This Chess Player Made a Move that Stunned a World Champion! 

Pillsbury is one of the hidden gems of chess. You're making great videos, keep them coming.

Pillsbury was world champion material, he was the best player in the world by ranking if they had used elo back then

What adds extra spice to this game is that nine years previously, at St. Petersburg, Pillsbury had faced Lasker in a game that began almost the same way...but in that game, Pillsbury erred by *_not_* taking the Knight on f6. Rather, he played 7. Qh4, which gave Lasker a persistent source of tactical strokes that he exploited to the hilt. It was considered one of the best games of the era and a near-refutation of Pillsbury's chosen opening...until Pillsbury discovered the refinement 7. Bxf6. The all but forgotten William Ewart Napier, who was a friend of Pillsbury, wrote in *_Paul Morphy and the Golden Age of Chess_* that ever after the St. Petersburg game, Pillsbury would insist that Napier play him from move 7 in that game! Napier called it "The life of a canal horse"...but through those games Pillsbury refined his attack on the Black position. His ultimate victory over Lasker was made possible in part by those games with Napier.

wow, those pins were amazing. and playing into hanging positions knowing you can fork the higher piece if they take it.... that's just stuff I never think to look for.

Great game. Nice to hear that you also have Lasker as one of your favourite masters. He was once the reason I began to play chess at a young age - Lasker and Fischer, and I was also fascinated that Sweden had its own very good GM in Ulf Andersson.

Pillsbury was one of the early truly "modern" grand masters using professional opening preparation, constantly trying to stay atop of the rest. If we look at US top grand masters between Paul Morphy and Bobby Fischer, there is usually mostly Frank Marshall, but Harry Pillsbury probably was on par with Marshall, if not exceeding him in terms of postional play.

This is the best narrative driven chess analysis, dude has a story and tells it with class!! Thanks @Chessdawg!!

Good old Harry.

It was actually the first time I had seen this famous game. I knew about it, but I never replayed it. It was the last gasp of the already ill Pillsbury. Thank you for the entertaining analysis.

Great game. I loved that you said Lasker is one of your heroes. He is awesome.

Great game. I do enjoy your video reviews and presentations. I like the way in which you allow us to follow along without taking up so much time by injecting your own thoughts without end. Some other reviewers swamp their viewers with far too much non-essential prater. Thanks and I have just subscribed to your channel!

19. f4 I saw immediately, but not the following queenside move to d4 in advance. Lasker's position was immediately ready for resignation.

I seem to recall a famous HNP game involving lots of passed pawns in a complicated ending

The best video annotating on RU-vid.

Beautiful attack there, wow

Great channel . The pacing is very good as well. Thanks for your effort.

Great game, thanks for sharing it !

Great game, well explained. Thanks!

Magnificent game, thank you for showing!

This was a sweet forking game!

Thanks for posting, before this video I had never heard of Pilsbury -- Anyone who picks a fight with a world champion is chessboard psychotic. And he chose violence that day.

Great channel!

Great game, nice channel!

Brilliant game!

really great players. Thanks

Pillsbury and Rubinstein are definitely the two players from that era that I think were the best to never to have become champs

Great game! Good choice!

Fantastic game

Brilliant

Thanks for the Pillsbury game.

Pillsbury looks like Billy the Kid, a real duelist.

I wonder if Pillsbury made any dough.

Thats chess!

Pillsbury had waited eight years after St, Petersburg 1896 to make his improvement on the seventh move (Bxf6 instead of Qh4).

Pillsbury's Immortal

Thank you ❤❤❤ Poland ❤❤❤

ChessDawg: Love your stuff. Pillsbury had an unbelievable memory also, and was a great blindfold player. Do you know of any book that has a collection of his games which you could recommend?

Damn. Great game. Rip Lasker

Waaaaauu! This is epic. Harry deserved to be a champion. He totaly destroyed Lasker, but later he has a bad luck when he played against Emanuel.

Pillsbury was a great attcking player!

Of course, there is another most famous game between these players, won by Lasker in Sankt Petersburg, 1896.

The same forking idea. I see what you did there hahaha!

Pillsbury is my second favorite player of all times after Morphy.

Supreme Attack🎉🎉🎉

Nice blunt

Wow

Well, Pillsbury is my hero

The more pedestrian 22 Qh6+ is a bit better.

👍

Who knows what heights he could have achieved had he kept it in his pants! At least around the girls of ill repute. One of my favorite players, HNP, he played a great game of chess.

Didn't Lasker hold onto the World Championship longer than any other player?

Qxb2 is garbage. Sumply no time for that sideshow.

I do not care for the name Harry Pillsbury. Y’all got jokes don’t ya!?