Notable Games
Johannes Zukertort
13 celebrated games · 244 in the full archive
◈The games that made the legend
NN – Zukertort · 1862 · 0–1
Poznań 1862. One of his earliest recorded games and a ten-move miniature: playing Black, Zukertort finished 9…Nf3+ 10.Kf1 Bh3#. On his chessgames notable list.
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Zukertort – Anderssen · 1865 · 1–0
Breslau 1865. A twelve-move brilliancy against his teacher Adolf Anderssen: 8.Nxf7 tears open the king and 11.Qg5+!! forces mate by 12.Bxg5#. On his chessgames notable list.
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Zukertort – Anderssen · 1871 · 1–0
From the 1871 match Zukertort won +5−2 over Adolf Anderssen — the result that marked the pupil overtaking his teacher. A 27-move kingside attack in the Vienna Game.
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Zukertort – NN · 1877 · 1–0
A blindfold-simul brilliancy, Leipzig 1877. Zukertort — one of the era's great blindfold players — gives up his queen (9.Nxe5) and hunts the black king from f8 to e5, Black resigning in the face of 17.Bf4# mate. On his chessgames notable list.
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Zukertort – Bird · 1878 · 1–0
Paris 1878. A 30-move French Defence win over Henry Bird at the tournament Zukertort went on to win — his first great international triumph.
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Zukertort – Winawer · 1878 · 1–0
Paris 1878, the tie-break playoff for first prize. Zukertort beat Szymon Winawer — finishing 40.Qxh8# — to take the tournament outright, ahead of the world's best.
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Zukertort – Blackburne · 1881 · 1–0
From the 1881 match Zukertort won +7−2 over Joseph Henry Blackburne, one of his chief rivals — a decisive result on the road to the first World Championship. A Classical French carried by Zukertort's kingside pressure.
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Chigorin – Zukertort · 1883 · 0–1
London 1883, round 1. Playing Black against Mikhail Chigorin, Zukertort rolled connected central pawns (…e4/…f4/…f3) onto the white king and finished with a mating attack. From the tournament he won with 22/26; on his chessgames notable list.
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Zukertort – Blackburne · 1883 · 1–0
Zukertort's Immortal, London 1883 — the game Steinitz called 'one of the most brilliant on record.' The quiet 28.Qb4!! and the rook sacrifice 29.Rf8+ tear open a mating attack. The centerpiece of his 22/26 tournament victory.
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Zukertort – Englisch · 1883 · 1–0
London 1883. A model positional win over Berthold Englisch in the opening that carries his name — the Queen's Pawn Zukertort Variation. On his chessgames notable list.
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Zukertort – Blackburne · 1883 · 1–0
London 1883. A second win over Blackburne from the same tournament, a jewel of quiet maneuvering in his own 1.d4 system — the positional counterpart to his Immortal. On his chessgames notable list.
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Steinitz – Zukertort · 1886 · 0–1
Game 2 of the 1886 World Championship — the first official title match — in New York. Zukertort's win with Black in a Scotch Game began a run of four straight victories that opened a 4–1 lead over Steinitz.
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Zukertort – Steinitz · 1886 · 1–0
Game 3 of the 1886 World Championship, widely cited as Zukertort's finest game of the match: a systematic space-gaining squeeze in the Slav that ended 47.Rxf6. His 4–1 lead would slip away, but this remained his championship masterpiece.
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