#adolf anderssen

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The Evergreen Game: Anderssen vs. Dufresne, 1852

Fancied revisiting a classic so here's one of the most famous winning combinations of all time. It's unbelievable to me that Anderssen (White) spotted the forced checkmate from this position where personally I'd have probably been panicking about my own king.

Explanation below cut.

It begins with the rooooook! Forcing Black to deal with the check. Black responds logically by capturing with the knight.

White seems like they've just wasted material and there's still that Black queen/rook combo threatening mate in g1...

But wait there's only a flipping Queen sacrifice!!!

Have you seen it yet? Black takes the queen with their king....

But then there's the bishop with another check!

It's a double check (thanks to the rook on d1) so no blocking it and the king is forced back to e8 which means...

Now the bishop can sit tidy on d7 protected by that rook and the king has to keep running and the other bishop can come in to deliver the coup de grâce.

The game leading up to it is spectacular too so worth a Google if you love some crazy tactics from the Romantic era of chess. Check out Sam Copeland's video on it here.

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@eryiiunsea joked my earlier post was the chess multiverse so i made every (male) chess players i could think of

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Adolf Anderssen vs Lionel Kieseritzky (1851) The Immortal Game

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1018910

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