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It can be seen that the g4 elephant is protected by a horse.
Mat Legal - mat , first met in the chess game Legal - Saint-Brie in Paris in 1750 . Saint-Brie was a very weak player, and the game went with a handicap: Legal played without a rook a1 [1] .
The German historian Ludwig Bachmann noted in his work “Das Schachspiel und seine historische Entwicklung” in 1924 that this is the only chess game of Legal Legal de Kermur, whose course has remained in history. Bachmann also wrote that Legal at the time of the game with Saint-Brie was already at a respectable age of 85 years; on the basis of which, some historians believe that this game was played in 1787 [2] [3] .
C. de Legal - Saint-Brie
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 d6 3. Bf3 Bc6 4. Bc3 Bg4 , then Legal makes a deliberately wrong move, opening the queen, than Saint-Brie uses without noticing a trick: 5. Q: e5? C: d1 ?? (it was better 5. ... K: e5!, after which White would have been left without a knight, or 5. ... de , but after the move 6. Q: g4 White has an extra pawn), Legal, apparently knew well with whom he was dealing ... 6. С: f7 + Кre7 7. Кd5 × - a checkmate that entered the chess literature by the name of the "discoverer" as "Mat Legal". Saint-Brie was so upset with his defeat that he left the room without waiting for White’s last move .
Legal's upgraded checkmate: 5. h3 Ch5 6. K: e5 K: e5 7. Q: h5 K: c4 8. Qb5 + and 9. Q: c4 with White’s extra pawn.
See also
- Checkmate (chess)
Notes
- ↑ George Walker. A selection of games at chess, actually played by Philidor and his contemporaries. London, 1835. George Walker. Selected parties played by Philidor and his contemporaries. Page 91:
Curious Checkmate given by Monsieur de Legalle, in play with a friend; the latter receiving the odds of the Queen's Rook.
- ↑ Evgeny Golovikhin. Sample program "Learning to play chess" for sports improvement groups and groups of higher sportsmanship. 2010.
- ↑ Science and Life . 1979 year. No. 6. Page 150. V. Henkin. There are three pieces in the attack.
Literature
- Ludwig Bachmann. Chess game in its historical development. Leningrad. 1925. Page 58.
- Chess: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. A.E. Karpov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1990 .-- S. 199, 237. - 624 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-005-3 .
- Geek E. Ya. School of chess Eugene Geek. Moscow: Eksmo, 2012.320 pages. Page 6. ISBN 978-5-699-58198-6
- Kalinichenko N., Linder V. Chess. Full course. St. Petersburg: Peter, 2018.720 pages. Page 119. ISBN 978-5-4461-0492-5