[Event "Huesca ESP"]
[Site "Huesca ESP"]
[Date "1515.??.??"]
[EventDate "1515.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Luis Ramirez de Lucena"]
[Black "Quintana"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1. c3 Nc6 2. d4 e6 3. e4 d5 4. exd5 exd5 5. g3 Bd6 6. Bh3 Bxh3
7. Nxh3 Qd7 8. Nf4 Nf6 9. Qf3 Bxf4 10. Bxf4 O-O-O 11. O-O Qh3
12. Bg5 Ng4 13. Qg2 Qxg2+ 14. Kxg2 f6 15. Bd2 Rhe8 16. Re1
Rxe1 17. Bxe1 Re8 18. Nd2 Nh6 19. Nf1 Nf5 20. Bd2 Nd6 21. h4
Ne4 22. Be3 g5 23. hxg5 fxg5 24. f3 Nd6 25. Bxg5 Re2+ 26. Kh3
Rxb2 27. Ne3 Nb5 28. Nxd5 Rc2 29. Re1 Nxc3 30. Re8+ Kd7
31. Nf6+ Kd6 32. Bf4+ 1-0

[Event "Rome (Italy)"]
[Site "Rome ITA"]
[Date "1610.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Giulio Cesare Polerio"]
[Black "Domenico"]
[ECO "C57"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "41"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Nxd5 6.Nxf7 Kxf7
7.Qf3+ Ke6 8.Nc3 Ne7 9.d4 c6 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bxe7 Bxe7 12.O-O-O
Rf8 13.Qe4 Rxf2 14.dxe5 Bg5+ 15.Kb1 Rd2 16.h4 Rxd1+ 17.Rxd1
Bxh4 18.Nxd5 cxd5 19.Rxd5 Qg5 20.Rd6+ Ke7 21.Rg6 1-0

[Event "Miscellaneous Game"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1620.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Gioachino Greco"]
[Black "NN"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "21"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 Bg4 4.h3 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 Nf6 6.Qb3 Nxe4
7.Bxf7+ Kd7 8.Qxb7 Ng5 9.Bd5 Na6 10.Qc6+ Ke7 11.Qxa8 1-0

[Event "Analyse du jeu des Échecs"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1749.??.??"]
[EventDate "1749.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "NN"]
[Black "François André Philidor"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "64"]

1. e4 {Annotations by Philidor from Black's perspective.} e5
2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 f5 {It is always advantageous to change your
king's bishop's pawn for his king's pawn, because, by that
means, your king's and queen's pawns may place may place
themselves in the centre of the chess-board; besides, in
castling on the right wing, your castle finds itself free and
able to act from the very beginning of the game, as will be
shown by a back-game on the same play.} 4. d3 c6 5. exf5 {If
your adversary refuse taking your bishop's pawn, you are still
to leave it exposed, and not move it till he has castled; you
must afterwards, with your pawns on the right wing; form your
attack upon the pawns which cover his king, as is explained in
a back-game on that move. You are to observe, as a general
rule, not to determine easily to push on the pawns on either
wing before your adversary's king has castled, because he will
otherwise retire on the side where your pawns are less
advanced, and consequently less able to annoy him.} Bxf5
6. Bg5 Nf6 7. Nbd2 {Should he take your knight with his
bishop, you must take his with your pawn, in order to bring
the strength of your pawns towards the centre.} d5 8. Bb3 Bd6
{This is the best square your king's bishop can choose, except
the fourth of your queen's bishop: in that place he may be of
use in forming your attack upon the king's castle's pawn, in
case he should castle on his left side.} 9. Qe2 Qe7 10. O-O
{If he had castled on his queen's side, it would then have
been your play to castle on your king's side, in order to
attack him afterwards more easily with the pawns on your
left. Again, it being necessary to observe, as a general rule,
that, as it is often dangerous to attack the adversary too
soon, here likewise you must be reminded not to be too hasty
in your attack, until your pawns are previously sustained by
one another, and also by your pieces, otherwise those
premature attacks will be unsuccessful, as will be shown by a
back-game on this play.} Nbd7 11. Nh4 {He plays the knight to
make room for his king's bishop's pawn, with a design next to
advance it two squares to try to break the line of your
pawns.} Qe6 12. Nxf5 {If he had pushed his king's bishop's
pawn two squares, instead of taking your bishop, you should
then have attacked his queen with your queen's bishop, and
then pushed your king's castle's pawn upon his bishop, to
force him to take your knight; in this case, your best way
would be to take his bishop with your pawn, in order the
better to support your king's pawn, and replace it in case it
be taken.} Qxf5 13. Bxf6 {If he did not take this knight, his
bishop would remain imprisoned by your pawns, or he would lose
three moves, which loss would entirely ruin his game.} gxf6
14. f4 Qg6 15. fxe5 fxe5 16. Rf3 {He plays this castle with
the design either to attack and remove your queen or to double
it, if necessary, with his other castle.} h5 {You play this
pawn two squares, to give room to your queen, in case your
adversary attack her with his king's castle.} 17. Raf1 O-O-O
18. c4 e4 {Here is a move as difficult to comprehend as to be
well explained; in the first place you are to observe, that
when you find yourself with a string of pawns following one
another, the pawn which is at the head of them must strive to
preserve its post; your king's pawn not being upon the same
coloured squares, or in an oblique line with the others, your
adversary has pushed his queen's bishop's pawn, for two
reasons: the first, to induce you to advance your queen's
pawn, which would then be stopped by that of his queen, and,
by that means, to render useless your king's pawn thus left
behind: the second is, to prevent, at the same time, your
king's bishop from battering upon his king's castle's
pawn. You ought, therefore, to push your king's pawn upon his
castle, and even sacrifice it, because your adversary, by
taking it, opens a free passage to the pawn of your queen,
which you are to advance immediately, and sustain, in case of
need, with your others, in order order to try to make a queen
with it, or draw some other considerable advantage from it, to
win the game. It is true, that his queen's pawn being now on
the same line with its king, appears to have the same
advantage of having no opposition from your pawns to make a
queen; however, the difference is great, because his pawn
being entirely separated and incapable of being joined to, or
sustained by, any of the others, will always be in danger of
being seized on is road by your pieces continually warring
against it. This move, as has been before observed, is very
difficult; and one must be already a good player to judge well
of it.} 19. dxe4 d4 20. Bc2 Ne5 {It was necessary to play this
knight, in order to stop his king's pawn; the more so, because
this very pawn, in its present situation, stops the passage of
its own bishop, and even of its knight.} 21. Rf6 Qg7 22. Qf2
{He plays his queen, in order afterwards to give check, but,
if, instead of playing her, he had pushed his king's castle's
pawn, to hinder the attack of your knight, you must have
pushed your queen's pawn one square, which would have insured
you the game.} Ng4 23. Qf5+ Kb8 24. Rxd6 {He takes this bishop
to save his king's castle's pawn; besides, that bishop proves
more incommodious to him than all your other pieces, and by
this play he keeps your queen's castle in check with his
queen.} Rxd6 25. Qf4 Qe5 {Having the advantage of a castle
against a bishop, towards the end of a party, you will gain by
exchanging queens; because his queen is troublesome to you in
her present situation, and to avoid the check-mate, he finds
himself under the necessity of taking her.} 26. Qxe5 Nxe5
27. Rf5 Ng4 28. c5 Rg6 29. Nc4 Ne3 30. Nxe3 dxe3 31. Rf3 Rd8
{You must make yourself master of the openings, to bring the
castles into play, especially at the latter end of the game.}
32. Rxe3 Rd2 {Whatever else he had played, he could not
prevent you from doubling your castles, without losing his
bishop, or suffering you to make a queen with your pawn.} 0-1

[Event "Casual Game"]
[Site "London, England"]
[Date "1788.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Thomas Bowdler"]
[Black "Henry Seymour Conway"]
[ECO "C23"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "45"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. d3 c6 4. Qe2 d6 5. f4 exf4 6. Bxf4 Qb6
7. Qf3 Qxb2 8. Bxf7+ Kd7 9. Ne2 Qxa1 10. Kd2 Bb4+ 11. Nbc3
Bxc3+ 12. Nxc3 Qxh1 13. Qg4+ Kc7 14. Qxg7 Nd7 15. Qg3 b6
16. Nb5+ cxb5 17. Bxd6+ Kb7 18. Bd5+ Ka6 19. d4 b4 20. Bxb4
Kb5 21. c4+ Kxb4 22. Qb3+ Ka5 23. Qb5# 1-0

[Event "London"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1790.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Sheldon"]
[Black "François André Philidor"]
[ECO "C23"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "62"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 c6 3. Nf3 d5 4. exd5 cxd5 5. Bb3 Nc6 6. d4 e4
7. Ne5 Be6 8. O-O f6 9. Nxc6 bxc6 10. f3 f5 11. Be3 Nf6
12. Nd2 Bd6 13. c4 O-O 14. Ba4 Qc7 15. f4 Ng4 16. Qe2 Nxe3
17. Qxe3 c5 18. Nb3 dxc4 19. Nxc5 Bxc5 20. dxc5 Rac8 21. c6
Rfd8 22. Rfd1 Rd3 23. Rxd3 cxd3 24. Bb3 Bxb3 25. axb3 Qb6
26. Kf2 Qxe3+ 27. Kxe3 Rxc6 28. Rxa7 Rd6 29. Kd2 e3+ 30. Kxe3
d2 31. Ra1 d1=Q 0-1

[Event "London"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1794.??.??"]
[EventDate "1794.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "George Atwood"]
[Black "François André Philidor"]
[ECO "B21"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1. e4 c5 2. f4 e6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. c3 d5 5. e5 f5 6. d4 Nh6 7. a3
Nf7 8. Be3 Qb6 9. Qd2 Bd7 10. Qf2 c4 11. Bxc4 dxc4 12. d5 Qc7
13. dxc6 Bxc6 14. Bxa7 Bxf3 15. gxf3 g5 16. Be3 gxf4 17. Bxf4
Nxe5 18. Bxe5 Qxe5+ 19. Qe2 Qxe2+ 20. Kxe2 h5 21.Nd2 Rc8
22. Rhg1 Kf7 23. Rg2 Be7 24. Rag1 Bf6 25. Nf1 e5 26. Ne3 Ke6
27. Rd1 Rhg8 28. Rxg8 Rxg8 29. Nxc4 Rg2+ 30. Kd3 Rxh2 31. Rd2
Rh3 32. Ke2 b5 33. Ne3 Rh2+ 34. Ke1 Rxd2 35. Kxd2 Bg5 36. Ke2
Bxe3 37. Kxe3 h4 38. Kf2 e4 39. Kg2 e3 40. Kh3 e2 0-1

[Event "Casual"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1794.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "George Atwood"]
[Black "François André Philidor"]
[ECO "B21"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1. e4 c5 2. f4 Nc6 3. Nf3 e6 4. c3 d5 5. e5 f5 6. d4 Nh6 7. h3
Qb6 8. b3 Bd7 9. Be3 Nf7 10. Qd2 O-O-O 11. Qf2 cxd4 12. Nxd4
Nxd4 13. Bxd4 Qc6 14. Nd2 b6 15. a4 Bc5 16. Bb5 Bxd4 17. Qxd4
Qc5 18. Nf3 Bxb5 19. Qxc5+ bxc5 20. axb5 Kb7 21. Ke2 Ra8
22. Ra6 Rhe8 23. Rd1 Nd8 24. Ne1 c4 25. bxc4 dxc4 26. Rd7+ Kc8
27. Rxg7 Rb8 28. Raxa7 Rxb5 29. Rac7+ Kb8 30. Rxc4 Rb7 31. Rb4
Rxb4 32. cxb4 Nc6 33. Nd3 Re7 34. Rxe7 Nxe7 35. Nc5 Ng6
36. Nxe6 Kc8 37. Ke3 Kd7 38. Nd4 Ne7 39. g4 Ke8 40. g5 1-0

[Event "Casual"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "1821.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "John Cochrane"]
[Black "Alexandre Louis Honore Lebreton Deschapelles"]
[ECO "C44"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Bc5 5. Ng5 Ne5 6. Bxf7+
Nxf7 7. Nxf7 Bb4+ 8. c3 dxc3 9. bxc3 Bxc3+ 10. Nxc3 Kxf7
11. Qd5+ Kf8 12. Ba3+ d6 13. e5 Qg5 14. exd6 Qxd5 15. dxc7+
Kf7 16. Nxd5 Bd7 17. O-O Rc8 18. Bd6 Ke6 19. Bg3 Bc6 20. Rad1
Bxd5 21. Rfe1+ Kf6 22. Rxd5 Nh6 23. Ra5 Nf5 24. Rc5 Nxg3
25. hxg3 Kf7 26. Rd1 Rhe8 27. Rd6 Re7 28. Rf5+ Ke8 29. Rd8+
Rxd8 30. Rf8+ Kxf8 31. cxd8=Q+ 1-0

[Event "Correspondence match"]
[Site "London/Edinburgh"]
[Date "1824.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "City of Edinburgh"]
[Black "London Chess Club"]
[ECO "C23"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "110"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. c3 Qe7 4. d3 d6 5. Nf3 Bb6 6. O-O Bg4
7. Be3 Nd7 8. Nbd2 Ngf6 9. h3 Bh5 10. Qc2 Bxf3 11. Nxf3 Nh5
12. a4 a5 13. Ba2 h6 14. Bxb6 Nxb6 15. Kh2 g5 16. g3 Nd7
17. Ng1 Qf6 18. d4 Qg6 19. Nf3 Nhf6 20. Nd2 h5 21. Kg2 b6
22. Qd3 O-O 23. Kh2 Kh8 24. Rae1 d5 25. Bb1 Rae8 26. Qb5 c6
27. Qb3 dxe4 28. dxe5 Nxe5 29. f4 gxf4 30. Rxf4 Rd8 31. Nf1
Rd3 32. Qxb6 Nf3+ 33. Rxf3 Rxf3 34. Qd4 Kh7 35. Kg2 Re8
36. Qg1 h4 37. g4 Nd5 38. Qd4 Nf4+ 39. Kh1 Nxh3 40. Nh2 Nf2+
41. Kg1 h3 42. Kf1 Nd3+ 43. Ke2 c5 44. Qg1 Rf2+ 45. Qxf2 Nxf2
46. Kxf2 Qd6 47. Nf3 Qf4 48. Rxe4 Rxe4 49. Bxe4+ Kg7 50. Bc6
h2 51. Kg2 Qh6 52. Nxh2 Qxc6+ 53. Nf3 Qxa4 54. Kg3 Qb3 55. Nd4
cxd4 0-1

[Event "London"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1834.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais"]
[Black "Alexander McDonnell"]
[ECO "D20"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "57"]

1. d4 {Notes by Paul Morphy} d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 e5 4. Bxc4
exd4 5. exd4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Be7 {See notes on previous games at
the same opening. } 7. Nf3 O-O 8. Be3 c6 {M'Donnell should
rather had played ...Bg4, and then have brought out his
Queen's Knight. } 9. h3 Nbd7 10. Bb3 Nb6 11. O-O Nfd5
{M'Donnell has now obtained his favorite position in the
Queen's Gambit. It is far from being a commendable one. }
12. a4 a5 13. Ne5 Be6 14. Bc2 f5 {14...f6, with a view of
dislodging the Knight, would have resulted in the same
position; suppose 14...f6 15.Qh5 f5 (best) 17.Qe2 and we
arrive at the position occurring after White's fifteenth move
in the text. } 15. Qe2 f4 16. Bd2 Qe8 17. Rae1 Bf7 {Fearing
the loss of a pawn by 18.Nxc6, etc, Black's proper course was
to retreat the Bishop to d7. } 18. Qe4 g6 19. Bxf4 Nxf4
20. Qxf4 Bc4 {Black foresaw this move when he played 17...Bf7,
but he evidently did not foresee that he could not capture
without immediately losing the game. } 21. Qh6 Bxf1 22. Bxg6
hxg6 23. Nxg6 Nc8 {Black has a lost game, but he might have
considerably prolonged the contest by 23...Bf6. Let us suppose
23...Bf6 24.Rxe8 (best) Rf8xe8 25.Kxf1 Bxd4 and although Black
must ultimately lose, owing to White's passed Pawns on the
King's side, his position is more tenable than that attainable
by any other line of play. } 24. Qh8+ Kf7 25. Qh7+ Kf6 26. Nf4
Bd3 27. Re6+ Kg5 28. Qh6+ Kf5 29. g4# {A contest admirably
managed by Labourdonnais.} 1-0

[Event "London m4 ;HCL 18"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1834.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander McDonnell"]
[Black "Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais"]
[ECO "B32"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "74"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.Bc4 Nf6
7.Bg5 Be7 8.Qe2 d5 9.Bxf6 Bxf6 10.Bb3 O-O 11.O-O a5 12.exd5
cxd5 13.Rd1 d4 14.c4 Qb6 15.Bc2 Bb7 16.Nd2 Rae8 17.Ne4 Bd8
18.c5 Qc6 19.f3 Be7 20.Rac1 f5 21.Qc4+ Kh8 22.Ba4 Qh6 23.Bxe8
fxe4 24.c6 exf3 25.Rc2 Qe3+ 26.Kh1 Bc8 27.Bd7 f2 28.Rf1 d3
29.Rc3 Bxd7 30.cxd7 e4 31.Qc8 Bd8 32.Qc4 Qe1 33.Rc1 d2 34.Qc5
Rg8 35.Rd1 e3 36.Qc3 Qxd1 37.Rxd1 e2 0-1

[Event "London m/7"]
[Site "London m/7"]
[Date "1842.??.??"]
[EventDate "1842.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "John Cochrane"]
[Black "Howard Staunton"]
[ECO "C37"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "49"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. d4 gxf3 6. Qxf3 d5
7. Bxd5 c6 8. Bxf7+ Kxf7 9. O-O Bh6 10. Bxf4 Bxf4 11. Qxf4+
Nf6 12. e5 Rg8 13. Qh4 Ke8 14. Rxf6 Bg4 15. Qf2 Nd7 16. Rf4 c5
17. Nc3 Nb6 18. Ne4 Be6 19. Nf6+ Ke7 20. Qh4 Rg6 21. d5 Nxd5
22. Nxd5+ Kd7 23. Qxh7+ Kc6 24. Ne7+ Qxe7 25. Qxe7 1-0

[Event "London m2"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1842.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "John Cochrane"]
[Black "Howard Staunton"]
[ECO "C40"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "39"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nxe5 Qe7 4.d4 f6 5.Nc3 fxe5 6.Nxd5 Qf7
7.Bc4 Be6 8.O-O c6 9.f4 cxd5 10.fxe5 Qd7 11.exd5 Bxd5 12.e6
Qc6 13.Qh5+ g6 14.Qxd5 Ne7 15.Qe5 Qxc4 16.Qxh8 Nf5 17.Bh6 Qb4
18.Qxf8+ Qxf8 19.Bxf8 Kxf8 20.g4 1-0

[Event "London m2"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1842.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "John Cochrane"]
[Black "Howard Staunton"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "39"]

1.e4 c5 2.Bc4 e5 3.f4 Nc6 4.Nf3 exf4 5.O-O g5 6.d4 cxd4 7.c3
Bc5 8.cxd4 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Qb6 10.Kh1 Bxd4 11.Nc3 Bxc3 12.bxc3 Ne7
13.g3 d5 14.Bxd5 Bh3 15.Qh5 Bxf1 16.Qxf7+ Kd8 17.Ba3 Re8
18.Rd1 Be2 19.Bc6+ Bxd1 20.Qxe8+ 1-0

[Event "Staunton-Saint Amant"]
[Site "Paris FRA"]
[Date "1843.12.06"]
[EventDate "1843.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint Amant"]
[Black "Howard Staunton"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.d4 e6 2.c4 d5 3.e3 Nf6 4.Nc3 c5 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.a3 Be7 7.Bd3 O-O
8.O-O b6 9.b3 Bb7 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Bb2 cxd4 12.exd4 Bd6 13.Re1
a6 14.Rc1 Rc8 15.Rc2 Rc7 16.Rce2 Qc8 17.h3 Nd8 18.Qd2 b5 19.b4
Ne6 20.Bf5 Ne4 21.Nxe4 dxe4 22.d5 exf3 23.Rxe6 Qd8 24.Bf6 gxf6
25.Rxd6 Kg7 26.Rxd8 Rxd8 27.Be4 fxg2 28.Qf4 Rc4 29.Qg4+ Kf8
30.Qh5 Ke7 31.d6+ Kxd6 32.Bxb7 Kc7 33.Bxa6 Rc3 34.Qxb5 1-0

[Event "Warsaw m"]
[Site "Warsaw"]
[Date "1844.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "F Alexander Hoffmann"]
[Black "Alexander Petrov"]
[ECO "C53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "40"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.e5 Ne4 7.Bd5
Nxf2 8.Kxf2 dxc3+ 9.Kg3 cxb2 10.Bxb2 Ne7 11.Ng5 Nxd5 12.Nxf7
O-O 13.Nxd8 Bf2+ 14.Kh3 d6+ 15.e6 Nf4+ 16.Kg4 Nxe6 17.Nxe6
Bxe6+ 18.Kg5 Rf5+ 19.Kg4 h5+ 20.Kh3 Rf3# 0-1

[Event "Copenhagen"]
[Site "Copenhagen"]
[Date "1908.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Orla Hermann Krause"]
[Black "Benjamin Leussen"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "21"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nd7 4. Bc4 c6 5. Ng5 Nh6 6. O-O Be7
7. Ne6 fxe6 8. Bxh6 gxh6 9. Qh5+ Kf8 10. Bxe6 Qe8 11. Qxh6#
1-0

[Event "Anderssen-Harrwitz"]
[Site "Breslau GER"]
[Date "1848.??.??"]
[EventDate "1848.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Daniel Harrwitz"]
[Black "Adolf Anderssen"]
[ECO "C33"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "33"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 Bc5 5.d4 Bb6 6.Nf3 Qe7
7.Nc3 Nf6 8.e5 Nh5 9.Nd5 Qd8 10.g4 fxg3 11.Bg5 f6 12.exf6 gxf6
13.Ne5 O-O 14.Qxh5 fxg5 15.Nf6+ Kg7 16.Qxh7+ Kxf6 17.Ng4# 1-0

[Event "New Orleans"]
[Site "New Orleans, LA USA"]
[Date "1849.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Charles Le Carpentier"]
[ECO "000"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "25"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/1NBQKBNR w Kkq - 0 1"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Bb4+ 5.c3 dxc3 6.O-O cxb2
7.Bxb2 Bf8 8.e5 d6 9.Re1 dxe5 10.Nxe5 Qxd1 11.Bxf7+ Ke7
12.Ng6+ Kxf7 13.Nxh8# 1-0

[Event "ENG"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1851.06.05"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Adolf Anderssen"]
[Black "Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky"]
[ECO "C51"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "88"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Bd6 6.O-O Qe7 7.d4
Nf6 8.Ng5 O-O 9.f4 exf4 10.e5 Bxe5 11.dxe5 Qc5+ 12.Kh1 Nxe5
13.Bb3 Neg4 14.Nh3 d6 15.Bxf4 Ne4 16.Qd4 Re8 17.Nd2 Qxd4
18.cxd4 Nxd2 19.Bxd2 Be6 20.Ng5 Bxb3 21.axb3 Re2 22.Nf3 a6
23.Rae1 Rae8 24.Rxe2 Rxe2 25.Re1 Rxe1+ 26.Bxe1 f6 27.Kg1 Ne3
28.Kf2 Nd5 29.Bd2 Kf7 30.Ke2 Ke6 31.Kd3 c5 32.g3 g5 33.Ke4 f5+
34.Kd3 h6 35.Ne1 b5 36.Be3 Nb4+ 37.Kc3 Kd5 38.Nf3 g4 39.Ne1 h5
40.Nd3 Nxd3 41.Kxd3 c4+ 42.bxc4+ bxc4+ 43.Kc3 Ke4 44.Bd2 d5
0-1

[Event "Moscow"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "1851.??.??"]
[EventDate "1851.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Prince Sergey Semenovich Urusov"]
[Black "Bihn"]
[ECO "C39"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "43"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ng5 h6 6. Nxf7 Kxf7
7. Bc4+ d5 8. Bxd5+ Kg7 9. d4 Nf6 10. Nc3 Bb4 11. Bxf4 Nxd5
12. exd5 Qxd5 13. O-O Bxc3 14. Be5+ Kg8 15. Qd3 Bxd4+ 16. Bxd4
Qh5 17. Qc4+ Kh7 18. Rf7+ Kg6 19. Rg7+ Kf5 20. Rf1+ Ke4
21. Bf6+ Ke3 22. Qd3# 1-0

[Event "London"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1851.??.??"]
[EventDate "1851.??.??"]
[Round "2.7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Howard Staunton"]
[Black "Bernhard Horwitz"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "91"]

1. c4 {Notes by Ray Keene} e6 2. Nc3 f5 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 c6
5. d3 Na6 6. a3 Be7 7. e3 O-O 8. Nge2 Nc7 9. O-O d5 10. b3
{Staunton was fond of the double flank development of his
bishop. It is, however, somewhat time-consuming and Horwitz
should now have seized his chance to occupy the center with
10...e5.} Qe8 11. Bb2 Qf7 12. Rc1 Bd7 13. e4 {This central
thrust, all the stronger for being delayed, announces that
White has won the battle of the opening.} fxe4 14. dxe4 Rad8
15. e5 Nfe8 16. f4 dxc4 17. bxc4 Bc5+ 18. Kh1 Be3 19. Rb1 g6
{An unnecessary weakening of the f6-square from which Staunton
now profits.} 20. Qb3 Bc8 21. Ne4 Bb6 22. Rbd1 Na6 23. Qc3
Rxd1 24. Rxd1 Nc5 25. Nd6 Qc7 26. Qc2 Ng7 27. g4 {The prelude
to the decisive attack, in which Staunton's pieces stream
across to menace the black king. Firstly, Staunton restricts
the possibilities of Black's defensive knight on g7.} Qe7
28. Bd4 Qc7 29. a4 Na6 30. c5 Ba5 31. Qb3 b6 32. Ne4 bxc5
33. Nf6+ Kh8 34. Qh3 Ne8 35. Ba1 {Staunton's deployment of his
forces creates a wonderfully aesthetic impression, highlighted
by this sweeping retreat of his bishop which is, nevertheless,
still firmly targeted on the black king.} Nxf6 36. exf6 Kg8
37. Be5 Qb7 38. Be4 Qf7 {If Black can blockade the passed pawn
he may survive, but Staunton's next brilliant stroke banishes
such hopes.} 39. Ng1 {A profound retreat. The piece is now
free to manoeuvre via f3 to e5 or g5, thus causing havoc with
the defensive units around the black king.} Bd8 40. g5 Bb7
41. Nf3 Re8 42. Bd6 Bxf6 43. gxf6 Qxf6 44. Ng5 Qg7 45. Be5 Qe7
46. Bxg6 1-0

[Event "London"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1851.06.21"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Adolf Anderssen"]
[Black "Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky"]
[ECO "C33"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "45"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 b5 5.Bxb5 Nf6 6.Nf3 Qh6
7.d3 Nh5 8.Nh4 Qg5 9.Nf5 c6 10.g4 Nf6 11.Rg1 cxb5 12.h4 Qg6
13.h5 Qg5 14.Qf3 Ng8 15.Bxf4 Qf6 16.Nc3 Bc5 17.Nd5 Qxb2 18.Bd6
Bxg1 {It is from this move that Black's defeat stems. Wilhelm
Steinitz suggested in 1879 that a better move would be
18... Qxa1+; likely moves to follow are 19. Ke2 Qb2 20. Kd2
Bxg1.} 19. e5 Qxa1+ 20. Ke2 Na6 21.Nxg7+ Kd8 22.Qf6+ Nxf6
23.Be7# 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1852.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Conrad Bayer"]
[Black "Ernst Falkbeer"]
[ECO "C52"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "46"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4
7. O-O d6 8. Qb3 Qf6 9. cxd4 Bb6 10. e5 dxe5 11. dxe5 Qg6
12. Nh4 Qh5 13. e6 fxe6 14. Bxe6 Bxe6 15. Qxe6+ Nge7 16. Nf3
Rf8 17. Bg5 Rxf3 18. Bxe7 Nd4 19. Qe4 Rf4 20. Qxb7 Kxe7
21. Qxa8 Ne2+ 22. Kh1 Qxh2+ 23. Kxh2 Rh4# 0-1

[Event "Casual Game"]
[Site "Berlin GER"]
[Date "1852.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Adolf Anderssen"]
[Black "Jean Dufresne"]
[ECO "C52"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "47"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.O-O
d3 8.Qb3 Qf6 9.e5 Qg6 10.Re1 Nge7 11.Ba3 b5 12.Qxb5 Rb8 13.Qa4
Bb6 14.Nbd2 Bb7 15.Ne4 Qf5 16.Bxd3 Qh5 17.Nf6+ gxf6 18.exf6
Rg8 19.Rad1 Qxf3 20.Rxe7+ Nxe7 21.Qxd7+ Kxd7 22.Bf5+ Ke8
23.Bd7+ Kf8 24.Bxe7# 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1853.??.??"]
[EventDate "1853.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Josef Matschego"]
[Black "Carl Hamppe"]
[ECO "C39"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "37"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ng5 h6 6. Nxf7 Kxf7
7. Bc4+ d5 8. Bxd5+ Kg7 9. d4 Nf6 10. Nc3 Bb4 11. Bxf4 Nxd5
12. exd5 Qe7+ 13. Be5+ Kg6 14. O-O Bxc3 15. Qd3+ Kh5 16. Rf5+
Bxf5 17. Qxf5+ Kxh4 18. g3+ Kh3 19. Qf1# 1-0

[Event "Unknown"]
[Site "Unknown"]
[Date "1854.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Hart"]
[ECO "C44"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "45"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 d6 5. c3 dxc3 6. Qb3 Qe7
7. O-O b6 8. Nxc3 Na5 9. Qb4 Nxc4 10. Qxc4 Bb7 11. Re1 O-O-O
12. Bf4 f6 13. Rac1 Kb8 14. Nd5 Bxd5 15. exd5 Qd7 16. Nd4 Ne7
17. Rxe7 Bxe7 18. Qa6 c5 19. dxc6 Qc8 20. c7+ Ka8 21. cxd8=Q
Qxd8 22. Nb5 Qb8 23. Rc7 1-0

[Event "Calcutta"]
[Site "Calcutta"]
[Date "1856.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Somacarana"]
[Black "John Cochrane"]
[ECO "C20"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "75"]

1.e4 e5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 Bc5 4.c3 Qe7 5.Ne2 d6 6.O-O O-O 7.d4
Bb6 8.d5 Bg4 9.Qd3 Nbd7 10.b4 a5 11.Be3 axb4 12.cxb4 h6 13.a4
Nh7 14.f3 Bh5 15.Nbc3 Bg6 16.g4 f6 17.Bxb6 Nxb6 18.a5 Nd7
19.Rac1 Nb8 20.Nb5 Na6 21.Qc4 Be8 22.Ng3 g6 23.Nc3 Rc8 24.b5
Nc5 25.Na4 Nxa4 26.Qxa4 Ng5 27.h4 Nf7 28.Qb3 Bd7 29.Rc2 Kg7
30.h5 Nh8 31.Rfc1 Qd8 32.b6 c5 33.dxc6 Rxc6 34.Rxc6 Bxc6
35.Rxc6 bxc6 36.a6 Qc8 37.b7 Qb8 38.Qb6 1-0

[Event "Calcutta"]
[Site "Calcutta"]
[Date "1856.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "John Cochrane"]
[Black "Somacarana"]
[ECO "D45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "70"]

1.e3 d5 2.d4 e6 3.c4 c6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bd6 6.Be2 O-O 7.O-O b6
8.Bd2 Bb7 9.cxd5 exd5 10.Rc1 Nbd7 11.Bd3 a6 12.e4 dxe4 13.Nxe4
Nxe4 14.Bxe4 f5 15.Bxc6 Bxc6 16.Rxc6 Be7 17.Qb3+ Kh8 18.Rfc1
f4 19.Qc2 b5 20.Re6 a5 21.Rce1 Bb4 22.a3 Bxd2 23.Qxd2 Nb6
24.Qd3 Nc4 25.R1e2 a4 26.Ne5 Rc8 27.Nc6 Qg5 28.Qf3 Ra8 29.h3
Qf5 30.Qe4 Qg5 31.Ne5 Rad8 32.Nxc4 f3 33.Ne3 fxe2 34.Ng4 Qc1+
35.Kh2 Qxb2 1-0

[Event "1st American Chess Congress"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1857.10.14"]
[EventDate "1857.??.??"]
[Round "2.2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Alexander Beaufort Meek"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "60"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 g6 3. Bd3 Bg7 4. Be3 Ne7 5. Ne2 b6 6. Nd2 Bb7
7. O-O d5 8. e5 O-O 9. f4 f5 10. h3 Nd7 11. Kh2 c5 12. c3 c4
13. Bc2 a6 14. Nf3 h6 15. g4 Kh7 16. Rg1 Rg8 17. Qe1 Nc6
18. Nh4 Qf8 19. Nxg6 Kxg6 20. gxf5+ Kf7 21. fxe6+ Kxe6 22. f5+
Ke7 23. Qh4+ Ke8 24. f6 Bxf6 25. exf6 Rxg1 26. Rxg1 Nxf6
27. Bg6+ Kd7 28. Bf5+ Ke8 29. Bxh6 Qh8 30. Rg7 Ng8 1-0

[Event "New"]
[Site "New Orleans, LA USA"]
[Date "1857.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Napoleon Marache"]
[Black "Paul Morphy"]
[ECO "C52"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "40"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4
7. e5 d5 8. exd6 Qxd6 9. O-O Nge7 10. Ng5 O-O 11. Bd3 Bf5
12. Bxf5 Nxf5 13. Ba3 Qg6 14. Bxf8 Qxg5 15. Ba3 dxc3 16. Bc1
Qg6 17. Bf4 Rd8 18. Qc2 Ncd4 19. Qe4 Ng3 20. Qxg6 Nde2# 0-1

[Event "1st American Chess Congress"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1857.11.03"]
[EventDate "1857.??.??"]
[Round "4.6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Louis Paulsen"]
[Black "Paul Morphy"]
[ECO "C48"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "56"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bc5 5. O-O O-O 6. Nxe5
Re8 7. Nxc6 dxc6 8. Bc4 b5 9. Be2 Nxe4 10. Nxe4 Rxe4 11. Bf3
Re6 12. c3 Qd3 13. b4 Bb6 14. a4 bxa4 15. Qxa4 Bd7 16. Ra2
Rae8 17. Qa6 {Morphy took twelve minutes over his next move,
probably to assure himself that the combination was sound and
that he had a forced win in every variation. -- Chernev} Qxf3
{!!} 18. gxf3 Rg6+ 19. Kh1 Bh3 20. Rd1 {Not 20 Rg1 Rxg1+ 21
Kxg1 Re1+} Bg2+ 21. Kg1 Bxf3+ 22. Kf1 Bg2+ {The "quiet"
22...Rg2! would have won more quickly. Zukertort gives: 23.Qd3
Rxf2+ 24.Kg1 Rg2+ 25.Kh1 Rg1. } 23. Kg1 Bh3+ 24. Kh1 Bxf2
25. Qf1 {Absolutely forced.} Bxf1 26. Rxf1 Re2 27. Ra1 Rh6
28. d4 Be3 0-1

[Event "1st American Chess Congress"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1857.10.22"]
[EventDate "1857.??.??"]
[Round "3.1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Theodore Lichtenhein"]
[Black "Paul Morphy"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "38"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.e5 d5 6.Bb5 Ne4 7.Nxd4
Bd7 8.Nxc6 bxc6 9.Bd3 Bc5 10.Bxe4 Qh4 11.Qe2 dxe4 12.Be3 Bg4
13.Qc4 Bxe3 14.g3 Qd8 15.fxe3 Qd1+ 16.Kf2 Qf3+ 17.Kg1 Bh3
18.Qxc6+ Kf8 19.Qxa8+ Ke7 0-1

[Event "Paris"]
[Site "Paris FRA"]
[Date "1858.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Duke Karl / Count Isouard"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "33"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Bg4 {This is a weak move
already.--Fischer} 4.dxe5 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 dxe5 6.Bc4 Nf6 7.Qb3 Qe7
8.Nc3 c6 9.Bg5 {Black is in what's like a zugzwang position
here. He can't develop the [Queen's] knight because the pawn
is hanging, the bishop is blocked because of the
Queen.--Fischer} b5 10.Nxb5 cxb5 11.Bxb5+ Nbd7 12.O-O-O Rd8
13.Rxd7 Rxd7 14.Rd1 Qe6 15.Bxd7+ Nxd7 16.Qb8+ Nxb8 17.Rd8# 1-0

[Event "London"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1858.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Henry Edward Bird"]
[Black "Paul Morphy"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.Nc3 fxe4 5.Nxe4 d5 6.Ng3 e4 7.Ne5
Nf6 8.Bg5 Bd6 9.Nh5 O-O 10.Qd2 Qe8 11.g4 Nxg4 12.Nxg4 Qxh5
13.Ne5 Nc6 14.Be2 Qh3 15.Nxc6 bxc6 16.Be3 Rb8 17.O-O-O Rxf2
18.Bxf2 Qa3 19.c3 Qxa2 20.b4 Qa1+ 21.Kc2 Qa4+ 22.Kb2 Bxb4
23.cxb4 Rxb4+ 24.Qxb4 Qxb4+ 25.Kc2 e3 26.Bxe3 Bf5+ 27.Rd3 Qc4+
28.Kd2 Qa2+ 29.Kd1 Qb1+ 0-1

[Event "Morphy - Loewenthal"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1858.07.30"]
[EventDate "1858.07.19"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Johann Jacob Loewenthal"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "118"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Qxd4 Bd7 5.Be3 Nf6 6.Nc3 Be7
7.Bc4 Nc6 8. Qd2 Ne5 9.Nxe5 dxe5 10.O-O O-O 11.f4 Bd6 12.f5
Bc6 13.Qe2 h6 14.Rad1 Qe7 15.Bd5 Bxd5 16.Nxd5 Nxd5 17.Rxd5 f6
18.Qg4 c6 19.Rd3 Bc5 20.Qg3 Rad8 21.Rfd1 Rxd3 22.Rxd3 Rd8
23.Bxc5 Qxc5+ 24.Qf2 Qxf2+ 25.Kxf2 Rxd3 26.cxd3 c5 27.g4 Kf8
28.a4 b6 29.Kg3 Kf7 30.Kh4 Kf8 31.Kh5 Kf7 32.b3 Kf8 33.Kg6 Kg8
34.h3 Kf8 35.h4 Kg8 36.g5 hxg5 37.hxg5 fxg5 38.Kxg5 Kf7 39.Kh4
Ke7 40.Kg4 Kf6 41.Kh5 a6 42.Kh4 g6 43.a5 bxa5 44.fxg6 Kxg6
45. Kg4 a4 46.bxa4 a5 47.Kf3 Kf6 48.Kf2 Kf7 49.Kg3 Kg7 50.Kf2
Kf6 51.Kg1 Kg5 52.Kg2 Kf4 53.Kf2 c4 54.dxc4 Kxe4 55.Ke2 Kd4
56.Kf3 Kxc4 57.Ke4 Kb4 58.Kxe5 Kxa4 59.Kd4 Kb4 0-1

[Event "Casual game"]
[Site "Paris FRA"]
[Date "1858.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Adolf Anderssen"]
[ECO "C39"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "45"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5 Nf6 6.Nxg4 Nxe4 7.d3
Ng3 8.Bxf4 Nxh1 9.Qe2+ Qe7 10.Nf6+ Kd8 11.Bxc7+ Kxc7 12.Nd5+
Kd8 13.Nxe7 Bxe7 14.Qg4 d6 15.Qf4 Rg8 16.Qxf7 Bxh4+ 17.Kd2 Re8
18.Na3 Na6 19.Qh5 Bf6 20.Qxh1 Bxb2 21.Qh4+ Kd7 22.Rb1 Bxa3
23.Qa4+ 1-0

[Event "Anderssen-Morphy"]
[Site "Paris FRA"]
[Date "1858.12.27"]
[EventDate "1858.12.20"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Adolf Anderssen"]
[ECO "B44"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "33"]

1.e4 {Notes by Lowenthal} c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.Nxd4 e6
5.Nb5 d6 {This is better than ...a6; but even now the King's
Bishop is shut in, and the Queen's Pawn rendered weak.} 6.Bf4
{Correctly played, compelling the advance of the e-Pawn, which
leaves the Queen's Pawn weak and unsupported.} e5 7.Be3 f5
{...a6 would have been sounder play, but even then the game
would have been in favor of the first player.} 8.N1c3 {A fine
conception.} f4 {Had Black played ...a6, White's reply would
still have been Nd5, with a winning game.} 9.Nd5 fxe3 10.Nbc7+
Kf7 11.Qf3+ Nf6 12.Bc4 {The attack is now irresistable.} Nd4
13.Nxf6+ d5 {If the Bishop had been interposed, White would
have taken it, checking; and on Knight retaking have played
Nd5 discovering check, and won without difficulty.} 14.Bxd5+
Kg6 {Had the Queen captured the Bishop, White would have taken
with Knight, discovering check, and have remained eventually
with a Pawn ahead and a winning position.} 15.Qh5+ Kxf6
16.fxe3 {Ne8+, seemingly a good move, is only in appearance,
as Black might have taken it when placed there; and on White
taking Queen, have answered with ...Bb4+, obtaining a winning
game.} Nxc2+ 17.Ke2 1-0

[Event "Paris"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "1858.09.27"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Jean-Louis Preti"]
[ECO "B21"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "49"]

1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. Nf3 e5 4. Bc4 Bb4+ 5. c3 dxc3 6. bxc3
Bc5 7. Nxe5 Qf6 8. Bxf7+ Kf8 9. Nd3 Bb6 10. Bb3 Nc6 11. Ba3+
d6 12. O-O Nh6 13. e5 Qg6 14. Nf4 Qg4 15. Ne6+ Bxe6 16. Qxd6+
Kf7 17. Qd7+ Kg6 18. Bxe6 Qg5 19. Bd5 Nxe5 20. Be4+ Nf5
21. Qe6+ Qf6 22. Bxf5+ Kh5 23. g4+ Nxg4 24. Bxg4+ Kg5 25. Be7
1-0

[Event "Anderssen-Morphy"]
[Site "Paris FRA"]
[Date "1858.12.20"]
[EventDate "1858.12.20"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Adolf Anderssen"]
[ECO "C52"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "144"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.O-O
Nf6 8.e5 d5 9.Bb5 Ne4 10.cxd4 O-O 11.Bxc6 bxc6 12.Qa4 Bb6
13.Qxc6 Bg4 14.Bb2 Bxf3 15.gxf3 Ng5 16.Nd2 Re8 17.Kh1 Nh3
18.f4 Qh4 19.Qxd5 Nxf2+ 20.Kg1 Nd3 21.Bc3 Nxf4 22.Qf3 Nh3+
23.Kh1 Ng5 24.Qg2 Rad8 25.Rg1 h6 26.Raf1 Qh3 27.Qc6 Qd7 28.Qg2
Bxd4 29.Bxd4 Qxd4 30.Nf3 Qd5 31.h4 Ne6 32.Qg4 Qc6 33.Rg2 Rd3
34.Qf5 Red8 35.Qf6 Qd5 36.Qf5 Rd1 37.Rxd1 Qxd1+ 38.Kh2 Rd3
39.Rf2 Re3 40.Nd2 Re2 41.Qxf7+ Kh8 42.Ne4 Rxf2+ 43.Nxf2 Qd5
44.Ng4 Qxa2+ 45.Kg3 Qb3+ 46.Kh2 Qc2+ 47.Kg3 Qc3+ 48.Kh2 Qc6
49.h5 a5 50.Nf6 gxf6 51.Qxf6+ Kg8 52.Qg6+ Kf8 53.Qxh6+ Ke8
54.Qg6+ Kd7 55.h6 Qd5 56.h7 Qxe5+ 57.Kg1 Ng5 58.h8=Q Qxh8
59.Qxg5 Qd4+ 60.Kf1 a4 61.Qf5+ Kc6 62.Qc8 Kb5 63.Ke1 c5
64.Qb7+ Kc4 65.Qf7+ Kc3 66.Qf3+ Qd3 67.Qf6+ Kb3 68.Qb6+ Kc2
69.Qa7 Qc3+ 70.Ke2 a3 71.Qa4+ Kb2 72.Qb5+ Qb3 0-1

[Event "Blindsim"]
[Site "Blindsim"]
[Date "1858.08.27"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "George Salmon"]
[ECO "C51"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "97"]

1. e4 {Notes by J. Lowenthal} e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4
d5 {It is a question of great importance, whether the Evans'
Gambit should be accepted or declined. In theory we have a
satisfactory defence against the regular attack; but in
practice this so invariably breaks down, that it would seem as
if, in matches were money and reputation are at stake, the
evasion of the gambit by the move in the text would be the
more prudent step.} 5. exd5 {5 Bb5 is the more usual move
here, and is followed up thus 5... dxe4 (best) 6 bxc5 exf3 7
Bxc6+ bxc6 8 Qxf3 Ne7 but even then White remains with a
somewhat inferior game.} Nxb4 6. O-O {Mr. Morphy considers
this best at this point.} Ne7 {6...Bf5 would have been the
proper play.} 7. Nxe5 O-O {we should have preferred ...Bd4.}
8. d4 Bd6 9. Nc3 Bf5 10. Bb3 a5 11. a3 a4 12. Nxa4 Nbxd5
13. c4 Rxa4 {In offering this sacrifice, Mr. Salmon was
probably impressed with the idea that his adversary would take
the rook and thus subject himself to the attack of ...Nc3 and
then ...Ne2+; but mr morphy evidently had all the variations
in his mind's eye, and so declined the proffered bait.}
14. cxd5 Ra5 15. Qf3 Bg6 16. Re1 Bb4 17. Re2 Nf5 18. Bb2 {The
accuracy and rapidity with which the young american replied at
this point of the game to the moves of his opponents, was the
subject of universal remark and astonishment.} Qa8 19. g3 Qa7
20. Nxg6 hxg6 21. Re5 Bxa3 22. d6 {Finely played; insuring the
advance of the wueen's pawn which is equivalent to the gain of
the game.} Bb4 {22....Nxd4 would have been bad play, as the
following variation will prove, eg. : 23 Bxf7+ Kh8 (best) 24
Qf4 Rxe5 25 Bxd4 and wins - 22...Nxd4 23 Bxf7+ Rxf7 24 Re8+
Kh7 (best) 25 Qxf7 Bxa3 and White mates in four moves.}
23. Rexa5 Bxa5 24. Qd5 b6 25. d7 Qa8 26. Rc1 Qxd5 27. Bxd5 b5
28. Bc6 Nd6 29. d5 Bd2 30. Rd1 Bg5 31. f4 Bd8 32. Ba3 f5
33. Re1 Kf7 34. Bxb5 Rh8 35. Bxd6 cxd6 36. Re8 {This ending
which is a perfect Chess study, deserves special attention
from the student.} Rf8 37. Kf2 g5 38. Ke3 g4 39. Kd3 g5
40. Bc6 gxf4 41. gxf4 Rg8 42. Kc4 Rf8 43. Kb5 Rg8 44. Ka6 Rf8
45. Kb7 Rg8 46. Kc8 Bb6 47. Rxg8 Kxg8 48. d8=Q+ Bxd8 49. Kxd8
1-0

[Event "Morphy-Harrwitz"]
[Site "Paris FRA"]
[Date "1858.09.??"]
[EventDate "1858.09.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Daniel Harrwitz"]
[Black "Paul Morphy"]
[ECO "A84"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "108"]

1.d4 {Notes by J. Lowenthal} f5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bb4
5.Qb3 c5 { A very similar position occurs in the Sicilian
opening, and then, as here, this move is important and
effective.} 6.d5 e5 7.e3 O-O 8.Bd3 d6 9.Ne2 h6 10.Bxf6 Qxf6
11.a3 Bxc3+ 12.Qxc3 Qg6 13.O-O Nd7 14.b4 b6 15.f3 h5 { A
measure of precaution, to prevent White from playing g4, and
having in view also the advance h4 if he should play Ng3.}
16.Bc2 Bb7 17.Ba4 Qf7 18.Bxd7 Qxd7 19.bxc5 {The exchange of
Pawns here showed want of judgment for after giving up his
Bishop, the c-pawn was, of course, rendered very weak by the
line of play adopted; indeed, it was fatal to his game.} bxc5
20.f4 e4 21.Rab1 Ba6 22.Rfc1 Qa4 {The prompt advantage which
Mr. Morphy takes of the slightest error of his opponent, is
the chief characteristic of his game, and it is well
illustrated on this occasion.} 23.Ng3 h4 24.Nf1 Rab8 25.Nd2
Rb6 { Very well played; for if as was the case, the Rooks be
exchanged, the b-pawn is soon thrown up and a free passage
secured for the c-pawn, and if the exchange be not made, Black
doubles his Rooks on the b-file, with a far superior game.}
26.Rxb6 axb6 27.Qb3 Qxb3 28.Nxb3 b5 {Excellently followed up,
the c-pawn can now march on unimpeded, and embarrass White
sorely.} 29.cxb5 Bxb5 30.Na5 Ra8 31.Nb7 Ra6 32.Rc3 { This is
an interesting position} Kf8 33.Nd8 Bd7 34.Rb3 Ke7 35.Rb8 c4 {
The skilful manner in which Mr. Morphy terminated the game
commands our praise and is deserving of close attention.}
36.Kf2 c3 37.Ke2 Rxa3 38.Nc6+ Bxc6 39.dxc6 c2 40.Kd2 Rc3 {
When Mr. Harrwitz played 38 Nc6+, he evidently overlooked that
his opponent, on his 40th move, could play as in the text.}
41.Kc1 Rxc6 42.Rb3 Kf6 43.Ra3 g5 44.g3 hxg3 45.hxg3 gxf4
46.gxf4 Kg6 47.Ra5 Rc5 48.Ra6 Rc3 49.Rxd6+ Kh5 50.Rd2 Kg4
51.Rg2+ Kf3 52.Rg5 Rc5 53.Rh5 Kxe3 54.Rh4 Kf3 0-1

[Event "London m2"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1858.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "John Owen"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "92"]

1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Bd3 e6 4.Nh3 c5 5.c3 cxd4 6.cxd4 Nc6 7.Be3
Nb4 8.Nc3 Nxd3+ 9.Qxd3 Bb4 10.O-O Bxc3 11.bxc3 Nf6 12.e5 Nd5
13.c4 Ba6 14.Bd2 Rc8 15.Rac1 O-O 16.Qb3 Ne7 17.Bb4 Re8 18.Rfd1
Nf5 19.g4 Nh4 20.f4 f6 21.Be1 fxe5 22.dxe5 Qe7 23.Ng5 h6
24.Ne4 Bb7 25.Qd3 Rf8 26.Bxh4 Qxh4 27.Nf6+ Rxf6 28.exf6 Qxg4+
29.Qg3 Qxg3+ 30.hxg3 Bc6 31.fxg7 Kxg7 32.Kf2 Kf6 33.g4 h5
34.g5+ Kf5 35.Ke3 h4 36.Rd2 h3 37.Rh2 Bg2 38.Rc2 d5 39.g6 dxc4
40.g7 Rg8 41.Rcxg2 hxg2 42.Rxg2 Kf6 43.Rc2 Rxg7 44.Rxc4 Rg3+
45.Ke4 Ra3 46.Rc2 Ra4+ 0-1

[Event "Paris"]
[Site "Paris FRA"]
[Date "1859.03.31"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Schrufer"]
[ECO "C56"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "47"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.O-O Nxe4 6.Re1 d5
7.Bxd5 Qxd5 8.Nc3 Qh5 9.Nxe4 Be6 10.Neg5 Bb4 11.Rxe6+ fxe6
12.Nxe6 Qf7 13.Nfg5 Qe7 14.Qe2 Bd6 15.Nxg7+ Kd7 16.Qg4+ Kd8
17.Nf7+ Qxf7 18.Bg5+ Be7 19.Ne6+ Kc8 20.Nc5+ Kb8 21.Nd7+ Kc8
22.Nb6+ Kb8 23.Qc8+ Rxc8 24.Nd7# 1-0

[Event "London Simul"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1859.04.26"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Thomas Wilson Barnes"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1. e4 {From a Simultaneous Exhibition by Morphy, 5 boards,
April 26, 1859. Other opponenets: Arnous de Riviere, Boden,
Bird and Loewenthal. (Sergeant)} e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nxe4
4. Nc3 Nxc3 5. dxc3 f6 6. O-O Qe7 7. Nh4 d6 8. Qh5+ Kd8 9. f4
Be6 10. Bxe6 Qxe6 11. fxe5 dxe5 12. Ng6 Bc5+ 13. Kh1 Re8
14. Qxh7 Qg8 15. Qh5 Nd7 16. b4 Bd6 17. Bd2 Qf7 18. Qg4 Qe6
19. Qe4 Nb6 20. Qxb7 Qg4 21. a4 Rc8 22. Rad1 Qxg6 23. Be3 Nc4
24. Qc6 Qf7 25. Bxa7 e4 26. Rd4 Qh5 27. Rf4 e3 28. g4 e2
29. gxh5 e1=Q+ 30. Kg2 Re2+ 31. Kh3 f5 32. Qxc4 Qf1+ 33. Kh4
Rxh2+ 34. Kg5 Qg2+ 35. Rg4 fxg4 36. Qf7 Qc6 37. b5 Qd7
38. Rxd6 Qxd6 0-1

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1860.??.??"]
[EventDate "1860.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Lang"]
[ECO "C37"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "37"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Nc6 5. d4 g4 6. c3 gxf3
7. O-O fxg2 8. Bxf7+ Kxf7 9. Qh5+ Ke7 10. Rxf4 Nh6 11. Rxf8
Qxf8 12. Bg5+ Ke6 13. d5+ Kd6 14. Nd2 Kc5 15. Be3+ Kb5
16. Qe2+ Ka5 17. Nb3+ Ka4 18. Qc4+ Nb4 19. Nc5+ 1-0

[Event "Berlin"]
[Site "Berlin GER"]
[Date "1860.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Gustav Richard Neumann"]
[Black "Adolf Anderssen"]
[ECO "C52"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "41"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.O-O
dxc3 8.Qb3 Qf6 9.e5 Qg6 10.Nxc3 Bxc3 11.Qxc3 Nge7 12.Ba3 O-O
13.Rad1 d5 14.exd6 cxd6 15.Rxd6 Qh5 16.Re1 Ng6 17.Rxg6 Qxg6
18.Bxf8 Bh3 19.Nh4 Qg5 20.Qxh3 Rxf8 21.Bxf7+ 1-0

[Event "London"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1862.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Augustus Mongredien"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "57"]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd8 4.d4 e6 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.Bd3 Be7
7.O-O O-O 8.Be3 b6 9.Ne5 Bb7 10.f4 Nbd7 11.Qe2 Nd5 12.Nxd5
exd5 13.Rf3 f5 14.Rh3 g6 15.g4 fxg4 16.Rxh7 Nxe5 17.fxe5 Kxh7
18.Qxg4 Rg8 19.Qh5+ Kg7 20.Qh6+ Kf7 21.Qh7+ Ke6 22.Qh3+ Kf7
23.Rf1+ Ke8 24.Qe6 Rg7 25.Bg5 Qd7 26.Bxg6+ Rxg6 27.Qxg6+ Kd8
28.Rf8+ Qe8 29.Qxe8# 1-0

[Event "Steinitz - Dubois"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1862.09.??"]
[EventDate "1862.09.??"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Serafino Dubois"]
[ECO "C51"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "40"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bb6 5. b5 Na5 6. Nxe5 Nh6
7. d4 d6 8. Bxh6 dxe5 9. Bxg7 Qg5 10. Bxh8 Nxc4 11. O-O Bg4
12. Bf6 Qg6 13. Qd3 Qxf6 14. Qxc4 O-O-O 15. dxe5 Qxe5 16. Na3
Be6 17. Qe2 Qc3 18. Qf3 Qxf3 19. gxf3 Bc5 20. Nb1 Bh3 0-1

[Event "Paris m/1"]
[Site "Paris m/1"]
[Date "1863.??.??"]
[EventDate "1863.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alexander Petrov"]
[Black "Paul Journoud"]
[ECO "C39"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6 6. Bc4 d5
7. exd5 Bd6 8. d4 Nh5 9. Bb5+ Kf8 10. Nc3 Ng3 11. Bxf4 Nxh1
12. Qd2 Qxh4+ 13. g3 Nxg3 14. Qf2 Nf5 15. Qxh4 Nxh4 16. Bh6+
Kg8 17. Ne4 Be7 18. Be8 Nf3+ 19. Kf2 Nxe5 20. dxe5 Bf5
21. Nf6+ Bxf6 22. exf6 Nd7 23. Bxd7 Bxd7 24. Re1 Re8 25. Rxe8+
Bxe8 26. Kg3 Bd7 27. c4 a5 28. a3 a4 29. c5 Bc8 30. d6 cxd6
31. cxd6 Bd7 32. Kf4 Be6 33. Kg3 1/2-1/2

[Event "Paris"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "1863.??.??"]
[EventDate "1863.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Jules Arnous de Riviere"]
[ECO "C38"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "112"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. O-O h6 6. c3 d6
7. d4 Ne7 8. h4 Ng6 9. h5 Ne7 10. g3 Bg4 11. gxf4 Bxh5
12. fxg5 Qd7 13. Ne5 Qh3 14. Qd3 Qxd3 15. Nxd3 hxg5 16. Na3 c6
17. Bxg5 Bxd4+ 18. cxd4 Rg8 19. Rf6 Rxg5+ 20. Kf2 Nd7 21. Rxd6
O-O-O 22. Rg1 Rxg1 23. Kxg1 Kc7 24. Rh6 Bg6 25. Nf4 Bxe4
26. Bxf7 Bf5 27. Be6 Nf8 28. d5 Nxe6 29. Nxe6+ Bxe6 30. dxe6
Rd5 31. Kf2 b5 32. Kf3 Rd2 33. Nb1 Rxb2 34. Nc3 Kd6 35. Kf4
Nd5+ 36. Nxd5 cxd5 37. e7+ Kxe7 38. Ra6 Re2 39. a3 Kd7
40. Rxa7+ Kc6 41. Kf3 Re4 42. Ra8 Ra4 43. Rc8+ Kd6 44. Rc3 d4
45. Rb3 Kc5 46. Ke4 Ra8 47. Kd3 Rh8 48. Kd2 Rh2+ 49. Kc1 Kc4
50. Rg3 d3 51. Rg8 Ra2 52. Rc8+ Kb3 53. Rb8 Rc2+ 54. Kd1 Rc5
55. Kd2 Kxa3 56. Kxd3 b4 0-1

[Event "Manchester -"]
[Site "Manchester ENG"]
[Date "1863.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alexander Steinkuehler"]
[Black "Joseph Henry Blackburne"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "44"]

1.e4 {Notes by Blackburne.} e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6
5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Bd2 Bxd2+ 8.Nfxd2 {A weak move. The
other Knight ought to have taken.} Nxd4 9.O-O d6 10.Nb3 Nxb3
11.Qxb3 O-O 12.Re1 Nh5 13.e5 Qg5 14.exd6 Nf4 15.Bxf7+ {This
tempting but unsound move led to all his subsequent troubles.}
Kh8 16.g3 cxd6 17.Nc3 Nh3+ 18.Kg2 Qf6 19.Bd5 Qxf2+ 20.Kh1 Qg1+
21.Rxg1 Nf2+ 22.Kg2 Bh3# {In chess language this is a "clean"
mate and is considered one of the most beautiful ever produced
in actual play.} 0-1

[Event "Breslau"]
[Site "Breslau"]
[Date "1864.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Gustav Richard Neumann"]
[Black "Johannes Zukertort"]
[ECO "C51"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "35"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Bc5 6.O-O d6 7.d4
exd4 8.cxd4 Bb6 9.Nc3 Na5 10.Bd3 Ne7 11.e5 O-O 12.Bg5 Qd7
13.Ne4 Ng6 14.h3 dxe5 15.dxe5 Nc6 16.Nf6+ gxf6 17.Bxf6 h6
18.Ng5 1-0

[Event "London (England)"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1865.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Patrick Thomas Duffy"]
[ECO "C51"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "51"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. O-O d6
7. d4 exd4 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. d5 Na5 10. e5 Bd7 11. Bd3 Ne7
12. Nc3 O-O 13. Bg5 Qe8 14. Ne4 Ng6 15. Nf6+ gxf6 16. Bxf6
dxe5 17. Qd2 Nf4 18. Qxf4 exf4 19. Ng5 Qe4 20. Bxe4 Rfe8
21. Bxh7+ Kf8 22. Bd3 a6 23. Nh7+ Kg8 24. Bc3 Re7 25. Nf6+ Kf8
26. Bb4 1-0

[Event "Leipzig"]
[Site "Leipzig"]
[Date "1865.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Rudolf von Gottschall"]
[Black "Johannes Minckwitz"]
[ECO "C23"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "42"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. c3 Nf6 4. Qe2 O-O 5. b4 Bb6 6. a4 a5
7. Nf3 d5 8. exd5 e4 9. Ne5 Qd6 10. d4 exd3 11. Nxd3 Re8
12. Be3 Ng4 13. Kd2 Nxe3 14. fxe3 Bxe3+ 15. Kc2 Bf5 16. g4 Bg6
17. h4 Nd7 18. Qf1 axb4 19. cxb4 Qxb4 20. Bb5 Nc5 21. Ra3 Bd4
0-1

[Event "Anderssen-Steinitz"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1866.07.28"]
[EventDate "1866.07.18"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Adolf Anderssen"]
[Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[ECO "C51"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Bc5 6.O-O d6 7.d4
exd4 8.cxd4 Bb6 9.d5 Na5 10.Bb2 Ne7 11.Bd3 Ng6 12.Nc3 O-O
13.Qd2 Bd7 14.Ne2 c5 15.Ng3 Bc7 16.Bxg7 f6 17.Bxf8 Qxf8 18.Nf5
b5 19.Rac1 Nb7 20.Kh1 a5 21.g4 Re8 22.g5 c4 23.gxf6 Qxf6
24.Ng5 Ne5 25.Bb1 Nc5 26.Rg1 Kh8 27.Qc3 Bxf5 28.exf5 b4 29.Qg3
Bd8 30.Nxh7 Qf7 31.f6 Qxd5+ 32.Rg2 Rg8 33.Ng5 Bxf6 34.Nf7+ 1-0

[Event "Berlin"]
[Site "Berlin GER"]
[Date "1866.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Adolf Anderssen"]
[Black "Gustav Richard Neumann"]
[ECO "C37"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "97"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.O-O gxf3 6.Qxf3 Qf6 7.e5
Qxe5 8.d3 Bh6 9.Bd2 Ne7 10.Nc3 Nbc6 11.Rae1 Qf5 12.Nd5 Kd8
13.Bc3 Re8 14.g4 Qg6 15.h4 Nxd5 16.Rxe8+ Kxe8 17.Bxd5 Ne7
18.Re1 Kd8 19.Qe2 Bf8 20.g5 Qb6+ 21.Kh1 Qe3 22.Qg2 Qg3 23.Bxf7
Qxg2+ 24.Kxg2 d6 25.Bf6 Bf5 26.h5 Kd7 27.Kf3 Nc6 28.Kxf4 Bh3
29.Re3 Ne5 30.Bg8 Be6 31.Bxh7 Be7 32.Bg7 Nf7 33.Rxe6 Kxe6
34.Bf5+ Kd5 35.Be4+ Kc5 36.d4+ Kb6 37.g6 Bf8 38.Bxf8 Rxf8
39.gxf7 Rxf7+ 40.Bf5 c6 41.h6 Kc7 42.h7 Rf8 43.Kg5 Kd8 44.Be6
Rh8 45.Bg8 Ke7 46.Kg6 Kf8 47.c4 Rxg8+ 48.hxg8=Q+ Kxg8 49.Kf6
1-0

[Event "London (England)"]
[Site "London (England)"]
[Date "1866.09.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Henry Edward Bird"]
[Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[ECO "A02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "36"]

1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 d6 3.exd6 Bxd6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.d4 Nc6 6.Bg5 Bg4
7.e3 Qd7 8.Bxf6 gxf6 9.Bb5 O-O-O 10.d5 Qe7 11.Bxc6 Qxe3+
12.Qe2 Qc1+ 13.Qd1 Rde8+ 14.Bxe8 Rxe8+ 15.Kf2 Qe3+ 16.Kf1 Bxf3
17.gxf3 Bc5 18.Kg2 Rg8+ 0-1

[Event "New Orleans"]
[Site "New Orleans, LA USA"]
[Date "1866.??.??"]
[EventDate "1866.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Paul Morphy"]
[Black "Charles Maurian"]
[ECO "C37"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "35"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. d4 gxf3 6. Qxf3 Nc6
7. Bxf7+ Kxf7 8. Qh5+ Ke7 9. Bxf4 Nf6 10. Bg5 Bg7 11. e5 Qe8
12. Qh4 Qg6 13. O-O d5 14. exf6+ Kf7 15. fxg7+ Kxg7 16. Rf6
Bf5 17. Rxg6+ hxg6 18. Bf6+ 1-0

[Event "Berlin"]
[Site "Berlin GER"]
[Date "1868.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Hirschberg"]
[Black "Johannes Zukertort"]
[ECO "B21"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1. e4 c5 2. f4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. e5 f5 5. Bb5+ Nc6 6. O-O c4
7. d4 cxd3 8. Qxd3 Bc5+ 9. Kh1 Nge7 10. c4 d4 11. Bd2 O-O
12. a3 a5 13. Be1 b6 14. Nbd2 Bb7 15. Ng5 Qd7 16. Rf3 h6
17. Nh3 Qc7 18. Rg3 Rad8 19. Nf3 Ba8 20. Bd2 Rf7 21. Rf1 Kh8
22. Nf2 Rg8 23. Rh3 Qb7 24. Ng5 Nxe5 25. Nxf7+ Nxf7 26. Qg3
Nd6 27. Rh5 Ne4 28. Qh4 Ng6 29. Rxh6+ gxh6 30. Qxh6+ Qh7
31. Qxh7+ Kxh7 32. Nxe4 fxe4 33. Be1 e3 34. Bg3 Nh4 35. Rg1
Nxg2 36. Rxg2 e2 37. Kg1 Rxg3 38. Kf2 Rxg2+ 0-1

[Event "Baden-Baden"]
[Site "Baden-Baden GER"]
[Date "1870.07.23"]
[EventDate "1870.07.18"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Adolf Anderssen"]
[ECO "C25"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "90"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Bc5 3.f4 d6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bc4 c6 6.fxe5 dxe5 7.Qe2
Nbd7 8.d3 b5 9.Bb3 a5 10.a3 Qb6 11.Nd1 a4 12.Ba2 O-O 13.Ne3
Ba6 14.Nf5 b4 15.axb4 Qxb4+ 16.c3 Qa5 17.Ng5 Rad8 18.Qf3 Qb6
19.Bb1 a3 20.b4 Bxb4 21.cxb4 Qxb4+ 22.Ke2 a2 23.Bd2 Qb5
24.Rxa2 Nc5 25.Rxa6 Qxa6 26.Bb4 Rb8 27.Bxc5 Rb2+ 28.Ke3 Qa5
29.Rd1 Qxc5+ 30.d4 exd4+ 31.Kf4 h6 32.Nh3 Re8 33.Qd3 g5+
34.Kf3 g4+ 35.Kg3 Rxe4 36.Qf1 Qe5+ 37.Kh4 gxh3+ 38.Kxh3 Rb3+
39.g3 Rf4 40.Nxh6+ Kf8 41.Qc4 Rh4+ 42.Kg2 Rxh2+ 43.Kxh2 Qxg3+
44.Kh1 Qh3+ 45.Kg1 Rg3+ 0-1

[Event "Wiesbaden"]
[Site "Wiesbaden"]
[Date "1871.08.18"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Carl Theodor Goering"]
[Black "Johannes Minckwitz"]
[ECO "A83"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "39"]

1.d4 f5 2.e4 fxe4 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 e6 5.Bxf6 Qxf6 6.Nxe4 Qg6
7.Bd3 Qxg2 8.Qh5+ g6 9.Qe5 Qxh1 10.Qxh8 Qxg1+ 11.Kd2 Qxa1
12.Nf6+ Kf7 13.Qg8+ Kxf6 14.Qxf8+ Kg5 15.f4+ Kg4 16.Be2+ Kh3
17.Qh6+ Kg2 18.Qg5+ Kxh2 19.Bf3 Qf1 20.Qh4+ 1-0

[Event "Norwich -"]
[Site "Norwich -"]
[Date "1871.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "NN"]
[Black "Joseph Henry Blackburne"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "42"]

1.e4 {Notes by Blackburne.} e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.O-O Nf6
5.d3 d6 6.h3 {With this and the succeeding moves White loses
time.} Ne7 7.Bg5 c6 8.Be3 Bb6 9.Nc3 Ng6 10.Qd2 Be6 11.Bb3 O-O
12.Rad1 Qd7 13.Nh2 Bxh3 14.Bxb6 Bxg2 15.Kxg2 Nf4+ 16.Kh1 axb6
17.f3 N6h5 18.Rf2 Ng3+ 19.Kg1 Qh3 20.d4 {In this position I
announced mate in two moves, and the beginner would no doubt
like to find it out for himself. The editor of a chess column
says: "As this is the most beautiful mate we have ever seen in
actual play we include it in our series of problems."} Qg2+
21.Rxg2 Nh3# 0-1

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1872.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Carl Hamppe"]
[Black "Philipp Meitner"]
[ECO "C25"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "36"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 3. Na4 Bxf2+ 4. Kxf2 Qh4+ 5. Ke3 Qf4+
6. Kd3 d5 7. Kc3 Qxe4 8. Kb3 Na6 9. a3 Qxa4+ 10. Kxa4 Nc5+
11. Kb4 a5+ 12. Kxc5 Ne7 13. Bb5+ Kd8 14. Bc6 b6+ 15. Kb5 Nxc6
16. Kxc6 Bb7+ 17. Kb5 Ba6+ 18. Kc6 Bb7+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "Breslau"]
[Site "Breslau"]
[Date "1873.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Fritz Riemann"]
[Black "Koeltsch / Pfeiffer / Roesner"]
[ECO "C52"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "31"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.O-O
dxc3 8.Qb3 Qf6 9.e5 Qg6 10.Nxc3 Nge7 11.Ng5 Nxe5 12.Re1 Nxc4
13.Qxc4 Qf6 14.Ba3 O-O 15.Rxe7 Qxc3 16.Qxf7+ 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1873.08.11"]
[EventDate "1873.07.21"]
[Round "7.1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Adolf Anderssen"]
[ECO "D55"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "51"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Nf3 b6 7.Bd3
Bb7 8.O-O Nbd7 9.cxd5 exd5 10.Rc1 c5 11.dxc5 bxc5 12.Qa4 Ne4
13.Bxe4 dxe4 14.Rfd1 Bxg5 15.Nxg5 Qxg5 16.Rxd7 Rfb8 17.Qb3 Bc6
18.Qxf7+ Kh8 19.h4 Qg4 20.Rxa7 Rxa7 21.Qxa7 Rxb2 22.Qxc5 Qe6
23.Rd1 h6 24.Rd6 Qf7 25.Nd1 Re2 26.Kf1 1-0

[Event "Liverpool m"]
[Site "Liverpool ENG"]
[Date "1874.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Amos Burn"]
[Black "John Owen"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "27"]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 Bg7 5.Be2 O-O 6.h4 Nc6 7.h5 e5
8.hxg6 fxg6 9.Nf3 Ng4 10.Bc4+ Kh8 11.Ng5 Bh6 12.Qxg4 Bxg4
13.Rxh6 Kg7 14.Rxh7+ 1-0

[Event "Oxford"]
[Site "Oxford"]
[Date "1874.02.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Horace Curzon Plunkett"]
[Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[ECO "C57"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nc6 4. Ng5 Nxe4 5. Bxf7+ Ke7 6. d3
Nf6 7. Bb3 d5 8. Nc3 h6 9. Qe2 hxg5 10. Bxg5 Be6 11. f4 Nd4
12. Qxe5 Nxb3 13. axb3 Qd6 14. Ra5 Kf7 15. Rf1 Re8 16. Kd2
Rxh2 17. Kc1 Bd7 18. Qd4 Qb6 19. Bxf6 Qxa5 20. Be5 Bc5
21. Qxd5+ Be6 22. Qf3 Bc8 23. Ne4 Qa1+ 24. Kd2 Bb4+ 25. Ke2
Qa5 26. Qg3 Reh8 27. Qxg7+ Ke6 28. f5+ Kd5 29. c4+ Kc6
30. Qg6+ Bd6 31. Bxh8 Rxh8 32. c5 Qa2 33. cxd6 Qxb2+ 34. Ke3
Rd8 35. d7+ Kb5 36. dxc8=Q Qd4+ 37. Kf4 Rxc8 38. Qe6 Qxd3
39. Qc4+ Qxc4 40. bxc4+ Kc6 41. g4 1-0

[Event "3rd American Chess Congress"]
[Site "Chicago, IL USA"]
[Date "1874.07.10"]
[EventDate "1874.07.07"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "James Adams Congdon"]
[Black "Frederick H Elder"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "56"]

1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bb5 Bd6 6. Ne5 Nge7
7. c3 O-O 8. Nxc6 bxc6 9. Bxd6 Qxd6 10. dxc5 Qxc5 11. Bd3 e5
12. Nd2 Rb8 13. Nb3 Qd6 14. Rb1 f5 15. f3 Qh6 16. Qd2 e4
17. Be2 Qd6 18. Qd4 Rb6 19. Nc5 g5 20. fxe4 fxe4 21. Nxe4 Qg6
22. Nd2 Bf5 23. e4 dxe4 24. Bc4+ Nd5 25. Bxd5+ cxd5 26. Qxd5+
Be6 27. Qxe4 Bf5 28. Qd5+ Re6+ 0-1

[Event "Perouse"]
[Site "Perouse"]
[Date "1875.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Guila"]
[Black "Gioacchino Pecci"]
[ECO "C53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "38"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. e5 d5
7. exf6 dxc4 8. Qe2+ Be6 9. fxg7 Rg8 10. cxd4 Nxd4 11. Nxd4
Bxd4 12. Qh5 Qf6 13. O-O Rxg7 14. Qb5+ c6 15. Qxb7 Rxg2+
16. Kxg2 Qg6+ 17. Kh1 Bd5+ 18. f3 Bxf3+ 19. Rxf3 Qg1# 0-1

[Event "Breslau"]
[Site "Breslau"]
[Date "1879.??.??"]
[EventDate "1879.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Siegbert Tarrasch"]
[Black "Jozsef Mendelson"]
[ECO "C51"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "77"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. O-O d6
7. d4 exd4 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. d5 Na5 10. Bb2 Ne7 11. Bd3 O-O
12. Nc3 Ng6 13. Ne2 c5 14. Kh1 Rb8 15. Ne1 Bc7 16. f4 b5
17. f5 Ne5 18. f6 gxf6 19. Qc1 Kg7 20. Ng3 Rg8 21. Nh5+ Kh8
22. Nxf6 Rg6 23. Qf4 c4 24. Be2 b4 25. Qh4 Rg7 26. Bc1 Bg4
27. Bxg4 Nxg4 28. Bg5 h6 29. Bxh6 Nxf6 30. Bxg7+ Kxg7 31. Qg5+
Kf8 32. Rxf6 b3 33. axb3 cxb3 34. Nd3 b2 35. Raf1 Qe7 36. Qg6
b1=Q 37. Rxf7+ Ke8 38. Rf8+ Kd7 39. Qf5+ 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1882.06.24"]
[EventDate "1882.05.10"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Simon Winawer"]
[Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[ECO "C46"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "132"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 g6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bg7 6. Nxc6
bxc6 7. Bd3 Ne7 8. O-O d6 9. Qe1 O-O 10. f3 h6 11. Be3 Kh7
12. Qd2 f5 13. Rae1 fxe4 14. fxe4 Rxf1+ 15. Rxf1 Be6 16. Ne2
c5 17. Nf4 Bg8 18. b3 Qd7 19. Rf3 Rf8 20. Rh3 Bf7 21. Nd5 h5
22. Nxe7 Qxe7 23. Rf3 Kg8 24. Bg5 Qe5 25. Bh6 Re8 26. Bxg7
Kxg7 27. Qf4 Qxf4 28. Rxf4 c4 29. bxc4 Re5 30. Rf1 Rc5 31. Kf2
Bxc4 32. Ke3 Be6 33. Rb1 Kf6 34. a3 Ra5 35. Ra1 Ke5 36. h3 Ra4
37. c3 Bc4 38. Bc2 Ra6 39. g4 h4 40. a4 Rb6 41. Rb1 Rxb1
42. Bxb1 Bf1 43. Kf3 g5 44. Ba2 c6 45. Bf7 Bd3 46. Kf2 Kf4
47. a5 Bxe4 48. Bc4 d5 49. Ba6 c5 50. Bc8 c4 51. a6 Ke5
52. Bd7 d4 53. cxd4+ Kxd4 54. Ke2 Bd3+ 55. Ke1 c3 56. Bc8 Ke3
57. Kd1 Kf2 58. Bf5 Bxa6 59. Kc2 Bf1 60. Kxc3 Bxh3 61. Kd4 Bg2
62. Ke5 h3 63. Kf6 h2 64. Kxg5 h1=Q 65. Kg6 Kf3 66. g5 Kf4 0-1

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1882.06.16"]
[EventDate "1882.05.10"]
[Round "30"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[Black "Vincenz Hruby"]
[ECO "C30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "37"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 f5 3. exf5 exf4 4. Qh5+ g6 5. fxg6 Nf6 6. g7+
Nxh5 7. gxh8=Q Qh4+ 8. Kd1 Nf6 9. Bc4 d5 10. Nf3 Bg4 11. Be2
Bxf3 12. Bxf3 Nbd7 13. Re1+ Kf7 14. b3 Rb8 15. Bb2 Bh6
16. Bxf6 Qxe1+ 17. Kxe1 Rxh8 18. Bxh8 c6 19. Nc3 1-0

[Event "Paris m"]
[Site "Paris"]
[Date "1883.07.21"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Jules Arnous de Riviere"]
[Black "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[ECO "D04"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "120"]

1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.e3 Bg4 4.c4 e6 5.Nc3 c6 6.a3 Nbd7 7.b3 Ne4
8.Bb2 Bd6 9.Qc2 f5 10.Ne5 Bxe5 11.dxe5 Qh4 12.cxd5 exd5 13.g3
Qh5 14.Ne2 Bf3 15.Nf4 Qh6 16.Bg2 Bxg2 17.Nxg2 O-O 18.O-O Rae8
19.f3 Ng5 20.h4 Ne6 21.f4 Nec5 22.Ne1 Qg6 23.Kh2 Ne4 24.Rg1
Re6 25.Nd3 Qh6 26.Raf1 Rg6 27.b4 Nb6 28.Nf2 Nc4 29.Bc1 Nxf2
30.Rxf2 Rg4 31.Kh3 Qe6 32.Qd3 h6 33.Kg2 Qg6 34.Kh2 Re8 35.Qd1
Qh5 36.Qf3 Re6 37.Rgg2 Qe8 38.Kg1 Qd8 39.Qd1 h5 40.Rc2 b5
41.Qd3 Qf8 42.Bb2 Reg6 43.Kh2 Re6 44.Bd4 Qf7 45.Ra2 Re7 46.a4
a6 47.axb5 axb5 48.Bc5 Re8 49.Ra7 Qe6 50.Qc3 Rg6 51.Qa1 Rg4
52.Bd4 Re7 53.Ra8+ Re8 54.Rga2 Rxa8 55.Rxa8+ Kh7 56.Rf8 Nd2
57.Bc5 Qg6 58.Qa8 Nf1+ 59.Kg2 Rxg3+ 60.Kf2 Rg2+ 0-1

[Event "London"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1883.05.05"]
[EventDate "1883.04.26"]
[Round "6.1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Johannes Zukertort"]
[Black "Joseph Henry Blackburne"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1. c4 e6 2. e3 Nf6 3. Nf3 b6 4. Be2 Bb7 5. O-O d5 6. d4 Bd6
7. Nc3 O-O 8. b3 Nbd7 9. Bb2 Qe7 10. Nb5 Ne4 11. Nxd6 cxd6
12. Nd2 Ndf6 13. f3 Nxd2 14. Qxd2 dxc4 15. Bxc4 d5 16. Bd3
Rfc8 17. Rae1 Rc7 18. e4 Rac8 19. e5 Ne8 20. f4 g6 21. Re3 f5
22. exf6 Nxf6 23. f5 Ne4 24. Bxe4 dxe4 25. fxg6 Rc2 26. gxh7+
Kh8 27. d5+ e5 28. Qb4 R8c5 29. Rf8+ Kxh7 30. Qxe4+ Kg7
31. Bxe5+ Kxf8 32. Bg7+ Kg8 33. Qxe7 1-0

[Event "Nuremberg"]
[Site "Nuremberg GER"]
[Date "1883.07.30"]
[EventDate "1883.07.16"]
[Round "19"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Simon Winawer"]
[Black "Jacques Schwarz"]
[ECO "C13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "55"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Bxf6 Bxf6 6.Nf3 O-O 7.e5
Be7 8.Bd3 c5 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.O-O Nc6 11.Qd2 h6 12.a3 Bb6
13.Rfe1 a6 14.Ne2 Bc7 15.Nf4 f5 16.h4 g5 17.hxg5 hxg5 18.Nh5
f4 19.g4 Kf7 20.Kg2 Rh8 21.Rh1 Bd7 22.Nxf4 Nxe5 23.Rxh8 Qxh8
24.Nxg5+ Kf6 25.Rh1 Qg8 26.Rh6+ Ke7 27.Qb4+ Bd6 28.Nxd5+ 1-0

[Event "Ch World (match)"]
[Site "New York (USA)"]
[Date "1886.03.24"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "19"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Johannes Zukertort"]
[Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[ECO "D53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1. d4 {Notes by Robert James Fischer from a television
interview. } d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O
6. c5 {White plays a mistake already; he should just play e3,
naturally.--Fischer} b6 7. b4 bxc5 8. dxc5 a5 9. a3 {Now he
plays this fantastic move; it's the winning move. -- Fischer}
d4 {He can't take with the knight, because of axb4.--Fischer}
10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Na4 e5 {This kingside weakness is nothing;
the center is easily winning.--Fischer} 12. b5 Be6 13. g3 c6
14. bxc6 Nxc6 15. Bg2 Rb8 {Threatening Bb3.--Fischer} 16. Qc1
d3 17. e3 e4 18. Nd2 f5 19. O-O Re8 {A very modern move; a
quiet positional move. The rook is doing nothing now, but
later...--Fischer} 20. f3 {To break up the center, it's his
only chance.--Fischer} Nd4 21. exd4 Qxd4+ 22. Kh1 e3 23. Nc3
Bf6 24. Ndb1 d2 25. Qc2 Bb3 26. Qxf5 d1=Q 27. Nxd1 Bxd1
28. Nc3 e2 29. Raxd1 Qxc3 0-1

[Event "New Orlean"]
[Site "m"]
[Date "1886.03.29"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "20"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Johannes Zukertort"]
[ECO "C25"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "37"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.d4 d5 5.exd5 Qh4+ 6.Ke2 Qe7+
7.Kf2 Qh4+ 8.g3 fxg3+ 9.Kg2 Nxd4 10.hxg3 Qg4 11.Qe1+ Be7
12.Bd3 Nf5 13.Nf3 Bd7 14.Bf4 f6 15.Ne4 Ngh6 16.Bxh6 Nxh6
17.Rxh6 gxh6 18.Nxf6+ Kf8 19.Nxg4 1-0

[Event "Schiffers-Steinitz"]
[Site "Rostov-on-Don RUS"]
[Date "1896.03.08"]
[EventDate "1896.03.04"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Emmanuel Schiffers"]
[Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[ECO "C64"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "113"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 4. O-O Qf6 5. Nc3 Nge7 6. Ne2
a6 7. Ba4 b5 8. Bb3 d6 9. d4 Bxd4 10. Bg5 Qg6 11. Bxe7 Nxe7
12. Nfxd4 exd4 13. Nf4 Qg4 14. Nd5 Qxd1 15. Rfxd1 Nxd5
16. Bxd5 Rb8 17. Rxd4 Ke7 18. c3 a5 19. Rd2 Rd8 20. f4 Rb6
21. a3 c6 22. Bb3 f6 23. Kf2 b4 24. cxb4 axb4 25. a4 Ba6
26. Rc1 Rc8 27. Rcd1 Rd8 28. Rc1 Rc8 29. Rcd1 Rd8 30. g4 Rbb8
31. h4 c5 32. Rc1 Rdc8 33. Bc4 Bxc4 34. Rxc4 Rd8 35. b3 Rbc8
36. Rd5 h6 37. h5 Ke6 38. Ke3 Rc6 39. Kd3 Ra8 40. Rc1 Re8
41. Kc4 Kd7 42. Re1 Kc7 43. e5 fxe5 44. fxe5 Kb6 45. e6 Re7
46. Rf5 Kc7 47. Rf7 Kd8 48. Kd5 Ra6 49. Ref1 c4 50. Rxe7 Ra5+
51. Kxd6 Ra6+ 52. Kd5 Kxe7 53. Rf7+ Ke8 54. Kxc4 Rxe6 55. Rxg7
Re4+ 56. Kc5 Kf8 57. Rg6 1-0

[Event "USA-06.Congress New York"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1889.04.03"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Joseph Henry Blackburne"]
[Black "Jackson Whipps Showalter"]
[ECO "D50"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "41"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 c5 5.Bg5 cxd4 6.Qxd4 Nc6 7.Qh4
d4 {So early in the opening the positions were naturally well
balanced up to this point, when Black commits himself to a
grave error of position judgement that practically delivers
his game to a powerful hostile attack. 7. ...dxc4 8. Rd1 Bd7
would have kept the game still even. -- Steinitz} 8.O-O-O
{Mr. Blackburne enters at once on the road to victory which is
clear to his keen perception.} e5 9.e3 Bc5 10.exd4 exd4 11.Nd5
Qa5 12.Bxf6 gxf6 13.Nxf6+ Kf8 {If 13. ...Kd8; 14. Nxd4 Nxd4
15. Rxd4+ Bxd4 16. Qxd4+ Kc7 17. Qf4+ Kc6 18. Be2 with an
irresistable attack.} 14.Re1 Be6 15.Rxe6 {In grand style.}
fxe6 16.Qh6+ Kf7 {if Ke7 at once, mate is effected in two
moves by Qg7+ and Qd7#} 17.Ng5+ Ke7 18.Qg7+ Kd6 19.Qd7+
{Having probably in his forecalculation of other variations
relied on the move, White adopts the same without noticing
that he could mate at once by Nfe4#} Ke5 20.Qxe6+ Kf4 21.Nh3#
{--Analysis by Wilhelm Steinitz.} 1-0

[Event "USA-06.Congress New York"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1889.03.27"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Jackson Whipps Showalter"]
[Black "Constant Ferdinand Burille"]
[ECO "C52"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "31"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.O-O Nf6 7.d4
O-O 8.Nxe5 Nxe4 9.Qh5 Nxe5 10.dxe5 c6 11.Nd2 Nxd2 12.Bxd2 Bb6
13.Bg5 Qe8 14.Rae1 Bd8 15.Bf6 d5 16.Qg5 1-0

[Event "USA-06.Congress New York"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1889.03.29"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Jackson Whipps Showalter"]
[Black "George Hatfeild Gossip"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "58"]

1.e4 {Notes by Steinitz.} e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.Bd3 d5 7.e5 {The advance is not favorable to his
game on general principles, as it establishes a strong
majority of pawns on the Q side for the opponent, and his own
e-pawn is practically lost. The proper play is 7.exd5 cxd5
8.Bb5+ Bd7 9.Bxd7+ Qxd7 10.O-O Be7 11.Nd2, as played by Senor
Golmayo (White) in a match against Captain Mackenzie at
Havana. See "Modern Chess Instructor," Part 1, p. 66.} Ng4
8.O-O Bc5 9.Bf4 {Having castled on the K side, while the
opponent has still the option of castling either side, it was
unwise to place this Bishop in the way of being attacked by
the adverse pawns, and the right play was 9.Nd2 whereupon of
course, Black could not capture the e-pawn on account of the
rejoinder Re1 followed by Nf3. If however 9.h3, a fine
variation might have arisen, which was first pointed out in
the London Chess Monthly and afterwards ocurred in a match
game between Messrs. Delmar (White) and Lipschutz, viz,
9...Nxe5 10.Re1 Qf6 11.Qe2 O-O 12.Qxe5 Qxf2+ 13.Kh1 Bxh3
14.gxf3 Qf3+ 15.Kh2 Bd6, and wins.} g5 10.Bd2 {Probably best,
If 10.Bg3 h5 11.h3 h4 12.Bh2 Nh6, with a strong attack.} Nxe5
11.Re1 Qe7 12.Nc3 {12.Qh5 at once would have failed on account
of 12...h6, and if 13.Bxg5 Nf3+, and wins.} Bd7 13.Qh5 O-O-O
14.Bxg5 f6 15.Bh4 Qg7 16.Ba6+ Kb8 17.Bg3 Rhg8 18.Qd1 Ng4
{Black wastes time here. He could have at once proceeded with
Bg4, followed by h5, with the same attack as he institutes on
the 20th move.} 19.Bf1 Ne5 20.b4 Bg4 21.Qb1 {Be2 was his best
defence.} Bd4 22.Qb3 h5 23.Rab1 h4 {The initiation of a
masterly combination eight moves deep.} 24.Bxh4 Nf3+ 25.gxf3
Bxf3 26.Bg3 Qxg3+ 27.hxg3 Rxg3+ 28.Kh2 Bxf2 29.Bh3 Rxh3+ {One
of the finest specimens of sacrificing play on record. Mr
Gossip deserves the highest praise for the ingenuity and depth
of combination which he displayed in this game.} 0-1

[Event "USA-06.Congress New York"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1889.04.22"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "23"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Joseph Henry Blackburne"]
[Black "Max Judd"]
[ECO "C29"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "53"]

1.e4 {Notes by Blackburne.} e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 {exd5
brings about the Falkbeer Counter Gambit.} Nxe4 5.Nf3 Be7
6.Qe2 {Better than the alternative d3.} Nxc3 7.bxc3 O-O 8.g3
{The easiest way to develop the Bishop.} Bf5 9.d3 c5 10.Bg2
Nc6 11.O-O Rc8 12.Rb1 b6 13.Nh4 Be6 14.Nf5 Re8 15.g4 Bf8
16.Bf4 Bxf5 {Not good. He should have played f6.} 17.gxf5 Nxe5
18.Bxe5 f6 19.d4 Kh8 20.Rf3 {The annotator of the New York
Tournament games remarks: "An excellent move which initiates a
beautifully conceived idea".} cxd4 21.cxd4 Bd6 22.Rh3 h6
{Forced, for if 22...exf5 23.Rxh7+ Kxh7 24.Qh5+ Kg8 25.Bxd5+
and mates in two.} 23.Qd2 fxe5 24.Rxh6+ Kg8 25.Bxd5+ Kf8 26.f6
{Making an elegant finish.} gxf6 27.Rh8+ {If Ke7 28.Rh7+ Kf8
29.Qh6 mates.} 1-0

[Event "USA-06.Congress New York (26-2)"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1889.05.16"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "26.1"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Samuel Lipschutz"]
[Black "George Hatfeild Gossip"]
[ECO "C28"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "144"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.a3 d6 6.Na4 Bb6 7.Nxb6
axb6 8.c3 Bg4 9.f3 Bh5 10.Ne2 h6 11.O-O g5 12.Bb3 Qe7 13.Bc2
Nd8 14.Ng3 Bg6 15.Nf5 Bxf5 16.exf5 Nh7 17.d4 f6 18.f4 Nf7
19.fxe5 dxe5 20.dxe5 Nxe5 21.Bb3 Kf8 22.Qh5 Kg7 23.Be3 Rhd8
24.Bd4 Qe8 25.Qh3 c5 26.Bxe5 Qxe5 27.Rae1 Qc7 28.Qh5 Nf8
29.Re3 c4 30.Qe2 Qc5 31.Bxc4 Re8 32.Be6 Nxe6 33.b4 Nf4 34.bxc5
Nxe2+ 35.Kf2 Rxe3 36.Kxe3 Nxc3 37.cxb6 Rxa3 38.Kd4 Ne2+ 39.Kc5
Rc3+ 40.Kb5 Nd4+ 41.Kb4 Rc6 42.g4 Kf7 43.Rd1 Rxb6+ 44.Kc5 Rc6+
45.Kd5 Ne2 46.Ra1 Nf4+ 47.Ke4 Ke7 48.Ra7 Rc7 49.Ra8 h5 50.gxh5
Nxh5 51.Rh8 Nf4 52.h4 Rc4+ 53.Kf3 Rc3+ 54.Kg4 Rh3 55.Rh7+ Kd6
56.Rxb7 Rxh4+ 57.Kf3 Nd5 58.Ra7 Rf4+ 59.Kg3 Rxf5 60.Ra1 Rf4
61.Re1 f5 62.Re2 Rg4+ 63.Kf3 Ra4 64.Kg3 Ra3+ 65.Kf2 g4 66.Re8
f4 67.Re4 Ra2+ 68.Kg1 g3 69.Re1 Ne3 70.Rb1 f3 71.Kh1 Rh2+
72.Kg1 f2# 0-1

[Event "Amsterdam"]
[Site "Amsterdam NED"]
[Date "1889.08.26"]
[EventDate "1889.08.26"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Emanuel Lasker"]
[Black "Johann Hermann Bauer"]
[ECO "A03"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "75"]

1.f4 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.b3 e6 4.Bb2 Be7 5.Bd3 b6 6.Nc3 Bb7 7.Nf3
Nbd7 8.O-O O-O 9.Ne2 c5 10.Ng3 Qc7 11.Ne5 Nxe5 12.Bxe5 Qc6
13.Qe2 a6 14.Nh5 Nxh5 15.Bxh7+ Kxh7 16.Qxh5+ Kg8 17.Bxg7 Kxg7
18.Qg4+ Kh7 19.Rf3 e5 20.Rh3+ Qh6 21.Rxh6+ Kxh6 22.Qd7 Bf6
23.Qxb7 Kg7 24.Rf1 Rab8 25.Qd7 Rfd8 26.Qg4+ Kf8 27.fxe5 Bg7
28.e6 Rb7 29.Qg6 f6 30.Rxf6+ Bxf6 31.Qxf6+ Ke8 32.Qh8+ Ke7
33.Qg7+ Kxe6 34. Qxb7 Rd6 35. Qxa6 d4 36. exd4 cxd4 37. h4 d3
38. Qxd3 1-0

[Event "corr"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Jackson Whipps Showalter"]
[Black "Logan"]
[ECO "C51"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Bc5 6.d4 exd4 7.O-O
d6 8.cxd4 Bb6 9.Nc3 Na5 10.Bg5 f6 11.Bxg8 Rxg8 12.Bh4 Bg4
13.e5 dxe5 14.Re1 Bxf3 15.Qxf3 Qxd4 16.Re4 Qd7 17.Rd1 Qf7
18.Qg4 h5 19.Qf5 Nc4 20.Rxc4 Qxc4 21.Nd5 Qc5 22.Qe6+ Kf8
23.Bxf6 Re8 24.Ne7 Qxf2+ 25.Kh1 Qxf6 26.Ng6+ Qxg6 27.Rf1+ Bf2
28.Rxf2+ Qf6 29.Rxf6+ gxf6 30. Qxf6# 1-0

[Event "Hostoun"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1890.03.20"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "J Reinisch"]
[Black "Karel Traxler"]
[ECO "C57"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "34"]

1.e4 {Notes by Karel Traxler} e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 Bc5
{An original combination that is better than it looks. A small
mistake by white can give black a decisive attack. It is not
easy to find the best defense against it in a practical game
and it is probably theoretically correct. ... It somewhat
resembles the Blackmar-Jerome gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4
Bc5 4.Bxf7+?! Kxf7 5.Nxe5+?!} 5.Nxf7 Bxf2+ 6.Ke2 {The best
defense is 6.Kf1! although after 6...Qe7 7.Nxh8 d5 8.exd5 Nd4
Black gets a strong attack.} Nd4+ 7.Kd3 b5 8.Bb3 Nxe4 9.Nxd8
{White has no defense; the mating finale is pretty.} Nc5+
10.Kc3 Ne2+ 11.Qxe2 Bd4+ 12.Kb4 a5+ 13.Kxb5 Ba6+ 14.Kxa5 Bd3+
15.Kb4 Na6+ 16.Ka4 Nb4+ 17.Kxb4 c5# 0-1

[Event "Boston"]
[Site "Boston"]
[Date "1892.04.07"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[ECO "C30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "60"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 Bc5 3. Nf3 d6 4. Bc4 Nc6 5. c3 Nf6 6. d3 Qe7
7. Qe2 Be6 8. Bb5 Bd7 9. Ba4 O-O 10. Bc2 Rad8 11. f5 d5
12. Bg5 dxe4 13. dxe4 Nb8 14. Nbd2 b5 15. Nb3 Bb6 16. O-O-O a5
17. Rd2 a4 18. Na1 a3 19. b3 Qc5 20. Rd3 Bc6 21. Be3 Qe7
22. Bxb6 cxb6 23. Rhd1 Rxd3 24. Bxd3 Qc5 25. Kc2 Na6 26. Kb1
Rd8 27. Bc2 Rxd1+ 28. Qxd1 Qxc3 29. Qc1 Nb4 30. Qxa3 Qxa1+ 0-1

[Event "Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Rematch"]
[Site "Havana CUB"]
[Date "1892.01.07"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "55"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 d6 5. c3 g6 6. Nbd2 Bg7
7. Nf1 O-O 8. Ba4 Nd7 9. Ne3 Nc5 10. Bc2 Ne6 11. h4 Ne7 12. h5
d5 13. hxg6 fxg6 14. exd5 Nxd5 15. Nxd5 Qxd5 16. Bb3 Qc6
17. Qe2 Bd7 18. Be3 Kh8 19. O-O-O Rae8 20. Qf1 a5 21. d4 exd4
22. Nxd4 Bxd4 23. Rxd4 Nxd4 24. Rxh7+ Kxh7 25. Qh1+ Kg7
26. Bh6+ Kf6 27. Qh4+ Ke5 28. Qxd4+ 1-0

[Event "Lasker - Showalter"]
[Site "Logansport, IN USA"]
[Date "1892.12.16"]
[EventDate "1892.12.14"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Jackson Whipps Showalter"]
[Black "Emanuel Lasker"]
[ECO "C66"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O d6 5.d4 Bd7 6.Nc3 Be7 7.Bxc6
Bxc6 8.Qe2 exd4 9.Nxd4 Bd7 10.b3 O-O 11.Bb2 Re8 12.Rad1 Bf8
13.Qd3 Kh8 14.f4 c6 15.Nf3 Bg4 16.Rd2 Qc7 17.h3 Bxf3 18.Qxf3
Rad8 19.g4 Kg8 20.g5 Nd7 21.Ne2 d5 22.e5 Qa5 23.Bc3 Bb4
24.Bxb4 Qxb4 25.c3 Qb6+ 26.Kh2 Nc5 27.Ng3 Rd7 28.Nh5 Ne4
29.Rg2 Kh8 30.Nf6 gxf6 31.gxf6 Rdd8 32.Rg7 1-0

[Event "Blitz"]
[Site "08.-- off GBR Newcastle-upon-Tyne"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Henry Edward Bird"]
[Black "Emanuel Lasker"]
[ECO "C21"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "23"]

1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Bc4 cxb2 5.Bxb2 Qg5 6.Nf3 Qxg2
7.Rg1 Bb4+ 8.Ke2 Qh3 9.Bxf7+ Kd8 10.Bxg7 Ne7 11.Ng5 Qh4
12.Ne6# 1-0

[Event "Nuremberg"]
[Site "Nuremberg"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Siegbert Tarrasch"]
[Black "Karl Eckart"]
[ECO "C31"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "47"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. Nf3 dxe4 4. Nxe5 Bd6 5. d4 exd3 6. Bxd3
Nf6 7. O-O O-O 8. Nc3 Bxe5 9. fxe5 Qd4+ 10. Kh1 Qxe5 11. Bf4
Qc5 12. Bxc7 Bg4 13. Qd2 Qxc7 14. Rxf6 Qa5 15. Rf4 Be6 16. Rh4
f5 17. Re1 Qd8 18. Qf2 Bc8 19. Nd5 Nc6 20. Bc4 Kh8 21. Re7
Nxe7 22. Rxh7+ Kxh7 23. Qh4+ Kg6 24. Nf4# 1-0

[Event "1st City Chess Club Tournament"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1893.12.17"]
[EventDate "1893.12.09"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "James Moore Hanham"]
[Black "Jackson Whipps Showalter"]
[ECO "C53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "104"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 O-O 6.O-O d6 7.Bb3
Bg4 8.Nbd2 Qd7 9.h3 Bh5 10.Nc4 Ne7 11.Be3 Bxe3 12.fxe3 Rad8
13.Qe1 Bg6 14.Rd1 b5 15.Ncd2 c5 16.Nh4 a5 17.a3 a4 18.Ba2 Rb8
19.d4 Qa7 20.dxe5 dxe5 21.Nf5 c4 22.Bb1 Rfd8 23.g4 Bxf5
24.exf5 Ned5 25.Rf3 Nf4 26.g5 Ne8 27.Ne4 Nd3 28.Qe2 Qb7 29.Nf2
e4 30.Rg3 Rd6 31.Rg4 Rbd8 32.Nxe4 Nf4 33.Nxd6 Nxe2+ 34.Kf2
Rxd6 35.Rxd6 Nxd6 36.Kxe2 Qh1 37.Rd4 Qxb1 38.Rxd6 Qxb2+ 39.Rd2
Qxa3 40.Rd8+ Qf8 41.Rxf8+ Kxf8 42.Kd2 Ke7 43.h4 Kd6 44.h5 Ke5
45.e4 Kd6 46.Kc2 f6 47.h6 gxh6 48.gxf6 Kd7 49.e5 h5 50.f7 Ke7
51.e6 h4 52.f6+ Kf8 0-1

[Event "Kaschau"]
[Site "Kaschau"]
[Date "1893.04.09"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Rudolf Rezso Charousek"]
[Black "Jakob Wollner"]
[ECO "C21"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "37"]

1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 dxc3 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bc5 6.Nxc3 d6
7.O-O O-O 8.Ng5 h6 9.Nxf7 Rxf7 10.e5 Ng4 11.e6 Qh4 12.exf7+
Kf8 13.Bf4 Nxf2 14.Qe2 Ng4+ 15.Kh1 Bd7 16.Rae1 Nc6 17.Qe8+
Rxe8 18.fxe8=Q+ Bxe8 19.Bd6# 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1893.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Carl Schlechter"]
[Black "Herzfeld"]
[ECO "C29"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. d3 Bb4 5. fxe5 Nxe4 6. dxe4
Qh4+ 7. Ke2 Bxc3 8. bxc3 Bg4+ 9. Nf3 dxe4 10. Qd4 Bh5 11. Ke3
Bxf3 12. gxf3 Qe1+ 13. Kf4 Nc6 14. Qxe4 Qxc3 15. Bb5 O-O-O
16. Bxc6 Rd4 17. Bxb7+ Kb8 18. Rb1 Rxe4+ 19. Bxe4+ Kc8 20. Rd1
g5+ 21. Kg3 Qxe5+ 22. Kg2 Qa5 23. Bb7+ Kb8 24. Bc6+ Kc8
25. Bd7+ Kd8 26. Rb5 Qc3 27. Bxg5+ f6 28. Bf5+ Ke8 29. Rb8+
Kf7 30. Rd7# 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1893.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Bernhard Fleissig"]
[Black "Carl Schlechter"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "36"]

1. b4 {The small town of Marostica in Italy is home to an
annual living chess display, where townsfolk play the part of
the various pieces and enact a famous game from history. This
game has the honor of being chosen for the first such
exhibitions, in 1954.} e6 2. Bb2 Nf6 3. a3 c5 4. b5 d5 5. d4
Qa5+ 6. Nc3 Ne4 7. Qd3 cxd4 8. Qxd4 Bc5 9. Qxg7 Bxf2+ 10. Kd1
d4 11. Qxh8+ Ke7 12. Qxc8 dxc3 13. Bc1 Nd7 14. Qxa8 Qxb5
15. Bf4 Qd5+ 16. Kc1 Be3+ 17. Bxe3 Nf2 18. Bxf2 Qd2+
{Analysis: 19. Kb1 Qd1+ 20. Ka2 Qxc2#} 0-1

[Event "Nuremburg"]
[Site "Nuremburg"]
[Date "1893.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Siegbert Tarrasch"]
[Black "Romberg"]
[ECO "000"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "41"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/1NBQKBNR w Kkq - 0 1"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Bc5 5. Ng5 Nh6 6. Qh5
O-O 7. f4 Qe8 8. O-O d3+ 9. Kh1 dxc2 10. Nc3 d6 11. f5 Ne5
12. Nd5 Kh8 13. f6 Bg4 14. fxg7+ Kxg7 15. Qxh6+ Kxh6 16. Ne6+
Kh5 17. Ndf4+ Kh6 18. Ne2+ Kg6 19. Rf6+ Kxf6 20. Bg5+ Kg6
21. N2f4# 1-0

[Event "Ch World (match)"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1894.03.15"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Emanuel Lasker"]
[Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[ECO "C62"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "119"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. d4 Bd7 5. Nc3 Nge7 6. Bc4
Nxd4 7. Nxd4 exd4 8. Qxd4 Nc6 9. Qe3 Ne5 10. Bb3 c6 11. Qg3
Ng6 12. h4 Be6 13. Bxe6 fxe6 14. Bg5 Be7 15. O-O-O e5 16. Be3
O-O 17. Ne2 Rf7 18. h5 Nf4 19. Bxf4 exf4 20. Qf3 Qa5 21. Kb1
Qe5 22. Nd4 Bf6 23. c3 Re8 24. Rhe1 Bd8 25. Qg4 Bc7 26. Nf3
Qf6 27. Nd2 Rfe7 28. f3 d5 29. Rh1 Re5 30. g3 Rg5 31. Qd7 Qf7
32. Qxf7+ Kxf7 33. g4 Bb6 34. exd5 cxd5 35. Nb3 Re3 36. Rhf1
Rge5 37. Nc1 Bc7 38. Nd3 Rg5 39. Nb4 Ree5 40. Rd4 Bb6
41. Rxf4+ Kg8 42. Nd3 Re2 43. Rd1 Be3 44. Rb4 b6 45. Ra4 a5
46. b4 d4 47. c4 Bd2 48. b5 Bc3 49. Rg1 Rd2 50. f4 Rxg4
51. Rxg4 Rxd3 52. c5 Re3 53. Rc4 d3 54. Rg1 d2 55. Rd1 bxc5
56. b6 Bd4 57. b7 Re8 58. Kc2 Rb8 59. Rb1 Kf7 60. Ra4 1-0

[Event "Ch World (match)"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1894.04.03"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Emanuel Lasker"]
[Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[ECO "C62"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "91"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. d4 Bd7 5. Nc3 Nge7 6. Be3 Ng6
7. Qd2 Be7 8. O-O-O a6 9. Be2 exd4 10. Nxd4 Nxd4 11. Qxd4 Bf6
12. Qd2 Bc6 13. Nd5 O-O 14. g4 Re8 15. g5 Bxd5 16. Qxd5 Re5
17. Qd2 Bxg5 18. f4 Rxe4 19. fxg5 Qe7 20. Rdf1 Rxe3 21. Bc4
Nh8 22. h4 c6 23. g6 d5 24. gxh7+ Kxh7 25. Bd3+ Kg8 26. h5 Re8
27. h6 g6 28. h7+ Kg7 29. Kb1 Qe5 30. a3 c5 31. Qf2 c4 32. Qh4
f6 33. Bf5 Kf7 34. Rhg1 gxf5 35. Qh5+ Ke7 36. Rg8 Kd6 37. Rxf5
Qe6 38. Rxe8 Qxe8 39. Rxf6+ Kc5 40. Qh6 Re7 41. Qh2 Qd7
42. Qg1+ d4 43. Qg5+ Qd5 44. Rf5 Qxf5 45. Qxf5+ Kd6 46. Qf6+
1-0

[Event "Metro League Game"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1894.03.31"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "Jackson Whipps Showalter"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "93"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 d6 5.c3 Bd7 6.Ba4 Be7 7.Nbd2
O-O 8.Nf1 Qe8 9.Ne3 Nd8 10.Bxd7 Qxd7 11.Nf5 Re8 12.Bg5 Ne6
13.h4 Bd8 14.Bxf6 Bxf6 15.Ng5 h6 16.Nh3 d5 17.f3 Qb5 18.Qe2
Nc5 19.O-O-O Rad8 20.exd5 Qa6 21.Kb1 Rxd5 22.c4 Rdd8 23.g4 Qe6
24.Nf2 b5 25.Ne4 Nxe4 26.Qxe4 bxc4 27.g5 hxg5 28.hxg5 Bxg5
29.Ne7+ Kf8 30.Nc6 f5 31.Nxd8 Rxd8 32.Qxc4 Qxc4 33.dxc4 Rxd1+
34.Rxd1 Ke7 35.Rd5 Ke6 36.Ra5 Be3 37.c5 g5 38.Rxa7 e4 39.fxe4
g4 40.exf5+ Kf6 41.Ra3 Bf2 42.b4 g3 43.Rxg3 Bxg3 44.Kc2 Kxf5
45.a4 Ke4 46.a5 Kd5 47.a6 1-0

[Event "St. Petersburg 1895/96"]
[Site "St. Petersburg RUS"]
[Date "1895.12.15"]
[EventDate "1895.12.13"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[Black "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[ECO "C49"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "52"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6
7. Bg5 Bxc3 8. bxc3 Ne7 9. Bxf6 gxf6 10. Qd2 Ng6 11. Kh1 Kh8
12. d4 Rg8 13. Bd3 Qe7 14. Rab1 b6 15. Ng1 Be6 16. d5 Bd7
17. g3 Rg7 18. Rbe1 Rag8 19. f3 h5 20. Rf2 Nf8 21. f4 exf4
22. Qxf4 Nh7 23. Nf3 Bg4 24. Nd4 h4 25. Re3 Qe5 26. gxh4 Bf3+
0-1

[Event "St. Petersburg 1895/96"]
[Site "St. Petersburg RUS"]
[Date "1895.12.25"]
[EventDate "1895.12.13"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "Emanuel Lasker"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "91"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Be7 6. Qe2
Nd6 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8. dxe5 Nb7 9. b3 O-O 10. Bb2 d5 11. exd6
cxd6 12. Nbd2 Bf6 13. Bxf6 Qxf6 14. Rfe1 Nc5 15. Ne4 Nxe4
16. Qxe4 Bd7 17. c4 Rfe8 18. Qd4 Rxe1+ 19. Rxe1 Qxd4 20. Nxd4
Kf8 21. Kf1 a5 22. a4 Re8 23. Rxe8+ Kxe8 24. Ke2 Kd8 25. Kd2
Kc7 26. Kc3 Kb6 27. f4 h5 28. h3 Kc5 29. f5 g6 30. f6 d5
31. cxd5 Kxd5 32. Nf3 Ke6 33. Nd2 Kxf6 34. Nc4 h4 35. Nxa5 Ke5
36. Nc4+ Kf4 37. Nb6 Bf5 38. Kd4 Be4 39. a5 c5+ 40. Kxc5 Bxg2
41. a6 g5 42. Nd5+ Ke5 43. Ne3 Bf3 44. b4 Ke6 45. b5 Be2
46. Nd5 1-0

[Event "St. Petersburg 1895/96"]
[Site "St. Petersburg RUS"]
[Date "1896.01.09"]
[EventDate "1895.12.13"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[ECO "D07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nf3 Bg4 4. cxd5 Bxf3 5. dxc6 Bxc6 6. Nc3
e6 7. e4 Bb4 8. f3 f5 9. e5 Ne7 10. a3 Ba5 11. Bc4 Bd5
12. Qa4+ c6 13. Bd3 Qb6 14. Bc2 Qa6 15. Bd1 Bc4 16. f4 O-O-O
17. Be3 Nd5 18. Bd2 Nb6 19. Qc2 Rxd4 20. Rc1 Bd3 21. Qb3 Nc4
22. Kf2 Nxd2 23. Qxe6+ Kb8 24. Bf3 Qb6 25. Kg3 Nxf3 26. gxf3
Bc4 27. Qxf5 Bxc3 28. bxc3 Rd2 29. Qh3 g6 30. Kh4 h6 31. Qg4
Qf2+ 32. Qg3 g5+ 33. Kg4 h5+ 34. Kf5 Bd3+ 35. Ke6 Qb6 36. Qxg5
c5+ 37. Kf7 Bc4+ 38. Kg7 Rg8+ 0-1

[Event "Hastings"]
[Site "Hastings ENG"]
[Date "1895.08.17"]
[EventDate "1895.08.05"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Curt von Bardeleben"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "48"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4
Bb4+ 7. Nc3 d5 8. exd5 Nxd5 9. O-O Be6 10. Bg5 Be7 11. Bxd5
Bxd5 12. Nxd5 Qxd5 13. Bxe7 Nxe7 14. Re1 f6 15. Qe2 Qd7
16. Rac1 c6 17. d5 cxd5 18. Nd4 Kf7 19. Ne6 Rhc8 20. Qg4 g6
21. Ng5+ Ke8 22. Rxe7+ Kf8 23. Rf7+ Kg8 24. Rg7+ Kh8 25. Rxh7+
{And black resigned at this point. As Steinitz demonstrated
immediately afterward, there is a mate in ten moves which can
only be averted by ruinous loss of material; analysis follows:
...Kh8 25. Rxh7+ Kg8 26. Rg7+ Kh8 27. Qh4+ Kxg7 28. Qh7+ Kf8
29. Qh8+ Ke7 30. Qg7+ Ke8 31. Qg8+ Ke7 32. Qf7+ Kd8 33. Qf8+
Qe8 34. Nf7+ Kd7 35. Qd6#} 1-0

[Event "Hastings"]
[Site "Hastings ENG"]
[Date "1895.08.07"]
[EventDate "1895.08.05"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Carl Schlechter"]
[Black "Emanuel Lasker"]
[ECO "B34"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "101"]

1. e4 {Notes by H. N. Pillsbury} c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4
4. Nxd4 g6 5. Nxc6 {Although this line of play has been
adopted by Lasker himself with considerable success, it is
probably premature, owing to the strengthening of Black's
center pawns. 5 Be3 is more usual and more correct.} bxc6 {In
an exhibition game played in New York, Lasker, as second
player, retook here with the queen's pawn, allowing the
exchange of queens, and relied upon his end game ability to
outplay his opponent, and was successful. It is not, however,
as good as the text.} 6. Qd4 f6 7. Bc4 e6 8. O-O Nh6 9. Nc3
Nf7 10. Be3 Bg7 11. Rad1 O-O 12. Qd2 f5 13. exf5 {This still
more strengthens Black's already formidable center. Probably
best now was 13 f3 d5 14 exd5 cxd5 15 Bb3 Ba6 16 Rfe1
retaining a pressure on the center pawns.} gxf5 14. Bd4
{Premature at least. 14 f4 d5 15 Be2 threatening Rf3-g3 was
far superior.} d5 15. Bxg7 Kxg7 16. Be2 e5 17. Na4 Qf6 18. Nc5
f4 19. f3 Bf5 20. Bd3 Rae8 21. Rde1 Re7 22. Rf2 Nd6 23. Qc3
Bg6 24. Rfe2 Rfe8 25. Bxg6 hxg6 26. Nd3 Nc4 27. Nf2 Ne3
28. Nd1 d4 29. Qd3 e4 30. fxe4 Rxe4 31. Nxe3 fxe3 32. Rf1 Rf4
33. Rxf4 Qxf4 {Black has managed his center attack in capital
style, and obtained a theoretical winning position. White is
unable to stir, and although the game lasts for some time, the
issue can hardly be doubtful.} 34. Qd1 c5 35. b3 a5 36. Qe1 a4
37. Qa5 Rf8 38. Qe1 Rf5 39. Qd1 Kf6 40. Qe1 Ke6 41. Qd1 Kd5
42. h3 {This hastens the end, as Black, after judiciosly
retreating the king to avoid danger of perpetual check arising
from Qd3, etc., is enabled to put his queen on g3 and then the
game is over.} Qe4 43. Qe1 Qf4 44. Qd1 Ke5 45. Qe1 Kf6 46. Qd1
Kg7 47. Qe1 Rf6 48. Qd1 Qg3 49. Qd3 Rf2 50. Qe4 {An ingenious
attempt to draw by perpetual check if Black took the rook.}
Qf4 51. Qe7+ Kh6 {For if Re1 Black wins by either ...Rxg2+ and
...Qf2+ or by the simpler ...e2.} 0-1

[Event "Hastings"]
[Site "Hastings ENG"]
[Date "1895.08.10"]
[EventDate "1895.08.05"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Siegbert Tarrasch"]
[Black "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "72"]

1. d4 {Notes by H. N. Pillsbury} d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. Bd3 Nc6 {A
favorite idea of the Russian master, who aims to secure an
open game in this and similar variations of the queen's side
openings by advancing e5 at the earliest possible moment.}
4. f4 {Nf3 would be met by 4...Bg4 and if 5 Be2 Bxf3 6 Bxf3
e5, etc.} Nb4 5. Nf3 {5 Be2 Bf5 6 Na3 e6 7 c3 Nc6 8 Nc2 Ne4 9
Nf3 Bd6, etc., was probably a better method of procedure in
this position than the text continuation. Black's two bishops
come strongly in evidence later on, and the open c-file White
is not able to utilise.} Nxd3+ 6. cxd3 e6 7. O-O Be7 8. Nbd2
{Nc3 seems preferable.} O-O 9. Qc2 Bd7 10. Nb3 Ba4 11. Qc3 b6
12. Qe1 c5 13. Bd2 Bb5 14. Ne5 Nd7 15. Nc1 Nxe5 16. dxe5 Rc8
17. Rf2 f6 18. Bc3 d4 19. exd4 cxd4 20. exf6 Rxf6 21. Bb4 Bc5
22. Bxc5 bxc5 23. Qd2 Qd6 24. Ne2 Rcf8 25. Raf1 Qd5 26. Ng3 e5
{White has laboured under a disadvantage since the opening
owing to the weak pawn at d3, but Black up to this point has
been unable to make much out of it. With the text move he
prepares a deep trap involving the sacrifice of the exchange,
but obtains a winning superiority in pawn position.} 27. f5
{White could not afford this continuation. Better would be 27
Ne4 Rxf4 28 Rxf4 exf4 29 Rxf4 rxf4 30 Qxf4 (threatening the
check at b8) with fully an equal game.} c4 28. Ne4 cxd3
29. Nxf6+ Rxf6 30. Rc1 h6 31. Rc8+ Kh7 32. Qb4 Bc6 33. Qb8
{Rf8 was better but would not save the game either.} Rxf5
34. Rh8+ Kg6 35. Rf8 Rg5 36. R8f3 d2 0-1

[Event "Hastings"]
[Site "Hastings ENG"]
[Date "1895.08.27"]
[EventDate "1895.08.05"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "David Janowski"]
[Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[ECO "C72"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "47"]

1.e4 {Notes by H. N. Pillsbury} e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 d6
5.O-O Nge7 6.Bb3 { New but not true ; either d4 or d3 was the
correct move.} Na5 7.d4 { This and the following move should
have cost White a Piece and the game.} exd4 8.Nxd4 c5 9.Nf5
Nxf5 {Evidently a grave error ; for after Bxf5 if !0 exf5 c4
wins a clear Piece, and White obtains nothing for it.} 10.exf5
Nxb3 {Obvionsly if now c4 11 Qe2+, winning a Pawn.} 11.Re1+
Be7 12.f6 gxf6 13.axb3 d5 {Be6 seems preferable, followed soon
by Qd7.} 14.Qh5 Qd6 15.Nc3 Be6 16.Nb5 {Very pretty, winning by
force ; after this Black has no resource.} Qc6 17.Rxe6 Qxb5
18.Bh6 Kd8 19.Qxf7 Re8 20.Rae1 Qd7 21.Bg7 {!} Rc8 22.Bxf6 Bxf6
23.Qxf6+ Kc7 24.Qe5+ 1-0

[Event "Hastings"]
[Site "Hastings ENG"]
[Date "1895.08.09"]
[EventDate "1895.08.05"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Emmanuel Schiffers"]
[Black "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[ECO "C56"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "39"]

1. e4 {Notes by H. N. Pillsbury} e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6
4. d4 exd4 5. O-O Nxe4 6. Re1 d5 7. Bxd5 Qxd5 8. Nc3 Qd8
{...Qf5 9 Nxe4 Be7 10 Bg5 O-O 11 Nxd4 Qg6 leads to an equal
game. If for White 9 Rxe4+ Be7 10 Nxd4 Nxd4 11 Qxd4 Be6 and
White dare not capture the proffered pawn on account of the
following 12 Qxg7 Bf6 13 Qg3 O-O-O 14 Re1 Rhg8 15 Qf4 Rxg2+ 16
Kxg2 Qh3+ 17 Kh1 Bxc3 and wins.} 9. Rxe4+ Be6 {Very much
inferior to Be7 10 Nxd4 f5 11 Rf4 O-O 12 Nxc6 Qxd1 13 Nxd1
bxc6, etc. Black's two bishops should prove ample compensation
for the doubled pawn.} 10. Nxd4 Nxd4 11. Rxd4 Qc8 12. Bg5 f6
{This move should have cost black the game at once. Be7 was
the only resource.} 13. Qe2 {The following variation (first
pointed out by Mr. Lipschuetz, of New York) forces a winning
attack : 13 Bxf6 gxf6 14 Qh5+ Bf7 (best) 15 Re1+ Be7 16 Qh6
Qf5 (best) 17 Nb5 (not Rde4 which allows O-O-O) Qxb5 18 Qxf6
O-O 19 Rg4+ Bg6 20 Rxg6+ hxg6 21 Qxg6+ Kh8 22 Rxe7 and wins.}
Bc5 {An oversight which loses in a few moves. 13 ...Kf7 14 Re1
Bd6 (if fxg5 15 Rd8 and wins) left Black with a fairly good
game.} 14. Qb5+ c6 15. Qxc5 fxg5 16. Re1 b6 17. Qe5 {Qf5 was
more direct and decisive.} Kf7 18. Ne4 Qg8 19. Nxg5+ Kg6
20. Nxe6 1-0

[Event "Hastings"]
[Site "Hastings ENG"]
[Date "1895.09.02"]
[EventDate "1895.08.05"]
[Round "21"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Amos Burn"]
[Black "Emanuel Lasker"]
[ECO "D40"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "40"]

1.d4 {Notes by H. N. Pillsbury} d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 c5
5.e3 {In a game between Blackburne and Showalter the former
here continued Bg5.} Nc6 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bd3 a6 8.dxc5 Bxc5
9.O-O O-O 10.Bd2 Re8 11.Rc1 Ba7 12.Ne2 {It would he better to
prevent the pinning by h3; Black has much the freer position
of Pieces, fully compensating for the isolated Pawn.} Bg4
13.Bc3 { Ng3 at once was the correct move, and would have
prevented the formation of the attack which ensues.} Ne4
14.Ng3 Nxf2 {This pretty sacrifice leads to fine
complications, but there appears to be a flaw in it.} 15.Rxf2
Rxe3 16.Nf5 {Why not simply Be2? If in answer i6...Qb6 then 17
Nd4, or if 16...Bxf3 17 Bxf3 Qb6 18 Qf1. White appears to
retain at least the exchange ahead in all variations.} Rxf3
{Black now demolishes the opposing position with a few well
chosen, timely strokes.} 17.gxf3 Bxf5 18.Bxf5 Qg5+ 19.Bg4 h5
20.Qd2 Be3 0-1

[Event "Chicago"]
[Site "Chicago"]
[Date "1904.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Dodge"]
[Black "Jay R Houghteling"]
[ECO "D08"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "32"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. e3 exd4 4. Qxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Qd1 Bf5
7. f3 Nb4 8. Qa4+ Qd7 9. Qxd7+ Kxd7 10. e4 dxe4 11. fxe4 Nxe4
12. Rb1 Nc2+ 13. Kd1 Nf2+ 14. Ke2 Bc5 15. Nf3 Bd3+ 16. Kd2
Be3# 0-1

[Event "Nuremberg"]
[Site "Nuremberg GER"]
[Date "1896.07.25"]
[EventDate "1896.07.20"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Rudolf Rezso Charousek"]
[Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[ECO "C33"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bb4 6.O-O O-O 7.e5
Ne8 8.Nd5 Ba5 9.d4 d6 10.Bxf4 Bg4 11.exd6 Nxd6 12.Bb3 Nf5
13.c3 Nh4 14.Qe1 Bxf3 15.gxf3 Ng6 16.Qg3 Nxf4 17.Nxf4 Ne7
18.Rae1 c6 19.Qg5 Ng6 20.Qxd8 Bxd8 21.Nxg6 hxg6 22.Re4 Bf6
23.Rfe1 Rfd8 24.Kf2 b5 25.Rd1 a5 26.a4 Rab8 27.Rd2 b4 28.c4 c5
29.d5 g5 30.Bd1 b3 31.Rd3 Rb4 32.Rxb3 Bd4+ 33.Rxd4 Rxb3
34.Bxb3 cxd4 35.Bd1 Re8 36.f4 gxf4 37.Bg4 {37.d6!!} g6 38.c5
f5 39.d6 Kf7 40.Be2 Rc8 0-1

[Event "Nuremberg"]
[Site "Nuremberg GER"]
[Date "1896.07.22"]
[EventDate "1896.07.20"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Emanuel Lasker"]
[ECO "C07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "88"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. dxc5 Bxc5 5. Nb3 Bb6 6. exd5
Nf6 7. Bb5+ Bd7 8. Bxd7+ Qxd7 9. c4 exd5 10. c5 Bc7 11. Nf3
Nc6 12. O-O O-O 13. Nbd4 Nxd4 14. Qxd4 Rfe8 15. Be3 Re4
16. Qd3 Rae8 17. Rfd1 h6 18. a3 Qg4 19. b4 g5 20. Qc3 Qf5
21. Qd3 Qg6 22. Qb5 Qh5 23. Qxb7 Bxh2+ 24. Nxh2 Rh4 25. f3
Rxh2 26. Qc7 Rh1+ 27. Kf2 Qh4+ 28. Qg3 Qxg3+ 29. Kxg3 Rxd1
30. Rxd1 Rxe3 31. Rc1 Ne8 32. a4 Ra3 33. b5 Rxa4 34. Rb1 Rc4
35. b6 axb6 36. cxb6 Rc8 37. Kg4 Nd6 38. Kh5 Kg7 39. b7 Rb8
40. Rb6 Nf5 41. f4 gxf4 42. Kg4 Ne3+ 43. Kxf4 Nc4 44. Rb4 Kf6
0-1

[Event "Nuremberg"]
[Site "Nuremberg GER"]
[Date "1896.07.29"]
[EventDate "1896.07.20"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "Emanuel Lasker"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "99"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. dxc5 Nc6
7. a3 Nxc5 8. b4 Nd7 9. Bd3 a5 10. b5 Ncb8 11. Nf3 Nc5 12. Be3
Nbd7 13. O-O g6 14. Ne2 Be7 15. Qe1 Nb6 16. Nfd4 Bd7 17. Qf2
Nba4 18. Rab1 h5 19. b6 Nxd3 20. cxd3 Bxa3 21. f5 gxf5 22. Nf4
h4 23. Ra1 Be7 24. Rxa4 Bxa4 25. Ndxe6 fxe6 26. Nxe6 Bd7
27. Nxd8 Rxd8 28. Bc5 Rc8 29. Bxe7 Kxe7 30. Qe3 Rc6 31. Qg5+
Kf7 32. Rc1 Rxc1+ 33. Qxc1 Rc8 34. Qe1 h3 35. gxh3 Rg8+
36. Kf2 a4 37. Qb4 Rg6 38. Kf3 a3 39. Qxa3 Rxb6 40. Qc5 Re6
41. Qc7 Ke7 42. Kf4 b6 43. h4 Rc6 44. Qb8 Be8 45. Kxf5 Rh6
46. Qc7+ Kf8 47. Qd8 b5 48. e6 Rh7 49. Ke5 b4 50. Qd6+ 1-0

[Event "Nuremberg"]
[Site "Nuremberg GER"]
[Date "1896.08.08"]
[EventDate "1896.07.20"]
[Round "18"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Emanuel Lasker"]
[Black "Siegbert Tarrasch"]
[ECO "C68"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "81"]

1.e4 {Notes by Dr. Tarrasch.} e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 {If
White can do this with impunity, (as indeed seems likely), a6
would be a pointless move.} dxc6 5.Nc3 Bc5 6.d3 Bg4 7.Be3 Qd6
8.Bxc5 Qxc5 9.Qd2 {!} Bxf3 {? A grievous misjudgement,
bringing disadvantage to Black. f6 was indicated.} 10.gxf3 Ne7
11.O-O-O Ng6 12.Qe3 {!} Qxe3+ {Not good because it strengthens
White's center. But after 12...Qe7 Black could not have
castled Q side on account of Qa7, whereas castling K-side
would have been dangerous on account of the open g-file. Black
is paying the penalty of his mistake on the 9th move.} 13.fxe3
Rd8 14.Ne2 f6 15.Rhg1 Kf7 {Castling was preferable.} 16.Rdf1
Rhe8 17.Ng3 Nf8 18.f4 c5 {The game is untenable. Black tries
to provide against 19 fxe5 Rxe5 20 d4 followed by e5; but
there is even worse to come.} 19.Nh5 g6 20.fxe5 {! To take the
Knight would allow a mate in 2.} Rxe5 21.Nxf6 Kg7 22.Rf2 h5
23.Nd5 c6 24.Nf4 c4 25.Rfg2 Rd6 26.h4 cxd3 27.cxd3 Kf7 28.Rg5
Rxg5 29.Rxg5 Rf6 30.e5 Rf5 31.Rxf5+ gxf5 32.d4 {Better than
Nxh5 which would be good enough too.} Ke7 33.Kd2 c5 34.Kd3
cxd4 35.exd4 Kd8 36.d5 Kd7 37.Kd4 Kc7 38.b4 Kd7 39.Kc5 Kc7
40.d6+ Kd7 41.Kd5 1-0

[Event "ch city"]
[Site "Brooklyn"]
[Date "1897.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Frank James Marshall"]
[Black "Hermann Helms"]
[ECO "C44"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 d5 4.Qa4 f6 5.Bb5 Nge7 6.O-O a6 7.exd5
axb5 8.Qxa8 Nxd5 9.b4 Bd6 10.Qa3 O-O 11.d3 h6 12.Be3 b6 13.Qb3
Be6 14.Na3 Qe8 15.Qc2 Nce7 16.d4 Bf5 17.Qb3 e4 18.Nh4 Be6
19.g3 f5 20.Qc2 g5 21.Ng2 f4 22.Bd2 f3 23.Qxe4 Bh3 24.Ne3 Nf4
25.gxf4 Rxf4 26.Nd5 Rxe4 27.Nf6+ Kf7 28.Nxe8 Kxe8 29.Nxb5 Rg4+
30.Kh1 Bg2+ 31.Kg1 Bxh2+ 32.Kxh2 Rh4+ 33.Kg3 Nf5# 0-1

[Event "Pillsbury - Showalter US Championship"]
[Site "Brooklyn, New York USA"]
[Date "1897.03.06"]
[EventDate "1897.02.10"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Jackson Whipps Showalter"]
[Black "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "45"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Ba4
exd4 7. c3 dxc3 8. Nxc3 Be7 9. Nd5 O-O 10. Re1 Bf6 11. Bf4 Ne8
12. Rxe8 Qxe8 13. Nxc7 Qe4 14. Bd6 Rb8 15. Bc2 Qg4 16. Bxf8
Kxf8 17. Qd6+ Be7 18. Re1 g6 19. Qd2 Qh5 20. Nd5 Bd8 21. Qc3
f6 22. Nxf6 Ba5 23. Nxd7+ 1-0

[Event "Berlin"]
[Site "Berlin GER"]
[Date "1897.09.28"]
[EventDate "1897.09.13"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Rudolf Rezso Charousek"]
[Black "Emmanuel Schiffers"]
[ECO "B45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "95"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. a3 Be7
7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxd5 exd5 11. Be3 Bf6
12. Qd2 Be6 13. Rad1 Rc8 14. c3 Re8 15. f4 a6 16. Nxe6 fxe6
17. Bd3 Qe7 18. Bb6 Nb8 19. f5 Qd6 20. Bf2 Nc6 21. fxe6 Qxe6
22. Bb1 Ne7 23. Qd3 g6 24. Ba2 Kg7 25. Bd4 Nf5 26. Bf2 Qe4
27. Qxd5 Qxd5 28. Rxd5 Rc7 29. g4 Ne3 30. Re1 Nxd5 31. Rxe8
Rd7 32. Bg3 g5 33. Kf2 h6 34. Bxd5 Rxd5 35. Re2 Kf7 36. Ke3
Ke6 37. Rd2 Rb5 38. Kd3 Rd5+ 39. Kc2 Rb5 40. Rd6+ Ke7 41. b4
Be5 42. Bxe5 Rxe5 43. Rxh6 Re2+ 44. Kb3 Kf7 45. a4 b5 46. a5
Kg7 47. Rxa6 Rxh2 48. Rb6 1-0

[Event "Match"]
[Site "Moscow RUS"]
[Date "1897.01.14"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Emanuel Lasker"]
[ECO "D60"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "126"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Qb3 Nbd7
7. Nf3 c6 8. Bd3 dxc4 9. Bxc4 b5 10. Be2 a6 11. a4 b4 12. Nb1
c5 13. Nbd2 Bb7 14. a5 cxd4 15. exd4 Nd5 16. Be3 Bd6 17. Nc4
Bc7 18. Bg5 f6 19. Bd2 Qe7 20. Ne3 Rab8 21. Bc4 Rfd8 22. O-O
Nf8 23. Rfe1 Qf7 24. Nf1 Kh8 25. Ng3 Bxg3 26. hxg3 Ng6 27. Qd3
Rd6 28. Re2 Bc8 29. Ne1 Qd7 30. Nc2 e5 31. Rae1 Bb7 32. Qb3
Bc6 33. Nxb4 Nxb4 34. Bxb4 Rxd4 35. Qc3 Bxg2 36. Kxg2 Qc6+
37. Re4 Rxe4 38. Rxe4 Qxe4+ 39. Kg1 Qb7 40. Bc5 Rd8 41. Be2 e4
42. b4 Ne5 43. Be3 Nd3 44. Bb6 Rc8 45. Qd4 h6 46. Kh2 Ne5
47. Qd1 Rc3 48. Qd6 Nf3+ 49. Kg2 Qf7 50. g4 Qa2 51. Bf1 Nh4+
52. Kg1 Rc1 53. Be3 Nf3+ 54. Kg2 Rxf1 55. Qxa6 Rg1+ 56. Kh3
Qd5 57. Qc8+ Kh7 58. a6 Rh1+ 59. Kg2 Rg1+ 60. Kh3 Rh1+ 61. Kg2
Nh4+ 62. Kxh1 Qd1+ 63. Kh2 Qf1 0-1

[Event "Corresp"]
[Site "Romania"]
[Date "1898.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Jules Sachetti"]
[Black "Victor Costin"]
[ECO "C14"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "53"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e5 Nfd7 6.Bxe7 Qxe7
7.Qd2 O-O 8.Nd1 c5 9.c3 f6 10.f4 fxe5 11.fxe5 cxd4 12.cxd4 Nc6
13.Ne2 Nb6 14.Ne3 Bd7 15.O-O-O Na4 16.g3 b5 17.Nf4 a6 18.h4 g6
19.Ng4 Be8 20.Bh3 Nd8 21.Rdf1 Ra7 22.Nf6+ Kh8 23.h5 g5 24.Ng6+
hxg6 25.hxg6 Kg7 26.Bf5 Bxg6 27.Bxg6 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1898.06.15"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "114"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c6 4. Nf3 Nd7 5. e4 dxe4 6. Nxe4 Ngf6
7. Bd3 Nxe4 8. Bxe4 Bb4+ 9. Bd2 Bxd2+ 10. Qxd2 O-O 11. O-O Qf6
12. Rfe1 Rd8 13. Rad1 Nf8 14. c5 Bd7 15. Ne5 Be8 16. Re3 Ng6
17. Bxg6 hxg6 18. Nc4 Rd5 19. Nd6 b6 20. b4 Rd8 21. Rd3 Qe7
22. Qe3 Qc7 23. f4 Qd7 24. Rf1 Qc7 25. Rf3 a5 26. Nc4 bxc5
27. bxc5 Rb8 28. Nb6 Rdd8 29. Ra3 Rxb6 30. cxb6 Qxb6 31. Rf1
Rxd4 32. Rxa5 c5 33. Ra8 Kf8 34. Qh3 Ke7 35. Qh4+ f6 36. Qh8
Rd8 37. Qxg7+ Bf7 38. Rxd8 c4+ 39. Kh1 Qxd8 40. Rb1 c3 41. f5
c2 42. Rg1 Qd1 43. fxg6 Qxg1+ 44. Kxg1 c1=Q+ 45. Kf2 Qc2+
46. Ke3 Qxg6 47. Qxg6 Bxg6 48. a4 Be8 49. a5 Bc6 50. g4 Kd6
51. h4 e5 52. h5 Ke7 53. a6 Kf7 54. Kf2 Kg7 55. Kg3 Kh6
56. Kh4 Bd5 57. a7 Ba8 0-1

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1898.06.14"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[Black "Horatio Caro"]
[ECO "C29"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "71"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. d3 Bb4 5. fxe5 Nxe4 6. dxe4
Qh4+ 7. Ke2 Bxc3 8. bxc3 Bg4+ 9. Nf3 dxe4 10. Qd4 Bh5 11. Ke3
Bxf3 12. Bb5+ c6 13. gxf3 Qh6+ 14. Kxe4 Qg6+ 15. Ke3 cxb5
16. Ba3 Nc6 17. Qd5 Qxc2 18. Rac1 Qf5 19. Rhe1 Rd8 20. Qxb5 a6
21. Qb1 Qg5+ 22. f4 Qg2 23. Bd6 Qh3+ 24. Ke4 f5+ 25. Kd5 Qg2+
26. Kc4 b5+ 27. Kd3 Qf3+ 28. Kc2 Qf2+ 29. Kb3 Rc8 30. Rc2 Qxf4
31. Kb2 Na5 32. Ka1 Qc4 33. e6 Nc6 34. Qd1 h5 35. Rg1 Rh7
36. Rxg7 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1898.06.20"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "Siegbert Tarrasch"]
[ECO "C80"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "99"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5
7. Bb3 d5 8. a4 b4 9. a5 Nxd4 10. Nxd4 exd4 11. Qxd4 c6
12. Nd2 Ng5 13. Ba4 Bd7 14. Re1+ Ne6 15. Nf3 Be7 16. Qg4 O-O
17. Ne5 Qc7 18. Bf4 Bd6 19. Bg3 f5 20. Qd1 Nc5 21. Nxd7 Qxd7
22. Qxd5+ cxd5 23. Bxd7 Bxg3 24. Bc6 Bd6 25. Bxd5+ Kh8
26. Bxa8 Rxa8 27. Rad1 Bf8 28. Rd4 g6 29. Red1 Nb7 30. Rd7 Rb8
31. R1d5 Kg8 32. Kf1 Nc5 33. Ra7 Rc8 34. g3 Bg7 35. b3 Bf8
36. h4 Rc6 37. Rd8 Rf6 38. Rb8 f4 39. Rb6 Rf5 40. g4 Rd5
41. Kg2 Rd4 42. Rb8 Rd7 43. Rxd7 Nxd7 44. Rb7 Nc5 45. Rxb4 Bd6
46. Rb6 Be7 47. b4 Na4 48. Rxa6 Bxb4 49. Ra8+ Kf7 50. a6 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1898.06.17"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "David Janowski"]
[ECO "D63"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "89"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Rc1 Nbd7 7.Nf3
b6 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Bd3 Bb7 10.O-O c5 11.Qe2 c4 12.Bb1 a6 13.Ne5
b5 14.f4 h6 15.Bh4 Re8 16.Rf3 Ne4 17.Bxe7 Qxe7 18.Bxe4 dxe4
19.Rg3 Nf6 20.a4 b4 21.Nd1 c3 22.bxc3 bxc3 23.Rxc3 Rec8 24.Ng4
Nxg4 25.Qxg4 f6 26.h4 Rxc3 27.Nxc3 Rc8 28.Ne2 f5 29.Qxf5 Rc2
30.Qg4 Bc8 31.f5 Qf7 32.Nf4 Bxf5 33.Qd1 Qc4 34.Qh5 Rc1+ 35.Kh2
Qf7 36.Qxh6 Kf8 37.Qd6+ Kg8 38.h5 Kh7 39.Rg5 Bd7 40.Qg6+ Qxg6
41.hxg6 Kg8 42.Rd5 Be8 43.Rd8 Kf8 44.Nd5 Rc6 45.Ra8 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1898.07.06"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[Round "25"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[ECO "C62"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. Nc3 Bd7 5. d4 Nf6 6. Bxc6
Bxc6 7. Qd3 exd4 8. Nxd4 Bd7 9. O-O Be7 10. b3 O-O 11. Bb2 c6
12. Rad1 Qc7 13. Rfe1 Rfe8 14. Nde2 Rad8 15. Nf4 Bf8 16. Qg3
Kh8 17. f3 Qa5 18. Nce2 Ng8 19. a3 Ne7 20. b4 Qb6+ 21. Kh1 Ng6
22. Nh5 Qb5 23. Nef4 a5 24. Nxg6+ hxg6 25. Nf6 gxf6 26. Qh4+
Kg8 27. Bxf6 Bg7 28. Bxd8 axb4 29. Rxd6 Be6 30. axb4 Qxb4
31. Red1 Qc3 32. Be7 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1898.07.12"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[Round "29"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "Joseph Henry Blackburne"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "59"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nbd7 5.Bc4 h6 6.Be3 c6 7.Qe2
Qc7 8.a4 exd4 9.Nxd4 Ne5 10.Bb3 Bg4 11.f3 Bh5 12.g4 Bg6 13.Nf5
Bxf5 14.gxf5 g5 15.fxg6 Nxg6 16.O-O-O O-O-O 17.Bxa7 d5 18.exd5
Nf4 19.Qf2 N6xd5 20.Nxd5 cxd5 21.Bb6 Qe5 22.Rhe1 Qg5 23.Kb1
Bd6 24.Bxd8 Rxd8 25.a5 Bb4 26.a6 bxa6 27.c3 Ba5 28.Qa7 Qf6
29.Re7 Qc6 30.Ba4 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1898.07.11"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[Round "28"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Jackson Whipps Showalter"]
[Black "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "60"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d4 Nxe4 5. dxe5 d5 6. O-O
Bc5 7. Nbd2 O-O 8. Qe2 Nxd2 9. Qxd2 Ne7 10. Qc3 Bb6 11. Bg5 c6
12. Bd3 h6 13. Bh4 Qc7 14. a4 a5 15. Rfe1 Nf5 16. Bxf5 Bxf5
17. Bg3 Qe7 18. Qd2 Be4 19. c3 f6 20. exf6 Qxf6 21. Ne5 Rad8
22. Kh1 Bxf2 23. Ng4 Bxg2+ 24. Kxg2 Qf3+ 25. Kh3 Rf5 26. Re5
Rxe5 27. Nxe5 Qh5+ 28. Kg2 Bxg3 29. hxg3 Qxe5 30. Re1 Qf5 0-1

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1898.06.11"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Carl Schlechter"]
[Black "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "196"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 Nc6 4. Nf3 Bc5 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be3 Bxe3
7. fxe3 Na5 8. Bb3 Ng4 9. Qd2 Nxb3 10. axb3 f5 11. exf5 Bxf5
12. e4 Bd7 13. h3 Nf6 14. O-O O-O 15. Qe3 a6 16. Nd2 Be6
17. Rf2 Nh5 18. Rxf8+ Qxf8 19. Ne2 Qe7 20. b4 Rf8 21. Rf1
Rxf1+ 22. Nxf1 b6 23. Nfg3 Nf6 24. Nc3 c5 25. bxc5 dxc5
26. Qg5 Qd6 27. Nf5 Bxf5 28. Qxf5 b5 29. Kh1 g6 30. Qf3 Kg7
31. Nd5 a5 32. Nc3 Qc6 33. Nd5 a4 34. c3 Qd6 35. Nxf6 Qxf6
36. Qd1 Qf2 37. Qa1 Qe3 38. Qa3 Kf6 39. c4 bxc4 40. dxc4 Qc1+
41. Kh2 Qxc4 42. Qf3+ Ke7 43. Qg4 Qf1 44. Qc8 Qf4+ 45. Kh1
Qxe4 46. Qxc5+ Kf6 47. Qf8+ Kg5 48. Qe7+ Kh6 49. Qf8+ Kg5
50. Qe7+ Kh6 51. Qf8+ Kg5 52. Qe7+ Kf4 53. Qh4+ Ke3 54. Qe1+
Kd4 55. Qc3+ Kd5 56. Qa5+ Ke6 57. Qa6+ Kf7 58. Qa7+ Kg8
59. Qe7 Qf4 60. Qd7 h5 61. Qb7 Qd4 62. Kh2 e4 63. Qe7 e3
64. h4 Qxb2 65. Qxe3 Qb8+ 66. g3 Qb2+ 67. Kg1 Qb1+ 68. Kh2
Qc2+ 69. Kg1 Kf7 70. Kh1 Kf6 71. Kg1 Kf5 72. Qg5+ Ke6 73. Qa5
Kd6 74. Kh1 Kc6 75. Qd8 Kb5 76. Qb8+ Kc4 77. Qc7+ Kb3 78. Qb6+
Ka2 79. Qe6+ Ka1 80. Qe3 Qb2 81. Kg1 a3 82. Kh1 a2 83. Kg1 Kb1
84. Qe4+ Qc2 85. Qb4+ Kc1 86. Qf4+ Qd2 87. Qc4+ Kd1 88. Qa4+
Ke2 89. Qa6+ Ke3 90. Qe6+ Kd4 91. Qd6+ Kc3 92. Qa3+ Kc4
93. Qa4+ Kc5 94. Qa7+ Kd6 95. Qb8+ Ke7 96. Qe5+ Kf7 97. Qc7+
Kg8 98. Qc4+ Kg7 0-1

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1898.07.04"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[Round "23"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "Alexander Halprin"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "77"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Ba4 e4
7. Re1 Be7 8. Ne5 O-O 9. Nc3 Bg5 10. Nxe4 Bxc1 11. Rxc1 Nxe4
12. Rxe4 Nxe5 13. dxe5 Qg5 14. f4 Qg6 15. Qd4 c5 16. Qe3 d5
17. exd6 Qxd6 18. c4 b6 19. Re5 g6 20. Bc2 Bb7 21. Rd1 Qf6
22. f5 Rad8 23. Rf1 g5 24. Re7 Bc6 25. b3 Rfe8 26. Rxe8+ Rxe8
27. Qf2 Qc3 28. f6 Qe3 29. Rd1 Qxf2+ 30. Kxf2 h6 31. Bf5 Kf8
32. Kg3 Be4 33. Bxe4 Rxe4 34. Rd8+ Re8 35. Rxe8+ Kxe8 36. Kg4
Kd7 37. Kh5 Ke6 38. Kxh6 Kxf6 39. g4 1-0

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1898.07.11"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[Round "28"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[Black "Joseph Henry Blackburne"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "90"]

1.e4 e6 2.Qe2 b6 3.Nc3 Bb7 4.Nh3 Nc6 5.d3 g6 6.Bg5 Be7 7.Qd2
Bxg5 8.Nxg5 Qe7 9.f4 O-O-O 10.O-O-O f6 11.Nf3 Nh6 12.d4 d5
13.e5 f5 14.Bb5 a6 15.Be2 Nf7 16.h3 h5 17.Rhg1 Rdg8 18.g3 Kb8
19.Kb1 Ka7 20.Ka1 Nb8 21.Rb1 Nd7 22.b4 b5 23.a4 c6 24.Qc1 Ra8
25.a5 Rag8 26.Na2 g5 27.Qe3 Nf8 28.Nc1 h4 29.gxh4 gxf4 30.Qf2
Rxg1 31.Qxg1 Rh6 32.Nd3 Ng6 33.h5 Nh4 34.Nxh4 Qxh4 35.Qg7 f3
36.Bxf3 Qxd4+ 37.Rb2 Nd6 38.Qxh6 Nc4 39.Qf4 Qc3 40.h6 c5 41.h7
cxb4 42.h8=Q b3 43.Qf8 bxc2 44.Qc5+ Ka8 45.Qfd4 Qxa5+ { 46.Ra2
Qe1+ 47.Nxe1 c1=Q# } 0-1

[Event "Vienna"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1898.07.13"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[Round "30"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[Black "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[ECO "C31"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1. f4 e5 2. e4 d5 3. exd5 e4 4. Bb5+ c6 5. dxc6 bxc6 6. Bc4
Nf6 7. d4 Bd6 8. Ne2 O-O 9. O-O c5 10. d5 Nbd7 11. Bb3 c4
12. Bxc4 Bc5+ 13. Kh1 Nb6 14. Bb3 Ng4 15. Qe1 Nxd5 16. h3 Nde3
17. Bxe3 Nxe3 18. Nbc3 Nxf1 19. Nxe4 Bb6 20. Qxf1 Bb7 21. N2c3
Qh4 22. Nd5 Rae8 23. Ng5 h6 24. Nf3 Qg3 25. Ne5 Be3 26. Nd3
Re4 27. Qf3 Qxf3 28. gxf3 Ree8 29. Kg2 Bd4 30. c3 Bxd5
31. Bxd5 Re2+ 32. Kg3 Rd2 33. cxd4 Rxd3 34. Rc1 Rxd4 35. Rc5
Rd8 36. Bc4 Rd2 37. b4 g6 38. b5 Kg7 39. a4 h5 40. a5 h4+ 0-1

[Event "New York blitz"]
[Site "New York blitz"]
[Date "1898.??.??"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Fitzgerald"]
[Black "Sam Loyd"]
[ECO "C39"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "52"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ng5 h5 6. Bc4 Qe7
7. Nxf7 Qxe4+ 8. Qe2 Qxe2+ 9. Kxe2 Rh7 10. Ng5 Re7+ 11. Kf2
g3+ 12. Kf3 b5 13. Bxg8 d5 14. Kxf4 Re2 15. Bf7+ Kd8 16. Bxh5
Bd6+ 17. Kf3 Rf2+ 18. Ke3 d4+ 19. Kxd4 Nc6+ 20. Kd5 Nb4+
21. Kd4 c5+ 22. Kc3 Nd5+ 23. Kd3 Bf5+ 24. Ne4 Be5 25. c3 c4+
26. Kc2 Ne3# 0-1

[Event "London"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1899.07.06"]
[EventDate "1899.05.30"]
[Round "27"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Wilhelm Steinitz"]
[Black "Emanuel Lasker"]
[ECO "C29"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "60"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. d3 Nc6 5. fxe5 Nxe5 6. d4 Ng6
7. exd5 Nxd5 8. Nxd5 Qxd5 9. Nf3 Bg4 10. Be2 O-O-O 11. c3 Bd6
12. O-O Rhe8 13. h3 Bd7 14. Ng5 Nh4 15. Nf3 Nxg2 16. Kxg2
Bxh3+ 17. Kf2 f6 18. Rg1 g5 19. Bxg5 fxg5 20. Rxg5 Qe6 21. Qd3
Bf4 22. Rh1 Bxg5 23. Nxg5 Qf6+ 24. Bf3 Bf5 25. Nxh7 Qg6
26. Qb5 c6 27. Qa5 Re7 28. Rh5 Bg4 29. Rg5 Qc2+ 30. Kg3 Bxf3
0-1

[Event "blindfold simul"]
[Site "Philadelphia"]
[Date "1900.04.28"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "Charles John Newman"]
[ECO "D53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "39"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Nf3 b6
7. cxd5 exd5 8. Bb5 Bb7 9. Ne5 O-O 10. Bc6 Rb8 11. Bxb7 Rxb7
12. Nc6 Qe8 13. Nxe7+ Qxe7 14. Nxd5 Qe4 15. Nxf6+ gxf6 16. Bh6
Qxg2 17. Kd2 Qxf2+ 18. Kc1 Kh8 19. Rg1 Ne5 20. dxe5 1-0

[Event "Rio de Janeiro"]
[Site "Rio de Janeiro BRA"]
[Date "1900.02.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Joao Caldas Vianna"]
[Black "Augusto Silvestre Paes de Barros"]
[ECO "C52"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "65"]

1.e4 {Notes by Roberto Grau} e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4
5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.O-O d6 8.Qb3 Qf6 9.e5 dxe5 10.Re1 Bd7
11.Bg5 Qf5 12.Nxe5 Nxe5 13.f4 f6 14.Qxb7 Rd8 15.fxe5 fxg5
16.Rf1 Qxe5 17.Nd2 Ne7 18.Rae1 Qc5 19.Bf7+ Kf8 20.Bg6+ Bf5
21.Bxf5 Nxf5 22.Ne4 Qb6 23.Rxf5+ Kg8 {Right now, Caldas Vianna
finds a notable move, of problem, which creates many
difficulties for Silvestre; study the position, before
continuing with the reading, to see if you find the idea of
the master; white pieces must take advantage of the defective
position of the black King; the first check can be fatal for
the black pieces; and this allows Caldas Vianna do the
following beautiful move} 24.Nd6 {Protects the Q, who cannot
be captured, because after 24...Qxb7 25.Nxb7, the white gains
a piece; black cannot do 24...Rxd6 because 25.Re8# ; black
cannot take the P because 25.Qd5 or 25.Qf7#; black Q cannot
take the white N: 25.Qb3+ Qd4 26.Qxd4 Rxd4 27.Re8# ; thus,
there is a perfect spiral of mates born of the unpleasant
situation of the black King. But, in fact, white pieces want
to give a check with the Q in d5, and, therefore, pose a
barrier to the Knight.} 24...dxc3+ 25.Kh1 h6 26.Qd5+ Kh7
27.Qe4 {Threatening an exposed check} 27...Kg8 28.Qe6+ Kh7
29.Rf6 {Threatening 30.Rxh6+ and 31.Qf7#} 29...Rhf8 30.Qf5+
Kg8 31.Rxf8+ Rxf8 32.Qxf8+ Kxf8 33.Re8# 1-0

[Event "RUS-ch02"]
[Site "Moscow RUS"]
[Date "1901.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[Black "Emmanuel Schiffers"]
[ECO "A07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "103"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 e6 4.Qe2 Be7 5.g3 d5 6.d3 Nf6 7.Bg2
dxe4 8.dxe4 e5 9.O-O O-O 10.Be3 Nd4 11.Bxd4 cxd4 12.Nd1 Bg4
13.Qb5 Bxf3 14.Bxf3 Qc7 15.c3 Rfd8 16.cxd4 Rxd4 17.Nc3 a6
18.Qb3 Rb4 19.Qc2 Rd8 20.Rac1 Rc4 21.Qe2 Rdd4 22.Rcd1 b5
23.Rxd4 Rxd4 24.Rd1 Rxd1+ 25.Nxd1 g6 26.a4 Qc6 27.axb5 axb5
28.Kg2 b4 29.Ne3 Qc5 30.Qd3 Qc1 31.Nc4 Kg7 32.Qb3 Nd7 33.Bg4
Nc5 34.Qxb4 h5 35.Be2 Qc2 36.Qd2 Qxe4+ 37.f3 Qf5 38.b4 Nb3
39.Qb2 Nd4 40.b5 Bf6 41.Ne3 Qd7 42.Bc4 Nxf3 43.Nd5 Ne1+ 44.Kf1
Nd3 45.Qe2 Qf5+ 46.Kg2 e4 47.b6 Nc5 48.Qe3 Bg5 49.Qxc5 Qf3+
50.Kg1 e3 51.Qd4+ Kh7 52.Qb2 1-0

[Event "Capablanca - Corzo"]
[Site "Habana CUB"]
[Date "1901.12.11"]
[EventDate "1901.11.17"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Jose Raul Capablanca"]
[Black "Juan Corzo"]
[ECO "A83"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "117"]

1. d4 f5 2. e4 fxe4 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 c6 5. Bxf6 exf6 6. Nxe4
d5 7. Ng3 Qe7+ 8. Qe2 Qxe2+ 9. Bxe2 Bd6 10. Nf3 O-O 11. O-O
Bg4 12. h3 Bxf3 13. Bxf3 Bxg3 14. fxg3 Nd7 15. Rfe1 Rae8
16. Kf1 f5 17. Rxe8 Rxe8 18. Re1 Rxe1+ 19. Kxe1 Nf6 20. Kd2
Ne4+ 21. Ke3 Nd6 22. Be2 Kf7 23. Kf4 Kf6 24. h4 g6 25. g4 h6
26. g5+ hxg5+ 27. hxg5+ Ke7 28. g4 fxg4 29. Bd3 Nf5 30. Kxg4
Nxd4 31. Bxg6 c5 32. Kh5 Ne6 33. Kh6 Kf8 34. Bf5 Ng7 35. Bc8
b6 36. g6 d4 37. b3 Kg8 38. a4 Kf8 39. Bg4 Ne8 40. Kh7 Ng7
41. Kh6 Ne8 42. Be2 Ng7 43. Bc4 Ne8 44. Kg5 Ke7 45. Kf5 Ng7+
46. Ke5 Nh5 47. Be2 Ng7 48. Kd5 Ne8 49. Kc6 Ng7 50. Kb7 Kd6
51. Kxa7 Kc7 52. Ka6 Ne8 53. Bf3 Ng7 54. Bd5 Ne8 55. Bf7 Ng7
56. Kb5 Nf5 57. a5 Nd6+ 58. Ka6 bxa5 59. g7 1-0

[Event "Capablanca - Corzo"]
[Site "Habana CUB"]
[Date "1901.11.23"]
[EventDate "1901.11.17"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Juan Corzo"]
[Black "Jose Raul Capablanca"]
[ECO "C49"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "136"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bb4 5.O-O O-O 6.d3 d6 7.Bg5
Ne7 8.Ne2 Ng6 9.c3 Ba5 10.Ng3 h6 11.Bxf6 Qxf6 12.Nh5 Qe7 13.h3
c6 14.Bc4 Be6 15.Nd2 Qg5 16.Bxe6 fxe6 17.Qg4 Qxg4 18.hxg4 Bc7
19.Nf3 Rae8 20.g5 hxg5 21.Nxg5 Nf4 22.Nxf4 exf4 23.f3 e5
24.Rad1 c5 25.Kf2 Bd8 26.Nh3 b5 27.Ke2 Bb6 28.Rh1 Rf6 29.Rh2
Rh6 30.Rdh1 Ree6 31.Nf2 Rxh2 32.Rxh2 Rh6 33.Rxh6 gxh6 34.Nh3
Kg7 35.c4 bxc4 36.dxc4 Kg6 37.Kf2 Ba5 38.Ke2 Kh5 39.Nf2 Kg5
40.a3 h5 41.Nd3 Kh4 42.b4 Bb6 43.Nb2 Kg3 44.Kf1 h4 45.Na4 cxb4
46.axb4 h3 47.gxh3 Kxf3 48.c5 dxc5 49.Nxc5 Kg3 50.Nd3 Bd4
51.b5 Kxh3 52.Ke2 Kg3 53.Ne1 Kg4 54.Nf3 Bc3 55.Kf2 Bd4+ 56.Ke2
Kg3 57.Ne1 Ba1 58.Nf3 Bc3 59.Ng5 f3+ 60.Nxf3 Kf4 61.Kf2 Kxe4
62.Ng5+ Kd3 63.Kf3 Kc4 64.Ne4 Bd4 65.Nd6+ Kc5 66.Nc8 Kxb5
67.Ke4 a5 68.Nd6+ Kb4 0-1

[Event "USA tour sim"]
[Site "Manhattan CC USA"]
[Date "1901.05.03"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Emanuel Lasker"]
[Black "James Moore Hanham"]
[ECO "C30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "34"]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Nf3 d6 4.Nc3 Nd7 5.Bc4 c6 6.d3 Qe7 7.Qe2
Ngf6 8.f5 h6 9.Be3 b5 10.Bb3 a5 11.a3 Ba6 12.O-O Bxe3+ 13.Qxe3
Nc5 14.Ba2 Qa7 15.Rad1 Ng4 16.Qe2 Nxd3+ 17.Kh1 Ndf2+ 0-1

[Event "Monte Carlo"]
[Site "Monte Carlo MNC"]
[Date "1903.02.26"]
[EventDate "1903.02.10"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "Richard Teichmann"]
[ECO "C43"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 Nxe4 4.Bd3 d5 5.Nxe5 Nc6 6.Nxc6 bxc6
7.Qe2 Be7 8.Bxe4 dxe4 9.Qxe4 O-O 10.O-O Rb8 11.Re1 Bd6 12.Nd2
Rb5 13.Nf3 Rh5 14.Bf4 f5 15.Qe3 g5 16.Bxg5 Bxh2+ 17.Nxh2 Rxg5
18.Nf3 Rg7 19.Qe5 f4 20.Re4 Bg4 21.Ne1 Bd7 22.Rxf4 Re8 23.Qh5
Re6 24.g3 Qe7 25.Nd3 Rg5 26.Qh4 Qg7 27.Re1 Rh6 28.Re7 Qxe7
29.Qxh6 Bf5 30.Ne5 Bg6 31.Qh4 Kg7 32.Rg4 Rxe5 33.dxe5 Qxe5
34.Rd4 1-0

[Event "Monte Carlo"]
[Site "Monte Carlo MNC"]
[Date "1903.02.17"]
[EventDate "1903.02.10"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[Black "Frank James Marshall"]
[ECO "D45"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "126"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Ne4 5.e3 e6 6.Bd3 f5 7.Ne5 Qh4
8.Qc2 Nd7 9.O-O Bd6 10.f4 g5 11.Nf3 Qh5 12.Bxe4 fxe4 13.Nxg5
Nf6 14.Qe2 Qg6 15.c5 Bc7 16.Kh1 h6 17.Nh3 Rg8 18.Bd2 b6 19.b4
bxc5 20.bxc5 Ba6 21.Qf2 Bxf1 22.Rxf1 Rb8 23.Bc1 Ba5 24.Nd1 Kd7
25.Rg1 Qh5 26.Qc2 Rg7 27.Ndf2 Rbg8 28.Qd1 Qxd1 29.Nxd1 Rb8
30.g3 Ng4 31.Rg2 Rb1 32.Rc2 Rg8 33.Kg2 Bd2 34.Bxd2 Rxd1 35.Rb2
Rb8 36.Rxb8 Rxd2+ 37.Kg1 Rd1+ 38.Kg2 Nxe3+ 39.Kf2 Ng4+ 40.Kg2
Rd2+ 41.Kg1 e3 42.Rb1 e2 43.Nf2 e1=Q+ 44.Rxe1 Nxf2 45.Re5 Ng4
46.Rh5 Rxa2 47.h3 Ne3 48.g4 Rg2+ 49.Kh1 Rf2 50.Rxh6 Rxf4
51.Rh7+ Kd8 52.g5 a5 53.g6 Nf5 54.g7 Nxg7 55.Rxg7 Rxd4 56.Ra7
a4 57.Kg2 Rc4 58.Ra5 Ke7 59.Kg3 Kf6 60.h4 Kf5 61.Ra6 Rxc5
62.Rxa4 Rc3+ 63.Kh2 Rc4 0-1

[Event "Monte Carlo"]
[Site "Monte Carlo MNC"]
[Date "1904.02.29"]
[EventDate "1904.02.08"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Frank James Marshall"]
[Black "Theodor von Scheve"]
[ECO "C39"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6 6. Bc4 d5
7. exd5 Bd6 8. O-O Bxe5 9. Re1 Qe7 10. c3 f3 11. d4 Ne4
12. Rxe4 Bh2+ 13. Kxh2 Qxe4 14. g3 O-O 15. Bd3 Qxd5 16. c4 Qh5
17. Nc3 c6 18. Ne4 f5 19. Nd6 f4 20. Qe1 fxg3+ 21. Qxg3 Nd7
22. Bg5 f2 23. Bf5 Nb6 24. Nxc8 Raxc8 25. Be6+ Rf7 26. Rf1 Re8
27. Bxf7+ Qxf7 28. Qxg4 Qg6 29. Rxf2 Nxc4 30. h5 Re4 31. Bh6
1-0

[Event "Unknown"]
[Site "Unknown"]
[Date "1904.??.??"]
[EventDate "1904.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "William Ewart Napier"]
[Black "NN"]
[ECO "C39"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "33"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ng5 h6 6. Nxf7 Kxf7
7. d4 d5 8. Bxf4 Bg7 9. Nc3 dxe4 10. Bc4+ Kg6 11. h5+ Kh7
12. Nxe4 Qxd4 13. Bd3 Bf5 14. Qxg4 Qd7 15. Qg6+ Bxg6 16. Ng5+
hxg5 17. hxg6# 1-0

[Event "Cambridge Springs"]
[Site "Cambridge Springs, PA USA"]
[Date "1904.04.26"]
[EventDate "1904.04.25"]
[Round "2.7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Frank James Marshall"]
[Black "Harry Nelson Pillsbury"]
[ECO "B08"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "45"]

1.d4 d6 2.e4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Bg7 5.e5 dxe5 6.fxe5 Nd5 7.Nf3
Nc6 8.Bc4 e6 9.Bg5 Nxc3 10.bxc3 Ne7 11.O-O h6 12.Bf6 Bxf6
13.exf6 Nf5 14.Qe2 Qxf6 15.g4 Nd6 16.Ne5 Qe7 17.Bd3 O-O 18.Rf2
Kg7 19.Raf1 Bd7 20.Rf6 Rg8 21.Nxg6 Qxf6 22.Rxf6 Kxf6 23.Qe5#
1-0

[Event "Barmen Meisterturnier A"]
[Site "Barmen GER"]
[Date "1905.08.15"]
[EventDate "1905.08.14"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Geza Maroczy"]
[Black "Hugo Suechting"]
[ECO "D61"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "95"]

1. d4 {Notes by Nimzowitsch} d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7
5. e3 Nbd7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Qc2 c6 8. a3 Nh5 {Hardly in place;
better was ...Re8 or ...h6.} 9. h4 f5 {...f6 would be answered
by Bd3!} 10. Be2 Ndf6 11. Ne5 {!} Bd7 12. Qd1 Be8 13. c5
{Weaving the chain.} Qc7 14. b4 a5 15. g3 {! No one knows
better than Maroczy how to prevent freeing moves (here
...f4).} axb4 16. axb4 Rxa1 17. Qxa1 Ne4 18. g4 {!} Nxc3
19. Qxc3 Nf6 20. Bf4 {! Threatens Ng6 and thus gains time for
g5.} Qc8 21. g5 Nd7 22. Nd3 {! The exchange would make it more
difficult to breakthrough.} Bf7 23. Kd2 Bd8 24. Ra1 {Only now
does play begin in the real theater. The idea is naturally
attack on the base (P at c6) by b5.} Bc7 25. Ra7 Re8 26. Bxc7
Qxc7 27. f4 {Stops all attempts to break through by ...e5.}
Rb8 28. b5 {At last!} Qc8 {Or 28...cxb5 29.Nb4 etc.} 29. b6 {!
With this White transfers the attack to the new base, the P at
b7. Play against the base P at c6 would have been pursued by
29 Nb4 followed by, say, Qa3-a4; but the transference of the
attack to Black's b7 is still stronger, and above all
safer. Suechting is now helpless.} Be8 30. Nc1 Nf8 31. Nb3 e5
{The only way of saving the b-Pawn, otherwise there would have
come 32 Na5 33 Nxb7 and if 33...Rxb7 34 Ba6.} 32. dxe5 Ne6
33. Bd3 {!} g6 34. h5 Bf7 35. Na5 Nd8 36. e6 {Our sacrificing
advance of the unblockaded passed Pawn. The pieces to the rear
come to life.} Qxe6 37. h6 d4 38. Qxd4 Qa2+ 39. Ke1 Ne6
40. Qe5 Re8 41. Nxb7 Qb3 42. Be2 Qb1+ 43. Kf2 Qh1 44. Nd6 Qh4+
45. Kg2 Nxf4+ 46. Qxf4 Bd5+ 47. Bf3 Bxf3+ 48. Kxf3 1-0

[Event "Barmen Meisterturnier B"]
[Site "Barmen GER"]
[Date "1905.08.22"]
[EventDate "1905.08.14"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Alfred Ehrhardt Post"]
[Black "Aron Nimzowitsch"]
[ECO "D07"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "196"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Bg4 3. c4 Nc6 4. cxd5 Bxf3 5. gxf3 Qxd5 6. e3
e5 7. Nc3 Bb4 8. Bd2 Qd7 9. d5 Nce7 10. Qb3 Bxc3 11. Bxc3 Qxd5
12. Qxd5 Nxd5 13. Bxe5 f6 14. Bd4 Nge7 15. Rg1 O-O 16. Bc4 Kh8
17. Bc5 Rfe8 18. O-O-O Nb6 19. Bf7 Rf8 20. Bh5 g6 21. Bxe7 Rf7
22. Bxg6 hxg6 23. Bb4 Kg7 24. Rd4 c5 25. Bxc5 Rc8 26. b4 Nd7
27. Kb1 Nxc5 28. bxc5 Rxc5 29. Rdg4 Rb5+ 30. Ka1 g5 31. h4 Rc7
32. hxg5 Rc2 33. gxf6+ Kf7 34. Rb1 Ra5 35. Rxb7+ Kxf6 36. Rf4+
Ke6 37. a4 Rxf2 38. Rb2 Rf1+ 39. Ka2 Re5 40. Re2 Kd5 41. Kb2
Kc5 42. Kc3 Rc1+ 43. Kd2 Ra1 44. Rg4 Rf5 45. Rf2 Re5 46. e4
Kd4 47. Rg7 Ra2+ 48. Ke1 Rxa4 49. Re2 Rh5 50. Rd7+ Kc4
51. Rc2+ Kb3 52. Rcd2 Ra1+ 53. Ke2 a5 54. Rb7+ Kc3 55. Rc7+
Kb3 56. Kd3 Rf1 57. Rb7+ Ka3 58. Ke3 a4 59. Kf4 Rh4+ 60. Kg5
Rxf3 61. Kxh4 Rf4+ 62. Kg3 Rf3+ 63. Kg4 Rf4+ 64. Kg5 Rf5+
65. Kg6 Rf6+ 66. Kg7 Rg6+ 67. Kh8 Rg8+ 68. Kh7 Rh8+ 69. Kg6
Rh6+ 70. Kf5 Rf6+ 71. Kg5 Rf5+ 72. Kg6 Rf6+ 73. Kg7 Rg6+
74. Kh8 Rg8+ 75. Kh7 Rh8+ 76. Kg6 Rh6+ 77. Kg5 Rg6+ 78. Kf4
Rg4+ 79. Kf3 Rf4+ 80. Ke2 Rxe4+ 81. Kd1 Re1+ 82. Kc2 Rc1+
83. Kd3 Rc3+ 84. Kd4 Rc4+ 85. Kd5 Rc5+ 86. Kd6 Rc6+ 87. Kd7
Rb6 88. Rc7 Rb2 89. Rd4 Rb8 90. Rcc4 Ra8 91. Rb4 Ra6 92. Ke7
Ra7+ 93. Ke6 Ra6+ 94. Ke5 Ra5+ 95. Ke4 Ra6 96. Kd3 Ra8 97. Kc2
Rc8+ 98. Kb1 Rb8 1/2-1/2

[Event "Barmen Main A, GER"]
[Site "Barmen GER"]
[Date "1905.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Frederik Benima"]
[Black "Wilhelm Kunze"]
[ECO "D53"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "33"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 Nbd7 6. cxd5
exd5 7. Nf3 c6 8. Bd3 O-O 9. Rc1 Re8 10. Bb1 Nf8 11. Ne5 h6
12. h4 hxg5 13. hxg5 N6h7 14. Bxh7+ Nxh7 15. Qh5 Bf5 16. Qxf7+
Kh8 17. Qxf5 1-0

[Event "St.Petersburg+++"]
[Site "St.Petersburg+++"]
[Date "1905.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Mikhail Chigorin"]
[Black "Semion Alapin"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "134"]

1. e4 e6 2. Qe2 Be7 3. b3 d5 4. Bb2 Nf6 5. Nc3 O-O 6. Nf3 c5
7. d3 Nc6 8. Qd2 a6 9. Be2 b5 10. exd5 exd5 11. O-O Bf5
12. Nd1 d4 13. c3 Qd6 14. cxd4 Nxd4 15. Nxd4 cxd4 16. Bf3 Rac8
17. Re1 Rfd8 18. Be4 Be6 19. g3 Qb4 20. Qe2 Rc2 21. Qf1 Qd2
22. Bf3 Rxb2 23. Re2 Qxd3 24. Rxe6 Qxf1+ 25. Kxf1 Rxf2+
26. Nxf2 fxe6 27. Rc1 Nd5 28. Rc6 Rd6 29. Bxd5 exd5 30. Rxd6
Bxd6 31. Ke2 Kf7 32. Nd3 a5 33. Kf3 Ke6 34. h3 Kf5 35. Ne1 Bb8
36. g4+ Kg5 37. Nd3 Bd6 38. Kg2 h5 39. gxh5 Kxh5 40. Ne1 Bb8
41. Kf3 Kg5 42. Ng2 Bc7 43. Ne1 Bd8 44. Ng2 Bc7 45. Ne1 Bf4
46. Nd3 Bd2 47. Kg3 Bb4 48. Kg2 Bd6 49. Kf3 Kh4 50. Kg2 Bg3
51. Nc1 g5 52. Ne2 Be5 53. Nc1 Bf4 54. Nd3 Bg3 55. Nc1 g4
56. hxg4 Kxg4 57. Ne2 d3 58. Nxg3 Kf4 59. Nf1 Ke4 60. Kf2 Kd4
61. Ne3 Kc3 62. Nxd5+ Kc2 63. Ne3+ Kb2 64. Ke1 Kxa2 65. Kd2
Kxb3 66. Kxd3 a4 67. Nc2 a3 0-1

[Event "Ostend"]
[Site "it"]
[Date "1906.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Amos Burn"]
[Black "Frank James Marshall"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "80"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c5 3.c3 e6 4.Bf4 Nc6 5.e3 Nf6 6.Nbd2 Bd6 7.Bg3
O-O 8.Bd3 Re8 9.Ne5 Bxe5 10.dxe5 Nd7 11.f4 c4 12.Bc2 Qb6
13.Kf2 Qxb2 14.Rc1 Qxa2 15.Qe2 f5 16.exf6 Nxf6 17.Bh4 Rf8
18.Bxf6 Rxf6 19.Nf3 Qa3 20.Bxh7+ Kxh7 21.Ng5+ Kg8 22.Qh5 Ne5
23.Qh7+ Kf8 24.Qh8+ Ke7 25.Qxg7+ Kd6 26.Kg3 Nd7 27.e4 Kc6
28.e5 Qf8 29.exf6 Qxf6 30.Qg8 Nc5 31.Qe8+ Bd7 32.Qxa8 e5
33.Nh3 Qg6+ 34.Kf2 Nd3+ 35.Kf1 Nxc1 36.Nf2 Qc2 37.g3 Nd3
38.Qxa7 d4 39.Nxd3 Bh3+ 40.Ke1 cxd3 0-1

[Event "Lodz"]
[Site "Lodz POL"]
[Date "1907.12.26"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Georg Rotlewi"]
[Black "Akiba Rubinstein"]
[ECO "D32"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "50"]

1.d4 {Notes by Carl Schlechter and Dr. Savielly Tartakower.}
d5 2.Nf3 e6 3.e3 c5 4.c4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.dxc5 {Tartakower:
Less consistent than 6.a3 or 6.Bd3, maintaining as long as
possible the tension in the center.} Bxc5 7.a3 a6 8.b4 Bd6
9.Bb2 O-O 10.Qd2 {? Schlechter: A very bad place for the
queen. The best continuation is 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Be2, followed
by O-O. *** Tartakower: Loss of time. The queen will soon have
to seek a better square (14.Qe2). The most useful move is
10.Qc2.} Qe7 {! Schlechter: A fine sacrifice of a pawn. If
11.cxd5 exd5 12.Nxd5? Nxd5 13.Qxd5 Rd8! and Black has a strong
attack.} 11.Bd3 {Schlechter: Better was 11.cxd5 exd5 12.Be2.}
dxc4 12.Bxc4 b5 13.Bd3 Rd8 14.Qe2 Bb7 15.O-O Ne5 {!
Schlechter: Introduced by Marshall and Schlechter in a similar
position with opposite colors, but here with the extra move
Rd8.} 16.Nxe5 Bxe5 {Tartakower: Threatening to win a pawn by
17...Bxh2+ 18.Kxh2 Qd6+. White's next move provides against
this, but loosens the kingside defenses.} 17.f4 Bc7 18.e4 Rac8
19.e5 Bb6+ 20.Kh1 Ng4 {!} 21.Be4 {Schlechter: There is no
defense; e.g., 21.Bxh7+ Kxh7 22.Qxg4 Rd2 etc.; or 21.h3 Qh4
22.Qxg4 Qxg4 23.hxg4 Rxd3, threatening ...Rh3 mate and
...Rxc3; or 21.Qxg4 Rxd3 22.Ne2 Rc2 23.Bc1 g6! threatening
...h5; or 21.Ne4 Qh4 22.h3 (if 22.g3 Qxh2+ 23.Qxh2 Nxh2 and
wins.) 22....Rxd3 23.Qxd3 Bxe4 24.Qxe4 Qg3 25.hxg4 Qh4+ mate.}
Qh4 22.g3 {Schlechter: Or 22.h3 Rxc3! 23.Bxc3 Bxe4 24.Qxg4
Qxg4 25.hxg4 Rd3 wins. *** Tartakower: The alternative 22.h3,
parrying the mate, would lead to the following brilliant lines
of play: 22...Rxc3! (an eliminating sacrifice, getting rid of
the knight, which overprotects the bishop on e4) 23.Bxc3 (or
23.Qxg4 Rxh3+ 24.Qxh3 Qxh3+ 25.gxh3 Bxe4+ 26.Kh2 Rd2+ 27.Kg3
Rg2+ 28.Kh4 Bd8+ 29.Kh5 Bg6+ mate) 23...Bxe4+ 24.Qxg4 (if
24.Qxe4 Qg3 25.hxg4 Qh4+ mate) 24...Qxg4 25.hxg4 Rd3 with the
double threat of 26...Rh3+ mate and 26....Rxc3, and Black
wins. Beautiful as are these variations, the continuation in
the text is still more splendid.} Rxc3 {!!} 23.gxh4 Rd2 {!!}
24.Qxd2 Bxe4+ 25.Qg2 Rh3 {!} 0-1

[Event "Karlsbad"]
[Site "Karlsbad CZE"]
[Date "1907.09.07"]
[EventDate "1907.??.??"]
[Round "14"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Milan Vidmar"]
[Black "Richard Teichmann"]
[ECO "D63"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "57"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Nf3 O-O
7. Rc1 b6 8. cxd5 exd5 9. Bd3 Bb7 10. O-O c5 11. Bb1 Ne4
12. Bf4 Nxc3 13. Rxc3 c4 14. Kh1 b5 15. g4 b4 16. Rc1 a5
17. Rg1 Re8 18. Rg3 Nf8 19. Rh3 Ra6 20. Ne5 Bd6 21. Qc2 Bxe5
22. Bxe5 Rxe5 23. dxe5 d4+ 24. f3 dxe3 25. Rd1 Qc7 26. Kg1 Rg6
27. Qe2 Rxg4+ 28. fxg4 Qc6 29. Rxe3 1-0

[Event "Karlsbad"]
[Site "Karlsbad CZE"]
[Date "1907.09.12"]
[EventDate "1907.??.??"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Carl Schlechter"]
[Black "Aron Nimzowitsch"]
[ECO "C77"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "64"]

1. e4 {Notes by Nimzowitsch} e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4
Nf6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Nd5 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 d6 9. Nxf6+ Bxf6
10. c3 h6 {Black decides on a waiting policy.} 11. h3 Ne7
12. d4 Ng6 13. Be3 Kh7 {Black still marks time.} 14. Qd2 Be6
15. Bc2 Qe7 16. d5 {White had done better to mark time also;
the text move would have a meaning only if it were introducing
an attack against the Q side, (c4, and b4). But he intends to
operate on the K wing, and for this d5, is a bad preparation.}
Bd7 17. Kh2 Nh8 {A preventive move directed against White's
plan of Ng1, and f4.} 18. Ng1 g5 19. g3 Ng6 20. Qd1 Bg7
21. Qf3 a5 {Again preventive play. This time the possibility
of c4, and b4, is to be anticipated.} 22. Ne2 Bb5 23. a4 Bd7
{It is achieved; the White Q side has lost all momentum and
the action just mentioned, to be initiated by c4, and b4, is a
thing of the past.} 24. Rh1 {With this move White plans to
break through eventually with h4, e.g. : 24...b6 25 h4 gxh4 26
gxh4 Nxh4 27 Qh5 f5 28 Kg1, etc. But Black discovers a move,
which not only has a high preventive value, but which also has
the attribute of driving the opponent into quick action.} Qe8
{! The threat is ...Qc8; e.g. ...Qc8, h4 ...Bg4, winning a
knight. White, therefore, has no further time for preparations
and opens the battle for a breakthrough.} 25. h4 Qc8
{Threatening ...Bg4.} 26. Bd3 Bg4 27. Qg2 gxh4 28. f3 h3
29. Qf1 {The breakthrough looks like it is succeeding, for if
now ...Bd7, then g4 followed by Qxh3 with a winning attack.}
f5 {The counter-stroke, long since prepared, which decides the
battle for Black.} 30. fxg4 fxe4 31. Qxh3 exd3 {Only now can
the full effect of 28...h3 be discerned. By this move the
white queen was forced from g2 to f1 into the range of the
Black rook.} 32. Bxh6 Rh8 {This game is noteworthy on account
of the comprehensive prophylaxis employed; preventive measures
were taken against c4 and b4 as well as against f4 and later
on h4. A few words about the charachteristics of the
preventive moves selected ; the waiting policy by 10...h6 is
typical of this style of play, for waiting moves form the
beginning of all prophylactic manouvers. The fact that the
preventive move 24 ...Qe8 contains a threat at the same time
by no means detracts from its purity in a prophylaxis, in
which part of the plan is to drive the opponent to acceerated
action.} 0-1

[Event "Moscow m (02)"]
[Site "Moscow RUS"]
[Date "1908.10.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Benjamin Markovich Blumenfeld"]
[Black "Alexander Alekhine"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nd7 4. b3 c6 5. Bb2 Qc7 6. Nbd2 Ne7
7. Be2 Ng6 8. O-O Be7 9. a4 O-O 10. Nc4 Rd8 11. Qc1 Nf4
12. Re1 Nxe2+ 13. Rxe2 f6 14. Nh4 Nf8 15. Ne3 Ne6 16. dxe5
dxe5 17. Nhf5 Bb4 18. c3 Nf4 19. Rd2 Bxf5 20. Nxf5 Bc5 21. b4
Bf8 22. Rxd8 Rxd8 23. Qc2 Qd7 24. Rf1 Qd3 25. Qb3+ Kh8 26. Ng3
h5 27. Bc1 h4 28. Bxf4 exf4 29. Nf5 h3 30. Qe6 hxg2 31. Kxg2
f3+ 32. Kg1 Qxf1+ 33. Kxf1 Rd1# 0-1

[Event "Duesseldorf (01)"]
[Site "Duesseldorf GER"]
[Date "1908.08.14"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Edward Lasker"]
[Black "Alexander Alekhine"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "64"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nd7 4. Bc4 c6 5. c3 Ngf6 6. Qb3 Qe7
7. dxe5 Nxe5 8. Nxe5 dxe5 9. Nd2 Qc7 10. O-O Bc5 11. Qc2 O-O
12. Nb3 Bb6 13. Bg5 Ne8 14. Rad1 Nd6 15. Be2 f5 16. Nd2 f4
17. c4 Bd4 18. Nb3 c5 19. Nxd4 exd4 20. f3 Qf7 21. Bd3 h6
22. Bh4 Be6 23. Rc1 g5 24. Be1 Qg7 25. g4 Nf7 26. Kf2 Ne5
27. Rg1 Rf6 28. Ke2 h5 29. h3 hxg4 30. hxg4 Rh6 31. Rg2 Rh3
32. Rf2 Nxf3 0-1

[Event "Cafe Viktoria"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1908.02.14"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Josef Emil Krejcik"]
[Black "Konrad Krobot"]
[ECO "C22"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "53"]

1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qe3 g6 5.Bd2 Bg7 6.Nc3 Nge7
7.O-O-O O-O 8.f4 a6 9.Nf3 f5 10.Bc4+ Kh8 11.Ng5 Qe8 12.exf5
Rxf5 13.g4 Rf8 14.Qh3 h6 15.Rhg1 b5 16.Nxb5 axb5 17.Bc3 h5
18.Rd6 cxd6 19.gxh5 gxh5 20.Bxg7+ Kxg7 21.Nf7+ Ng6 22.Rxg6+
Kxg6 23.f5+ Kf6 24.Qh4+ Kxf5 25.Qg5+ Ke4 26.Nxd6+ Kd4 27.c3#
1-0

[Event "Germany, WCH"]
[Site "1"]
[Date "1908.08.17"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Emanuel Lasker"]
[Black "Siegbert Tarrasch"]
[ECO "C68"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "109"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.d4 exd4 6.Qxd4 Qxd4
7.Nxd4 c5 8.Ne2 Bd7 9.b3 Bc6 10.f3 Be7 11.Bb2 Bf6 12.Bxf6 Nxf6
13.Nd2 O-O-O 14.O-O-O Rd7 15.Nf4 Re8 16.Nc4 b6 17.a4 a5
18.Rxd7 Nxd7 19.Rd1 Ne5 20.Nxe5 Rxe5 21.c4 Re8 22.Nh5 Rg8
23.Rd3 f6 24.Kd2 Be8 25.Ng3 Bd7 26.Ke3 Re8 27.Nh5 Re7 28.g4 c6
29.h4 Kc7 30.g5 f5 31.Ng3 fxe4 32.Nxe4 Bf5 33.h5 Rd7 34.Rc3
Rd1 35.Kf4 Bd7 36.Re3 Rh1 37.Ng3 Rh4+ 38.Ke5 Rh3 39.f4 Kd8
40.f5 Rh4 41.f6 gxf6 42.Kxf6 Be8 43.Nf5 Rf4 44.g6 hxg6 45.hxg6
Rg4 46.Rxe8+ Kxe8 47.g7 Kd7 48.Nh4 Rxg7 49.Kxg7 Ke6 50.Nf3 Kf5
51.Kf7 Ke4 52.Ke6 Kd3 53.Kd6 Kc3 54.Kxc6 Kxb3 55.Kb5 1-0

[Event "Germany, WCH"]
[Site "2"]
[Date "1908.08.19"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Siegbert Tarrasch"]
[Black "Emanuel Lasker"]
[ECO "C66"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O d6 5.d4 Bd7 6.Nc3 Be7 7.Re1
exd4 8.Nxd4 O-O 9.Nxc6 Bxc6 10.Bxc6 bxc6 11.Ne2 Qd7 12.Ng3
Rfe8 13.b3 Rad8 14.Bb2 Ng4 15.Bxg7 Nxf2 16.Kxf2 Kxg7 17.Nf5+
Kh8 18.Qd4+ f6 19.Qxa7 Bf8 20.Qd4 Re5 21.Rad1 Rde8 22.Qc3 Qf7
23.Ng3 Bh6 24.Qf3 d5 25.exd5 Be3+ 26.Kf1 cxd5 27.Rd3 Qe6
28.Re2 f5 29.Rd1 f4 30.Nh1 d4 31.Nf2 Qa6 32.Nd3 Rg5 33.Ra1 Qh6
34.Ke1 Qxh2 35.Kd1 Qg1+ 36.Ne1 Rge5 37.Qc6 R5e6 38.Qxc7 R8e7
39.Qd8+ Kg7 40.a4 f3 41.gxf3 Bg5 0-1

[Event "St. Petersburg"]
[Site "St. Petersburg  RUS"]
[Date "1909.02.23"]
[EventDate "1909.02.15"]
[Round "7"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Akiba Rubinstein"]
[Black "Jacques Mieses"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "87"]

1.d4 {Notes by Dr. Emanuel Lasker.} d5 2.Nf3 c5 3.c4 Nf6
4.cxd5 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nxd5 6.e4 Nf6 {Here interesting is
6...Nc7!? The continuation 7.Bf4 Nd7 8.Bc4 e5 9.Qb3 Qf6 10.Bg3
leads to a complicated game.} 7.Nc3 e5 {?! If 7...a6 8.e5 Nd5
9.e6 and Black stands worse. The right move here is 7...e6.}
8.Bb5+ {!} Bd7 9.Nf5 Nc6 {?!} 10.Nd6+ Bxd6 11.Qxd6 Qe7
12.Qxe7+ Nxe7 13.Be3 a6 14.Bxd7+ Nxd7 15.Ke2 Rc8 16.Rhd1 Nc5
17.Bxc5 {Better was to keep the bishop; e.g., 17.Rac1 Ne6
18.Nd5, etc.} Rxc5 18.Rac1 Nc6 {A mistake. Black should play
18...Rc7 followed by ...O-O.} 19.Rd5 {!} Rxd5 {If 19...Rc4
20.b3 Rd4 21.Ke3 f6 22.Na4 Ke7 23.Nc5 Rxd5 (23...Rb8 24.Nxb7)
24.exd5 Nb4 25.d6+ with advantage for White.} 20.exd5 Nd4+
21.Kd3 Ke7 22.f4 {!} f6 23.fxe5 fxe5 24.Ke4 Kd6 25.Rf1 Rc8
26.Rf7 Rc4 27.Kd3 Rb4 28.Rxg7 {Also strong was 28.b3 and White
will win at least a pawn; for example, 28...Nb5 29.Nxb5! Rxb5
30.Rxg7 h5 31.Rh7 Rxd5+ 32.Ke3.} Rxb2 29.Rxh7 Rxg2 30.Rh6+ Kd7
31.Rh7+ Kd6 32.Rh6+ Kd7 33.Ne4 {!} Rxa2 34.Rh7+ Kd8 35.d6 Nb5
{The threat was Nf6 and Rh8+ mate.} 36.Kc4 Ra5 37.Rxb7 Na3+
38.Kb4 {!} Rb5+ 39.Rxb5 Nxb5 40.Kc5 Kd7 41.Kd5 a5 42.Nc5+ Ke8
43.Kxe5 Kf7 44.Nb7 {Rubinstein conducted the endgame of this
game with monumental mastery.} 1-0

[Event "St. Petersburg"]
[Site "St. Petersburg  RUS"]
[Date "1909.02.18"]
[EventDate "1909.02.15"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Akiba Rubinstein"]
[Black "Emanuel Lasker"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "79"]

1.d4 {Notes by Emanuel Lasker} d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Bg5 c5
5.cxd5 exd5 6.Nc3 cxd4 7.Nxd4 Nc6 {The cause for subsequent
embarrasment. 7...Be7 was preferable.} 8.e3 Be7 9.Bb5 {Showing
up the weakness of Black's 7th move.} Bd7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.Nxd5
Bxd4 12.exd4 Qg5 13.Bxc6 Bxc6 14.Ne3 O-O-O {A careless
move. There was no reason for Black to desist from his
intention of capturing the g-pawn simply because White has
omitted Qe2+. As a matter of fact, after ...Bxg2 15 Rg1 Qa5+
16 Qd2 Qxd2+ 17 Kxd2 Be4 Black would have been quite
comfortable.} 15.O-O Rhe8 16.Rc1 {! A very subtle move. What
with the threat of Rc5 and d5, White retains his advantage,
and he can certainly cope with Black's threat of ...Rxe3.}
Rxe3 17.Rxc6+ bxc6 18.Qc1 {!} Rxd4 19.fxe3 Rd7 20.Qxc6+ Kd8
21.Rf4 {! A splendid idea, threatening to decide the game at
once by Qa8+, followed by a Rook check on e4 or c4; hence,
Black is forced to swap Queens and to face a lost ending.} f5
22.Qc5 Qe7 {After 22...Rd1+ 23 Kf2 Rd2+ 24 Ke1 Qxg2 White
would win the Rook by 23 Qa5+.} 23.Qxe7+ Kxe7 24.Rxf5 Rd1+
25.Kf2 Rd2+ 26.Kf3 Rxb2 27.Ra5 Rb7 28.Ra6 Kf8 29.e4 Rc7 30.h4
Kf7 31.g4 Kf8 32.Kf4 Ke7 33.h5 h6 34.Kf5 Kf7 35.e5 Rb7 36.Rd6
Ke7 37.Ra6 Kf7 38.Rd6 Kf8 39.Rc6 Kf7 40.a3 1-0

[Event "St. Petersburg"]
[Site "St. Petersburg  RUS"]
[Date "1909.03.08"]
[EventDate "1909.02.15"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Akiba Rubinstein"]
[Black "Sergey Nikolaevich von Freymann"]
[ECO "D27"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "31"]

1.d4 {Notes by Lasker.} d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 dxc4 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4
a6 6.O-O c5 {First of all he should carry out the intention of
his last move, of playing b5, and Bb7.} 7.a4 b6 {And now it
was more important to play Be7 and Castle, than to adopt this
somewhat slow maneuver.} 8.Qe2 {White now brings a Rook
rapidly into play, attacking the little mobile Queen, and
obtains forthwith a great superiority in the center.} Bb7
9.Nc3 Nc6 10.Rd1 Qc7 11.d5 exd5 12.Bxd5 Be7 13.e4 O-O 14.e5
Ne8 15.Qe4 Na5 {Black is in difficulties as White threatens
Bf4, followed soon by e6. White's formation is
overwhelming. But by the text move Black loses immediately, as
after 16.Bxb7 Qxb7 the exhange of Queens followed by Rd7, and
after 16...Nxb7 17.Nd5 would decide the game at once.} 16.Bxb7
1-0

[Event "St. Petersburg"]
[Site "St. Petersburg  RUS"]
[Date "1909.02.28"]
[EventDate "1909.02.15"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Erich Cohn"]
[Black "Akiba Rubinstein"]
[ECO "D21"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "76"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 c5 3.c4 dxc4 4.dxc5 Qxd1+ 5.Kxd1 Nc6 6.e3 Bg4
7.Bxc4 e6 8.a3 Bxc5 9.b4 Bd6 10.Bb2 Nf6 11.Nd2 Ke7 12.Ke2 Be5
13.Bxe5 Nxe5 14.Rhc1 Rac8 15.Bb3 Rhd8 16.Nc4 Nxc4 17.Rxc4 Rxc4
18.Bxc4 Ne4 19.Ke1 Bxf3 20.gxf3 Nd6 21.Be2 Rc8 22.Kd2 Nc4+
23.Bxc4 Rxc4 24.Rc1 Rxc1 25.Kxc1 Kf6 26.Kd2 Kg5 27.Ke2 Kh4
28.Kf1 Kh3 29.Kg1 e5 30.Kh1 b5 31.Kg1 f5 32.Kh1 g5 33.Kg1 h5
34.Kh1 g4 35.e4 fxe4 36.fxe4 h4 37.Kg1 g3 38.hxg3 hxg3 0-1

[Event "St. Petersburg"]
[Site "St. Petersburg  RUS"]
[Date "1909.03.04"]
[EventDate "1909.02.15"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Akiba Rubinstein"]
[Black "Carl Schlechter"]
[ECO "D67"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "117"]

1.d4 {Notes by Dr. Emanuel Lasker.} d5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 Nf6 4.Bg5
Be7 5.Nc3 Nbd7 6.e3 c6 7.Bd3 dxc4 8.Bxc4 Nd5 9.Bxe7 Qxe7
10.O-O O-O 11.Rc1 Rd8 {?! This plan does not promise an equal
game. Better is 11...Nxc3.} 12.Qc2 Nf8 13.e4 Nb6 {?! Not a
favorable square for the knight. Better is 13...Nxc3.} 14.Bb3
Bd7 15.Ne2 {!} Be8 16.Rfd1 Rac8 17.Qc3 {!} Rc7 18.Nf4 f6
19.Qa5 {! The attack against the a-pawn is effective, because
19...Nc8 will be refuted by 20.Nxe6! On the other hand, the
promising looking move 19.d5 does not bring something decisive
after 19...exd5 20.exd5 Kh8 or, perhaps better, 19...Bf7.} g5
20.Ne2 Nc8 21.d5 {!} Rcd7 {If 21...b6 22.Qc3 exd5 23.exd5 Qxe2
24.d6+ Rf7 25.Qxf6 Rdd7 26.Re1 Qb5 27.Rxe8 Qxb3 28.Qxg5+ and
White wins.} 22.Ned4 {!} cxd5 23.exd5 Rxd5 {Loss of an
exchange was unavoidable; for instance, 23...exd5 24.Ba4 b6
(24...Rd6 25.Nf5) 25.Qa6 Rc7 (or Rb7) 26.Nf5.} 24.Bxd5 Rxd5
25.Qe1 Nd6 26.Ne2 {!} Bc6 27.Rxd5 Bxd5 28.Nfd4 e5 29.Nc3 {!}
Qf7 30.Nxd5 Qxd5 31.Nb3 b6 32.Rd1 Qc6 33.Qc3 Qxc3 34.bxc3 Ne4
35.c4 Kf7 36.Rd8 Ke7 37.Ra8 a5 38.f3 Nc3 39.c5 bxc5 40.Nxc5
Nxa2 41.Ra7+ Ke8 42.Kf2 Nb4 43.Rxa5 Kf7 44.Ke3 h5 45.Ke4 Nc6
46.Ra6 Ne7 47.g4 {!} hxg4 48.fxg4 Kg6 49.Ra7 Kf7 50.Nb7 Kg6
51.Nd6 Nc6 52.Rc7 Nd4 53.Nf5 Nxf5 54.gxf5+ Kh6 55.Kf3 Nh7
56.Kg4 e4 57.Re7 e3 58.Rxe3 Kg7 59.Re7+ {White has played the
entire game with extraordinary power, and occasionally with
subtlety.} 1-0

[Event "Wch10-GER/OST (Wien)"]
[Site "Vienna"]
[Date "1910.01.22"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Carl Schlechter"]
[Black "Emanuel Lasker"]
[ECO "C66"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "116"]

1.e4 {Notes by Jose Raul Capablanca from "The Chess Weekly",
1910.} e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O d6 5.d4 Bd7 6.Nc3 Be7
7.Bg5 O-O 8.dxe5 Nxe5 {Of course if 8...dxe5 9.Bxc6 would win
a pawn.} 9.Bxd7 Nfxd7 10.Bxe7 Nxf3+ {If 10...Qxe7 probably
11.Nxd4} 11.Qxf3 Qxe7 12.Nd5 Qd8 13.Rad1 Re8 14.Rfe1 Nb6
15.Qc3 Nxd5 16.Rxd5 Re6 17.Rd3 Qe7 18.Rg3 Rg6 19.Ree3 Re8
20.h3 Kf8 21.Rxg6 hxg6 {With every exchange Black's position
becomes better. Whatever positional advantage White had is
fast disappearing.} 22.Qb4 c6 23.Qa3 a6 24.Qb3 Rd8 25.c4 Rd7
26.Qd1 Qe5 27.Qg4 Ke8 28.Qe2 Kd8 29.Qd2 Kc7 {White, apparently
satisfied with his position has allowed the black king to move
over to the queenside, without making any attempt to stop
him. White now starts an advance of the queen side pawns,
which is checked by Black at once.} 30.a3 Re7 31.b4 b5 32.cxb5
axb5 {Black's strategy has been of a very high order. He has
now a very fine game.} 33.g3 g5 34.Kg2 Re8 35.Qd1 f6 36.Qb3
Qe6 37.Qd1 Rh8 38.g4 Qc4 39.a4 {Black's position was becoming
too alarmingly strong. White prefers to give up a pawn and go
for the Black king, rather than be boxed in without a chance
to move anything.} Qxb4 {39...bxa4, and if 40.Qxa4 Rb8, should
be considered. It looks very much as though Black would
win. The position is worth studying. By playing 40...Rb8,
Black threatens to play 41...Rxb4 and then 42...Rb1, with a
murderous check in sight at f1.} 40.axb5 Qxb5 41.Rb3 Qa6
42.Qd4 Re8 {If Black were satisfied with a draw, 42...Rb8
would have accomplished it. The champion's play is better, as
he could have drawn if he wished up to the fifty-fourth move.}
43.Rb1 Re5 44.Qb4 Qb5 45.Qe1 Qd3 46.Rb4 c5 {46...Rb5 gave
Black some chances of winning.} 47.Ra4 c4 48.Qa1 Qxe4+ 49.Kh2
Rb5 50.Qa2 Qe5+ 51.Kg1 Qe1+ 52.Kh2 d5 53.Ra8 Qb4 {He could
have easily drawn the game by perpetual check, as White could
not afford to play 54.Kg2 and 55.f3 because of 55...Qd4.}
54.Kg2 Qc5 {A most rare case of chess blindness on the part of
Dr. Lasker. 54...Rb8 would at least draw.} 55.Qa6 Rb8 {It was
bad now, but he might have tried 55...Qb6 56.Qc8+ Kd6 57.Ra6
Qxa6 58.Qxa6+ Kc5 and fight it out with the two passed pawns
and his rook against the queen.} 56.Ra7+ Kd8 57.Rxg7 Qb6
58.Qa3 Kc8 1-0

[Event "Wch10-GER/OST (Berlin)"]
[Site "Berlin GER"]
[Date "1910.02.08"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Emanuel Lasker"]
[Black "Carl Schlechter"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "141"]

1. d4 {Notes by J. R. Capablanca} d5 2. c4 c6 {2...e6 is the
usual move and I believe better than the text move.} 3. Nf3
Nf6 4. e3 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Bd3 O-O {A new and original way of
playing the defense to the Queen's Gambit so far as I know.}
7. Qc2 Na6 8. a3 dxc4 {Schlechter here goes into a series of
moves which finally leave him with a weak isolated c pawn,
which cannot possibly be so very good.} 9. Bxc4 b5 10. Bd3 b4
11. Na4 bxa3 12. bxa3 Bb7 13. Rb1 $1 Qc7 14. Ne5 {If Lasker
wanted to play a safe game he should have castled and if he
intended to make a kingside attack he might have started with
14.h4 before playing Ne5.} $2 Nh5 15. g4 {Starting an attack
on the kingside which is justified in view of the score of the
match. Lasker's policy throughout this game is good, but why
Schlechter, who only needed a draw, should play such a wild
game can only be explained by the fact that perhaps he was not
satisfied to win the match by a mere fluke, which proved to be
the case in the fifth game.} Bxe5 16. gxh5 Bg7 17. hxg6 hxg6
18. Qc4 {?} Bc8 {!} 19. Rg1 Qa5+ 20. Bd2 Qd5 21. Rc1 Bb7
22. Qc2 Qh5 23. Bxg6 {23.Qb3, I believe, was the right move
here. The text move did not turn out so well.} 23... Qxh2
24. Rf1 fxg6 25. Qb3+ Rf7 26. Qxb7 Raf8 27. Qb3 Kh8 28. f4 g5
29. Qd3 gxf4 30. exf4 Qh4+ 31. Ke2 Qh2+ 32. Rf2 Qh5+ 33. Rf3
Nc7 34. Rxc6 34... Nb5 {34...Nd5 looks a mighty strong move.}
35. Rc4 Rxf4 {A bad sacrifice. 35...e5! looks like the right
move. It seems as though Black could always draw.} 36. Bxf4
Rxf4 37. Rc8+ Bf8 38. Kf2 {?} Qh2+ 39. Ke1 Qh1+ {!} 40. Rf1
Qh4+ 41. Kd2 Rxf1 42. Qxf1 Qxd4+ 43. Qd3 Qf2+ 44. Kd1 Nd6
45. Rc5 Bh6 46. Rd5 Kg8 47. Nc5 {Lasker had fought his battle
and obtained an advantage without moving this knight for
thirty-six moves. From the 37th move, on to the finish, Lasker
plays with remarkable precision and the fact that Schlechter
held on so well shows the sterling qualities of the Austrian
master.} Qg1+ 48. Kc2 Qf2+ 49. Kb3 Bg7 50. Ne6 Qb2+ 51. Ka4
Kf7 52. Nxg7 Qxg7 53. Qb3 Ke8 54. Qb8+ Kf7 55. Qxa7 Qg4+
56. Qd4 Qd7+ 57. Kb3 Qb7+ 58. Ka2 Qc6 59. Qd3 Ke6 60. Rg5 Kd7
61. Re5 Qg2+ 62. Re2 Qg4 63. Rd2 Qa4 64. Qf5+ Kc7 {An
oversight, I suppose. Had not Schlechter allowed Lasker to
exchange queens, the doctor would have had a merry time in
forcing a win.} 65. Qc2+ Qxc2+ 66. Rxc2+ Kb7 {The game is
over. Schlechter might just as well have resigned here.}
67. Re2 Nc8 68. Kb3 Kc6 69. Rc2+ Kb7 70. Kb4 Na7 71. Kc5 {All
in all, a great game, which will go down in the history of
chess as a remarkable finish to the greatest struggle for the
Chess Championship of the World.} 1-0

[Event "Hamburg"]
[Site "Hamburg GER"]
[Date "1910.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Roesch"]
[Black "Willi Schlage"]
[ECO "C77"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "30"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Qe2 b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.c3
O-O 8.O-O d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nf4 11.Qe4 Nxe5 12.Qxa8 Qd3
13.Bd1 Bh3 {The position after 13...Bh3, and the ones that
follow, were used in Stanley Kubrick's movie "2001: A Space
Odyssey" for the game between Frank Poole and the HAL-9000
computer.} 14.Qxa6 Bxg2 15.Re1 Qf3 0-1

[Event "Hamburg"]
[Site "Hamburg GER"]
[Date "1910.07.23"]
[EventDate "1910.07.18"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Siegbert Tarrasch"]
[Black "Aron Nimzowitsch"]
[ECO "D40"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "116"]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 c5 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.O-O
O-O 8.b3 b6 9.Bb2 Bb7 10.Qe2 dxc4 11.bxc4 cxd4 12.exd4 Rc8
13.Rad1 Nb4 14.Bb1 Bxf3 15.gxf3 Bb8 16.a3 Qc7 17.f4 Qxf4 18.f3
Nc6 19.Ne4 Rfd8 20.Kh1 Ne7 21.Bc1 Qc7 22.Nxf6 gxf6 23.Qg2 Ng6
24.Ba2 Kh8 25.f4 Nh4 26.Qh3 Nf5 27.d5 Rg8 28.Bb2 Rg6 29.Rg1
R8g8 30.Rxg6 Rxg6 31.Rf1 Qc5 32.Qf3 Bd6 33.Qf2 Qxf2 34.Rxf2
Bc5 35.Rg2 Kg7 36.Rxg6 hxg6 37.Kg2 Bd4 38.Bc1 Be3 39.Bxe3 Nxe3
40.Kf3 Nf5 41.Bb1 Nd6 42.Bd3 e5 43.Kg4 f5 44.Kg3 f6 45.h4 Kf7
46.Be2 Ne8 47.Kf3 Ke7 48.Ke3 Ng7 49.Bf3 Kd6 50.Bd1 Nh5 51.fxe5
fxe5 52.Kd3 Kc5 53.a4 Nf6 54.Be2 Ne8 55.Kc3 Nd6 56.Bf1 e4
57.Kd2 f4 58.Kc3 f3 0-1

[Event "Vienna -"]
[Site "Vienna AUT"]
[Date "1910.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Richard Reti"]
[Black "Savielly Tartakower"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "21"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Qd3 e5 6. dxe5
Qa5+ 7. Bd2 Qxe5 8. O-O-O Nxe4 9. Qd8+ Kxd8 10. Bg5+ Kc7
11. Bd8# 1-0

[Event "Pernau"]
[Site "Pernau"]
[Date "1910.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Aron Nimzowitsch"]
[Black "Ryckhoff"]
[ECO "C66"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "23"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O d6 5. d4 Nxe4 6. d5 a6
7. Bd3 Nf6 8. dxc6 e4 9. Re1 d5 10. Be2 exf3 11. cxb7 Bxb7
12. Bb5# 1-0

[Event "Cologne"]
[Site "Cologne"]
[Date "1911.06.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "Sergey Nikolaevich von Freymann"]
[ECO "C66"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "63"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O d6 5. Nc3 Bd7 6. d4 exd4
7. Nxd4 Be7 8. Nxc6 Bxc6 9. Qe2 O-O 10. Bg5 Re8 11. Rfe1 h6
12. Bf4 Nd7 13. Bxc6 bxc6 14. Qc4 Bg5 15. Bg3 c5 16. Rad1 Bf6
17. b3 Ne5 18. Qe2 g6 19. Nd5 Bg7 20. Qa6 Qc8 21. Qa5 c6
22. Ne3 Rd8 23. Bh4 g5 24. Bg3 Qe6 25. Nf5 Bf8 26. Qc3 f6
27. f4 Ng6 28. Nxh6+ Bxh6 29. f5 Qe7 30. fxg6 Bf8 31. Qc4+ Kg7
32. Bxd6 1-0

[Event "Karlsbad"]
[Site "Karlsbad"]
[Date "1911.08.21"]
[EventDate "1911.08.21"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "Milan Vidmar"]
[ECO "C49"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "75"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bb4 5.O-O O-O 6.Bxc6 bxc6
7.Nxe5 Qe8 8.Ng4 Nxe4 9.Nh6+ Kh8 10.Re1 d5 11.d3 Qe5 12.dxe4
d4 13.a3 dxc3 14.axb4 cxb2 15.Nxf7+ Kg8 16.Rb1 Rxf7 17.Bxb2
Qg5 18.Qd3 Be6 19.Bd4 Rd8 20.Qe3 Qb5 21.Bxa7 Qa4 22.c3 Bc4
23.Bd4 Ra8 24.Qd2 h6 25.h3 Qb5 26.Ra1 Ra4 27.Qc2 Rxa1 28.Rxa1
Bd3 29.Ra8+ Kh7 30.Qa2 Qh5 31.Qe6 Bf1 32.Ra5 Qd1 33.Kh2 Bxg2
34.Kxg2 Qf3+ 35.Kg1 Rf4 36.Ra8 Rf7 37.Qg4 Qd3 38.Rf8 1-0

[Event "Karlsbad"]
[Site "Karlsbad"]
[Date "1911.09.09"]
[EventDate "1911.08.21"]
[Round "15"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Aron Nimzowitsch"]
[Black "Georg Salwe"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "77"]

1.e4 {Notes by Nimzowitsch} e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3
Qb6 6.Bd3 {More natural would have been 6 Be2, for the pawn at
d4 is the "base", and as such should be protected as
thoroughly as possible. Be2 "protects" more thoroughly than
Bd3.} Bd7 {A very plausible move. Since White still delays
...dxc5, Black intends his hand with ...Rc8. the right course
was 6...csd4 7 cxd4 and thus to pass into quite other
channels. See Paulsen-Tarrash, 1888 and Nimzowitsch-Tarrasch,
1912.} 7.dxc5 {!!} Bxc5 8.O-O f6 {Black swells in triumph and
throws himself hungrily on the last remaining menber of the
once so proud chain-family, top destroy him. His war cry is
"Room for the e-pawn!" But it happens quite otherwise.} 9.b4
{In order to be able to provide his e5 with an enduring
defence. 9 Qe2 would also have been a defence, but no enduring
one, for there would follow 9...fxe5 10 Nxe5 Nxe5 11 Qxe5 Nf6
and the blockading queen at e5 will be easily driven away.}
Be7 10.Bf4 fxe5 {Again we have the exchange operation which we
have so often discussed; this time however, it is not really
justified, for the new blockader, the bishop at e5, proves to
be a stout fellow.} 11.Nxe5 Nxe5 12.Bxe5 Nf6 {For the
otherwise desirable ...Bf6 would fail against 13 Qh5+ g6 14
Bxg6+ hxg6 15 Qxg6+ Ke7 16 Bxf6+ Nxf6 17 Qg7+.} 13.Nd2 {If 13
Qc2? O-O 14 Bxf6 Rxf6 15 Bxh7+ Kh8 16 Bg6 (or Bd3) e5!, White
it is true has won a pawn, but black has overcome the
blockade, and now stands ready to march in the center. White
should lose.} O-O 14.Nf3 {! The blockading forces are to be
reinforced by the knight.} Bd6 {14...Bb5 would yield little
profit, for 15 Bd4 Qa6 16 Bxb5 Qxb5 17 Ng5 would win a pawn.}
15.Qe2 {The manouver 15 Bd4 Qc7 16 Qe2 might be considered
with the intention of following with 17 Ne5. However, this
plan to widen the blockading ring is impracticable, for, after
16 Qe2 Ng4!! 17 h3 e5!, the Black pawns assert themselves
whatever counterchances be taken.} Rac8 16.Bd4 Qc7 17.Ne5 {The
immobility of the e-pawn is now greater than ever. White has
utilized his resources very economically. The possibility of a
successful occupation of the points d4, e5, hung on a hair, on
taking advantage of the terrain (the points d4, e5, c2 and
e2.} Be8 18.Rae1 Bxe5 19.Bxe5 Qc6 20.Bd4 {In order to force
Black's queen bishop, who also has his eye on h5, to come to a
decision.} Bd7 21.Qc2 {the decisive re-grouping.} Rf7 22.Re3
b6 23.Rg3 Kh8 24.Bxh7 {!} e5 {24...Nxh7 loses because of Qg6.}
25.Bg6 Re7 26.Re1 Qd6 27.Be3 d4 28.Bg5 Rxc3 29.Rxc3 dxc3
30.Qxc3 Kg8 31.a3 Kf8 32.Bh4 Be8 33.Bf5 Qd4 34.Qxd4 exd4
35.Rxe7 Kxe7 36.Bd3 Kd6 37.Bxf6 gxf6 38.Kf1 Bc6 39.h4 1-0

[Event "Karlsbad"]
[Site "Karlsbad"]
[Date "1911.08.25"]
[EventDate "1911.08.21"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Richard Teichmann"]
[Black "Akiba Rubinstein"]
[ECO "C90"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "71"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.c3 O-O 9.d3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.Nbd2 Nc6 12.a4 Bb7 13.Nf1
Qc7 14.Ng3 g6 15.Bg5 Rad8 16.axb5 axb5 17.Qc1 Rfe8 18.h3 Ra8
19.Rxa8 Rxa8 20.Nh2 Bc8 21.f4 Ne8 22.f5 Bxg5 23.Qxg5 Qe7
24.Qh6 Qf8 25.Qc1 Qg7 26.Rf1 g5 27.Ng4 Nf6 28.Nxf6+ Qxf6 29.h4
h6 30.Nh5 Qd8 31.f6 Kh7 32.hxg5 Bg4 33.Ng7 Kg6 34.Bd1 Qd7
35.Nf5 Bxf5 36.exf5 1-0

[Event "Karlsbad"]
[Site "Karlsbad"]
[Date "1911.09.11"]
[EventDate "1911.08.21"]
[Round "16"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Semion Alapin"]
[Black "Aron Nimzowitsch"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "86"]

1.e4 {Notes by Nimzowitsch.} c6 2.c4 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nbd7
5.f4 e5 6.Nf3 exd4 7.Qxd4 Nc5 {In order to tame the tiger;
'vulgo' the center, ready to spring. If 8 e5 dxe5 and White
has nothing.} 8.Bd3 Qb6 {Here ...Nxd3 came into consideration
(the "Two Bishops.")} 9.Bc2 Be7 10.O-O O-O 11.Kh1 {The taming
continues.} Rd8 12.Rb1 Be6 {This is the counter-chance; a
rolling up process sets in against c4; the reason why this
must be so lies deep : why should the White c-pawn imagine
that it could paralyse the elastic and strong Black center
(p-d6)! For this presumption it will be severely punished.}
13.f5 {A heavy surrender, for now the White center loses
considerably in mobility. Against other moves the rolling-up
process mentioned above would set in, e.g. : 13 Be3 Qa6 14 b3
b5, (or 14...d5 15 cxd5 cxd5 16 e5 Nfe4); or else 13 b4 Na6 14
Qd3 Nxb4 15 Qe2 Qc5.} Bc8 14.Bg5 Ncd7 15.Qd2 a6 16.b3 Qc7
17.Rbd1 b5 {The storm breaks.} 18.Rfe1 Ne5 19.cxb5 axb5 {That
pompous White c-pawn, has passed away, unwept, unhonoured and
unsung.} 20.Bb1 Bb7 21.Qc1 Qb6 22.h3 {Sounder would be 22 Be3
Qa5 23 Bb1.} Nxf3 {The beginning of a deep-laid combination.}
23.gxf3 Qf2 24.Qe3 Qg3 25.f4 Qxe3 26.Rxe3 h6 27.Bh4 b4 {The
last two pawn moves are the key to the combination. the White
center will now be conquered in a surprising manner.} 28.Na4
Nxe4 29.Rxe4 Bxh4 30.Rxb4 Ra7 {And with his two bishops - the
White pawn position being torn up - Black has a won game.}
31.Be4 Be7 32.Bf3 d5 33.Rbd4 Rd6 34.Kh2 Rf6 35.Bg4 Bd6 36.Rc1
h5 37.Kg3 {If 37 Bxh5, Black wins a piece by ...Rxf5 38 Bg4
Rxf4.} hxg4 38.hxg4 g5 39.fxg6 fxg6 40.g5 Rf5 41.Kf3 Ra8
42.Nc5 Bxc5 43.Rxc5 Rxa2 0-1

[Event "San Sebastian"]
[Site "San Sebastian ESP"]
[Date "1911.02.20"]
[EventDate "1911.02.20"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Jose Raul Capablanca"]
[Black "Ossip Bernstein"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "67"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Be7 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bxc6+ bxc6
7.d4 exd4 8.Nxd4 Bd7 9.Bg5 O-O 10.Re1 h6 11.Bh4 Nh7 12.Bxe7
Qxe7 13.Qd3 Rab8 14.b3 Ng5 15.Rad1 Qe5 16.Qe3 Ne6 17.Nce2 Qa5
18.Nf5 Nc5 19.Ned4 Kh7 20.g4 Rbe8 21.f3 Ne6 22.Ne2 Qxa2
23.Neg3 Qxc2 24.Rc1 Qb2 25.Nh5 Rh8 26.Re2 Qe5 27.f4 Qb5
28.Nfxg7 Nc5 29.Nxe8 Bxe8 30.Qc3 f6 31.Nxf6+ Kg6 32.Nh5 Rg8
33.f5+ Kg5 34.Qe3+ 1-0

[Event "San Sebastian"]
[Site "San Sebastian ESP"]
[Date "1911.03.03"]
[EventDate "1911.02.20"]
[Round "8"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Aron Nimzowitsch"]
[Black "Jose Raul Capablanca"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "66"]

1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. Be2 Bd6 6. O-O Qc7
7. Re1 Nge7 8. c3 O-O 9. a3 f5 10. Bf1 Bd7 11. exd5 exd5
12. b4 Rae8 13. Bb2 b6 14. d4 c4 15. Nxc4 dxc4 16. Bxc4+ Kh8
17. Ng5 Bxh2+ 18. Kh1 Bf4 19. Nf7+ Rxf7 20. Bxf7 Rf8 21. Bh5
Ng8 22. c4 Qd8 23. Qf3 Qh4+ 24. Qh3 Qxf2 25. Re2 Qg3 26. Qxg3
Bxg3 27. c5 Nce7 28. Bf3 Bb5 29. Rc2 Nf6 30. a4 Bd3 31. Rcc1
Ne4 32. b5 Rf6 33. Bxe4 Bf2 0-1

[Event "San Sebastian"]
[Site "San Sebastian ESP"]
[Date "1911.03.13"]
[EventDate "1911.02.20"]
[Round "13"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Akiba Rubinstein"]
[Black "Jose Raul Capablanca"]
[ECO "D33"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "83"]

1.d4 {Notes by Jacques Mieses and Dr. Savielly Tartakower. ***
Tartakower: In a game overflowing with the finer points of
positional play, the outstanding feature is perhaps the
problem-like turn 17.Qc1, by which White very elegantly saves
all his unguarded pieces and remains with an extra pawn.} d5
2.Nf3 c5 3.c4 e6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.g3 {Tartakower: First
introduced by Schlechter (against Dus-Chotimirsky, Prague
1908), systematized by Rubinstein, this positional maneuver
has all but refuted the Tarrasch Defense.} Be6 7.Bg2 Be7 8.O-O
Rc8 {Tartakower: Too dogmatic. Black devotes too much
attention to the queenside.} 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.Ng5 {!} Nf6
11.Nxe6 fxe6 12.Bh3 Qe7 13.Bg5 {Mieses: A good move but not
the best. Beyond any doubt, with 13.e4! White achieves an
advantage; for example, 13...d4 14.Nd5 exd5 15.Bxc8 dxe4
16.Qb3! or 13...dxe4 14.Bg5 O-O 15.Nxe4, etc.} O-O
{Tartakower: Too late, and yet - as the storm now breaks - not
late enough. Better would be 13...Rd8.} 14.Bxf6 Qxf6 {Mieses:
A mistake. In his calculation Capablanca has overlooked the
opponent's 17th move. The right continuation was
14...gxf6. *** In "Chess Fundamentals" Jose Raul Capablanca
states that he overlooked 16.Kg2! and not White's 17th move
giving the following combination: 16.Bg2 (the move Capablanca
expected) 16...Ne5! 17.Nf4 (if 17.Rc1 Qxc1!! 18.Qxc1 Bxf2+ and
wins) 17...Ng4 18.h3 (18.Nh3 Bxf2+ and Blick wins a quality)
18...Nxf2 19.Rxf2 Bxf2+ 20.Kxf2 g5 and Black wins.} 15.Nxd5
{!} Qh6 16.Kg2 Rcd8 17.Qc1 {!!} exd5 18.Qxc5 Qd2 19.Qb5
{Tartakower: Having cleverly won a pawn, White shows that he
also can hold what he has gained.} Nd4 20.Qd3 Qxd3 {Mieses:
Black cannot avoid the exchange of the queens: 20...Qxb2 loses
a piece after 21.Rbf1, and if 20...Qb4, then 21.Rfd1 followed
by Be6+.} 21.exd3 Rfe8 22.Bg4 {!} Rd6 23.Rfe1 Rxe1 24.Rxe1 Rb6
{Mieses: I don't like this move. The best seems to be
24...Kf7. *** Tartakower: Very cleverly Black obtains some
counterplay which will bring in a pawn on the Q-side.} 25.Re5
Rxb2 26.Rxd5 Nc6 27.Be6+ Kf8 28.Rf5+ Ke8 29.Bf7+ Kd7 30.Bc4 a6
31.Rf7+ Kd6 32.Rxg7 b5 33.Bg8 a5 34.Rxh7 a4 35.h4 b4 36.Rh6+
Kc5 37.Rh5+ Kb6 38.Bd5 {? All annotators agree on 38.Bc4!
being better.} b3 {? All annotators agree on 38...Rxa2 being
better. According to Vladimir Vukovic White still wins with
39.Rh8! b3 40.h5! Ra1 (if 40...Nb4 41.h6! or 40...Rc2 41.h6!
b2 42.Ba2 etc.) 41.Bxc6 Kc7 (not 41...Kxc6? 42.Rb8 Kc7 43.Rb4
and wins) 42.Be4 b2 43.d4 a3 44.Rh7+ Kd6 45.Rb7 a2 46.Rxb2
Rg1+ 47.Kxg1 a1=Q+ 48.Rb1 Qxd4 49.Bf3, and White's position is
still winning.} 39.axb3 {! Tartakower: The result of very
precise calculations. 39.Bxb3 is another way to win.} a3
40.Bxc6 {Mieses: This paradoxical capture is now feasible;
e.g., 40...a2 41.Rb5+ Ka6 [41...Kxc6 42.Ra5] 42.Rb8!, etc.}
Rxb3 41.Bd5 a2 42.Rh6+ {!} 1-0

[Event "London, England"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1912.10.29"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Edward Lasker"]
[Black "George Alan Thomas"]
[ECO "A40"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "35"]

1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 f5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Bxf6 Bxf6 6. e4
fxe4 7. Nxe4 b6 8. Ne5 O-O 9. Bd3 Bb7 10. Qh5 Qe7 11. Qxh7+
Kxh7 12. Nxf6+ Kh6 13. Neg4+ Kg5 14. h4+ Kf4 15. g3+ Kf3
16. Be2+ Kg2 17. Rh2+ Kg1 18. Kd2# 1-0

[Event "**Rd--()-, Bremen"]
[Site "**Rd--()-, Bremen"]
[Date "1912.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Carl Hartlaub"]
[Black "M W Testa"]
[ECO "C21"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "47"]

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Bc4 cxb2 5. Bxb2 Bb4+ 6. Nc3
d6 7. Nf3 Nf6 8. O-O Bxc3 9. Bxc3 O-O 10. e5 Ne4 11. Bb2 Bg4
12. Qd4 Bxf3 13. gxf3 Ng5 14. Kh1 Nxf3 15. Qd3 Nxe5 16. Rg1
Qd7 17. Qd2 Ng6 18. Qd4 Ne5 19. Rxg7+ Kxg7 20. Rg1+ Kh8
21. Qxe5+ dxe5 22. Bxe5+ f6 23. Bxf6+ Rxf6 24. Rg8# 1-0

[Event "18th DSB Kongress"]
[Site "Breslau GER"]
[Date "1912.07.20"]
[EventDate "1912.07.15"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Stefan Levitsky"]
[Black "Frank James Marshall"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "46"]

1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.Nc3 c5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.exd5 exd5 6.Be2 Nf6 7.O-O
Be7 8.Bg5 O-O 9.dxc5 Be6 10.Nd4 Bxc5 11.Nxe6 fxe6 12.Bg4 Qd6
13.Bh3 Rae8 14.Qd2 Bb4 15.Bxf6 Rxf6 16.Rad1 Qc5 17.Qe2 Bxc3
18.bxc3 Qxc3 19.Rxd5 Nd4 20.Qh5 Ref8 21.Re5 Rh6 22.Qg5 Rxh3
23.Rc5 Qg3 0-1

[Event "Janowski vs. Marshall, Match 4"]
[Site "Biarritz FRA"]
[Date "1912.09.04"]
[EventDate "1912.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "David Janowski"]
[Black "Frank James Marshall"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "44"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.c4
Bb4+ 8.Kf1 O-O 9.cxd5 Qxd5 10.Qc2 Re8 11.Nc3 Nxc3 12.bxc3 Qxf3
13.cxb4 Nc6 14.Bb2 Nxb4 15.Bxh7+ Kh8 16.gxf3 Bh3+ 17.Kg1 Nxc2
18.Bxc2 Re2 19.Rc1 Rae8 20.Bc3 R8e3 21.Bb4 Rxf3 22.Bd1 Rf6 0-1

[Event "Scheveningen"]
[Site "Scheveningen NED"]
[Date "1913.08.06"]
[EventDate "1913.07.28"]
[Round "12"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Edward Lasker"]
[Black "Fritz Englund"]
[ECO "C48"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "41"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Nd4 5.Nxe5 Qe7 6.Nf3 Nxe4
7.O-O Nxc3 8.dxc3 Nxf3+ 9.Qxf3 Qc5 10.Re1+ Be7 11.Bd3 d5
12.Be3 Qd6 13.Bf4 Qf6 14.Qxd5 c6 15.Qe4 Be6 16.Re3 Bc5 17.Be5
Qh6 18.Rg3 Bf8 19.Rd1 O-O-O 20.Qxc6+ bxc6 21.Ba6# 1-0

[Event "Mlada Boleslav-B"]
[Site "Mlada Boleslav"]
[Date "1913.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Ernst Jacobson"]
[Black "V Kornia"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "49"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+
7.Nc3 Nxe4 8.O-O Bxc3 9.d5 Bf6 10.Re1 Ne7 11.Rxe4 O-O 12.d6
cxd6 13.Qxd6 Nf5 14.Qd5 Ne7 15.Qd6 Qb6 16.Bf4 Qxd6 17.Bxd6 Re8
18.Rae1 Kf8 19.Nd4 Bxd4 20.Rxe7 Rxe7 21.Rxe7 Bxf2+ 22.Kxf2 g6
23.Rxf7+ Kg8 24.Rxd7+ Kh8 25.Be5# 1-0

[Event "Savorin Cup"]
[Site "St Petersburg RUS"]
[Date "1913.12.14"]
[EventDate "1913.12.12"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Jose Raul Capablanca"]
[Black "Alexander Alekhine"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "69"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nf3 e6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. Bd3 Be7
7. O-O O-O 8. Qc2 dxc4 9. Nxc4 c5 10. Nce5 cxd4 11. exd4 Nb6
12. Ng5 g6 13. Ngf3 Kg7 14. Bg5 Nbd5 15. Rac1 Bd7 16. Qd2 Ng8
17. Bxe7 Qxe7 18. Be4 Bb5 19. Rfe1 Qd6 20. Bxd5 exd5 21. Qa5
a6 22. Qc7 Qxc7 23. Rxc7 h6 24. Rxb7 Rac8 25. b3 Rc2 26. a4
Be2 27. Nh4 h5 28. Nhxg6 Re8 29. Rxf7+ Kh6 30. f4 a5 31. Nh4
Rxe5 32. fxe5 Kg5 33. g3 Kg4 34. Rg7+ Kh3 35. Ng2 1-0

[Event "St Petersburg nt (10)"]
[Site "St Petersburg nt (10)"]
[Date "1914.01.19"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "10"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "Aron Nimzowitsch"]
[ECO "C83"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "95"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5
7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5 Be6 9. c3 Be7 10. Nbd2 Nc5 11. Bc2 Bg4
12. Re1 O-O 13. Nb3 Ne4 14. Bf4 f5 15. exf6 Nxf6 16. Qd3 Ne4
17. Bxc7 Qd7 18. Ne5 Nxe5 19. Bxe5 Bh4 20. Bg3 Bxg3 21. hxg3
Bf5 22. Qe2 Bg4 23. Qd3 Bf5 24. Qd4 Rfd8 25. Rad1 Qc7 26. Nd2
Nxf2 27. Bxf5 Nxd1 28. Rxd1 Qxg3 29. Be6+ Kh8 30. Bxd5 Rac8
31. Ne4 Qh4 32. b3 Rc6 33. Qf2 Qh5 34. Qf3 Qxf3 35. gxf3 g6
36. Rd2 Rb6 37. c4 bxc4 38. bxc4 Rb1+ 39. Kf2 a5 40. c5 Rc1
41. c6 Kg7 42. Bc4 Rxc4 43. Rxd8 Rxc6 44. Rd7+ Kh6 45. Kg3 Rc4
46. Nf2 Kg5 47. Rd5+ Kf6 48. Rxa5 1-0

[Event "casual game"]
[Site "St. Petersburg"]
[Date "1914.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Aron Nimzowitsch"]
[Black "Semion Alapin"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "35"]

1. e4 {Notes by Nimzowitsch except where noted.} e6 2. d4 d5
3. Nc3 Nf6 4. exd5 Nxd5 {Surrender of the center} 5. Nf3 c5
{To "kill" the Pawn. "Restraint" might have been effected by,
say ...Be7, ...O-O, ...b6, ...Bb7.} 6. Nxd5 Qxd5 7. Be3 {It
was to be able to make this move, which combines development
and attack (the threat is dxc5 winning a Pawn), that White
exchanged Knights.} cxd4 {Disappearance of tempo spells loss
of time.} 8. Nxd4 a6 9. Be2 Qxg2 {Stealing a Pawn. The
consequences are grievous.} 10. Bf3 Qg6 11. Qd2 e5 {The
crisis. Black means to be rid of the unpleasant Knight, so
that he may in some measure catch up in development. [White
must have paid him a fee to play this. -- C H O'D Alexander] }
12. O-O-O {!} exd4 13. Bxd4 {White's advantage in development
is now too great.} Nc6 14. Bf6 {! Travels by express. Any
other Bishop move could have been answered by a development
move, whereas now there is no time for this; Black must take.}
Qxf6 15. Rhe1+ {Play in the King and Queen files at the same
time. The danger of a breakthrough is great.} Be7 {or 15...Be6
16.Qd7 mate!} 16. Bxc6+ Kf8 {or 16...bxc6 17.Qd8 mate.}
17. Qd8+ {!} Bxd8 18. Re8# 1-0

[Event "Naples"]
[Site "Naples"]
[Date "1914.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Siegbert Tarrasch"]
[Black "Allies"]
[ECO "A03"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1.f4 d5 2.Nf3 c5 3.e3 Nc6 4.Bb5 Bd7 5.O-O e6 6.b3 Qc7 7.Bb2 f6
8.c4 Nce7 9.Nc3 Nh6 10.Rc1 Bxb5 11.Nxb5 Qd7 12.Qe2 Nc6 13.cxd5
exd5 14.e4 O-O-O 15.e5 a6 16.Nc3 b5 17.a4 b4 18.Nd1 Kb7
19.exf6 gxf6 20.Bxf6 Re8 21.Ne3 Rg8 22.Qd3 Ng4 23.Nxg4 Qxg4
24.Rf2 Qd7 25.Ne5 Nxe5 26.Bxe5 Rc8 27.Qf3 Kb6 28.d3 Bh6
29.R2c2 d4 30.a5+ Kb5 31.Bc7 {"White's last move is one of the
most beautiful ever played on the chess-board." Reinfeld} 1-0

[Event "Mannheim 1914"]
[Site "Mannheim GER"]
[Date "1914.08.01"]
[EventDate "1914.07.20"]
[Round "11"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "Hans Fahrni"]
[ECO "C13"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "45"]

1. e4 {Notes by Richard Reti} e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5
Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4 {This ingenious method of play which has
subsequently been adopted by all modern masters is
characteristic of Alekhine's style.} Bxg5 7. hxg5 Qxg5 8. Nh3
{! The short-stepping knight is always brought as near as
possible to the actual battle field. Therefore White does not
make the plausible move 8 Nf3 but 8 Nh3 so as to get the
knight to f4.} Qe7 9. Nf4 Nf8 10. Qg4 f5 {The only move. Not
only was 11 Qxg7 threatened but also Nxd5.} 11. exf6 gxf6
12. O-O-O {He again threatens Nxd5.} c6 13. Re1 Kd8 14. Rh6 e5
15. Qh4 Nbd7 16. Bd3 e4 17. Qg3 Qf7 {Forced - the sacrifice of
the knight at d5 was threatened and after 17...Qd6 18 Bxe4
dxe4 19 Rxe4 and 20 Qg7 wins.} 18. Bxe4 dxe4 19. Nxe4 Rg8
20. Qa3 {Here, as so often happens, a surprising move and one
difficult to have foreseen, forms the kernel of an apparently
simple Alekhine combination.} Qg7 {After 20…Qe7, 21 Qa5+ b6 22
Qc3 would follow.} 21. Nd6 Nb6 22. Ne8 Qf7 {White mates in
three moves.} 23. Qd6+ 1-0

[Event "Rice Memorial"]
[Site "New York, NY USA"]
[Date "1916.02.07"]
[EventDate "1916.01.17"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Oscar Chajes"]
[Black "Jose Raul Capablanca"]
[ECO "C12"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "131"]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bb4 5.e5 h6 6.Bd2 Bxc3 7.bxc3
Ne4 8.Qg4 Kf8 9.Bc1 c5 10.Bd3 Qa5 11.Ne2 cxd4 12.O-O dxc3
13.Bxe4 dxe4 14.Qxe4 Nc6 15.Rd1 g6 16.f4 Kg7 17.Be3 Ne7 18.Bf2
Nd5 19.Rd3 Bd7 20.Nd4 Rac8 21.Rg3 Kh7 22.h4 Rhg8 23.h5 Qb4
24.Rh3 f5 25.exf6 Nxf6 26.hxg6+ Rxg6 27.Rxh6+ Kxh6 28.Nf5+
exf5 29.Qxb4 Rcg8 30.g3 Bc6 31.Rd1 Kh5 32.Rd6 Be4 33.Qxc3 Nd5
34.Rxg6 Kxg6 35.Qe5 Kf7 36.c4 Re8 37.Qb2 Nf6 38.Bd4 Rh8 39.Qb5
Rh1+ 40.Kf2 a6 41.Qb6 Rh2+ 42.Ke1 Nd7 43.Qd6 Bc6 44.g4 fxg4
45.f5 Rh1+ 46.Kd2 Ke8 47.f6 Rh7 48.Qe6+ Kf8 49.Be3 Rf7 50.Bh6+
Kg8 51.Bg7 g3 52.Ke2 g2 53.Kf2 Nf8 54.Qg4 Nd7 55.Kg1 a5 56.a4
Bxa4 57.Qh3 Rxf6 58.Bxf6 Nxf6 59.Qxg2+ Kf8 60.Qxb7 Be8 61.Qb6
Ke7 62.Qxa5 Nd7 63.Kf2 Bf7 64.Ke3 Kd6 65.Kd4 Kc6 66.Qf5 1-0

[Event "Tarnopol blindfold"]
[Site "Tarnopol UKR"]
[Date "1916.??.??"]
[EventDate "1916.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "M von Feldt"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "35"]

1. e4 {Played in the hospital of Tarnopol (Poland). Alekhine
was a driver of Red Cross vehicles and was wounded during a
rescue operation.} e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. exd5 Nxd5 {?!
4... exd5} 5. Ne4 f5 {?!} 6. Ng5 Be7 7. N5f3 c6 8. Ne5 O-O
9. Ngf3 b6 10. Bd3 Bb7 11. O-O Re8 12. c4 Nf6 13. Bf4 Nbd7
14. Qe2 c5 15. Nf7 {!!} Kxf7 {15... Bxf3 16. Qxe6} 16. Qxe6+
{!} Kg6 {16... Kxe6?? 17. Ng5#} 17. g4 {!} Be4 18. Nh4# 1-0

