CHERNEV'S BEST SHORTS #9
This is the last episode of Season One of Invisible Chess.
Holiday scheduling starts on Monday.

Today we have game #898 from Irving Chernev's 1000 Best Short Games of Chess.

Morphy - Amateur, New Orleans 1858.


There is no guest game reader today, but Maisie the Cat does make a cameo appearance


Seeing out the year with one last King's Gambit.  This one is 23 moves long, the longest game we've had on the podcast so far.
Don't be put off by that. You can do it. I believe in you!




THE INVISIBLE CHESS PODCAST SCHEDULE:
Mondays: Stalemate Visualisations
Wednesdays: Fresh Fridge (aka Newbs Start Here)
Fridays: Chernev's 1000 Best Short Games of Chess

Bonus episodes (occasionally): Knowing Me, Knowing Yusupov


Previous episodes (series not currently running but can be found in the back catalogue): Mate-Pattern Mondays





THE INVISIBLE CHESS PLAYERS:
Intro & Outro Music: Martin Bostock (bass player of Red Banner)
Logo art: Karen
Voice of Irving Chernev: Covert Bethany
Harbinger of Doom: Jon MacKenzie
Cat: Maisie


LINKS:
Host Jonathan/Get Bent Larsen on twitter - @unseenchesspod.
Website and newsletter - Invisible Chess on Substack.
email - invsiblechesspod @ gmail . com


NOTE:
Solutions to problems set in episodes of Invisible Chess will appear on substack/in my newsletter at the end of the week.