Unknown Lasker Game

Unknown Lasker Game

Dundee Evening Telegraph, January 10, 1899

Emanuel Lasker – J. R. Henderson
Stirling, January 7, 1899
1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qe3 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bd2 Ng4 7. Qg3 Be7 8. O-O-O O-O 9. h3 Nf6 10. Nf3 Nh5 11. Qh2 f5 12. Bc4+ Kh8 13. g4 fxg4 14. hxg4 Bxg4 15. Be2 Rxf3 16. Rdg1 Rh3 17. Qg2 Rxh1 18. Rxh1 Bxe2 19. Nxe2 Nf6 20. Bc3 Ne5 21. Nf4 Nfg4 22. Kb1 Qe8 23. f3 Nh6 24. Nd5 Qf7 25. Rxh6 gxh6 26. f4 Rf8 27. Nxe7 Qxe7 28. fxe5 dxe5 ‘There were fully 30 moves after this before Herr Lasker resigned.’

The game is not in The Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker by Ken Whyld, but he does mention a simultaneous exhibition in Stirling in January 1899. Lasker played 25 games, won 24 and lost 1.


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