Originally posted by roma45
... well done lemondrop, do you have a copy of the game?
Morphy vs Duke Brinswack & Count Lemondrop, Paris Opera House, 1858
1. e4 f5 2. exf5 Kf7 { The "Prophetic Defense" first mentioend by Nostradamus in 1555. The plan is to lure White into making a precipitous attack which will be refuted by Fischer several hundred years in the future. } 3. a4 Kf6 4. a5 Kxf5 5. a6 { Black centralizes his king while Morphy doses off to sleep during an aria of "The Divorce of Figaro." } Nxa6 6. Ra5+ Kf4 { Black is now a clear pawn ahead and has developed two pieces; White has lost a center pawn and has poor development } 7. d4+ Ke4 8. Re5# { The Duke's time machine balks at the crucial moment and Fischer's refutation fails to materialize. 1 - 0 }