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Steinitz / Blackburne

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Years covered: 1868


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STEINITZ / BLACKBURNE

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Wilhelm Steinitz & Joseph Henry Blackburne incidently describe a story of the year previous where the latter allegedly punched & threw the former out of a Paris tournament window after the former spat on the latter. source: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Last updated: 2019-06-17 14:14:56

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1. Steinitz / Blackburne vs De Vere / MacDonnell 1-0321868Consultation gameA07 King's Indian Attack

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  Sally Simpson: ***

The link does not work and the story, tale, legend, myth has a few facts wrong.

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Where Steinitz claims to have put Blackburne's head through a window in an effort to sober him up after Blackburne attacked him in his bed.

Ahhh....the good old romantic days of chess.

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  OhioChessFan: Print the legend, not the fact. As for the legend, the verbiage is so awful I think it was written by Alekhine on a really bad bender.

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