Game No. 2 of the New Orleans simultaneous blindfold display (six amateurs, Feb.–Mar. 1858). An Evans's Gambit; Löwenthal flags the chosen defence as inferior.
7…dxc3We have elsewhere called attention to the inferiority of this line of defence in the Evans's Gambit.
12…Ng4To stop the advance of the King's Pawn.
15.Be2Intending to advance the Bishop's Pawn, which, after this move of the Bishop, will be of greater force.
20.exf5We give a diagram of the position here: let the reader, before looking at the move really adopted, endeavour to determine for himself the line of play that should be selected.
24…Qxg2+Black might have played Kt. to K's 4th, but the game in that case would equally have been lost.
J. Löwenthal, Morphy's Games of Chess (1860) · Public domain · source