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This game is considered one of the most brilliant on record and is known among Chess players as the "Immortal Game."

—Opened from a Guioco Piano and played between Neuman (White) and Von Guretzky-Cornitz (Black), in Berlin in 1863.

White plays first, and after seventeen moves, Black resigns. The game is notated thus:—