It happened near the end of the 19th century, a long time ago. The great Wilhelm Steinitz, having lost his "first undisputed" world championship to Emanuel Lasker a couple of years earlier, ran afoul of a Blackmar-Diemer Gambit in a Moscow simultaneous in February 1896. Steinitz failed miserably in a return match against Lasker in Moscow later that year, and died in New York City on 12 August 1900.
This game, which purists might want to call the von Popiel attack in/or rather than the Ryder Gambit has been around the web for years, but it came up again in a note I received recently from Clyde Nakamura, who wrote that he recently retired (from work, not chess) and plans to revive his column at Chessville called The Search for Dragons & Mythical Chess Openings. That's good news for all of us fans of unorthodox openings and enterprising chess.
So here's the game:
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Good Enough for Alekhine
Here's a BDG that showed up in this week's TWIC. It's a line that you don't see that often--although Alekhine once played it in a simultaneous exhibition (see the second game).
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | ||
| 8 | 8 | ||||||||
| 7 | 7 | ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||
 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
| Morcom, H. - Brooker, Chris H |
| 1-0 (Guernsey Open) 10/21/2009 |
[I found an old game of mine in this line that went 7...g6 8.Bg5 Bg7 9.O-O-O O-O 10.h4 h5 11.Rdf1 Nbd7 12.Nf4 c6 13.Nxg6 Re8 14.Nf4 e6 15.Nxh5 Kf8 16.Nxg7 Kxg7 17.Ne4 1-0 Purser,T-Rene/skittles, Robins CC, GA Sept 1991]
8.h3 e6 9.O-O Be7 10.Be3 O-O 11.Kh1 Nbd7 12.Rad1 Nb6 13.Bd3 Nbd5 14.Bg5 h6 15.Bc1 Nb4 16.Bc4 Nbd5 17.a3 b6 18.Bd3 Bb7 19.Ne4 Nxe4 20.Qxe4 g6 21.Bxh6 Nf6 22.Qe5 Re8 23.Rf2 Qb8 24.Rdf1 Kh7 25.Bg5 Qxe5 26.dxe5 Nd5 27.Rxf7+ Kh8 28.Bh6 Kg8 29.Bxg6 Rf8 30.Bxf8 Rxf8 31.c4 Ne3 32.Bh7+ Kh8 33.Rxf8+ Bxf8 34.Rxf8+ Kxh7 35.Rf7+ Kh6 36.Rxb7 Nxc4 37.Rxa7 Nxb2 38.Ra6 Nc4 39.Nd4 Kg5 40.Nxe6+ Kf5 41.Nd4+ Kxe5 42.Nxc6+ Kd6 43.Nb4 Kc5 44.Ra8 Kb5 45.h4 Ne3 46.h5 Ng4 47.Rg8 Nf6 48.Rg6 Nh7 49.h6 Ka5 50.Rg7 Nf6 51.h7 [1-0] | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | ||
| 8 | 8 | ||||||||
| 7 | 7 | ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
| Alekhine, Alexander - Blount, L. |
| 1-0 (28 Board Simultaneous, Providence, Rhode Island) 12/23/1923 |
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