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You know, the phrase ''Immortal Game'' is the name given to a famous chess game between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky that took place on June 21, 1851 when the two players were participating in the first international chess tournament in London. In the game between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky. Anderssen continuously sacrificed pieces in a daring way, he sacrificed a Bishop, then two Rooks, then the Queen, then checkmated his opponent with the remaining two Knights and Bishops. But that is the factor that created one of the most famous chess games of all time.
True to its name, the immortal chess game is often associated with an individual, a chess game that stands out for its daring sacrifices that ultimately checkmate the opponent. However, today I will introduce you to 5 immortal chess games that are more celebrated than any other chess game.
Sacrifice the Horse, Sacrifice the Rook, Dethrone the Queen - Brazilian Immortal Game.
After the game was announced, it was noticed by everyone and given the name of the immortal Brazilian chess game. In the game, Joao Caldas Vianna sacrificed his Knight, Rook and Queen. Caldas created a masterpiece of sacrifice for life, although there were many wrong moves in the game. However, those mistakes were the spice that added to the attractiveness of the game. The game is 124 years old but is still talked about by everyone and will be talked about forever. It is a source of pride for Brazilians.
The Masterpiece of Hunting the King, Sacrificing the Queen, Sacrificing the Rooks - The Immortal Chess Game of Peru
We invite you to go back 90 years to watch the game between Peruvian grandmaster Esteban Canal and an unknown player, at a chess exhibition in Budapest, Hungary in 1934.
Esteban Canal was born on April 19, 1896 in Chiclayo, Peru. He was one of the leading chess players of Peru in the 1920s and 1930s. Canal's achievements were on par with World Champion Max Euwe. In addition to being a chess player, Esteban Canal was also a writer. From 1962 to 1978, Esteban Canal regularly wrote a chess column in the magazine "Fenarete Letture d'Italia".
Canal played his most famous game, sometimes called the "Peruvian Immortal", at a simultaneous exhibition in 1934. In just 14 moves he sacrificed both his rooks and his queen to finish with Boden's mate.
Thus, in just 14 moves, Esteban Canal checkmated the opponent's king with the most famous and oldest checkmating position in chess history, Boden's mate. Worthy of being called the Immortal Game of Peru.
5 genius moves in a row - The Ukrainian Immortal
We invite you to return to the 1937 Ukrainian Chess Championship to witness the game between Efim Korchmar and Evsey Poliak.
Efim Korchmar, born on May 9, 1914. He was a Ukrainian chess player, he was the champion of the city of Odessa, Ukraine for three consecutive years in 1935, 1936, 1937.
The game you just watched is one of the most famous games in Efim Korchmar's career.
With 5 consecutive genius moves, starting with the Knight jumping to attack the black Rook to open the way for the Queen to attack the black Knight. White wanted to destroy the black Knight protecting the B8 square to rush the rook to checkmate, but Black did not realize White's clever plan and hastily captured the white Knight and was swept into White's beautiful sacrifice stream that could not be stopped. The game was really too fast, too dangerous.
Efim Korchmar, although he was not one of the world's top players, he created a masterpiece for life, one of the best games of the 1930s. The game was affectionately called: ''The Ukrainian Immortal'' and will be admired by future generations.
5 Genius Moves - The Immortal Game of Uruguay,
(The Uruguayan Immortal)
We invite you to the 1943 Uruguayan National Championship, to see a game between two players, Bruno Molinari and Luis Roux Cabral.
Not much is known about Bruno Molinari, except that he is a Uruguayan chess player.
As for Luis Roux Cabral:
Luis Lisandro Roux Cabral (17 November 1913 - 1973) was a Uruguayan chess master. He was born in Montevideo. He won the Uruguayan Chess Championship twice, in 1948 and 1971, and played for Uruguay in the Chess Olympiads of 1939, 1964 and 1966.
In the 1943 Uruguayan Championship, Roux Cabral defeated Molinari with a brilliant sacrificial attack, the combination being known as "The Uruguayan Immortal". The game was annotated by Fred Reinfeld on pages 11–12 of the Chess Correspondent, May–June 1944. His final comment was: "A game destined to be immortal.".
Like Efim Korchmar, Luis Roux Cabral, although he is not a famous player, but with 5 times of sacrificing his pieces, he is a GENIUS. Luis Roux Cabral created a masterpiece that will last forever, known as the immortal chess game of Uruguay. It is true: "Time can blur everything, everything can also be blurred by time. Chess players are the same, they can pass away, but their chess games, their masterpieces will last forever, live forever with time."
The Terrible Power of the Yin Yang Statue Pair - The Immortal Spanish Chess Game
And then the final game. We invite you to a chess game, considered the Spanish Immortal Game – “The Spanish Immortal Game” between FIDE Grandmaster Fernando Sivier Segovia and a player named Juan Rafael Betancort Curbelo, within the framework of the Spanish Chess Championship in 1968.
Juan Rafael Betancort Curbelo, very little is known about him, except that he was a Spanish chess player.
Fernando Sivier Segovia: (born 3 February 1943, Madrid) is a Spanish chess player with the rank of FIDE Master. He won the Spanish Chess Championship twice. He won the Spanish Chess Championship in 1968 and 1972. He represented Spain three times at Chess Olympiads: 1968 in Lugano, 1972 in Skopje, and 1974 in Nice. He represented Spain at the 1970 European Men's Team Chess Championship. He played for Spain at the Clare Benedict Chess Cup in 1967 (Leysin, Switzerland), 1968 (Bad Aibling, Germany), 1969 (Adelboden, Switzerland), 1970 (Paignton, England), 1972 (Vienna, Austria) and 1973 (Gstaad, Switzerland). In 2004, he was awarded a silver medal for services to sport in Castilla-La Mancha.
So, you can see through the game of the two players, the opening was nothing special, the middle game was a combination of wrong moves from both sides, but in the endgame, FIDE Grandmaster Fernando Sivier Segovia took advantage of the terrible power of the pair of yin-yang bishops and maximized that power on the big diagonal, combined with the continuous pinning and sacrificing of pieces, excellently defeated the opponent. The game was unofficially called by many people the immortal game of Spain. But whether the game was immortal or not, this was a game that showed the terrible power of the pair of yin-yang bishops.
Conclusion of the Article
First of all, thank you for reading. The common point of the 5 chess games above is that they are all called immortal chess games. The immortal chess games are a way to praise the player who created the game. The 5 chess games above represent each country, where they were born and raised. When chess has developed to this day, those chess games will be something that people feel proud of their country.
Is your country here? Brazil, Peru, Ukraine, Uruguay, Spain. Be happy and proud that you were born and raised in such a beautiful and chess-loving country!