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Louis Paulsen vs William Fuller
Blindfold simul, 3b (1857) (blindfold), New York, NY USA, Oct-03
Four Knights Game: Italian Variation. Noa Gambit (C47)  ·  0-1

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Sep-23-23
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  FSR: An important game! It is the first in the database where Black in the Italian Four Knights Game found the fork trick 4...Nxe4! In eight prior games Black (including luminaries like Del Rio, Saint-Amant, Cochrane, von der Lasa, Loewenthal, and Paulsen himself) missed it - or didn't play it, at any rate. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... And Fuller crushed Paulsen, one of the best players in the world, http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/cm2/... in fine fashion!

Oddly, it was only 12 years later that someone - Zukertort - followed Fuller's lead. E Zoltowski vs Zukertort, 1869. Giants like Morphy and Steinitz had not. See de Riviere vs Morphy, 1863 and V Green vs Steinitz, 1863. Today most players avoid 4.Bc4 in the Four Knights, precisely because of Fuller's novelty. Bravo!

Sep-23-23
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  Sally Simpson: Hi FSR,

It was most likely frowned upon (4..Nxe4) because White, as in this game, can sac on f7 and get the piece back right away. Their analysis stopping there judging it bad for Black. Might be interesting to see what Staunton says, if anything, about it in his 1847 Handbook.

Maybe Fuller thought '...he is playing me and two others blindfold, he might miss 5.Nxe4' :)

Sep-24-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Many moons ago, I got a mess of experience in 5.Bxf7+ one night in Cantabrigia:

X Beharry vs G Hjorth, 1986

Sep-25-23
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  Sally Simpson: Maybe one day I'll look at my early books, Walker, Lewis, Staunton... to see if anyone has tossed in a by the by note. 4...Nxe4 intending 5.Nxe4 d5 is not good because White can play 5.Bxf7+ etc or perhaps pointing the reader towards 5.Bd3.

Because as FSR says, quite a few good players have had the chance to play it but shield-away from it.

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