(1) McQuigg - Middleton [C02]
PNCCA 4th Grand National, Southern Div., 1900
[Notes by Hermann Helms]



1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Nbd2
Allowing the d pawn to go, presumably with premeditation.

6...cxd4 7.cxd4 Nxd4 8.Nxd4 Qxd4 9.Bb5+ Bd7
Better than moving the King at once.

10.Bxd7+ Kxd7 11.Qe2 Bb4
[ He must develop the Kingside at any cost; 11...Nh6 is the alternative.]

12.0-0
[ 12.Qb5+ would not do, for after 12...Kd8 13.Qxb7 Qxe5+ 14.Kf1 Qb8 with the better game.]

12...a6
[ Black would be safer by 12...Bxd2 exchanging his Bishop for the Knight, even though by doing so he brings the White Rooks more quickly into action. Then might come ...a6, followed duly by ...Ne7 and ...Nc6. White would still have fine opportunities for attack, but he would find the defense more difficult to negotiate than appears at first sight.]

13.Nb3 Qh4 14.Rd1 Qd8
[ A reversal of moves now proves at once fatal. He should have retreated the Bishop by 14...Bf8 before bringing the Queen home.; Curiously, if 14...Be7 then 15.Rd4 corners her majesty. Qg4 should not have been permitted at the time.]

15.Qg4 Bf8 16.Rxd5+ Ke8 17.Rxd8+
And White won after 30 moves. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 10, 1900 1-0