"Attack always attack"- Adolf Anderssen
“Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.”- Wilhelm Steinitz
Baswed on these quotes what could one expect??
[Event "It London"]
[Site "It London"]
[Date "1866[/b.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Adolf Anderssen"]
[Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "86"]
I think the game fits both quotes well. Anderssen tried to attack from the off, whereas Steinitz defended as much as he needed to (and no more) and then launched his own typical King's Indian kingside hack.
When to stop defending and start your counterattack is a very difficult thing to determine. When to stop attacking and play a defensive move or two is much easier to decide - Never! Once you start doing that your position goes downhill rapidly.
I remember going through this game years ago and thinking that I would have played 35. Bh3+ in an instant, it seems so counter-intuitive to pass on the chance of bringing another piece into the attack.
One of my favourite games is an Anderssen game.
One he is reported to have lost!
It has been re-printed over and over again as Adolf Anderssen - Max Lange 1859.
But Edward Winter has very good evidence to show that it was analysis between
Anderssen and Lange from a game between Anderssen and Jean Dufrense round
about 1851 the same time as Dufrense was losing the Evergreen Game.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7123
Adolf Anderssen - Max Lange (analysis) from Adolf Anderssen - Jean Dufresne (1851?)
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Originally posted by ChessPraxisBased on those quotes I would not have expected Anderssen to play d3 in the Spanish. What on earth is that, a cowardly reverse-Steinitz?"Attack always attack"- Adolf Anderssen
“Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.”- Wilhelm Steinitz
Baswed on these quotes what could one expect??
Richard
Hi SB.
The Lopez was still finding it's feet back then, every game was writing a new
page of theory. Round about 1870-1880 the strength of the opening was
beginning to be realised.
Up intil 1870 King's Gambits and Evans Gambits were far
more common than a Lopez.
The openings from the 1872 Steinitz - Zukertort match. 12 Games.
Evans Gambit 3
King's Gambit 3
Giuoco Piano 2
Ruy Lopez 2
Dutch 2
Steinitz Won 7 - 1 with 4 draws.
I cannot recall a Kings Gambit or an Evans being played in a world title match
since 1900. Karpov and Korchnoi produced a couple of Giuoco Pianos and there is
possibly a Four Knights knocking about somehwere. (Lasker - Tarrasch?)
But since 1900 1.e4 e5 has usually gone into a Lopez.
Originally posted by greenpawn34Kasparov Short had a Scotch or 2? Or were they non title games?
Hi SB.
The Lopez was still finding it's feet back then, every game was writing a new
page of theory. Round about 1870-1880 the strength of the opening was
beginning to be realised.
Up intil 1870 King's Gambits and Evans Gambits were far
more common than a Lopez.
The openings from the 1872 Steinitz - Zukertort match. 12 Games.
Evans Gambit ...[text shortened]... about somehwere. (Lasker - Tarrasch?)
But since 1900 1.e4 e5 has usually gone into a Lopez.