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Improve Your Chess: Highly Instructive Games - Zukertort-Steinitz 1886

Opening:

Player(s):

Zukertort, Steinitz

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Zukertort
Steinitz
game analysis

Zukertort makes an instructive error in the opening and gives Steinitz the center. Then he delays castling too long and Steinitz creates a central bind. Steinitz then finds a killing pseudo-sacrifice and obtains an overwhelming position. He can win back the material as he pleases but he decides to just exploit his two connected passed central pawns, and Zukertort quickly succumbs.