Game 73 in Philip W. Sergeant’s Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916), printed pages 138–140. Commentary from this edition; named earlier annotators remain credited in the notes. Sixth preserved complete game of the 1859 Thompson match, with Morphy giving the odds of his QKt. The source then prints only a diagram-position ending from another match game; that incomplete standalone ending is excluded from the numbered-game corpus.

1. 7…Ba6 As he cannot force the exchange of Bishops, B—Kt2 is better.
2. 24.Nd7 This threat, which Black made on his last move, White ingeniously forces him to carry out, thereby putting himself a Pawn up in the end-game. Black cannot, of course, exchange Knights.
3. 28…Bb6 There is nothing better. An interesting ending follows, White having to play carefully against a stubborn defence.
4. 49.Kf6 Threatening mate in 4.