Game info
TOURNAMENT LOG
Morphy, Paul VS Worrall, Thomas Herbert
1857.??.??
Morphy sim
Annotations
Morphy at the odds of his Queen's Knight against an amateur — a Muzio Gambit met with 5. P. to Q's 4th. Notes by Löwenthal.
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5.d4
Almost as strong as Castling. Some clever and interesting variations on this move were published by Cochrane and Ghulam Kassim. (Madras, 1829.)
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5…gxf3
Lewis recommends P. to Q's 4th, for which see "Chess Player's Chronicle," vol. i., p. 33.
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6.O-O
The German Handbuch gives Q. takes P.
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19…hxg6
And Mr. Morphy announced mate in three moves.
J. Löwenthal, Morphy's Games of Chess (1860) · Public domain · source
[Event "Morphy sim"]
[Site "New Orleans"]
[Date "1857.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Morphy, Paul"]
[Black "Worrall, Thomas Herbert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. d4 gxf3 6. O-O Bh6 7. Qxf3 Nc6 8. Bxf7+ Kxf7 9.
Qh5+ Kg7 10. Bxf4 Bxf4 11. Rxf4 Nh6 12. Raf1 Qe8 13. Qh4 d6 14. Qf6+ Kg8 15. Qxh6 Bd7 16.
R4f3 Ne7 17. h4 Ng6 18. h5 Bg4 19. hxg6 hxg6 20. Rf8+ Qxf8 21. Rxf8+ Rxf8 22. Qxg6# 1-0