Immortal long-distance game

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The Immortal Distance Game is a chess game that was played from 1964 to 1965 in correspondence chess between the two Swedish correspondence chess masters Arvid Sundin and Erik Andersson. She became famous above all for the record-breaking material preponderance of the loser in the mate position - it even surpasses that of the Immortal game . The fact that the final position can be seen on a Swedish chess stamp issued on October 12, 1985 (worth 3 kroner) contributed to its fame .

The immortal long distance game was played in the master class of the ICCF world tournament. Here you could qualify for a preliminary tournament ("semifinals" - see qualification requirements ) for the correspondence chess world championship.

Notes on the game

→ For notation see chess notation

Arvid Sundin - Erik Andersson, 1964

1. d2 – d4 e7 – e6 2. e2 – e4 d7 – d5

The French defense came on board by changing trains .

3. Nb1-c3 Bf8-b4

The Winawer variant .

4. e4-e5 Qd8-d7 5. Bc1-d2

5. Qd1 – g4 would have been answered with f7 – f5.

b7-b6

Black intends his poor white-squared bishop abzutauschen on a6 against the white. That could only be warded off by 6. Nc3 – e2.

6. f2-f4 Ng8-e7 7. Qd1-g4 g7-g6

So far White has waited before moving his Bf1 so as not to lose any tempo because of the inevitable exchange of bishops. In this sense, 8th h2 – h4 or 8th Ng1 – f3 would be!?.

8. Bf1 – b5 c7 – c6 9. Bb5 – d3 After 9. Bb5 – a4 you would have to reckon with Bc8 – a6 and the rest of the procedure Qd7 – b7, Nb8 – d7, c6 – c5.

Bc8 – a6 10. Bd3xa6 Nb8xa6 Andersson has achieved his first strategic goal: exchanging his bad bishop, after which the white man now has a weak piece with Bd2 due to his pawn position (black central pawn chain).

11. Qg4-e2 Qd7-b7 12. Ng1-f3 Ra8-b8 13. Ke1-f2

A typical procedure in closed positions, the king is safe because of the sealed off center in the middle. Sundin connects the rooks and may want to use g2 – g4 and f4 – f5 to take action against Black's king position, which has been weakened by g7 – g6. Furthermore, the tower h1 can be used on the h-file (h2 – h4 – h5).

13.… Bb4xc3 14. b2xc3

A double-edged exchange, the black-field bishop will be missing to the black in the further course of the defense of his king.

14.… c6 – c5 15. De2 – b5 + Ne7 – c6 16. Ra1 – b1 0–0

Black probably saw the following white pawn maneuver, but did not suspect any danger, since the white queen cannot intervene in the attack.

17. g2-g4 Nc6-a5 18. f4-f5 Sa5-c4 19. f5-f6 Sa6-c7

If Black instead trades on d2 or tries to win material with 19.… Na3, the white queen can intervene decisively on the kingside.

20. Qb5-b3 Qb7-c6 21. Bd2-h6 Rf8-c8 22. h2-h4 a7-a5

Black is now threatening to win White's queen: Apparently the attracting person must do something about the threat of 23.… a5 – a4 ...

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Position after 22.… a7 – a5
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23. h4 – h5 !!

White sacrifices his queen, as this gives him a sweeping attack on the black king.

23.… a5 – a4 24. h5xg6 f7xg6 25. Nf3 – g5 a4xb3?

The only defense was 25.… Qe8 !! 26. Bg7 h5! 27. gxh5 gxh5! 28. Qxc4 dxc4 29 .f7 + Qxf7 + 30.Nxf7 Kxg7, after which the game would be a draw .

26. f6-f7 + Kg8-h8 27. Ng5xh7 b3xc2 28. Nh7-f6 c2xb1D 29. f7-f8D +

Black gave up, the further course of the game until mate would have been 29.… Rc8xf8 30. Bh6 – g7 + Kh8xg7 31. Rh1 – h7 # .

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Mate position
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In the mate position, Black has a material advantage of two queens, a rook and a knight.

Involved players

Karl Arvid Sundin (born December 8, 1914 in Enånger ; † November 9, 1999 in Farsta ) took second place with 4.5 / 6 in the world tournament ICCF / 974 / M, in which the immortal was played. He later took part in the finals of the 7th World Correspondence Chess Championship and came in 9th in 1976 (8.5 out of 16). He has the title of International Correspondence Chess Master . In Sweden he is also known as a pianist and composer.

Erik Andersson (born June 8, 1917 )

Stamp

The stamp worth 3 kroner belongs to a set of “board games” that consists of 6 brands and was released in 1985. The other stamps have values ​​from 50 to 90 ore, each in steps of 10 and are also slightly smaller than the 3-crown stamp. On the other stamps are u. a. Recognize backgammon, dominoes and halma.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The cross table is printed in Fernschach , March 1966, on page 61.

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