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Eduard Jenay vs Wilhelm Steinitz
"Jenay on the Block" (game of the day Feb-14-2023)
Casual game (1860), Vienna AUT, Sep-03
Scotch Game: Scotch Gambit. Dubois Reti Defense (C44)  ·  0-1

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Oct-12-04  InspiredByMorphy: Amazing game! Steinitz gives up the exchange and gets a great attack. 30. ...Rxg3+!
May-19-14  ljfyffe: Steinitz-R. Short, J.N. Babson, D.C. Robertson
(Montreal, 1893): 1e4 e5 2d4 exd4 3Qxd4 Nc6 4Qe3 Nf6 5Nc3 Be7 6Bc4 d6 7Nf3 Be6 8Qe2 Qd7 9Nd5 h6 10Bd2 Ne5 11Nxe5 dxe5 12 Nxf6+ Bxf6 13Bxe6 Qxe6 14Qb5+ c6 15Qxb7 0-0 16Qb3 Qd6 17Qd3 Qc7 18Bc3 Rad819Qa6 Rd6 200-0 Qd7 21Qe2 Re8 22Bb4 Rd4 23Bc5 Rd2 24Qc4 Bg5 25a4 Rd8 26a5 Kh7 27a6 Bf4 28Ra3 Rb8 29b4 Rd8 30g3 Bg5 31Rf3 Rd1 32Rxd1 Qxd1+ 33Kg2 Qe1 34 34Rd3 f5 35exf5 Qe2 36Rd4 Qxc4 37Rxc4 Rd7 38h4 Bf6 39Be3 1-0
Feb-14-23  Honey Blend: Not sure I understand 20. b4, but ♘b3 might have been better. If the game similarly continued 20. ♘b3 h4 21. gxh4 ♖xh4 22. g3 ♖h3 23. ♘xd4 forces Black to give up one of the bishops, either by ... ♗xd4 or ♘xe6 at some point, which should neutralize most of the attack, e.g. 23. ... ♕h7 24. ♖e2 ♗xd4 25. ♕xd4 ♖xg3 26. ♕a4+ and there's still fight left:


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Feb-14-23  nalinw: I am the wrong generation ... but I presume the pun is a reference to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dly...
Feb-14-23
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  ajk68: <InspiredByMorphy: Amazing game! Steinitz gives up the exchange and gets a great attack. 30. ...Rxg3+!>

Giving up the exchange did not give him the attack. White was better. It wasn't until 22. g3, weakening the king's position, that things were even equal. 22. Qg3 and white would have been on the path to a win.

Feb-14-23
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  Honza Cervenka: Instead of 11...Be6 black should have played 11...0-0, and instead of 12...bxc6 it was better to play 12...Qd7.
Feb-14-23
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  Check It Out: What a great game
Feb-14-23
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  MissScarlett: I was planning to use De Vere vs V Green, 1868 as <GOTD>, but I couldn't make this work as a pun:

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Feb-14-23  goodevans: <Honza Cervenka: Instead of 11...Be6 black should have played 11...0-0, and instead of 12...bxc6 it was better to play 12...Qd7.>

Or to put it another way, Steinitz was just plain wrong to sac the exchange.

Either move would have avoided that although the latter would have shed an extra pawn. I've seen that sequence so many times in club games I can't believe Steinitz didn't consider it. Why on earth did he think the exchange sac was better?

Dec-29-24
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  PaulPetrovitj: Yes, goodevans, good points. The number of second rate moves in this game is big, e.g. White¨s 25. Rf4 was a bad mistake which should have been punished by 25.-, Qa8, a surprising attacking move! Even though the game is of low standard, it can still be instructive showing the power of two Bishops. Of course it is not difficult to spot all improvements possible when you have the aid of a strong chess engine ...

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