J. Löwenthal, Morphy's Games of Chess (1860)
Game 134 of 203
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Event
Match/Odds♙f7+move Morphy-Owen +6-0=2
Site
London
Date
1858.??.??
Round
4
White
Owen, John
Black
Result
0-1
Game IV of the Pawn-and-move odds match; Black wins.
- 11…Nf7 If this Knight had been left to be captured by White, the adverse Queen's Knight might have been brought into the game at Q's 6th, with annoying effect.
- 14.Re1 P. to Q. B's 4th would perhaps have been stronger play.
- 21…Bf5 The best move.
- 35…Ne5 An effective mode of continuing the game, as shortly becomes apparent.
- 36…Nxf3 Finely played; whether the Knight be captured or not, White must remain in a greatly inferior position.
- 44…Qf6 Black judiciously offered to exchange Queens; for if his adversary had accepted the challenge, his isolated Queen's Pawn would immediately have been lost, and with it the game.