While browsing in the English Chess Federation library at DMU Leicester last week, I came across the following.
I wonder can anybody identify the name of the opponent, and/or date, occasion of play and original publication.
The winning sequence is left to readers to work out for themselves.
Mystery Blackburne game
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Mystery Blackburne game
Tim Harding
Historian and FIDE Arbiter
Author of 'Steinitz in London,' British Chess Literature to 1914', 'Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography', and 'Eminent Victorian Chess Players'
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Historian and FIDE Arbiter
Author of 'Steinitz in London,' British Chess Literature to 1914', 'Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography', and 'Eminent Victorian Chess Players'
http://www.chessmail.com
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Re: Mystery Blackburne game
Sadly for fans of the Streatham and Brixton blog's series, it is not actually the Worst Move On The Board; 7...Be7, 7...Bd6 and 7...d6 would all allow mate in two.
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Re: Mystery Blackburne game
Sorry Tim, no help here. I merged all the miniatures I could lay my hands into one DB years ago
(and now added this one! so it by no means at complete.)
I even searched just for the bones.
Just in case it was a Queens Rook or Queen's Knight odds game. Sometimes these old odds games slip through as normal games.
A coincidence here is Jack mentioning 'The Streatham and Brixton blog' and one of their columns http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.c ... -days.html
features the Empire Social Chess Club and has a picture of the magazine you appear to have been looking at.
(and now added this one! so it by no means at complete.)
I even searched just for the bones.
Just in case it was a Queens Rook or Queen's Knight odds game. Sometimes these old odds games slip through as normal games.
A coincidence here is Jack mentioning 'The Streatham and Brixton blog' and one of their columns http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.c ... -days.html
features the Empire Social Chess Club and has a picture of the magazine you appear to have been looking at.