The King Walk – Chigorin – Caro, 1898

Black to move

Try to predict the outcome of this chess game! Amazingly, 10 moves later Black got mated with a sacrifice that many of you probably have seen while studying tactics. After the following moves 25. …Qg2+ 26. Kc4 b5+ 27. Kd3 Qf3+ 28. Kc2 Qf2+ 29. Kb3 Rc8 30. Rc2 Qxf4 31. Kb2 Na5 32. Ka1 Qc4 33. e6 Nc6 34. Qd1 h5 35. Rg1 Rh7 the players got to this position:

 White to move

36. Rg7!! ends the game on a spot. Notice how the white king now is safely hidden.

Replay the full game here. Below is the raw pgn that you can copy and paste into a Chessbase Light board window.

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1898.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[Black "Horatio Caro"]
[ECO "C29"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "71"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. d3 Bb4 5. fxe5 Nxe4 6. dxe4
Qh4+ 7. Ke2 Bxc3 8. bxc3 Bg4+ 9. Nf3 dxe4 10. Qd4 Bh5 11. Ke3
Bxf3 12. Bb5+ c6 13. gxf3 Qh6+ 14. Kxe4 Qg6+ 15. Ke3 cxb5
16. Ba3 Nc6 17. Qd5 Qxc2 18. Rac1 Qf5 19. Rhe1 Rd8 20. Qxb5 a6
21. Qb1 Qg5+ 22. f4 Qg2 23. Bd6 Qh3+ 24. Ke4 f5+ 25. Kd5 Qg2+
26. Kc4 b5+ 27. Kd3 Qf3+ 28. Kc2 Qf2+ 29. Kb3 Rc8 30. Rc2 Qxf4
31. Kb2 Na5 32. Ka1 Qc4 33. e6 Nc6 34. Qd1 h5 35. Rg1 Rh7
36. Rxg7 1-0