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Friday, July 3, 2015

A Simul In Honor of Philidor

Done in period clothing in Versailles. Fun.

And here is a game that the great Paul Morphy lost to Daniel Harrwitz in 1858.

[Event "Match"]
[Site "Paris (France)"]
[Date "1858"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Morphy Paul"]
[Black "Harrwitz Daniel (GER)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "C62"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.Bxc6 Bxc6 7.Bg5
Nf6 8.Nc3 Be7 9.O-O-O O-O 10.Rhe1 h6 11.Bh4 Ne8 12.Bxe7 Qxe7
13.e5 {?!} ( 13.Qd2 {'with the idea'  Nd4} ) Bxf3 14.gxf3 Qg5+
15.Kb1 ( 15.f4 {!?} ) dxe5 16.Rxe5 Qg2 17.Nd5 Qxh2 18.Ree1 Qd6
19.Rg1 Kh7 20.Qe3 f5 21.Nf4 Qb6 22.Qe2 Rf7 23.Qc4 Qf6 24.Nh5
Qe7 25.Rde1 Qd7 26.a3 Nd6 27.Qd4 Rg8 28.Rg2 Ne8 29.Qc3 f4 30.Rh1
g6 31.Rhg1 Qd5 32.Qe1 Qxh5 33.Rg5 Qxf3 34.Qe6 Rf6 35.Qe7+ Rg7
36.Qxe8 hxg5 37.Qe1 Qc6 0-1

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