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Jacques Mieses vs Siegbert Tarrasch
6th DSB Congress, Breslau (1889), Breslau GER, rd 9, Jul-20
French Defense: Exchange Variation (C01)  ·  0-1

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Aug-19-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  NM JRousselle: Mieses could have safely resigned many moves before he actually did. This is shameful for a master of his strength.

Was Dr Tarrasch in time trouble?

Jan-13-15  1 2 3 4: <NM JRousselle> if he was, i dont think he'd see the Rg2 stalemate that fast
Aug-31-18  EmanuelLasker: <1 2 3 4> I'm pretty sure it would have taken him less than one second to see the Rg2 stalemate.
Feb-20-19  noftox: I imagine Tarrasch must have been disgusted with this game. Mieses' insistence on turning his dark-squared Bishop into a sad imitation of a piece has made Black's task laughably simple.
May-16-25
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  Steakanator: This game is much more interesting than people are giving it credit for.

Mieses's 16. ♗h4 is obviously bad; he was clearly fishing for 16... g5 17. ♗xg5 fxg5 18. ♕xg5+ ♔h8 19. ♗xh7 and a chance at the brilliancy prize. Tarrasch was never going to allow something like that.

Things were fine for Tarrasch until move 33. His decision to trade on d1 was playable, though I wonder if he wouldn't have enjoyed 33... h5 34. ♗xg4 hxg4 more. I guess the win isn't super concrete after 35. ♖c1 followed by c3-c4.

The real mistake, however, was 35... cxd5. Tarrasch wrote in <Dreihundert Schachpartien> that he should have just played the simpler 35... c5 36. d6 ♘d7 and life is good.

After that, things became pretty unclear, with Mieses trying to keep things complicated with 44. ♔h3. I guess he was hunting for further swindles, not wanting to just defend the pawn-down position following 44. ♖xa7 ♘xg4+ 45. ♔g3 ♖xa7 46. ♗xa7 ♘e5.

The last mistake was 45. ♔h4. Mieses could have kept going with 45. ♗g3, but it's far from an easy draw even still.

As for why he kept playing, I suppose he figured that if he had swindled Tarrasch once already, he might be able to do it again.

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