The Blue Book of Chess eBook

Howard Staunton
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 393 pages of information about The Blue Book of Chess.

The Blue Book of Chess eBook

Howard Staunton
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 393 pages of information about The Blue Book of Chess.
{All this is exceedingly well played by White.} Rxc1 27.  Rxc1 Rc8 28.  Rc5 Bxe5 29. fxe5 Be6 30. a4 {The coup juste.  From this point it would not be easy to improve on White’s moves.} bxa4 31.  Bxa6 Rb8 32.  Rb5 Rd8 {Better, perhaps, to have played the Rd8 at once.} 33.  Rb6 Ra8 34.  Kd2 Bc8 35.  Bxc8 Rxc8 36.  Rb5 Ra8 37.  Rxd5 a3 38. bxa3 Rxa3 39.  Rc5 Kf8 40.  Ke2 Ke7 41. d5 Kd7 42.  Rc6 h5 43.  Rf6 Ke7 44. d6+ Ke8 45. e6 fxe6 46.  Rxe6+ Kf7 47. d7 Ra8 48.  Rd6 Ke7 49.  Rxg6 Kxd7 50.  Rg5 Rh8 51.  Kf3 Ke6 52.  Kg3 h4+ 53.  Kg4 h3 54. g3 Kf6 55.  Rh5 1-0

{PGN 84}

[Event “?”] [Site “?”] [Date “????.??.??”] [Round “?”] [White “Anderssen”] [Black “Morphy”] [Result “0-1”] [ECO “A00”] [Annotator “The Blue Book of Chess, Game XIV., p. 212.”] [PlyCount “84”]

1. a3 e5 2. c4 Nf6 3.  Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e3 Be6 6.  Nf3 Bd6 7.  Be2 O-O 8. d4 Nxc3 9. bxc3 e4 10.  Nd2 f5 11. f4 g5 12.  Bc4 Bxc4 13.  Nxc4 gxf4 14. exf4 Qe8 15.  O-O Qc6 16.  Qb3 Qd5 17.  Rb1 b6 18.  Qa2 c6 19.  Qe2 Nd7 20.  Ne3 Qe6 21. c4 Nf6 22.  Rb3 Kf7 23.  Bb2 Rac8 24.  Kh1 Rg8 25. d5 cxd5 26. cxd5 Qd7 27.  Nc4 Ke7 28.  Bxf6+ Kxf6 29.  Qb2+ Kf7 30.  Rh3 Rg7 31.  Qd4 Kg8 32.  Rh6 Bf8 33. d6 Rf7 34.  Rh3 Qa4 35.  Rc1 Rc5 36.  Rg3+ Bg7 37. h3 Kh8 38.  Rxg7 Rxg7 39.  Rc3 e3 40.  Rxe3 Rxc4 41.  Qf6 Rc1+ 42.  Kh2 Qxf4+ $19 0-1

{PGN 85}

[Event “?”] [Site “?”] [Date “????.??.??”] [Round “?”] [White “Zukertort, J. W.”] [Black “Steinitz, W.”] [Result “1-0”] [ECO “C25”] [Annotator “The Blue Book of Chess, Game XV., p. 213.”] [PlyCount “39”]

1. e4 e5 2.  Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. d4 Qh4+ 5.  Ke2 d5 {The ingenious attack instituted hereby was invented by Zukertort.} 6. exd5 Bg4+ 7.  Nf3 O-O-O 8. dxc6 Bc5 9. cxb7+ Kb8 10.  Nb5 (10. dxc5 Nf6 $1 11.  Qxd8+ {obtains three pieces for the Q., but loses the game.  Qe1, here or on the following move, offers the only defence.}) 10...  Nf6 11.  Kd3 {Zukertort’s analysis, which filled pages and pages of the Neue Berliner Schachzeitung, considered every conceivable move of White’s down to a3, but this one, upon which, in conjunction with the following K. move, Steinitz rested his gambit. 11. c3 has been refuted in an elaborate analysis by Mr. Walter Penn Shipley, of Philadelphia.} Qh5 12.  Kc3 Bxd4+ (12... a6 13.  Kb3 axb5 14. c3 Rxd4 $1 15. cxd4 Qd5+ 16.  Kc2 Bf5+ 17.  Kd2 Bb4+ 18.  Ke2 Ng4 $1 {as played by Messrs. Honegger and Raubitscheck in a consultation game against Steinitz at the Metropolitan Chess Club, 1897.  If, instead of Kb3, 13.  Nxc7 Black wins by Rxd4!.}) 13.  Nbxd4 Qc5+ 14.  Kb3 Qb6+ 15.  Bb5 Bxf3 16.  Qxf3 Rxd4 17.  Qc6 Qa5 18. c3 Rd6 19.  Qc4 g5 ({Had Black, instead of his last move, pinned the B., the game would have proceeded as follows} 19...  Rb6 20. a4 a6 21.  Bxf4 Rxb7 22.  Kc2 axb5 23. axb5 Qxb5 24.  Bxc7+ {and wins.}) 20.  Kc2 {White has brought his K. into safety and will remain a piece ahead.} 1-0

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