瑪琪雅朵咖啡 (Caffè macchiato)

Gerolamo Tassinari – James Thompson
Paris, 1855
Evans Gambit C52

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4!? Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4. Howard Staunton’s idea. 6. ... exd4 7. 0-0 Bb6. A camouflage. 7. ... d3 transposes into Anderssen – Dufresne, Berlin 1852 — the Evergreen Game! — and 7. ... d6 8. cxd4 Bb6 into the so-called Normal Position — in fact a “tabiya”. 8. Ba3!? An original idea. After 8. cxd4 d6 White can choose among 9. Bb2, 9. d5 (Anderssen), 9. h3 (McDonnell) and 9. Nc3 (Morphy). 8. ... d3?! I don’t like this move. In another partie of the series the American player rightly preferred 8. ... d6 9. e5 Nxe5 10. Re1 Be6 11. Nxe5 dxe5 12. Bxe6 fxe6 13. Qh5+ g6 14. Qxe5 Qf6 with some advantage to Black, Tassinari – Thompson, Paris 1855. 9. Qb3 Nh6 10. e5 Na5 11. Qa4 Nxc4 12. Qxc4 c5 13. Qd5. Clearly not 13. Bxc5?? on account of 13. ... Qc7−+ and finis. 13. ... Qc7 14. Nbd2 0-0 15. Nc4. “Mr. Tassinari will keep his advantage to the end with great vigor and skill”, wrote — a little too hastily — La Régence. 15. ... Nf5 16. Qxd3 Ne7 17. Ng5 Ng6 18. f4 h6

19. Nxf7! Well played! 19. ... Rxf7? The crisis. Correct is 19. ... d5! 20. Nxh6+!? (White can play more confidently 20. Qxg6 Qxf7 21. Qxf7+ Kxf7 22. Nd6 Rc7 23. f5 with a slight plus) 20. ... Kh7 21. Qxd5 gxh6 23. e6 and White has interesting compensation for his material disadvantage. 20. Qxg6 Rf8 21. Nd6. Now it’s over. 21. ... a6 22. c4 Ba5 23. Bb2 b5 24. f5 1 : 0. Source: La Régence, No. 5, May 1856, 15, page 144.