Edward Lasker's Immortal Game

German-American chess player Edward Lasker plays his immortal game against British chess master George Alan Thomas! Queen sacrifice on move 11 allows him to start a King hunt which ends with a checkmate!!
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Edward Lasker vs George Alan Thomas
Casual game (1912), London ENG, Oct-29
Horwitz Defense: General (A40)
1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 f5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Bxf6 Bxf6 6. e4
fxe4 7. Nxe4 b6 8. Ne5 O-O 9. Bd3 Bb7 10. Qh5 Qe7 11. Qxh7+
Kxh7 12. Nxf6+ Kh6 13. Neg4+ Kg5 14. h4+ Kf4 15. g3+ Kf3
16. Be2+ Kg2 17. Rh2+ Kg1 18. Kd2#
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[SurenAghabekyan]

Thanks for watching! For the game analysis follow the link!

[birdofparadise]

The king travelled the whole world to die alone

[jorgemontenegro]

It's almost poetic: the king eliminated the queen and suffered the wrath of the knights, the bishops, the rooks and ended up in the other king's domain to perish, wonderful!

[ciolamorta]

Mate with a king move is always the most elegant one. It's like "Rooks, I'll grant this honour to you, thanks for having defended me". I see such a romantic poetry in this move.

[mahendradinata]

qween: eat me baby
king: oh hell yeah
knight: follow this way sir, there is no way back home

[raulalmeida]

The king was taken captive in a beautiful sequence of moves. Amazing!

[aclvaz]

Jesus! This is probably the best checkmate I've ever seen! Thanks

[bourboncountrysurvival]

Walked him all the way behind his own pawn line… SAVAGE!!!

[funnyvideosbgmi]

Enemy Queen: Were are u Going🤣?
King: See u in the Next side😂

[Aurelean]

The king was lured out by the queen, escorted by knights, let in by the pawn guard, and killed in the Tower.

[SurenAghabekyan]

Instead of checkmating with K-Q2 I could have done it by castling, which would perhaps have been more spectacular, as no player has ever been mated that way before, as far as I know. I actually considered castling, but the efficiency-minded engineer in me got the better of it and I played K-Q2 which required moving only one piece. - Edward Lasker

[Tun]

These plays are beyond my understanding

[MazenMoradElabd]

Bro dragged the king to the other side of the board in the middle game

[terminallychill]

What an absolute beast if a game from lasker

[lutfiramly]

He send the opponent's king to meet his king before slaying

[hanswust]

That game was played by the *GERMAN* Edouard Lasker in London when he couldn't speak a word in English and years before he moved to the US where he later changed his name and citizenship.

[tiktoktim]

He could have disrespected Him back queen side castle checkmating him … instead Lasker was Humble and just move the King out the way … that’s class …

[PsyQoBoy]

Imagine if that King takes it's mask off and be like "sike" I was a pawn. Promotes to a queen and takes off into the wild.

[hm]

This is " draging their king to one's ground and slaughter"

[priestlyb]

The king was like "okay guys, I will do it my self" 🙂