Morphy, Paul VS Boden, Samuel Standidge 1858.08.??

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Morphy against Boden, London 1858 — a casual Scotch Gambit. Notes by Löwenthal.

1. 9…Na5 Kt. to K's 4th were decidedly better.
2. 12…Bg4 P. to K. Kt's 4th would have been injudicious, as White might have taken it with Kt., and gained an advantage.
3. 17…Kh7 To defend the K. R. P., which would otherwise have been taken by White's Queen after the exchanges of Kt. takes B., and Q. B. takes K's Kt.
4. 21.Nh4 A good move, paving the way for the advance of the B's P.
5. 24.e5 Obtaining a fine attack.
6. 25…Kf7 It would be difficult, at this point, to determine on a line of defence satisfactory for Black, his game is now so much inferior to that of his adversary.
7. 30…Qf6 Q. to Q's 5th (ch.) would have been equally ineffective, as White would have exchanged Queens, and then won by pushing P. to B's 6th (ch.), &c.

J. Löwenthal, Morphy's Games of Chess (1860) · Public domain · source