Game 201 in Wilhelm Steinitz’s The Book of the Sixth American Chess Congress (1891), printed pages 260–261. Played in the second round at New York on May 8, 1889. The original notes retain descriptive notation.

1. 7.Bd3 The Bishop is not well posted here, as he is liable to be driven back by the advance of the adverse Pawns on the Q side.
2. 8…Qc7 P—B5 would have been also good play.
3. 10…Nb4 Well conceived.
4. 11.Rc1 If 11 P x P, 11 P—B5; 12 KtP x P, 12 P x P; 13 B—K4, 13 Kt x B; 14 Kt x Kt, 14 Kt x P, and wins.
5. 19.Nfg4 A fine idea.
6. 19…Nd6 If 19...P x Kt; 20 Kt—R6 ch. draws at least at White’s option, for 20...K—R sq. is his best answer (if 20...K—B sq.; 21 P x P disch., with a winning attack), and then White may check alternately at B7 and R6, or he may proceed with P x P after checking with the Knight at B7 and keep up a strong attack.
7. 21…b4 Not as good as blocking up the adverse Bishop by 21...P—Q5, whereupon, if 22 P—K4, 22 Kt—Q3; 23 P—K5, 23 Kt—B4; 24 P x P, 24 P x P, with the superior game.
8. 23.Bxd4 White has much improved his game. His Bishop was rather an encumbrance to him, and he has now exchanged it for an adverse active piece and formed an ugly doubled Pawn in the hostile centre.
9. 29…Rxf5 Not well judged. B x P, followed by R — B2, was now his best play.
10. 31…Raf8 Black proceeds with his attack, being evidently unaware of his own danger and underrating the force of White’s last capital move. R—B2 was still his best play.
11. 33…Rxg5 There was no other remedy, for White threatened Kt x RP, and if 33...Q—Kt2 or R2; 34 Kt x KP, with a winning game.
12. 40…Qd7 This is fatal. B — B4 and then moving the Queen alternately to B sq. and K sq. furnished a much better defence.
13. 42.Qf6 Mr. Bird makes, as usual, the most of a fine K side attack once he has it in his grasp.
14. 53.Kf2 With true insight into the position, White enters on a march with his King right up to QB6, which cannot be prevented unless Black leaves one of his Pawns undefended, and in either case White wins with ease.