GM Em. Lasker - NM J. Bauer; 
 Amsterdam, 1889. 


  White to play ... and begin one of the most astounding combinations of the whole of the 19th Century!! (lask-baue_rp1_2.gif, 16 KB)
White to move, what move would you play?

        Emmanuel Lasker - J.H. Bauer; 1-0  
      
(The first and original type of game for this genre. The great Lasker sacrifices with abandon, setting up 
             a pattern that was to become the blueprint for this type of game.  Its echoes can be heard many years later - 
             over 100 years, to be exact!!   {A game was played in 2002 with thus kind of sacrifice.}   Indeed, Garry 
             Kasparov could never have played his great brilliancy:  GM G. Kasparov - GM L PortischNiksic, 1983 
             without this great game.  So here is a game of the highest order of brilliancy ... that has left its impression 
             on virtually every Master and GM game that has followed it.  Is it Lasker's greatest brilliancy?  Somehow 
              I doubt this - he played far too many more contests and created many more games against much stronger 
             players for this to be his greatest game.  But enjoy!  

             Click on the names/links given above. You will be taken to a page where this game is carefully and 
             deeply annotated ...  all on a chess board where the pieces move,  {java-script re-play};  so that you 
             can study this great game at your own pace. You many print out a copy of this game, as long this is 
             ONLY  for your personal use, and not given to anyone else.)     

 

 

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