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Eugene Delmar vs Wilhelm Steinitz
2nd City Chess Club Tournament (1894), New York, NY USA, rd 8, Nov-08
Scotch Game: General (C45)  ·  0-1

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White to move.
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Apr-29-04  alabaster: Even an aging Steinitz could nail down Delmar, tail-lender to many a tournament. You see pictures of Delmar looking intense with his big mustache and whatnot, and then you see him lose like a child to Lipschutz (with the white pieces) in a miniature elegantly annotated by Reinfeld in his "Great Short Games of the Chess Masters." It makes you wonder about how good his peers were...=)
May-17-06  Whitehat1963: Excellent, instructive and entertaining rook-and-pawns ending.
Jun-04-06  sharkbenjamin: Yes. This is good game from start to finish.
Jul-13-07  benba57: At move 15 Steinitz has the chance to open up the f-file; which in many games seems good for black against the Scotch, however, he uses the e-file instead. How does this choice effect the game?
Apr-22-23  nummerzwei: If 4...Qh4 is supposed to be viable, why not 4...Qe7? Still, was the move order <4...Qe7 5.Nf5 Qxe4+> actually played in this game in place of <4...Qh4 5.Nf5 Qxe4+>?

In his book <4...Dh4 in der Schottischen Partie>(1999), Lev Gutman refers to the latter line as the Paulsen Variation, after the game Paulsen vs J Minckwitz, 1879.

It seems odd though to move the knight around, all the more so when you can play 4...Qe7 5.Nc3.

Apr-23-23
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  LIFE Master AJ: A nice game by Steinitz. He seemed in control the entire game.

I don't know if anyone agrees with this, but IMO this game could have featured by a modern master.

I have played over HUNDREDS of Karpov's games and this game strongly reminds me of that... "IRON-GRIP" .... the "slow, relentless squeeze of the python" .... if I may be allowed to describe Karov's style of play in this manner.

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