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Joseph Blackburne vs Cuthbertson
BCA-02.Challenge Cup (1868), London ENG, rd 5, Dec-??
Scotch Game: Göring Gambit. Declined (C44)  ·  1-0

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Nov-26-02  morphynoman2: What a strong player was that Blackburne!
Nov-26-02  drukenknight: having won some material why does black then encourage opening of the file? 6...Qe7 seems simple and quiet
Nov-29-04  checkpat: 6 Nxc3 is more in the spirit of speedy development...
Nov-29-04  mack: Wow, this game looks hopelessly outdated. Obviously it was played in the 19th century, but a lot of Blackburne games look and feel very modern; this doesn't.
Nov-29-04  drukenknight: this reminds of a game from several days ago. At the end, each King was blockading a pair of enemy pawns, each pair was a pawn standing on 5th and 6th rank. It was out of sicilian, black had e/f pawns on 5th and 6th and white had like c/d pawns.
Nov-29-04
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  Sneaky: Very odd opening, yes. Check out this unsound but typically Blackburne opening here B Vergani vs Blackburne, 1895. It goes 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 c6!?

Anything for development! Viva Morphy!

To give a pawn for the development of a piece with tempo was considered to be a perfectly reasonable approach to the game. These days it's only special circumstances when theory approved on such strategy, namely the circumstances where theory hasn't analyzed the defense out to the last detail. Alas, the days of improvising the opening are over. That is, unless we play Fischerrandom.

Nov-29-04  percyblakeney: Talking about strange openings and Blackburne:
Blackburne vs J Noa, 1883
Blackburne vs Nimzowitsch, 1914
Nov-29-04  azaris: "...the game is inserted to show what
liberties we used to take with the openings in the sixties."

Those crazy care-free sixties! I guess no matter what period, there's always at least one Englishman who plays weird openings.

Oct-13-06  sneaky pete: After 25... Kxe6 26.Nxc7+ Kd7 27.Nxa8 Kc6 white would still have to work for his win.
Oct-25-08  thebribri8: I love Blackburne's comment to the liberties of the "sixties".

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