The Lasker-Steinitz Match,
World Championship 1894
Researched by Nick Pope
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| A special telegram from Montreal states that
Lasker
has requested that he be allowed a separate table in future games of the
contest. He claims that Steinitz annoyed him and made him nervous
by continued sipping of lemonade and orange water through a straw.
The management decided that the match should go on as heretofore, and
Lasker’s
request was therefore not granted. |
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New York Recorder,
1894.05.16
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| MONTREAL, May 15. - Steinitz is 58 years old
to-day.
A few of his personal friends in this in this city, in commemoration of
the event, presented him with a silver-mounted walking stick at the
Cosmopolitan
Club this afternoon. The crook of the stick is beautifully
decorated
with miniature kings, rooks, and other chess symbols of appropriate
inscription. |
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The Sun, New York,
1894.05.16
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Lasker,Em — Steinitz,W
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(15)
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| D60/04 |
Queen’s Gambit Declined: Orthodox
(Lipschütz)
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| 1894.05.15 |
CAN Montreal, PQ (Cosmopolitan
Club)
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Annotations by Steinitz
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.e3 0-0 6.Bd3 c5
7.0-0
| ** |
In the eleventh game of the present
match Lasker proceeded with 7.dxc5 dxc4 8.Bxc4 Qxd1+ 9.Kxd1
etc. |
7...cxd4 8.exd4 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Nbd7
| ** |
In the early stages of the match
Steinitz-Zukertort
(1886) I adopted this line of play in similar positions, but afterward
played 9...Nc6, which is undoubtedly stronger. |
10.Bb3 Nb6 11.Bg5 Bd7 12.Qd3 Rc8
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12...Bc6 with a view of fixing that
bishop at d5 as soon as possible seems superior. |
13.Ne5 Bc6 14.Nxc6 Rxc6 15.Rfd1 Nfd5
| ** |
It would have been better to
advance
15...h6 first, making room for the king. |
16.Bxe7 Nxe7 17.Bc2 Ng6
| ** |
Not as good as 17...g6, keeping a
better hold on the isolated pawn. |
18.Qf3 Nd5 19.Be4 Nxc3 20.bxc3 Rb6 21.c4 f5 22.Bc2 Qf6
23.c5 Rc6
| ** |
Black’s
original intention was to continue 23...Rb4 24.Qc3 a5 25.a3 Nf4 26.Kf1
Qh6 27.h3 (best) 27...Nd5. However, as White could now force the
exchange
of queens by 28.Qd2 followed soon by Rb1, Black abandoned the
idea. |
24.Rab1 Nh4 25.Qe3
| ** |
25.Qb3 appears still
stronger. |
25...Rc7 26.f4 Ng6 27.Bb3 Re7 28.a4 Rd8 29.a5 a6 30.Ba4
Qh4
| ** |
The work of the time limit and not
well considered. 30...Nf8 was more likely to be of good
service. |
31.g3 Qg4
| ** |
Faulty in the extreme and really
the
cause of the almost immediate loss of the game. The queen should have
retreated
to f6, followed at once by 32...Rc8 and thence to c7. |
32.Rd2 Nf8 33.Bd1 Qg6 34.d5
| ** |
After this Black’s
struggles are hopeless. The latter part of the game has been conducted
by Lasker with the utmost ingenuity and is a grand example of
chess. |
34...Rf7 35.d6 Qf6 36.Rdb2 g5 37.Rxb7 gxf4 38.Rxf7 Qxf7
39.gxf4 Qg7+ 40.Kh1 Ng6 41.Qxe6+ Kh8 42.Qe3 Rg8 43.Bf3 Nh4 44.Bd5
1-0.
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The Sun, New York,
1894.05.16
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New-York Daily Tribune,
1894.05.16
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New York Recorder, 1894.05.16
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06.10
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