Wilhelm Steinitz vs Walter Shipley (1883)

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Wilhelm Steinitz vs Walter Shipley
Simul, 21b (1883) (exhibition), Germantown, Philadelphia, PA USA, Dec-11
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit. Steinitz Gambit Zukertort Defense (C25) · 0-1

White to move.

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Mar-25-08		grasser: So 7...o-o-o is the bust to the Steinitz Gambit I assume?

Mar-25-08		Voltaic: every time i see Steinitz playing 5.Ke2 i think he must have been crazy! and just look a the date of the game, he was already experienced in his "new" developed positional method. the man was an innovator and something else.

Mar-25-08		grasser: He also liked to play crushingly cramped positions defending the Evans Gambit. Of the modern players Blatny comes to mind with the Budapest Defence.

Mar-25-08		Tomlinsky: Maybe he was just having some fun. The idea that one hundred years into the future millions of people could pore over his games at the touch of a button each with a personal GM on hand would have been more abstract than any Ke2 move. ;)

Mar-25-08		brankat: Steinitz, like most of other masters, could afford himself this kind of a fun and luxury in a simul game. Although the choice of an opponent to exercise this kind of a game against, is somewhat surprising. Mr.Shipley was a very strong player.

Mar-25-08		Voltaic: in the few games i happened to replay the other night i mostly found that he liked complicated play and sure he could enter with pleasure into dubious or better stubborn lines, like a sort of Berlin defense with Nxe4 and Nd6 he played, but indeed all very cramped. but this move 5.Ke2 i really don't get it. i mean, i don't have any trouble with losing castling, i like the bishop gambit, the K goes to f1 and it's ok because the LB is at c4 well posted. now, this Steinitz move is different, i mean it blocks the Bf1 and Qd1 and ok you have the center, but this can be attacked easily, so what's going on Steinitz? :)

Mar-25-08		brankat: An experiment, using the oldest, and still the best method there has ever been: Trial and Error :-).

Mar-25-08		brankat: A remarkable person, Mr.Shipley! I just posted some information about him on his player's page: Walter Penn Shipley

Dec-02-13		mattchess: No bust to the Steinitz Gambit here. Steinitz just made an error on Move 15.

Dec-14-19		SymphonicKnight: In spite of (or perhaps because of) the quirky opening, and roaming King, Steinitz had a tremendous advantage through move 13, but he should have played 14.a4! first (to support the N blocking a Q check from b6), and then looked to play Qe1, and dxc5. He still had the advantage after 14.Qe1!? however, but 15.Bd3? was a mistake, and he should have played 15.Be2 instead. Mr. Shipley then played the brilliant 15...Bxd4! and finished beautifully.

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