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| | MorphyAnderssen |
 | | This game, as Morphy told Edge afterwards, "proved to him that the Evan's Gambit is indubitably a lost game for the first player, if the defense is carefully played; inasmuch as the former can never recover the gambit pawn,and the position, supposed to be aquired in the outset, cannot be maintained." |
 | | With us, the exertion that a game requires is only a matter of distraction, and lasts only as long as the game gives us pleasure; with him, it is a sacred duty! |
 | | His figuring is, in general, not of remarkable, or even tiring duration; he always takes as much time as such a tireless and experienced thinker requires depending on the position, but never makes the impression of useless and tormented pressure or stress - an impression I occassionally had with Staunton. |
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