Williams, Elijah VS Wyvill, Marmaduke 1851.??.??

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Game I. First game between Messrs. Wyvill and Williams (Third Series), won by Williams with the White pieces. Sicilian Opening. Williams confined Black's forces on the king's side and finished with mate at his thirty-second move.

1. 6…Ne7 Better, it is now thought, than permitting White to exchange the B. for the Kt.
2. 8.Ne4 The correct play. Threatening Black with the death-stroke at Q's 6th, or K. B's 6th.
3. 8…Bg7 This somewhat puzzles me. Why did Mr. Wyvill permit his K. to be debarred from Castling when he might so easily have prevented it? Would not playing the Q. Kt. to Q's 4th have obviated the necessity of moving his King? It appears to me so, and that K. B. to K's 2nd afterwards, would have enabled him to free his Pieces without much trouble or delay.
4. 14…Nh6 Black has truly a disastrous game, scarcely a Piece with the power of moving beyond the precincts of the royal line, and his King confined without safety, and himself confining some of his ablest forces.
5. 24.Rae1 Threatening to take the K. P. with his Kt., and then play P. to K. Kt.'s 5th.
6. 25.Qg3 Anticipating the attack on his Kt. by the K. R. P.
7. 29.Nxg5 This is decisive, and winds up the game very neatly.

Howard Staunton, The Chess Tournament (1852) · Public domain · source