✴️ #about_Zukertort
🔸 Johannes Zukertort
🔸 German-Polish chess master
♦️ Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a leading German-Polish chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, and lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally regarded as the first World Chess Championship match. He was also defeated by Steinitz in 1872 in an unofficial championship; both were the world's best players.
🔘 Full name: Johannes Hermann Zukertort
🔘 Country: Congress Poland & German Empire & United Kingdom
🔘 Born: 7 September 1842
Lublin, Russian Empire
🔘 Died: 20 June 1888 (aged 45)
London, England
♦️Zukertort filled his relatively short life with a wide range of other achievements as a soldier, musician, linguist, journalist and political activist. He became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom in 1878.
Zukertort learned to play chess in Breslau when he was about 19. Entering a tournament in that city, and receiving the odds of the queen, he lost every game, whereupon he took up the study of Bilguer's Handbuch, with the result that in 1862 he won games from the leading German chess player Adolf Anderssen at the odds of a knight. Zukertort studied with Anderssen and within a very few years he became one of the strongest players in Germany.
Among many other notable matches that Zukertort played with Anderssen, he defeated him in 1866, lost in 1868 by a score of eight wins, three losses, one draw, and finally defeated him convincingly (5–2; no draws) in a match in 1871.[6][unreliable source][7] In 1867 he moved to Berlin and in 1872 to London. In that year, he played Wilhelm Steinitz in London, losing 9–3 (7 losses, 1 win, 4 draws).
♦️ A memorable game by Zukertort👇🏼
▪️ Johannes Zukertort vs Joseph Henry Blackburne
▪️ London (1883), London ENG, rd 22, Jun-11
▪️ Rubinstein Opening: Classical Defense (D05)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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🔸 Johannes Zukertort
🔸 German-Polish chess master
♦️ Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a leading German-Polish chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, and lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally regarded as the first World Chess Championship match. He was also defeated by Steinitz in 1872 in an unofficial championship; both were the world's best players.
🔘 Full name: Johannes Hermann Zukertort
🔘 Country: Congress Poland & German Empire & United Kingdom
🔘 Born: 7 September 1842
Lublin, Russian Empire
🔘 Died: 20 June 1888 (aged 45)
London, England
♦️Zukertort filled his relatively short life with a wide range of other achievements as a soldier, musician, linguist, journalist and political activist. He became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom in 1878.
Zukertort learned to play chess in Breslau when he was about 19. Entering a tournament in that city, and receiving the odds of the queen, he lost every game, whereupon he took up the study of Bilguer's Handbuch, with the result that in 1862 he won games from the leading German chess player Adolf Anderssen at the odds of a knight. Zukertort studied with Anderssen and within a very few years he became one of the strongest players in Germany.
Among many other notable matches that Zukertort played with Anderssen, he defeated him in 1866, lost in 1868 by a score of eight wins, three losses, one draw, and finally defeated him convincingly (5–2; no draws) in a match in 1871.[6][unreliable source][7] In 1867 he moved to Berlin and in 1872 to London. In that year, he played Wilhelm Steinitz in London, losing 9–3 (7 losses, 1 win, 4 draws).
♦️ A memorable game by Zukertort👇🏼
▪️ Johannes Zukertort vs Joseph Henry Blackburne
▪️ London (1883), London ENG, rd 22, Jun-11
▪️ Rubinstein Opening: Classical Defense (D05)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
@unitychess
39...g5??
Aronian's blunder that is met by a typical breakthrough.
40.g4!! h×g4 41.h5 Ke6 42.Kf2 Kf7 43.Kg3 Kg7 44.K×g4 +-
Aronian's blunder that is met by a typical breakthrough.
40.g4!! h×g4 41.h5 Ke6 42.Kf2 Kf7 43.Kg3 Kg7 44.K×g4 +-
46. Kxf6?
A carelessness.
Liren Ding could have forced Aronian to resign with the following continuation:
46. e5! fxe5 47. Kxg5 e4 48. Kf4 Kh6 49. Kxe4 Kxh5 50. Kd5+-
46... g4 47. e5 g3 48. e6 g2 49. e7 g1=Q 50. e8=Q Qf2+ 51. Ke7 Qe3+ 52. Kd8 Qxa3 53. Qf7+ Kh8 54. Qf6+ Kh7 55. Qg6+ Kh8 56. h6 Qc3 57. Qg7+ Qxg7 58. hxg7+ Kxg7 59. Kc7 a5 60. bxa5 b4 61. a6 b3 62.a7 b2 1/2-1/2
A carelessness.
Liren Ding could have forced Aronian to resign with the following continuation:
46. e5! fxe5 47. Kxg5 e4 48. Kf4 Kh6 49. Kxe4 Kxh5 50. Kd5+-
46... g4 47. e5 g3 48. e6 g2 49. e7 g1=Q 50. e8=Q Qf2+ 51. Ke7 Qe3+ 52. Kd8 Qxa3 53. Qf7+ Kh8 54. Qf6+ Kh7 55. Qg6+ Kh8 56. h6 Qc3 57. Qg7+ Qxg7 58. hxg7+ Kxg7 59. Kc7 a5 60. bxa5 b4 61. a6 b3 62.a7 b2 1/2-1/2
39. b3!!
Caruana's rook is being trapped.
39...fxg4 40. Na2 Rb5 41. b4! gxf3 42. Kxf3 Bf5 43. Rb2 Kd7 44. Nc3 Kc6 45. Ke3! Be6 46. Kd2 Bf5 47. Rb3 Be6 48. Kc1 Bf5 49. Kb2 Be4 50. g3 Bf5 51. Ka3 Bc2 52. Rb2 Bd3 53. Rf2 1-0
Caruana's rook is being trapped.
39...fxg4 40. Na2 Rb5 41. b4! gxf3 42. Kxf3 Bf5 43. Rb2 Kd7 44. Nc3 Kc6 45. Ke3! Be6 46. Kd2 Bf5 47. Rb3 Be6 48. Kc1 Bf5 49. Kb2 Be4 50. g3 Bf5 51. Ka3 Bc2 52. Rb2 Bd3 53. Rf2 1-0
52. hxg4??
A stunning blunder by the world champion!
52. fxg4 hxg4 53. hxg4 Kxe4 54. Kd2 Kf3 55. Ke1 =
52...h4 0-1
A stunning blunder by the world champion!
52. fxg4 hxg4 53. hxg4 Kxe4 54. Kd2 Kf3 55. Ke1 =
52...h4 0-1
24...Bxe5!
We have an aversion to giving up the 'Indian' bishop for a knight, but here it allows the other pieces to stay active, and so takes the sting out of any aggressive action by White in the center. The game continued:
25.Bxe5+ f6 26.Rb1 Qe7 27.Bf4 Qg7.
We have an aversion to giving up the 'Indian' bishop for a knight, but here it allows the other pieces to stay active, and so takes the sting out of any aggressive action by White in the center. The game continued:
25.Bxe5+ f6 26.Rb1 Qe7 27.Bf4 Qg7.
19.Qb2!
We instinctively dislike having anything of value on the same diagonal as an enemy bishop, so to put the queen on a square with only the thin veil of the pawn on e5 between her and the 'Indian' bishop feels remarkable. In the game, Black tried
19...Ng5 20.Nxe5, and after the dust had settled had a large positional advantage:
20...Nge4 21.Rc2 Nxb3? 22.Ne7+! Qxe7 23.Nxc6 Qe8 24.Qxb3 Qxc6 25.Bf3.
We instinctively dislike having anything of value on the same diagonal as an enemy bishop, so to put the queen on a square with only the thin veil of the pawn on e5 between her and the 'Indian' bishop feels remarkable. In the game, Black tried
19...Ng5 20.Nxe5, and after the dust had settled had a large positional advantage:
20...Nge4 21.Rc2 Nxb3? 22.Ne7+! Qxe7 23.Nxc6 Qe8 24.Qxb3 Qxc6 25.Bf3.