Philip W. Sergeant, Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916)
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Game 95 in Philip W. Sergeant’s Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916), printed pages 167–168. Commentary from this edition; named earlier annotators remain credited in the notes. New Orleans blindfold exhibition game from January 1858. The exact complete printed score matches the archive entry, whose opponent is recorded as NN.
- 9.Nc3 The ‘Morphy Attack,’ which Tchigorin afterwards employed with success. Black here makes the best reply.
- 10.Ng5 B—KKt5 was Tchigorin’s favourite continuation.
- 17…Qe7 P—Q4 was worse; but he should have played Kt—Kt1.
- 33.e8=Q And mates in 4.