This Chess Player Made a Move that Stunned a World Champion!

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  • @Holdem17
    @Holdem17 3 місяці тому +36

    Pillsbury is one of the hidden gems of chess.
    You're making great videos, keep them coming.

    • @Necrozene
      @Necrozene 3 місяці тому

      As a chess beginner, I absolutely loved Pillsbury's games and CJS Purdy's analysis.

  • @bjorneriksson6480
    @bjorneriksson6480 3 місяці тому +11

    Pillsbury was world champion material, he was the best player in the world by ranking if they had used elo back then

  • @fporretto
    @fporretto 3 місяці тому +12

    What adds extra spice to this game is that nine years previously, at St. Petersburg, Pillsbury had faced Lasker in a game that began almost the same way...but in that game, Pillsbury erred by *_not_* taking the Knight on f6. Rather, he played 7. Qh4, which gave Lasker a persistent source of tactical strokes that he exploited to the hilt. It was considered one of the best games of the era and a near-refutation of Pillsbury's chosen opening...until Pillsbury discovered the refinement 7. Bxf6.
    The all but forgotten William Ewart Napier, who was a friend of Pillsbury, wrote in *_Paul Morphy and the Golden Age of Chess_* that ever after the St. Petersburg game, Pillsbury would insist that Napier play him from move 7 in that game! Napier called it "The life of a canal horse"...but through those games Pillsbury refined his attack on the Black position. His ultimate victory over Lasker was made possible in part by those games with Napier.

    • @VitoPlaysGames
      @VitoPlaysGames 3 місяці тому +2

      Awesome comment, thanks for the context.

    • @diggitus
      @diggitus 3 місяці тому

      Great story. Perhaps this is hindsight talking (the view looks much different in 2024!) but Lasker looks a bit naive for allowing Pillsbury to repeat the line

  • @TruthSurge
    @TruthSurge 3 місяці тому +7

    wow, those pins were amazing. and playing into hanging positions knowing you can fork the higher piece if they take it.... that's just stuff I never think to look for.

    • @richardrichards8401
      @richardrichards8401 3 місяці тому +1

      So true, it’s only after you’re shown the fork that the move seems obvious!

  • @mentalmoves6032
    @mentalmoves6032 3 місяці тому +5

    Great game. Nice to hear that you also have Lasker as one of your favourite masters. He was once the reason I began to play chess at a young age - Lasker and Fischer, and I was also fascinated that Sweden had its own very good GM in Ulf Andersson.

  • @Amer1kop
    @Amer1kop Місяць тому +1

    This is the best narrative driven chess analysis, dude has a story and tells it with class!! Thanks @Chessdawg!!

  • @thiagomennabarretoguedes2835
    @thiagomennabarretoguedes2835 3 місяці тому +3

    Great game. I loved that you said Lasker is one of your heroes. He is awesome.

  • @woodstoney
    @woodstoney 3 місяці тому +3

    Great game. I do enjoy your video reviews and presentations. I like the way in which you allow us to follow along without taking up so much time by injecting your own thoughts without end. Some other reviewers swamp their viewers with far too much non-essential prater. Thanks and I have just subscribed to your channel!

  • @Orion-zq8jf
    @Orion-zq8jf 2 місяці тому +1

    Beautiful attack there, wow

  • @thomasherbst6771
    @thomasherbst6771 3 місяці тому +3

    It was actually the first time I had seen this famous game. I knew about it, but I never replayed it. It was the last gasp of the already ill Pillsbury. Thank you for the entertaining analysis.

  • @ig2d
    @ig2d 3 місяці тому +1

    I seem to recall a famous HNP game involving lots of passed pawns in a complicated ending

  • @thomasherbst6771
    @thomasherbst6771 3 місяці тому +2

    19. f4 I saw immediately, but not the following queenside move to d4 in advance. Lasker's position was immediately ready for resignation.

  • @flippert0
    @flippert0 3 місяці тому +11

    Pillsbury was one of the early truly "modern" grand masters using professional opening preparation, constantly trying to stay atop of the rest. If we look at US top grand masters between Paul Morphy and Bobby Fischer, there is usually mostly Frank Marshall, but Harry Pillsbury probably was on par with Marshall, if not exceeding him in terms of postional play.

    • @benjamindillard2391
      @benjamindillard2391 3 місяці тому +1

      Frank Marshall wasn't anywhere close to Pillsbury's league

  • @Oggi7777
    @Oggi7777 3 місяці тому +3

    Great channel . The pacing is very good as well. Thanks for your effort.

  • @MrGyges
    @MrGyges 3 місяці тому +3

    Good old Harry.

  • @opensourceanglers8291
    @opensourceanglers8291 3 місяці тому +2

    This was a sweet forking game!

  • @jeffjones6951
    @jeffjones6951 3 місяці тому +3

    Great game, well explained. Thanks!

  • @paulbloemen7256
    @paulbloemen7256 3 місяці тому +2

    Magnificent game, thank you for showing!

  • @eonny
    @eonny 3 місяці тому +3

    The best video annotating on UA-cam.

  • @jeffrey3498
    @jeffrey3498 3 місяці тому +1

    Brilliant game!

  • @Nikeairxxx
    @Nikeairxxx 3 місяці тому +2

    Great game, thanks for sharing it !

  • @stevemalbasa3301
    @stevemalbasa3301 3 місяці тому +1

    Thanks for posting, before this video I had never heard of Pilsbury -- Anyone who picks a fight with a world champion is chessboard psychotic. And he chose violence that day.

  • @lehrerteubert
    @lehrerteubert 3 місяці тому +1

    really great players. Thanks

  • @JCH2768
    @JCH2768 3 місяці тому +1

    Thanks for the Pillsbury game.

  • @paulanderson1915
    @paulanderson1915 2 місяці тому +1

    Great channel!

  • @Rspknlikeab0ssxd
    @Rspknlikeab0ssxd 3 місяці тому +2

    Pillsbury and Rubinstein are definitely the two players from that era that I think were the best to never to have become champs

  • @bernardgjeci7306
    @bernardgjeci7306 3 місяці тому +2

    Great game, nice channel!

  • @DexterHaven
    @DexterHaven 2 місяці тому +1

    I wonder if Pillsbury made any dough.

  • @thomasherbst6771
    @thomasherbst6771 3 місяці тому +1

    Pillsbury had waited eight years after St, Petersburg 1896 to make his improvement on the seventh move (Bxf6 instead of Qh4).

    • @chessdawg
      @chessdawg  3 місяці тому

      Thank you for historical knowledge and insight.

  • @elasticharmony
    @elasticharmony 3 місяці тому +2

    Pillsbury looks like Billy the Kid, a real duelist.

  • @BillHimmel
    @BillHimmel 3 місяці тому +1

    Great game! Good choice!

  • @HollyMartins
    @HollyMartins 3 місяці тому +1

    Fantastic game

  • @lehrerteubert
    @lehrerteubert 3 місяці тому +1

    Thats chess!

  • @emiljohann88
    @emiljohann88 3 місяці тому

    Brilliant

  • @zbigniewopenchowski9555
    @zbigniewopenchowski9555 3 місяці тому

    Thank you ❤❤❤ Poland ❤❤❤

  • @bigknocker2264
    @bigknocker2264 Місяць тому +1

    ChessDawg: Love your stuff. Pillsbury had an unbelievable memory also, and was a great blindfold player.
    Do you know of any book that has a collection of his games which you could recommend?

    • @Amer1kop
      @Amer1kop Місяць тому

      Chess Dawg is low key one of the top tier.

  • @zavalajoseraul
    @zavalajoseraul 3 місяці тому

    Damn. Great game. Rip Lasker

  • @dusanpogacar1399
    @dusanpogacar1399 3 місяці тому

    Waaaaauu! This is epic. Harry deserved to be a champion. He totaly destroyed Lasker, but later he has a bad luck when he played against Emanuel.

    • @thomasherbst6771
      @thomasherbst6771 3 місяці тому +1

      Later? As far as I know, this was the last (big) tournament of Pillbury, who was already ill.

    • @dusanpogacar1399
      @dusanpogacar1399 3 місяці тому +1

      Yes I didn't realised that this was 1904. Thank you🤗

  • @bradforddrake8633
    @bradforddrake8633 Місяць тому

    Pillsbury was a great attcking player!

  • @FloydMaxwell
    @FloydMaxwell 3 місяці тому

    Pillsbury's Immortal

  • @rainerausdemspring3584
    @rainerausdemspring3584 3 місяці тому

    Of course, there is another most famous game between these players, won by Lasker in Sankt Petersburg, 1896.

    • @thomasherbst6771
      @thomasherbst6771 3 місяці тому

      Yes, and Pillsbury had waited eight years to make his improvement on the seventh move (Bxf6 instead of Qh4).

    • @rainerausdemspring3584
      @rainerausdemspring3584 3 місяці тому

      @@thomasherbst6771 Really? The often told story that Marschall waited even longer in order to use his famous gambit against Capablanca - and lost, anyway, is definitely a lie.

    • @thomasherbst6771
      @thomasherbst6771 3 місяці тому

      As the Italians say so nicely: "Se non e vero e ben trovato."@@rainerausdemspring3584

  • @martincalero7390
    @martincalero7390 3 місяці тому

    Pillsbury is my second favorite player of all times after Morphy.

  • @psybranet
    @psybranet 3 місяці тому

    Supreme Attack🎉🎉🎉

  • @Oggi7777
    @Oggi7777 3 місяці тому

    Nice blunt

  • @TomBarrister
    @TomBarrister 3 місяці тому

    The more pedestrian 22 Qh6+ is a bit better.

  • @opensourceanglers8291
    @opensourceanglers8291 3 місяці тому +1

    The same forking idea. I see what you did there hahaha!

  • @Herlock-lv9ig
    @Herlock-lv9ig 3 місяці тому +1

    Well, Pillsbury is my hero

  • @michaelwhinnery164
    @michaelwhinnery164 2 місяці тому

    Wow

  • @JulesMoyaert_photo
    @JulesMoyaert_photo 3 місяці тому

    👍

  • @peterpuleo2904
    @peterpuleo2904 3 місяці тому

    Didn't Lasker hold onto the World Championship longer than any other player?

  • @jlsabinas8578
    @jlsabinas8578 3 місяці тому

    Who knows what heights he could have achieved had he kept it in his pants! At least around the girls of ill repute. One of my favorite players, HNP, he played a great game of chess.

  • @Chessdummy
    @Chessdummy 3 місяці тому

    I do not care for the name Harry Pillsbury. Y’all got jokes don’t ya!?

    • @theeconomicsofthings9752
      @theeconomicsofthings9752 3 місяці тому +4

      Pillsburys success helped raised the profile of chess in the United States and inspired future generations of chess players. He had a remarkable memory and chess skills. I’m sure as you consume more and more chess content throughout the internet, Pillsbury will pop up. Consider incorporating his style into your chess and see where it will lead you.

  • @LaterGator1446
    @LaterGator1446 Місяць тому

    Qxb2 is garbage. Sumply no time for that sideshow.