#31 · The Double Bishop Sacrifice

Amsterdam · 1889 · vs Johann Bauer
You are Emanuel Lasker.
1868–1941 · The Twenty-Seven-Year Champion · Meet the Legend

Amsterdam, 1889. You are Emanuel Lasker, twenty years old, five years away from the world title you will hold for twenty-seven. Nobody has ever given up both bishops to rip open a castled king — you are about to invent the idea, and every attacking player since has been copying your homework.

Find the moves they actually played · 🟩 exact · 🟨 engine says just as good · five lives

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