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ANNOTATED GAME
The Evergreen Game
Anderssen (N/A) vs. Dufresne (N/A)
Annotated by: whizzkid111 (1200)
Chess opening: Evans gambit (C52), compromised defence
Anderssen (N/A) vs. Dufresne (N/A)
Annotated by: whizzkid111 (1200)
Chess opening: Evans gambit (C52), compromised defence
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12... Rb8 |
Attacking White's Queen. | ||||
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13. Qa4 |
The Queen retreats. | ||||
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13... Bb6 |
To stop 14.Bxe7 Kxe7 leaving the King unable to castle ( 14. Nxe7 simpily just drops the a5 bishop). | ||||
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14. Nbd2 |
Development. | ||||
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14... Bb7 |
! Putting the bishop on a powerful diagonal leading towards White's King. | ||||
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15. Ne4 Qf5 |
Black continues to waste even more time and just leaves his King in the center where it is exposed to attack. | ||||
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16. Bxd3 |
Capturing the pawn and is also threatning 17. Nd6 , with a discovered attack on Black's Queen. | ||||
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16... Qh5 |
Getting of the very dangerous b1-h7 diagonal. | ||||
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17. Nf6+ |
Now as you can all see. White wants to force Black to take the Knight on f6 ( If Black moves his King here then the White Knight will just take the Black Queen on h5) The point behind White's sacrifice is so after 18. exf6 White has just blasted open the e-file and has gave the White Rooks an invitation to join the hunt for Black's King. The possibility of opening up some lines against the enemy King should absolutly always be considered. | ||||
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17... gxf6 |
Forced move | ||||
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18. exf6 Rg8 |
Placing a Rook on the same file as White's King. | ||||
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19. Rad1 |
Getting the other Rook ready for the attack. | ||||
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19... Qxf3 |
Black has to really take the Knight here because now he is threatning 20. Qxg2 checkmate. | ||||
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20. Rxe7+ |
! Bang | ||||
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20... Nxe7 |
? White now has a forced mate. I think that Black overlooked White's stunning reply. But a better defence would have been 20. Kd8! 21. Rxd7 Kc8 22. Rd8 ! Kxd8 ( not 22. Nxd8 because that leads to 23.Qd7 !! Kxd7 24. Bf5 and then followed by 25.Bd7 checkmate) 23. Bf5 Qxd1 24. Qxd1 Nd4 25. g3 ( that defends the g2 pawn before taking the Knight on d4- The Knight is pinned and will not jump away) 25. Bd5 26. cxd4 resulting into a won game for White. | ||||
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21. Qxd7+ |
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21... Kxd7 |
If 21.Kf8 then Qxe7 or Bxe7 will be checkmate. | ||||
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22. Bf5+ |
Black's army will not be able to help because Black is in a double check. | ||||
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22... Ke8 |
If the Black King tried to escape with 22. Kc6 then 23. Bd7 is checkmate. | ||||
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23. Bd7+ Kf8 24. Bxe7# |
Checkmate. This is the final position. Anderssen must have been quite fond of checkmating his opponents by placing a Bishop on e7! | ||||
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