Too Much Brilliancy Concentrated In One Game Of Chess

May 2, 2020 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In this brilliant casual game played between two German chess masters Adolf Anderssen and Max Lange we see how Lange brings into life a highly creative combination involving many piece sacrifices, including a Queen (not accepted)! As Israel Horowitz said about this game:
It is difficult to imagine how one could concentrate more brilliancy, more inspired inventiveness, more sparkle into so short a game. Here is the distilled essence of the very best chess of the old masters: one thrill after another!
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Adolf Anderssen vs Max Lange
Casual Game (1859), Breslau, Germany
Spanish Game: Bird Variation (C61) · 0-1
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nd4 4.Nxd4 exd4 5.Bc4 Nf6 6.e5 d5
7.Bb3 Bg4 8.f3 Ne4 9.O-O d3 10.fxg4 Bc5+ 11.Kh1 Ng3+ 12.hxg3
Qg5 13.Rf5 h5 14.gxh5 Qxf5 15.g4 Rxh5+ 16.gxh5 Qe4 17.Qf3 Qh4+
18.Qh3 Qe1+ 19.Kh2 Bg1+
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