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Annotated Master GameOpening: KGA: bishops gambit, Bryan counter-gambit
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: The game presented below was a friendly contest played between rounds at the London tournament of 1851, which was the first chess tournament ever held. It is one of the most anthologised games...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: KGA: bishops gambit, Greco variation
Annotations by: EnasYorl
From the analysis: Paul Morphys' dad Alonzo was considered a decent club chess player in 18th century New Orleans. This is one of Young Paul's earrliest recorded games
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Annotated Master GameOpening: KGA: bishops gambit, Cozio (Morphy) defence
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: Judit Polgar has become the strongest female chess player of all time. She and her sisters Susan and Sofia were all child prodigies. Below is a game she won against a grandmaster when she was...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: KGA: Kings knights gambit
Annotations by: jim42078, Lord Ptarmigan
From the analysis: The old English master Howard Staunton, one of the strongest chess players of the 19th Century, destroys some poor soul in a simultaneous display - although Staunton makes a mess of the finish...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: KGA: MacDonnell gambit
Annotations by: Alkhemyst
From the analysis: Maroczy was a Hungarian Grandmaster who was thought (around the time of this game) to be a challenger to Emanuel Lasker who was then World Champion. Chigorin was a Russian Grandmaster, a...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: KGA: Abbazia defence (classical defence, modern defence[!])
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: The following game between Boris Spassky and David Bronstein is one of the most anthologised games in chess history (it was even used in a movie!). Spassky's 15th move, in particular, is...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: KGA: Kieseritsky, Paulsen defence
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: The following game between Rudolph Charousek of Hungary and Amos Burn of England is much anthologised. P.W. Sergeant's book on Charousek's games and later analysis by Fred Reinfeld and Irving...
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Annotated Master GameOpening: KGA: bishops gambit, Maurian defence
Annotations by: Earl of Norfolk
From the analysis: "It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice;...
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