Bill The Cat

By billthecat

The Immortal Game

The Immortal Game was a chess game played on 21 June 1851 by Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky.

The very bold sacrifices made by Anderssen to finally secure victory have made it one of the most famous chess games of all time. Anderssen gave up both rooks and a bishop, then his queen, checkmating his opponent with his three remaining minor pieces. It has been called an achievement "perhaps unparalleled in chess literature."

Here is my recreation of it with the white bishop getting stuck in and the two white horses out of shot preventing His Grace from escaping.

Thanks wikipedia for this snippet, as my chess experience is limited to knowing the moves!

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