The game between Dawid Przepiorka, representing Poland and Erich Eliskases, an Austrian born chess player took place in Hamburg, Germany, 1930. Play, solve and comment
Wilhelm Steinitz vs. Herbert Trenchard
Wilhelm Steinitz vs. Herbert Trenchard, New York, 1887.
White to move and mate in 2.
Roll over to see the solution: 1.Ne7 Nxf5 2.Qg6#
FEN: r2qrb2/p1pn1Qp1/1p4Nk/4PR2/3n4/7N/P5PP/R6K w - - 0 1
About the players
Wilhelm Steinitz (1834-1900) was an Austrian and later American chess Master. He was the first World Chess Champion between 1886 and 1894, when he lost the title to Emanuel Lasker. 5 articles on Wilhelm Steinitz
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Qg3-g6 h7xg6
f5xg6
It seems to me that the solution is not correct or the panel is not correct.
Solving the panel shown above i did
Ng6f4 Qd8-g5
Nh3xg5 Nd4xf5
Qf7-h5#
The key is to move the white knight from g6 goes to e7 to block the black queen. Then black can do a number of moves – if he moves a knight, white mates with Qg6; it he does Bxf7, white mates with Qh5; if he moves the pawn to g6, white mates with Qxg6.
Ng6-e7 Bf8xe7
Rf5-h5#
Ne7 Bxe7
Qh5