Horace F. Cheshire, The Hastings Chess Tournament 1895 (1896)
Game 225 of 232
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Site
Hastings
Date
1895.??.??
Round
20
White
Tinsley, Samuel
Black
Pollock, William Henry Kraus
Result
1-0
Notes by R. Teichmann.
- 4…Bb4+ In this variation the Black King's Bishop cannot be well used otherwise; it seems therefore best to exchange it for the White Knight, a course which in other variations cannot be recommended.
- 8…cxd4 B x Kt, ch, followed by Q to K 2, seems to be preferable.
- 13.Rhxc1 White has now a very good development.
- 16…Qg6 Q to B 3 would have been much better.
- 35…Kg8 With a view to taking the Bishop's Pawn, which he could not do before, on account of Kt x Q B P, R x Kt (!), R x R, Q x P, ch, drawing at least. But he ought to have played the K to R sq instead, after which I find no satisfactory defence for White.
- 41…fxg4 There was no necessity for taking this Pawn, but even taking it ought not to result in any disadvantage.
- 44…Qf6 A blunder, which loses the game at once. Black could have drawn the game easily if he simply kept the Queen on the last row; whenever White threatened mate with B to B 5, then K or Q to Kt sq.