Thursday, 10 September 2015

A modern immortal game

While not an expression that is used that often, an 'immortal' game (as opposed to "The Immortal Game), is a game where a player sacrifices a queen and two rooks to checkmate their opponent. As a further refinement, the rooks should be captured on their starting squares, although I may have mis-remembered that part.
Doing a quick search of my database I found a few examples of this motif, some which occurred quite recently. The last example I could find is from 2006, and is shown below. The other cool thing about this game is that not only did Black sacrifice most of his army, he executed a mate with the lowliest member, the humble pawn.


Yaremko,Nazar (2297) - Recuero Guerra,David (2396) [B56]
EU-ch U16 Herceg Novi (8), 18.09.2006


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4 comments:

  1. Chris Skulte11 September 2015 at 02:46

    That is an awesome game.

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  2. Ian Rout11 September 2015 at 11:56

    As I recall in the original "Immortal Game" the Rooks were captured on a1 and g1.

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  3. Brabo11 September 2015 at 18:58

    I am still waiting to play my immortal prepared game in the Aljechin: http://schaken-brabo.blogspot.be/2012/11/partijpublicaties.html
    That is 2 moves quicker than Adolf Anderssen and with an aesthetic mate.

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  4. MachoM13 September 2015 at 23:56

    An excellent game.

    Best Wishes

    Henrik Mortensen

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