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Steinitz v. Lasker [Click here to view the "Annotated_Games" PGN file in Chess Tutor, an interactive chess board.] [Or download the PGN file to use in your own chess program.]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. e5 d5 7. Bb5 Ne4 8. cxd4 Be7
Steinitz: A good deal of surprise prevailed when I, as my debut in this game, selected a Giuoco Piano. Not only because I heretofore have never been known to adopt this opening, but moreover, because I chose a most universal form, which practically has been given up by the masters. The new idea which I had in view did not come to the surface, as Lasker was the first to make an alteration from the usual line of play by 8...Be7. 9. Nc3 O-O 10. Bd3 f5 11. exf6 Steinitz: My eleventh move proved a surprise, as I exchanged an apparently strong passed pawn, and furthermore, deliberately isolated my d-pawn in order to keep up an attack against the kingside. 11... Nxf6 12. Be3 Nb4 13. Bb1 Ng4 Steinitz: On the thirteenth move Black initiated an ingenious counter attack and a regular fireworks game of sacrifices. 14. a3 Nxe3 15. fxe3 Bh4+ 16. g3
Steinitz: After Black checked with his bishop, White perhaps, would have
done better to play 16.Kd2, which would have yielded him a clear pawn, as
Black was bound to retreat his knight, whereupon 17.Nxd5 would have been
followed, which Black evidently could not retake on account of 18.Ba2 16... Bg4 Lasker: Black sprung an attack upon his adversary early in the game, leaving two pieces "en prise," which, however could not have been taken, because Black would have doubled his rooks on the f-file, and thereby forced a win. White thereupon extricated himself skillfully and eventually he espied a variation by means of which he secured a pawn. 17. O-O Qe8 18. axb4 Qh5 19. Nxd5 Steinitz: My nineteenth move was faulty; a subsequent examination showed that I should have taken the bishop instead of the knight. It would have much sooner extricated me from all difficulties. 19... Rxf3
Lasker: Many players thought that with 19...Bxg3 I could have forced a win. White, however, would have replied 20. hxg3 Rxf3 and if 20... Bxf3 21. Rxf3 Rxf3 22. Kg2 and has the best of it. 20. Nf4 Lasker: Now an end game of highly interesting, in which White seemed to have the pull. Steinitz: With my twentieth move I forced a series of exchanges which left me with a simple end game and a pawn ahead. A long struggle followed. 20... Rxf4 21. Qb3+ Rf7 22. Rxf7 Qxf7 23. Ba2 Qxb3 24. Bxb3+ Kf8 25. gxh4 Ke7 26. Bd5
Steinitz: White missed several chances of finishing off the game in a more easy manner. Notably, in the twenty-sixth move, where he should have played 26.b5, instead of 26.Bd5. 26... c6 27. Be4 a6 28. Ra5 h6 29. b5 cxb5 30. Bxb7 Ra7 31. Bc6 Bd7 32. Bxd7 Kxd7 33. Kf2 Kc6 34. Ke2 Kb6 35. Ra1 a5 36. Kd3 a4 37. e4 Rf7 38. e5 Rf3+ 39. Ke4 Rf2 40. Rb1 Kc6 41. d5+ Kd7 42. Kd4
Lasker: Black defended himself all right to a certain point, but lost in the end by an obvious blunder, when the game ought to have been a draw.
Steinitz: Lasker defended himself most ingeniously, and owing to some weak
play on the other side, it is 42... Rd2+ 43. Kc5 Rc2+ 44. Kxb5 Re2 45. e6+ Kd6 46. Rd1 Rxb2+ 47. Kxa4 Rxh2 48. Re1 Ra2+ 49. Kb3 Ra8 50. Kc4 g5 51. hxg5 hxg5 52. Kd4 Ra4+ 53. Kd3 Ra3+
Steinitz: However, Lasker completely compromised his game on his fifty-second and fifty-third moves by useless checks, which only helped White to bring his king to the support of his pawns, which now marched on victoriously. 54. Ke4 g4 55. Kf5 Ra8 56. e7 Re8 57. Kf6 g3 58. Kf7 Kd7 59. d6 g2 60. Rg1 1-0
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