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Pete Tamburro on

Published in Chess Puzzles

This is a great lesson for beginners as to why you don’t give up the center. Albin’s play is spot on as he attacks the heck out of Black’s position. How does he end it?


Solution:

The game went thusly: Albin,Adolf - Shipley,Walter Penn [C56] New York, 1894: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.0–0 0–0 (very poor…much better was 5…Nxe4, fighting for the center) 6.d4 exd4 7.cxd4 Bb6 8.d5 Ne7 9.e5 Ne8 10.d6 cxd6 11.exd6 Ng6 12.Bg5 Nf6 13.Nc3 h6 14.Qd3 hxg5 15.Qxg6 Nh7 (see diagram) 16.Nd5 fxg6 17.Ne7+ Kh8 18.Nxg6#

 


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