Maroczy had finished second after Lasker in Nuremberg 1896 (as he did in London 1899), but here he is beaten by Steinitz and ends up 4 points behind him. Steinitz tried this not too common line in the King's Gambit against strong opposition 5 times in 1898, the result being +3 -0 =2 (the other wins were against Janowski and Marco). Ivan Sokolov has played it a few times as well, for example here:

Vienna (1898)

Thirty-six games!?

<It was forbidden to analyze adjourned games.>

Did they use volunteer monitorz to spy on the honest playerz, disable their expense account, enforce the ignore list/sarc? Could you imagine a modern-day player not being able to look at one's cell phone for much of two summer months while the game remained incomplete during adjournment?? How could one afford to stay and play for 36 games? Perhaps it was quite a vacation!

An unusual but active defense in this game, resembling some aspects of Philidor's Defense to 2.Nf3. The Stockfish notes didn't like castling as played on the 7th ply for either color?

Gotta watch that a7-g1 diagonal in the King's Gambit. The Black she-monster trolls the dark squares in this game, leaving such colour but once.

In the final position shown, the pending recapture 39.hxBg3 is easily met by the safeguarding 39...Bd5 threatening a battery mate by Her Majesty.

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Let's go back in time. Keep an eye out for those Italian anarchists...

"...The natural destiny of a Queen is to give an heir to the throne. If the Queen is so fortunate as to provide the State with a Crown Prince this should be the end of her ambition–she should by no means meddle with the government of an Empire, the care of which is not a task for women... If the Queen bears no sons, she is merely a foreigner in the State, and a very dangerous foreigner, too. For as she can never hope to be looked on kindly here, and must always expect to be sent back whence she came, so will she always seek to win the King by other than natural means; she will struggle for position and power by intrigue and the sowing of discord, to the mischief of the King, the nation, and the Empire...[9]"

Elisabeth referred to herself as "Titania, William Shakespeare's Fairy Queen." Her poem:

<O'er thee, like thine own sea birds

I'll circle without rest

For me earth holds no corner

To build a lasting nest.>

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Who was Fischer of Munich?

German Emperor Wilhelm II?

“She walks in beauty, like the night”
(Lord Byron)