I'll check the Streeter/Buschke manuscript, see if I can find that maneuver in any games. Did you find any here in the CG.com database? I know it occurs in the Sokolsky but not sure what other openings would qualify.

I have a relative of a local Hungarian friend who is (as time permits) doing some research on Breyer out of Budapest - newspapers, periodicals, ancestry. I would still very much like to see a good Breyer book in English!

(I read your Profile; seems we have a lot in common, chessically.)

1. Jul. Breyer 7.0
2. Havasi 6.0
3. S. Barasz 5.5
4-5. J. Gajdos 5.0
4-5. L. Merenyi 5.0
6. L. Zobel 3.5
7. J. Szivos 3.0
8. L. Seböck 1.0
9. B. Krivoss 0.0

All prizes taken together were 815 K, but half of that sum was donated to the Red Cross.

Breyer / A Havasi vs Asztalos / Barasz, 1915

Mixed Master tournament, 15 rounds, single round robin:

1. Breyer 10.5
2. Asztalos 9.5
3-4. von Balla 9.0
3-4. Merenyi Junior 9.0
5. Tyroler 8.5
6. Mayer 8.0
7-8. Szekely 7.5
7-8. Barasz 7.5
9. K Havasi 7.0
10. Sterk 6.5
11-12. Reti 6.0
11-12. Földes 6.0
13. Dalmy 4.0
14-15. Pesitz 3.0
14-15. B Steiner 3.0

Prizes (<Kronen>): Breyer 500, Asztalos 400, von Balla and Merenyi junior share 300 + 200, Tyroler 150, Mayer 100, Szekely and Barasz share 80 + 50.

Breyer scored +7 -0 =7 and was leading the event from start to finish. Dr. Asztalos scored +6 -1 =7, von Balla +6 -2 =6 and Merenyi Junior +7 -3 =4.

The Master tournament commenced on August 10 and almost all of the best Hungarian chessplayers participated. Exceptions were Maroczy (who had retired from chess and back then it looked as if he would never return, organising and writing on chess instead. He would make a comeback after WWI), Forgacs (professional duties), and Dr. Brody got married.

Dr. Asztalos also became Master of the Hungarian Chess Federation (<Er erlangte hiermit auch die Meisterwürde des Ungarischen Schachbundes.>). Merenyi junior only shared 3rd-4th place, although he was in 2nd place for most of the tournament - but then he lost 3 in a row in rounds 11, 12 and 13. The good performances of Szekely, Barasz, Sterk and Reti were taken as a sign that Hungary had many good talents.

"Breyer had a very fine tournament record. The first masters' tournament in which he competed was at Postyen, in 1912, when he tied for the seventh prize. In the same year he tied for the eighth prize at Breslau, and won the first prize in the Hungarian National Tournament. At Scheveningen, in 1913, he won the sixth prize, and in the Gambit tournament at Baden, near Vienna, in 1914, he was fourth. In 1914 he played at Mannheim, and when the tournament was brought to an abrupt conclusion by the outbreak of war, he stood fourth. In the Kassa (Hungary) tournament of 1918 he tied for third prize. At Gothenburg, in 1920, he did not do so well, winning only one game, losing three, and drawing nine. However, he drew with the first two prize winners, Reti and Rubenstein. His crowning success was at Berlin in 1920, when he secured the first prize with a score of six and a half games out of nine, beating Bogoljuboff, Reti, Maroczy, Tarrasch, Leonhardt and Spielman, drawing with. Samisch and losing to TarHakower and Mieses. In his last tournament, Vienna, May, 1921, he won the third prize. He was a very original player, and was exceptionally good at blindfold play. At Kassa (Hungary), in January, 1921, he played simultaneously, without seeing the boards, no fewer than twenty-five games (a world's record), winning fifteen, drawing seven and losing only three."
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https://www.amazon.com/Gyula-Breyer...

Or is this just par for the course?

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Finally, an article from the beginning of 1923 taken from <Tijdschrift van de Nederlandse Schaakbond>, from the content of which we might say: how Breyer influenced Reti - and Alekhine!

<Alekhine's Opening> - by Richard Reti

In 1918 Gyula Breyer published in <Magyar Sakkvilag> a humorous article, <"The test move">, in which he gives advice if you have to play against an unknown opponent and want to know promptly how he would respond if you met his 1.e4 with 1...Nf6.

Breyer said that if the opponent replies quickly 2.e5 without thinking then you can expect to have to deal with someone who might make an incorrect piece sacrifice later on in the game; however, if he plays 2.e5 only after some thought, it will be more difficult because you would then have to deal with a positional player!

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https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt...

DSZ v76 N11 (Nov 1921) p262-3

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Human Interest,
Gyula Breyer +.
At the age of only 28 is the Hungarian Grandmaster Gyula Breyer recently died. This sad news is coming unfortunately not unexpected, because Breyer had been suffering for a long time. Immediately after the Berlin tournament in 1920, from which he emerged in a brilliant manner as the first winner - the greatest success of his life - he suffered a hemorrhage. At the age of 18, he guided his mental rich game in the main tournament in Cologne in 1911 attracted the attention world on itself. A year later he fought in the championship tournaments of Pistyan and Wroclaw. Already at that time Schlechter noticed in the "D. Schachz ": "Jungmeister Breyer's game makes one guess the future grandmaster." In Košice In 1918 he was fourth prize winner. He scored in Gothenburg in 1920 only a respectable success. Breyer's game type was highly original. The bizarre maneuvers for which he had a fondness, were always deeply thought out and therefore, even if they had a hole, hard on the board contrary
lay. When you played with Breyer, you never really needed it to think about what train he'll do, because you can do it could not guess. - In his appearance and in his whole Being, Breyer offered a striking resemblance to his ingenious compatriot Charousek, whose tragic fate he has now shared, because this one too After all, when she was young she succumbed to the same malicious illness. The Chess world and especially the Hungarian chess circles have Breyers Death suffered a heavy blow.

C.N. 10554

And, in return, a four-part rebuttal by Adams himself:

http://www.kingpinchess.net/2017/11...

http://www.kingpinchess.net/?s=%22g...