Alexander McDonnell vs Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais (1834) MacDonnell's Drive Through

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Alexander McDonnell vs Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais
"MacDonnell's Drive Through" (game of the day Oct-06-2005)
La Bourdonnais - McDonnell 1st Casual Match (1834), London ENG, rd 20
King's Gambit: Accepted. Bishop's Gambit Cozio Variation (C33) · 0-1

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Annotations by Jan van Reek. [1 more game annotated by J van Reek]

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Apr-16-02		refutor: chess must've been a lot more fun in the 1830s... :)

Sep-30-02		BrownRecluse: ring card girls would be a big help.

Dec-10-04		aw1988: A good move(!)

Dec-11-04		drukenknight: this commentary is dreary. do they pay to have those put in there? he says Kg6 is a good move, I thought it was insane oh well.

Dec-11-04		aw1988: Actually druken... <8... Ke7! is even better.>

Oct-06-05		CeeFoR: Woah o . o

Oct-06-05		WannaBe: Maybe Mahe Mahe for dinner? Oh wait, he won the game... Nevermind.

Oct-06-05		notsodeepthought: Shoot, I deleted the wrong post - damn it... this feature is too good. Anyhow, great pun, <wannabe>, you just have to apply to a game that McDonnell won, there's a few in this match...

Oct-06-05		broccoli: Black probably could have played with the bourdonnais head and still won.

Oct-06-05		n30: Black played a wonderful game in the style of Greco. ;O)

Oct-06-05		al wazir: Why is this the game of the day? I would guess that MacDonnell and de la Bourdonnais would be rated under 2000 if they were playing now.

Oct-06-05		Boomie: <al wazir> Play through the games from this match with Morphy's annotations. Morphy learned a lot from studying these games. La Bourdonnais was a great talent. During the match he would make a move and go into the next room to play skittles, drink, smoke a cigar, and regale the onlookers with his stories. Then when called back to the board he'd make another move in a few minutes. La Bourdonais is one of the great characters in chess history. He was the strongest player in the world at that time. I suspect that if they could keep him out of the pub long enough, he'd be a GM today.

Oct-06-05		offramp: I would think that for Morphy it was total tedium to annotate these games. I suppose he had to do something for his 3000 Bill Braskies a year and these were the most famous games in the world. I can imagine that after every move he wanted to put the note, "Oh my Gawd!"

Oct-06-05		kevin86: Macdonnell was really off his game. These two men played some really classic games;this is NOT one of them! The title is wrong:it should be Macdonnell's Driven Through. 93 Mac-Lab games. Could this be the worst?

Oct-06-05		Jaymthetactician: "<al wazir>: Why is this the game of the day? I would guess that MacDonnell and de la Bourdonnais would be rated under 2000 if they were playing now." I'll have to agree 100%, though there was a game where MacDonnell played with near computer accuracy (was a grand Prix attack). I think LaBourdonnais played so awsomely in this game! Not the kind of guy you'd want to play in a dark alley. The positions turn so sharp when he play's.

Oct-06-05		broccoli: La bourdonnais has a knack for the attack. It would be interesting to see a game between him and somebody like, say, Anderson. Here is a thought...everybody is always comparing old masters to new ones ala "But could Morphy even stand a chance against Kasparov!?"etc. Of course the comparison is moot because of the advances in the game. But what if the playing field was evened out a bit such as in the case of (dare I say it) Fischer random? I don't know but I think a lot of these cats, particularly Morphy, would shred some of the new guys, particularly the more positional players.

Oct-06-05		aw1988: What a horrible game!

Oct-06-05		al wazir: Chess is a game for people who are educated and have leisure time. (You wouldn't be reading this if you didn't have some education and spare time.) For this reason there are probably a thousand times as many competitive chessplayers (i.e., playing in tournaments) now as in 1834. Not only that, but today serious chessplayers have computer programs and databases containing all the innovations and mistakes made in the last 150 years (which MacDonnell and de la Bourdonnais certainly didn't have). Their day is past.

Oct-06-05		schnarre: Shouldn't the quote of the day read MacDonnell's "Driven Through"?

Oct-06-05		EmperorAtahualpa: Good point, <schnarre> but it's still a nice pun hey? Anyway the game was a little boring to me.

Oct-06-05		schnarre: <EmperorAtahualpa> True enough!

Oct-06-05		atrifix: It always amazes me how terrible Jan van Reek's annotations are.

Oct-06-05		schnarre: <atrifix> They certainly lack the in-depth analysis of more modern annotations.

Oct-06-05		underrated: Did anyone else catch all those 'Good Moves' ??? I have never seen so many, simply amazing!!!

Oct-06-05		atrifix: <schnarre> These ARE modern annotations. Here's my favorite one: "Theory about chess strategy made a leap forward in 1927, when Euwe wrote sagacious articles about pawns in the center and the attack on the King, and Nimzovich published his system of prophylaxis. Van Reek completed, clarified and combined these approaches into a general theory for human and computer chess in 1997."

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