Game 222 in Wilhelm Steinitz’s The Book of the Sixth American Chess Congress (1891), printed pages 286–287. Played in the first round at New York on April 2, 1889. The original notes retain descriptive notation.

1. 6…Nf6 P—KB3 is the best defence at this juncture.
2. 10.d5 White could now obtain a strong advantage by 10 Q — B4 first.
3. 17…Be6 17...Q x KtP; 18 R—Kt sq., 18 Q—R6; 19 R—Kt7, 19 KR—Q sq. would have caused a cumbersome defence for some time, but we believe the extra Pawn was worth that trouble.
4. 20.Nxe5 This dashing sacrifice of a piece for three Pawns keeps the attack in hand for some time, but as the majority of Pawns is separated on two wings, the advantage of material is on the side of Black, especially as the latter has two Bishops for the ending.
5. 20…dxe5 If 20. . .B— B3; 21 Kt— QB4, and White escapes with a Pawn ahead.
6. 21…Kf7 Better still was, we believe, 21...R—B3; 22 Kt—B4 (if 22 P x P, 22 B—B2; 23 Q x B, 23 R—K sq., etc.), 22...K—B2; 23 Kt x B, 23 R x Kt; 24 Q x KBP ch., 24 R—B3, having exchanged the Knight and keeping up an attack on the open KB file.
7. 29.f3 P— KR3 was better.
8. 29…Rd4 29...B—Q5 ch.; 30 K—R sq., 30 R x KKtP; 31 Kt—K5 ch., 31 B x Kt; 32 P x R, 32 B—B2 would have soon transferred the attack to Black.
9. 32…Rbb8 P — QB4 first, with reservation of option to double the Rooks on the Q file, was superior.
10. 36…Re8 It was certainly of advantage to drive off one of the adverse Rooks from the K file by B— R5.
11. 43…Bc8 Careless play. R — Q sq. was now his best.
12. 46.Nc6 White's play all along since he sacrificed the piece is highly praiseworthy, considering the difficulty of his position, and he now emanates with a won game by this adroit stroke.
13. 47…Kf7 Evidently best. If 47. . .B — Kt2; 48 Kt — R5, and otherwise he cannot move the KB without its being captured or ceasing to guard against Kt — K7 ch., winning the other Bishop.
14. 52.Ne5 Kt — Q4 was more confining for the adverse King and Bishop.
15. 53.h5 Virtually the cause of White's failure to win. The advance of this Pawn injured his prospects of success, for the Pawn is afterward liable to attack and capture from the hostile Bishop, and, moreover, it now blocks a square which eventually might have been at least threatened to be occupied by White's King, and then Black would be compelled to play P— KKt 3, whereupon the RP could push on to R5, forcing a way for the winning access of his King.
16. 72…Ba6 Black's play against heavy odds has been remarkably clever and to the point, and he now makes his escape from a perilous position with a draw.