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Henry Edward Bird vs Dionisio M Martinez
USA-06.Congress New York 1889  ·  English Opening: King's English Variation. Reversed Closed Sicilian (A25)  ·  0-1
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Feb-24-08  Knight13: Good endgame play by Martinez, except that pawn drop part.

19. Qh5? Yeah, I think I agree with Steinitz on that one.

And I can understand Bird's reluctance to play for a draw at the end. He had a winning game, kind of blew it, and so was irritated and had to win. It's simple human attitude, even I do this kind of stuff, you know, winning, mess up, have a draw, irritated/partially mad, but wants to win, but blows it away anyway, walks out the hall after resigning and thinking about that game for hours on end on where I could've improved and punishing myself on certain moves, etc. Steinitz shouldn't have even commented on that. He probably have done it many times himself.

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