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Atkins Diet - A Danish with Smothered Mate

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Submitted by billwall on Sun, 07/29/2007 at 5:28pm.

Henry Atkins was a British International Master who liked playing the Danish Gambit.  He won the British Championship 9 times between 1905 and 1925 (7 in a row starting in 1905).  Here is a game in which he won by playing a Danish Gambit and swindling his way to a smothered mate.  By the way, he sacrificed some pawns, both is bishops, a knight, both his rooks and his queen!  He finally mated with a lone knight.

 

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by cberman - 4 months ago
Maryland United States
Member Since: Jun 2009
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This is a crazy game, though I've a feeling such an ambitious attack, with sacrifices and all, would be easily parried by someone like Karpov. Still. That's pretty.

by legodood - 6 months ago
Alta Vista Belize
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nice game

by DavidWu - 7 months ago
Montreal Canada
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white's attack is too sharp, I can never sacrifice so many pieces 

by DavidWu - 7 months ago
Montreal Canada
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Member Points: 234

wow! only a night left!

by dwaxe - 9 months ago
Thousand Oaks, California United States
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Stumble +1.

by staggerlee - 12 months ago
Clermont-Ferrand France
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You don't see games like this anymore.

by figrock - 13 months ago
United States
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One might wonder if Atkins saw the mate on move 12..? Anyway, complicating amazing!

by stefsias - 15 months ago
Jægerspris Denmark
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This is a brilliant example of what rapid development, sound reasoning and good intuition can attain for you. I dont think Atkins calculated it all out, but he was confident in his attack, and experienced at sacrificing material for positional and tactical gains/opportunities. May this be a lesson to us all, - play gambits more! Being from Denmark, ofcourse I can always advocate the danish gambit :-)
by kenytiger - 2 years ago
United States
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 1064
This is the most amazing game that I've ever seen. Atkins sacrificed all his pieces except his lone knight and still won. That's insane, I don't know about nobody else who did anything like that before or after this game; not even Capablanca or Fisher or the great sacrificial artist Mikhail Tal. If someone knows about another similar game please let me know. This is an addition to my collection of gems.
by digdugdiggy - 2 years ago
Dayton, TX United States
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 14
Smothered mates look real interesting.
by vinodagnihotri - 2 years ago
MP India
Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 171
Amazing game! In the beginning it looked like White is loosing material for nothing... sometimes I just wonder how people can think so many moves in advance.
by bendcat - 2 years ago
Marikina, PH Philippines
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wow, this was GM thing.
by farbror - 2 years ago
Uppsala Sweden
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Wow, Funny Game!
by Timour - 2 years ago
Canada
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Nice game; at the beginning I thought white was taking a lot of risks by moving his pieces into attack. Good use of the rook on e1 too! Smothered mate must be really satisfying... ^_^

 

by chessiq - 2 years ago
Malawi
Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 654
What a title for the article! LOL! and What a game!
 
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