Immortal part

The immortal left is a famous part of failures played by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky in 1851.

Context

Large a Exposition is held with London in 1851, attracting several tens of thousands of visitors of the foreign countries. The British Howard Staunton, regarded as the best player of failures of Europe, wishes to be measured with the European elite. Consequently, several countries send their best players to the tournament prepared by the care of Staunton. The German indicate Anderssen and Karl Mayet.

Staunton does not fear Anderssen, then relatively unknown in Great Britain. In semi-final, both face. In five parts, Anderssen eliminates Staunton on the score from 4 to 1. A defeat that Staunton, dark man, hardly taste, but which asseoit definitively reputation of Anderssen like one of the best players of failures of the time.

Some time after having gained the tournament, Anderssen, the light heart, plays of the free parts, i.e. parts without preliminary preparation. If it gains, so much better; if it loses, its lack of preparation explains the result mainly. In one of these free parts, he faces Lionel Kieseritzky. It is this part which Ernst Falkbeer called, in 1851, “the immortal part” in the Austrian Magazine Wiener Schachzeitung .

Part with accompanying notes

Adolf Anderssen - Lionel Kieseritzky

London, 1851

Gambit of the king

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Fc4 Dh4+ 4. Rf1 b5

It is Kieseritzky which discovered this blow. The goal is to draw aside the insane one of the king of the diagonal a2-g8, while preparing a later attack of pawns.

5. Fxb5 Cf6 6. Cf3 Dh6

Here, the blacks are mistaken. The place of the lady is in h5. This blow comes against the obvious result to the blow into 5.

7. D 3 Ch 5 8. Ch4! Dg5 9. Cf5! c6 10. g4 Cf6

The blacks are now driven back with the defensive.

11. Tg1!

This splendid sacrifice of insane removes any hope of counter-attack to the blacks. The developed black parts must turn over to their base.

11. … cxb5 12. h4 Dg6 13. h5 Dg5 14. Df3 Cg8

Because of 15. Fxf4, the blacks are constrained to ensure a box of retirement for their lady. A tragi-comic case!

15. Fxf4 Df6 16. Cc3

All the black parts returned at their base, or almost.

16. … Fc5 17. Cd5! Dxb2 18. Fd6! Fxg1

The blacks cannot take Fd6, because the continuation is forced: 18. … Fxd6 19. Cxd6+ Rd8 20. Cxf7+ Re8 21. Cd6+ Rd8 22. Df8 chechmate. The white have such an advance of development that the decision could not delay.

19. e5!

The black lady is private large diagonal. A threat of chechmate, starting with 20. Cxg7+, is also in the airs.

19. … Dxa1+ 20. Re2 Ca6

Kieseritzky thinks that the threat of chechmate is drawn aside, because the box c7 is protected. It is now that Anderssen surprises it!

21. Cxg7+ Rd8 22. Df6+!! Cxf6 23. Fe7 chechmate

The coordination of the white parts, three, just like the position of the black parts, all present on the chess-board but badly coordinated, deserved with this part the qualifier of immortal.

Posterity

According to Lionnais, Richard Réti found the refutation of the combination of Anderssen: “After the 19th blow, the Blacks, instead of showing itself too greedy by capturing Tg1, could save the part while playing 19. … Db2! , after which the White cannot gain any more. ”

See too

the Always Young person

External bonds

Left commented on, Chessbase
Left commented on, ChessGames
Coggins Mark, The Immortal Range
David Hayes, The Immortal Range
David A. Wheeler, The Immortal Range
David Shenk, The Immortal Range: In History off Chess , 2006, Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-51010-1. A history of the failures with a description blow by blow of the part

Source

Gedeon Barcza, Laszlo Alfody and Jeno Kapu, World champions of the set of failures. Volume 1: De Morphy with Alekhine , Grasset and Europe-Failures, 1985, transl. Alphonse Grunenwald, p.84-85. ISBN 224633411X

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