PLAYING A DRAWN GAME.
STEINITZ STILL AHEAD OF GUNSBERG.
THE SEVENTEENTH IN THE SERIES FOR THE
WORLDS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.
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The seventeenth chess game in the match between
Steinitz and Gunsberg, for the championship of the world, was played
yesterday
at the Manhattan Chess Club in this city. On account of the bearing
which
this game would have upon the final issue of the contest, its result was
anxiously looked forward to by the spectators who had gathered in the
club-house,
and no doubt a similar feeling would be experienced by all chess players
who are watching the encounter. |
Another Queens Gambit was offered yesterday
by
Steinitz and declined by Gunsberg in a rather novel fashion by Kt-K B
3.
Queens were exchanged at a very early stage, and Steinitz got slightly
the advantage. On the fifteenth and sixteenth moves Steinitz
sacrificed
two pawns for a Knight with the object of breaking through the defence
on the Kings Knights row, but the admirable defence set up
by Gunsberg
frustrated this attempt on the part of the veteran, whose Knight got
into
a position where it was shut up for some time. |
A study of the moves from the twelfth up to the
twenty-sixth, when an adjournment was made, will disclose to the
chess-player
a series of incidents of a very interesting character. White appeared to
have very good chances before him after Blacks twenty-fourth move,
but
moving rather hastily, he threw them away. The complicated
position
at the adjournment after twenty-six moves had been made will be found
below.
Steinitz sealed his twenty-seventh move, and when play was resumed after
the recess Gunsberg found it necessary to deliberate half an hour on his
reply. |
Both players had now to move rapidly under time
pressure, and several exchanges which followed considerably cleared the
field, each player being left with one Rook and a Bishop on opposite
colors.
Steinitz had the advantage of two pawns to one, and as one of then
[sic]
was a passed pawn many of the onlookers thought this might possibly give
him the chance of a win. The majority, however, pronounced it to
be a drawn game, and this it resulted after fifty-six moves. |
Altogether the game was one of the finest of the
series. The score is now: Steinitz 5, Gunsberg 4, drawn
8. |
New-York Daily Tribune,
1891.01.18
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Steinitz,W Gunsberg,IA
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Queens Gambit: Marshall
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1891.01.17 |
USA New York, NY (Manhattan Chess
Club)
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Annotations by Steinitz
1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nf6
** |
Not a good way of declining this
gambit. |
3.cxd5 Nxd5 4.e4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5
[0:04-0:06]
** |
As will be seen, Black gets the
worst
of the position in consequence of this advance. |
6.dxe5
6...Qxd1+ 7.Kxd1 Ng4 8.Nd5
** |
White obtains now an attack, which
ought to have yielded more profit than it did. |
8...Kd7 9.Nh3
** |
9.Bf4 Nxf2+ 10.Ke1, followed by
11.Rd1,
had its points, but Black, by then bringing out 10...Bc5, would have
obtained
a defensible game. |
9...c6 10.Nc3
** |
10.Ne3 was much
stronger. |
10...Nxe5 [0:41-0:20]
11.f4
Ng4 12.Be2 Ke8 13.Kc2 Bc5 14.f5 Ne3+ 15.Kd3
** |
The attack here obtained is worth
the pawn given up. |
15...Nxg2 [0:51-0:33]
16.b4
** |
This was hardly as good as
16.Na4. |
16...Bxb4 17.Rg1 Nh4 18.Rxg7 Ng6
** |
18...Nxf5 19.exf5 Bxf5+ 20.Kc4 Bxc3
21.Kxc3 Bxh3 22.Bh5 or 22.Bc4 would have given White an excellent
attack,
although he was three pawns behind. |
19.fxg6 hxg6 20.Ng5 Be7
[1:14-1:00]
** |
A very fine move, which is
extremely
difficult to answer. |
21.Rh7
** |
Probably best. If 21.Rxf7 Bxg5
22.Rc7
Na6, etc. |
21...Rxh7 22.Nxh7 f6 23.Bf4
** |
Here 23.e5 at once was much better
play. |
23...Kf7 24.Rg1 Na6 25.e5
25...Bf5+ [1:43-1:20]
26.Kd2
** |
26.Kc4 was now a much better
defense. |
26...Bb4 (Adjourned)
27.Rg3(Sealed)
27...Nc5 28.Kc1 Ba3+ 29.Kd1 g5 30.Bc4+ Ne6 [2:16-2:20] 31.Nxg5+
fxg5 32.Bxg5 Rg8 33.h4 b5 34.Nxb5
** |
There was no necessity for this and
White could have kept up the pressure by 34.Bb3, threatening Ne2 or Rf3
with a fine attack. |
34...cxb5 35.Bxe6+ Kxe6
[2:25-2:25]
36.Rxa3 Kxe5 37.Rxa7 Bd3 38.Kd2 Bf1 39.Kc3 Rc8+ 40.Kb4 Rg8
[2:30-2:40]
41.Ra5 Ke4 42.Ra6 Kf3 43.Rf6+ Kg2 44.Rf5 Be2 45.Be3 Bd3
[2:35-3:05]
46.Rf2+
** |
46.Rd5 was much
stronger. |
46...Kg3 47.Rd2 Rg4+ 48.Kc5 Bc4
49.h5 Kf3 50.Bd4 Rg5+ [2:45-3:13] 51.Kb4 Rxh5 52.a4 Ke4 53.Bc5
Bd3
54.axb5 Rh1 55.Rb2 Kd5 [2:50-3:33] 56.Bf2 Rb1
½-½.
New-York Daily Tribune,
1891.01.18
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