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Valentine Green vs Wilhelm Steinitz
5th BCA Congress, London (1862), London ENG, rd 7, Jul-??
Italian Game: Classical Variation. Greco Gambit Traditional Line (C54)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Feb-04-17  Big Pawn: Green had pressure on black after 19. Qe3 Nh5 but he let him off the hook with wholesale exchanges.

Steinitz only managed to draw this one. Looking at the crosstable of the London 1862 tournament, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londo..., we see that Anderssen took clear first with 11/13. He lost one game!

Steinitz lost to the top four, Anderssen, Paulsen, Owen and MacDonnell. He also lost to Blackburne and had a few draws, including this one with Green, who came in dead last.

It's amazing that Steinitz would rise up from this mediocrity and become the best player in the world for 20 years.

I also noticed that, like a lot of class players (players below a 2000 rating), he is capable in his early years of great combinations here and there, but he has a lot of blunders in a lot of games. He's capable of playing Rxh7 against Mongredien, but misses his queen getting trapped in broad daylight against Wilson.

In contrast, Morphy almost never blundered. He seemed to be a complete natural. Steinitz was not a natural; he had to work at it very hard.

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