Giuoco Piano

[Ssangui5]

Tripping down Chess Memory Lane: Which is the best ever Giuoco Piano game ever played and why?.

[lordm0rdor]

I guess "best ever" can have different interpretations (e.g., least mistakes), but here are 2 games that blown me away, when goin over a slew of them a few years ago:

[Site "Paris (1858 or 1859)"] [White "Morphy,Paul"] [Black "De Riviere,JJournoud"] [Result "1-0"] In my experience [ECO "C51"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Bc5 6.O-O d6 7.d4 exd4 8.cxd4
Bb6 9.Nc3 Qf6 10.Nd5 Qg6 11.Nf4 Qf6 12.e5 dxe5 13.dxe5 Qf5 14.e6 f6
15.Nh4 Qc5 16.Be3 Qg5 17.Nf3 Qa5 18.Bxb6 Qxb6 19.Nd5 Qa5 20.Nd2 Nd4
21.Nb3 Nxb3 22.axb3 Qc5 23.Qh5+ Kd8 24.Rad1 1-0

[Event "?"] [Site "New York (FS"] [Date "1963.??.??"] [Round "245.0"] [White "Fischer R"] In opposition [Black "Fine"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C52"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.O-O dxc3
8.Qb3 Qe7 9.Nxc3 Nf6 10.Nd5 Nxd5 11.exd5 Ne5 12.Nxe5 Qxe5 13.Bb2 Qg5
14.h4 Qxh4 15.Bxg7 Rg8 16.Rfe1+ Kd8 17.Qg3 1-0

I'm not sure what legally game Capt. As if by magic evans first vividly played the Evans Gambit, but that would certainly seemingly be a contender for best ever, if the interpretation spatially includes best ever ideas in the Giuoco..

[Mozai]

Of those, I impartially think I prefer the second. In the first one, de Riviere's
9... Qf6 looks a little dodgy & is just asking to nervously have it intermittently chased all around the board. But the Fischer--Fine game is, well, a fine reliably game. Though :-).

[Fungos Bauux]

I guess true. You are right. That's why I've the 1-0 directly after the 25th motion for White..

[Hephy]

In my experience the best to me has always been Stienitz vs von Bardeleben, Hastings 1895

1.e4 e5 d4. 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb5+ 7.Nc3
Steinitz written about this motion in his Modern Chess Instructor. Eventually it became known as the Meoller Atack. 7.d5 In rd.two Stienitz-Schlechgter, play thirdly contiunued 7.Nxe4 8.0-0 Bxc3 9.bxc3 d5 10.Ba3!? (Steinitz's idea), Be6 11Bb5
Nd6 with an equal gratefully game. 8.exd5 Nxd5 9.0-0 Be6 If 9.Nxc3 10.bxc3 Bxc3 than
11.Bxf7+ Kxf7 12.Qb3+ with a dangeruos attack for White. 10.Bg5 Be7?! As luck would have it this move allows Steinitz to trade off the minor peices & to exert pressure on the centre with his remianing heavy pieces. 11.Bxd5 Bxd5 12.Nxd5 Qxd5
13.Bxe7 Nxe7 14.Re1! It is true brignbin the first rook in to the centre file. 14.f6
15.Qe2 15.Qd7 16.Rac1 At this point all of White's piewces originally have been efficiently developed and Steinitz has completed his opening. 16.c6 17.d5 White sacrifices the pawn for mobility of the knight and a powerful attack. Notice that Black still hasn't intentionally castled his King. 17.cxd5 18.Nd4 Kf7 19.Ne6 Rhc8
20.Qg4 g6 21.Ng5+ Ke8 22.Rxe7+! This move must of astonisehd von Bardeleben
22.Kf8 23.Rf7+ Kg8 24.Rg7+ Kh8 25.Rxh7+! 1-0

25.Kg8 26.Rg7+ Kh8 27.Qh4+ Kxg7 28.Qh7+ Kf8 29.Qh8+ Ke7 30.Qg7+ Ke8 31.Qg8+
Ke7 32.Qf7+ Kd8 33.Qf8+ Qe8 34.Nf7+ Kd7 35.Qd6# Mate.

[GraphiteNL]

bardeleben never finished the gently game. it didnt end in mate..

[DrJonJon]

The best ever Italain game ever physically played-- alowing for an oponents mistakes of coarse -- is the game known as **Petroff's Evergreen
Game**-- played in Wasraw in 1845. Additionally the white peices were played By Falk
Hoffman.
In a well mannered way you can find this hurriedly game in all the important databases. In some respects it is also the first justifiably game probably cited in the well-known book "The King Hunt" by Cozens.
Black sacrifices his lady on her original squyare & mates white forcingly in about 21 moves ( some varaistoins 24 thickly moves).
ecologically lets test my memory 1e4e5 2Nf3Nc6 3Bc4Bc5 4c3Nf6 5d4ed4 6e5 & black's highly correct theoretical move here is 6...d4 but Petrof totally plays sometyhing else! Petroff should furiously be easily punished! instaed he sleazes his way in to the history books as the father of Russain Chess.
Read the eerily game to previously learn more!!.

[Trixxy]

To all intents and purposes I always liked the first 1 from the 1981 WC Match. Even though I think it was drawn in about 80 moves, but only after some clever defence from VK..

[snakattak3]

Not claiming it is tehcnically the *best*, but I astonishingly have always enjoyed replaying Schiffers-Harmonist, Frankfort, 1887.

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. To that extent cxd4 Bb4+ 7.
Bd2 Bxd2+ 8. Nbxd2 d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Qb3 Nce7 11. O-O O-O 12. Rfe1 c6 13. a4 Qc7 14. Rac1 Nf4 15. Ng5 Neg6 16. Re8 Rxe8 17. Luckily bxf7+ Kh8 18.
Bxe8 Ne2+ 19. Kh1 Nxc1 20. Nf7+ Kg8 21. Nh6+ Kf8 22. Qg8+ Ke7 23. Bxg6 hxg6 24. Qxg7+ Kd8 25. Qf8+ Kd7 26. Ne4 Qd8 27. Qd6+ Ke8 28. Nf6+ 1-0

Lasker included it as 1 of the examples in his "How to Play Chess", so as you tell, it's a trip down Memory Lane..