In those days it was a rare thing tp find Americana playing in Europe, but Preston Ware participated in Vienna in 1882 (see CROSSTABLE). It was one of the strongest tournaments ever with 18 of the best players of the day meeting in a double round event.
It was a bad tournament for the American representative Preston Ware, but he did score a win against the World Champion Wilhem Steinitz and he won the following King Hunt game against Max Weiss of Hungary.
Preston Ware Jr. (1821 – 1890, 68 years old) was a leading Boston player . He served as e President of the Boston Chess Club from 1868 to 1873. Ware and as President of the American Chess Foundation in 1872.
Ware made few few tournament appearances and they were mot especially successful, due in part to an offbeat opening repertoire. For example, in New York 1880 he played 1...a5 in all nine games with black and 1.a4 in two of his games with white. However, in his one international tournament (Vienna 1882), he defeated Steinitz. In that game Ware, as white, played the same opening as in the game below; it went 113 moves, Ware having a R+B+P vs. Steinitz’ R+P.
His opponent in the following game was Max Weiss (1857 – 1927, 69 years old), of Austria who had a short, but brillaint career. Chess metrics estimates his highest ever rating to have been 2727 in 1889 which place him at #4 in the world behind Steinitz, Gunsverg and Chigorin.
At New York in 1889 which was held to determine a challenger to Steinitz for the World Championship, Weiss tied for 1st with Mikhail Chigorin. Weiss drew the subsequent play-off match (+0 -0 =4), but then he quit chess for a banking career. In 1895, he did play a match against Georg Marco and won decisively (+5 -1 =1) , =1, -1). Also in 1895, he tied for first with Carl Schlechter in a tournament.
Preston Ware–Max Weiss1–0D00ViennaVienna AUH10.05.1882Stockfish 16
D00: Stonewall Attack 1.d4 d5 2.f4 Thos is a rather inusual way of
reaching the Stonewall and Ware used it to win a marathon game against
Steinitz in the same tournament. e6 3.f3 f6 4.e3 d6 5.d3 c5 6.c3 c6 7.0-0 a6 7...c7 8.e5 b6 9.d2 b7 10.e2 0-0 11.g4 Black has
sufficient defensive resources against white's attack. The chances are equal.
Schwan,W-Przepiorka,D Barmen 1905 ½-½ (41) 7...e4 8.e5 cxd4 9.exd4 0-0 10.d2 f5 11.g4 Black has a very slight advantage. Harriott,T (1892)-Al
Tarbosh,W (2283) chess.com INT 2023 8.d2 It's strange that with white
having 6 Ps on black squares that this bad B which seems to have no prospects
actully finds a useful position outside the P-chain. Also, very often in the
Stnewall white plays Bbd2 to prevent black from playing ...Ne4, but Ware has
an interesting idea in mind. 0-0 9.a3 b6 10.h3 b7 11.e1 e4 12.bd2 xd2 13.xd2 a5 This is a wasste of time...the threat of ...Nb3 is an empty one. 13...e7 keeps the N handy for defense and is much more useful. According
to Komodo 14 (Human) play might continue... 14.g4 c4 15.c2 e8 16.g3 f6 17.fe1 c6 18.a4 d7 19.g2 g6 20.f2 b5 21.axb5 axb5 22.g5 f5
with a completely equal position. 13...e7 and Stockfish 16 continues 14.d1 a5 15.g4 d7 16.c2 h8 17.e2 f6 18.f2 c6 19.g2 a4 20.c1 c4 21.b1 b5 22.h4 f5 and white is slightly better. 14.d1 c4 15.e2 a5 16.h4 Finally white has solved the problem of his Dark squared B and he is now
prepared to launch a powerful K-side attack. However, Preston and at least one
pre-engine annotator mussed an even better move. 16.xh7+
leaves black in dire straits. However, working out the complications OTB would
be extremely difficult. xh7 16...h8 17.dxc5 bxc5 18.g5 f6 19.b4 c4 20.d3 and white is winning. 17.g5+ g6 The K is surprising safe here,
but white still has a very strong attack. 18.e4 f5 19.xe6 f6 20.exf5+ 20.xf8+ xf8 21.e5 e6 with good defensive possibilities. 20...h7 21.g4 f7 22.g5+ g8 23.h5 xf5 24.g4 g6 25.h4 f6 26.xf7 xf7 27.f5
with a strong attack. 16...c7 16...e8 offers stiffer resistance. 17.g5 17.xh7+ xh7 18.g5+ h6 White has no effective way to continue the
attack and so it is black who stands better. 17...f5 17...h6 18.h7 18.g4 and black;s defense should hold. 17.g5 He could still sacrifice on h7,
but the text is superior. h6 18.h5 c4 For all the moves this N has made
it has accomplished nothing. Somewhat better would have been 18...Bc8 to
defend e6. 19.xe6 fxe6 20.g6 f5 21.xe6+ f7 22.g6! Now the threat
is 23 Q-R7ch, K-Bl; 24 Q-R8 mate. f8 23.h7 e8 Fleeing for his life in an
attempt to avoid mate. 24.g6 f8 This protects the g-Pawn, but
now the white f-Pawn threatens to complete the destruction of black's
position by moving to the 6th rank. Since the R cannot be saved, black's K
continues its flight. 25.f5 d7 26.xf7 xe3 27.e6+ c6 28.g6 d6
Weiss is desperately trying to improvise a shelter for his homeless K. 29.fe1 xd1 The desired effect of his 18th move has finally been achieved, but
to no avail. 30.xd1 c4 Black is only a P down and he has fended off mate
and so now he attempts to close up the Q-side. 31.xd5+ Ware
continues his relentless King hunt. xd5 31...b5 32.xb7 xb7 33.xd6 a5 34.e6 a4 35.d5 and it's clear that white is winning. 32.e6+ White
mates in 16!. c6 33.xc4+ d7 34.e6+ c6 35.d5+ b5 36.e2+ a4 37.c2+ b5 38.a4+ Black resigned 38.a4+ a5 39.b4+ xb4 40.cxb4+ xb4 41.b1+ a5 42.e1+ c3 43.xc3# It's paradoxical that the once bad looking B
delivers the mate! 1–0
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