Notable Games
Harry Pillsbury
16 celebrated games · 293 in the full archive
◈The games that made the legend
Pillsbury – Tarrasch · 1895 · 1–0
Hastings 1895 — Pillsbury's best-known game. In his signature Queen's Gambit Declined he builds a crushing attack on Siegbert Tarrasch and finishes with mate, 52.Qxh7# — won at the great tournament the 22-year-old took on his international debut, ahead of the entire world elite.
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Pillsbury – Steinitz · 1895 · 1–0
Hastings 1895. A win over the first World Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, in Pillsbury's Queen's Gambit Declined.
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Pillsbury – Gunsberg · 1895 · 1–0
Hastings 1895. A win over Isidor Gunsberg — a former World Championship challenger — the passed h-pawn racing home (40.h7).
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Pillsbury – Burn · 1895 · 1–0
Hastings 1895. A 28-move attacking win over Amos Burn (24.Nf6+, 28.Rh8+).
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Pillsbury – Lasker · 1895 · 1–0
St Petersburg 1895/96. A win over reigning World Champion Emanuel Lasker — one of the five decisive games Pillsbury won against Lasker over his career, for an extraordinary even lifetime score.
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Pillsbury – Chigorin · 1896 · 1–0
Nuremberg 1896. A win over Mikhail Chigorin, the doubled rooks breaking through on the kingside (48.Rhxh4, 50.Rxg6).
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Pillsbury – Maroczy · 1896 · 1–0
Budapest 1896. A win over the young Géza Maróczy.
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Pillsbury – Showalter · 1896 · 1–0
Nuremberg 1896. A win over his great US rival Jackson Showalter, whom Pillsbury beat in successive matches for the US championship.
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Pillsbury – Janowski · 1898 · 1–0
Vienna 1898. A win over the fierce attacker Dawid Janowski.
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Pillsbury – Schlechter · 1899 · 1–0
London 1899. A win over the positional master Carl Schlechter, a passed g-pawn deciding the ending (56.g6).
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Pillsbury – Marco · 1900 · 1–0
Paris 1900. A 23-move Queen's Gambit demolition of Georg Marco (21.Bxg6, 23.Rxf8+).
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Pillsbury – Blackburne · 1901 · 1–0
England–USA match 1901. A win over the veteran English attacker Joseph Blackburne.
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Pillsbury – Marshall · 1901 · 1–0
New York 1901. A win over the young Frank Marshall, the queenside passed pawns marching (30.Be8+, 32.b6).
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Pillsbury – Tarrasch · 1902 · 1–0
Monte Carlo 1902. Another win over Tarrasch — a rook sacrifice on h7 (28.Rh7+) rips open the king, 29.Qxf7+.
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Pillsbury – Mieses · 1903 · 1–0
Monte Carlo 1903. A 26-move win over the attacking specialist Jacques Mieses.
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Pillsbury – Lasker · 1904 · 1–0
Cambridge Springs 1904. A late win over World Champion Emanuel Lasker — one of Pillsbury's last great games before his tragic early death in 1906, at 33.
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