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White Sacrifices Everything

This is the most amazing game I have ever seen, it was posted by Billwall a few months ago. White sacrifices all his pieces except for a Knight and is still able to deliver a sweet smothered mate.

Henry Ernest Atkins (1872-1955) won the Amsterdam tourney in 1899 by a whopping 4 points. In the Hanover 1902 tournament he was 3rd behind David Janowski and Harry Nelson Pillsbury and ahead of Frank Marshall and Mikhail Tchigorin, amongst others. He was 10th out of 16 at London 1922 and also represented the British Chess Federation in the Olympiads of 1927 and 1935.

"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."

(Billwall)

 


Comments


  • 23 months ago

    ethanara

  • 3 years ago

    j0jelix

    cooool stuff !!! thx

  • 3 years ago

    kamakrsa

    SSSWWWWEEEETTTTT!!!!!!! That is amazing!!!!!!! White mustve been pretty confident giving up all those pieces!!!!!!

  • 3 years ago

    daxbriggs

    That's just silly.

  • 3 years ago

    myfreechess

    wow

  • 4 years ago

    Elorita

    That is so awesome

  • 4 years ago

    wokkawokka

    wow...just wow either white went crazy and got lucky or white is brilliant

  • 5 years ago

    arbela47000

    I found this game at http://www.newinchess.com/NICBase/Default.aspx?GameID=546780

     

    Not saying whether it's legitimate or not, just sharing information.

  • 5 years ago

    staggerlee

    Black could have avoided this.

  • 5 years ago

    a_l_a_n

    Would love to have been inside the mind of black ... he must have thought white had lost his mind.

  • 5 years ago

    doriangray

    I am absolute stunned to see how white actually won.

  • 5 years ago

    JF1

    very nice, just shows how effective checks on the king really are
  • 5 years ago

    kenytiger

    Mschosting, that game was posted by Billwall back in July 2007.

     http://www.chess.com/article/view/atkins-diet---a-danish-with-smothered-mate

    I got the game from him. He might be able to tell you where he got it from. That's a good question.


  • 5 years ago

    mschosting

    Great game too bad it seems to be fake can't find it in any DB

    Could you please tell us where did you find this game? Book or online DB? 


  • 5 years ago

    Philip_Lu

    I like how he mates... one knight!


  • 5 years ago

    manboy386

    DAMMMMMMMMMMMM! NICE AASS game HELL YEA!
  • 5 years ago

    1963super

    just goes to show that material advantage isn't everything.
  • 5 years ago

    1963super

    very very----------very nice!
  • 5 years ago

    kolechess

    My god that guy must be insanley confident to play those kind of sacrifices wicked game.
  • 5 years ago

    mattak

    Even with 17...Nxe7 white would have had a victory as he could have gone on to exchange his knight for- black's rook, knight then bishop, along with the straggling and exposed pawns,  leaving black with very little chance to stop white from queening with one of the three kingside pawns. Assuming it reached that stage.

    Maybe Jacobs saw the inevitable and sought a quick end. 


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