Notes by Dr. Tarrasch.

1. 3…c6 This defence of the Queen's Gambit is not worse than the usual one, but gives White for a long time the freer game.
2. 4.e3 The Queen's Bishop's Pawn must now be protected at once; P to K 4 would be stronger.
3. 6.e4 By this move White gets the freer game. To prevent the advance of this Pawn Black might play at the 4th move P to K B 4 (Stonewall for Black) as I played in this Tournament against Gunsberg and Burn.
4. 7…Bb4+ The more natural move is B to B 2.
5. 8.Nc3 I should have played B to Q 2, for Black could here (or in the following move) have doubled White's Pawns in a very disagreeable manner by exchanging the Bishop for Knight, and have prevented an advance by P to Q B 4 (besides playing eventually Q to Q R 4). Later on, Black after all does exchange, but under far less favourable circumstances.
6. 9…Qa5 This move is not now good, for Black is forced to exchange his Bishop for the Knight in a few moves, and to retreat the Queen also.
7. 13…Qc7 Now White has the better position.
8. 17.f4 With this quite simple move White gives up his advantage, for the Knight at B 3 threatens to establish itself on K 5, and Black makes admirable use of his opponent's mistake.
9. 18.Qf2 B x Kt is disadvantageous for White, on account of P x B and Kt to K 5.
10. 18…c5 Exceedingly well played. With this fine Pawn sacrifice Black not only frees his game but obtains the better one. White ought not to have accepted the gift, but should have advanced the Queen's Pawn.
11. 20.Qxc5 Also after 20. P x P, B to K 5, or if 20. P to Kt 5, still B to K 5, or even Kt to Q 5, and Black's position is a very good one.
12. 23.c6 In order to make a trebled Pawn after B x P by 24. Kt x B; 25. Q B x Kt; and 26. K B x Kt.
13. 24…Ne4 Black's Knights are now very menacing, besides which Black threatens to drive away the Knight by P to K B 3, and then to take, first, the Pawn at B 6, after which the second Pawn becomes weakened. Steinitz decides therefore to sacrifice a Piece, in order to utilise his Pawns. This truly beautiful plan of the old master is only wrecked by the circumstance that Black gets in the end game (thanks to the favourable position of his Knights) an attack which could not be foreseen.
14. 29…Ne3 The decisive move; with it Black locks up White's King completely and forces the exchange of a Rook.
15. 31.Rd4 After 31. R to Q 2, R to Q R sq wins at once.
16. 34.h4+ If White plays 34. Kt to Q B 6 in order to block the Rook file with 35. Kt to R 5, after R to R sq we get the following surprisingly beautiful termination: 34. Kt to B 6, K to B 3; 35. Kt to R 7, R to K Kt sq; 36. P to Kt 3, P to B 5; 37. B P queens, R x Q; 38. Kt x R, P to B 6, and wins.
17. 35…Rg8 A true, genuine, master game, well played on both sides.