Howard Staunton, The Chess Tournament (1852)
Game 90 of 184
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Event
London knockout playoff
Site
London
Date
1851.??.??
Round
2
White
Szen, Josef
Black
Horwitz, Bernhard
Result
1-0
- 9.Qe1 Well played, as it compels White to take up an awkward position with the attacked Bishop.
- 12.Bg5 A slip, which, had White been in his proper play, would never have been recovered.
- 16…Bg4 Mr. Horwitz has now an undeniable superiority, but in these games with Mr. Szen he only gains advantages to throw them away.
- 19…Qg5 I should have preferred playing the Q. to K. R's 3rd at this crisis. If Black, in reply, had moved either Q. R. to K. R's sq., or K. R. to K's 2nd, he must have lost the exchange, while any other move would have given White an opportunity to bring his other Pieces up. As some pretty variations arise from the first-mentioned mode of play, I append a diagram of the field before White's 19th move.
- 20…Bf4 This is of a piece with White's play all through the present most unfortunate and most extraordinary match.
- 22.Qe2 Cleverly played.
- 26…f5 Would it be credited by any one unacquainted with the names of the combatants, that the White men in this game were conducted by Mr. Horwitz? Would a player to whom Mr. Horwitz, when himself, could give a Knight, play in a style so utterly wanting in all that constitutes good chess, as Mr. H. does in the present termination?