The Uruguayan Immortal is the name given to a game of chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 played in the 1943 Uruguayan Chess Championship

Uruguayan Chess Championship

The Uruguayan Chess Championship is the national chess championship of Uruguay.-References:*...

 between B Molinari and Luis Roux Cabral

Luis Roux Cabral

-Chess career:He won twice Uruguayan Chess Championship in 1948 and 1971 and played for Uruguay in the Chess Olympiads of 1939, 1964 and 1966.-"The Uruguayan Immortal":...

. The game is famous for the brilliant combination play of Cabral, who was a two-time Uruguayan champion (1948 and 1970). After Cabral's 33rd move, he is two rooks down, and all three of his pieces are en prise, yet Molinari is helpless to stop being checkmate

Checkmate

Checkmate is a situation in chess in which one player's king is threatened with capture and there is no way to meet that threat. Or, simply put, the king is under direct attack and cannot avoid being captured...

d.

Fred Reinfeld

Fred Reinfeld

Fred Reinfeld was an American chess master and a prolific writer on chess and many other subjects, whose books are still read today.-Biography:...

annotated the game on pages 11-12 of the Chess Correspondent, May-June 1944. His final remark was: "A game destined for immortality."

External links

• Score of the "Uruguayan Immortal"