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Albert Edward Hopkins vs NN
London Congress Minor (1932), London ENG
Scotch Game: General (C45)  ·  1-0

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Jan-08-21  Jean Defuse: ...

The source don't give the year 1903 - see: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/...

But the same moves were played in Moscow in 1903 B Blumenfeld vs NN, 1903 and 25 years later in Vienna: Muller vs NN, 1928 Black is always unknown. <A coincidence?>

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Jan-09-21
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  fredthebear: This is Mate No. 19A (Chapter 18), p. 170 in "The Art of the Checkmate" by Georges Renaud and Victor Kahn (Dover Publications, 1962). It often occurs in double king pawn openings when Black has fianchettoed the Bg7.
Mar-28-24
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  Korora: <Black's weird notion of fianchettoing in this opening leads to disaster.> -- the Chess Caviar section of the January 1958 issue of Chess Review.

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