Philip W. Sergeant, Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916)
Game 68 of 136Game 113 in Philip W. Sergeant’s Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916), printed pages 182–183. Commentary from this edition; named earlier annotators remain credited in the notes. The edition gives 10...d6 11.Ba3 Nc6; the archive gives 10...Nc6 11.Ba3+ d6. The positions coincide after Black’s 11th move, and all three notes precede this transposition. Both scores end 24.Bxg4+, “Resigns.” The printed biographical footnote reads: “Jean Louis Préti, b. Mantua, 1798; went to Bordeaux, 1826, to escape Austrian rule, and, being an expert flute-player, became musical professor at the Royal College there; abandoned musical teaching through ill-health, and moved to Paris, 1844; took to chess professionally; 1st, Régence tournament, 1862; founded La Stratégie, 1867, and edited it till his death in 1881.”
- 3…e5 Although formerly commended by v. d. Lasa, this move has long since been abandoned as bad. White gets too strong an attack in compensation for the lost Pawn.
- 4…Bb4+ Returning the P, which Q—B2 (as in v. d. Lasa–Mayet, 1847) would have held. Kt—QB3 has also been played here (Blackburne–De Vere, 1886).
- 9…Bb6 Not 9..B×Pch; 10 Kt×B, Q×B, because of 11 Castles.