Utterberg: De la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell, 1834: The Eighty-Five Games of Their Six Chess Matches OHNE BILD Using instructive and entertaining games

Using instructive and entertaining games in which one side wins quickly

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was taken to hospital after 21 rounds and had to withdraw

“One of the most important chess books ever written

Such an approach is much more natural than the modern fianchetto systems against the Queen's Indian Defence

Utterberg: De la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell, 1834: The Eighty-Five Games of Their Six Chess Matches OHNE BILD Using instructive and entertaining gamesThe meeting of Louis Charles Mahe de la Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell at London's Westminster Chess Club in 1834 was notable for a number of reasons. Hard earned reputations were zealously protected, and masters of equal standing had seldom faced each other on even terms. The chess world was watching closely, but it was the actions of spectator William Greenwood Walker, who recorded each move of the 85 games, that has had the greatest impact.