Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 21:03:05 04/14/03
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On April 14, 2003 at 06:29:16, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On April 13, 2003 at 18:22:42, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>Honestly, I agree with Kasparov. That game was simply not worth of a brilliancy >>prize. Radjabov had a hopelessly lost position and got lucky. A brilliancy is >>supposed to be perfect play by the winner and almost-perfect play by the loser - >>this game was poor play by the winner and a blunder by the loser. It would have >>been nice if Kasparov had stated his objections more diplomatically though. >> >>anthony > >I agree that this game may not deserve a brilliancy prize, but I do not agree >with your definition of brilliancy. It is ok for me if there are some mistakes, >I vaguely remember a game between Capablanca and Janowsky. First Janowsky >outplayed Capablanca, then Capablanca defended very well and Janowsky made some >mistakes... and at the end Capablanca won. It is considered one of his >masterpieces, simply a brilliant game. It should not be difficult to find, it >must be one of the earliest games between those two great players. Along those lines : [Event "London, 1851 [The Immortal Game]"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Anderssen"] [Black "Kieseritzky"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C33"] [Variation "KGA: Bishop's Gambit, Bryan Countergambit"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 b5 5. Bxb5 Nf6 6. Nf3 Qh6 7. d3 Nh5 8. Nh4 Qg5 9. Nf5 c6 10. g4 Nf6 11. Rg1 cxb5 12. h4 Qg6 13. h5 Qg5 14. Qf3 Ng8 15. Bxf4 Qf6 16. Nc3 Bc5 17. Nd5 Qxb2 18. Bd6 Bxg1 19. e5 Qxa1+ 20. Ke2 Na6 21. Nxg7+ Kd8 22. Qf6+ Nxf6 23. Be7# 1-0 [Event "Berlin, 1852 (The Evergreen Game)"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Anderssen"] [Black "Dufresne"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C52"] [Variation "Evans Gambit: 5...Ba5 6.d4 exd4"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O d3 8. Qb3 Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Re1 Nge7 11. Ba3 b5 12. Qxb5 Rb8 13. Qa4 Bb6 14. Nbd2 Bb7 15. Ne4 Qf5 16. Bxd3 Qh5 17. Nf6+ gxf6 18. exf6 Rg8 19. Rad1 Qxf3 20. Rxe7+ Nxe7 21. Qxd7+ Kxd7 22. Bf5+ Ke8 23. Bd7+ Kf8 24. Bxe7# 1-0 Full of all sorts of quirky moves (by today's standards). But which of us will EVER FORGET the first time we read through them? ;-)
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