Annotated chess game: Tournament game, Berlin 1907

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ANNOTATED GAME

Tournament game, Berlin 1907
Theodor von Scheve vs. Richard Teichmann
Annotated by: last_archimedean

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Chess opening: Giuoco Piano (C53), close variation

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This game was annotated by chess master I. A. Horowitz. All notes below are his.

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3	White intends to play P-Q4, getting a powerful Pawn center and driving away Black's pieces from that sector.
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2335) on 29-Sep-13: This move heralds a fairly dynamic line in the Giuoco Piano.


4... Qe7	This early Queen move is permissible because it does not expose Black's Queen to attack and because it is part of a plan to maintain Black's hold on the center.



5. O-O d6 6. d4 Bb6 7. a4	This move threatens 8 P-R5 winning material. If 8... BxRP? 9 P-Q5 N-N1 10 RxB, or if 8 ,,,NxRP 9 RxN BxR 10 Q-R4 ch and 11 QxB.



7... a6 8. a5 Ba7	Now 8... NxRP could not be countered by 9 RxN: 9... BxR 10 Q-R4 ch P-QN4 11 QxB PxB.



9. h3	To prevent ... B-N5 pinning the Knight.



9... Nf6	White should now play 10 R-K1 and then develop his Q side.



10. dxe5	A very bad move. It opens the diagonal of the Black KB, now trained directly on the White King, and lets the Black Knight reach a splendid post at K4.



10... Nxe5 11. Nxe5	Rather than retreat his B, White exchanges. But the recapture beautifully centralizes the Black Queen.



11... Qxe5 12. Nd2 Bxh3	To break up the Pawns protecting White's King.



13. gxh3 Qg3+	Made possible by White's 10th move.
	1 comment archduke_piccolo (2335) on 29-Sep-13: I once conducted an attack very similar to this on the Black side of a Wilkes-Barre Variation Two Knights' Defence (an OTB game). This sort of attack you could just about learn by rote.


14. Kh1 Qxh3+ 15. Kg1 Ng4	Threatening ...Q-R7 mate. A lesson in what happens when the Pawn wall in front of the King is destroyed.



16. Nf3 Qg3+ 17. Kh1 Bxf2	White resigns. The threat is 18... Q-R6 ch 19 N-R2 QxN mate. If 18 RxB NxR mate. If 18 B-B4 QxB White is three Pawns down and has no good way to stop 19... Q-N6.
	3 comments last_archimedean (1564) on 29-Sep-13: Stal, in that line why not 18... KxB instead? archduke_piccolo (2335) on 29-Sep-13: Black will have calculated all this from the moment he played 12...Bxh3. As a forcing line, it is very easy to 'see' so far ahead and even further. ++++++++++ In the line suggested by stalhandske, what is against Black simply taking the bishop after 18.Bxf7ch? (e.g. 18.Bxf7ch Kxf7 19.Ng5ch Ke7 and White seems to have no counter-play left.) stalhandske (2251) on 29-Sep-13: This is highly interesting! Unless I am thoroughly mistaken, this end position is actually not lost for white. Here is one example: 18. Bxf7+!! Ke7 19. Bg5+ Kf8 20. Bf4 Qxf4 21. Bh5 Nf6 22. Rxf2 Nxh5 23. Qd5, with a fairly balanced position! Here is another variant: 18. Bxf7+!! Kf8 19. Bf4 Qxf4 20. Bh5 Nf6 21. Rxf2 Nxh5 22. Qd5########### Both last_archimedean and archduke_piccolo have the same objection/remark The answer is: 18. Bxf7+!! Kxf7 19. Qd5+! If 19...Kf8 20. Qf5+; If 19...Ke8 20. Qe6+; If 19...Ke7 20. Bg5+, as far as I can see, the game is equalised in all these cases. If 19...Kf6 20. Bg5+! Kg6 21. Qf5+ and mate in two moves