Philip W. Sergeant, Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916)
Game 98 of 136
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Site
Paris
Date
1859.02.??
Round
2
White
Black
Mongredien, Augustus
Result
1-0
Game 61 in Philip W. Sergeant’s Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916), printed pages 128–128. Commentary from this edition; named earlier annotators remain credited in the notes. Second game of the 1859 Mongredien match.
- 9.Bb2 Morphy only used this continuation when playing weaker opponents, as when giving the odds of QKt.
- 9…Nf6 9..Kt—R4; 10 B—Q3, Kt—K2 is the best line.
- 11.d5 This meets with the approval of J.L. amongst other critics. Some recommend 11 Kt—K1, and others, again, 11 P—K5, as in Game LXXXII.
- 11…Ne5 Kt—R4 is still the right move for Black.