The Most Bizarre Chess Game Played On A High Level

Chigorin lost his Queen after 10 moves and after that he missed 2 forced checkmates, and then Schiffers agreed to a draw in a winning position
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Emmanuel Schiffers vs Mikhail Chigorin
St Petersburg 1897, St Petersburg RUE, rd 13
King Pawn Game: Damiano Defense. Damiano Gambit Chigorin Gambit (C20) · 1/2-1/2
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[@JJ-kl7eq]

That game sent Schiffers down my spine.

[@azy63]

Lol!

[@GlorifiedTruth]

Chigorin to be unpopular making puns like that.

[@alexanderharveyconrad2409]

I can almost hear Steinitz and Zuckertort crying...

[@chrishauser5505]

Something tells me this must have been the Smirnoff Open Tournament. After you take a piece, you take a shot!

[@stopmakingeyesatme1290]

This reminds me of Reti writing that the history of chess resembles the same progress individual players make while learning the game, just in slow motion. Before all the advances in theory, even the best players were probably still prone to the kinds of mistakes we'd only expect an above-average Internet chess player to make today.

[@fporretto]

Had they been drinking?

[@saggiteightyfour8367]

Probably high too

[@rodneywoods4463]

😂

[@fuscofabio9868]

¿Por qué pensé exactamente lo mismo ? Quizás porque me pasó alguna vez... aunque por lo menos tenía una excusa para los errores, y me reí de ellos, y de alguna manera también lo disfruté, aunque no es lo recomendable para todos los días, es menester afirmar, absolutamente.

[@edlawrence5059]

too much absinthe

[@musicalneptunian]

The drinking master was Gideon Stahlberg. He was also a bridge master. Stahlberg was said to be the best combination player of all time: combining chess and booze. He turned up to play Nadjorf. Stahlberg was legless and wiped Nadjorf off the board.

[@Shlesles]

Looks like the games i play 😂

[@betulaobscura]

So many lost opportunities... that's life.

[@HowardHoMusic]

That was painful.

[@Ildriss]

I need a shirt that says "Keep Calm and Castle Queen-side"

[@karimmuradian9679]

Amazing as always!!! Thanks so much

[@unspeakablevorn]

This is the sloppiest game I've seen on this channel, by a lot. It's so easy to assume that a single blunder will cost you the game, but then you get flailfests like this one.

[@jasondoe2596]

By such top players, probably. But I think Mister NN has played worse ones in his long career!

[@unspeakablevorn]

@@jasondoe2596 I know I have!

[@azy63]

The adage good moves come from good positions. Then the reverse must be true. Bad moves are derived from bad positions. We've all been on both sides of that coin.

[@khaledit7050]

Mato please more of Nigel short style games

[@alirezarasekh]

This was a bullet game 😃

[@airgead5391]

I think that both players are making way less mistakes than I would do. :-)

[@Hallands.]

Chigorin played like this? And Schiffers couldn't profit. Incredible...

[@robsemprini1511]

Hmm..that WAS around the time when LSD was synthesized , wasn't it ?

[@reaganabroad4952]

This recent set of games is very interesting.

[@juanmanuelreyrodriguez4119]

bad vodka in 1897

[@rohitjudo]

This was painful to watch

[@Scorpionwacom]

Imperfections are essential for a good story. That’s why we don’t like watching Stockfish playing with itself. Personally, I don’t like Carlsen’s games-they are predictable.

[@vally732]

same feeling when i play someone and i know what theyre goin to move..good for me but somehow a pissing off feeling

[@scoobydoobydoooo]

I agree. There was a real back and forth battle. Many chess matches on this channel you tend to see someone winning from the start.

[@Into-The-Light]

This looks like the player with black pieces would like to give a win game for the player with with pieces. I don't know, maybe for a friendship reasons. Notice how black had a check mate chance, yet, did not execute. But, it seems that white didn't know how to win a winning position. Or perhaps the player with white pieces simply did not know the he was winning.

[@theducksneezes4987]

I have to watch some Tal and Keres games after this...

[@MoonBurn13]

Always had an affinity for Chigorin with his outdated style. Glad he also drew in the Damiano.

[@andreashoppe1969]

They're still better than me probably.

[@reshad8570]

with this voice and style, i would listen to Mato for days. the subject is not important.

[@robertgavric2362]

Hi this is Mato 😂💪✌👍

[@georgemwanza6339]

Lol

[@georgemwanza6339]

Nope translate that for me 😂🤣

[@ramazanaktas3699]

First blood. Edit: This is indeed a bloody game, too many threats to consider for both.

[@JamesSnapp]

Well I suppose it's good to put all the missed opportunities into one game to get them out of the way.

[@songokuo5131]

Killah move

[@naveediqbal9450]

Checkmated missed . Good Game.

[@AroundTheW1]

So so

[@exoplanet11]

Wild and exciting game! Black has so many Opera House style attacks possible, even an Opera attack on the queen at 6:10

[@ausumnviper]

Why not place black bishop on g4 attacking white queen, and cutting off communication between the white queen and bishop, instead of castling ?

[@ralphkramden2826]

Mato going to the 1800's to bring us more of the Wild Chess series. Up next Caeser sacrifices 2 rooks vs. Brutus.

[@mindsharping]

As a fan, I have always imagined Chigorin as a aggressive man with a red face. Thanks for the game, Mato.

[@bobajaj4224]

i would call this: The drunken masters

[@simon_patterson]

Good to see that chess superstars are only human, too.

[@balazsio]

Draw with queen on board is coward

[@jasondoe2596]

Such a roller-coaster of a game... xD

[@thebeaver8244]

Wooooow

[@mosesum4nt1r19]

Thanks Mato

[@venkateswararao9837]

Good