Since 150 years in top of chessgames - The great miniature
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cgs on Mon, 04/28/2008 at 7:20am.
As is usually said there is no accounting for tastes. I take the liberty of knowing over, I venture describe this declaration the most well-known game is: Morphy - Charles, prince of Brunswick and Isouard count. It was played in October, 1858, in the pause of the opera "Barber of Sevilla", in the old Italian Opera House of Paris. (Here is the scene of game, on the picture is the old Opera House of Paris in 1850)
István Bilek Hungarian grandmaster demonstrated this game sometimes in the living chess exhibitions. He declared this in 1995: "This is the 'wonder-game of chess' with 17 moves. The American genius surpassed the Guinness records by it. This game we can find in the top of success-list since 137 years also today. It isn't slight!"
This game fascinated the Hungarian painter Sándor Badacsonyi and he painted the game in moment the mate. You can look at in my photo album and this is also on my thumbnail picture.
Because every chess-player know this game from memory, I describe just for new-born:
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Bg4? 4.dxe5 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 dxe5 6.Bc4 Nf6? 7.Qb3 Qe7 8.Nc3 c6 9.Bg5 b5 10.Nxb5! cxb5 11.Bxb5+ Nbd7 12.0-0-0! Rd8 13.Rxd7! Rxd7 14.Rd1 Qe6 15.Bxd7+ Nxd7 16.Qb8+! Nxb8 17.Rd8 mate. 1-0.
The third Hungarian who also admired this game and played a very similar he was Ferenc Chalupetzky. He was a popular editor of Hungarian chess-journal "Magyar Sakkvilág", and an excellent chess-player. In 1947 he wrote the book: "The game of white man." (since that time not only of white man, of course) This book consist his 150 games. There is also a simultaneous game against Emanuel Lasker world champion. (At that time from 30 games this one lost Lasker in 9, November, 1917, GyÅ?r) But the 150th (as our jubilee) game is the most brilliant in the book. Still let us read the notice in front of book: "For memory of my only child László, who dead at Kursk with hero's death in 13, July, 1942."
And five years later his father had played this game which reminds us of an American hero Paul Morphy:
In the end of this game every pawns are standing on the same field as it was in the "wonder-game of chess". Although, as the old Latin proverb said: "Si duo facit idem, non est idem!"
P.S. Both of them, Bilek and Chalupetzky they are between my sketches and portraits in my blogs.