Howard Staunton, The Chess Tournament (1852)
Game 138 of 184
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Event
London m3
Site
London
Date
1851.??.??
Round
4
White
Deacon, Frederic
Black
Loewe, Edward
Result
1-0
- 14.b4 This, perhaps, is better than playing P. to K's 4th, although that move has its advantages; for instance 14. P. to K's 4th. 14. B. to K. Kt.'s 5th. 15. P. takes K. P. 15. Kt. takes Kt. (If he take the K. Kt. with his B. instead, White would capture the K. Kt. with his P., and have then a still more marked superiority.) 16. P. takes Q. P. 16. B. takes Kt. 17. Q. takes B. 17. Kt. to Q's 5th. 18. Q. to her sq. 18. B. takes P. 19. Q. B. P. takes Kt. And White has a Pawn more, and that a "passed" one, with no inferiority of situation.
- 17.bxc5 He might, with the same advantage, have taken the K. P., and then have moved his Q. B. to K. R's 6th.
- 18.gxf4 White evidently knows full well the importance of consolidating his Pawns in the centre of the field.
- 22.Qd2 The position is highly interesting, and I therefore give a diagram of it after White's 22nd move.