Edward Winter
(2011)
Page 115 of The Golden Treasury of Chess by Francis J. Wellmuth (Philadelphia, 1943)
Steinitz denied having lost such a game to Walter Grimshaw, describing it as bogus and a fraud. Below are the relevant texts from the International Chess Magazine, edited by Steinitz:
April 1891, page 118:
May 1891, pages 144-148:
June 1891, pages 170-171:
August 1891, pages 234-236:
September 1891, page 266:
The game-score was given in item 298 of unit three of Napier’s Amenities and Background of Chess-Play (New York, 1935) with this introduction:
‘Steinitz is here seen trying a debatable defense. Such games are the master’s sketch-book – and his divining-rod.’
The game was dated ‘about 1872’, but when the item was reproduced on page 359 of the December 1952 Chess Review the date specified was 1878.
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