Mikhail Chigorin
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Oct 12, 2026
Prof. Ben Balas - The Science of Chess Blunders: Insights from Visual Cognition
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49:51speaker_0HOST
Yeah, and good that you spot this.
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49:53speaker_0HOST
I modeled this example in a famous game between Stein Aids and Chigorin.
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49:59speaker_0HOST
The most painful single game in World Championship history.
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50:03speaker_0HOST
Chigorin was down with one game, it's a penultimate round I guess.
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50:07speaker_0HOST
If he won this game, then he could equalize the match, World Championship match.
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50:11speaker_0HOST
Chigorin in a very similar position, he blundered.
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50:15speaker_0HOST
in a way that his bishop was guarding the pawn on h2 in a very similar position he moved the bishop away from this diagonal somewhere like this and he allowed rook h2 followed by let's say rook g2 mate in a very similar position he didn't see the bishop moving from this diagonal was allowing those two rooks actually giving mate to his king
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50:34Benjamin BalasGUEST
yeah