1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 d5 4. Qa4 dxe4 5. Nxe5 Bd7 6. Nxd7 Qxd7 7. Qxe4+ Nge7 8. d4 O-O-O 9. Bb5 Nd5 10. Bxc6 bxc6 11. Be3? f5 12. Qd3 f4 13. Bd2 Re8+

"White's Bishop has lost a move, and the King goes to the wrong square. He should have answered 14. Kd1."

14. Kf1 g5 15. Na3 h5 16. Nc4 h4

"Here White should reply 17. Na5 and maintain an advantage."

17. Ne5? Rxe5!

"Of course White cannot immediately recapture. Thus, as White has to check and afterwards come back, Black gains further time to mature his attack."

18. Qa6+ Kb8 19. dxe5 Bc5! 20. Qe2 h3!

"Every move a corker."

21. g4 fxg3 22. hxg3 h2! 23. g4 Qh7! 24. f3 Bg1! 25. Bxg5 Rf8 26. Bf6

"The combination on which White's [defence] has been placed will be found to have a fatal flaw. He submits to the loss of a rook expecting to imprison the Black Kt for future capture, while compelling exchange of Queens or else winning back the Rook with a Zigzag checking."

26... Ne3+ 27. Ke1 Nc2+ 28. Kd1 Nxa1 29. Qe4 Qh3!!

"Now what boots the zigzag ch? If (29... Qh3) 30. Qb4+ Bb6! (This was the overlooked flaw) 31. Qxf8+ Kb7 and if 32. Bg5 Qg2 wins.

30. Qe2 Rf7!

"The winning move again."

31. e6 Rxf6 32. e7 Rd6+ 33. Kc1 Qh6+!! 34. Kb1 Qh7+!! 35. Kxa1 Qxe7!! 36. Qf1 Qd7

"and wins".

"Heartiest congratulations to Mr. Baker on his well deserved victory!"

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Annotator(s): Neo-Chess (Porterfield Rynd) (see Source).

Source(s): Saturday Herald, December 21, 1907 p. 9.

Note: This was the Jewish club's first ever Armstrong Cup match, and the first known game of future Irish champion Baker. Neo-Chess's report names only the winning players on each side for this match (which finished 3-3), and White in this game is given only as “P.”. In the return match, “J. A. Porterfield” (one of Rynd's many pseudonyms) beat Baker.

The score as given in the Saturday Herald omits the moves 9. Bb5 Nd5 10. Bxc6 bxc6, which must be added somewhere for the sequel to make sense, and also ends with “36. Q-Q2 and wins”, which suggests a missing move, inferred here to be 36. Qf1.