for game of the day?!! how does that happen? |
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| Apr-03-07 | | Skylark: In 'The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games', the authors give Qxa1+ before Bxg1, and point out that 18. Bd6 is probably in error because of 18. ... Qxa1+ 19. Ke2 Qb2! Try finding a successful way of attacking; I've spent hours on it and could find nothing for white. In all probability, 18. d4! was probably a better (albeit less pretty) way to victory. |
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| Apr-11-07 | | Dr.Lecter: Well, this is probably the best game ever played. Not the most interesting, because that game where White sacs all his pieces to get a draw, you know? That's interesting. |
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| Apr-11-07 | | Archives: <Well, this is probably the best game ever played.> The most famous game ever played? Certainly.
But the best game ever played? What makes you think that? I guess it is a matter of personal taste, as there is no actual way to rank games to find out which is the best ever played. |
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| Apr-13-07 | | Dr.Lecter: <archives> I agree with you. I am not so certain about its fame, though, as I didn't know about until recently, which is kind of weird, but... And, the reason I said this was the best game ever played is just because it was a mix of accurate offense and positional brilliance, and was spectacular. |
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| Apr-13-07 | | Archives: <I am not so certain about its fame, though, as I didn't know about until recently, which is kind of weird,> Heh, that is kinda weird! As this game is generally considered to be one of the most famous games ever (along with Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858 and D Byrne vs Fischer, 1956 ) |
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