| Apr-11-05 | | Runemaster: A great clash of styles. Steinitz got the sort of position he was more at home in. The tactics leading into the knight ending were neat. A knight ending with an extra pawn but all the pawns on the same side of the board is of course difficult to win, but Steinitz had no problems. |
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| Apr-11-05 | | drukenknight: have we figured out yet where Anderssen goes astray? It must have something to do with his N because when you get down to this sort of ending dont you sack your N for 2P and leave the other guy up K + N but unable to win? |
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| Oct-21-05 | | Lucky1: Move 42, Black to move. A puzzle for knight fork week. |
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| May-10-10 | | chessik: 38...-f3 win? |
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| Jan-08-11 | | Llawdogg: Brilliant game from Steinitz. He was excellent. So many good moves. A dozen of his last 25 moves were just fantastic. Great rook sac. Beautiful knight fork. Masterful endgame technique. Wow! |
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| Dec-10-11 | | Kinan: This is the first game where the move 7...d3 is introduced in Evan's Gambit. |
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| Jan-30-12 | | Knight13: 32. Rxf4 looks okay to me. What's wrong? |
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| Jan-30-12 | | ughaibu: The knight on d6. |
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| Jan-30-12 | | Knight13: <ughaibu: The knight on d6.> Will you give me an analysis? 32. Rxf4 Qxd6 33. Rxh4 and White wins back the knight with a discovered attack on the queen on d6. |
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| Jan-30-12 | | ughaibu: Yes, I dont see a way to exploit it, so I agree with you. I wonder why Anderssen didn't play it. |
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| Jan-30-12 | | Knight13: I see why. 32. Rxf4 Qxd6 33. Rxh4 33...Bxf2+ and White will be kissing the devil's toes. |
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| Jan-31-12 | | ughaibu: I still dont see it. What happens after Kh1? |
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Feb-01-12
 | | keypusher: Anderssen & Neumann said that 32.Rxf4 lost to ...Rxf2. 33.Rxf8+ Rxf8+ 34.Qxb6 Qxg2#
33.R1xf2 Qb1#
33.R4xf2 Rxf2 and I am not sure what White can play.
My source is Levy and O'Connell's Oxford Encyclopedia of chess games. The original analysis evidently appeared in <Neue Berliner Schachzeitung>. |
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| Feb-01-12 | | Boomie: The sequence 31. Rd4 Bd6 32 Rdd1 seems silly to me.
I would think 31. Qd5+ Kh8 is a saner line. For once, the silly cone monster "agrees" with me. However I never would have come up with Houdini's continuation. 32. g4! (the exclam is for bravery) Bc7 33. Qc6 Bb8 34. Qd5 Bxd6 35. Qxd6 Qe4 36. Qd5 Qxa4 (-0.47/22)
click for larger viewI don't fully understand the Qc6/Qd5 maneuver but I think white has a good chance to hold this. One try for improvement is 33. a5 h5 34. Qd3 Qe6.
click for larger viewHowever there is a wild (more or less) forced line after this. 35. Qd5 hxg4 36. Qh5+ Kg8 37. Qxh4 g3 38. Qg4 gxh2 39. Kh1 Bxa5 40. Qxe6 Rxe6 (-0.29/23)
click for larger viewThis looks more drawish than the first line. However only computers and super GMs could navigate this line. |
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| Feb-01-12 | | ughaibu: Keypusher: Thanks. |
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| Jan-17-14 | | Boban: Italian Game (C-51)
Evans Gambit, Declined
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 |
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| May-21-15 | | TheFocus: 149 years ago, on this date, Wilhelm Steinitz defeated Adolf Anderssen in this, game 3 of their match. Congratulations, Wilhelm. I think you turned out alright. |
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| Jun-18-15 | | TheFocus: <Kinan> <This is the first game where the move 7...d3 is introduced in Evan's Gambit.> No. Anderssen had previously analyzed 7...d3 in <Deutsche Schachzeitung> 1851. He recommended 8.Ne5 as best. |
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| Jun-18-15 | | TheFocus: Better was 62.Nb4+, in order to prevent, after 62...Ke2 (or 62...Kd2 63.Kf1) 63.Nd5, the advance of the g-pawn to g3, because in this case White could get a draw by 64.Nf4+ Ke1 65.Nd3+ - Chigorin. |
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Dec-26-17
 | | offramp: This game is mentioned in the kibitzing of the game Fine vs Najdorf, 1949. |
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Feb-12-25
 | | philpam1: The most interesting part of the game was the knight ending that began at move 46. Black's one pawn advantage with the pawns on one side of the board shouldn't have been enough to win provided White defended accurately. His fatal error was 50 Ne5+. It was necessary to keep the Black king out of f5. Also key was Black's 60 ... Kd4! Any other move would have allowed White to draw. |
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| Mar-05-25 | | Prabhat Mukherjea: It's surprising no one noticed it, but Steinitz played 7...d3 here, clearly not happy with how Game 1 went, but this is in fact a blunder and Steinitz got his type of position because Anderssen missed a fairly simple tactical refutation and ended up with no compensation at all after 8.Qxd3 8. Ng5 Nh6 9. Nxf7 Nxf7 10. Bxf7+ Kxf7 11.Qh5+ Kg8 12. Qd5+! Kf8 13. Qxc5+ d6 and White is much much better. There's really no alternative for Black anywhere here. |
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Mar-05-25
 | | Sally Simpson: <Hi Prabhat>
"It's surprising no one noticed it, but Steinitz played 7...d3 here..." It appears: 'Anderssen had previously analyzed 7...d3 in <Deutsche Schachzeitung> 1851" - Anderssen vs Steinitz, 1866 (kibitz #19) Then Anderssen suggested 8.Ne5. Digging out 8.Ng5 OTB would have been hard to judge. (if indeed Anderssen ever considered it.) According to this D.B. 8.Ng5 was finally played for the first time 44 years later. Tartakower vs Spielmann, 1910 and Black won though the game had to go into an ending, nothing to do with the opening. Though given the chance later Steinitz never repeated 7....d3 Repertoire Explorer: Wilhelm Steinitz (black) |
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| Mar-09-25 | | Prabhat Mukherjea: It seems extremely probable that in between the games one or both players realised the problem with 7...d3 as here Steinitz was much better. It was probably published or mentioned somewhere and d3 wasn't repeated as most players became aware of this tactic. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 43...Rxh2+