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

Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. f3 Nxd4 7. Qxd4 g6 8. Be3 Bg7 9. O-O-O O-O 10. Qd2 Be6 11. g4 Rc8 12. Kb1 Rxc3 13. Qxc3 Nd5 14. Qa3 Nxe3 15. Qxe3 Qa5 16. a3 Rc8 17. Be2 Qa4 18. Rd2 Rc3 19. Qg1 b5 20. Qc1 b4 21. bxc3 bxa3 22. Rd3 Qb4+ 23. cxb4 a2# 0-1

4 comments:

Chris Skulte said...

That is an awesome game.

Ian Rout said...

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

Brabo said...

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.

MachoM said...

An excellent game.

Best Wishes

Henrik Mortensen