Mor Testa vs Stasch Mlotkowski (1917)

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Mor Testa vs Stasch Mlotkowski
Los Angeles Match (1917), Los Angeles Chess Club
King's Gambit: Accepted. Rosentreter-Testa Gambit (C37) · 1-0

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Feb-19-09		YoungEd: I think there might be a typo in Black's name; could very well be Stach Mlotkowski.

Jan-06-18		GrahamClayton: Position after 27. ♗e6+: click for larger view All of white's pieces are centralised and in the centre of the baord, whereas the Black rooks and knights are poorly placed on the edges of the board.

May-06-25		NewspaperChessArchiv: From The Los Angeles Times, Chess, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, October 07, 1917 GAME NO. 65—ROSENTRETER'S GAMBIT. (Notes by S. Mlotkowski.) Offhand game recently played at the clubrooms, Mr. Testa, director, actor and scenerio-writer with the Universal, got a strangle hold on me in the early stages, which I was never able to shake off. 4. … g4 (a) This move should lead to only an even game, so probably B-N2 is better. 5. Bxf4 … (b) This must be the Testa Gambit. The original idea of the Rosentreter Gambit is to play N-K5 here. Then 5. … Q-R5ch; 6. P-N3 PxP; 7. QxP. Now Black's best is QxQ leading to equality. If 7. … P-N7 dis ch; 8. QxQ PxR(Q); 9. N-B3 and, according to the present analysis of this opening, White, although a rook behind, has a winning game. 6. … d5 (c) B-N2 was better. 7. exd5 … (d) B-K5 was of deceptive strength. The move made is better. 7. … Bd6 (e) Again B-N2 was preferable. 8. … Bd7 (f) As the king must soon move anyway, perhaps K-B1 now was best. 9. … cxd6 (g) BxB was no better. Black has a bad, probably a lost, game now. 10. … f6 (h) The only move; N-R3 would have been still worse. 12. … a6 (i) Hoping White would play QxQPch, when I could force the exchange of queens by Q-K2. 13. Bd3 … (j) Much better than QxPch or exchanging bishops. Black is left badly tied up. 13. … Qb6 (k) Stopping N-K4 for the moment, but the queen must soon retreat. Probably B-N4, offering a pawn to free the game, was better. 20. c4 … (l) Best. White has an easily winning advantage. 22. d5 … (m) Preventing the knight from developing at B3 and it cannot well develop at Q2 on account of P-B5. 31. … Rb4 (n) To play R-Q5 in answer to P-B5. 36. Rc7 … (o) The quickest way to win. White's play has been especially fine all through. https://fischer-notes.blogspot.com/...

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