Game #109 from Irving Chernev's 1000 Best Short Games of Chess.

Taylor - Amateur, Thorpe 1874


Our guest reader today is Benji.  Thanks Benji :-)


This is another hacky King's Gambit from the 19th century. Funtimes.

Features a couple of mistakes from me. Also, that low hum you can hear in the background when I'm speaking? That's my mic picking up the boiler that was stopping me from freezing to death whilst I was recording.





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