Wednesday 29 May 2013

Instructive Game 1:- Lasker-Thomas (1912)

As A training, Try to find the next best move when you see a diagram before scrolling down A game that I liked (ChessBase 12)
[Event "London casual"] [Site "London"] [Date "1912.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Lasker, Edward"] [Black "Thomas, George Alan"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A83"] [PlyCount "35"] [EventType "game"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "1998.11.10"] 1. d4 f5 {Dutch Defense} 2. Nc3 {[%cal Ge2e4] Trying to play e4 to contril the center} e6 3. e4 fxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 {What is the best move here for White? (The most active move) [#]} 5. Bg5 {Relative Pin, if it is pinned to the king it is called absolute pin} Be7 {[%cal Gf6e4] Which is better Nxf6 or Bxf6 [#]} 6. Bxf6 (6. Nxf6+ Bxf6 7. Bxf6 Qxf6 {Here White exchanged all his developed pieces and helps the Black Queen to develop too}) 6... Bxf6 {Keeping a good night in the center} 7. Nf3 O-O 8. Bd3 b6 9. Ne5 {[%cal Gd1h5]} Bb7 10. Qh5 Qe7 {What is the best move here Hint :- very powerful sacrifice [#] } 11. Qxh7+ Kxh7 {[#]} 12. Nxf6+ {A double check} Kh6 {[#]} (12... Kh8 13. Ng6#) 13. Neg4+ Kg5 {[#]} 14. h4+ Kf4 {[#]} 15. g3+ Kf3 {[#]} 16. Be2+ Kg2 {[#]} 17. Rh2+ Kg1 {[#]} 18. Kd2# {1-0 (18) Lasker,E-Thomas,G London 1912} (18. O-O-O#) *

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