The Uruguayan Immortal is the name given to a game of chess played in the 1943 Uruguayan Chess Championship between B Molinari and Luis Roux Cabral.[1] 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 checkmated.
Fred Reinfeld annotated the game on pages 11-12 of the Chess Correspondent, May-June 1944. His final remark was: "A game destined for immortality."[2]