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Henry Bird vs Wilhelm Steinitz
Bird - Steinitz (1866), London ENG, rd 4, Sep-??
Spanish Game: Berlin Defense. Rio Gambit Accepted (C67)  ·  1-0

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Oct-01-04  Knight13: Wow. Bird were attacking Steinitz's King very well.
Oct-01-04
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  offramp: <Knight13: Wow. Bird were attacking Steinitz's King very well.>

You mean <birds> were attacking Steinitz's King very well.

Jun-14-05  Knight13: The flying White Knights are beautiful! (whipshering) Powerful...
Jun-23-05  ArturoRivera: wow!!!, look at those knights!!!
Jul-20-05  who: Why did Steinitz resign here?
Jul-20-05  ConspTheory06: Well i think he resigned here for 2 reasons...1)He's down position and 2)He's down material!
Jul-20-05  sneaky pete: <who> Maybe he came to his senses. He could have resigned 6 moves earlier.
Jul-20-05  OJC: Steinitz often resigned losing games rather late, only conceding when the position would be completely hopeless.

There are several examples in the matches with Lasker.

I don't think he was known as a great swindler like Marshall, however.

Jul-20-05  Boomie: Mommy, why do they do it? The birds?

Ah, if knights could fly...Look out below!

Jun-13-06  OJC: Steinitz was cramped but OK until 20. ...g5 which just throws away his knight.
Jun-14-07  LIFE Master AJ: Hmmmm.

I played "Guess-The-Move" here for the very first time. I scored close to 40 points, the "par" was 33.

I found it a lot tougher than I imagined. It was hard to predict their moves.

Sep-08-08  penguin496: Is Steinits winning after 19. ..G5?

He is up a pawn. why not get them moving? And this stops 20.Bf4

Jan-24-09  WhiteRook48: I think White has a strong attack anyway
Mar-10-09  WhiteRook48: knights can crash Steinitz!
Mar-17-10
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  GrahamClayton: The White Knight's "waltz" on moves 11-15 and 23-27 are very amusing.
May-17-14
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  naresb: Nice example of Knight pair harassing Queen easily, don't move the Queen out in early part of the game, vary basic of the game, many games underline this basic concept.
Feb-07-22
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  jnpope: [Source "London Field, 1866.10.06, p278"]

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