Piece Hang From a World Championship Match

Okay, so maybe you're thinking, "It's probably another one of those things where some super-GM resigns because he's forced to lose a piece 10 moves later."

Nope...it's nothing like that. :) Admittedly we're going well back in the archives...before there were even GMs. Or lights. Yep, Steinitz was still just a squirt back then, so an actual official World Championship Match was well off in the future.

But much as the 1980s had its K vs K, the 1840s had their STA vs STA. I'm talking Staunton and St Amant (and remember how Bobby himself said that Howard was an alltime genius at openings!).

Maybe the oddest thing about this game (or "partie," as they used to call em back then)--I mean, besides the fact that it wasn't played online!-- :D is that The Saint kept right on playing afterwards. On and on. You know, like Staunton would never be able to haul that gift into the boat.

Incidentally, the first time I ever played out this game I stopped automatically right after ... Rad8. Set em back up and played it out again. And came to the exact same position. :)