Showing posts with label tractrix. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Time Machine


The following blitz game is another miniature from The Database that seems to have been pulled out of the early 19th Century. White offers material, regardless of how sound the attack is (or is not) while Black gathers it all in, until his game explodes.


tractrix - pivolasko
blitz, FICS, 2011

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nd4


The Blackburne Shilling Gambit.

4.Bxf7+

The Blackburne Shilling Jerome Gambit.

4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke6


6.Qg4+ Kxe5 7.f4+ Kxe4 8.Nc3 checkmate


Wow!