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| Walbrodt |
The American Chess Monthly was edited by Daniel W. Fiske and co-edited for a time by Paul Morphy that was published from 1857 to 1861. Everybody knows who Paul Morphy (1837-1884) was, but few are likely to be familiar with Daniel W. Fiske (1931-1904). He was a driving force in American chess in his time. He is in rhe chess Hall of Fame and you can read about him HERE.
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| Golmayo |
The winner was the German player Carl Walbrodt (1871-1902) who was born in Amsterdam, He learned to play chess from his father. Walbrodt was German co-champion with Curt von Bardeleben in 1893. Gor a while he erved as editor of Berliner Schachzeitung.
Regarded as a talented player, Walbrodt died in Berlin at the age of 30 from tuberculosis. Chess metrics estimates his highest rating to have been 2706 in October of 1893, ranking him #5 in the world behind Lasker, Tarrasch, Chigorin and Steinitz.
Manuel Golmayo–Cark Walbrodt0–1Havana10.1899Stockfish 17
C66: Ruy Lopez: Steinitz Defense 1.e4 e5 2.f3 c6 3.d4 exd4 4.xd4 d6 5.b5 d7 6.0-0 f6 7.c3 e7 8.f4 While this is not bad it has an element
of risk because it opens up the K-side. Capturing twice on c6 is rock solid. 0-0 9.xc6 9.xc6 bxc6 10.f5 b8 11.f3 e8 12.h1 f8 Black is better.
Almasi,Z (2650)-Kulashko,A (2390) Elista ol (Men) 1998 9...xc6 10.d3
Apparently white has dreams of attacking on the K-side and so places his B
where it aims at h7. While 10.Bd3 is hardly bad taking on c6 was more prudent. d7 11.h1 So as to advance the g-Pawn. ae8 12.h3 This is part of his
strategy to advance the g-Pawn, but black seized the initiative with his next
move. White's safest course of action was to play the banal 12.Bd2 completing
his deveelopment and connecting his Rs. The great Australian teacher C.J.S.
Purdy used to remind his readers that one's development was not complete until
the Rs were connected. d5 There is no really good way to meet this. 13.e5
White does not recover from this. 13.xd5 Capturing with the P simply
transposes. xd5 14.exd5 xd5 15.f3 a5 16.g3 f6 with an excellent
position. 13...d4 White may not have expected this. 14.h2 This gets
the K out of the line of fire of the B and prevents ...Qxh3+, but white has
paid a high price for his indiscretion ay move 12. 14.exf6 gets him mated. xh3+ 15.g1 xg2# 14.f5 Blocks ...Qxh3+, but it's no better. After dxc3 15.exf6 xf6 16.bxc3 xc3 17.b1 d5 White is also facing insurmountable
difficulties. 14...dxc3 15.exf6 xf6 16.bxc3 xc3 Watch
black's attack grow! 17.b1 d5 18.g4 18.f3 hoping black will grab the
useless a-Pawn is a better defense. xf3 But he wouldn't. 18...xa2 19.xh7+ Ths doesn't equalize, but it's the best white has. xh7 20.xc3-+ d5 21.f2 Black is clearly better. 19.gxf3 d8 and at least white is
holding on. 18...f5 19.g3 f6 Black still refrains from grbbing the
a-Pawn and instead stoke the fire on the K-side. 20.f2 At this point white
is completely busted. e1 Of course the Q cannot abandon its
protection of g2. 21.xe1 xe1 22.b4 Threatening to pin the Q. xc1 23.c4 Has black blundered? g6 24.d2 24.xd5+ xd5 White has no way of
defending g2 and the Q cannot afford to move out of danger. 25.b2 25.c5 xg2# 25...xg2+ 26.xg2 xg2 27.xg2 b6 Black has a won R+P ending. 24...d1 24...xg2+ Also wins... 25.xg2 xc4 26.xc4 xg2 27.xg2 c6
with a won ending. 25.xd1 25.xd5+ is equally hopeless. xd5 26.e2 26.xd1 xg2+ 27.h1 d2+ 26...xg2+ 27.xg2 xg2 28.xg2 b6 25...xg2+ 26.h1 d2+ 27.f3 xc4 White resigned. 27...xc4 28.xc4 xf3+ 29.g1 g2+ 30.h1 30.f1 e2+ 31.xg2 xc4 30...xc2+ 0–1
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