Their first game, a Sicilian, was drawn. In the second, a Ruy Lopez, a remarkable position arose on move 26 and Judd took the wrong Knight and then resigned.
Max Judd (1858-1906) was born in Cracow, Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1862. He was a cloak manufacturer who President Grover Cleveland appointed consular general to Austria.
His opponent was the prominent Philadelphia player Hermann Voight ( 1857-1922). Voigt's father was born in Germany, but came to the United States and was duly naturalized. Later he returned to Germany and Voigt was born in Saxony, but when he was about 14 years old the family returned to the US.
Herman Voight–Max Judd1–0C60Philadelphia07.08.1903Strockfish 16
C60: Ruy Lopez 1.e4 e5 2.f3 c6 3.b5 g6 At the time this was called
the Paulsen Defense. Today it's known as the Smyslov, or Fianchetto, or Barnes,
or Pillsbury Defense! It was briefly populat in the 1980s. It usually results
in quiet positions. 4.0-0 g7 5.c3 ge7 6.d4 exd4 7.cxd4 d5 8.e5 0-0 9.c3 The alternative is 9.h6, but the text is also perfectly acceptable. g4 10.e2 White coud also play 10.Be3 f5 11.e3 f6 With this type of
P-chain this move is generally effective. White mus play actively. 12.b3 12.exf6 leads to full equality after xe3 13.fxe3 xf6 14.b3 12...xe3 12...fxe5 is a bit more precise. 13.dxe5 xe5 14.xe5 xe2 15.xe2 xe5 16.c5 e8 Black is slightly better. 13.fxe3 fxe5 14.dxe5 e6 15.xb7 xe5 16.d4 More accurate would have been 16.Nxe5 because the N on e5 will
cause a problem for white. f7 17.a6 e7 Preventing Ne6 18.ae1 ab8 19.xa7 xb2 20.d1 At this point black has a considerable advantage owing to
his centralized and active pieces. b1 An anonymous annotator in the
Canadian magazine of the day, Checknate, made the odd comment, "Very good or
very bad, according to the way you look at it." In fact, this is black's best
move. 21.b3 d8 22.f2 d4 The annotator claimed this was excellent play
and it was a better move than Judd suspected. It;s a good move, but not really
spectacular. 23.exd4 23.xd4 was the only move that offers any chance of
survival. After h6 24.ff1 a1 with a slight advantage. 23...d3 24.xf7 This is a miscalculation. 24.Bxd3 offered better chances of defense. 24.xd3 xe1+ 25.f1 e7 26.xb1 xb3 27.a6 27.axb3 xd4+ 27...xd4+
and black is clearly better. 24...xf7 25.f1+ g8 26.xd3 A critical
position. Obviously black has to take a N, but which one? xd1
Wrong N! After the game they played several games after 26...Rxb3 and all were
drawn. Shootout results with Stockfish were that white lost all 5 games. 26...xb3 This is the only move that wins. 27.c4+ 27.axb3 xd4+ 27...h8 28.h1 xd4 29.a5 h3 Of course the R cannot be taken and black should
win after 30.f2 c3 The B cannot retreat to b3 because of 31...Qe2 31.a6 f8 32.d1 c1 33.xf8+ xf8 34.e2 c5 with a winning advantage. 27.xd1 Black resigned. 1–0
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