The Immortal Game
The first time I have seen the Immortal game was 5 years ago; I could not forget it since that time.
Adolf Anderssen gave almost all his pieces for nothing, in order to capture his majesty, playing the wild King Gambit, an agressive opening, but has 2 sides: Either you win, either you lose quickly! We have to mention that the game was played in 1851, at the time, grandmasters used to sacrifice in order to obtain win, so chess became more spectacular, till the German School, leaded by Wilheim Steinitz and Emmanual Lasker stopped this tendancy, setting a more “rational” conception. Meanwhile, we may always appreciate the Chess Beauty through the Immortal Game…
[Event "The Immortal Game"]
[Site "London, England ENG"]
[Date "1851.07.??"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Anderssen, Adolf"]
[Black "Kieseritzky, Lionel"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 b5 5.Bxb5 Nf6 6.Nf3 Qh6 7.d3 Nh5 8.Nh4 Qg5 9.Nf5 c6 10 g4 Nf6 11.Rg1 cxb5 12.h4 Qg6 13.h5 Qg5 14.Qf3 Ng8 15.Bxf4 Qf6 16.Nc3 Bc5 17.Nd5 Qxb2
White seem to be lost: one of the rooks shall fall and they have a very weak defense. However, Anderssen thinks differently!
18.Bd6 Bxg1 19.e5 Qxa1+ 20.Ke2 Na6 21.Nxg7+ Kd8 22.Qf6+ Nxf6 23.Be7#
Done! The three survivors did a great job!
