Jean Defuse: ...
The game above, could be a good candidate for a mistake record (in various databases) - the only correct information is that Bird won...
Hans Renette - H.E. Bird - A Chess Biography, p. 255, #512:
'The following game probably occurred more than once in Bird's career. Bird included it in his column in the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent of 2 December 1882, stating that the game was played on 12 October 1881 against C. Sfander. In Modern Chess (p. 12), Black's name is given as C. Kauder, with 1882 as year in which the game was played. Finally, in a biographical article on Bird that appeared in the March 1889 edition of Chess Monthly (p. 206), the player behind the Black pieces was named C. Pfander.'
H.E. Bird v E.J. Taylor (Odds - Ra1)
Offhand game, London (Simpson's Divan), 24 September 1879.
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ng5 h5 6. Bc4 Nh6 7. d4 f6 8. Bxf4
fxg5 9. hxg5 Nf7 10. g6 Ng5 11. Qd2 Nxe4 12. Bf7+ Ke7 13. Nc3 (Another
version can occasionally be seen: 13. Bg5+ Nxg5 14. Qxg5+ Kd6 15. Qc5# mate.) Nxd2 14. Nd5 mate.
Source: Chess Monthly, November 1879, p. 83.
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