The Uruguayan Immortal is a game of
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
played in the 1943
Uruguayan Chess Championship The Uruguayan Chess Championship (''Campeonato Uruguayo de Ajedrez'') is the national chess championship of Uruguay.
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Championship
In sport, a cha ...
between B. Molinari and
Luis Roux Cabral
Luis Lisandro Roux Cabral (17 November 1913 - 1973) was a Uruguayan chess master. He was born in Montevideo.
Chess career
He won the Uruguayan Chess Championship twice, in 1948 and 1971, and played for Uruguay in the Chess Olympiads of 1939, 196 ...
. The game is famous for the brilliant
combination
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play of Cabral, who would become a two-time Uruguayan champion (1948 and 1971).
The game
White: Molinari Black: Cabral
Opening
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* Backgammon opening
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Semi-Slav Defense
The Semi-Slav Defense is a variation of the Queen's Gambit chess opening defined by the position reached after the moves:
:1. d4 d5
:2. c4 c6
:3. Nf3 Nf6
:4. Nc3 e6
The position may readily be reached by a number of different . Black's s ...
,
Meran Variation (''
ECO'' D48)
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. e3 e6 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. 0-0 c5 10. b3 Bb7 11. Qe2 Qb6 12. Rd1 Be7 13. a4 b4 14. Nb1 Rc8 15. Nbd2 cxd4 16. Nc4 Qa7 17. Nxd4 0-0 18. Bd2 a5 19. Nb5 Qa8 20. Nbd6 Bxg2 21. Nxc8 Rxc8 22. Re1 Bf3 23. Qf1 Qd5 24. e4 Rxc4 25. bxc4 Qh5 26. Bf4 Ng4 27. Be2 Nde5 28. h3 Bc5 29. Bg3 Nxf2 30. Bxf2 (see diagram) Qg5+ 31. Kh2 Qf4+ 32. Bg3 Bg1+ 33. Qxg1 Ng4+
:Cabral is two rooks down and his queen and knight are ', yet Molinari is helpless to stop
checkmate
Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with ) and there is no possible escape. Checkmating the opponent wins the game.
In chess, the king is ...
.
White
resigns.
Fred Reinfeld annotated the game in the ''Chess Correspondent'', May–June 1944, pages 11–12. His final remark was: "A game destined for immortality."
See also
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Peruvian Immortal
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Polish Immortal
Polish Immortal is the name given to a chess game between Glucksberg and Miguel Najdorf played in Warsaw. The game is celebrated because of Black's sacrifice of all four of his .
Some sources give the date of this game as 1930 or 1935, and give th ...
References
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Nicknamed sporting events
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