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| Jan-12-08 | | JimmyVermeer: I have won a game in which I gave my opponent odds of queen, 2 rooks, and 2 bishops. Needless to say, my opponent was an amateur. |
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| Jan-19-08 | | asiduodiego: This game is beatiful. I read that even if black plays the correct line with 20. ...Ba6 (which avoids mate), White can force moves to regain one of the rooks, and keep an spatial advantage enough to lead to a winning endgame. Excelent game. |
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| Feb-08-08 | | D.Observer: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immort... for the annotation. |
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| Mar-16-08 | | Knight13: Here’s what David Shenk wrote in his book of chess history, <"The Immortal Game,"> about this game after move 1: <“It was quiet beginning for a casual game, held at Simpson’s Grand Divan Tavern, the smoky man’s club and chess café on the Strand boulevard in London. These were the two of the greatest chess players in the world at the time, but very few people were likely watching this throwaway practice game—the real action was a mile away at the St. George’s Chess Club at Cavendish Square, where Anderssen, Kieseritzky, and four-teen other world-class players were competing in chess’s first-ever true international tournament.”> (The international tournament being the London 1851 tournament organized by Howard Staunton) |
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May-05-08
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| May-05-08 | | Petrosianic: That's the problem with this place. Too many people running around, screaming "Null" for no reason. |
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| Jul-12-08 | | JimmyVermeer: This game is listed in Encyclopaedia Britannica, but it transposes all moves from Black's third to White's 5th. It also transposes Black's 8th and 9th moves. Anyone know why that would be? |
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| Jul-12-08 | | DukeAlba: Interestingly Kieseritsky has a plus score of (+7 -6 =2) against Anderssen in the Chessgames database... |
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| Aug-12-08 | | Miachonzinho: Why 19. e5 and not 19. Ng7, with mate on 3? Would Anderssen let his challenger think he would won? |
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Aug-13-08
 | | keypusher: <Miachonzinho: Why 19. e5 and not 19. Ng7, with mate on 3? Would Anderssen let his challenger think he would won?> 19. Nxg7+ Qxg7. The point of 19. e5 is cut the queen off from g7. |
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| Aug-30-08 | | JonathanJ: this is truly the most overrated game ever, full of stupid blunders. |
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| Sep-06-08 | | ravel5184: hee hee hee
I played this on Guess-the-Move and got 66 points
I played it all from memory
hee hee hee |
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| Sep-12-08 | | afterbirth: What an ending! This is typical though. The player who is initially dominating is consumed in the feeding frenzy of gobbling up his opponents pieces, and in the process fails to adequately protect his king. You can usually assume that with a large point advantage it will mean that the oppossing player will not be able to mount a sufficient offensive attack to do any real damage. But positioning is everything, not point value. It's so easy to fall victim to this type of play. And it is masterful to be able to bait an opponent into this trap. Just goes to show that protecting the king should always be top priority. |
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| Sep-29-08 | | ivan verdiskel: in russia we call tis set of moves yakenblak. were a plyer set mind to attack but get sting by bees! |
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| Oct-08-08 | | CharlesSullivan: To demonstrate the complexity of this game, here is Kasparov, one of the greatest attacking players in history, flubbing the analysis [on p.24 of "My Great Predecessors, Part I"] of Steinitz's improvement at the 18th move: 18...♕xa1+ 19.♔e2 ♕b2! Kasparov continues 20.♔d2! ♗xg1! 21.e5 ♗a6 22.♘xg7+ ♔d8 23.♕xf7 and reaches this position:
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Kasparov has gone into this variation trying to show that "White's attack, in my view, is sufficient only for a draw." But here he (and his circa-1999 computer) overlooks <23...♘h6+!> and Black wins (according to Rybka & Zappa). White has many ways to play, but all lose; one possible continuation is 24.♕f6+ ♔c8 25.♕xh6 ♘c6 26.♕f6 ♔b7 27.♕f5 ♖ad8 and Black, with almost <2 extra rooks> and a solid-enough position, will win this:
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| Oct-08-08 | | CharlesSullivan: Since we have seen that, after 18...Qa1+ 19.Ke2 Qb2! 20.Kd2! Bxg1! 21.e5 Ba6*, Kasparov's 22.Nxg7+ Kd8 23.Qxf7 loses to 23...Nh6+! we should look for a better 22nd move. Here is the position:
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White has a (fairly obvious move) that begins encircling the Black king and which forces Black to take a draw by perpetual check. That move is <22.Nc7+!> and the main variation is 22...Kd8 23.Qxa8 Bb6 24.Qxb8+ Bc8 25.Nd5! Ba5+! 26.Ke3! Qxc2! (the safest way to draw) 27.Qxa7 and now the mating threats force 27...Qd2+ 28.Kf3 Qd1+ 29.Kg3 Qe1+ 30.Kg2 Qe2+ etc. *By the way, Kasparov is right when he says that 21...Bb7 leads to a draw, assuming best play. |
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| Oct-10-08 | | mjmorri: This game was one of the two games featured in the chess article in the Encyclopaedia Britannic (9th edition 1878-1888). The other was a game by Morphy. T W Barnes vs Morphy, 1858 Regarding the present game, I will quote from that chess article: "The manner in which White in the first game forces the victory, though losing piece after piece, scarcely finds a parallel in the records of chess strategy." This statement is as true today as it was when it was written 130 years ago. |
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| Oct-10-08 | | mjmorri: All of you people who are using a computer to analyse this game ought to be run out of town. Does this game have any flaws? - Yes
Is Anderssen's play brilliant - Absolutely!! |
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Nov-17-08
 | | LIFE Master AJ: Since many of the links that I originally gave no longer work ... http://www.geocities.com/lifemaster...
http://www.lifemasteraj.com/old_af-... http://www.worldchessacademy.com/An... |
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| Dec-03-08 | | WhiteRook48: weird....Wikipedia does NOT have a good java animation. |
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| Dec-07-08 | | WhiteRook48: Sacrifices are amazing |
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| Dec-23-08 | | WhiteRook48: There was a Short v Kasparov game that stayed the same with this until move 6 |
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| Jan-23-09 | | WhiteRook48: how is 10. g4 a mistake? |
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| Feb-03-09 | | WhiteRook48: incredible sacrifices |
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| Feb-27-09 | | 1. h4: <WR48>
Actually, in the kaspy-short game you're talking about, it was an exhibition and they were forced to play those first 6 moves. |
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