Adams - Torre, New Orleans 1920

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Adams - Torre, New Orleans 1920 , is a famous game of chess that is said to have been played between the American chess amateur Edwin Ziegler Adams (1885-1944) and the Mexican master Carlos Torre Repetto (1905-1978) in 1920 in New Orleans . Based on the statements of contemporary witnesses and of Torre himself - 57 years after the alleged event - it is now certain that this game was never played in this form and between these opponents. In reality, a free game between Torre (with Black) and an opponent not mentioned in more detail forms the template for the game, with Torre adding the impressive White final game from move 18 as a possible, study-like winning variant.

The fictional conqueror Torres, Edwin Z. Adams, was a sponsor of the then 15-year-old Mexican who was considered a child prodigy. Torre showed him the manipulated game in 1925 because it was the only way he saw the opportunity to draw the chess public's attention to the splendid profit management. Adams sent the "work of art" in the same year to Hermann Helms, the then editor of the American Chess Bulletin , in which it was also published and has since been quoted repeatedly in chess literature.

Despite these circumstances, the game in this form is cited again and again as an instructive example of weakness in the basic row , persistent pursuit , distraction and overload .

Notes on the game

1. e2 – e4 e7 – e5
2. Ng1-f3 d7-d6
The Philidor Defense .
3. d2 – d4 e5xd4
4. Qd1xd4 Nb8-c6
5. Bf1-b5 Bc8-d7
6. Bb5xc6 Bd7xc6
7. Nb1-c3 Ng8-f6
By changing the train , the Spanish game has now been played .
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Position after 7.… Ng8 – f6

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8. 0-0 Bf8-e7
9. Nc3-d5 Bc6xd5
10. e4xd5 0-0
11. Lc1-g5 c7-c6
This is how black problems begin in the long term, the opening of the position only benefits the white who is better developed. Black should try to relieve himself with 11.… Nd7, for example after 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. Re1 Qf6 14. Qxf6 Nxf6 the pawn d5 hangs, which is why Re7 is prevented and Black will be able to play Rfe8 on the next move.
12. c2-c4 c6xd5
13. c4xd5 Rf8-e8
14. Rf1-e1 a7-a5
If the queenside is weakened (squares b5, b6), Black wants to move Rc8 without threatening the a7 pawn.
15. Re1-e2 Re8-c8
In one of a total of five comments by Torres on this game, he gives 15.… h6 instead of 15.… Rc8 as the only move.
16. Ra1-e1 Qd8-d7
17.Bg5xf6 Be7xf6?
Capturing with the pawn was necessary here, after which Black would be positionally at loss. White's next move is what makes this game so attractive. Although Torres' heavy pieces all have the last row in mind, Black suffers from weakness in the bottom row:
18. Qd4 – g4!
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The start of a series of shiny women's trains

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18.… Qd7 – b5
The queen is here and the next moves cannot be taken because of Rxe8 + with checkmate .
19. Qg4 – c4! Qb5-d7
20. Qc4 – c7!
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20.… Qd7 – b5
Now 21. Qxb7 fails? to Qxe2! 22. Qxc8 Qxe1 +! 23. Nxe1 Rxc8, and suddenly it is Black who is more profitable with a rook. 22. Rxe2 even loses immediately for White because of Rc1 + and mate. The following Zwischenzug but clarifies the position for White.
21. a2 – a4 !! Qb5xa4
22. Re2 – e4
Now capturing the rook fails due to the lack of cover from c8.
22.… Qa4 – b5
23.Qc7xb7!
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Final position after 23.Qc7xb7, 1-0

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The final act, the black queen no longer has a safe square from which to cover the Re8. Black gave up : 1-0 .

footnote

  1. ↑ "But now it was essential to play P-R3. After this move the game is hopelessly lost as White will now demonstrate in a manner that is as masterly as it is pleasing. The coming moves are a study. ” Was Torre's comment on the 15th black move in the American Chess Bulletin publication. Interesting is the last sentence, which expresses the "study-like" character of the party or could be understood as a reference to Torres' artificial character ("study" for chess study).

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