Most amazing King's Gambit... period!

I found this game online... I think it's amazing and worth watching twice!

Seems like a trap against a trap. I love the king's Gambit, every move has to be precise.

wow

WOW!

Spassky-Bronstein
It's a truly lovely game, thanks for posting it,  but Andy Soltis' comment on move 15. Nd6,  "One of the deepest sacrifices this side of The Evergreen Game,"  really doesn't make much sense to me.   It wasn't a sacrifice, but a discovered attack on h7.  If he's talking about the subsequent Rook sac on 16, White had already won the f7 pawn and the Bishop had to be given up to save the Queen and/or the game, so white had actually sacked a pawn for a raging attack. It's all very nice and pretty but it was relatively simple and doesn't even begin to compare to Anderssen's Evergreen.

batgirl> Andy Soltis' comment on move 15. Nd6,  "One of the deepest sacrifices this side of The Evergreen Game,"  really doesn't make much sense to me.   It wasn't a sacrifice, but a discovered attack on h7. If he's talking about the subsequent Rook sac on 16,

Batgirl, he means the rook. Black may have accepted the rook on move sixteen, but it was first offered on move fifteen. For example, 15...exf1=Q+ 16.Rxf1 Nf8 17.Nxf7 which may transpose to the game line 15...Nf8 16.Nxf7 exf1=Q+ 17.Rxf1.

Actually, accepting the sac on move fifteen would've been more interesting because that allows the alternate continuation 15...exf1=Q+ 16.Rxf1 Bxd6!? as well.

Good point! I do believe that would have been a very winning move, too bad black was preoccupied with queening that pawn.

likesforest, thanks.

But my point was that the Rook really wasn't sacked so much as it was exchanged with a slight material disadvantage that was well compensated . . . and that it wasn't all that deep - at least not in comparison to Anderssen's  1851 game against Dufresne. 

I agree that the the "15...exf1=Q+ 16.Rxf1 Bxd6!?" continuum is more interesting and as far as I can determine gives Black the best chances by actually winning substantial material.  Of coures White had been threatening Qh7+ and after 16...Bxd6, the Qeen check forces the King to f8 and moving the Queen to h8+ forces the King to e7, in front of his Rook.  I find this a highly intriguing position.  White can check the King with his Rook or check the King with c5xB, or both, giving the Queen a chance to move (Qxg7). But the 16...Bxd6 won a  lot of material and White attack may not be worth it.  (I like the sequence:  17. Qh7+ Kf8  18. Qh8+ Ke7  19. Re1+ Be5  20. Qxg7 and, unless I'm overlooking something, White should eventually get at least one piece back, possibly two and a pawn or two.) 

After everyone's comments about how poorly it was played...  I realize i named this topic incorrectly. I was just so amazed by whites out of nowhere victory with two black queens and what seemed like no chance.