Legendary game · 1889
The sacrifice that got copied forever
Lasker vs Bauer — Amsterdam 1889 · Bird Opening (A03)
Bauer
Lasker
Amsterdam, eighteen eighty-nine. Twenty-year-old Emanuel Lasker is about to invent the most copied attacking pattern in chess history.
The board stops before the key move — you'll have to find it yourself.
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