Steinitz Gambit

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Steinitz Gambit after 5th Ke2

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Sam Loyd
"The Steinitz Gambit"
Checkmate 1903
1st prize in the Novelty Tourney
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Mate in 3 moves

Template: checkerboard-small / maintenance / newThe Steinitz Gambit is a chess opening that results from a Gambit variant similar to the King's Gambit in the Viennese game . The variant invented by the later world chess champion Wilhelm Steinitz sacrifices not only a pawn but also castling right . The opening has the ECO code C25.

The basic position of the Steinitz gambit is based on the move sequence 1. e2 – e4 e7 – e5 2. Nb1 – c3 Nb8 – c6 3. f2 – f4 e5xf4 4. d2 – d4 Qd8 – h4 + 5. Ke1 – e2 .

Steinitz had the idea of keeping the white king in the middle in anticipation of the endgame in order to achieve an advantageous position of the king after the queens were exchanged. He saw no real danger to the white king.

Well-known games with the Steinitz Gambit are about the 20th game of the first world chess championship , with which Steinitz won the world championship, and the probably invented game that Robert Steel played against an unknown player in Calcutta in 1886 , which influenced the term " steel king " should have. When using the gambit in the London tournament in 1883 , Steinitz had lost both games. According to contemporary analysis, the gambit should end in a draw if both sides played correctly.

A similar gambit is the Villemson gambit, which is created in the king's gambit after the moves 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. d4 Qh4 + 4. Ke2.

Chess composition

In 1903, in honor of the chess opening, Sam Loyd wrote a famous chess problem with the key move 1. Kf1 – e2 !! , which is based on the move 5. Ke1 – e2 in the opening. After 1.… f2 – f1D + 2. Ke2 – e3 Black can check in nine ways, all of which, however , can be answered with a deduction mate .

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  1. ↑ Jeremy Silman : Wilhelm Steinitz (1836–1900) ( Memento from February 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Tim Krabbé : Chess Specials , Volume 1. ECON 1987. P. 102ff
  3. ↑ Game at chessgames.com
  4. ↑ J. Minckwitz (ed.): The decisive battle between W. Steinitz and JH Zukertort for the championship of the world . Schach-Verlag Adolf Roegner, Leipzig, April 27, 1886. pp. 188-194.
  5. ↑ e5. f4. exf4. d4.Qh4% 20. Ke2. d6 & ns = 3.5.91.261.4426.6412.12201.26511 chess365.com Opening Explorer
  6. ↑ chessbase.com: The Steinitz Gambit ( Memento from April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )