| keypusher: As you would expect, these two played creative and forceful -- though often imperfect -- chess against each other. Here are some notes from Tarrasch's tournament book, supplemented by Shredder. Tarrasch's notes are in plain text; Shredder's/my comments are in brackets. Janowski's odd 7. Bd3 was played by Steinitz against Zukertort in 1886. But it was only the beginning of the eccentricity in this game. After 11. Nd5!
<Three knights on a rank:> 
click for larger viewAfter 12. Nd3
Surprising and good. White is off on a bishop hunt.
After 13....Nfd4
Seductive but weak. The correct move was 13....Qh4 forcing the exchange of queens. <But how much fun would that have been? And now we have three knights on a file:> 
click for larger viewAfter 14....f5
If Black takes immediately on c2, he loses much more quickly after 15. Bb2 f6 16. Bxf6 Rxf6 17. Re8+ Qxe8 18. Nxf6+. After 18....c6
click for larger view 18....Nxd5 19. Nxd5 c6 20. Bc4 cxd5 21. Bxd5+ Kh8 22. Bf7 followed by Bg6 leads to mate. <Not quite that simple, because 22....Bf4 23. Bg6 h6 avoids mate for the moment, though Black is still lost after 24. Bxf5 Rxf5 25. Qxf5. But 22. Re3! (threatening Qxh7+ and Rh3+) Qc7 23. Bc3 leaves Black with nothing better than giving up the queen. > After 19. Rxe7.
Brilliantly played. On 19. Bxe7 20. Bc4 cxd5 21. Bxd5+ Rf7 22. Qxf7+ followed by Qxg7#. After 21. Qh3<?>
With 21. Bc4+ d5 22. Nxd5 cxd5 23. Bxd5+ Kh8 24. Bf7 Bf6 25. Bxf6+ gxf6 26. Bg6 Janowski could have considerably eased the selection of the brilliancy prize game by Herr Baron Albert von Rothschild. <Not even a little bit hard to see, especially for a player of Janowski's ability. In case you're wondering, the brilliancy prize was awarded to Pillsbury himself for Pillsbury vs Lasker, 1896. I am not sure it wouldn't have deserved the prize even if Janowski hadn't fumbled this game.> 22....g6
<Pillsbury gives Janowski a second opportunity to finish him off at once. 22....Rf7 was tougher.> Position after 24....Ke8:
click for larger viewAfter 25. Nf6+?
A regrettable mistake with which White throws away an easy win, which was to be had with 25. Bf6, for example 25....Bd6 25. Be2 followed by Qxh7 <25. Bg5 is even stronger>, or 25....Rf7 26. Qg8+ Rf8 27. Ng7+ Kd8 28. Qxf8+; or 27....Kd7 28. Qe6 and wins. After 28....Rxf6.
Black has first of all escaped with a black eye, but he really must lose the following ending, for in such a disorganized game the Queen is superior to the Rooks. In understandable anxiety about it, however, the matter has so aggravated Janowski that from now on he lets up. 29....b5<??>
<For the third time Pillsbury gives Janowski an easy win! 30. Bxb5 cxb5 loses to 31. Qg8+ Re8 32. Qxd5 and Black must give up a bishop to save the rook. Probably both men were in severe time trouble. The first time control was at move 30, and this had already been a very unusual game.After this, the ending was still won for White, but Pillsbury kept fighting and Janowski kept drifting. At move 46, instead of f5 Janowski could have simply pushed his king to h4. f4-f5 made this impossible, since Black had ...Rd4 on tap. Probably White's last chance to win was 49. Qe6 instead of 49. Qb5, since then 49. Qe6 c4 50. a5! is strong for White, since the defense ....Rd6 is not available. A great fighting game. Janowski's play from move 21 on reminds me of the Donner quote about being able to handle anything but a won position.> | 
Kibitzing
(4.01): 30.Qg7 Re6 31.g4 fxg4 32.Bd3 Kd8 33.Bxg6 a5 34.bxa5 Ra6 35.Qf8+ Kc7 36.h5 c5 37.Qxc5+ Rac6 38.Qxb5 d4 39.Qd5 g3 40.Qxd4 gxf2+ 41.Kxf2 Bb7 42.Kg3 Kb8 43.Kg4 Ka8 44.Qb4 Re2 45.Be4 Rc7 46.Bxb7+ Rxb7 47.Qd6 Ka7