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Henry Bird vs Dionisio Martinez
6th American Chess Congress, New York (1889), New York, NY USA, rd 25, Apr-24
English Opening: King's English Variation. Reversed Closed Sicilian (A25)  ·  0-1

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Feb-24-08  Knight13: Good endgame play by Martinez, except that pawn drop part.

19. Qh5? Yeah, I think I agree with Steinitz on that one.

And I can understand Bird's reluctance to play for a draw at the end. He had a winning game, kind of blew it, and so was irritated and had to win. It's simple human attitude, even I do this kind of stuff, you know, winning, mess up, have a draw, irritated/partially mad, but wants to win, but blows it away anyway, walks out the hall after resigning and thinking about that game for hours on end on where I could've improved and punishing myself on certain moves, etc. Steinitz shouldn't have even commented on that. He probably have done it many times himself.

Jul-11-13
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  scutigera: He kind of had to, specifically because he and almost every other chessplayer has done it. One easy way to improve your play in difficult positions--the hardest kind of play to improve, naturally--is to start looking for drawing lines that might save a loss, rather than winning lines that don't exist.

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