John Odin Howard Taylor vs Joseph Blackburne (1873)

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John Odin Howard Taylor vs Joseph Blackburne
Casual game (1873), Ipswich ENG, Nov-06
King's Gambit: Accepted. Allgaier Gambit Urusov Attack (C39) · 0-1

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Aug-28-21		MissScarlett: The <ILN> of November 20th 1873 carries a report of the East Anglian chess congress from <an Occasional Correspondent.>: <In fact, none of the games that came under my observation possessed any features of interest, except a series of skirmishes which took place, on Thursday evening, between Mr. Blackburne and a member of the Norwich Chess Club, whose health did not admit of his taking part in the tournament. One of these, in which Mr. Blackburne successfully played an entirely new defence to the Allgaier Gambit, attracted much attention, and I took it down for the benefit of your readers. On the third day Mr. Blackburne played eight games without sight of the board, displaying his well-known accuracy and rapidity in the performance of the wonderful feat. In one of the games the blindfold player allowed his opponent to repeat the moves of Morphy in the historical "Gambit Declined" played, in 1857, against Schulten. All went swimmingly for some fifteen moves, when suddenly Mr. Blackburne took it into his head to abandon the style of Schulten and to adopt that of Morphy; upon which his adversary, it is needless to say, had to accept the discarded role, and to experience the natural consequences.> Alas, the score of this latter game is not given. The opponents in the Allagier Gambit appear simply as <Mr. T.> and <Mr. B.>. I propose that the identity of <Mr. T>, and, indeed, the occasional correspondent, is none other than John Odin Howard Taylor.

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