2 Brilliant Checkmates in 1 Game by 14-Year-Old Alekhine

Can you imagine a chess game containing not one, but two spectacular checkmates? Even more impressively, both checkmates involve queen sacrifices. That’s exactly what happened in one of the games played by a 14-year-old future World Champion, Alexander Alekhine. As always, I’ll challenge you to pause the video in critical positions and try to find Alekhine’s brilliant checkmates. Viakhirev vs Alekhine, correspondence 1906/07 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nc6 4. d3 Bb4 5. Ne2 d5 6. exd5 Nxd5 7. Bxd5 Qxd5 8. O-O Qd8 9. Ng3 O-O 10. f4 f5 11. Nce2 Qh4 12. Kh1 Bd6 13. d4 e4 14. c4 Rf6 15. c5 Rh6 16. h3 Bf8 17. Qb3+ Kh8 18. Qc3 Ne7 19. Be3 Be6 20. Bf2 Qf6 21. a3 Bd5 22. Be3 Ng6 23. b4 Nh4 24. Kg1 Nf3+ 25. Kf2 Qh4 26. b5 Rg6 27. Rfc1 Be7 28. Kf1 Rxg3 29. Nxg3 Qxg3 30. Bf2 Qh2 31. gxf3 exf3 32. Rc2 Re8 33. Be3 Qh1+ 34. Bg1 Bh4 35. Rh2 Qg2+ 36. Rxg2 fxg2+ 0-1