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.

1. 6…g6 The usual continuation; B to K 2 is preferable.
2. 8.b3 8. P to Q B 3 would be better, to be followed by Q to B 2 and P to K 4.
3. 9.f4 This 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.
4. 14.fxe5 Preferable 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.
5. 19…O-O-O Very well played. The attack of White is not so violent as it seems, but it is very difficult to foresee that.
6. 24.dxc5 A mistake, which opens the Black Queen’s Rook file. He should have played 24. B x P.
7. 25…Qd7 White threatened 26. P to B 5.
8. 26…f4 Decisive, for, if White answers 27. R to K sq, there follows Q to Q 4.