The Immortal Game: Anderssen vs Kieseritzky

The Immortal Game: Adolf Anderssen vs Kieseritzky [C33]
London, 1851
The Immortal Game was a chess game played by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky in 1851 in London.
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 b5 [4...d6] 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 [17.d4] 17...Qxb2 18.Bd6 [18.Nc7+; 18.Re1] 18...Bxg1 It is from this move that Black's defeat stems. Wilhelm Steinitz suggested in 1879 that a better move would be 18... Qxa1+; likely moves to follow are 19. Ke2 Qb2 20. Kd2 Bxg1. [18...Qxa1+ 19.Ke2 Qb2 20.Kd2 Bxg1] 19.e5 Qxa1+ 20.Ke2 Na6 21.Nxg7+ Kd8 22.Qf6+ Nxf6 23.Be7# 1--0
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Many have an annoying voice, a speech defect, too rapid speech, a monotone etc.

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Chess commentators tend to be socially inept nerds, surprise surprise.

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4:55 - 5:00 . Mato drinks coffee .

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+Onoma Epitheto haha sharp ears

[@michelangeloadamantiel7685]

I like your name and your comment. Funny catch!

[@coddenhamjohn]

I studied this game 40 years ago and it still fascinates me

[@neilsinhababu9496]

Thanks for showing us this! Incredible game.

[@AinaweeUAE]

My professor told us about this game, and I hoped that you made a video on it. I am now so glad that u did! Incredible game!

[@RussMcClay]

Excellent and concise presentation of this classic game! Thank you.

[@mrincodi]

This is such an awesome game. Excellent commentary! Thanks!

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That was AWSOME review on the Game!!!!!

[@ApeloFellow]

even before he said "no kidding", i was really refreshed (ironically) by the kings pawn opening. btw,Mato, i subscribed about 2 weeks ago and love your approach, mentality and general humanity in your reviews. my love for chess grows with every video i watch, and further with each one you upload. on a side note, i am sad that some will never experience the beauty of chess

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I am glad to hear that.

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Brilliant as always mato

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Thank you

[@little3ndler]

love to watch aggressive games :) fits my playstyle

[@mikevaldez7684]

Sick! A Masterpiece

[@MatoJelic]

Thank you for your comment

[@fuknames2123]

incredible game, very entertaining. What does the book say about winning with heart?

[@RandomGuy0987]

Great explanation.

[@MrGyges]

They flew without parachutes in those days. Ah, me, dear old Anderssen, knew him well :)

[@ddmannion]

What a wonderful game!

[@Bruno-hd9qo]

Thanks

[@michelangeloadamantiel7685]

Thanks for this video and this playlist! Thank you Mato so much for all your hard work. At 5:36, not Bishop c7+, but Qxf7, only way (that I see) to prevent checkmate on e8 is Nf6, then Qxf6+ Kc8, Ne7+ Kd8, Nc6+ (double check) Kc8, Qd8+ RxQ, Ne7# checkmate! Smothered mate with knight and bishop heck yeah! I like that comment about 4:55 - 5:00 is you drinking coffee. Funny catch! Onoma Epitheto. I like that name too.

[@Noxxros]

Like always a great game! But I have a question: Would QxF7 work too? If QxF7 there are two ways to react by either playing Ne7(or f6 doesnt really matter) or Qxe5! If Ne7, Qxe7 Checkmate (or if Nf6, Qxf6 checkmate)! If Qxe5 than Qf8 and after Qe8, Qxe8 checkmate (ok this would be 3 turns)! Thanks for your great work!

[@Endri2211]

amazing!!

[@Diademic111]

wow sacrifices man lol that takes guts, I could never be so bold

[@mista_fur3346]

I sacrificed friends and family for a better life.

[@Darkarix]

I love to "Try to find da killa move!!" Thanks mato great video as always... have you seen kasparov's immortal? :)

[@Hedning1390]

The last queen sacrifice was not necessary, but it fits the theme and also did not give black the chance to stall two more moves by sacrificing his queen and bishop.

[@andrew_owens7680]

+Hedning1390 We're talking about art here. The theme is beauty, and Anderssen sticks to the theme.

[@IsmaelTruth]

You think you know better than grandmaster Anderson?

[@Hedning1390]

+Iz R No. I support his move.

[@OutlawSipper]

+Iz R There was no such thing as Grandmaster then.

[@joanne3049]

Amazing game!

[@arnelgelera6248]

Magnific

[@chrisshavard]

I'm happy I found the mate in 2. I might be learning something after all.

[@chess747]

I love yr games nice and sweet and fun.

[@HumphreyKing]

What a Game!

[@ar_xiv]

The game from Blade Runner!

[@MatoJelic]

I have seen it. It is on my channel under playlist: "Amazing chess games"

[@saurabhrathi301]

True beauty....

[@kowalityjesus]

that was such a beautiful game!! I think it was a bit showing off when he moved his queen in the 2nd to last move to be sacrificed when he could have just as well taken the unprotected pawn on F7 and accomplished the same goal!

[@PrashantGupta237]

it would not be a check!

[@naturalperson24]

Awesome game.

[@QDem19]

Question - Isn't QXf7 also a killer move? With threat of Qf8 or Qe7 mate.

[@eunaekim9216]

Wow! This guy was not afraid to throw away all his heavy pieces so he could get the advantage he needed to checkmate!

[@mista_fur3346]

I wonder if any of my Immortal Modern Warfare 2 games are saved anywhere.

[@angeldelgado1634]

Me pregunto ¿por qué Anderssen sacrificó la dama sin necesidad? Si en lugar de entregar su dama en F6, la hubiera movido a F7, hubiera sido mate igual y hubiera conservado la dama. Con la dama blanca en F7, hubiera movido lo que hubiera movido Kieseritzky, la dama blanca daba mate en E7, E8 o F8. ¿Qué opináis? ¿Quiso Anderssen dar la nota sacrificando la dama para engrandecer artificialmente su jugada?

[@Crax0r]

very nice game

[@hassanalihusseini1717]

A win of spirit over matter!

[@naimulhaq9626]

Many of the classics of the 19 th century and earlier were admittedly premeditated. and choreographed.

[@aBamieh]

mato, minute 3:07, isnt pawn to e5 is a much better move for white? attacking queen, defending b2 and winning rook?

[@alexjayhernandez3501]

Ahmad Bamieh Qc6

[@marioriospinot]

Nice.

[@Seawolf159]

Why no Qxf7? Looks good to me (mate in 2 at end)

[@gregoryzala136]

So what to if black plays sth like Ba6 to make some room?

[@singlespies]

Agree.

[@SethGlover]

thanks Mato

[@test0682]

how about pawn e5 at 3:12, seems very good move, atleast better than what they have played

[@MyFace62]

super video mato

[@wearetogether4167]

Nice game

[@Stolphos]

If Ender Wiggin played chess, this is how he'd do it.

[@shizyninjarocks]

F7?

[@z8180]

Mato my brother,can you explain please why was that black pawn b5 sacrificed,why was bishop a threat to f 7 pawn.Hvala.

[@MatoJelic]

Deflecting the bishop. Giving material to gain time

[@Zartosxxx]

mato you are the best :)

[@ptitprince7575]

For example, the phrase starting by: "Anderssen had the black pieces...", could be continued right away by: "...but the game is shown here...", rather than just naming the first move. Just a thought.

[@pedrosil77]

nice game

[@naturalperson24]

At 3:28 a better move for white would have been E-4 to E-5 I would think?

[@mssrouji]

Yes, I have seen Queen to F6 :);)

[@GeneralArmorus]

immortal games playlist finished 35/35. moar?

[@MrSadflkja]

why doesnt andersson play the anderson opening?

[@richardrotor2462]

amazing game...ohhh..i hold my breath to find the killer move but i didn't find it..so i let mato to check and help Andersen to win the game..

[@djam146]

3:09 why not e5 ?!

[@Para20Site]

I assume you mean somewhere around 5:15, not 2:25. The black queen is still protecting g7, which is why white played e5 later on, to block that.

[@TheKakashims]

look at the black rooks sitting there dumb and dull !! great explanation mato!!

[@temka088]

good good :D

[@x78340]

Hi Mato, I hope you are feeling better :]

[@thejupiter1744]

Anderssen was the only player Morphy feared. In 8 games between them. 4 wins to Anderssen only 1 win to Morphy and 3 draws.

[@MusikPiratCH]

According to GM Robert Hübner Kieseritzky resigned after 20 Ke2! The rest of the game was added by the contemporates because they thought this game ended too quickly! xD

[@danielmihu1552]

Hi Mato! What did you drink when you made the video? :))

[@MatoJelic]

I drank H and O. You should try it.

[@danielmihu1552]

Yes, I already tried, but with 2 molecules of hydrogen and one molecule of oxygen. Great explanations of chess games! It is a pleasure to listen to your explanations! Congratulations!

[@ahmadomari1000]

Alexander Alekhine vs Jose Raul Capablanca , St Petersburg 1913 hope u to annotation this game mato

[@batistalift]

6:58 Qxf7 is also winning, isn't it?

[@Zamppa86]

A very fine game indeed but this just proves how 'bad' the players were back in the 19th century. They mostly captured everything that was possible which left these incredible games full of sacrifices to the history books. No modern GM would have fallen into this kind of a trap.

[@GoldinDr]

+Zamppa86 I have to agree. An ordinary master-level player today would have handled this much better than Kieseritzky did, and he was supposedly one of the strongest players in the world at the time. So many of Morphy's breathtaking games rely on seriously weak moves by his opponents.

[@coddenhamjohn]

I think you are missing the point, but what you say is correct

[@ananananify]

Zamppa86 in that times it just started making chess theory. You know don't take every piece you see because they take all pieces back then. That's not because you're smart, that's because they teached you this. Also no computers in that times so they can't analyse games, they have to see all of things

[@ritvikkarra1916]

True. But due to this most modern games are incredibly boring. They're not willing to play risky

[@deniszubovic7516]

I hope you realize how much has game evolved over past 160 years.

[@jandom9008]

This guy was more dangerous that mikhail tal... his sacrifices are extreme compared to tal. Tal would only sacrifice a rook and a knight in most cases but anderson.. could sacrifice rooks, queen. The evergreen game and this game and many other games

[@michaelbauers8800]

It might be an immortal game, but moving your queen 4 or 5 times in the opening seems like it would almost guarantees a loss. I was reading about the bishop's gambit ( 3. Bc4), and how 3. Qh4 was a common response. And maybe it's not a bad response, but the way it's played here, the queen ends up moving a lot of times, with almost no development for black. I am not sure how you can move the queen 5 times in the opening ( if those are all still in the opening,) and win.

[@LozioLudo]

6:40 what about queen in F7 and then F8?

[@royalblue0505]

Possible, but not quite as glorious.

[@jonschwann]

black could move the knight, then rook could take queen on the second move

[@royalblue0505]

If black moves the knight (to h6), then white can mate in three different ways: Q-e7, Q-f6, and B-e7.

[@rypaz87]

@test0682 that's good for white insofar as black is undeveloping the queen and dropping a rook, but at this point white's queen is out of the action and giving up the initiative. White obviously had a solid positional plan lined up by now. That e5 move looks good when playing tit for tat, but it appears that Anderssen's move was better.

[@pkwow3858]

wait wait wait wait!!! at 2:25 instead of moving the king to d2 why shouldn't white capture g7 with knight Nxg7 Kd8 Bc7# dafuq? is there something wrong?

[@AvatarChaos]

why at 5:18 whites cant move Rd1?

[@kylewu4093]

Rd1 is a waste of time. white is only focused on sacrificing and winning the game, no time for amateur play

[@AvatarChaos]

bravefrontierfan 23 ok thanks!

[@mopbrothers]

forget Fischer and Kasparov, THIS is the greatest chess game ever!

[@SigfriedNothung]

Hi this is Mato !

[@Leifsounds]

Anderssen was a pre-Tal.. great game

[@TheWoutertjekabouter]

because this way it was a forced mate, if he captured pawn on f7 white would have had a possibility to respond, and being 2 rooks ahead, that would give him the upper hand

[@ptitprince7575]

PS: ok, my bad regarding B and W, but I think, Mato, you should mention this earlier in your video, to stop having viewers wondering what you talk about for a while.

[@Digifier]

Could you commentate some games played by von der Lasa ? Or the opening "[C21] Center Game, von der Lasa Gambit" Link = chessgames . com / perl / chessplayer ? pid = 15952 I played this gambit vs a 1585 rated player and he was struggling to survive :P (I'm about 1200-1300 max, atm).

[@dillimore]

There is no way though for black to prevent that mate, even if he gets a move.

[@jackd.ripper7613]

Isn't this the game where the bystanders watching threw gold coins on the board?

[@jackd.ripper7613]

***** Thanks! I've been waiting for over a year for a reply. I'm too lazy to look it up on my own. Did Mato analyze that one?

[@swipeikeel2002]

Jack D. Ripper Did you look it up?

[@TheWerture]

I sacrificed all my pieces one time. I got checkmated!

[@RK831]

Why did Kieseritzky play 20. ...Na6? He should have played 20. ...Nc6 instead to avoid mate.

[@hunterazaola]

Take a glass of water.

[@doncar9]

They don't play them like that anymore!

[@datbraziliandude]

NO SACRIFICE, NO VICTORY!!!

[@m16pig93]

Hi this is Mato

[@mista_fur3346]

I love chess, but when I play online, I can't help the feeling that a lot of people just use a chess master to play.

[@llawliet2966]

Ownage..

[@nathanjamesbaker]

Both sides made some very unwise moves.

[@imluvinyourmum]

Holy shit I think I saw something Mato didn't! Mato when u said White would have a difficult time at 05:45 White has a guaranteed mate, Queen takes pawn on F7, Knight must move to stop mate on the back rank, pawn to E6 or if Knight goes to H6 Queen to E7 then push pawn, both ways Black is done

[@Queenmania2007]

+What The Sadly there is no back rank mate there; if Qxf7 then Bxd5, which would not be very good for white at all.

[@imluvinyourmum]

+Joseph Watson - If the bishop takes the knight on d5, then White queen captures threatening the rook, knight forced c6 , bishop to d6 and black can't stop the mate

[@Queenmania2007]

Nc6 is not forced following Queen takes bishop on d5 - black Queen can simply give a check on b4, then is downhill for white from there.

[@imluvinyourmum]

Joseph Watson If Queen to b4, King to E2

[@michaelwright9432]

3:33 why not PE5

[@GoldinDr]

+Rusty Shacklford Then Qc6, reduces all the pressure.