Philip W. Sergeant, Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916)
Game 91 of 136
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Event
Morphy blindfold sim +6-0=0
Site
New Orleans
Date
1858.??.??
White
Black
Ross, P
Result
1-0
Game 99 in Philip W. Sergeant’s Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916), printed pages 170–171. Commentary from this edition; named earlier annotators remain credited in the notes. New Orleans blindfold exhibition game of 1858. The source calls Black only an Amateur; the exact score matches the archive entry recorded as P. Ross, an identity difference preserved for parent review.
- 3…c6 A bad move—to get out of the books. With his 5th move Black makes matters worse still.
- 10…Kh8 If Q×P, 11 Kt—Q2 gives White a great advantage.
- 12.e5 If P×B, 13 Kt×P, R×Rch; 14 R×R, and Black is lost. 12..P×P is even worse.
- 16…Qc8 If Q—B2, White’s reply is the same.