Zukertort vs. Anderssen
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Oct 21, 2007
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Beautiful. Seeing tactics like these make you look much harder in your own games. I was able to find the continuation but only because someone says, "there is a mating combo from here".
nice combination there, Dr. Zukertort!
"He never did get his medical degree"
Yet he called himself Doctor, a discrepancy that didn't seem to bother him in the least - one reason I tend to discount his unembellished statement that he met Morphy in New Orleans.
Johann Zukertort (1842-1888) went to medical school in Breslau, where the great Adolf Anderssen resided. They became good friends and constantly played chess. Zukertort played so much chess in Breslau that the medical school kicked him out for non-attendance. He never did get his medical degree. Soon, Zuketort was perhaps the second strongest player in the world after Steinitz. Here is a position from one of the many friendly games that Zukertort played with Anderssen in Breslau. Zukertort has several ways to checkmate the great Anderssen, and perhaps finds the more clever way.