The Legend: Harry Nelson Pillsbury – GM Alejandro Ramirez – 2015.05.07

May 12, 2015 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Saint Louis Chess ClubTue, May 12, 2015 5:00pmURL:
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Grandmaster Alejandro Ramirez profiles the “Hero of Hastings” Harry Nelson Pillsbury. Pillsbury only played top level chess for five years, but is considered the first great American chess player to follow Paul Morphy.

Emanuel Lasker vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury, St. Petersburg (1895/96): C42 Petrov, classical attack, Chigorin variation
Mikhail Chigorin vs David Janowski, Hastings (1895): C26 Vienna, Falkbeer variation
Pillsbury vs Isidor Gunsberg, Hastings (1895): D10 Queen’s Gambit Declined Slav defence
Pillsbury vs Lasker, St. Petersburg (1895/96): D50 Queen’s Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, Primitive Pillsbury variation
Pillsbury vs Lasker, Nuremberg (1896): C11 French, Steinitz variation

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