Game 287 in Philip W. Sergeant’s Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916), printed pages 335–336. Commentary from this edition; named earlier annotators remain credited in the notes.

1. 2…d5 Cp. Games LXV, XC, XCI. At the odds of QKt, however, this counter-gambit is very strong.
2. 4…Be7 Kt—KB3 at once is better.
3. 14.Qxc8 Morphy’s rare exchanges of Queens are always noteworthy. Here he gains a great advantage.
4. 26.Bc4 Black falls into a clever trap.