Barmen, 1869. Adolf Anderssen, the grand old man of attacking chess, met the rising Johannes Zukertort — soon to be one of his greatest pupils and rivals. Anderssen wheeled out his favourite Evans Gambit, built a big centre, and broke through on the king-side with the kind of direct attack that made his name two decades earlier.
Space and a big pawn centre are tools for attack: advance them to open lines toward the king. Anderssen used d5 and the f5-knight to fix Black's pieces, then crashed through with g4–g5 and a pawn storm. When you have the centre and more attackers, push.
An aggressive line of the Italian Game (4.b4) in which White sacrifices a pawn to gain time, build a big centre and open lines for a fast attack. It was a favourite of Anderssen and, later, Kasparov.
Johannes Zukertort, then a rising master and pupil of Anderssen, who would go on to win London 1883 and play the first World Championship match against Steinitz in 1886. In 1869 the old master still had the upper hand.
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