Hastings, 5 August 1895 (Queen’s Pawn Game). Round 1. Mieses builds a King’s-side attack, breaks through with a well-judged advance of his Pawns, and forces Tinsley to resign on the 33rd move. Notes by C. von Bardeleben.
6…g6The usual continuation; B to K 2 is preferable.
8.b38. P to Q B 3 would be better, to be followed by Q to B 2 and P to K 4.
9.f4This move weakens the King’s Pawn; 9. P to K B 3, Kt x Kt; 10. B x Kt, Castles; 11. B to B 3, &c., would be better.
14.fxe5Preferable would be 14. Q P x B. After 14. B P x P has been done, Black is enabled to advance his King’s Knight’s and his King’s Rook’s Pawns, and to establish by this line of play a strong attack against the White King.
19…O-O-OVery well played. The attack of White is not so violent as it seems, but it is very difficult to foresee that.
24.dxc5A mistake, which opens the Black Queen’s Rook file. He should have played 24. B x P.
25…Qd7White threatened 26. P to B 5.
26…f4Decisive, for, if White answers 27. R to K sq, there follows Q to Q 4.
Horace F. Cheshire, The Hastings Chess Tournament 1895 (1896) · Public domain · source