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Henry Bird vs Mikhail Chigorin
6th American Chess Congress, New York (1889), New York, NY USA, rd 17, Apr-12
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense (C55)  ·  0-1

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Feb-20-08  Knight13: White castles at move 33!! This must be one of those rare games where a king in the middle can't be exploited when the center is not blocked.

50. g4? Why?

Nov-24-09
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  offramp: I think 50.g4 might have been part of some kind of plan to move the king to g5. The game had actually been fairly level all the way through. Black played 52...Qe5+ just as a check. It was not a trap, but white made it one by playing the ridiculous move 53.Qf4


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whereupon 53...h4+ settled his hash big time.

May-21-10  Dravus: A brilliant pawn sacrifice at the end to forcibly remove the king's guard of the queen in a diagonally-constricted position.
Dec-15-10
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  GrahamClayton: "Tschigorin and Bird played one of the best games of the tournamment yesterday. The Russian champion, who played Black, adopted the "Two Knights Defence". After the game was well developed he managed to win a pawn from Bird and immediately gained and advantage. Nevertheless the Londoner fought gallantly. Near the end he made another error by touching his queen instead of his king, but, by the inexorable rules of chess, he was obliged to move her, and that brought his play to an abrupt close."

Source: New York Times, April 13, 1889.

From that report, it seems that Bird wanted to play 53.♔g2, but accidentally touched his Queen, and thus was forced to play 53.♕f4??.

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