| Mar-11-04 | | ughaibu: This belongs in the king-walk collection. |
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| Mar-11-04 | | capanegra: Thanks, ughaibu! |
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| Jun-16-04 | | Jesuitic Calvinist: Classic king walk by Steinitz. I would have expected Zukertort to play on. |
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| Jul-14-04 | | arifattar: Me too |
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| Oct-23-04 | | refutor: has anyone here played the steinitz gambit? i think a lot of things have to go right for white to win ;) |
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| Oct-23-04 | | Knezh: I am pretty sure 7. ..0-0-0 is unsounds. ALso why not 8. ..Re8? |
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Oct-23-04
 | | Chessical: Chigorin seems to have put this line out of business: Chigorin vs J Mortimer, 1900 |
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| Sep-23-06 | | Achilles87: I feel as if black has made a real has of things |
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| Apr-17-07 | | InspiredByMorphy: What was wrong with 10. ...a6 ? |
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| May-08-10 | | wordfunph: <InspiredByMorphy: What was wrong with 10. ...a6 ?> a matter of taste, developing his knight and rooks meeting eye to eye.. |
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May-08-10
 | | beatgiant: <Inspired>
Your suggestion was tried in H Neustadtl vs O Valenta, 1889, which Black soon won after 10...a6 11. c3 axb5 12. Kd3 Bf5+. But how about 10...a6 11. b4!? |
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| Nov-27-14 | | Knight13: I like 12... a6. If 13. Na3, 13... a5. 13. Nxc7 Kxc7 14. Bxf4+ Kxb7, or 14. Bxa6 Bxd4+. |
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| Jan-09-15 | | Whitehat1963: What would Houdini's next 10 or so moves be? |
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Jun-30-15
 | | fredthebear: It doesn't make sense to resign with active heavy pieces still on the board. Target the light squared bishop and double the rooks on the open file. It's no gimme. |
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| Jul-01-15 | | thomastonk: <fredthebear> The game score given here is that of Devide, "A Memorial to William Steinitz", 1901 , pages 34-35. Bachmann in "Schachmeister Steinitz", vol. I, page 297 gave a game score with 51 moves, which differs already at Black's 19th move: 19.. a6 20. ♗a4 etc. Some time ago I tried in vain to solve this little mistery. Zukertort had published a series of articles on the Steinitz Gambit in his "Neue Berliner Schachzeitung", and Devide mentions that he failed to consider 11.♔d3. Although I have checked this, I cannot remember the outcome. |
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| Jul-02-15 | | thomastonk: Almost 20 years later Steinitz wrote:
"11. ♔d3, as played by the editor against Zukertort in the London Tournament of 1872 is, as we believe, the strongest continuation. The game alluded to proceeded ... [all moves until 19. ♕c4], and White maintained his piece ahead, for Black could not play for recovering it by ... [here he analysed 19.. Rb6]." Source: International Chess Magazine 1891, page 283. |
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| Feb-23-16 | | zanzibar: <365chess.com> has the 51-move version of the game instead of this one. http://www.365chess.com/view_game.p... |
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| Apr-11-18 | | Big Pawn: <fredthebear: It doesn't make sense to resign with active heavy pieces still on the board. Target the light squared bishop and double the rooks on the open file. It's no gimme.> How does black avoid the impending mate?
White is mating here. |
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Apr-11-18
 | | Telemus: <Big Pawn> From the posting following <fredthebear>'s you can see that the gamescore was different back then, and that it was the one presented in Devide's book on pages 34-35. I've just checked that the game ends there already after White's 20th move! And the final moves there are 19.. c5 20.Kc2. |
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| Apr-11-18 | | andrewjsacks: The King is a fighting piece. |
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| Apr-11-18 | | SChesshevsky: Are open central files strategically important? Here, at 6. exd5, both kings are on an open e-file. Interesting that there wasn't any other piece on that file until most of the action was over at 46...Re7. |
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| Apr-11-18 | | Boomie: <SChesshevsky: Are open central files strategically important?> As this is a purely tactical game, strategies have to take the back seat. |
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Oct-17-21
 | | MissScarlett: <<365chess.com> has the 51-move version of the game instead of this one.> But there's also a 52-move version, favoured by Harding, claiming the Bachmann ending <makes little sense>. This version which was published in <Land & Water> (Loewenthal) on June 14th 1873, varies with <45.Bxf5 Re7 46.Bd3 Rg7 47.Kb4 Re7 48.Rd5 Rg7 49.Re5 Rg4+ 50.Be4 Rg1 51.Re8 c5+ 52.Kb5 1-0>. |
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