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John Gocher vs Daniel Harrwitz
"Witz End" (game of the day Oct-27-2024)
Casual game (1859), London ENG
King's Gambit: Accepted. Kieseritsky Gambit Berlin Defense (C39)  ·  0-1

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Mar-07-03  ughaibu: Black makes all the usual mistakes, going after material, exposing his queen with an early check, neglecting his queenside developement.
Mar-07-03  regulator: but he still won
Mar-07-03  ughaibu: Yes, what's the moral to be drawn from this game?
Mar-07-03  drukenknight: a Kiseretsky gone horribly wrong. Harrwitz is a better player that many people dont know about, you can find a Dutch game of his w/ Morphy where he goes toe to toe with him then blows the end game. Here it looks like there is a better way to block the check perhaps: 9 Be3 NxR 10 Qe2 looking for a check on f6.
Mar-07-03  ughaibu: 9.Be2 was played successfully by Anderssen against Lange in a game we looked at a couple of months ago. White will lose a rook anyway so losing extra time by letting black capture with check looks wrong to me.
Mar-07-03  drukenknight: yes I agree, when you are down in material you dont want the other guy to be checking your K as well.
May-25-21
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  MissScarlett: This game is in the <Chess Player's Chronicle> of 1859, and is one of two given that Harrwitz played against <Mr. Grochey>, described as <President of the Ipswich Club>. John Gocher came from Ipswich, therefore, at some point, someone evidently made a correction on the assumption there had been a mix-up. On one hand, I haven't seen Gocher elsewhere described as the Ipswich club president, but, on the other, I can't find another reference to <Grochey> in connection with chess, in Ipswich or anywhere else. The same magazine gives the game J Gocher vs Harrwitz, 1859 in a later issue, but although I think that tips it further in favour of <Gocher>, it's hardly decisive.
Jul-22-22  LoveThatJoker: Game thirty-two from the 1869 book "Chess Brilliants" by John Odin Howard Taylor.

LTJ

Jul-22-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Does that book have Gocher or Grochey?
Jul-22-22  korger: It gives "Mr. John Gocher of Ipswich" as White for this game. The book is publicly accessible at https://www.google.com/books/editio....
Jul-22-22  LoveThatJoker: <MissScarlett> The information that <korger> has provided is correct.

"Herr Harrwitz wins of Mr. John Gocher of Ipswich."

LTJ

Oct-27-24  ahmed566: Good game by the black,
It is fantastic,
The black could take the game with fast endgame tactics that they were not expected by the white.
Oct-27-24
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  offramp: I thought John Gocher would have been the focus of a pun. In the UK there was a famous headline in a newspaper: <GOTCHA>. That was on the front page on <The Sun> about Kirill Shevchenko.

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