Re: Salmon vs Owen Birmingham 1858

Jeremy Spinrad wrote:

> Salmon played 2 games which I feel are very nice in crushing Szabo in the
> Birmingham 1858 tournament. He then apparently lost 2-0 to Owen, but where are
> the games? I would like to see them; they are not in the Oxford book.

  They're in Oxford Encyclopedia of Chess Games, p. 250. The index of that
book seems quite unreliable.

  For those who don't have the volume handy:

Salmon,G - Szabó,G
Birmingham, 24.07.1858 [probably misprint for 24.08]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5 4.dxe5 fxe4 5.Ng5 d5 6.e6 Bc5 7.Nxe4 dxe4 8.Qh5+ g6
9.Qxc5 Bxe6 10.Qe5 Qf6 11.Qxe4 Nc6 12.Bc4 Kf7 13.0-0 Re8 14.Nc3 Nge7 15.Nb5 Rc8
16.Bf4 Bxc4 17.Qxc4+ Kg7 18.Nxc7 h6 19.Bd2 Nd4 20.Qxd4 Qxd4 21.Ne6+ 1-0

(Source is claimed to be M324-1865, and so should belong to the Murray collection
at Oxford. But it's not stated just what M324 refers to, as far as I can find.
Staunton seems to have annotated the game in Illustrated London News in 1865.
All the scores in OECG are from several different sources.)

Szabó,G - Salmon,G
Birmingham, 24.08.1858

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.0-0 0-0 6.d3 d6 7.Ne2 Bg4 8.c3 Bxf3
9.gxf3 Nh5 10.Ng3 Nf4 11.d4 Bb6 12.Bxf4 exf4 13.Ne2 Qh4 14.Qd2 g5 15.Kh1 Kh8
16.Rg1 Qxf2 17.Raf1 Qh4 18.Rg4 Qh5 19.Rfg1 Ne5 20.Nxf4 gxf4 21.dxe5 Bxg1
22.Qxf4 Qxh2+ 23.Qxh2 Bxh2 24.Kxh2 dxe5 25.Rg5 f6 26.Rg4 Rad8 27.Rg2 f5
28.Kh3 fxe4 29.fxe4 Rf4 0-1

(Same source as above: M324-1865, whatever it is, and also annotated by Staunton
in ILN).

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