[Event "Postcard tourney USA-UK"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1877.??.??"]
[Round "14.1"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Frech, Jacob (USA)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C54"]
[Annotator "CPC 1878 pp135-7; Monck; Harding"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "1877.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{CPC 1878 pp. 135-7 says the first 11 moves on each side are taken from
Staunton's 'Handbook', pp. 103-5, when he pronounces the game equal. They were,
with White's 12th move, sent by Mr Monck to Mr Frech, and accepted by that
gentleman. Mr Monck overlooked that Mr Staunton subsequently altered his
opinion of this opening, and pronounced in favour of Black ("Praxis" p.112).
This game also appeared in Monck's column in Our SChool Times 16 Sept. 1879.} 
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. e5 d5 7. Bb5 Ne4 8.
Bxc6+ bxc6 9. cxd4 Bb6 10. O-O Bg4 11. Be3 O-O {
CPC: White's 12th move, however, is a blunder, he should have played} 12. Nc3
$2 (12. Qc2) 12... f5 13. g3 $2 (13. Qc1 {CPC}) 13... Qe8 14. Kg2 Qh5 15. h4 f4
$1 $19 16. Nxe4 {In OST, Monck wrote: 'This is compulsory or Balck will win by
playing 16...Ng5.' Monck disagreed with a note in the Glasgow 'Evening News
and Star' of 11 April 1878, saying he believed his 16th was not a
miscalculation but the best on the board. He analysed the altermative in a
letter appearing two weeks later in the paper (25 April 1878)} (16. Bxf4 Ng5 (
16... Rxf4 $145 17. gxf4 Nd2 {is the winning line for Black given in CPC}) (
16... Nxc3 $145 17. bxc3 g5 {is also highly effective}) 17. hxg5 (17. Bxg5
Bxf3+ {winning the Q}) 17... Qh3+ 18. Kg1 Rxf4 19. gxf4 Bxf3 20. Qxf3 Qxf3 $19)
(16. Bc1 Ng5 17. hxg5 Qh3+ 18. Kg1 fxg3 19. fxg3 (19. Qd3 Bxf3 20. fxg3 Qxg3#)
19... Qxg3+ 20. Kh1 Rxf3 21. Qe2 Rxf1+ 22. Qxf1 Bf3+) 16... fxe3 17. fxe3 Bxf3+
18. Rxf3 Qxf3+ 19. Qxf3 Rxf3 20. Kxf3 Rf8+ 21. Kg2 (21. Ke2 {
is certainly better}) 21... dxe4 22. b4 Rf3 23. Re1 Kf7 24. Rf1 Rxf1 25. Kxf1
Ke6 26. g4 a5 27. a3 axb4 28. axb4 c5 29. bxc5 Bxc5 {
A perfectly sound sacrifice and the shortest road to victory} 30. dxc5 Kxe5 31.
Ke2 {Best said Monck in OST} 31... Kd5 32. Kd2 Kxc5 33. Kc3 c6 34. g5 g6 35.
Kb3 Kb5 36. Kc3 c5 37. Kb3 c4+ 38. Ka3 Ka5 39. Kb2 Kb4 40. Kc2 c3 41. Kc1 Kb3
42. Kb1 c2+ 43. Kc1 Kc3 44. h5 Kd3 (44... gxh5 $4 45. g6 hxg6 {stalemate}) 45.
h6 Kxe3 {More notes in CPC} 0-1

[Event "Postcard tourney USA-UK"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1877.??.??"]
[Round "14.2"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Frech, Jacob (USA)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C44"]
[Annotator "Monck; G. F. Barry"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "1877.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{This game was first published by Monck in his column for Our School Times, 1
March 1879: "The conductors of thus tourney suggested that, to save time, the
players should send each other several moves of an opening ending in an equal
position. Mr Monck accordingly selected the first ten moves on each side from
an opening described as eqwual in Staunton's Handbook, adding his own 11th
move. The moves so sent were accepted by Mr Frech."   G. F. Barry in the Irish
Fireside 11 Feb 1884. 'The following game was played in the International Post
Card Tourney between Mr W H S Monck, Dublin, and Mr Jacob Frech, Washington, U.
S. These players won two games each.'} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4
Bb4+ 5. c3 dxc3 6. O-O c2 7. Qxc2 d6 8. a3 Bc5 9. b4 Bb6 ({GFB: Mr Gossip, in
his 'Chess Players' Manual', gives the following continuation:} 9... Nd4 10.
Bxf7+ Kf8 11. Qd3 Qf6 12. Bh5) 10. Bb2 Nf6 {GFB: To shorten the correspondence
the moves up to this point, where Staunton in the 'Handbook' pronounces the
game about even, were sent by Mr Monck, and accepted by Mr Frech.} 11. Nc3 Nd4
{GFB: We fail to see the utility of this move.} 12. Nxd4 Bxd4 13. Rad1 Bxc3 14.
Qxc3 (14. Bxc3 {followed by e4-e5 would also be good play. (GFB)}) 14... O-O
15. e5 Ne8 16. f4 Be6 17. f5 {GFB: Better than} (17. Bd3 {
for then Black could reply by} 17... f5 {and on White playing} 18. exf6 Nxf6)
17... Bxc4 18. Qxc4 Qg5 19. Bc1 {Monck: From the 11th move, when actual play
commenced, up to this point, I believe White's moves in conducting the attack
are the best at his disposal, but this B is better posted at b2, and Black's
preceding move was probably played with the object of tempting White to play
Bc1. White, however, takes up the attack again immediately.   GFB: We prefer} (
19. Rd3 {then} 19... dxe5 20. f6 Nxf6 21. Rg3 Qh6 22. Bc1 Qh5 23. Rxf6 {&c.})
19... Qe7 20. f6 Qe6 21. Qh4 dxe5 22. fxg7 {Monck: I believe Black should
rather have taken this pawn with his king, but his position is not a promising
one in either event.} 22... Nxg7 23. Rf6 Qb3 24. Rdf1 Qc2 {
Monck: After this move, Black cannot save the game. He should have played} (
24... Qd3 {threatening to check at d4 next move, and excchange queens.}) 25.
Bh6 Kh8 26. Bxg7+ Kxg7 27. Qg5+ Kh8 28. Qxe5 Kg8 ({Monck:} 28... Rae8 {
here looks a promising move for Black, but the following continuation shows
that it would have equally lost the game:} 29. Re6+ f6 30. Rfxf6 Kg8 {
If Black checks with his Q, White wins it by interposing his Rook discovering
check.} 31. Rxe8 Qd1+ {"Q checks"} 32. Kf2 Qd2+ {"Q checks"} 33. Kg3 Qd3+ {
"Q checks"} 34. Kh4 Qc4+ {"Q checks"} 35. g4 {and White must win.}) 29. R6f3
Rfe8 30. Rg3+ {Resigns.  Barry:  If ...Kf8 mate follows in three moves. The
result of this game was at no time doubtful. Mr Monck appears to have had the
best position all through.} (30. Rg3+ {Monck: If Black plays} 30... Kf8 (30...
Qg6 31. Rxg6+ hxg6 32. Qxc7) 31. Qh8+ ({White can give checkmate in three
moves, whkch we leave to the reader to discover. White, however, did nots ee
this, and announced that in that event he would win Black's queen for a rook
or give checkmate in four moves.} 31. Rxf7+ $145 $1 {which Monck admitted (in
the Ayrshire Express) that his opponent pointed out when resigning.}) 31... Ke7
32. Re3+ {followed by} 32... Kd7 33. Qd4+ Kc6 34. Rc3+ {
winning the queen for a rook.}) 1-0

[Event "Postcard tourney USA-UK"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1877.??.??"]
[Round "14.3"]
[White "Frech, Jacob (USA)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C51"]
[Annotator "Argus & Express 19 July 1879"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "1877.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Argus & Express 19 July 1879} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 d5 5. Bxd5
Nxb4 6. Bb3 Nf6 7. Qe2 O-O 8. O-O Bg4 9. Bb2 Qe7 10. c3 Nc6 11. h3 Bh5 12. d3
Rad8 13. Nbd2 Rfe8 14. Rfe1 h6 15. Qf1 Bb6 16. Nh4 Kh7 17. Nf5 Qd7 18. Bc2 Bg6
19. Ng3 Nh5 20. Kh2 Nf4 21. Nf3 Re6 22. d4 exd4 23. Bb3 Ree8 24. Rad1 d3 25.
Bc1 Qd6 26. Kh1 Qf6 27. Bxf4 Qxf4 28. Bd5 Ne5 29. Nxe5 Rxe5 30. Rxd3 Rdxd5 31.
Rxd5 Rxd5 32. exd5 Bxf2 33. Ne2 Qe3 34. Rd1 Bh5 35. g4 Bg6 36. Rd4 Be4+ 37.
Rxe4 Qxe4+ 38. Kh2 Qf3 (38... Qf3 {White shortly afterwards resigned, his
position being such that he must sacrifice his pawns and afterwards move
either Q or Kt and lose.} 39. Nd4 $145 Bg3+ 40. Kg1 Bh2+) 0-1

[Event "Postcard tourney USA-UK"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1877.??.??"]
[Round "14.4"]
[White "Frech, Jacob (USA)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Annotator "Argus & Express 12/7/1879; HWT 1 May 79"]
[PlyCount "145"]
[EventDate "1877.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Argus & Express 12 July 1879; notes from Nottingham Express} 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4
Bc5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. O-O d6 5. h3 Nf6 6. Nc3 Be6 7. Bb3 Qd7 8. Kh2 O-O 9. d3 h6
10. Be3 Bb6 11. Ne2 Ne7 12. Ng3 Ng6 13. Qd2 Kh7 14. c4 c5 {The moves up to
this point were, as we understand, agreed upon by the combatants, they
occurred in actual play and can be found in Staunton's "Book of the
Tournament", the result being a draw.} 15. a4 (15. Ng1 $142 {idea f4}) 15...
Ng8 16. Ng1 N8e7 (16... f5 $142) 17. f4 exf4 18. Bxf4 Nxf4 19. Rxf4 Bc7 20. Rf3
f5 21. Raf1 Rf7 22. Kh1 g5 $2 (22... Raf8) 23. exf5 Bxf5 $2 (23... Nxf5) 24.
Nxf5 (24. Nh5 {threat g4, Bc2}) 24... Nxf5 $4 (24... Rxf5) 25. Qf2 Kg6 26. g4
$18 Raf8 27. gxf5+ Rxf5 28. Rxf5 Qxf5 29. Qxf5+ Rxf5 30. Rxf5 Kxf5 31. Ne2 g4
32. Bc2 gxh3 33. d4+ Kf6 34. d5 Ke5 35. Kh2 a6 36. Kxh3 Ba5 {Here White
ed to win in 43 moves; Monck thought it could be done one move quicker, but
annotator thinks it should be winnable much quicker.  Anyway no more moves
were published but Monck resigned after White's 72nd move (evidently many long
conditionals). See analysis in Hartford Weekly Times 1 May 1879, which said
four times Black put the analysis to the test by breaking away from the
conditionals, but was forced back into the main line, and Frech received
Monck';s cresignation five months after forwarding his original claim:} 37. Kg4
Bd2 38. b3 Be1 39. Bg6 Bd2 40. Kf3 Kf6 (40... b5 {was Frech's conditional line:
} 41. axb5 axb5 42. Be8 bxc4 43. bxc4 Bg5 44. Kg4 {... see Hartford paper}) 41.
Be8 Ke7 42. Bh5 Kf6 43. Ng3 Be1 44. Ne4+ Ke5 45. Be8 b6 46. Bd7 h5 47. Bc8 a5
48. Ng3 h4 49. Ne4 Bb4 50. Ng5 Kf6 51. Kg4 Be1 52. Nf3 h3 53. Kxh3 Bc3 54. Kg4
Kg6 55. Nh4+ Kf6 56. Nf5 Be5 57. Kh5 Kf7 58. Be6+ Kf8 59. Kg6 Ke8 60. Kh7 Kf8
61. Nh4 Bf6 62. Ng6+ Ke8 63. Kg8 Bg5 64. Bc8 Kd8 65. Ba6 Ke8 66. Bb5+ Kd8 67.
Kf7 Be3 68. Ke6 Kc7 69. Ne7 Bf4 70. Ng8 Be5 71. Nf6 Bg3 72. Ne8+ Kd8 73. Nxd6
1-0

[Event "Wm. Nash's first a-p-a tourney 1877-80"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1877.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Bryning, Isaac (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C65"]
[Annotator "Monck, Our School Times, 18 Dec 1879"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[EventDate "1877.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{From Monck's column in Our School Times, 18 Dec 1879. Event unstated but
almost certainly in the first Nash all-play-all tournament, in which it's
certain Monck beat Bryning.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d4 Nxe4 5. d5
Nd6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 $5 {The book move is 6...bxc6. I believe this is better.} 7.
dxc6 e4 8. Nd4 Qf6 9. Nc3 Qg6 10. Nd5 Qxg2 11. Rf1 Bh3 12. Ne3 (12. Nxc7+ Kd8
13. Nxa8 Qxf1+ 14. Kd2 Qxd1+ {and I doubt if White can save his Kt.}) 12...
Qxh2 13. Qh5 g6 14. Qd5 {
Well intended, but I believe he should have kept his Queen on the KR file.}
14... b6 15. f4 O-O-O {This I believe wins a piece, but Black's King is much
exposed. White, however, gives up the wrong piece apparently.} 16. Rf2 Qg1+ 17.
Nf1 Bxf1 18. Rxf1 Qg3+ 19. Rf2 e3 20. Bxe3 Qxe3+ 21. Re2 {Hoping, I presume,
to make use of the exposed position of Black's King, while the Queen is out of
play, and overlooking Black's 23rd move.} 21... Qg1+ 22. Kd2 Qxa1 23. Qb3 Qxb2
$1 (23... Qxb2 {Resigns.} 24. Qa4 (24. Qxb2 Nc4+) {
is useless on account of the reply} 24... Nc4+ {when, if White plays} 25. Ke1 {
Black forces the exchange of queens instead of taking the Kt with his R, which,
curiously enough, would lead to mate in 3 moves.} 25... Qb4+ (25... Rxd4 $4 26.
Re8+ Rd8 27. Qa6+ Kb8 28. Qb7#)) 0-1

[Event "Wm. Nash's first a-p-a tourney 1877-80"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1877.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Parker, J (Grimsby)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C58"]
[Annotator "W.Sussex Chronicle 20/8/1879"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "1877.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{West Sussex Co Chronicle 20 Aug 1879, v Parker of Grimsby, notes Downer?} 1.
e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8.
Bd3 {An experiment, probably} 8... h6 9. Ne4 Be7 10. Nxf6+ Bxf6 11. Be4 O-O 12.
d3 (12. b4 Qd4) 12... Be7 13. O-O Ba6 14. Bd2 f5 15. Bxa5 Qxa5 16. Bxc6 Rad8
17. Bf3 Bf6 18. Qd2 Qxd2 19. Nxd2 e4 20. Be2 Bxb2 21. Rad1 exd3 22. Bxd3 Bxd3
23. cxd3 Rxd3 24. Nc4 Rxd1 25. Rxd1 Bc3 26. Rc1 1/2-1/2

[Event "Wm. Nash's first a-p-a tourney 1877-80"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1877.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Pierce, William Timbrell"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C21"]
[Annotator "CPC 1879 p12"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "1877.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{CPC 1879 p12} 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Nf3 d5 4. e5 Bg4 5. Be2 Bxf3 6. Bxf3 Nc6
7. O-O f6 8. Bh5+ g6 9. exf6 Qxf6 10. Be2 Bc5 11. a3 Nge7 12. Ra2 a5 13. Bd3
Ne5 14. c3 O-O 15. b4 axb4 16. cxb4 Bxb4 17. Rb2 Bxa3 18. Nxa3 Rxa3 19. Bb1 Qh4
20. Re2 Ng4 21. h3 Rxh3 22. gxh3 Rf3 23. Qxd4 Rxh3 24. Kg2 {Diagram # Black
announced mate in 21 moves; a position based on this was given as Problem 184
in the CPC 1878 volume, but now they say the mate can be given in 16 moves.}
0-1

[Event "Wm. Nash's first a-p-a tourney 1877-80"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1877.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Sargent, D."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Annotator "Hull Miscellany 10 Aug 1878"]
[PlyCount "44"]
[EventDate "1877.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Hull Miscellany 10 Aug 1878 Monck of Dublin v Sargent of Hull} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3
Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. e5 d5 6. Bb5 Ne4 7. Nxd4 Bd7 8. e6 $2 fxe6 9. Bxc6
Bxc6 10. Nxe6 Qe7 11. Qh5+ Kd7 12. Nxf8+ Raxf8 13. Qg4+ Kd8 14. O-O Nxf2 15.
Qd4 $2 (15. Qg3) 15... Nh3+ 16. gxh3 Rxf1+ 17. Kxf1 Rf8+ 18. Bf4 g5 19. Kg1
Rxf4 20. Qh8+ Kd7 21. Qc3 d4 22. Nd2 Qe4 {and mates next move} 0-1

[Event "Bow Bells tourney??"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1879.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Shenele, Peter S (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C37"]
[Annotator "Preston Guardian 15/8/1883"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "1879.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Our School Times, 1 May 1882, with notes by Monck, event not stated but
evidently by correspondence and maybe in a tournament run by Bow Bells?
Preston Guardian 15/8/1883, event not stated. Monck said the game earlier
appeared in the Irish Times but with so many misprints as to make it
unintelligible.   (Weekly Irish Times 1 Nov 1879)} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3
g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. O-O gxf3 6. Qxf3 Bh6 $2 (6... Qf6) 7. d4 $1 Qf6 8. e5 Qf5 9. c3
$6 Ne7 10. Nd2 Nbc6 11. Ne4 Rf8 12. Bd2 b6 13. Bd3 Qe6 14. Qh5 Bg7 15. Rxf4 h6
16. Nf6+ Kd8 17. Nh7 Rg8 18. Rxf7 Bb7 19. Raf1 Kc8 20. Nf6 Bxf6 21. exf6 Nd8
22. Rg7 Nd5 23. Qg6 Nxf6 24. Rxf6 Rxg7 25. Qxg7 Qxa2 26. Rf8 Bc6 27. Rxd8+ Kb7
28. Rxa8 Kxa8 29. Qf8+ Kb7 30. Qa3 Qg8 31. Bf1 h5 32. Bg5 a5 33. h4 Qe6 34. Qf8
Qe1 35. Qf2 1-0

[Event "CPC Handicap tourney"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1879.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Bell, Rev J"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C24"]
[Annotator "CPC 1880 pp226-7"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "1879.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{CPC 1880 p26 notes partly by Monck} 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 Bc5 4. Bg5 c6 5.
Nf3 Qb6 6. O-O Qxb2 7. Nbd2 d6 8. Nb3 Qa3 9. Bc1 Qb4 10. a4 Qb6 11. Nxc5 dxc5
12. Nxe5 O-O 13. f4 Qc7 14. f5 Qxe5 15. Rb1 Qd4+ 16. Kh1 Nxe4 17. Bb2 Nf2+ 18.
Rxf2 Qxf2 19. Qg4 g6 20. Qg5 Re8 21. Bxf7+ Kf8 22. Bxe8 (22. Qh6+ $1 Kxf7 23.
Qg7#) 22... Bxf5 23. Qd8 Na6 24. Qxa8 Nc7 25. Qxb7 Nxe8 26. Qxh7 Qxc2 27. Qh8+
Kf7 28. Re1 Be6 29. Qh7+ Kf8 30. Rf1+ Bf5 31. Qxg6 Qxb2 32. Qxf5+ Ke7 33. Qxc5+
Nd6 34. Qxa7+ Nb7 35. Qb8 Ke6 36. Qg8+ Kd6 37. Qf8+ Kc7 38. Qf4+ Kb6 39. Qc1
1-0

[Event "Preston Guardian tourney-1 rd1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1879.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Clothier jr, J."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C51"]
[Annotator "Farrow, Royal Exchange 15/11/1879"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[EventDate "1879.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Royal Exchange 15 Nov 1879:Played in the 2nd RE tournament (which became the
first Preston Guardian tournament) More notes by Farrow in file.} 1. e4 e5 2.
Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bb6 5. O-O d6 6. c3 Bg4 7. b5 $2 (7. Be2) 7... Na5 8.
Bxf7+ {GWF: All sound and fury, signifying nothing
WHSM: An unsound sacrifice}
8... Kxf7 9. Nxe5+ {Desperate cases require desperate remedies} 9... dxe5 10.
Qxg4 Nf6 11. Qe2 Re8 12. Bb2 Qd6 13. Na3 Rad8 14. Nc4 Nxc4 15. Qxc4+ Re6 16. d4
exd4 17. cxd4 Nxe4 18. Rad1 Qd5 19. Qa4 Nd6 20. Qc2 Rg6 21. f3 Nxb5 22. Kh1 c6
23. Rfe1 Qxa2 24. Qf5+ Kg8 0-1

[Event "Preston Guardian tourney-1 rd1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1879.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Clothier jr, J."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A34"]
[Annotator "Royal Exchange 8 Nov 1879"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[EventDate "1879.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Royal Exchange 8 Nov 1879; This tournament was begun by RE but transferred to
the PG} 1. a3 c5 2. c4 e5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nf3 d5 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Bb5
Nxc3 8. bxc3 Bd6 9. d4 exd4 10. exd4 O-O 11. dxc5 Qe7+ 12. Be2 Bxc5 13. O-O Bg4
14. Ra2 Be6 15. c4 Rad8 16. Qb3 Na5 17. Qc3 Qc7 18. Rd2 Nxc4 $2 19. Bxc4 Bxc4
20. Bb2 {Discontinued, White having won the other game between the same players
} 1/2-1/2

[Event "William Nash's a-p-a tourney-2 1879-81"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1879.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Gossip, George Hatfeild D"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "Irish Fireside 3/12/1883; PG 29/8/18831"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "1879.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Irish Fireside, 3 December 1883, column by G.F. Barry.'Game played by
correspondence in Mr Nash's tourney, between Mr W H S Monck, one of the
strongest players of the Dublin Chess Club, and Mr G H D Gossip, author of the
'Theory of the Chess Openings'.} 1. e4 {MacDonnell; G.F. Barry} 1... e5 2. Nf3
Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O dxc3 8. Qb3 Qf6 9. e5 Qg6
10. Nxc3 Nge7 11. Ba3 {Some prefer} (11. Ne2) 11... b5 {
GFB: Black has here two other moves} (11... Rb8 {or}) (11... O-O {
either of which is, in our opinion, preferable to that adopted by Mr Gossip})
12. Nxb5 O-O {This move is recommended in Mr Gossip's own book.} (12... Rb8
$145 {Monck-Ranken}) 13. Bd3 Qh5 14. Nbd4 Re8 15. Bxe7 Nxe7 16. Ne2 Nc6 17. Qd5
Bb7 18. Ng3 Qh6 19. Nd4 (19. Bf5 {was intended, but instead of this move Mr
Monck, by a slip of the pen, sent off 19 B to K Kt5 which, being impossible,
Mr Gossip exacted the fullest penalty and required his opponent to play 19 Kt
to Q4. The game then proceeded}) 19... Rxe5 20. Qb3 Bb6 21. Ndf5 Qe6 22. Qb2 g6
{&c, and eventually Mr Monck, of course, lost the game.   FINAL MOVES NOW
ADDED from Preston Guardian of 29 aug 1883  We are always diffident in
remarking on corerspondence games, but, as far as we can judge from a casual
examination, we believe 19 Be4 to be the best move for White. 19 Bf5 no doubt
threatens to win the d-pawn, but then suppose it can be won - which is, we
think, very uncertain - the after-position scarcely warrants this venture. 
 [TH: Here we see the good positional judgment that made Barry at this time
the next strongest Irish amateur to Porterfield Rynd.]} 23. Ne3 Rb8 24. Rae1
Bd4 25. Qd2 d5 26. Ne2 Bb6 27. Nf4 Qd6 28. Ng4 Rxe1 29. Nh6+ Kf8 (29... Kg7 30.
Nh5+ {Monck in PG}) 30. Rxe1 Ba5 31. Qe3 Bxe1 32. Qf3 Ne5 33. Qe3 Nxd3 {
This game was also published with notes by Monck in Our School Times, 1 May
1882.} 0-1

[Event "William Nash's a-p-a tourney-2 1879-81"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1879.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Ranken, Charles Edward rev"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "MacDonnell; Monck;Barry; PG 3/11/1880"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "1879.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News v14 p603 (5 March 1881).  CHESS BY
CORRESPONDENCE. The Hon. Secretary of the Dublin Club has kindly forwarded to
us the following game lately played between Mr W. H. S. Monck and the Rev. C.
E. Ranken'  (event not stated but this is same game that appeared in the Irish
Fireside of 19 Nov 1883 with notes by G.F. Barry. Barry said the game was
played `882 but clearly it must have been 1880 or 1880-1.  Barry said it was
played 'in Mr Nash's Corresponding Tourney. Mr Ranken won all his other games
to take first prize.')} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6.
d4 exd4 7. O-O dxc3 8. Qb3 Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Nxc3 {According to Barry, the
moves were played in the reverse order, but 10 Nxc3 is what Monck gave in his
own notes in "Our School Times", 15 October 1880.} (10. Ba3 {
'In most forms of the Evans Gambit, this is a forcible move'.} 10... Nge7 11.
Nxc3) 10... Nge7 11. Ba3 b5 {GFB:We never could understand this spasmodic
attempt to get rid of the attack. Here it sacrifices a Pawn and brings the
White Kt into a most dangerous position, as will be seen presently.'} (11...
Rb8 {is a better move (says Barry), and he continues that 'at this point
Professor Wayte observes that}) (11... O-O {is preferable to ...b5. In quoting
the following continuation, by Dr Cohn, from the 'Schachzeitung', 1878:} 12.
Rad1 b5 13. Nxb5 Rb8 14. Bd3 Qh5 15. Qc2 {
he points out that Black, by now playing} 15... Re8 {might have much the best
of it, forcing the gain of the e-pawn in a few moves, giving up, if necessary,
the h-pawn in return, and winning in the endgame by his passed d-pawn and
c-pawn. He adds moreover that he prefers 15 Qa4 to 15 Qc2 for White, as
keeping more attack in hand. (See review by Wayte of Gossip's 'Theory of the
Openings'.)}) 12. Nxb5 Rb8 (12... O-O {
is stronger (says Barry); see game Monck-Gossip from the same event}) 13. Qa4 (
{GFB: Gossip says that} 13. Qe3 {is the best move. The one made is better, for
if Black now Castles he obviously loses a piece, and if he plays 13...a6 the
crushing reply 14 Nd6+ is decisive.}) ({GFB: We, however, prefer} 13. Bxe7 {
to either 13 Qe3 or 13 Qa4, e.g.} 13... Kxe7 14. Qa3+ Bb4 15. Qe3 Kd8 16. Ng5
Rf8 17. Rad1 {and White has a fine position.}) 13... Bb7 {Monck commented:
"Steinitz recommends this move as a safe defence to the Blackburne attack. He
doe snot, however, seem to have noticed the mode of attack adopted in this
game."} ({GAM: The fashionable move here used to be} 13... a6 {until about
five or six years ago, when Mr Blackburne and Mr MacDonnell severally and
simultaneously discomfited it by} 14. Nd6+) (13... Bb6 {is better (GFB)}) 14.
Rad1 {Monck analysed alternative sin his article for Our School Times (a
Londonderry grammar school magazine).} 14... Nxe5 {GFB: A compromising defence,
truly.  GAM: Castling was probably his best course.  Freeborough in the Hull
Packet of 26/11/1880 said Nash castled here in a recent game v Blackburne
(presumably in a simul - TH)} 15. Bxf7+ {GAM: Well played.  GFB: Mr Monck
finishes the game in a very neat and chess-like manner.} 15... Nxf7 16. Nxc7+ {
GAM: A vigorous and deadly stroke} 16... Kf8 {
GAM:Capturing the Kt would have involved the loss of at least half his pieces.}
17. Nh4 Qb6 18. Rxd7 Bc6 19. Rxe7 Bb4 (19... Bxa4 20. Re8#) 20. Bxb4 Qxb4 21.
Qxb4 Rxb4 22. Nf5 Re4 23. Ne6+ {GAM:Threatening a very neat finish; Black must
now lose the exchange or be mated} 23... Rxe6 {and Black resigned said GAM,
but Preston Guardian 3/11/1880 gave slightly longer version:} ({Otherwise} 
23... Kg8 {White mates thus} 24. Re8+ Bxe8 25. Ne7#) 24. Rxe6 Bd7 25. Rb1 {
'and wins'} 1-0

[Event "unknown event"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1879.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Lowe, EB."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Annotator "Chatto, Royal Exchange 4 Oct 1879"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "1879.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Royal Exchange 4 Oct 1879: 'Recently played by correspondence.' Event not
stated. Notes by Chatto, abbreviated} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. O-O Bc5
5. Nc3 d6 6. d3 Bg4 7. Be3 O-O 8. Ne2 Bxf3 9. gxf3 Nh5 $6 (9... Ne7) 10. f4 Qh4
11. Bxc5 dxc5 12. f5 Qg5+ $2 13. Kh1 Na5 14. Rg1 Qh4 15. Ng3 Nf4 16. Qf3 Nh3 (
16... Nxc4 $142) 17. Rg2 Nxc4 18. dxc4 Nf4 19. Rgg1 Rad8 20. Rad1 Nh3 21. Rgf1
b6 $2 22. Rd3 Rd4 (22... g6 23. f6 $140 Nf4) 23. Rxd4 cxd4 24. Qh5 Qxh5 25.
Nxh5 g6 $2 (25... Rd8 $11 {at least}) 26. Kg2 Nxf2 27. Kxf2 gxh5 28. Rg1+ Kh8
29. Rg5 h4 $2 (29... f6) 30. f6 Re8 31. Rg7 Rf8 32. Kg2 Rg8 33. Rxg8+ Kxg8 34.
Kh3 Kf8 35. Kg4 Ke8 36. Kf5 Kd7 37. Kxe5 c5 38. h3 Kc6 39. a4 a6 40. b3 Kd7 (
40... a5 {would prolong the game; Whit emust win by gaining the opposition})
41. Kd5 Kc7 42. e5 1-0

[Event "Bow Bells tourney?"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1880.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Shenele, Peter S (ENG)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C33"]
[Annotator "ILN 1/1/1881"]
[PlyCount "44"]
[EventDate "1880.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{ILN 1/1/1881 event unknown as Monck did not play Shenele in a Preston
Guardian tourney. Possibly a Bow Bells event. (Shenele then of Ilford, Essex)} 
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 g5 4. d4 Bg7 5. Qh5 $2 (5. h4 $142) 5... Qf6 6. e5
Qg6 7. Qe2 Ne7 8. Nf3 d5 9. exd6 cxd6 10. c3 Nbc6 11. h4 h6 12. hxg5 hxg5 13.
Rxh8+ Bxh8 14. Na3 a6 15. Bd2 Bf5 16. O-O-O (16. Kf2 $142) 16... b5 17. Bd5 Bd3
18. Qe1 Kd7 19. Bb3 Rc8 20. Qh1 Nb4 21. Ne1 {Diagram #} 21... Bb1 22. Nxb1 Qc2+
{and smothered mate next move} 0-1

[Event "CPC Handicap tourney-2 1880-2"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1880.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Clothier jr, J."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "Monck, CPC 4 Jan 1881"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "1880.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{CPC 4 Jan 1881 p5} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4
exd4 7. O-O dxc3 8. Qb3 Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Nxc3 Nge7 11. Ba3 b5 12. Nxb5 Rb8 13.
Qa4 Bb6 14. Rad1 O-O 15. Nxa7 Bxa7 (15... Ra8 16. Nxc6) 16. Bxe7 Nxe7 17. Qxa7
Qb6 18. Qa3 Qb4 19. Qd3 Rb6 20. Rb1 Qa5 21. Ng5 g6 22. Rxb6 Qxb6 23. Bxf7+ {
Not as good as it looks (Monck)} 23... Kg7 24. e6 dxe6 {Here I expected} (24...
Ba6 {but I believe I could have drawn if Black played it.}) 25. Qc3+ (25. Qh3
$143) 25... e5 26. Qxe5+ Qf6 27. Qxf6+ Kxf6 28. Nxh7+ Kxf7 29. Nxf8 Kxf8 30.
Rc1 c6 31. f4 Ke8 32. Kf2 Kd7 33. g4 Kd6 34. Kg3 Be6 35. a3 c5 36. h4 1/2-1/2

[Event "Preston Guardian tourney-1 rd2"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1880.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Turner, H."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Annotator "Preston Guardian 5/5/1880"]
[PlyCount "120"]
[EventDate "1880.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Preston Guardian 5/5/1880 Turner from Leigh nr. Manchester; notes by the
loser and by G.W. Farrow of Hull were published.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4
Bc5 4. O-O d6 5. c3 Bg4 6. d4 Bb6 7. d5 Nb8 8. h3 Bxf3 9. Qxf3 Qf6 10. Qe2 a6
11. Be3 Nd7 12. Na3 $6 Qg6 (12... O-O-O $2 13. Bxa6 bxa6 14. Qxa6+ {
threat Nb5 with strong attack (Monck)}) 13. Bd3 Ngf6 14. Bxb6 {White ahd the
worst of the other game so tried to set up an attack but it only helps his
opponent.} 14... Nxb6 15. f4 Nh5 16. f5 Qg5 17. Rf2 Nf4 18. Qe3 h5 19. Kh2 (19.
Kh1 $142) 19... h4 20. Be2 g6 21. Bg4 gxf5 22. Bxf5 Nbxd5 23. Qf3 Rg8 24. Rd1
Ne3 25. Qxe3 Qg3+ 26. Qxg3 hxg3+ 27. Kh1 gxf2 28. Bg4 Ke7 29. Kh2 Nd3 30. Rf1
Rg5 31. Be2 Rag8 32. g4 Nf4 33. Rxf2 Rh8 34. Rxf4 exf4 35. Nc2 d5 36. exd5 Rxd5
37. Nd4 Rxd4 $2 (37... c5 {Farrow}) 38. cxd4 c6 39. Bd3 Rd8 40. Bf5 Rxd4 41.
Kg2 Rd2+ 42. Kf3 Rxb2 43. Kxf4 f6 44. h4 Rf2+ $6 (44... Rxa2 $142) 45. Ke4 Rxf5
46. Kxf5 Kf7 47. Ke4 c5 48. Kd5 b6 49. a4 Kg6 50. a5 b5 51. Kxc5 f5 52. gxf5+
Kxf5 53. Kd5 Kg4 54. Ke4 Kxh4 55. Kf4 Kh5 56. Kf5 Kh6 57. Ke4 Kg6 58. Ke5 Kg5
59. Kd5 Kf5 60. Kc5 Ke6 {and White resigned in a few more moves. 'Mr Turner
informs us that the position after his 60th move is identical with the end
game given on diagram 99 in "Staunton's Handbook".'} 0-1

[Event "corr"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1880.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Stevens, GW (ENG)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C23"]
[Annotator "ILN 12/2/1881"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "1880.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{ILN 12/2/1881 (but corrected later to say that Monck was Black and won.)
Stevens of Coventry} 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. b4 Bxb4 4. f4 d5 5. exd5 e4 6. Ne2
Nf6 7. c3 Bc5 8. d4 exd3 9. Qxd3 O-O 10. Ba3 Bxa3 11. Nxa3 Bg4 12. O-O Bxe2 13.
Qxe2 Nxd5 14. Qf3 c6 15. Rab1 {So far as in Morphy-Mongredien, match 1859}
15... Qa5 (15... Qe7 {was Morphy's choice}) 16. Bxd5 cxd5 17. Rb3 {
As recommended by Lowenthal} 17... Nd7 18. c4 $2 dxc4 19. Rxb7 c3 20. Rxd7 Qxa3
21. Rc7 Rac8 22. Qb7 Rxc7 23. Qxc7 a6 24. Qc4 Qb2 25. Qxa6 c2 26. Qc4 Rd8 27.
Qb3 (27. Qe2 c1=Q) 27... Qxb3 28. axb3 Rd1 0-1

[Event "Preston Guardian tourney-2 rd2 1881-2"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1881.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Smith, Arthur (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C01"]
[Annotator "Preston Guardian 15/2/1882"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "1881.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Preston Guardian 15/2/1882, from Nottingham Express} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5
exd5 4. Nf3 Bd6 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. O-O O-O 7. c4 dxc4 8. Bxc4 Bg4 9. Be3 c6 10. Nbd2
Nbd7 11. Qb3 Qb6 12. Qc2 Rac8 13. Rac1 Bb8 14. Ng5 Qc7 15. Ndf3 h6 16. Nxf7 $2
{'This looks pretty, but is clearly the cause of the loss of the game.'} (16.
h3 $145 $8) 16... Bxf3 17. Ng5+ Kh8 18. Nxf3 Ng4 19. Ne5 Ndxe5 20. dxe5 Qxe5
21. g3 Qh5 22. h4 Bxg3 23. fxg3 Nxe3 24. Rxf8+ Rxf8 25. Qe2 Qe5 26. Qe1 Qd4 27.
Qc3 Qe4 28. Qd2 Nxc4 0-1

[Event "Preston Guardian tourney-2 rd-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1881.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Gunston, William Hewison"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C67"]
[Annotator "Preston Guardian 28/9/1881"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[EventDate "1881.12.02"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Be7 6. Qe2 Nd6 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8.
dxe5 Nb7 9. Nc3 Nc5 10. Nd4 Ba6 {Premature; White's exchange sacrifice was
evidently intentional. (Notes in PG by President of Nottingham Club, i.e. S.
Hamel)} 11. Qg4 $1 Bxf1 12. Qxg7 Rf8 13. Kxf1 Ne6 14. Nxe6 dxe6 15. Bh6 Qd4 16.
Rd1 Qh4 17. Qxh7 Rd8 (17... Bg5 $2 18. Qe4 $1 $18) 18. Rxd8+ Bxd8 19. g3 Qxh2
$2 (19... Qc4+ $142) 20. Qe4 $1 Qxh6 21. Qxc6+ Ke7 22. Nd5+ exd5 23. Qxh6 1-0

[Event "Preston Guardian tourney-2 rd-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1881.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Gunston, William Hewison"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C51"]
[Annotator "Preston Guardian 7 Dec 1881."]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "1881.12.02"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bb6 5. b5 Na5 6. Na3 Qe7 7. c3 Nf6 8. Qe2
d6 9. h3 h6 10. Nh2 Bd7 11. Nc2 Nxc4 12. Qxc4 Nh5 13. d3 Be6 14. Qb4 Qh4 15.
O-O Bc5 16. Qb2 Ng3 17. d4 Nxf1 18. Nf3 Qxe4 19. dxc5 Qe2 20. Na3 Qxb2 21. Bxb2
e4 22. Nd4 Nd2 23. Nxe6 fxe6 24. Re1 (24. cxd6 $142 cxd6 25. Re1) 24... d5 25.
Re2 e3 26. f3 Nc4 27. Nxc4 dxc4 28. Rxe3 O-O 29. Re4 Rad8 30. Rxc4 Rd1+ 31. Kh2
Rd2 32. Ba3 Rxf3 $1 33. c6 bxc6 34. Rxc6 Rff2 35. Kg3 Rxg2+ 36. Kh4 Rde2 37.
Rc4 Re5 38. Bc1 g6 0-1

[Event "Brighton Guardian tourney 1882-5"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1882.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Blake, Joseph Henry (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B45"]
[Annotator "Southern Weekly News 26/9/1884; CPC"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "1882.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Southern Weekly News 26/9/1884 game in Mr Butler's corr tourney - correction
two weeks later that Blake played White - but CPC of 1st Oct (p135-6) had
already reprinted it as Monck-Blake} 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 e6 4. d4 cxd4
5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. Be2 Bb4 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. e5 Ne4 9. Qd4 Qa5 10. Bd2 Nxd2 11. Kxd2
Qd5 12. Qxd5 cxd5 13. a3 Ba5 14. b4 Bc7 15. f4 a6 16. Na4 f6 17. exf6 Bxf4+ 18.
Kd1 Be5 $2 (18... gxf6) 19. fxg7 Rg8 20. Ra2 Rxg7 21. Re1 $1 Bxh2 22. Nb6 Rb8
23. Nxc8 Rxc8 24. Bxa6 Rc3 25. Re2 Bd6 26. Kc1 Rcg3 27. c4 dxc4 28. Bxc4 Rc3+
29. Rec2 Rgg3 30. Be2 Rxa3 31. Rxa3 Rxa3 32. Rc8+ Ke7 33. Rh8 Bf4+ 34. Kc2 Ra2+
35. Kd1 h6 36. Rh7+ Kd6 37. Bb5 Rd2+ 38. Ke1 Rb2 39. Rxd7+ Ke5 40. Be2 Bg3+ 41.
Kf1 Rxb4 42. Rd3 Rb1+ 43. Rd1 Rb3 44. Rd3 Rb1+ 45. Rd1 Rb8 46. Rd3 Rg8 47. Re3+
Kd4 48. Rxe6 Rb8 49. Bd1 h5 50. Ke2 Rf8 51. Kd2 Rf2+ 52. Re2 Rf1 53. Re8 Bf4+
54. Ke2 Rg1 55. Kf3 Rf1+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "Brighton Guardian tourney 1882-5"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1882.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Hooke, George Archer (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C39"]
[Annotator "St Patricks Chess Club Pamphlet no. 5 pp42-3"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[EventDate "1882.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{St Patricks Chess Club Pamphlet no. 5 game 15 pp42-3} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3.
Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ng5 h6 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. d4 d5 8. Bxf4 Nf6 9. Nc3 Be7 {
Theory plants either K or B at g7.} (9... Kg7 10. Be2 Nc6 11. O-O dxe4 12. Be5
Nxe5 13. dxe5 Bc5+) 10. Qd2 Nxe4 {Unwisely nibbling a pawn and by removal of
pieces setting an avalanche in motion.} 11. Nxe4 dxe4 12. Bc4+ Kg6 13. h5+ Kg7
14. O-O Bf6 15. Rf2 $1 {On it comes} 15... Nc6 16. Raf1 Bxd4 17. Be3 Re8 18. c3
Bxe3 19. Qxe3 Qg5 20. Rf7+ Kh8 21. Rf8+ Rxf8 22. Rxf8+ Kg7 23. Rg8+ Kf6 24.
Rxg5 {It has crushed the Q and the end is near.} 24... hxg5 25. Bd5 Ne5 26.
Bxe4 c6 27. Qf2+ Ke7 28. Qc5+ {Mr Monck caught the spirit of the opening and
played with great ability. His forte seems to be attack after sacrifice.} 1-0

[Event "Brighton Guardian tourney 1882-5"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1882.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Russell, John (Glasgow)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "Monck; Brighton Guardian 11 Oct 1882"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[EventDate "1882.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O dxc3 8.
Qb3 Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Ba3 Nge7 11. Nxc3 Rb8 {Latterly adopted by Anderssen,
and was supposed to render the sacrifice of White's Kt at Q6 unavailing. In my
opinion, that sacrifice can be safely ventured notwithstanding, but the
present is hardly a test game as Mr Russell made a slip at a critical point.}
12. Nb5 a6 13. Nd6+ cxd6 14. exd6 Nf5 15. Rfe1+ Bxe1 16. Rxe1+ Kf8 17. Bd5 Ncd4
$2 {An error [see note to move 18] Black, however, does not seem to have many
good moves at his disposal.} 18. Nxd4 b6 {
To save the R, but the move only makes matters worse} ({Mr Russell intended} 
18... Nxd4 19. Qe3 {or 19 Qb6} 19... Ne6 {
overlooking that White in that event recovers the R with a strong attack by}
20. Qa7) 19. Nc6 Rb7 20. Ne5 {
Also in the St Patrick's Chess Club Pamphlet #8 pp22-3} 1-0

[Event "Preston Guardian consolation-2 rd1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1882.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Smith, Arthur (ENG)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C51"]
[Annotator "PG 27/9/1882"]
[PlyCount "119"]
[EventDate "1882.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{PG 18/10/1882, reprinted in CPC 1882 pp502-3} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5
4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O d6 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. Nc3 Na5 10. Bg5 f6 11.
Be3 Bg4 12. Bb3 c6 13. Bxg8 Rxg8 14. Qe2 Qd7 15. Na4 Bc7 16. Bd2 b5 17. Nb2 Rf8
18. Qe3 Bxf3 19. Qxf3 Kf7 20. a4 a6 21. Bxa5 Bxa5 22. axb5 axb5 23. Ra3 Bb6 24.
Qh5+ Kg8 25. Rh3 g6 26. Qd1 f5 27. Qd3 fxe4 28. Qxe4 Qf5 29. Qh4 Rf7 30. Rf3
Qd5 31. Rd3 Raf8 32. g3 Qf5 33. Qh6 Qe4 34. Qd2 c5 35. Rb3 c4 36. Nxc4 Qd5 37.
Rxb5 Qxb5 38. Nxd6 Qd5 39. Nxf7 Rxf7 40. Re1 Bxd4 41. Re2 Kg7 42. Qa2 Qf3 43.
Rd2 Ra7 44. Qxa7+ $1 Bxa7 45. Rd7+ Kh6 46. Rxa7 g5 {
Wrong plan according to notes by Hamel in PG} 47. h3 Qd3 48. Re7 Qf5 49. Kg2
Kg6 50. Ra7 Qd5+ 51. Kh2 h5 52. Ra4 h4 53. Ra3 Kf5 54. Re3 Qc6 55. Kg1 hxg3 56.
Rxg3 Qd5 57. Re3 g4 58. hxg4+ Kxg4 59. Rg3+ Kf4 60. Re3 1/2-1/2

[Event "Melhado-Monck match"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1884.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Melhado, Captain"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C51"]
[Annotator "Irish Fireside 1 Dec 1884"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "1884.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Irish Fireside 1 Dec 1884. 'Game played by corr. between Mr W. H. S. Monck
and Captain Melhado. These gentlemen played eight game sby corr. Mr Monck won
three, Captain melhado two, and three were drawn.'} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4
Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O d6 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. Nc3 Bg4 10. Bb5 {
Modern authorities, since the Fraser and Mortimer attack have, to a certain
extent broken down, consider this to be the best move.} 10... Bd7 {
Cook, in his Synopsis, gives} (10... Kf8 {as the best move, and continues} 11.
Bxc6 bxc6 12. e5 Bxf3 13. gxf3 dxe5 14. Ba3+ {etc.}) 11. e5 dxe5 12. d5 Nb8 13.
Re1 Bc5 {We do not like this move; it loses too much time.} 14. Nxe5 Be7 15.
Nxd7 Nxd7 16. Ba3 Kf8 {This is compulsory, and shows the weakness of Black's
12th move as well as the merit of that recommended by Cook, 10...Kf8.} 17. Rxe7
{Well played, much stronger than Bxe7.} 17... Nxe7 18. d6 cxd6 19. Qxd6 Nf6 20.
Re1 Qxd6 21. Bxd6 Rc8 (21... Nfg8 $145 22. Nd5) 22. Rxe7 Kg8 (22... Rxc3 $145
$4 23. Re8#) 23. Rxb7 h5 24. Bd3 g5 25. Be5 Rh6 26. Rxa7 Ng4 27. Bd4 Rd6 28.
Ne2 Ne5 29. Bb5 Rb8 30. f4 Ng4 31. h3 Nh6 32. fxg5 Nf5 33. Be5 Rd1+ 34. Kf2
Rbd8 {Black could not take the bishop, as mate would have followed in six moves
} (34... Rxb5 $145 35. Ra8+ Kh7 {Or first give the rooks away} 36. Rh8+ Kg6 37.
Nf4+ Kxg5 38. Rxh5#) 35. Bf6 Rf8 36. Ba4 1-0

[Event "Nash's tourney-5?"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1884.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Blake, Joseph Henry (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C01"]
[Annotator "Irish Sportsman 21//11/1885"]
[PlyCount "137"]
[EventDate "1884.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Irish Sportsman 21/11/1885 Deciding game in the Nash tourney (possibly fifth?)
that ended autumn of that year. If Monck had won he would have been first; the
loss left him tied third with Blake.} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Nf3 Nf6
5. Bd3 Bd6 6. O-O O-O 7. Nc3 Nc6 8. Bg5 Bg4 9. Kh1 Be7 10. Be3 Qd7 11. Qd2 Bxf3
12. gxf3 Qh3 13. Be2 Bd6 14. f4 Ng4 {Zukertort, who recommends White's play up
to this point, seems to have omitted this move from his analysis. It appears
to give Black as good a game as his opponent.} 15. Bxg4 Qxg4 16. f3 Qf5 {
By a slip of the pen Mr Monck sent 16 Q to K B 3, and had Mr Blake exacted the
penalty for an impossible move he would have won the Q and game.} 17. Rg1 Ne7
18. Rg5 Qh3 19. Qf2 c6 20. Rag1 Nf5 21. Ne2 Be7 22. R5g2 Bh4 23. Qf1 Kh8 24.
Bd2 Rae8 25. c3 Re6 26. Nc1 Rh6 27. Nd3 {
An error which should have cost the game} 27... Ng3+ 28. Rxg3 Qxf1 29. Rxf1
Bxg3 30. Be1 Bxe1 {There are objections to taking the KRP with either B or R.}
31. Rxe1 Re6 32. Re5 Rfe8 33. f5 R6e7 34. Kg2 f6 35. Rxe7 Rxe7 36. Kf2 Kg8 37.
Nf4 Kf7 38. Ng2 b6 39. Ne3 c5 40. dxc5 bxc5 41. Nxd5 Rd7 42. c4 g6 43. fxg6+
hxg6 44. Ke3 Ke6 45. Nf4+ Kf5 46. Nd3 Rd4 47. b3 Rh4 48. Nxc5 Rxh2 49. a4 Rb2
50. a5 g5 51. Kd4 Rb1 52. Ke3 Ke5 53. Nd3+ Kd6 54. b4 f5 55. b5 Ra1 56. a6 g4
57. Kf4 Rf1 58. c5+ Ke6 59. Ke3 Rxf3+ 60. Ke2 Kd5 61. b6 Rh3 {
This move, we think, should win the game. (See next note)} 62. bxa7 (62. Nf4+
Kxc5 63. Nxh3 Kxb6 {64 N moves KxP with three pawns against Kt for the ending})
62... Rh8 63. Ke3 Ra8 64. Kf4 Ke6 65. c6 Rxa7 66. Nb4 Rc7 $2 67. Nc2 Kf6 68.
Ne3 Kg6 $4 {
A slip which costs the game, though it was prolonged for a few moves.} (68...
Rxc6 69. Nd5+ Ke6 70. a7 Rc4+ 71. Kg3 {'K moves'} 71... Ra4 72. a8=Q Rxa8 73.
Nc7+ Kd6 74. Nxa8 Kc6 $19) 69. Nd5 {and wins} 1-0

[Event "William Nash's tourney"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1884.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Erskine, Henry (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C01"]
[Annotator "Irish Sportsman 28/6/1884"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "1884.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Irish Sportsman 28/6/1884 'Played in one of Mr Nash's tourneys'} 1. e4 e6 2.
d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 Bd6 6. Qe2+ Be6 7. Qb5+ Nbd7 8. Qxb7 Rb8
9. Qxa7 Rxb2 10. Bd3 O-O 11. O-O Nb6 12. Ne5 Qe7 13. Bc1 Ra8 14. Qxa8+ Nxa8 15.
Bxb2 Ng4 16. Nd2 f6 17. Nxg4 Bxg4 18. Rfe1 Qf7 19. Bb5 Bd7 20. Bxd7 Qxd7 21. a4
Kf7 22. Ba3 Qxa4 $2 23. Bxd6 Qxc2 24. Bf4 Qf5 25. Bg3 Nb6 26. Bxc7 1-0

[Event "William Nash's tourney"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1884.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Jarvis"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "English Mechanic 26/9/1884"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "1884.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{English Mechanic xl (26 Sept. 1884) p.99; notes W.T. Pierce not all input} 1.
e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5. h4 g4 6. Ng5 h6 7. Nxf7 Kxf7 8. d4 f3
9. Bc4+ Ke8 (9... d5 $142 10. exd5 $140 Na5) 10. gxf3 Be7 11. Be3 Bxh4+ 12. Kd2
d6 13. Qe2 (13. fxg4 $5) 13... Bf6 (13... g3 $5) 14. Qh2 Qe7 (14... h5) 15. Nd5
Qg7 16. c3 h5 17. Rag1 Kd8 {Black has a difficult game} (17... Bxd4 $5) 18.
fxg4 Bxg4 {Best} (18... hxg4 19. Qxh8 Qxh8 20. Rxh8 Bxh8 21. Bg5+ $16 {
and Rh1 (Monck)}) 19. Be2 Kd7 20. Qf4 Rf8 21. Rxh5 (21. Bxg4+ $142 hxg4 22.
Rxg4 Qf7 23. Rxh8 Bxh8 24. Qxf7+ Rxf7 25. Rxg8 {Monck}) 21... Rxh5 $2 (21...
Bxh5 22. Rxg7+ Bxg7 {drawing chances}) 22. Bxg4+ Kd8 23. Bxh5 Qh8 24. Rxg8 1-0

[Event "William Nash's tourney 1884-5"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1884.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Mainwaring, GH."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "Mrs Rowland, Science Monthly v2"]
[PlyCount "37"]
[EventDate "1884.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Illustrated Science Monthly vol.2 p264. 'Played in Mr Nash's Correspondence
Tourney, 1884'.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 {
It would be hazardous, perhaps, to venture on the assertion that we are "on
the eve of important discoveries" in the Evans; yet probably never in the
history of the Gambit was greater skill and industry being shown in its
investigation than at the present moment. Innovations a dozen moves advanced
are being continually introduced. Our most pressing need, however, is the best
fifth move for the second player. It has been long in dispute, and seems as
far off now as ever. The analyst of the future who shall settle this problem
will achieve as great a name and deserve as much of his fellow chess-players
as Captain Evans himself. Meanwhile, the authorities are divided between
Black's R4 [a5] and Black's B4 [c5], Steinitz and Zukertort pronouncing in
favour of the former, while a strong army of players, headed by Mr Bird, have
a decided prefernce for the latter.} 6. O-O Nf6 7. d4 O-O {No doubt the best
move. The privilege of castling in tolerable safety is not so often enjoyed by
the defence in the opening that the opportunity to bring a Rook into play can
be lightly disregarded.} (7... Nxe4 {
would subject Black to considerable annoyance.}) 8. dxe5 ({
A strong attack, and one not easily met, may be initiated at this stage by} 8.
Nxe5 {It has been very successfully practised by the American player, Mr
Richardson, and is well worthy of more attention than it has hitherto received
at the hands of many of our best amateurs.}) 8... Nxe4 9. Bd5 Bxc3 (9... Nc5
$145) 10. Bxe4 Bxa1 11. Bxh7+ {
[Berger, Deutsche Schachzeitung 1876. Monck probably knew this.]} 11... Kh8 12.
Ng5 g6 13. Qg4 {
[Clear advantage to White according to the Handbuch, 8th ed p399, n.34]} 13...
Ne7 $4 ({Unless a somewhat hasty examination of this interesting and difficult
position has deceived us,} 13... Nxe5 {would have been much stronger than the
text move. It is, at least, less fertile in suggestions to the attack than the
move actually adopted.}) 14. Bxg6 {Mr Monck has played the concluding portion
of this lively partie with great brilliance and in really fine style.} (14. Bg8
$145 {mate in 6}) (14. Qh4 {was given in Dublin Evening Mail 20/2/1890: it
would win but was evidently amisprint (move by each side omitted)}) 14... Kg7
15. Qh4 Bxe5 16. Ne6+ Kxg6 {White announces mate in six moves.} 17. Qg5+ Kh7
18. Qh6+ Kg8 19. Ng5 {etc.} 1-0

[Event "William Nash's tourney 1884-5"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1884.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Russell, John (Glasgow)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C49"]
[Annotator "TBR, IS 5/9/1885; FFR, WIT 1/8/1908"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "1884.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Irish Sportsman 5 Sept 1885 'The following fine game, played in Mr Nash's
pending Correspondence Tourney, will be found interesting. It will be seen
that Black temptingly offers an R on four occasions, the capture of which
would be fatal to White.'} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O
6. d3 {Played in recent German style, which, however, is preferable to the
shadowy move which constitutes the Blackburne attack.} 6... d6 7. Bg5 Ne7 {
WIT: Hoping that the open Kt file would be of more use to him than theopponent.
} 8. Bxf6 {We do not fancy this move; the doubled P on the B's file
compensates for the isolated one} (8. Ne2 {at once is preferable}) 8... gxf6 9.
Ne2 c6 10. Ba4 f5 {Black utilises his P in capital style} 11. exf5 {
Otherwise Black would take and then throw forward the other pawn.} 11... Bxf5
12. Ng3 Bg4 13. c3 Ba5 14. h3 Bxf3 15. Qxf3 f5 16. Qh5 f4 {It is a very
difficult point to know how to proceed here. It seems as if the KP should be
the one to advance, the way being prepared by ...d5.} 17. Ne4 Ng6 18. d4 d5 19.
Ng5 Qe7 20. Bc2 e4 21. Nxe4 {WIT: The pawn won would not of itself compensate
White for getting his Q shut off, but it was necessary to break up Black's
strong pawn position, otherwise White's KB is useless.} 21... dxe4 22. Qxa5 f3
{Somewhat premature} (22... b5 {
at once would have been better, threatening to push the king's pawn}) 23. g3 b5
24. Rfe1 {The other R should have been played here} 24... Rf4 25. Bd3 {
IS: Of course if gxf4 Black mates at once.  WIT: White remarked here: "It is
more blessed to give than to receive."} 25... Rh4 26. Bxb5 cxb5 {Why not} (
26... Qe6 {Could White escape?} 27. Bc4 $145 {was reply given in WIT 1908}) 27.
Qxb5 Rxh3 28. Qd5+ {It is White's innings now, and capitally he plays it.}
28... Kg7 29. Rxe4 Qc7 30. Rg4 (30. Qxa8 Rxg3+ $19 {WIT}) 30... Rf8 31. Re1 Qc8
32. Re6 {In regular sledge-hammer style. He carefully avoids} (32. Re7+ Kh8 33.
Rd7 Qe8 34. Re4 Nf4 $1) 32... Kh8 $1 33. Rgxg6 hxg6 34. Qe5+ Kh7 $1 35. Re7+
Kh6 36. Qe3+ Kh5 (36... g5 37. Re6+ Kh5 $140 38. Qe4 {wins out of hand}) 37.
Rh7+ Kg4 38. Qe4+ (38. Rxh3 $145 {
also wins because White has mate in 3 after KxR (WIT)}) 38... Kg5 39. Qe7+ Kg4
40. Rxh3 g5 41. Rh7 {Resigns with good grace.  Game reprinted with different
notes many years later in Cork Weekly News and Weekly Irish Times of Sat 1 Aug
1908. Latter noting that Mr Russell 'we believe, at one time held the
Championship of Scotland... for a cor. game is remarkably interesting. Black
on several occasions offers a Rook, and White, declining all baits of this
kind, replies by play which eventually leaves him a Rook down, but with a
winning position.'} 1-0

[Event "William Nash's tourney 1884-5"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1884.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Pierce, William Timbrell"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C29"]
[Annotator "TB Rowland, Irish Sportsman 4 July 1885; TDH"]
[PlyCount "113"]
[EventDate "1884.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{"The following fine game was played in one of Mr Nash's recent correspondence
tourneys".} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 {
TH: in later games Monck used to play 2...Nc6 v Pierce} 3. f4 d5 4. d3 Nc6 5.
fxe5 Nxe5 6. d4 Ng6 7. e5 Ne4 8. Nf3 Bb4 9. Bd2 Bg4 10. Be2 {
This is all "book" so far, Mr Gossip now prefers Black's game.} 10... Bxf3 11.
Bxf3 Nxd2 12. Qxd2 c6 13. a3 Qa5 {Black secures a N against B for the ending,
and gives his opponent a doubled pawn besides. But White does not mean to
enter on an endgame just yet.} 14. O-O Bxc3 15. bxc3 O-O 16. Rab1 b5 17. Bg4
Qc7 18. Rf3 Qe7 19. g3 a6 {There is not much object in this or the following
move of Black, but he has not much to do except await the attack of the enemy,}
20. Rbf1 Qa7 21. Kh1 Rab8 22. h4 h6 23. h5 Nh8 24. Rf6 {One of Mr Pierce's
sound and brilliant sacrifices. The only defect is that Black is not compelled
to take,} 24... c5 25. Rxh6 {More questionable, as the R cannotr be extricated;
however, the equivalent seems ample. A capture again out of he question.} 25...
f5 26. Rxh8+ {Had he taken the pawn en passant,} (26. exf6 Qf7 {
would have won the exchange}) 26... Kxh8 27. Bxf5 Rb6 28. g4 Rh6 29. Rf2 Qe7
30. Rh2 cxd4 31. cxd4 Qxa3 {Black has at last got a plan for escaping from his
perilous position, but it will leave hm for the time at least a pawn to the
bad. He is at this stage satisfied to draw, while his opponent plays to win.}
32. c3 b4 33. cxb4 Qf3+ {The manoeuvring on both sides for some moves after
this is worth examining. If the moves played are not absolutely the best,
objections to most others will appear on closer inspection.} 34. Kg1 Rxf5 35.
gxf5 Qg4+ 36. Kf1 Qxf5+ 37. Qf2 Qd3+ 38. Kg2 Rc6 39. Rh3 Qe4+ 40. Qf3 Rc2+ 41.
Kg3 Qe1+ 42. Kg4 Qg1+ 43. Rg3 Qxd4+ 44. Qf4 Qb2 45. Qf8+ Kh7 46. Qf5+ Kh8 47.
Kg5 $4 {TH: The paper doesn't comment but obviously White could have taken
perpetual check here,} (47. h6 $145 {was the way to try for a win perhaps?})
47... Rf2 (47... Qc1+ $145) 48. Qc8+ Kh7 49. Qc3 Qa2 {TH: Is this best?} (49...
d4 $145 $5) (49... Qxc3 $145 50. Rxc3 $14) 50. Qd3+ Kh8 51. h6 (51. e6 $145)
51... gxh6+ 52. Kxh6 Rf7 53. e6 $4 {An unfortunate slip, resulting probably
from the purely defensive appearance of Black's last move. White has in fact
the superior game, though he some pitfalls to avoid.  TH: Doubtful if White
has more than a draw?} (53. Rg5 $145) 53... Qh2+ {White resigns, If} 54. Kg5
Qxg3+ (54... Rg7+ $145 {is presumably the real reason White resigned, e.g.} 55.
Kf4 Qh4+ {wins the R}) 55. Qxg3 Rg7+ 56. Kf4 Rxg3 57. e7 {
Black can give up his R for Black's KP and then advance his own QP to queen.} (
57. Kxg3 $145 Kg7 {looks an obvious draw}) 1-0

[Event "English Mechanic tourney-3 1885-7"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1885.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Pierce, William Timbrell"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 26 May 1887"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "1885.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 26 May 1887: 'Played in Pierce's Correspondence Tourney'.
Must be tourney-3 as the 4th had not started at that date.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6
3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5. d4 g4 6. Bc4 d5 (6... gxf3 {
was played in an 1888 game W. Pierce-Monck and a game J.Pierce-Monck}) 7. exd5
Qe7+ {The bold and apparently reckless defence adopted by Mr Monck must have
startled the inventor of the Gambit. Clearly enough it had not been ventured
upon without a thorough investigation of all the "outs and ins" of it.} 8. Kf2
gxf3 9. Re1 Be6 10. Bxf4 (10. dxc6 {won't do at this juncture, nor will}) (10.
dxe6) 10... Qb4 11. Bb5 O-O-O 12. dxc6 Rxd4 13. Bd2 Bh6 {Would not} (13... Bc5
{threatening discovered ruin, have been more difficult to parry?} 14. Kf1 $140
fxg2+ 15. Kxg2 Bd5+ 16. Nxd5 Rxd2+ 17. Kh1 Rxd1 18. Nxb4 Rxa1 19. Rxa1 Bxb4 {
and wins}) 14. cxb7+ Kb8 15. Bd3 Rxd3 16. cxd3 Qh4+ 17. Kf1 Qxh2 {Rather} (
17... fxg2+ 18. Kg1 Nf6 19. Qf3 Bxd2 20. Re2 Bg4 21. Qg3 Qxg3 22. hxg3 Bxc3 {
and wins}) 18. Qxf3 Bxd2 19. Rxe6 {
This fine move secures a draw, we believe, by force} 19... fxe6 20. Qf8+ Kxb7
21. Qb4+ Kc8 22. Qf8+ Kd7 23. Qg7+ Ne7 24. Qxh8 Qf4+ 25. Ke2 Qe3+ 26. Kf1 Nf5
27. Qxh7+ Kc6 28. Ne2 Qxd3 29. Qh3 Be3 30. Qf3+ Kb6 31. Ke1 Bd2+ 32. Kf1 Be3
33. Ke1 Qd2+ 34. Kf1 Qxb2 35. Rd1 Qc2 36. Ke1 Bc5 37. a3 Ne3 38. Rc1 Qd3 39. a4
Nc2+ 40. Kf1 1/2-1/2

[Event "Ireland-Sussex 1885-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1885.??.??"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Minchin, Col Charles Cherry"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C46"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 9/9/1886;Irish Sportsman "]
[PlyCount "173"]
[EventDate "1885.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 9/9/1886; Monck's notes in Irish Sportsman 10 July 1886. 
  Was Black the Lieut-Gen Charles C. Minchin mentioned in Gaige's 'Chess
Personalia'?} 1. e4 {Irish Sportsman 10 July 1886} 1... e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 g6
4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 (6... Nge7 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O d6 9. Qd2 Be6
10. Rad1 a6 11. Nxc6 bxc6 {
and on the 44th move Mr Burt mated (J. Burt-W. T. Pierce, corr tourney)}) 7.
Be2 O-O 8. O-O Ne7 9. Bf3 d5 {Steinitz improvement on} (9... d6 {
as in a game he lost to Blackburne}) 10. Nb3 Be6 11. Nc5 b6 12. Nd3 c6 13. Bg5
Qc7 14. Qe2 Rad8 15. Rad1 d4 $2 16. e5 Nfd5 17. Nxd5 $1 Bxd5 18. Nb4 $1 Rd7 19.
Bxe7 Rxe7 20. Bxd5 cxd5 21. f4 {I could not have gained anything by} (21. Nxd5
{on account of} 21... Rxe5) 21... Qc5 22. Nd3 Qc4 23. b3 Qa6 24. Nc1 Qb7 25.
Rxd4 f6 26. Nd3 fxe5 27. fxe5 Rfe8 28. Qf3 $1 Bxe5 29. Qxd5+ Qxd5 30. Rxd5 Bc3
{'and he bravely and skilfully carried on the game to the 87th move' said the
Irish Sportsman, but only the Mail gave the full game score:} 31. Nf4 Kg7 32.
Rd3 Bb4 33. Rdf3 Bc5+ 34. Kh1 Re4 35. g3 h5 36. Nd3 Bd4 37. Rf7+ Kh6 38. Rd7
Bc3 39. Rff7 g5 40. Rd6+ R8e6 41. Re7 Rxd6 42. Rxe4 Kg6 43. Kg2 Kf5 44. Re2 Bd4
45. h3 b5 46. Rd2 Re6 47. c4 bxc4 48. bxc4 Rc6 49. Rc2 Ke4 50. Nb4 Rc5 51. Re2+
Kf5 52. g4+ hxg4 53. hxg4+ Kg6 54. Rc2 Re5 55. Nd5 Kf7 56. Kf3 Ke6 57. Rd2 Bc5
58. Nc7+ Kf6 59. Nd5+ Ke6 60. a4 Kf7 61. Re2 Ke6 62. Re4 Kd6 63. Nf6 Bb6 64.
Nd5 Bc5 65. a5 Bg1 66. a6 Bc5 67. Nf6 Ba3 68. Ne8+ Ke6 69. Nc7+ Kf6 70. Nd5+
Ke6 71. Ke3 Bc5+ 72. Kd3 Kd6 73. Nf6 Ba3 74. Ne8+ Ke6 75. Nc7+ Kf6 76. Nd5+ Ke6
77. Nb6 $1 Bb4 78. Na4 Rxe4 79. Kxe4 Kd6 80. Nb6 Kc6 81. Nd5 Ba3 82. Kf5 Bc1
83. Nb4+ Kc7 84. Ke6 Bd2 85. Nd5+ Kc6 86. Ne7+ Kb6 87. Kd7 {Diagram #} (87. Kd7
{Here Black resigned on account of the following continuation Monck had sent
to him:} 87... Bf4 88. Nc8+ Kxa6 89. c5 Kb5 90. c6 Kc5 (90... a5 91. Nd6+) 91.
Nxa7 Kd5 92. Nc8 Bb8 93. Ne7+ Ke4 94. Nf5 {wins, for if} 94... Kf4 95. Nh6 Ke5
96. c7 Bxc7 97. Kxc7 Kf6 98. Kd6 Kg6 99. Nf5 Kf6 100. Ng3 Kf7 101. Ne4 Kg6 102.
Ke6 Kh6 103. Kf6 Kh7 104. Nxg5+ Kh6 105. Ne6 Kh7 106. Kf7 {
mating in a few moves (Monck, Irish Sportsman 10 July 1886)}) 1-0

[Event "Odds game"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1885.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Prior, R. H.."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[Annotator "TBR; Dublin Evening Mail 17/9/1885"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "1885.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail, 17 Sept 1885.  'GAME.Played by correspondence between
Master R H Prior, of Cheltenham, and Mr W H S Monck, of Dublin, Mr Monck
giving the odds of the K Kt and move. (Master Prior is not  than twelve years
of age.)' TH notes: above as printed, word "more" omitted,,,  '(Remove Black's
K Kt.)'} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. h3 {
Overrcautious perhaps; but in a young player this is hardly a fault.} 3... Bc5
4. Bc4 d6 5. d3 Qf6 6. Nc3 Be6 7. Bb5 O-O 8. Bxc6 bxc6 9. Qe2 Rab8 10. b3 a5 {
Hoping to deter White from castling on the Q side} 11. a3 d5 12. Be3 {
Well played. The forking of the two pieces is not dangerous, while the attempt
to win a pawn by 13 PxP [TH 13 exd5] would have cost a piece.'} 12... d4 13.
Na4 Bd6 14. Bd2 Qe7 {Doubtful policy, but Black must do something.} 15. Bxa5
Bxa3 16. Nxe5 Rb5 17. Nxc6 Qd6 18. Qd2 Qxc6 19. Rxa3 Qd6 20. b4 {Black catches
his youthful antagonist at last, but the fight is not over by a good deal.}
20... Rxa5 21. O-O Ra7 22. Rfa1 {
NB: paper has QR to R1 which would not make sense} 22... Rfa8 {NB: paper had
QR to R1 apparently a misprint, otherwise next note makes no sense} 23. Qc1
Qxb4 24. Rb1 Qe7 {24 Q to KB sq would probably have won} 25. Qb2 Rxa4 26. Rxa4
{TH: see my notes at move 22} 26... Rxa4 27. Qb8+ Qf8 28. Qxc7 Ra8 29. f4 Rc8
30. Qb6 Qc5 31. f5 Qxb6 32. Rxb6 Bd7 33. Rd6 Be8 34. Kf2 {Finely played. Black
expected to win the game by cutting off the enemy's King from his formidable
centre pawns. After this move we doubt if he could do more than draw.} 34...
Rxc2+ 35. Kf3 Kf8 36. Rxd4 Rd2 37. g3 Bb5 38. Ke3 Rg2 39. Kf3 Rd2 40. Ke3 Rg2 {
And both parties repeating there [sic] moves the game was drawn.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "William Nash's tourney"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1885.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Cheshire, Horace Fabian (ENG)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Annotator "The Field 7 Nov 1885"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "1885.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{The Field 31 Oct 1885; only some input (available on photocopy)} 1. e4 e5 2.
Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. b4 {The Evans Gambit cannot be played after 4
Castles. To all appearances it is only a transposition of the order of the
opening moves, but a cursory examination will show the fallacy of such an
assumption.} 5... Bxb4 6. c3 Be7 {The correct reply} 7. Ng5 O-O 8. f4 d5 9.
exd5 Nxd5 10. Qf3 Nf6 11. d3 h6 {A simple way would have been} (11... exf4 12.
Bxf4 Be6) 12. Be3 {The sacrifice of the piece does not seem to be sound but
White, having a  bad game, tries to complicate matters,} 12... Bg4 (12... hxg5
13. fxg5 Ng4 14. Bxf7+ (14. g6 Kh8 15. Qh3+ Nh6 16. Qh5 Bg4) (14. h3 e4 15.
Qxe4 Nge5) 14... Kh8 15. Qh3+ Nh6 16. Qh5 Bg4 17. Qh4 Be6 18. Bxe6 Rxf1+ 19.
Kxf1 Qxd3+ 20. Kf2 Rf8+ {and wins}) 13. Nxf7 Rxf7 14. Qg3 exf4 15. Rxf4 (15.
Qxf4 {would have been better}) 15... Qd7 16. Bxf7+ Kxf7 17. Nd2 {If White had
played 15 Qxf4 he could now have advanced 17 d4, when his position would not
have been quite so hopeless.} 17... Qxd3 18. Nc4 Be6 19. Nb2 Qg6 20. Qe1 Bd7
21. Rf2 Ne5 22. Bf4 Neg4 23. Rf3 Bc5+ 24. Kh1 Bc6 25. Nd3 {
Compulsory. The exchange cannot be saved,} 25... Bxf3 26. Nxc5 {If} (26. gxf3
Qxd3 {winning right off}) 26... Ne3 $1 {
A clever move which destroys White's last hope of Qe6+ followed by Nd7+ etc}
27. Qg3 Qxg3 28. hxg3 Nxg2 29. Be5 Re8 30. Bxf6 Kxf6 31. Kg1 Kg5 32. a3 Re1+
33. Rxe1 Nxe1 34. Ne6+ Kg4 35. Nxg7 Kxg3 36. Nf5+ Kf4 37. Nxh6 Bd5 {
White resigns. Obviously this move cuts off the retreat of the knight} 0-1

[Event "William Nash's tourney 1885-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1885.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Blake, Joseph Henry (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C14"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 18 March 1886"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "1885.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 18 March 1886: 'Played in Mr Nash's pending corr.
tourney' (the sixth? another, longer ,game between them had been published a
few montsh earlier in the Irish Sportsman so the two games may have been in
progress simultaneously for a time.)} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7
5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Qd2 a6 8. Nd1 c5 9. c3 Nc6 10. f4 f6 11. Nf3 O-O 12.
Bd3 cxd4 13. cxd4 fxe5 14. fxe5 Qb4 15. Nc3 Rxf3 $5 16. gxf3 Nxd4 17. Rf1 (17.
O-O-O $5) 17... Nxe5 18. O-O-O Ndxf3 $2 19. Qe3 $1 Qg4 20. Be4 $1 Qg5 21. Nxd5
$1 Nf7 $2 22. Rxf3 exd5 23. Bxd5 Qxe3+ 24. Rxe3 Bf5 25. Re7 Rc8+ 26. Kd2 Bg6
27. Rf1 Rd8 28. Kc3 Kf8 29. Rexf7+ Bxf7 30. Rxf7+ Ke8 31. Rf5 Rc8+ 32. Kd3 Rc7
33. Bb3 g6 34. Rf6 Rd7+ 35. Ke3 Rc7 36. Ke4 a5 37. Ke5 Rc5+ 38. Bd5 a4 39. Rb6
Rc2 40. Rxb7 Rxh2 41. Kd6 Kf8 42. Rf7+ Ke8 43. Rg7 Rf2 44. Rg8+ Rf8 45. Rxf8+
Kxf8 46. b4 axb3 47. axb3 1-0

[Event "William Nash's tourney 1885-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1885.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Gerahty, EF (IRL)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 15 April 1886"]
[PlyCount "121"]
[EventDate "1885.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 15 April 1886: 'The following fine game, played between
two leading members of the Dublin Chess Club, has just been concluded in Mr
Nash's Corr. Tourney...;} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Be3 Qf6
6. c3 Nge7 7. Qd2 a6 8. f4 d6 9. Qf2 Bd7 10. Bd3 Ng6 11. Nd2 Nd8 12. O-O Ba7
13. Rae1 O-O 14. Bb1 c5 15. Nf5 Re8 16. Kh1 Nc6 17. e5 (17. g4 $5) 17... dxe5
18. fxe5 Ncxe5 19. Nh6+ Kh8 20. Qxf6 gxf6 21. Rxf6 Kg7 22. Ref1 Re6 23. Nf5+ $1
{Black probably overlooked this move. Of course if he takes the Rook he is
mated.} 23... Kh8 (23... Kxf6 $145 24. Ne4#) 24. Bg5 Rf8 25. Nh6 Kg7 26. Ne4
Bb5 27. Rd1 Nd7 28. Nf5+ Kh8 29. Rxe6 fxe6 30. Nfd6 Be2 31. Re1 Kg7 32. Nd2 Bg4
33. h3 Bf5 34. Bxf5 exf5 35. Be7 Rh8 36. Nxf5+ Kf7 37. Nc4 Bb8 38. Ncd6+ Bxd6
39. Nxd6+ Kg7 40. Nxb7 $2 Re8 41. Nd6 Rxe7 42. Nf5+ Kf8 $2 (42... Kf7) 43. Nxe7
Nxe7 44. Re6 $1 Nb8 45. Rb6 Nec6 46. Rb7 Ke8 47. b4 (47. Rxh7 $142) 47... cxb4
48. cxb4 Nd7 49. b5 axb5 50. Rxb5 Nf6 51. Rb7 Nd7 52. Rc7 Na5 53. Kh2 Ke7 54.
Kg3 Kd6 55. Rc8 Nc6 56. Kf4 Ne7 57. Rc1 Ke6 58. Kg5 Ng8 59. a4 Kd6 60. Rc8 Ne7
61. Rh8 1-0

[Event "Ireland-Scotland 1886-7"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1886.??.??"]
[Round "41"]
[White "Russell, John (Glasgow)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C22"]
[Annotator "CPC 20/4/1887 pp197-8; Glasgow Weekly Herald "]
[PlyCount "95"]
[EventDate "1886.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{CPC x (20 April 1887) pp197-8 definitely states it was JOHN Russell (Glasgow)
who played White in this game.} 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 Nc6 4. Qe3 g6 5.
Nc3 Nb4 6. Bd3 Bg7 7. a3 Nxd3+ 8. Qxd3 Ne7 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bh4 O-O 11. f4 c6 12.
O-O-O d5 13. Nf3 Be6 14. Bf2 dxe4 15. Qxe4 Bd5 16. Nxd5 Nxd5 17. c4 Qe7 18.
Qxe7 Nxe7 19. Rd7 Nf5 20. Rxb7 Nd6 21. Rxa7 Nxc4 22. Rxa8 Rxa8 23. Re1 Rb8 24.
Re2 Bh6 25. g3 g5 26. fxg5 fxg5 27. g4 Bf8 28. Bd4 Bd6 29. Kc2 c5 30. Bc3 Bf4
31. Kd3 Nb6 32. Re7 Rd8+ 33. Kc2 Nd5 34. Rg7+ Kf8 35. Nxg5 Ne3+ 36. Kb3 Rb8+
37. Ka4 Bxh2 38. Nxh7+ Ke8 39. Nf6+ Kd8 40. g5 Nf5 41. Rh7 Bd6 42. g6 Be7 43.
Rh8+ Kc7 44. Be5+ Nd6 45. Bxd6+ Bxd6 46. Nd5+ Kb7 47. Rxb8+ Kxb8 48. g7 {
Notes by Russell to be added from Glasgow Weekly Herald of 12 March 1887; game
was also in Dublin Evening Mail 6 Jan1887} 1-0

[Event "William Nash's tourney-6?"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1886.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Nash, William (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 20/1/1887"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "2kr1bnr/1bppqp1p/ppn5/6p1/P2PPp2/2NB1N2/1PP2KPP/R1BQR3 b - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "8"]
[EventDate "1886.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 20/1/1887 but White Q was missing from diagram! Try to
reconstruct Vienna or King's Gambit sequence to this position?  'Position from
a game recently played between Messrs W. H. S. Monck and Nash in Mr Nash's
Correspondence Tourney.' But is that right? The following week a different
Monck-Nash game was printed and said to be from Nash tourney... Black played} 
1... g4 {and White won by the following ingenious line of play:} 2. Nd5 Qe8 3.
Bxf4 gxf3 4. Nxc7 Qe7 5. Nd5 {
and Black resigns, for he can only escape mate (Nxb6) by sacrificing his Q.}
1-0

[Event "William Nash's tourney-7"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1886.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Nash, William (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C77"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 27/1/1887"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "1886.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 27/1/1887 'Played in Mr Nash's pending Corr. Tourney...;} 
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 {'A move of the old school. It is now considered
unnecessary to play it immediately, as in certain variations it is a loss of
time.'} 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. c3 b5 7. Bc2 Be7 8. Nbd2 O-O 9. Nf1 Bb7 10. Ng3
d5 11. Qe2 dxe4 12. dxe4 Re8 13. Bd2 Bd6 14. Ng5 h6 15. h4 Na5 (15... hxg5 16.
hxg5 $40) 16. b4 Nc4 17. Bb3 a5 18. Bxc4 bxc4 19. Qxc4 hxg5 20. hxg5 Nd7 21.
Nf5 Re6 (21... Nb6 22. Rh8+ Kxh8 23. Qxf7) 22. Qd3 Rg6 23. Qh3 f6 24. Nxd6 {
This was probably from Nash tourney-7 (as it said "now pending") and the other
Monck-Nash finish published around the same time could have been fromtourney-6,
but no way to be sure.} 1-0

[Event "William Nash's tourney-7"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Russell, John (Glasgow)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "Chambers, ILN 18/6/1887; Harding"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "1886.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 4 Aug 1887.'Played in Mr Nash's pending Corr. Tourney...'
} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O dxc3 8.
Qb3 Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Nxc3 b5 11. Nxb5 a6 {This move, new to us, is worthy of
examination, as its soundness is questionable.} 12. Nbd4 Rb8 13. Qd1 Nxd4 14.
Nxd4 {A departure from Mr Monck's normal line; he should, of course, have
taken with the Queen.} 14... Bb7 15. f3 Bc3 16. e6 {The loss of the exchange
being inevitable, he gives up a piece to gain the attack.} 16... fxe6 17. Bf4
Qf6 18. Nxe6 dxe6 19. Qa4+ Kf7 20. Rad1 Ne7 21. Bxc7 Bc6 {
Mr Russell now errs in turn.} 22. Bxe6+ Kxe6 {
Best, perhaps, otherwise he would lose the exchange,} 23. Rd6+ Kf7 24. Rxf6+
Bxf6 25. Qc4+ Bd5 26. Qxa6 Rb7 27. Bb6 Rhb8 28. Be3 Rb5 29. a4 Rb2 30. Rd1 R8b3
31. Qa7 Rb7 32. Qc5 Be6 33. Qh5+ Ng6 34. f4 Rb1 35. Rxb1 (35. f5 {
is tempting, but then Black could play} 35... Bxf5 {with impunity}) 35... Rxb1+
36. Kf2 Rb2+ 37. Kg1 {Had he got his K into shelter, and won the Kt by P to B5,
he then would lsoe Q for R immediately afterwards, in order to avoid mate. The
psoition is worth studying. We do not think that either side could do more
than draw.} 37... Rb1+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "UK international extra"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Archdall, T Hewan rev (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "Harding"]
[PlyCount "0"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Archdall played only four games, all of which he lost: v Blake, Comrie,
Gunston, and Monck. None of these have been found yet and were maybe not
published. Colours are unknown. The remainder of his games were unplayed as he
retired, so have not been included in this database.  Effectively it was
17-player event (136 games) plus 4 extra games.}  1-0

[Event "UK international tourney 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Chambers, John Dillon (SCO)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C83"]
[Annotator "Fraser #112; Chambers, ILN 22/10/1887"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Began 10 June, finished 3 Oct says Chambers in GWH so 10 June may have been
start date for whole event. Fraser book #112 but first appeared with notes by
Chambers in the Illustrated London News of 22 Oct. 1887, and then with
somewhat different notes by him in the Glasgow Weekly Herald of 19 Nov 87)} 1.
e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5
Be6 9. c3 Be7 10. Bf4 O-O 11. Nd4 Nxd4 12. cxd4 {Chambers: Up to this point
the moves are identical with the third game in the match between Messrs.
Blackburne and Zukertort.} 12... c5 {Black here makes a big jump off the main
road, which involves him in difficulties immediately. In the match-game
referred to, Zukertort played} (12... f6 {
a move that is preferable to the move in the text.}) 13. f3 Ng5 (13... cxd4 $5
{looks better, for when White plays} 14. fxe4 {Black replies} 14... dxe4 {
with two strong centre Pawns for the lost piece.}) 14. h4 Nh3+ 15. gxh3 Bxh3
16. Rf2 c4 17. Bc2 Bxh4 18. Rh2 Be6 19. Nc3 g5 20. Be3 f6 21. Qd2 Ra7 {
Chambers: A necessary precaution. If he had played} (21... fxe5 {White rejoins
with 22 B takes KtP and wins in a few moves. TH: This is either a
miscalculation or a misprint, as 22 Bxg5 is unsound after 22...Bxg5.
presumably Chambers intended} 22. Bxh7+ {and if} 22... Kxh7 23. Bxg5) 22. Qg2
Rg7 23. exf6 Qxf6 24. Rf1 Qe7 {Chambers: Why not} (24... Rgf7 $142 {
attacking the weak Pawn?}) 25. Nd1 Bf7 26. Bf5 {Chambers: This seems loss of
time, but White finds it difficult to make a useful move.} 26... h5 27. Qd2 Be8
28. Bc2 Bg3 29. Rg2 h4 30. Nc3 Qd6 31. Ne2 Bd7 32. Nxg3 hxg3 33. Bxg5 Bh3 34.
Bh6 {Diagram # Chambers: The position here is remarkably interesting.} 34...
Bxg2 35. Kxg2 Rff7 36. Bxg7 Rxg7 37. Re1 Qd8 38. Qh6 Qc8 39. Bg6 {Also publishe
d in the Irish Weekly Mail, 15 Sept 1915 shortly after death of Monck.} 1-0

[Event "UK international tourney 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Fraser, George Brunton(SCO)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C33"]
[Annotator "Fraser #193; Harding; Rowland"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{From GB Fraser's book of 200 CC games, published 1896, and now found in
Dublin Evening Mail of 8 March 1888, confirming it was played in the
triangular IRL/SCO/ENG tournament of 1888-89.  NOV 1889 P421 news item:  Some
time ago Mr G.B.Fraser, of Dundee, organized a tourney under the title of the
United Kingdom correspondence Tourney. There were six representatives of each
country. The prize winners were: 1. (winning 7 pounds) G.B.Fraser himself, 14
games. 2. G.F.Barry, Dublin, 13.5. Then 3. and 4th (divided between J.H.Blake,
Southampton, and W.H.Gunston, Cambridge. 5. J.C.Bremner, Broughty Ferry (SCO).
W.H.S. Monck of Dublin came sixth on the list. Ireland played 94 games and won
47; England 84, won 45, and Scotland 94, won 45. (There was a strange scoring
system. Some games were abandoned with opponents being awarded a score
proportional to the percentage they achieved in completed games.)  No Welsh! 
 William Henry Stanley Monck (1839-1915) was an astronomer, and his obituary
(BCM, August 1915, page 275) recorded that "in 1899 he gave to the world an
excellent treatise entitled 'Introduction to Stellar Astronomy." (This book is
in TCD library.)} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nc3 {This gambit was employed in the
Fraser CC tournaments by both G.B.Fraser and R.B.Fraser, sometimes transposing
to the Steinitz Gambit in the Vienna.  First played in Mason-Rosenthal, Paris
1878, and so should be known perhaps as the Mason Gambit; Neil McDonald clals
it that n his book on the KG. G.B.Fraser's comment in his book is: "The
Queen's Knight's Gambit - a little-known but interesting opening". 
 Considerably later, it was investigated an dplayed much more in the early
1930s by Paul Keres and his associates and got the name Parnu Gambit in some
places.  The KG with 3 Nc3 is similar to the Steinitz Gambit 1 e4 e5 2 Nc3 Nc6
3 f4 exf4 4 d4 Qh4+ 5 Ke2 and ina few variations could cross-transpose.} 3...
Qh4+ (3... Nc6 4. d4 $5 {Steinitz Gambit} (4. Nf3)) 4. Ke2 g5 (4... d5 $145 5.
Nxd5 Bd6 (5... Bg4+ 6. Nf3 Nc6 $5 (6... Bd6 {see 5...Bd6}) 7. Nxc7+ (7. d4 $2
O-O-O {Keres-Kunerth, corr 1936}) (7. c3 {see McDonald p112}) 7... Kd8 8. Nxa8
Ne5 {se Horvath-Horvath in McDonald book, leading to a draw} (8... Nd4+ {
was unsound in Jago-J.Littlewood, see "64 Great Chess Games" and McDonald book}
)) 6. d4 Bg4+ 7. Nf3 Nc6 8. e5 $2 (8. c3 O-O-O 9. Kd3 {see McDonald book}) 8...
O-O-O 9. Bxf4 Nge7 10. c4 (10. Bg3 $2 Qh6 11. Nxe7+ Bxe7 12. c3 f6 $1 {
Lyell-G.Flear, British ch 1989}) 10... Nf5 $2 (10... Bb4 $1 $17 {
Furman, see McDonald book}) 11. exd6 Nfxd4+ 12. Kd3 $1 $16 {
Spassky-Furman, Tallinn 1959; see McDonald book pp109-111}) (4... d6 $145 5.
Nf3 Bg4 6. Nd5 (6. d4 {transposes to the Steinitz Gambit: Barle-Portisch etc.})
6... Bxf3+ $6 (6... Qd8 $5 {Korchnoi}) 7. gxf3 Kd8 8. d3 $1 {
(Keres-Kunerth, corr 1936) good for White according to Korchnoi}) 5. d4 b6 6.
Qd2 {An excellent move, suggested by Mr W.T.Pierce (TH: in the analogous
Steinitz gambit position; here Black has not played ...Nc6)} 6... Nf6 (6...
Ba6+ $145 {would at least have been consistent} 7. Kd1 Bxf1 (7... Qg4+) 8. Nf3)
7. Nf3 Qh6 8. e5 Nh5 9. Kd1 Bb4 10. a3 Ng3 11. Rg1 (11. axb4 $145 Nxh1 12. Nd5)
11... Ne4 {The game thus early has become very lively.} 12. Qe1 {TBR in DEM:
The opening has been admirably conducted on both sides. This the Dublin player
must accept as a compliment, considering Mr Fraser's great insight into the
debut of the King's Gambit.} 12... Nxc3+ {TBR: It seems a pity to exchange so
valuable an auxiliary; his ingenious tour half-way round the board kept the
enemy well on the defence.} 13. bxc3 Be7 14. h4 {TBR: AT first sight it would
appear to be unpretentious, but it sucecssfully beraks up the well-aimed
attack on the King's flank.} 14... g4 (14... Bb7) 15. Ng5 Bxg5 16. hxg5 Qxg5 {
Black is now two pawns up and neither side has any development to speak of. If
it were Black's move he could play ...Bb7 and be comfortable but it is White
to move and that changes everything.  Instead of this routine recapture, Black
should have kept the position murkyby} (16... Qh2) 17. Qe4 Nc6 18. Bxf4 Qg6 19.
Qe3 Ne7 {TBR: Black's play, for the most part, shows his anticipation of
White's strongest moves.} 20. Bd3 Nd5 21. Qe1 {TBR: Wisely declining to
exchange queens. The greatest caution is now required on Black's side.} 21...
Qe6 22. Bd2 c6 $6 23. c4 Nc7 24. Rf1 Bb7 (24... Ba6) 25. Qh4 {GBF: To prevent .
..0-0-0.  TBR: ! The prelude to a very strong and successful coup} 25... c5 $2
{Black decides to give up a piece for two pawns to get some freedom but this
is justified.} 26. d5 {
TBR: This well-timed advance causes Black to give up a piece for two Pawns.}
26... Nxd5 27. cxd5 Bxd5 28. Bf5 Qc6 29. Bxg4 Bxg2 {
TBR: ? KBP should not have been uncovered} 30. Rxf7 $1 {Unexpected and
decisive. Black has had an uphill fight all through.  An extra move
(presumably a conditional) appears in DEM of 8 march 1888, viz.:} 30... Kxf7
31. e6+ $1 {Resigns, because if ...dxe6 32 Bh5+ K moves, 33 Q checks &c.} 1-0

[Event "UK international tourney 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Lennox, George W (SCO)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Evening Mail 13/2/1888;.ILN 24/8/1889"]
[PlyCount "114"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{ILN xcv (24/8/1889) p.250 gave this game to move 43; it was complete in the
Dublin Evening Mail of 13/2/1888 with notes by Monck.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.
d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Be3 Nxd4 {Monck: Some of the best players now recommend
this early exchange, but it usually cramps the pieces and pawns on the
queenside.} 6. Bxd4 Bxd4 7. Qxd4 $14 Qg5 $2 {Monck: New, I believe, but the
present game is not in its favour, ILN: An experiment which does not turn out
well.} ({ILN:} 7... Qf6 8. e5 Qb6 9. Qxb6 axb6 10. Nc3 c6 11. Ne4 {
and Black's position is uncomfortably cramped}) 8. Nc3 c6 {
Monck:To prevent the Kt coming to Q5 or Q Kt5 but it weakens the QP very much.}
9. Be2 Ne7 {Monck: Black, I believe, cannot take the g-pawn, a fact which
sufficiently condemns his seventh move.} 10. O-O O-O 11. f4 Qa5 12. b4 Qb6 13.
Rfd1 Rd8 14. a4 d5 {
Monck: Hoping to free his game, but the P is lost if White plays correctly.}
15. a5 Qxd4+ 16. Rxd4 Be6 17. f5 Bd7 18. g4 Re8 {
ILN: Both attack and defence are here conducted with remarkable ingenuity.} 19.
Rad1 Rac8 20. R1d2 c5 {Monck: the best resource} 21. bxc5 Rxc5 22. Nxd5 Nc6 23.
Ne7+ Rxe7 24. Rxd7 Kf8 25. R7d5 $2 {Monck: This move throws away his advantage.
He should have changed rooks and then played a6.} ({ILN:} 25. Rxe7 $142 {
and 26 a6 'leaving his opponent with a difficult and uphill end game'}) 25...
Rxa5 26. Rxa5 Nxa5 27. Rd8+ Re8 28. Rxe8+ {Monck: Probably the best move was} (
28. Rd7 {when Black must have offered a draw by} 28... Re7 {
or suffered some loss.}) 28... Kxe8 29. Kf2 Ke7 30. Ke3 Nc6 31. g5 Kd6 32. Bc4
Ne5 33. Bd5 b6 34. h4 f6 35. gxf6 gxf6 36. h5 h6 37. Kd4 Nf3+ 38. Kc4 {
Allowing Black to gain the coveted square with his K. It is doubtful whether
he could have gained it against the best defence.} 38... Ke5 $19 39. Kb5 Nd4+
40. Ka6 Nxc2 41. Kxa7 Ne3 42. Bc6 Nc4 43. Ka6 Nd6 {ILN: 'And after a few more
moves White abandoned the game'.  (The rest of the notes are by Monck.)} 44.
Kxb6 Nxe4 45. Bd7 Nc3 $6 {Sent by a slip of the pen for} (45... Ng3 {
The move does little harm as the game is played, however,}) 46. Kc5 Nd5 47. Be8
Ne3 48. Bg6 Nxf5 {The tenth successive move of this Kt} 49. Kc4 Kf4 50. Kd3 Ng7
{To keep the square at Kt6 open for his K.} 51. Ke2 {He should have played the
K to d4,when Black would have to look after his pawns. The game is lost from
this point.} 51... Kg3 52. Kf1 f5 53. Kg1 f4 54. Kf1 f3 55. Kg1 Ne6 56. Be4 Nf4
57. Bc2 f2+ {
Resigned. Black can bring his Kt to e3 in two more moves, and then queen the P.
} 0-1

[Event "UK international tourney 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Barry, George Frith (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C51"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail; Fraser #62"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Game #62 in Fraser book. Some notes appeared in Dublin Evening Mail of 16/2/
1888 and were reprinted in the Irish Sportsman of 3 March 1888} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3
Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bb6 5. O-O {Anderssen's continuation of} (5. a4 a6 6. a5
Ba7 7. b5 {yields a strong attack but, properly opposed, ultimately leaves the
defence with the better game.}) 5... d6 6. c3 Nf6 7. d3 Ne7 8. Qb3 O-O 9. Ng5
Qe8 10. a4 c6 11. a5 Bc7 12. b5 h6 {
Better evidently than 12...d5 at this stage.} 13. Nf3 Bg4 14. bxc6 {This appear
s to be objectionable on many accounts. It leaves an immediate opening for the
opponent's rooks.} 14... bxc6 15. Qb7 {
Still more objectionable! The Queen is completely out of play here.} 15... Qd7
16. Nbd2 Rfb8 17. Qa6 d5 $17 18. exd5 cxd5 19. Ba2 Ng6 20. Kh1 Qe8 21. d4 e4
22. Re1 Bc8 23. Qxf6 $6 {White has a choice of difficulties - the sacrifice of
the Queen is not commendable, for no particular attack is obtained as an
equivalent.} 23... gxf6 24. Bxd5 Bb7 25. Nxe4 Qd8 26. Bxb7 Rxb7 27. a6 Rb5 28.
Nc5 Ne5 29. Bxh6 Nxf3 30. gxf3 Rxc5 {
This may be looked on as the beginning of the end.} 31. dxc5 Qd5 32. Re4 Qh5
$19 33. Rg4+ Kh7 34. Bf4 f5 35. Bxc7 fxg4 {The coup de grace} 36. fxg4 Qxg4 37.
Re1 Rg8 38. Bg3 Qf3+ 39. Kg1 Rg6 40. Re3 Qd1+ 41. Kg2 Qd5+ 0-1

[Event "UK international tourney 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Blake, Joseph Henry (ENG)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C49"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 13/12/1888"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 13/12/1888, notes by Monck} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6
4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Bg5 $6 Bxc3 8. bxc3 Ne7 9. Bxf6 gxf6 10. d4
Ng6 11. Qd2 Kh8 12. Qh6 Nf4 13. Nh4 Rg8 14. Rfd1 Qe7 (14... Rg5 $142 {
White could not then have avoided some loss.}) 15. Rd2 Rg5 16. Be2 Bd7 17. Bf3
Rag8 18. g3 f5 19. Kh1 fxe4 {I believe this sacrifice is sound.At all events,
it required much care in answering.} 20. gxf4 exf4 21. Re2 f5 22. Bh5 {
A blunder which costs the game, but there was no way of escaping without some
loss.} 22... Qg7 23. Qxg7+ R8xg7 24. Bf3 exf3 25. Rd2 Rh5 26. Nxf3 Rh3 27. Ng1
Rxc3 28. f3 Ba4 29. Rc1 Kg8 30. Rf2 Bc6 31. Rcf1 Bd5 32. Nh3 Bxa2 33. Nxf4 Bc4
34. Rb1 c6 35. Nh5 Rf7 36. Nf4 a5 37. Re1 a4 38. d5 a3 39. Ne6 Bxd5 40. Rg2+
Kh8 41. Nf4 Rf8 42. Nxd5 cxd5 43. Rd2 Rfc8 44. Ra1 b5 45. Rxd5 b4 46. Kg2 Rxc2+
47. Kg3 a2 48. Rxd6 b3 49. Rdd1 Ra8 50. Kf4 b2 51. Rxa2 Rxa2 0-1

[Event "UK international tourney 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Bremner, John C (SCO)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C60"]
[Annotator "Fraser #106; Dublin Evening Mail 18/10/1888"]
[PlyCount "121"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Fraser book #106; Dublin Evening Mail 18/10/1888: 'perhaps one of the hottest
contested games in the above tourney'} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. d4 exd4
5. Nxd4 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3 O-O 9. O-O d5 10. exd5 cxd5 11. c3
$6 Qd6 $1 12. h3 Be6 13. Nd2 Nd7 14. f4 $6 d4 $1 15. Ne4 Qb6 16. cxd4 Bxd4 17.
Bxd4 Qxd4+ 18. Rf2 Bf5 19. g4 Bxe4 20. Bxe4 Qxe4 21. Qxd7 Rfd8 22. Qxc7 Rd3 23.
Qe5 Rg3+ 24. Kh2 Qd3 25. Rg2 Rxh3+ 26. Kg1 Re3 27. Qc5 Rae8 28. Rf1 Rg3 29. Qc3
Rxg2+ 30. Kxg2 Qe2+ 31. Rf2 Qxg4+ {Book has misprint: QK7ch} 32. Qg3 Qxg3+ 33.
Kxg3 Re3+ 34. Kg2 Kg7 35. Rc2 Kf6 36. Kf2 Re6 37. Rc5 Rb6 38. b3 Ra6 39. Rc2
Kf5 40. Kf3 h5 41. Rc5+ Ke6 42. a4 Rb6 43. Rc3 f6 44. a5 Ra6 $2 (44... Rb5 $142
$19) 45. b4 Kd6 46. Ke4 Rc6 47. Rd3+ Ke6 48. Rb3 Rc4+ 49. Ke3 Kf5 $2 (49... h4
$145) (49... a6 $145) 50. b5 Rxf4 {
DEM: A fatal error. He should have checked at K5} (50... Re4+ {
and if White retired} 51. Kf2 {taken the P with K instead of R} 51... Kxf4) 51.
b6 Re4+ (51... axb6 52. Rb5+ {(DEM)}) 52. Kf3 Rf4+ (52... axb6 53. Rb5+ {
wins (DEM)}) (52... Re8 {gives more prospect of drawing (DEM)}) 53. Kg3 Rg4+ {
GBF: Black allows the game to slip from him by these checks. TH: Too late
anyway; the white pawns are verystrong} 54. Kh3 axb6 55. Rb5+ {
DEM: Both this check and Black's reply are questionable.} 55... Ke6 56. axb6
Rd4 57. b7 Rd8 58. b8=Q Rxb8 59. Rxb8 Kf5 (59... Kf7 $142) 60. Kh4 Ke6 61. Rb7
{Resigns. White threatens to win a pawn by 62 Rg7, followed, if necessary, by
63 Rg8.} 1-0

[Event "UK international tourney 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Comrie, John (SCO)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C67"]
[Annotator "Fraser #10; ILN 8 April 1893"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Be7 6. Qe2 Nd6 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8.
dxe5 Nb7 9. Nd4 O-O 10. Nc3 Bc5 11. Be3 Qe8 12. Nf3 (12. f4) 12... d5 13. h3 f6
14. Bf4 fxe5 15. Bxe5 $2 Rxf3 $1 16. Qxf3 $1 Qxe5 17. Rae1 Qf6 18. Re8+ Kf7 19.
Qe2 Nd6 20. Rh8 Bb7 21. Rxa8 Bxa8 22. Na4 Bb6 23. Nxb6 axb6 24. Re1 c5 25. c3
Bb7 26. Qg4 Bc6 27. Re3 d4 28. Rg3 Nf5 29. Rd3 Qg6 30. Qxg6+ Kxg6 31. cxd4 Be4
32. Rc3 Nxd4 33. Re3 Bd5 34. a3 b5 35. f4 c4 36. Kf2 c6 37. g4 Nb3 38. Ke2 Nc1+
39. Kd2 Nd3 40. b3 Nxf4 41. bxc4 Bxc4 42. Re4 Nxh3 43. Rxc4 bxc4 44. a4 Nf4 45.
a5 Nd5 46. a6 c3+ 47. Kc1 Nc7 48. a7 Kg5 49. Kc2 Kxg4 50. Kxc3 Nb5+ {This game 
appeared in the ILN of 8 April 1893 so may have been in a later Fraser event?
Check result aganst crosstable.} 0-1

[Event "UK international tourney 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Gunston, William Hewison"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C42"]
[Annotator "Evening Mail 23/2/1888; Field 3/3/88"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Notes by Hoffer from The Field, 3 March 1888} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6
4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Qe2 {Preferable is the more usual continuation} (5. d4 d5 {&c.})
5... Qe7 6. d3 Nf6 7. Bg5 Be6 8. Nc3 Nbd7 {Weak.} (8... Nc6 {
should have been played.}) 9. Nb5 Kd8 {Forced. If} (9... Qd8 {
'10 N-Q5 follows'; this is illegal, presumably he meant} 10. Nfd4 {and}) (9...
Nb6 {White would answer with} 10. Bxf6) 10. O-O-O h6 11. Bd2 a6 (11... c6 {
would have secured a square for the king at c7, given liberty of action to the
QR, and prevented White's 14th move, as the sequel shows.}) 12. Nc3 g6 13. Nd4
Bg7 14. Qf3 c6 15. Nxe6+ fxe6 (15... Qxe6 {, although subjecting him to a
temporary attack, would have been better. The text move weakens the pawns on
the king's side.}) 16. d4 Rf8 17. Bd3 e5 {
Premature for a counter-attack, his own position not being secure enough.} 18.
Rhe1 Qf7 19. Qg3 g5 20. dxe5 Nxe5 {Diagram #} 21. Rxe5 $1 {Hoffer: 'This
ingenious sacrifice does not appear to be quite sound.'  TH/Fritz8: But
actually it may well be best.} 21... Nh5 $2 {Instead of this hazardous move,} (
21... dxe5 {should have been played. Mr Gunston probably overlooked his
opponent's beautiful rejoinder.} 22. Bxg5 $145 $1 Qe7 $8 (22... hxg5 23. Bg6+
Qd7 24. Qxg5 $18) 23. Bf5+ {best?} 23... Kc7 $8 24. Rd7+ Qxd7 25. Bxd7 Nxd7 {
with two rooks for queen and pawn but WHite has a strong initiative because of
the exposed black king. (TH)} 26. Be3 $5) 22. Re8+ $1 {Very pretty and
decisive. Black has no saving move, for if 22...K takes R, then 23 Q takes QP,
and wins.} 22... Qxe8 (22... Kxe8 23. Qxd6 $18) 23. Qxd6+ Qd7 {If} (23... Kc8 {
then} 24. Na4 Qd8 25. Bf5+ Rxf5 26. Qe6+ {and wins.}) 24. Qg6 Bxc3 25. bxc3 Nf6
26. Bf5 Qf7 27. Bf4+ $1 Ke8 28. Bd6 b5 {If} (28... Qxg6 {then} 29. Bxg6+ Rf7
30. Re1+ Kd7 31. Bxf7 Kxd6 32. Re6+ Kd7 33. Rxf6 Ke7 34. Rf3 {&c.}) 29. Qxh6
Rg8 30. Be5 Qg7 31. Qxf6 Qxf6 32. Bxf6 Kf7 33. Rd6 {Hoffer: From the
sdacrifice of the exchange on White's 21st move,, the game presents most
interesting features. Thomas(?) Rowland in Dublin Evening Mail: 'A well
contested game throughout, sparkling with many fine and interesting points.
White's sudden coup with the R on move 21, and his subsequent play is
particularly worthy of note.'} 1-0

[Event "UK international tourney 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Neill, James (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C51"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 23/2/1888"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Not in Fraser book. Some notes appeared in Dublin Evening Mail of 23 Feb 1888
} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. d4 exd4 7. cxd4 Bb4+
8. Nbd2 (8. Kf1 Qe7 9. e5 d6 10. d5 Nxe5 {is a usual continuation}) 8... Qe7 9.
O-O h6 10. Bb2 Na5 11. d5 Nxc4 12. Nxc4 Rh7 13. e5 b5 14. Ne3 Qd8 15. Qd3 g6
16. e6 $1 {The winning move} 16... Bd6 17. exf7+ Kxf7 18. Ng4 Ne7 19. Nfe5+
Bxe5 20. Nxe5+ Kg8 21. Nxg6 Qe8 22. Nxe7+ Rxe7 ({If} 22... Qxe7 {
White could proceed with} 23. Rae1 $145 ({
Note in paper doesn't make sense; columnist must have set up wrong position.} 
23. Qg6+)) 23. Rae1 d6 24. Qc3 1-0

[Event "UK international tourney 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Pilkington, R (ENG)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C22"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 27 Oct 1887"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Not in Fraser book. This game, stated to be from the international tourney,
was copied from the Dublin Evening Mail of 27 Oct 1887 and published in the
Irish Sportsman of November 5, 1887.  The IS score has numerous misprints and
in case my reconstruction is inaccurate I should check it against the Mail.} 1.
e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. d4 {TH: Gambit discussed in the book by the Pierce brothers
} 3... exd4 4. Qxd4 Nc6 5. Qe3 Bb4 6. Bd2 Qe7 7. O-O-O d6 8. h3 h6 9. Bd3 Ne5
10. Be2 Bd7 11. f4 Bc5 12. Qg3 Ng6 13. Bd3 Nh5 14. Qf3 Nf6 15. e5 Bc6 16. Bb5
Nd7 17. Bxc6 bxc6 18. exd6 Qxd6 $6 19. Nb5 $1 cxb5 20. Qxa8+ Ke7 21. Re1+ Kf6
22. Qe4 Bd4 23. g4 Nge5 24. fxe5+ Nxe5 25. Nf3 $1 Re8 26. Qf5+ Ke7 27. Nxd4 f6
28. Qxe5+ {The well-sustained attack on the white Queen proved to be so
disastrous to Black as to allow of the advance of the e-pawn, which at once
turned the tables at move 18. White's ingenious sacrifice on move 19, and the
able way he so speedily forced a won game, are points worthy for study.} 1-0

[Event "UK international tourney 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "White, HV (IRL)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail of 27 Oct 1887"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Not in Fraser book. This game, stated to be from the international tourney,
was copied from the Dublin Evening Mail of 27 Oct 1887 and repeated in the
Irish Sportsman of November 5, 1887.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4
Nf6 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. Bd3 d6 7. Bf4 Be7 8. Nc3 Be6 9. O-O O-O 10. e5 dxe5 11.
Bxe5 Ng4 12. Bg3 Bd6 13. Ne4 Bxg3 14. Nxg3 Qh4 15. h3 Nxf2 $2 16. Kxf2 Qd4+ 17.
Ke1 Qxb2 18. Rf4 Qe5+ 19. Ne2 Rfe8 20. Kf2 c5 21. Re4 Qh2 $2 22. Ng3 $1 c4 23.
Qf3 $1 cxd3 24. Rh1 Qxh1 25. Nxh1 dxc2 26. Qc3 Red8 27. Ng3 Bxa2 28. Rg4 g6 $2
29. Nf5 f6 30. Qxf6 {Resigns; mate follows in a few moves. Well opened on both
sides, and equal up to the 15th move, when Black appears to have made a
miscalculation, since he gave up a  good working piece for two pawns. The slip
on the twenty-first move, however, decided his fate. Mr Monck's play is, as
usual, very forcible and well-timed throughout.} 1-0

[Event "corr ca. 1887"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Pierce, James (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Pierce, WT (book p43-44)"]
[PlyCount "97"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5. d4 Bg7 6. Bc4 Nh6 {
Not to be recommended} 7. O-O d6 8. Ne2 Na5 9. c3 Bd7 (9... Nxc4 {
appears better as N is now left out of play} 10. Qa4+ Bd7 {best?} 11. Qxc4) 10.
Bd3 c5 11. d5 b5 12. Nxf4 (12. Nxg5 {also leads to a strong attack}) 12... gxf4
13. Bxf4 Qb6 14. Bc2 (14. Be3 $5 {idea b4}) 14... Ng4 (14... Nc4 $142 {
idea ...Ne5}) 15. h3 c4+ 16. Nd4 Ne5 17. Be3 Qd8 18. Ne6 $1 {Very ingenious}
18... Bxe6 (18... fxe6 19. Qh5+ Ng6 20. e5 {with a winning attack}) 19. dxe6
Qe7 20. exf7+ Nxf7 21. Qh5 Nc6 22. Qxb5 Nfe5 23. Rf5 Qd7 24. Ba4 Rc8 25. Bd4 {
The attack is well sustained. The defence has the advantage of an extra piece,
but the position is terribly cramped.} 25... Rf8 26. Rxf8+ Bxf8 27. Bxe5 dxe5 (
27... Nxe5 $142) 28. Qxc4 Qd6 29. Qg8 Rc7 30. Rf1 Qc5+ 31. Rf2 Qe7 32. Rxf8+
Qxf8 33. Qe6+ Qe7 34. Bxc6+ Kf8 35. Qxe7+ Kxe7 36. Bd5 Kf6 37. Kf2 a5 38. c4
Rc8 39. b3 Ke7 40. g4 Kd6 41. g5 Rf8+ 42. Kg3 Rf1 43. Bg8 h5 44. Kh4 Rf4+ 45.
Kxh5 Rxe4 46. Bd5 Re1 47. g6 e4 48. g7 Rg1 49. g8=Q (49. g8=Q Rxg8 50. Bxg8 e3
51. c5+) 1-0

[Event "corr ca. 1887"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Pierce, William Timbrell"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Pierce, WT (book p45-46)"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5. d4 g4 6. Bxf4 {
First played in this game. It hardly seems so strong as Bc4.} 6... gxf3 7. Be3
{White is compelled to lose time to protect his d-pawn.} (7. d5 Qf6) 7... Bh6
8. Qxf3 Bxe3 9. Qxe3 Qh4+ 10. g3 Qh6 11. Qf2 Nf6 12. Be2 d6 13. O-O Nd7 {
The position is a very difficult one for Black, as he is bound to lose
something. The move made seems the best on the board; although it shuts in his
Q's pieces for some time to come.} 14. Qxf7+ Kd8 15. Nd5 Rf8 16. Qh5 Qxh5 17.
Bxh5 Nxd4 18. Rxf8+ Nxf8 19. Rf1 Nde6 20. Rf7 c6 21. Nf4 (21. Nc7 Rb8 (21...
Nxc7 22. Rxf8+ Ke7 23. Rf7+ {and draws})) 21... Bd7 22. Nxe6+ Nxe6 23. Rxh7 Kc7
24. Bg4 Re8 25. Bf5 Kd8 26. g4 Re7 27. Rh8+ (27. Rxe7 $142) 27... Kc7 28. Kf2
Ng5 {wins the e-pawn by force} 29. Ke3 Nxe4 30. Kf4 d5 31. Rh7 Rxh7 32. Bxh7
Nf2 33. Bf5 (33. g5 $2 Nh3+) 33... Nh3+ 34. Ke5 Bxf5 35. Kxf5 Kd7 (35... Kd6)
36. Kf6 $6 d4 37. Ke5 (37. g5 c5 38. g6 Nf4 $19) 37... c5 38. Kd5 b6 39. b4
Nf4+ (39... cxb4 40. Kxd4 {draw?}) 40. Ke4 Ne6 41. bxc5 bxc5 42. Kd5 Ke7 43. h4
Kf6 44. h5 Kg5 1/2-1/2

[Event "corr ca. 1887-88"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Pierce, James (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Pierce book p17"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5. d4 g4 6. Bc4 gxf3 7. O-O d5 8. exd5
Bg4 9. Qe1+ (9. Re1+ $142 {W.T.Pierce-Monck}) 9... Be7 10. Qe4 f5 (10... Nf6 $5
11. Qxf4 $140 Bd6) 11. Qxf4 (11. Qe6 Nf6 (11... Na5 12. Bd3 {
threat b4, [TH: Pierce thought good for White but Black can do better?]}) 12.
dxc6 Qxd4+ 13. Kh1 (13. Rf2 $145) 13... fxg2+ 14. Kxg2 Rg8 {
Pierce said "and Black should win" but that seems completely wrong} (14... f3+
$145) 15. cxb7 $145 (15. Rxf4 $145)) 11... Bd6 12. Re1+ Kf8 $17 13. Qg5 (13.
Qh6+ $5 Nxh6 $8) 13... Qxg5 14. Bxg5 Nxd4 15. Bd3 fxg2 16. Kxg2 Nf3 17. h3 Bh5
(17... Nxe1+ $142) 18. Rf1 h6 19. Be3 f4 20. Be4 fxe3 21. Bxf3 Bf7 22. Rae1 Nf6
23. Kh1 Re8 24. Bd1 Ne4 25. Rxf7+ Kxf7 26. Bh5+ Kf6 27. Bxe8 Rxe8 28. Ne2 Rg8
0-1

[Event "corr ca. 1887-88"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Pierce, William Timbrell"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Pierce book pp17-18; WTP in BCM 1888 pp309-13"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{In Pierce book pp17-18, Dublin Evening Mail 2 Aug 1888 and BCM 1888 pp309-13
but no event stated} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5. d4 g4 6. Bc4
gxf3 7. O-O d5 8. exd5 Bg4 9. Re1+ {
Better than 9 Qe1+ as James Pierce played against Monck} 9... Nge7 10. Ne4 Bg7
11. gxf3 Na5 12. Bf1 Bc8 {A curious move, but not without point as it seems
essential to keep the B on this diagonal} 13. c4 b6 14. Bxf4 O-O 15. Bxc7 Qxc7
16. d6 Qd7 17. dxe7 Qxe7 18. Rb1 Qd7 (18... f5 $142) 19. d5 Nb7 20. b4 Nd6 21.
c5 bxc5 22. bxc5 Ne8 23. Bb5 Qh3 {The position is critical and interesting.}
24. Bc6 Be5 25. Re2 Kh8 26. Ng5 Qf5 27. Rg2 Rb8 28. Rxb8 Bxb8 29. Bxe8 Rxe8 30.
d6 $1 h6 31. Qd4+ f6 32. Ne4 Bb7 33. Qxf6+ Qxf6 34. Nxf6 Rd8 35. Rg3 a5 36. Kg2
Ba7 37. Ne4 Bxe4 38. fxe4 Bxc5 39. e5 Bd4 40. e6 Rxd6 41. e7 Re6 42. Rd3 Rxe7
43. Rxd4 {"and the game ended in a draw"} 1/2-1/2

[Event "friendly match, circa 1887-8"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Denning, William Frederick"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C44"]
[Annotator "La Stratégie Nov 1924 pp270-1; Harding"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Published on pages 270-271 of the November 1924 La Strategie, but must have
been played circa 1887-8, as the companion game appeared in the Dublin Evening
Mail of 9 Aug. 1888.  According to Edward Winter's Chess Notes #2803 (which
did not give a date for the game), W.F. Denning (1848-1931) was described as
'England's foremost astronomer' when the French magazine presented this game
with astronomy-flavoured notes. BCM's obituary (August 1915, page 275) of
Monck (1839-1915) recorded that 'in 1899 he gave to the world an excellent
treatise entitled Introduction to Stellar Astronomy' (which TH has seen in TCD
library.)  } 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Bc5 5. c3 dxc3 6. Bxf7+ Kxf7
7. Qd5+ Ke8 8. Qxc5 cxb2 9. Bxb2 Nf6 10. O-O d6 11. Qc4 Qe7 12. Nc3 Be6 13. Nd5
Kd7 14. Qb5 a6 15. Qd3 Qf8 16. Ng5 Re8 17. Rab1 Nd8 18. Nxe6 Rxe6 19. Bxf6 gxf6
20. Rfc1 c6 21. Qc3 cxd5 22. Rxb7+ Ke8 23. Qc8 Re7 24. Rcc7 dxe4 25. Rd7 Kf7
26. Rxe7+ Qxe7 27. Rxe7+ Kxe7 28. Qf5 Ne6 29. Qxe4 Kd7 30. Qa4+ Kc7 31. Qxa6
Rb8 32. Qc4+ Nc5 33. Qf7+ Nd7 34. Qxh7 1-0

[Event "friendly match, circa 1887-8"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Denning, William Frederick"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 9 Aug. 1888"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "1887.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 9 Aug. 1888. 'We give another specimen of Mr W. H. S.
Monck's skill as a correspondence player, it was played in a pending match of
two games with Mr W. F. Denning of Bristol. In addition to this match, Mr
Monck is playing four games in Mr Fraser's Correspondence Tourney, five in Mr
Nash's, and six in Mr Pierce's. We do not know of any other player having so
many games on hand, and considering that Mr Monck's opponents are all strong
correspondence players, he is performing a feat worthy of much commendation.'} 
1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 Bb4 5. d4 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 d6 7. Bxf4 Qe7 8.
Bd3 h6 9. O-O Bd7 10. e5 d5 11. Rb1 Na5 12. Nd2 b6 13. Qh5 Be6 14. Ba6 g6 15.
Qf3 c6 16. Nb3 Nxb3 17. Rxb3 Rb8 18. c4 h5 19. c5 Qd8 20. Bd3 Ne7 21. Bg5 Qd7
22. Qf6 Rg8 23. cxb6 axb6 24. Rfb1 Nc8 25. Ba6 Qe7 26. Qxe7+ Nxe7 27. Rxb6 Rxb6
28. Rxb6 Nc8 29. Rb8 Kd7 30. Rb7+ Ke8 31. Bf6 Bf5 32. Rc7 Nb6 33. Rxc6 Na8 34.
Rd6 Bd7 35. Bb5 1-0

[Event "English Mechanic tourney-4 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Lushington, Colonel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Pierce book p42"]
[PlyCount "37"]
[EventDate "1887.08.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5. d4 d6 6. h4 {
This produces a kind of Pierce-Thorold-Allgaier Gambit.} 6... g4 (6... Bg4 {
seems an effective rejoinder.}) 7. Ng5 h6 8. Nxf7 Kxf7 9. Bc4+ Ke8 10. Bxf4 Bg7
11. Qd3 Bxd4 (11... Nxd4 {is better}) 12. e5 Nge7 13. exd6 Nb4 14. Qe2 Bxc3+
15. bxc3 Nxc2+ 16. Qxc2 cxd6 17. O-O-O Qa5 18. Rhe1 Bf5 19. Rxe7+ 1-0

[Event "English Mechanic tourney-4 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Woods, JG."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Chambers, ILN 18/6/1887; Harding"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "1887.08.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 11/10/1888. 'The following very well-contested game was
recently concluded in Mr Pierce's Corr. Tourney'.   TH: The loser JG Woods of
Bournemouth was I think not the same person as Colour-Sergeant Woods? J. G.,
Woods played in Pierce tournaments 4 and 5 I think (did not play in the other
ones). As there are two games with Monck and this is the earlier of them to be
published, it must be the game from tourney-4.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4
4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. Bd3 d5 7. e5 Ng4 8. Bf4 Bc5 9. O-O Bxf2+ 10. Rxf2
Nxf2 11. Kxf2 Qh4+ 12. Bg3 Qd4+ 13. Kf1 Qxb2 14. Nd2 O-O 15. Kg1 a5 16. Nf3 Bg4
17. Be2 Rab8 18. h3 Bh5 19. Rc1 Rb7 20. Kh2 Rd8 21. Qd2 h6 22. Bf4 Qxa2 23.
Bxh6 Bg6 24. Nh4 d4 25. Nxg6 fxg6 26. Qg5 Qd5 27. Bc4 Qxc4 28. Qxd8+ Kh7 29.
Qe7 Qg8 30. Rf1 Rb8 31. Rf4 g5 32. Bxg7 Re8 {
White announced mate in eight moves} (32... Qd8 33. Qe6 gxf4 34. Qh6+ Kg8 35.
e6 $1) 1-0

[Event "English Mechanic tourney-4 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Pierce, William Timbrell"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "BCM 1890 pp245-247"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "1887.08.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{"Game played by correspondence in 'The English Mechanic' tourney now in
progress".   This was the fourth EM tournamnet (1887-9) in whiuch extra prizes
were offered for games in the gambit.  More notes by James Pierce in BCM 1890.
The Pierce Gambit book (published 1888) had two earlier games between the
Pierces and Monck in the gambit.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5.
d4 g4 6. Bc4 Bg7 (6... gxf3 $142) 7. Bxf4 (7. O-O $5) 7... gxf3 8. Qxf3 Nxd4 (
8... Bxd4 9. Bxf7+) 9. Qg3 Nxc2+ 10. Kd2 Bxc3+ 11. Kxc3 Nxa1 12. Bxc7 Nf6 (
12... Qe7 13. Bd6) 13. Qg7 Nxe4+ 14. Kd3 Qf6 15. Re1 $1 Qxg7 16. Rxe4+ Qe5 17.
Rxe5+ Kf8 18. Bd6+ Kg7 19. Re3 h5 20. Rg3+ Kh7 21. Bxf7 b6 22. Bg6+ Kg7 23.
Be5+ Kg8 24. Be4+ Kf7 25. Bd5+ Ke7 26. Rg7+ Kf8 27. Rf7+ Ke8 28. Bxh8 Ba6+ 29.
Kd2 Rc8 30. Bc3 Rc5 31. Rf5 Bc4 32. Re5+ Kd8 33. Bxc4 Rxc4 34. b3 Rg4 35. Re2
Nxb3+ 36. axb3 Kc7 37. g3 h4 38. h3 Rg6 39. g4 Kc6 40. Re8 Rd6+ 41. Kc2 Kd5 42.
Re5+ Kc6 43. Rf5 Re6 44. Rf6 Kd5 45. Rxe6 dxe6 46. g5 1-0

[Event "English Mechanic tourney-4 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Last, CW (ENG)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 20 Sept 1888"]
[PlyCount "17"]
[EventDate "1887.08.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 20 Sept 1888; two brevities which were the last games of
these players in Pierce's (EM) tourney. The next year Monck won another
brevity against Last in this line.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5.
d4 d6 6. h4 {Previously adopted by the same player with success against Col.
Lushington. It produces a kind of Pierce-Thorold-Allgaier gambit,} 6... f6 (
6... Bg4 {is more effective}) 7. Bb5 Bd7 8. Nxg5 $1 Qe7 (8... h5 $142) (8...
Nge7 $142) 9. Qh5+ 1-0

[Event "English Mechanic tourney-4 1887-9"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Last, CW (ENG)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 20 Sept 1888"]
[PlyCount "20"]
[EventDate "1887.08.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 20 Sept 1888; second of two brevities which were the last
games of these players in Pierce's (EM) tourney.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4
exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5. d4 Bg7 6. Bc4 g4 7. e5 gxf3 8. O-O d6 9. Qxf3 dxe5 10. Qh5 $2
Qxd4+ 0-1

[Event "unknown event"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1888.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Pierce, William Timbrell"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "ILN 5 Jan 1889 p.19; BCM feb 1890 p50"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "1888.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5. d4 g4 6. Bc4 gxf3 7. O-O d5 8. exd5
Bg4 9. Re1+ Nge7 10. Ne4 Bg7 11. gxf3 Na5 12. Bf1 Bh5 (12... Bc8 {
was played in presumably earlier game W.T.P v Monck, in the Pierce Gambit book.
}) 13. c4 Rg8 14. Kf2 Kf8 15. b3 (15. b4 $2 {dangerous} 15... Nf5) 15... Nf5 (
15... Bf6 $142) 16. Ba3+ Nd6 17. Ke2 Qe7 $1 18. Kd3 (18. Kd2 $2 Ndxc4+ 19. Bxc4
Qxa3) 18... Bg6 19. Kc2 (19. Kc3 $4 Nxe4+) 19... b6 $6 20. Kb2 Bxe4 21. fxe4
Qh4 (21... f6 $5) 22. e5 Nab7 23. exd6 cxd6 (23... Nxd6 24. c5) 24. Qd2 f3 25.
Rad1 Re8 (25... f2 $142) 26. Rxe8+ Kxe8 27. Qe1+ Qxe1 28. Rxe1+ Kd8 29. Kc3 Re8
(29... Bf6) (29... Bf8) 30. Rxe8+ Kxe8 31. Kd3 Bf6 32. b4 $18 Bh4 33. Ke3 Bf6
34. c5 bxc5 35. dxc5 dxc5 36. bxc5 Be7 37. d6 Bg5+ 38. Kxf3 Kd7 39. Bh3+ {
Pierce discussed this game in BCM Feb 1890 p50} 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1889.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Blake, Joseph Henry (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C62"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 17/7/1890"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "1889.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 17/7/1890} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. d4 exd4 5.
Qxd4 Bd7 6. Bxc6 Bxc6 7. Nc3 Be7 8. Bd2 Bf6 9. Qd3 Ne7 10. O-O-O Qd7 11. Nd5
O-O-O 12. Nxf6 gxf6 13. Bc3 Qe6 14. Nd4 Qg4 15. f3 Qg5+ 16. Qd2 Rhg8 17. g4 Qh4
18. Qf4 $6 Qg5 19. Qxg5 fxg5 20. h4 h6 21. hxg5 hxg5 22. Rh7 Be8 23. Rdh1 d5
24. e5 c5 25. Nb3 d4 26. Be1 Ng6 27. Bg3 Nf8 28. R7h6 Ng6 29. Nd2 Bc6 30. Rh7
Bd5 31. R1h2 Nf8 32. R7h6 Ng6 33. R2h5 Rh8 34. Rxh8 Rxh8 35. Kd1 (35. Rxg5 $2
Rh1+) 35... Kd7 36. Ke2 Rxh5 37. gxh5 Nf8 38. Kd3 Be6 39. Ne4 Bf5 40. Kc4 b6
41. c3 dxc3 42. bxc3 g4 {A trap} 43. Kb5 (43. Nf6+ $2 Kc6 44. fxg4 Bc2 {
threat ...b5#}) 43... gxf3 44. Nf6+ Ke6 1/2-1/2

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1889.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Johnson, Richard Wright (ENG"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C29"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 8 May 1890"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "1889.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 8 May 1890} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5.
Qf3 Nxc3 6. bxc3 d4 7. Bc4 Qe7 8. cxd4 Nc6 9. c3 f6 10. Bd5 Bd7 11. Ba3 $6 {
Showy rather than sound} 11... Qxa3 12. e6 Qe7 13. Kf2 O-O-O $1 14. exd7+ Qxd7
15. Bxc6 Qxc6 16. Qxc6 bxc6 17. Rb1 (17. Nf3 $142) 17... c5 18. Ne2 cxd4 19.
cxd4 Rd6 20. Rhc1 Rb6 21. Rxb6 axb6 22. Nc3 Kb7 23. Nd5 c6 24. Ne3 Ba3 25. Rb1
Rd8 $6 26. Nc4 Rxd4 27. Nxa3 Rxd2+ 28. Kf3 $4 Rd3+ 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1889.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Gamman, JB (ENG)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C48"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 26/12/1889"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "1889.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 26/12/1889; Gamman from Saffron Walden had played in one
of Nash's tourneys.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Bb5 d6 $6 5. d4 Nd7 $6
6. Bxc6 bxc6 7. dxe5 dxe5 8. Bg5 Be7 9. Qd2 O-O 10. O-O-O Qe8 11. h4 Bd6 12. g4
f6 13. Be3 Rf7 14. h5 Nf8 15. Rdg1 Be6 16. g5 f5 17. g6 hxg6 18. hxg6 Rd7 19.
exf5 Bxf5 20. Nh4 Bxg6 21. Nxg6 Nxg6 22. Qd3 $40 Nf8 23. Qc4+ Ne6 24. Rh6 Re7
25. Rgg6 Qd7 26. Ne4 {Stronger than winning the piece at once} 26... Rf7 27.
Rxe6 Bf8 28. Rxe5 Be7 {An error but further loss wa sinevitable} 29. Rh8+ 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1889.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Gunston, William Hewison"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C43"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 12 Dec 1889"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "1889.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 12 Dec 1889; Bristol Mercury 1 Sept 1894} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3
Nf6 3. d4 (3. Nxe5 $145 {played by Monck against Gunston in the UK
International about two years previously}) 3... d5 {An experiment not in the
books, but adopted by Mr G on account of his previous contest with Mr Blake.}
4. dxe5 Nxe4 5. Bd3 Be7 6. Bxe4 dxe4 7. Qxd8+ Bxd8 8. Nd4 O-O 9. Nc3 Bd7 10.
Bf4 f5 11. e6 c5 12. Nb3 Bxe6 13. Nxc5 Bc8 {
Necessary to defend the P but Black has a cramped game} 14. O-O-O Nc6 15. h4 {
To prevent Black playing ...Bg5+ if the white bishop leaves his post} 15... a5
16. Nb5 b6 17. Nd7 Bxd7 18. Rxd7 Be7 19. Bd6 Bxd6 20. Rxd6 Rac8 21. Rhd1 Nb4
22. Nc3 b5 $6 {This ultimately loses a pawn. Blalck's intention appears to be .
..Nxc2 followed by ...b4.} 23. R1d2 Rc5 24. a3 Nc6 25. Nxb5 Ne5 26. R6d5 Rxd5
27. Rxd5 Ng4 28. Nd6 g6 29. Rd2 e3 30. fxe3 Nxe3 31. b4 axb4 32. axb4 Rd8 33.
c4 Rb8 {Black's best move, we think, was} (33... Nxc4 $142 34. Nxc4 Rb8 35. Rb2
$140 Rc8 {and draws the game unless White gives up his  Kt or his passed pawn.
This course is also open on the following move.} 36. Rc2 Rb8) 34. Rb2 Kf8 35.
c5 Nd5 36. b5 Ke7 37. Kc2 Kd7 38. Kd3 Nf6 39. Kd4 Ng4 40. Nc4 Nf6 41. Na5 Ne4
42. g4 Nxc5 {The sacrifice of Kt for two pawns is unsound at this stage, but
it is doubtful whether any play would save the game.} 43. Kxc5 fxg4 44. Nc6 Rf8
45. Rd2+ Kc8 46. Ne7+ Kb8 {And White announces mate in eight moves} 47. Rd7 (
47. Rd7 Rf6 (47... g3 48. Kb6 Rf6+ 49. Nc6+) 48. Nc6+ Kc8 49. Rxh7 g3 50. Kb6
Rxc6+ 51. bxc6 Kd8 52. c7+ Kc8 53. Kc6 {etc}) 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1889.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Holt, William Locke (WLS)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C83"]
[Annotator "Irish Sportsman 23 Nov 1889 p646"]
[PlyCount "126"]
[EventDate "1889.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Irish Sportsman 23 Nov 1889 p646: 'A great game played in the Mail corr.
tourney} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3
d5 8. dxe5 Be6 9. c3 Be7 10. Bf4 g5 {The position is the same as in a game
Chambers v Monck in Mr Fraser's tourney, won by the former. Mr Monck played 10.
..Castles. Mr Locke Holt's move in the present game is decidedly preferable.}
11. Be3 h5 12. Nd4 {Giving up a pawn without any equivalent advantage} 12...
Nxe5 13. Nxe6 fxe6 14. f3 Nc5 15. Bc2 Qd6 16. b4 Ncd7 17. a4 c6 18. f4 Ng4 19.
Bg6+ {A miscalculation which costs a piece. In any case White's position is a
bad one.} 19... Kd8 20. Bd4 e5 21. fxe5 Qxg6 22. e6 Nde5 {
He should have saved the piece by playing} (22... Ndf6 {and then retiring the
other one [N] to h6; but it will be seen that White does not venture to take
the proferred pawn.}) 23. h3 Qxe6 24. axb5 Nf6 25. Re1 Bd6 26. Nd2 {
White should rather have taken one of the pawns.} 26... cxb5 27. Nf3 Nfd7 28.
Nxg5 Qg8 29. Qd2 Kc7 {Black is a clear piece ahead with no disadvantage in
position, but for some time after this his play is not as good at the
beginning and end of the game.} 30. Qe3 Kc6 31. Ra2 Qg6 32. Rea1 Kb7 33. Qd2
Rhe8 34. Bf2 Qg8 35. Rd1 Kc6 36. Qd4 Nc4 37. h4 Bc7 38. Rda1 Bb6 39. Qd1 Bxf2+
40. Kxf2 Qh8 41. Rxa6+ Rxa6 42. Rxa6+ Ndb6 43. Qd3 Re3 {Perhaps premature, but
there were rocks ahead, and in the result Black, by returning the piece,
obtains a decided advantage in position.} 44. Qg6+ Kb7 45. Rxb6+ Nxb6 46. Kxe3
Qxc3+ 47. Qd3 Qe1+ 48. Kf3 Qxb4 49. Qh7+ Ka6 50. Qxh5 Qe1 51. Qg4 b4 52. Qd4
Qf1+ 53. Kg3 b3 54. Nf3 Qc4 55. Qe3 b2 56. Qa3+ {White plays to prevent the
hostile N coming to c4 presently, but it will be seen that the text move opens
another line of advance, which is fatal} (56. Nd2 {at once is best}) 56... Na4
57. Nd2 Qc2 58. Qe3 Nc3 59. Kf4 {The K must move to avoid the hostile N's
check at e4, but this is the wrong square as the sequel shows.} 59... Ne4 60.
Qe2+ Ka7 {The right move. Any other move of the K would give White a chance of
drawing. The finish will be found interesting.} 61. Qe3+ Kb7 62. Nb1 Qc1 63.
Na3 d4 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1889.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Last, CW (ENG)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 27/3/1890"]
[PlyCount "21"]
[EventDate "1889.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 Be7 5. Bc4 Bh4+ 6. g3 fxg3 7. O-O gxh2+
8. Kh1 d6 9. Bxf7+ Kf8 10. Bc4 Nf6 $4 11. Nxh4 {'Another unhappy instance of
the result of a mistake': Dublin Evening Mail 27/3/1890} 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1889.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Nicholls, William (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 8 May 1890"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "1889.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 8 May 1890} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5.
Be3 Qe7 6. Nc3 Bxd4 7. Bxd4 Nf6 8. Bxf6 Qxf6 9. Nd5 Qd8 10. Bd3 Ne7 11. Qg4
Nxd5 12. exd5 O-O 13. O-O-O d6 14. Qh5 f5 15. f4 Qf6 16. Rdf1 g6 17. Qh6 Bd7
18. h3 Rf7 19. Rhg1 a5 20. g4 a4 21. gxf5 Bxf5 22. Bxf5 Qxf5 23. Rg5 Qf6 24. a3
Rg7 25. f5 Rf8 26. Rfg1 b5 $2 27. Kb1 Kf7 28. fxg6+ hxg6 29. R5g4 Ke8 30. Qe3+
Kd7 31. Qd3 c6 32. dxc6+ Kxc6 33. Rg5 Rb8 34. h4 b4 35. Qc4+ Kd7 36. axb4 Rgg8
37. Rf1 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1889.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Pilkington, R (ENG)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 8/8/89"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "1889.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Irish Sportsman 24 Aug 1889 p438 copying from Dublin Evening Mail 8/8/89.
Pilkington from London (earlier he was in Penzance for Fraser international). 
 } 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 3. Nf3 d6 4. Na4 Nd7 5. Nxc5 Nxc5 6. d4 exd4 7. Qxd4 Ne6
8. Qc3 Nf6 9. Bd3 O-O 10. O-O d5 11. exd5 Qxd5 12. b3 Qh5 13. Qe5 Bd7 14. Qxh5
Nxh5 15. Ne5 Rad8 16. Ba3 c5 (16... Rfe8 {
bringing it into play at once, seems preferable.}) 17. b4 b6 18. Rad1 {
Threatening to win the exchange.} 18... Be8 (18... Nf6 {
best. Text move gives him a cramped position.}) 19. bxc5 Ba4 {
Something better was expected from Mr Pilkington. He must lose now.} (19...
bxc5 {should have been played,}) 20. cxb6 {
White has a strong attack which he ably sustains.} 20... Rfe8 21. b7 Rb8 22.
Rb1 Red8 23. Be7 Nhf4 24. Bxd8 Nxd8 25. Be4 f6 26. Rfd1 Nde6 27. Nd7 (27. Nd7 {
Resigns. Conditional sent} 27... Bxd7 28. Rxd7 Ne2+ 29. Kf1 Nc3 30. Bd5 {and if
} 30... Nxb1 {then} 31. Bxe6+ {will win in a few more moves.}) 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1889.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Nash, William (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C29"]
[Annotator "Dub Evening Mail 20/6/1889"]
[PlyCount "28"]
[EventDate "1889.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin EM 20  June 189.The game in which Mr WHS MOnck obtained the honour of
scoring "first blood", It will be seen that his well-timed check on the 8th
move comletely "rolls back the tide of war" and leaves hm master of trhe field.
} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5. Nf3 Bb4 {
Another favourite line is} (5... Bg4 6. d3 Nxc3 7. bxc3 Nc6 8. d4 f6) 6. Bb5+ {
Intebded to prevent Black playing ...Nc6. It is worth examining but the
present game is no test of its merits.} 6... c6 7. Be2 Bg4 8. O-O $2 Qb6+ {
For if 9 d4 Black ins a piece by 9...Nxc3} 9. Kh1 Nf2+ 10. Rxf2 Qxf2 11. d4 Nd7
12. g3 $2 Bh3 13. Ne1 $2 Nxe5 $1 {Resigns, for if} 14. dxe5 (14. Qd3 Bxc3 15.
bxc3 Bf5 {or ...Bg4}) 14... Bc5 {wins. If other, Black, we believe, would win,
at elast, a piece. The following is perhaps the best:} 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1889.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Wisbey, JC (ENG)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C67"]
[Annotator "Irish Sportsman 23/11/1889"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[EventDate "1889.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Irish Sportsman 23 Nov 1889 p646. 'Another fine game playd in the 'Mail' corr.
tourney  J.C.Wisbey (of Colchester)-Monck} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4.
O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Be7 6. Re1 Nd6 7. Bxc6 dxc6 8. dxe5 Nf5 9. Qe2 Nd4 10. Nxd4 Qxd4
11. Rd1 Bg4 12. Rxd4 Bxe2 {Black has come out of the opening without
disadvantage, his two Bishops being a sufficient set off for the doubled pawn.}
13. Nc3 Bh5 14. Bf4 Bg6 15. Rc1 Bc5 {
Losing time, but the move was made with the board misplaced.} 16. Rdd1 Be7 17.
h3 Rd8 18. Rxd8+ Bxd8 19. Be3 O-O 20. Nd1 Be7 21. f4 f6 22. exf6 Bxf6 23. c3
Re8 24. Kf2 a6 {White could not have safely taken this P at any previous stage,
The game appears drawn, but Black plays on in the hope of his opponent making
a mistake.} 25. c4 Rd8 26. Nc3 Rd3 27. c5 Bf7 28. a3 Bb3 29. g3 Kf7 30. Ke2 Bc4
31. Nd1 Rd4+ 32. Kf2 Re4 33. Nc3 Re6 34. Rd1 Re7 {Black avoids an ending with
bishops of opposite colours, which would lead to a draw, even after
dislocating White's pawns.} 35. Rd2 Be6 36. g4 h5 37. Kf3 {
An error which costs a pawn, but probably White could still draw with care}
37... hxg4+ 38. hxg4 Bxg4+ 39. Kxg4 Rxe3 40. Na4 Re4 41. Nc3 Rc4 42. Rd7+ {
But this error is fatal.} 42... Ke6 43. Rxc7 Rxf4+ 44. Kxf4 {Best, for Black
threatens ...Bxc3 followed by ...Rf7, if the K retires to h3 (his best retreat)
.} 44... Be5+ 45. Ke4 Bxc7 46. Ne2 Be5 47. b3 g5 48. a4 g4 49. Ng1 a5 50. Ne2
g3 51. Ng1 g2 52. Ne2 Bh2 53. Kd4 g1=Q+ 54. Nxg1 Bxg1+ 55. Kc4 Ke5 56. b4 axb4
{Resigns, Conditionals sent. If 57 Kxb4 Kd5, if 58 Ka5 Bd4 &c.} 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1889.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Woollett, Capt Marcus S (IRL)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C57"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 24 Apr. 1890; Harding"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "1889.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 24 Apr. 1890} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5.
exd5 Nxd5 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Qf3+ Ke6 8. Nc3 Ncb4 {Even today there is no
consensus on this line, with most authorities preferring 6 d4 but Palkovi
liked 6 Nxf7 because of his improvement at move 12.} (8... Nce7 {was the only
move in the Modern Chess Instructor. Rowland wrote:'It will be seen that mr
Monck varied Steinitz. We do not think that White made the best reply.'}) 9. a3
{Heyken & Fette's 1989 book actually gives this as best. Estrin wrote that it
was recommended by Polerio and later by La Bourdonnais.} (9. Qe4 $145) 9...
Nxc2+ 10. Kd1 Nd4 $1 11. Bxd5+ Kd6 12. Qf7 (12. Qg3 $145 {
Palkovi p.131; if he is right, White is winning with 6 Nxf7.}) 12... Bf5 (12...
Qe7 $145 13. Ne4+ Kd7 14. Nc5+ Kd6 15. Nxb7+ Bxb7 16. Qxe7+ Bxe7 17. Bxb7 {
about equal, e.g.} 17... Rab8 18. Be4 Nb3 {
and Black will sooner or later win his pawn back (Estrin)}) 13. Be4 $4 (13.
Bxb7 $145) 13... Be6 14. Qh5 g6 15. Bxg6 hxg6 16. Qxh8 Bb3+ 17. Ke1 Nc2+ 18.
Kf1 Bc4+ 19. d3 Bxd3+ 20. Kg1 Nxa1 21. Qh3 Bf5 22. g4 Bc2 23. Kg2 c6 24. Be3
Nb3 25. Qf3 Kc7 {
White resigned, being of the opinion that he had no equivalent for his piece.}
0-1

[Event "unknown event ca 1890"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1889.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Cheshire, Horace Fabian (ENG)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C77"]
[Annotator "Sussex Chess Journal i:13 and i:15"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "1889.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{This game must have been finished by early 1890 as it was used for an
annotation competition in the Sussex Chess Journal i:13 (2 June 1890). Event
unstated.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 Bc5 6. c3 b5 7. Bc2
d6 8. b4 Ba7 9. a4 Bd7 10. axb5 axb5 11. Na3 Ne7 12. Be3 Bxe3 13. fxe3 Ng6 14.
d4 O-O 15. O-O Qe7 16. Qe2 Rfb8 17. Bd3 exd4 18. Nxd4 c6 19. Nf5 Qe5 20. Qd2
Ng4 21. Ng3 (21. g3) 21... h5 22. Rfd1 $2 (22. Rfc1) 22... Nxh2 $1 (22... h4 $5
) 23. Nf1 (23. Kxh2 h4 24. Qf2 hxg3+ 25. Qxg3 Qh5+ 26. Kg1 Rxa3 {
shows why the white R went to qwrong square at move 22.} 27. Qxd6 Rba8) 23...
Nxf1 24. Bxf1 Qxe4 25. Bd3 Qe7 26. Bxg6 fxg6 27. Qxd6 Qxe3+ 28. Kh2 Be8 29. c4
Rd8 30. Nc2 Qe4 31. Re1 Qxc2 (31... Qh4+ $142 32. Kg1 Rxa1 {
and White has no resource}) 32. Rxa8 Rxa8 {If} (32... Rxd6 {
the game would be drawn thus:} 33. Rexe8+ Kf7 34. Rf8+ Ke6 35. Rae8+ Kd7 {
and he cannot escape perpetual check with QR}) 33. cxb5 cxb5 {
Cheshire: This move was despatched without proper consideration.} (33... Qf2
$142) 34. Qd5+ Kh7 35. Qxa8 Bc6 36. Re2 Qxe2 37. Qxc6 Qe5+ 38. Kh3 Qf5+ 39. Kg3
Qg4+ 40. Kh2 Qxb4 41. Qb7 Qc4 42. g4 {
Hoping to play for stalemate with a later Qxg7+ if Black is careless.} 42...
Qxg4 43. Qxb5 h4 44. Qb3 Qg3+ 45. Qxg3 hxg3+ {and won} 0-1

[Event "Belfast-Dublin 1890-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Hill, A (IRL)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B14"]
[Annotator "Dub Ev Mail 4 Sep 1890; ILN 30/6/1894"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail, 4 Sept 1890. DUBLIN v BELFAST. Second game terminated in
the Dublin v Belfast corr. match. Game also appeared, with a slightly
different finish, in ILN civ (30 June 1894) p. 826} 1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 e6 3. c4
Nf6 4. a3 c5 5. e3 Nc6 6. Nc3 cxd4 7. exd4 Be7 8. c5 Ne4 9. Bd2 Bf6 10. Bb5 O-O
11. Bxc6 bxc6 12. Qa4 $6 (12. O-O $142 {ILN}) 12... Nxd2 13. Kxd2 Qc7 14. Rhe1
Rb8 15. Rab1 (15. b4 Qf4+ {ILN}) 15... a5 16. g3 g6 17. Ne5 Bg7 18. f4 (18.
Qxc6 $4 Bxe5 {or}) (18. Nxc6 Bd7 19. Ne7+ Kh8 20. c6 Be8 $19 {ILN}) 18... Rb7
19. b4 axb4 20. axb4 Ra7 21. Qc2 f6 22. b5 cxb5 23. Nd3 (23. Nxb5 $4 Qa5+ {ILN}
) 23... Bd7 24. Nxb5 Qa5+ 25. Nc3 Re8 26. Qb2 (26. Rb6 $142 $16 {ILN}) 26...
Bf8 27. Ra1 Qc7 28. Nb5 Bxb5 29. Qxb5 Kf7 30. Qb6 Rb7 31. Qxc7+ Rxc7 32. Ra6 h6
33. Rea1 g5 34. Ra7 Ree7 35. Rxc7 Rxc7 36. Ra6 Be7 37. Kc3 gxf4 38. gxf4 Bd8
39. Nb4 Rd7 40. Ra8 Bc7 41. Nd3 Kg6 42. Kb4 Kf5 43. Ra7 Ke4 {ILN: 'The game
has been well contested throughout, and there should be no trouble now for
either party to draw it.'} 44. Kb5 Kxd3 45. Kc6 Rg7 46. Rxc7 Rg2 47. Kd6 Kxd4
48. Kxe6 Rc2 49. Kd6 Ke4 {Dublin Evening Mail says draw here: 'White, in
offering the draw, gave 50 Rd7, to which ...d4 is a satisfactory answer.'} 50.
Rd7 d4 51. c6 d3 1/2-1/2

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-2 1890-3"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Johnson, Richard Wright (ENG"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C62"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 6 Aug 1891"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 6 Aug 1891} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. d4 Bd7 5. d5
Nb8 6. Bxd7+ Nxd7 7. c4 Ngf6 8. O-O $2 Nxe4 9. Re1 Nef6 10. Bg5 Be7 11. Nc3 O-O
12. Nh4 Nb6 13. b3 Nfxd5 14. Nxd5 Bxg5 15. Nxb6 axb6 16. Nf3 Be7 17. Qc2 f5 18.
Rad1 Qc8 19. Re3 c6 20. a4 Qc7 21. Qe2 Bf6 22. Ne1 Rad8 23. Rh3 Qf7 24. Rdd3 e4
25. Rdg3 g5 26. Rh5 h6 27. f4 $1 (27. Rxh6 g4) 27... exf3 (27... exf3 28. Qxf3
g4 29. Qxf5 Bd4+) 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-2 1890-3"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Last, CW (ENG)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C60"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 11/12/1890"]
[PlyCount "44"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 11/12/1890} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 b6 {
The Narraway Defence} 4. c3 Nge7 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb7 7. Nc3 Ng6 8. a3 Be7 9.
Be3 O-O 10. Qd3 a6 11. Ba4 b5 12. Bc2 Re8 13. Ne2 Na5 14. b3 Rc8 15. Nf4 $2 {
This affords the chance for which he was waiting.} 15... Nxf4 16. Bxf4 Bxe4 17.
Qd1 $2 (17. Qxe4 $145 Bb4+ $1 18. axb4 Rxe4+ 19. Bxe4 Nxb3 $17) 17... Bxc2 $19
18. Qxc2 Bg5+ 19. Be3 Bxe3 20. fxe3 Rxe3+ 21. Kd2 Rxb3 22. h4 Rb2 $1 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-2 1890-3"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Billups, R (ENG)."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 26 Mar 1891"]
[PlyCount "122"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Mail 26 Mar 1891. These players had met before at least twice in Fraser
events and were to meet again} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5.
Be3 Bxd4 6. Bxd4 Nf6 7. Bxf6 Qxf6 8. Nc3 O-O 9. Bd3 d6 10. O-O Be6 11. f4 Qd4+
12. Kh1 f5 13. Qe2 Rae8 14. Rad1 Qf6 15. g4 fxg4 16. f5 Bd7 17. Nd5 Qd8 18.
Qxg4 Ne5 19. Qg2 Kh8 20. Rg1 Rg8 21. Rdf1 Ref8 22. Qf2 b6 23. Rg3 g5 24. Rfg1
h6 25. Qd2 Kh7 26. R1g2 c6 27. Ne3 Qf6 28. c3 Rg7 29. Ng4 Nxg4 30. Rxg4 b5 31.
Bc2 Be8 32. h4 c5 33. hxg5 Rxg5 34. Rxg5 hxg5 35. Qxg5 Qxg5 36. Rxg5 Rg8 37.
Rxg8 Kxg8 38. Kg2 Kg7 39. Kf3 Kf6 40. Ke3 Bf7 41. b3 Ke5 42. Bd3 Be8 43. Be2 a6
44. b4 Bf7 45. a3 Be8 46. Bd1 Bf7 47. Bg4 Be8 48. f6 cxb4 49. axb4 Kxf6 50. Kd4
Bc6 51. Bc8 Ke7 52. e5 Kd8 53. Bxa6 Kc7 54. e6 Kb6 55. Bc8 Kc7 56. Bd7 Bxd7 57.
exd7 Kxd7 58. Kd5 Kc7 59. Ke6 Kc6 60. Ke7 Kc7 61. Kf6 Kd7 {
White seems to have missed a win at some point, (TH)} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-2 1890-3"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Brunton, William (ENG)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C51"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 6 Aug 1891"]
[PlyCount "52"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 6 Aug 1891} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5.
Bb2 $2 d6 6. c3 $2 Ba5 7. O-O Bd7 8. d4 Qe7 9. Ba3 Nh6 10. dxe5 Nxe5 11. Nxe5
Qxe5 12. f4 Qe7 13. e5 $6 Ng4 14. Qe2 Bb6+ 15. Kh1 Nxh2 $1 16. Re1 O-O-O 17. g3
Ng4 18. Bd5 h5 19. exd6 Qxe2 20. Rxe2 h4 21. dxc7 Kxc7 22. Bf3 hxg3+ 23. Kg2
Bf2 24. Rxf2 gxf2 25. Nd2 Bc6 26. Nf1 Rh1 (26... Rh1 {Resigns} 27. Bxc6 (27.
Kxh1 Bxf3#) 27... Rg1+ 28. Kf3 Kxc6 {and ...Re8}) 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-2 1890-3"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Fawcett, Richard Henry rev"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 27/8/1891; Harding"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 27/8/1891} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 Be7 5.
Bc4 Bh4+ 6. Kf1 d6 7. d4 Bg4 8. Bxf4 Nf6 9. Be3 Qe7 10. g3 $2 Nxe4 (10... d5
$145 $5) 11. Nd5 Qd7 12. gxh4 Qf5 13. Nf4 Bxf3 14. Qxf3 Nxd4 $1 15. Qd1 $2 (15.
Qh5 $142 {Monck}) 15... Nxc2 $1 16. Qd3 (16. Ke2 $142) 16... Nxe3+ $6 (16...
Nxa1 17. Bd5 $140 Nc2 18. Bc1 Nb4 19. Qb5+ Kd8 (19... Kf8 $145) 20. Qxb4 (20.
Qxb7 $145 {overlooked by Monck}) 20... Nc5 {Monck}) 17. Qxe3 O-O-O 18. Rd1 Rhe8
19. Qh3 Qxh3+ 20. Nxh3 d5 21. Be2 Rd6 22. Bg4+ Kd8 23. Ng5 {
Monck thought he had sent} (23. Nf4) 23... Nxg5 {offering a draw} (23... Rf6+
$142 {Monck}) 1/2-1/2

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-2 1890-3"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Middleton jun, D (IRL)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C40"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 16 Apr 1891"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 16 Apr 1891} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 c6 $2 {
An experiment which does not succeed very well} 3. Nxe5 Qe7 4. d4 d6 5. Nf3
Qxe4+ 6. Be2 (6. Be3) 6... Bf5 7. c3 (7. c4 $142) 7... Be7 8. Be3 Nd7 9. Nbd2
Qc2 10. Qxc2 Bxc2 11. Rc1 Bf5 12. c4 Bf6 13. Bf4 Be7 14. Nf1 h6 15. Ne3 Be4 16.
Nd2 Bh7 17. b4 Ngf6 18. Bf3 Nb6 19. b5 Na4 20. bxc6 Nb2 21. O-O Nd3 22. cxb7
Rb8 23. c5 Nxc1 (23... Nxf4 $142) 24. Rxc1 (24. c6) 24... Kd7 25. c6+ Kc7 26.
Rc5 g5 27. Bg3 Rhd8 28. Ra5 Bf8 29. h4 Re8 30. hxg5 hxg5 31. Rxg5 Bh6 32. Nd5+
Nxd5 33. Rxd5 Re6 34. Nc4 Bf8 35. Ne5 $1 {threat Nd7} 35... Bf5 36. Nxf7 Bg6
37. Ne5 Bf5 38. Bf4 Rbe8 39. g4 Bc2 40. Bd2 Kb8 {White mates in five moves} (
40... Kb8 41. Nd7+ Kc7 42. Ba5+ Kxc6 43. Rc5+ Kxd7 44. Rc7+ Kd8 45. b8=Q#) 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-2 1890-3"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Muir, W (SCO)."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 1 Sept 1892; Harding"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 1 Sept 1892} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 3. Nf3 d6 4. Bc4 Nf6 5.
d3 Nc6 6. Bg5 Ne7 7. Bxf6 gxf6 8. Nh4 Bb4 9. Qh5 Ng6 10. Nf5 Be6 11. Ng7+ Kd7
12. Bb3 c6 13. O-O-O Nf4 14. Nxe6 fxe6 15. Qf3 Bxc3 16. bxc3 Qe7 17. d4 d5 18.
exd5 exd5 19. c4 Kc7 20. cxd5 Qa3+ 21. Kb1 cxd5 22. dxe5 fxe5 23. g3 Ng6 24.
Rxd5 Rad8 25. Qf7+ Kb8 26. Rxd8+ Rxd8 27. Qxh7 Ne7 28. Qh5 Nc6 29. Rd1 Rf8 30.
Qe2 Qc5 31. Rd2 (31. Qe3) 31... Nd4 32. Qe3 Rf3 33. Qg5 (33. Qe4 $142) 33... a6
34. Qg4 $4 (34. h4 $142) 34... Qc3 $11 35. Qg5 Nb5 $5 (35... Qc5 $145 $11) (
35... Nb5 {Draw agreed, but could White play on by sacrificing exchange?} 36.
a4 $145 Na3+ 37. Ka2 Nc4 38. Qg8+ (38. Bxc4 Qxc4+ 39. Kb1 {
not a clear draw either?}) 38... Ka7 39. Qxc4 Qxd2 40. Qc5+ {and Qxe5}) 1/2-1/2

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-2 1890-3"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Russell, John (Glasgow)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C29"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 18/6/1891"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 18/6/1891} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5.
Qf3 Nc6 6. Nxe4 $2 Nd4 7. Qc3 (7. Qd3 $2 dxe4 8. Qxe4 Bf5) 7... dxe4 8. Ne2 Nc6
9. Ng3 Bb4 10. Qe3 O-O 11. c3 Ba5 12. Qxe4 f5 $2 (12... Nxe5 $1) 13. exf6 Rxf6
(13... Re8 $2 14. f7+ Kxf7 15. Bc4+ Kf8 16. O-O+ {
was the point Black missed at move 12}) 14. Bc4+ Kh8 15. d3 Rf8 16. Be3 Bd7 17.
O-O-O Re8 18. Qf4 Be6 19. Bxe6 Rxe6 20. Rhe1 Qd5 21. Qc4 Qd7 22. d4 Rg6 23. Rf1
Nb4 24. Qf7 Qxf7 25. Rxf7 Nd5 26. Rdf1 Kg8 27. R7f3 Re8 28. Bd2 Nf6 29. Rf5 Bb6
30. Rg5 Rxg5 31. Bxg5 Nd7 32. Nf5 h5 {
Mr Russell intended P to KR3, and sent this move by a slip of the pen.} 33.
Ne7+ Kh7 34. Rf7 Rf8 35. Rxf8 Nxf8 36. Nd5 c6 37. Nxb6 axb6 38. a4 Ne6 39. Be3
Nc7 40. Kc2 Kg6 41. c4 Kf5 42. Kd3 Ne6 43. d5 cxd5 44. cxd5 Nc7 45. d6 Ne6 46.
Kc4 Ke5 47. Kb5 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-2 1890-3"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Neill, James (IRL)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C80"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 7 Apr 1892"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 7 Apr 1892 This game counted in both the Mail tourney and
as board 13 in the 1891-2 match between Belfast & Dublin,} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. Re1 Nc5 7. Nc3 b5 8. Bb3 Nxb3 9. Nxe5 Nxe5
10. Rxe5+ Be7 11. axb3 O-O 12. d4 d6 13. Re1 Bb7 14. Be3 d5 15. Qd3 c6 16. Ne2
Qd7 17. f4 f5 18. Bf2 Bd6 19. Qd2 Rae8 20. Nc1 Rxe1+ 21. Bxe1 c5 22. Bf2 c4 23.
b4 Qe7 24. Na2 Qc7 25. Be3 Re8 26. Re1 Re4 27. g3 g5 28. c3 gxf4 29. Bxf4 Bxf4
30. gxf4 Rxf4 31. Kh1 Rg4 32. Nc1 Qf4 33. Qxf4 Rxf4 34. Kg2 Kf7 35. Kg3 Rg4+
36. Kf3 Bc8 37. Ne2 Rh4 38. Rg1 Rh3+ 39. Kf2 Rd3 40. Rb1 h5 41. Nf4 Rd2+ 42.
Kg3 h4+ 43. Kxh4 Rxh2+ 44. Kg3 1/2-1/2

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-2 1890-3"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Rudge, Mary miss (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Annotator "Evening Mail 7/5/1891"]
[PlyCount "43"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Mail 7 May 1891} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Be3 Bb6 6. Bxb6
axb6 7. Nc3 d6 8. Bb5 Bd7 9. Bxc6 bxc6 10. h3 h6 11. O-O Nh7 12. a3 f5 13. exf5
Bxf5 14. Qe2 Ng5 15. Nxg5 hxg5 16. f3 Qd7 17. Ne4 Qe7 18. Qe3 Bxe4 19. Qxe4 d5
20. Qe3 Kd7 21. Rae1 Rae8 22. Re2 1/2-1/2

[Event "English Mechanic tourney-5 1890-92"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Hart, Tom Gedney"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "BCM 1891 p477"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Be7 $5 {
Not in the books, but avoids many gambit continuations in the Vienna} 3. Nf3 d6
4. Bc4 Nf6 5. d4 Nc6 6. O-O Bg4 7. Be2 Qc8 8. dxe5 dxe5 9. h3 Bd7 10. Be3 a6
11. a3 Bd6 12. Bd3 O-O 13. Nh2 b5 14. Ne2 Ne7 15. f4 Bc6 16. Ng3 Qb7 17. Ng4
Kh8 18. Nxe5 Bxe5 19. fxe5 Nxe4 20. Qh5 Ng6 21. Ne2 Rae8 22. Bd4 Re6 23. Kh2
Bd5 24. b4 c5 $1 25. bxc5 Qc7 26. Rf5 Nxe5 27. g3 $1 g6 28. Qh6 Kg8 29. Rxe5
Rxe5 30. Nf4 f6 31. Nxg6 hxg6 32. Bxe5 fxe5 33. Qxg6+ Qg7 34. Bxe4 Qxg6 35.
Bxg6 Rf2+ 36. Kg1 Rg2+ 37. Kf1 Rxg3 38. Bd3 Rxh3 39. Re1 Rh1+ 40. Kf2 Rxe1 41.
Kxe1 Kf7 42. a4 {BCM has more notes by Freeborough; it just says "played by
correspondence"; no year given; I am fairly sure it was English Mechanic
tourney-5 where Hart tied first.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "English Mechanic tourney-5 1890-92"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1890.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Woods, JG."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 11 Dec 1890"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "1890.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 11 Dec 1890; Woods from Winchester} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 3.
Nf3 d6 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. d3 Be6 6. Bb3 c6 7. Be3 Nbd7 8. Qd2 Qc7 9. Bxe6 fxe6 10.
Ng5 Ke7 11. Bxc5 Nxc5 12. O-O-O d5 13. d4 Ncd7 14. dxe5 Nxe5 15. exd5 cxd5 16.
Rhe1 h6 17. Nxe6 Kxe6 18. Nxd5 Qc5 19. Qf4 Nfd7 20. Qg4+ Kd6 21. Nf6+ Kc7 22.
Rxd7+ Nxd7 23. Qxd7+ Kb6 24. Nd5+ 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Biggs, JH (ENG)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A80"]
[Annotator "Fraser #16"]
[PlyCount "122"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. d4 f5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d5 $6 d6 4. dxe6 Bxe6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. e3 Be7 7. b3 Nbd7 8.
Bb2 c6 9. Bd3 Nc5 10. Nd4 Qd7 11. Nce2 Nxd3+ 12. Qxd3 g6 13. Nxe6 Qxe6 14. Nf4
Qd7 15. Rd1 O-O-O 16. Bd4 a6 17. f3 g5 18. Ne2 Rhg8 19. O-O Nh5 20. e4 f4 21.
Bb6 Rde8 22. e5 d5 23. c4 Bd8 24. Bd4 dxc4 25. Qxc4 Qe6 26. Qd3 h6 27. Bf2 $6
Qxe5 28. Nd4 Qc7 29. Qf5+ Kb8 30. Ne6 Qe7 31. Rfe1 Ng7 32. Nxg7 Qxg7 33. Rxe8
Rxe8 34. h3 Bc7 35. Rd7 Qa1+ 36. Kh2 Qxa2 37. Rxc7 Qxf2 {#} 38. Rxb7+ $8 Ka8
39. Re7 Rd8 (39... Rxe7 40. Qf8+ {draws}) 40. Rd7 Qg3+ 41. Kh1 Qe1+ 42. Kh2 Re8
43. Qg4 Qe6 44. Rd8+ Kb7 45. Rxe8 Qxe8 46. Qf5 Qe7 47. Qa5 Qd6 48. b4 Qd5 49.
Qa4 h5 50. Kh1 Qe5 51. Kg1 g4 {TH: this plan looks wrong as resulting 2v1 pawn
ending probably should have been drawn.} 52. hxg4 hxg4 53. fxg4 Qe1+ 54. Kh2
Qg3+ 55. Kh1 f3 56. gxf3 Qxf3+ 57. Kh2 Qxg4 58. Qa5 Qe2+ 59. Kg1 Qd1+ 60. Kf2
Qd5 61. Qa3 Kb6 {As Fraser observes, White's resignation is rather premature"}
0-1

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Billups, R (ENG)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C41"]
[Annotator "Fraser #12"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Be2 Bd7 7. Be3 h6 $6 8.
f4 Qe7 9. Bf3 g6 10. Qd3 Nb4 11. Qd2 Bg7 12. a3 Nc6 13. O-O O-O 14. Nxc6 Bxc6
15. f5 Nxe4 $2 16. Nxe4 Bxe4 17. f6 $1 Bxf6 18. Bxh6 Bxf3 19. Bxf8 Rxf8 20.
Rxf3 Bxb2 21. Raf1 Qe5 22. Kh1 Bd4 23. c3 Bc5 24. Re1 $16 Qg7 25. Re7 Bxa3 26.
Rxc7 Bc5 27. Rxb7 Qh7 28. Qd5 Qg7 29. Re7 a5 30. g4 a4 31. g5 a3 32. Kg2 Qh7
33. Kg3 Qg7 34. Kg4 Qh7 35. h4 Qh5+ 36. Kh3 Qh7 37. Rf6 Bb6 38. Re4 Bc5 39. h5
Qxh5+ 40. Rh4 Qe2 41. Rxg6# 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Cray, CW."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B01"]
[Annotator "Fraser #93"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qe5+ 4. Be2 Bg4 5. d4 Bxe2 6. Ngxe2 Qh5 7. Qd3 Nc6
8. d5 O-O-O 9. O-O e6 10. Nf4 Qe5 11. Qe3 exd5 12. Qxe5 Nxe5 13. Nfxd5 Ne7 14.
Nxe7+ Bxe7 15. Be3 a6 16. b3 Ng4 17. Nd1 Bf6 18. Rb1 Be5 19. g3 h5 20. h4 Rhe8
21. Re1 Rd6 22. Bf4 Rde6 23. Bxe5 Nxe5 24. Kg2 Nc6 25. Rxe6 Rxe6 26. Ne3 Kd7
27. c3 g6 28. Rd1+ Rd6 29. Nd5 Ne5 30. Nf6+ Ke6 31. Rxd6+ cxd6 32. Ne4 Nd3 33.
Nd2 Nc1 34. a4 Kd5 35. Kf3 Nd3 36. Ke3 Nc5 37. c4+ Ke5 38. a5 Nd7 39. Ne4 f6
40. f4+ Ke6 41. Kd4 Nb8 42. b4 Nc6+ 43. Kc3 Ne7 44. Kd3 Nf5 45. Kc3 Ng7 1/2-1/2

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Fraser, George Brunton(SCO)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C33"]
[Annotator "Fraser #41; Monck; Harding; Bellingham"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Fraser #41; Dublin Evening Mail 27/8/1892; Bellingham in Dudley Herald 16/12/
1893} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nc3 Qh4+ 4. Ke2 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qh5 6. d4 g5 7. Nd5 Kd8
8. Kf2 Bg7 9. c3 d6 10. Bd3 Nce7 11. Qb3 Ng6 12. Nxc7 $5 {
Leading to a lively game, but somewhat venturesome in a correspondence contest.
} 12... Kxc7 13. Qxf7+ Bd7 14. Qxg7 Nh6 15. e5 Rae8 (15... Rhg8 16. Bxg6) 16.
Kg1 {A wretched resource, but apparently the best at his disposal.} 16... Nh4
$6 (16... dxe5 $145) 17. Nxh4 (17. exd6+ $145) 17... Rhg8 18. Qxh7 gxh4 19. h3
Qf3 {
Bellingham: A very strong move, to which there appears no satisfactory reply,}
20. Bf1 Rg3 21. Qc2 Reg8 22. exd6+ Kc8 23. Qf2 Qd1 24. Kh2 Bxh3 {Bellingham in
Dudley Herald 16 Dec 1893 pointed out missed win, saying Black had overlooked
White's subtle 26th move} (24... f3 {would have won}) 25. gxh3 Rf3 26. d7+ $1
Kxd7 27. Bb5+ Kc8 28. Rxd1 Rxf2+ 29. Kh1 Nf5 30. Bc4 Rg6 31. Bf7 $2 (31. Bxf4
$142 {with a fair chance of winning (GBF). Monck wrote in the Mail: 'White
thought he had a win here by 31 B takes KBP. I doubt it. The position is a
problematic one, and might be given as Black to play and draw,'}) 31... f3 $1 {
Forcing a draw very ingeniously} 32. Bf4 (32. Bxg6 $4 Ng3+ 33. Kg1 Rg2#) 32...
Ng3+ 33. Bxg3 hxg3 1/2-1/2

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Fraser, RB (SCO)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C30"]
[Annotator "GB Fraser #5"]
[PlyCount "103"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 Bc5 3. Nf3 d6 4. c3 Bg4 5. d4 $6 exd4 6. cxd4 Bxf3 7. gxf3 Qh4+
8. Ke2 Bb6 9. Be3 Nc6 10. Qd2 O-O-O 11. Nc3 Nf6 12. Kd1 $5 (12. Re1) 12... a6
13. Rb1 Qh5 14. Be2 Qa5 15. a3 Kb8 16. Kc2 d5 17. e5 Rhe8 18. exf6 Rxe3 19.
Qxe3 Nxd4+ 20. Kd1 Nf5 21. Qd3 g6 22. Qd2 Rd6 23. b4 $5 Qxa3 24. Qb2 Ne3+ 25.
Kd2 Qxb2+ 26. Rxb2 Rxf6 27. b5 $1 a5 28. Ra2 Ng2 29. Rd1 Nxf4 30. Bf1 Rf5 31.
Na4 Bd4 32. Re1 b6 33. Nb2 Rh5 34. h3 Nxh3 35. Re8+ Kb7 36. Nd3 Ng1 37. Bg2 Rh2
38. Kd1 Rxg2 39. Rxg2 Nxf3 40. Re7 Nh4 41. Rc2 Bc5 42. Nxc5+ bxc5 43. Rxc5 Kb6
44. Rxd5 Nf5 45. Rxf5 gxf5 46. Rxf7 h5 47. Rxf5 h4 48. Kc2 h3 49. Kb3 h2 50.
Rh5 h1=Q 51. Rxh1 Kxb5 52. Rh5+ 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Gunston, William Hewison"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C77"]
[Annotator "Fraser #153"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. c3 Be7 7. Nbd2 O-O 8. Nf1
h6 9. h3 Nd7 10. Be3 b5 11. Bc2 Nc5 12. d4 Nb7 13. g4 a5 14. d5 Nb8 15. Ng3 c5
16. Nf5 f6 17. h4 Bxf5 18. gxf5 Rf7 19. Rg1 Kh8 20. Nh2 Qf8 21. Qh5 Nd7 22. Rg6
Re8 23. Ng4 Nd8 24. Bxh6 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Hart, Tom Gedney"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C47"]
[Annotator "Fraser #18"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. Be3 O-O 7. Be2 h6 8.
O-O Nxd4 9. Qxd4 d6 10. Rad1 Ng4 11. Bc1 Bf6 12. Qd2 Ne5 13. Nd5 Be6 14. Nxf6+
Qxf6 15. f4 Nc6 16. f5 Bd7 (16... Bxa2 $2 17. Rf3 a5 18. Ra3 Bb1 19. Ra1) 17.
Rf3 Ne5 18. Rg3 Kh7 19. Rf1 Bc6 20. Rf4 Rh8 21. c4 b6 22. b3 Rae8 23. Bh5 Kg8
24. Bb2 Kf8 25. Qf2 Ke7 $2 26. Rxg7 Kd8 27. Rfg4 Rhf8 28. Qh4 Qxh4 29. Rxh4 Nd3
30. Bf6+ Kc8 31. Bxf7 Rxe4 32. Rxe4 Bxe4 33. Be7 Rxf7 34. Rxf7 Ne5 35. Rf8+ Kd7
36. Bf6 Bb1 37. Rd8+ Kc6 38. Bxe5 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Middleton jun, D (IRL)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C33"]
[Annotator "Fraser #179"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 Nc6 5. d4 d6 6. Nf3 Qh6 7. h4 $6 Bg4 8.
c3 Nf6 9. Nbd2 Nh5 10. Kf2 Be7 11. Nf1 O-O 12. Ke2 Qg6 13. Qd3 Be6 $1 14. Rg1
Bxc4 15. Qxc4 Qxe4+ 16. Kd1 Ne5 17. Nxe5 dxe5 18. Nd2 Qc6 19. Qe2 Ng3 20. Qxe5
Bd6 21. Qg5 f5 22. h5 Rf6 23. Nf3 Qe4 24. Re1 Qd3+ 25. Bd2 Ne4 26. Qh4 Re8 27.
Rc1 (27. Kc1 $142) 27... Rfe6 28. Rg1 Nxd2 0-1

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Baxter, Daniel (SCO)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C77"]
[Annotator "Fraser #181"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. c3 h6 7. Nbd2 Bd7 8. Nf1
Ne7 9. Bc2 Bg4 10. Ne3 Ng6 11. Nxg4 Nxg4 12. h3 Nf6 13. Be3 Nh7 14. d4 Be7 15.
Qd2 Nh4 16. Nxh4 Bxh4 17. O-O-O O-O 18. g3 Be7 19. dxe5 dxe5 20. Qe2 Qe8 21. h4
Qc6 22. f4 Bd6 23. Rdf1 b5 24. g4 f6 25. Bb3+ Kh8 26. Bd5 Qxc3+ $4 {
Black set up the position wrong.} 27. bxc3 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Billups, R (ENG)."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Annotator "Fraser #137"]
[PlyCount "43"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. d4 Bxd4 6. Nxd4 Nxd4 7. f4 d6 8.
fxe5 dxe5 9. Bg5 Qe7 10. Nc3 c6 (10... Qc5 $142) 11. Kh1 h6 $2 (11... Be6) 12.
Bxf6 gxf6 13. Bd3 Rg8 14. Qh5 Rg6 15. Rf2 Qf8 (15... Ne6 16. g3 Kf8 {and ...Kg7
}) 16. Raf1 Qg7 17. Rxf6 $1 Be6 18. Qxe5 O-O-O 19. Nd5 $6 (19. g3) 19... cxd5
20. Qxd4 Rxg2 21. Qxa7 Rg8 22. Qc5+ {perpetual check} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Billups, R (ENG)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Annotator "Fraser #122"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. d3 a6 7. Be3 Nd4 8. Ng5
O-O 9. Nd5 h6 10. c3 Ne6 11. Nxe6 Bxe6 12. Bxc5 dxc5 13. Ne3 Qd7 14. Bxe6 Qxe6
15. f4 $6 Rad8 16. Qe2 exf4 17. Rxf4 Qd6 18. Qf3 Qxd3 19. Rxf6 gxf6 20. Qg4+
Kh7 21. Qf5+ Kg7 22. Qg4+ Kh7 23. Qf5+ Kg7 $11 24. Qf4 $5 {
White prefers to play for a win} 24... Qd2 25. Rf1 Kh7 (25... Kg8 $145) 26.
Qf5+ Kg7 27. Rf3 Qc1+ 28. Nf1 Rd6 29. h4 Rh8 $4 (29... Re8 $145) 30. Rg3+ 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Fraser, George Brunton(SCO)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C24"]
[Annotator "Fraser #33"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Bc5 4. Nf3 d6 5. d3 c6 6. Bg5 Qb6 $6 7. O-O Qxb2 {
Q gets trapped in exchange for three minor pieces} 8. Na4 Qa3 9. c3 b5 10. Bb3
bxa4 11. Bc1 axb3 12. Bxa3 Bxa3 13. Qxb3 $16 Bc5 14. d4 exd4 15. cxd4 Bb6 16.
a4 O-O 17. a5 Bc7 18. Nd2 Ba6 19. Rfc1 Bb5 20. d5 Na6 21. dxc6 Rab8 22. Qe3 Nc5
23. e5 Ng4 24. exd6 Bxd6 25. Qd4 Bxh2+ 26. Kh1 Nd3 27. g3 Rbd8 28. Qc3 Ndxf2+
29. Kg2 Bxc6+ 30. Nf3 Ba8 31. Ra2 Rd3 32. Rxf2 Rxc3 33. Rxc3 Nxf2 34. Kxf2 Bxf3
35. Kxf3 Rc8 $4 {Clerical error: "as is frequently the case in correspondence
chess, the move was misdescribed".} (35... Rb8) 36. Rxc8# 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Fraser, George Brunton(SCO)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Fraser #22"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5. d4 Bg7 6. Bc4 g4 7. O-O $6 gxf3 8.
e5 d5 9. Bxd5 Bg4 10. Qd3 Nge7 11. Qe4 Nxd5 12. Nxd5 Be6 13. c4 Bxd5 14. cxd5
Ne7 15. d6 fxg2 16. Qxg2 cxd6 17. Kh1 Bxe5 18. Bxf4 (18. dxe5 dxe5 $17) 18...
Bxf4 19. Rxf4 Ng6 20. Re1+ Kf8 21. Rf2 Kg7 22. Qxb7 Rf8 23. Ref1 Qe7 {
Game score in Fraser book doesn't make sense, some illegal/misprints after
this. Eventually wonbyBlack} 24. Qf3 Rae8 25. Rg2 f5 26. h3 Qe4 27. Rg3 d5 28.
Kh2 Rc8 0-1

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Munro, Alex"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C14"]
[Annotator "Fraser #43"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Qd2 O-O 8.
f4 a6 9. Nf3 f6 10. Bd3 c5 11. dxc5 Nxc5 12. Be2 Nc6 13. O-O fxe5 14. fxe5 Nd7
15. Rae1 Ndxe5 16. Nxe5 Nxe5 17. Nxd5 $1 Qc5+ (17... exd5 18. Qxd5+ Nf7 19. Bc4
) 18. Ne3 Bd7 19. Rd1 Rad8 20. Qd4 Qc7 21. Rxf8+ Rxf8 22. Nc4 Nxc4 23. Bxc4 Bc8
24. Bb3 Qe7 25. Re1 Re8 26. Re3 Kh8 27. Qb6 Rd8 28. c3 Rd6 29. Qb4 b5 30. Rd3
Qa7+ 31. Kf1 Qf7+ 32. Rf3 Qe7 33. Qe4 Kg8 34. Re3 g6 35. Ke2 Kg7 36. Qe5+ Kg8
1/2-1/2

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Pilkington, R (ENG)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Fraser #24"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Fraser #24. This must have been played in a later Fraser event because the
game from the international tourney (published in the Irish Sportsman of
November 5, 1887) is different.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5.
Nxc6 bxc6 6. Bd3 d5 7. exd5 cxd5 8. Qe2+ Be7 9. Bb5+ Bd7 10. Bxd7+ Qxd7 11. O-O
O-O 12. b3 Bd6 13. Bb2 Ng4 14. h3 Rae8 15. Qd3 Nh6 16. Nd2 Re6 17. Nf3 Rg6 18.
Rfe1 Nf5 (18... Qxh3 $2 19. Qxg6) 19. Re2 c6 20. Rae1 f6 $2 21. Re6 Ne7 22. c4
Be5 23. Nd4 c5 24. Ba3 Bxd4 25. Rxe7 Qd6 26. Qxd4 Qxe7 27. Qxd5+ Qf7 28. Qxf7+
Kxf7 29. Bxc5 Re8 30. Rxe8 Kxe8 31. Bxa7 f5 32. Bd4 Ra6 33. a4 g6 34. Kf1 Kd7
35. Ke2 g5 36. Kd3 h5 37. c5 Ra8 38. Bc3 Re8 39. b4 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Prusse, Theo"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "Fraser #99"]
[PlyCount "129"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 d6 7. Qb3 Qe7 8. d5
Nd4 9. Nxd4 exd4 10. O-O Bb6 11. Nd2 Nf6 12. Bb2 dxc3 13. Qxc3 Bd7 14. e5 dxe5
15. Ba3 Bc5 16. Bxc5 Qxc5 17. Qxe5+ Kf8 18. Rac1 Re8 19. Qb2 b6 20. Bb3 Qd6 21.
Nc4 Qf4 22. g3 Qg5 23. Ne3 Rc8 24. Qa3+ Kg8 25. Qxa7 Ne8 26. d6 Qa5 27. Qxa5
bxa5 28. Nd5 Kf8 29. dxc7 Be6 30. Rfd1 g6 31. Rc5 Bxd5 32. Rdxd5 Rxc7 33. Rxc7
Nxc7 34. Rd7 Ne6 35. Ra7 h5 36. h4 Rg8 37. Bxe6 fxe6 38. a4 Rg7 39. Rxa5 Rd7
40. Kg2 Rd3 41. Ra7 Ra3 42. a5 e5 43. a6 e4 44. Ra8+ Kg7 45. a7 Ra2 46. Kf1 Kh7
47. Ke1 Kg7 48. Kd1 Kh7 49. Kc1 Kg7 50. Kb1 Ra6 51. Kc2 Kh7 52. Kc3 Kg7 53. Kb4
Kh7 54. Kb5 Ra1 55. Kb6 Rb1+ 56. Kc7 Ra1 57. Kb7 Rb1+ 58. Kc8 Rc1+ 59. Kd8 Ra1
60. Rc8 $1 Rxa7 61. Rc7+ Rxc7 62. Kxc7 Kg7 63. Kd6 Kf6 64. Kd5 g5 (64... Kf5
$145 65. Kd4) 65. Kxe4 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Stainsby, FL."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Fraser #76"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5. h4 g4 6. Ng5 h6 7. Nxf7 Kxf7 8. d4
d6 9. Bxf4 Bg7 10. Bc4+ Kg6 11. e5 Nge7 12. e6 Kh5 13. Ne2 Nf5 14. Bg3 Kg6 15.
Nf4+ Kh7 16. Qxg4 Qf6 17. c3 Re8 18. O-O Ne3 19. Bd3+ Kg8 20. Qh5 Bxe6 21. Nd5
Nxd5 22. Rxf6 Nxf6 23. Qf3 Bd5 24. Qf5 Re3 25. Bf2 Ne7 26. Qxf6 Bxf6 27. Bxe3
Kg7 28. g3 Nc6 29. Rf1 Rf8 30. c4 Nb4 31. Be2 Nc2 32. Bxh6+ Kxh6 33. cxd5 Bxd4+
34. Kh2 Rxf1 35. Bxf1 Bxb2 36. g4 Ne3 37. Be2 Nxd5 38. g5+ Kg6 39. Kg3 Be5+ 40.
Kg4 Nf4 41. h5+ Nxh5 42. Bd3+ Kg7 43. Kxh5 d5 44. Kg4 Kf7 45. Kf5 Bg7 46. Kf4
c5 47. Bf5 Ke7 48. Bc8 b5 49. Ba6 b4 50. Be2 c4 51. Ke3 Kd6 52. Bd1 Kc5 53. Ba4
Kb6 54. g6 Ka5 55. Bc2 Kb5 56. Bd1 a5 0-1

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Tietjen, Arthur E"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C49"]
[Annotator "Fraser #3"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. Nd5 Nxd5 7. exd5 e4 8.
dxc6 exf3 9. Qxf3 bxc6 10. d4 $1 (10. Ba4 $143) 10... Rb8 11. Bd3 d5 12. c3 Bd6
13. Qe2 (13. Qh5 $5) 13... Re8 14. Qc2 Qh4 15. f4 g5 16. g3 Qh5 17. Bd2 (17.
fxg5 Bh3 18. Rf6 Re1+ $19) 17... Bg4 18. fxg5 Be2 19. Rf2 Bxd3 20. Qxd3 Rxb2
21. Qf5 Re2 22. Be3 Rxf2 23. Bxf2 Qg6 24. Qf6 Qxf6 25. gxf6 h5 26. a4 Rb3 27.
Rc1 Ba3 (27... Ra3 $142) 28. Rc2 Rb2 29. Rxb2 Bxb2 30. Be1 Kh7 31. Kf2 Kg6 32.
Kf3 Kxf6 33. g4 hxg4+ 34. Kxg4 Kg6 35. Bd2 Ba3 36. Bf4 c5 (36... Bd6 {
also draws}) 37. dxc5 Bxc5 38. Bxc7 d4 39. cxd4 Bxd4 1/2-1/2

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Wheeler, AW rev (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "Fraser #191"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O dxc3 8.
Qb3 Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Nxc3 Nge7 11. Ba3 O-O 12. Rad1 b5 13. Bd3 Qg4 {
(Zukertort's analysis to this point)} 14. h3 Qe6 15. Nd5 b4 16. Bxh7+ Kh8 17.
Bc1 Nxd5 18. Ng5 Qxe5 19. Rxd5 Nd4 (19... Qe7 $142) 20. Rxe5 Nxb3 21. axb3 Bb6
22. Be4 f6 23. Bxa8 fxe5 24. Bf3 c6 25. Re1 Re8 26. Bb2 Bc7 27. Nf7+ 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Winn, RM dr (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C13"]
[Annotator "Fraser #21"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Be3 c5 7. Bb5 cxd4 8.
Bxd4 Nc6 9. f4 O-O 10. Nf3 f6 11. exf6 Nxf6 12. O-O Qc7 13. Bxc6 bxc6 14. Qd2
Nh5 15. g3 c5 16. Be5 Qc6 17. Rae1 Bb7 18. Qe2 Rae8 19. Qb5 Qc8 20. Qa4 c4 21.
Bd4 Bc5 22. Qb5 Bxd4+ 23. Nxd4 e5 $1 24. Rxe5 Nxf4 $1 25. Rxe8 $8 (25. gxf4
Qg4+ $19) (25. Rxf4 Rxe5 26. Rxf8+ Qxf8 27. Nce2 Qe7 28. Kf1 Bc8 $19) 25...
Nh3+ 26. Kg2 Rxe8 27. Nd1 (27. Qa5 $145) 27... g6 (27... Ng5 $145) 28. Qa5 Ng5
29. Qd2 Ne4 30. Qf4 $1 {White turns the tables} 30... Qd7 31. Ne3 Bc8 32. Ng4
Kg7 33. Ne5 Qc7 34. Nxg6 Qxf4 35. Nxf4 Bd7 36. Nxd5 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Morling, JW."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C40"]
[Annotator "Fraser #98"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. Nxe5 Nc6 4. Nxc6 dxc6 5. e5 Be6 6. c3 Qh4 7. d4 Bd5 8.
Nd2 c5 9. g3 $6 (9. c4) 9... Qe7 10. f3 cxd4 11. Qe2 $2 (11. Qa4+) 11... dxc3
12. bxc3 O-O-O 13. Bg2 h5 14. h4 g5 15. hxg5 Qxg5 16. Nf1 Qg6 17. Be3 Qc6 18.
Bd2 Bc4 19. Qf2 Bc5 20. Be3 Ba3 21. Bd4 Ne7 22. Ne3 Rxd4 23. cxd4 Bb4+ 24. Kd1
Rd8 25. Nc2 Bc3 26. Rxh5 Bd3 27. Rc1 Qa4 28. Rh4 Bxd4 29. Qd2 Be4 30. fxe4 Bxe5
31. Qxd8+ Kxd8 32. exf5 Qd7+ 33. Ke2 Nxf5 34. Rg4 Nxg3+ 35. Rxg3 Bxg3 36. Rd1
Bd6 37. Bd5 c6 38. Bb3 Qg4+ 39. Ke1 Kc7 40. Ne3 Bb4+ 41. Kf2 Bc5 42. Rd3 b5 43.
Ke1 Qe4 44. Kd2 a5 45. Bf7 Qf4 46. Bh5 Qf2+ 0-1

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Woods, JG."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C29"]
[Annotator "Fraser #130; BCM 1898"]
[PlyCount "32"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Possibly from the Fraser international triangular. This game was found in
another source dated 1890 - but was that when it started or when it finished? 
 Reprinted in BCM 1898 pp363-4} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. d3 Bb4 5. fxe5
Nxe4 6. dxe4 $6 Qh4+ 7. Ke2 Bxc3 8. bxc3 Bg4+ 9. Nf3 dxe4 10. Qd4 Bh5 11. Kd2 (
11. Ke3 Bxf3 12. gxf3 Qe1+ 13. Kf4 Qh4+ {and draws (BCM)}) 11... Qg4 {
Diagram # Fraser seems to have thought this won (check that) but it is unclear}
12. Be2 $2 {Loses} 12... Nc6 13. Qc4 Qxg2 14. Qxe4 $2 (14. Rg1 Qf2 $19) 14...
Qxh1 15. Qf4 O-O-O+ 16. Ke3 Bxf3 0-1

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1891-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1891.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Woods, JG."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A30"]
[Annotator "Fraser #104"]
[PlyCount "116"]
[EventDate "1891.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. c4 c5 2. e3 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. b3 d5 5. Bb2 Be7 6. cxd5 exd5 7. Bb5+ Nbd7 8.
Nc3 a6 9. Bxd7+ Bxd7 10. d3 O-O 11. O-O b5 12. Ne2 h6 13. Rc1 Rc8 14. Ne5 Bc6
15. Ng3 Bd6 16. Nf5 Kh7 17. Ng4 Be7 18. Bxf6 Bxf6 19. Rxc5 Be7 20. Rc2 Bd7 21.
Rxc8 Bxc8 22. Nxe7 Qxe7 23. d4 Bf5 24. Ne5 Rc8 25. Qf3 Be6 26. e4 Qb7 27. exd5
Bxd5 28. Qh3 Kg8 29. Nd3 Rc3 30. Re1 Be6 31. Qg3 Qb6 32. Qe3 Qa5 33. Qd2 b4 34.
Rc1 Bf5 35. Ne1 Rxc1 36. Qxc1 Qxa2 37. Qc5 Qd2 38. Qe5 Be6 39. h4 Qc3 40. Qe4
Qxb3 41. Qa8+ Kh7 42. Qxa6 Bf5 43. Qb5 Qb1 44. Kh2 b3 45. Nf3 b2 46. Nd2 Qc2
47. Qb4 b1=Q 48. Nxb1 Qxb1 49. Qd2 Qd3 50. Qe3 Qxe3 51. fxe3 Kg6 52. Kg3 Kf6
53. Kf4 g5+ 54. hxg5+ hxg5+ 55. Kf3 Bc2 56. e4 Bd1+ 57. Ke3 Ke6 58. g3 Bc2 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1893.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Balson, H (ENG)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C42"]
[Annotator "Dudley Herald 17/2/1894"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Probably from a Dublin Mail tournament but not sure of date. Its publication
in Dudley Herald 17/2/1894 provides a terminus ad quem.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3.
Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. c4 Be6 9. Qc2 f5 10. c5 {
Steinitz} 10... Be7 11. b4 c6 12. a4 b6 13. Ba3 Nd7 14. Nbd2 Qc7 15. Nb3 g6 16.
Rfc1 bxc5 17. dxc5 Ne5 18. Nxe5 Qxe5 19. Re1 Qf4 20. f3 $2 Bf6 21. fxe4 $2 Bxa1
22. Nxa1 fxe4 23. Ba6 e3 $1 24. Qe2 Bg4 $1 25. Qf1 (25. Qxe3 Rae8 26. Qxe8 (26.
Qxf4 Rxe1+ 27. Kf2 Rxa1) 26... Qf2+ 27. Kh1 Rxe8 28. Rxe8+ Kf7 29. Re5 Be2)
25... Qf2+ 26. Kh1 Qxf1+ 27. Bxf1 e2 28. Bxe2 Rae8 $1 29. h3 Rxe2 30. Rc1 Bf5
31. b5 Be4 $1 32. Rg1 Re3 $1 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Fisher, WR (ENG)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C29"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 26/10/1893"]
[PlyCount "24"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 26/10/1893} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5.
Qf3 f5 6. Nh3 {Given as the best reply in a note to the new edition of
Freeborough and Ranken's Chess Openings.} 6... Nc6 7. Bb5 Bc5 8. Bxc6+ bxc6 9.
Ne2 Qh4+ 10. Kd1 f4 11. d3 (11. Qxf4 Bg4 12. e6 Rf8 13. Qxc7 Nf2+ 14. Ke1 Nd3+)
11... Bg4 12. Qf1 f3 $1 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Larminie, WR (IRL)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C47"]
[Annotator "Mail 22/12/1892"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Mail 22/12/1892. Third game played in the Mail Corr. Tourney no.3} 1. e4 e5 2.
Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Nxc6 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 bxc6 8. Bd3 h6
9. O-O O-O 10. e5 Nd5 11. Qh5 d6 12. Bxh6 gxh6 13. Qxh6 f5 14. exf6 Rxf6 (14...
Nxf6 {was the best move and would probably have resulted in a draw.}) 15. Qh7+
{White forces the win from here.} 15... Kf8 16. Qh8+ Ke7 17. Qg7+ Ke6 (17...
Rf7 18. Rae1+ Be6 19. Rxe6+ Kxe6 20. Re1+ Kd7 21. Bf5#) 18. Rae1+ Ne3 19. Rxe3+
Kd5 20. Qg5+ Bf5 21. Bxf5 Kc5 22. Bg6+ d5 23. Re8 Qd6 24. Qe3+ 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Billups, R (ENG)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C77"]
[Annotator "Mail 17 Aug 1893"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Mail 17 Aug 1893. These players had met before a few times.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3
Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. c3 g6 7. Nbd2 Bg7 8. Nf1 b5 9. Bc2 Qe7 10.
Ne3 Bb7 11. a4 Nd8 12. axb5 axb5 13. Rxa8 Bxa8 14. b3 c5 15. Bb2 O-O 16. O-O
Bc6 17. Qe2 Ne6 18. Ra1 Qb7 19. Nf1 Re8 20. N1d2 Nf4 21. Qe1 d5 22. Qe3 d4 23.
Qe1 N6h5 24. b4 f5 25. bxc5 Ne6 26. cxd4 exd4 27. Bb3 Nhf4 28. Ng5 Bd7 29. Qb1
Kh8 30. Nf7+ Kg8 31. Nd6 Qc6 32. Nxe8 Bxe8 33. Qa2 Bf7 34. Qa8+ Qxa8 35. Rxa8+
Bf8 36. c6 Nc7 37. Bxf7+ Kxf7 38. Ra7 Bd6 39. g3 Nfe6 40. exf5 gxf5 41. Nb3 Be5
42. f4 Bd6 43. Kg2 Kg6 44. Nxd4 {Resigns, if} 44... Bc5 (44... Nxd4 45. Bxd4 {
followed by Bb6 or Be5 wins}) (44... Nd8 45. Rxc7 Bxc7 46. Nxb5 Ne6 47. Nxc7
Nxc7 48. Be5) 45. Nxe6 Bxa7 46. Nxc7 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Birks, James (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 24/5/1894"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 24/5/1894. 'A well-contested game, played between Mr W H
S Monck, of Dublin, and Mr J Birks, the holder of the Newcastle trophy.'} 1. e4
e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O dxc3 8. Qb3 Qf6
9. e5 Qg6 10. Nxc3 Nge7 11. Ne2 b5 12. Bxb5 Rb8 13. Nf4 Qf5 14. Bd3 $1 Rxb3 15.
axb3 $1 Qg4 16. h3 Qxf3 17. gxf3 Bc3 18. Ra4 a5 19. Ne2 Bxe5 20. Bd2 O-O 21.
Bxa5 Bb7 22. f4 Bd6 23. Bc3 f5 24. Bc4+ Kh8 25. Rd1 Ng6 26. b4 Nce7 27. b5 Bf3
28. b6 Bc6 (28... cxb6 $145 29. Rxd6) 29. Ra2 $1 Nc8 30. bxc7 Bxc7 31. Nd4 $1
Be4 32. f3 Bb7 33. Nxf5 $1 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Blake, Joseph Henry (ENG)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 21/12/1893"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 21/12/1893} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5.
Be3 Qf6 6. c3 Nge7 7. Qd2 O-O 8. Bb5 Bb6 9. O-O d6 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. Bg5 $2 Qg6
12. Bxe7 cxb5 13. Qd5 (13. Bxf8 $145 $4 Bh3) 13... Be6 14. Qg5 (14. Qxb5 Rae8
15. Bh4 (15. Qg5 Rxe7 16. Qxe7 Bh3 17. g3 f6 {and the Q is trapped}) 15... Qxe4
16. Qg5 h6 17. Qg3 g5 {winning a piece}) 14... Qxg5 15. Bxg5 f5 16. Nd2 $2 (16.
exf5 Rxf5 17. Be3 Bxe3 18. fxe3 Rxf1+ 19. Kxf1 Bc4+ 20. Ke1 Re8 21. Na3 Rxe3+)
16... f4 17. Nf3 h6 18. Bh4 g5 19. Bxg5 hxg5 20. Nxg5 Rae8 21. b3 Rf6 22. Kh1
Bd7 23. Rae1 Kg7 24. Nf3 Rfe6 25. Nd2 Bc6 26. f3 d5 27. h3 dxe4 28. fxe4 Bxe4
29. Nxe4 Rxe4 30. Rd1 c6 31. Rd7+ Kg6 32. Rd6+ Kg7 33. a4 Re1 34. Rd1 Rxf1+ 35.
Rxf1 bxa4 36. bxa4 Re4 37. Ra1 Rc4 38. a5 Bc5 39. Rc1 Bb4 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "De Salis, Rodolph (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C29"]
[Annotator "Dub. Ev. Mail 8 Mar 1894"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Mr de Salis (Surrey)} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5. Qf3 f5 $1
6. d4 Bb4 7. Nge2 O-O 8. g3 c6 9. Bg2 b6 10. Be3 Bxc3+ 11. Nxc3 Nxc3 12. bxc3
Ba6 13. Bf1 Qd7 14. Bd3 Bxd3 15. cxd3 Na6 16. O-O c5 17. dxc5 Nxc5 18. Bxc5
bxc5 19. d4 cxd4 20. cxd4 Rac8 21. Rac1 Rxc1 22. Rxc1 Qa4 $2 23. Qxd5+ Kh8 24.
Qc5 Kg8 {Probably but paper has misprint 'K to R sq'} 25. d5 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Kempson, M (ENG)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 20/7/1893"]
[PlyCount "43"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 20/7/1893} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3
Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O dxc3 8. Qb3 Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Nxc3 Nge7 11. Ba3 b5 12.
Nxb5 Rb8 13. Qa4 Bb6 14. Rad1 O-O 15. Bd3 f5 $6 16. exf6 Qxf6 17. Qe4 g6 18.
Bc4+ Kg7 19. Qc2 Qf5 20. Bb2+ Rf6 21. Qxf5 Nxf5 22. g4 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Neill, James (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C24"]
[Annotator "Mail 7 Sept 1893"]
[PlyCount "105"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Mail 7 Sept 1893} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Be7 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 c6 6. O-O O-O
7. Bb3 Bg4 8. Be3 Nbd7 9. Nbd2 Qc7 10. h3 Bh5 11. Qe1 Bg6 12. Nh4 Kh8 13. f4
exf4 14. Bxf4 Nc5 15. Bc2 Ne6 16. Be3 d5 17. Nxg6+ fxg6 18. Bb3 Bd6 19. d4 Nh5
20. e5 Be7 21. Nf3 Nhf4 22. Qd2 Rf7 23. Rf2 Raf8 24. Raf1 Nd8 25. Nh2 Nfe6 26.
Rxf7 Rxf7 27. Rxf7 Nxf7 28. Bd1 Kg8 29. Bg4 Nfd8 30. Be2 c5 31. Nf3 c4 32. Ng5
Nf8 33. Bf3 Qc6 34. g3 Nd7 35. Kg2 {What actually happened? This seems
plausible, Paper has P-KN3 for both moves 34 and 35 and as the diagram at move
49 is fine except for WK position, I think the anniatir (Rowland) made the
error.} 35... Nb6 36. h4 Bxg5 37. Bxg5 Ne6 38. Be7 Nc7 39. Qf2 Qe8 40. Bc5 h6
41. Bg4 h5 42. Bh3 Ne6 43. Qf3 Qc6 44. Bd6 Qe8 45. Bb8 {
Now commences a winning combination} 45... Nxd4 46. cxd4 Qxb8 47. Be6+ Kh7 48.
Qf7 Qd8 49. g4 Kh6 {Diagram shows WK is on g1 White announces mate in six moves
} 50. Bf5 Qg5 {This gives the longest defence} (50... Kh7 51. Qxg6+ Kg8 52.
Be6+ Kh8 53. Qxh5#) 51. hxg5+ Kxg5 52. Qxg6+ Kf4 53. Kf2 {and mate in 2} 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Pilkington, R (ENG)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 1 June 1893"]
[PlyCount "31"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 1 June 1893} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 g5 5.
h4 g4 6. Ng5 h6 7. Nxf7 Kxf7 8. d4 d6 9. Bc4+ Kg7 10. Bxf4 Nf6 11. O-O Be7 12.
Qd2 Na5 13. Bd3 c5 14. e5 {Diagram #} 14... cxd4 {In the paper three move
pairs from another game seem to have crept in, but if we ignore them then the
finish makes sense} 15. Bxh6+ Kf7 (15... Rxh6 16. Qg5+ {
'should win but this seems better than ...Kf7'}) 16. Bg6+ $1 (16. Bg6+ {Resigns
} 16... Kxg6 (16... Kg8 17. exf6) 17. Qg5+ Kf7 18. Qh5+ {forcing mate}) 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Russell, John (Glasgow)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 5 Apr 1894; Harding"]
[PlyCount "139"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 5 Apr 1894} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5.
Nxc6 bxc6 6. Bd3 d5 7. exd5 cxd5 8. Bb5+ Bd7 9. Bxd7+ Qxd7 10. O-O Be7 11. c3
O-O 12. Bf4 Bc5 13. Nd2 Rfe8 14. Qf3 Ne4 15. Rad1 f5 16. Be3 Bd6 17. Bf4 Nxd2
18. Rxd2 Bxf4 19. Qxf4 Re4 20. Qf3 Qe6 21. Qd3 c6 22. Qa6 Re1 23. Rd4 Re8 24.
g3 Re7 25. Rb4 Qd7 26. Rxe1 Rxe1+ 27. Kg2 Re7 28. Rb8+ Kf7 29. Qc8 Kf6 30. Qxd7
Rxd7 31. Rc8 Rd6 32. Rc7 a6 33. f4 h6 34. Kf3 g5 35. b4 gxf4 36. gxf4 Kg6 37.
Ra7 c5 38. bxc5 Rc6 39. Ke3 Rxc5 40. Rxa6+ Kh5 41. Kd4 Rc4+ 42. Ke5 Rxc3 43.
Kxf5 d4 44. Rd6 Ra3 45. Ke6 Rxa2 46. f5 Rxh2 47. Rxd4 Kg5 48. f6 Rf2 49. f7
Re2+ 50. Kd7 Rf2 51. Ke7 Re2+ 52. Kf8 h5 53. Kg8 Rf2 54. Rd2 Rf3 55. Rg2+ Kh4 {
White announced mate in 24 moves} 56. f8=Q Rxf8+ 57. Kxf8 Kh3 58. Rg7 h4 59.
Kf7 Kh2 60. Kf6 h3 61. Kf5 Kh1 62. Kf4 h2 63. Kg3 Kg1 64. Rb7 {64 Ra7 also wins
} 64... h1=N+ $8 65. Kf3 Kh2 $8 66. Rb2+ Kh3 $8 (66... Kg1 67. Ra2) 67. Rg2 Kh4
68. Rg8 (68. Rh2+ $145 {also wins}) 68... Kh5 69. Kg2 Kh6 70. Kxh1 {
and White mate on his 79th move} 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Winn, RM dr (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 4 Jan 1894"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 4 Jan 1894} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Bc5 3. Nf3 d6 4. Bc4 Nc6 5.
Na4 Bb6 6. Nxb6 axb6 7. Bb5 Nf6 8. d4 Nd7 9. Bg5 f6 10. Be3 O-O 11. Bc4+ Kh8
12. O-O exd4 13. Nxd4 Nxd4 14. Bxd4 Ne5 15. Be2 Qe7 16. Bc3 f5 17. exf5 Bxf5
18. f4 Ng6 19. Qd2 Qd7 20. a3 Rae8 21. Rae1 Re4 22. Bd1 Rfe8 23. Rxe4 Rxe4 24.
g3 Bg4 25. Qd5 Re8 $2 26. Bxg4 Qxg4 27. Qf7 Rg8 28. Re1 Nh4 $2 29. Re8 (29. Re8
{resigns. The game might have had the following pretty termination unless
White preferred playing the K to R sq from the Kt's check:} 29... Qd1+ 30. Be1
Nf3+ 31. Kf1 Nd2+ 32. Kg2 Qf3+ 33. Kh3 Qf1+ 34. Kg4 Qf3+ 35. Kf5 g6+ 36. Kf6
Ne4+ 37. Ke7 Rxe8+ 38. Qxe8+ Kg7 39. Qf8#) 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-3 1892-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Sandford, Philip G prof (IRL)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Monck, Dublin Evening Mail 14 Sept 1893"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Mail 14 Sept 1893 The following is another well-contested played in our
corerspondence tourney} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Be3 Qf6
6. c3 Nge7 7. Bb5 {
Usually played a move or two latre, but it seems good enough at this stage.}
7... O-O 8. O-O d6 9. f4 {The advance of this P gives White a strong position.
Black must lsoe time in getting his Q out of the way. It also prevents him
from playing Kt to K4.} 9... Bd7 10. Qd3 Rad8 {
Intending ...Nxd4 but White anticipates this manouevre.} 11. Nxc6 Bxe3+ 12.
Qxe3 Bxc6 13. Bd3 b6 14. Nd2 Ng6 15. Rf3 Rfe8 16. Raf1 d5 {This seems the best
way to free his position, which has become very cramped. White does not
capture the Q at his 18th move and if White played 18 PxP Black replies BxR}
17. e5 d4 18. Qf2 Qe7 19. Rg3 dxc3 20. bxc3 Rd7 {Intending to double the rooks
on the Q file, but this move does not turn out well.} 21. Bf5 Rd5 22. Nb3 Bb5
23. Re1 c5 24. Be4 Rd7 25. f5 Qxe5 {A very strong move. If} (25... Nxe5 26. f6
{wins, and the same move affords a strong answer to 25...Nf8. Black
accordingly gives up the Kt, and seeks for compensation.}) 26. fxg6 f5 $1 {
A strong move which White probably did not foresee. If White wins the Q at
once, the check of the R at Q8 would win the game.} 27. Nd4 $1 {
Best. The ultimate check at Q8 must be prevented.} (27. Bd5+ Rxd5 28. Rxe5 Rd1+
29. Re1 Rexe1+) 27... cxd4 28. Bd5+ Rxd5 29. Rxe5 Rdxe5 30. gxh7+ Kxh7 31. h3
d3 32. Qd4 R8e7 {Diagram #} ({Probably the other rook should have gone to this
square. But Black has no win, e.g.} 32... R5e7 33. c4 Bxc4 (33... Rd7 34. Rxg7+
Rxg7 35. cxb5 {etc.}) 34. Qxc4 d2 35. Rd3 Re1+ 36. Kh2 d1=Q 37. Rxd1 Rxd1 38.
Qf7 {and White ought to draw.}) 33. c4 Re1+ 34. Kh2 R1e4 35. Qxd3 Bxc4 36. Qc3
g6 {Drawn. If Black plays a defensive game White has little prospect of
breaking through. (Notes by Monck)} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys ca.1892"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1887.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Lambert, Charles James (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D55"]
[Annotator "Fraser #82"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. e3 b6 7. Bxf6 Bxf6 8.
cxd5 exd5 9. Bd3 Bb7 10. Qc2 g6 11. h4 Nc6 12. a3 Re8 13. Ne2 Ne7 14. Rc1 c5
15. Bb5 Rf8 16. dxc5 bxc5 17. Qxc5 Bxb2 18. Rb1 Qa5+ 19. Qb4 Qxb4+ 20. axb4 Bf6
21. Bd3 d4 22. e4 Nc6 23. b5 Ne5 24. Nxe5 Bxe5 25. O-O Rfe8 26. f3 Bc7 27. Rfd1
Bb6 28. Kf1 Rad8 29. Nc1 Re5 30. Na2 Rh5 31. g3 f5 $1 32. Nb4 fxe4 33. fxe4
Rf8+ 34. Kg2 Rhf5 35. Rb2 Rf3 36. Bc4+ Kg7 37. Bd5 Bc8 38. Rd3 Re3 39. Rbd2 Bg4
40. Nc2 Bf3+ 41. Kh2 Rxd3 42. Rxd3 Be2 43. Rxd4 Rf2+ (43... Bxb5 $145) 44. Kg1
Rf1+ 45. Kg2 Rc1 (45... Bxd4 $145 46. Nxd4 Bd3) 46. Rd2 Rg1+ 47. Kh2 Bf3 48. g4
Rf1 {Fraser said White resigned prematurely} (48... Rf1 {0-1} 49. Kh3 Bf2 {
only wins the exchange, "leaving his adversary with sufficient force to
prolong the game for manymoves"} 50. Rxf2 Rxf2 51. Nd4 {
By no means clear that Black has any real winning chances (TH)} 51... Bg2+ 52.
Kg3 Rb2) 0-1

[Event "unknown event (ENDGAME)"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1892.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Pierce, William Timbrell"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Annotator "Evening Mail 10 Nov 1892"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "8/1pp1n1pp/p1n1kp2/2P1p3/2P2P2/PP6/3KNBPP/8 b - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "1892.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Evening Mail 10 Nov 1892. 'A fine ending in a game recently played by
corerspondence between Mr W T  Pierce, East Grinstead, and Mr W H S Monck,
Dublin.'  (Event and earlier moves unknown - TH)} 1... Kf5 2. Ng3+ Kxf4 3. Nh5+
Kg5 {Trying to win the Kt} 4. Nxg7 Nd8 5. g4 c6 {If Black plays} (5... Kxg4 {
White could recover the pawn by} 6. Ne8) 6. h3 Ng6 7. Be3+ Nf4 8. Ke1 Kg6 9.
Bxf4 Kxg7 10. Be3 Kg6 11. Ke2 Ne6 12. Kd3 h5 13. gxh5+ Kxh5 14. Ke4 Kg6 15. h4
Ng7 16. b4 Kh5 17. Bd2 {
The pawn cannot be saved. Black threatens ...Kg4 and ...Nf5.} 17... Kxh4 18.
Bc3 Kg4 19. Bxe5 $1 f5+ $1 20. Ke3 Ne6 21. Bc3 Nf4 22. Bd2 Ng2+ {
Black loses some moves here. He should have played} (22... Nh3 {at once}) 23.
Kf2 Nh4 24. Ke3 Nf3 25. Bc3 Ng5 26. Be5 Nh3 {
With practically the same result as now} 27. Bc3 f4+ 28. Ke4 Nf2+ 29. Ke5 Nd1
30. Be1 Ne3 31. Kd6 Kf3 32. Kc7 Ke2 33. Bh4 Nf5 34. Kxb7 Nxh4 35. Kxc6 {Perhaps
} (35. Kxa6 {had more resources}) 35... f3 36. b5 axb5 37. cxb5 f2 {
and Black wins} 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1894.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Andrews, RH (Jersey)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C49"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 5 Dec 1895"]
[PlyCount "130"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 5 Dec 1895} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5.
O-O O-O 6. Nd5 Nxd5 7. exd5 e4 8. dxc6 exf3 9. Qxf3 dxc6 {
The doubling of this P proves troublesome afterwards} 10. Be2 Bd6 11. c3 c5 12.
d3 c6 13. Bf4 Be6 14. Rfe1 b5 15. c4 Bxf4 16. Qxf4 Qd4 {Black seeks to
unbdouble his pawns, but White retreats rather than permit that result} 17. Qc1
a5 18. b3 a4 19. Rb1 axb3 20. axb3 Ra2 21. Qe3 Bf5 22. Bf1 {An ingenious trap
to win a pawn which Black overlooks. Otherwise Black has at this stage rather
the best of it.} 22... h6 23. Qxd4 cxd4 24. cxb5 cxb5 25. Re5 Be6 26. Rxb5 Rc8
27. b4 Rd2 {It might have been better to double the rooks by} (27... Rac2) 28.
Rc5 Rxc5 29. bxc5 Rc2 30. Rb8+ Kh7 31. Rb4 Rxc5 32. Rxd4 Rc1 33. f3 Rc2 34. Re4
Bf5 35. Re3 h5 36. Be2 g6 37. Kf2 g5 38. d4 Kg6 39. Ra3 Kf6 40. Ke3 Rb2 41.
Ra6+ Ke7 42. d5 f6 43. g4 {A questionable move under the circumstances, If
meant as a trap it is not successful.} 43... hxg4 44. fxg4 Rb3+ 45. Kd4 Bxg4
46. d6+ {Of course if} (46. Bxg4 {Black recovers the piece by} 46... Rb4+)
46... Kd8 47. Ra8+ Kd7 {Note g} (47... Bc8 {leads to somewhat similar play})
48. Bxg4+ Kxd6 {As the RP and B cannot win while Black's K is in front,
White's prospects of a win are not very promising. He must at all hazards
avoid exchanging rooks.} 49. Ke4 Rb4+ 50. Kf3 f5 $1 51. Bh5 Rb3+ {Note i} (
51... Rh4 {followed by ...Rxh2 seems the simple course to draw.}) 52. Kg2 Rb2+
53. Kg1 Ke5 54. Re8+ Kf4 55. Be2 g4 56. Kf2 Rb3 57. Rc8 Rh3 58. Kg2 Re3 59. Rc2
Ra3 60. Bd1 Rd3 {A risky move which, however, gives interest to the ending.}
61. Rc4+ Ke3 62. Bxg4 Rd4 {Changing rooks would still draw, and Black might
have played R-Q6 next move but that White was not bound to take,} 63. Rc3+ Kd2
(63... Rd3) 64. Rh3 Rxg4+ 65. Kf3 Kd3 {The pawn cannot be saved. But again
white finds the disadvantage of his remaining P being on the R file. and the
game wa drawn on the 77th move} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1894.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Blake, Joseph Henry (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C26"]
[Annotator "Bristol Mercury; CPC 17/4/1895"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{From Purser scrapbook; 1895 handwritten in ink on cutting. Event unidentified
but must be either a Fraser or more likely) Rowland corr tourney.  Later found
in CPC xiii (17 April 1895) p68, taken from Bristol Mercury corr tourney
[=Dublin Mail tourney?]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Bc5 4. Bg2 c6 5. Nf3 d6 6.
d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Qb6 8. Nce2 O-O 9. c3 a5 10. O-O Bg4 11. h3 Bxd4 12. cxd4 (12.
Qxd4 {is also strong, probably better than the text move.}) (12. hxg4 {
is out of the question; Black replies} 12... Bxf2+ 13. Rxf2 Nxg4 {
etc. with a fine game}) 12... Be6 {If} (12... Bxe2 13. Qxe2 Qxd4 {
White recovers his pawn with the much superior game by} 14. Rd1) 13. Qc2 (13.
d5 {was best here}) 13... Na6 14. Be3 Nb4 15. Qd1 d5 {Black should have played}
(15... Bxa2 {[and] if} 16. b3 a4 {
releasing his Bishop with a good game on the queenside}) 16. a3 Na6 17. e5 Nd7
18. Qd2 Qc7 19. Rac1 f6 {A weak move, which loses.} (19... a4 {was the correct
play, intending to follow with 20...Nb6 and 21...Nc4. White thought of
sacrificing the exchange in that event, in order to have a free hand on the
kingside, by N-f4-h5 and perhaps Nxg7.} 20. Nf4 $145 Nb6 21. Nh5 Nc4 22. Rxc4
dxc4 23. Nxg7 $5) 20. Nf4 Kf7 {A desperate remedy} 21. Qe2 {
The only reply to extract any lasting advantage} 21... g6 {
Not immediately necessary} (21... fxe5 22. Nxe6 Kxe6 23. dxe5 {
leaves him still in difficulties, but is not so fatal for the time being.}) 22.
Nxe6 Kxe6 23. Bxd5+ cxd5 {If 23...Kxd5 White forces mate easily.} 24. Rxc7 Nxc7
25. exf6 Kf7 26. Bf4 Ne6 27. Bd6 Rfe8 28. Qb5 Red8 29. Qxd5 Nxf6 30. Qxb7+ Nd7
31. Re1 Rac8 32. Qf3+ Nf6 33. Be5 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1894.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Brackenbury, Edmond Bennet rev"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C58"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 28/10/1894"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 28/10/1894. 8th game to finish} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bc4
Nc6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Bf1 h6 9. Nh3 Bc5 10. c3
Nb7 11. f3 Bxh3 12. gxh3 Ne4 $1 13. d4 Qh4+ 14. Ke2 Nf2 15. Qa4 O-O 16. Rg1
exd4 17. cxd4 Rfe8+ 18. Kd2 Bxd4 19. Kc2 Qf6 20. Nc3 Qf5+ 21. Kd2 (21. Ne4 Rxe4
) 21... Rad8 (21... Bxc3+ {is, perhaps, more expeditious}) 22. Ne2 {
Black mates in 3 moves} 22... Bc3+ 23. Kxc3 Qd3+ 24. Kb4 c5# 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1894.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Briggs, Hugh Currer rev"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C33"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 23/1/1896; Harding"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 23/1/1896} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Bc4 Qh4+ 4. Kf1 Nc6 5.
d4 g5 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. Nf3 Qh5 8. Nd5 Kd8 9. Be2 Qh6 10. Nxg5 Qxg5 11. Bxf4 Qg6
12. Bxc7+ Ke8 13. Bh5 Qxe4 14. Qe1 Qe6 15. Bf4 Kd8 $2 (15... Kf8 $142 16. Nc7
$140 Qc4+) 16. Bxf7 $4 (16. Qg3 $145 $18) 16... Qxe1+ $4 (16... Qxf7 {
TH: apparently both players overlooked the B is pinned and so cannot give mate
on c7!}) 17. Rxe1 d6 18. Re8+ (18. Bxd6 $142 {
according to the Mail but the text is probably stronger}) 18... Kd7 19. Rxg8
Rxg8 20. Bxg8 $18 b6 21. Bxh7 Ba6+ 22. Ke1 Re8+ 23. Kd2 Re2+ 24. Kc1 Nxd4 25.
c3 Ne6 26. Bf5 Rxg2 27. Re1 Re2 28. Rg1 Be5 29. Bxe5 dxe5 30. Bxe6+ Kxe6 31.
Nc7+ Kf6 32. Nxa6 Rxh2 33. Nb4 Ke6 34. Re1 Kd6 35. Nd3 Rh5 36. Rxe5 $2 {
White gave up the knight thinking the extra pawn would win.} 36... Rxe5 37.
Nxe5 {and after ten more moves the game was drawn. TH: WHite must have
misplayed the pawn ending.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1894.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Crewe, W Outram (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C84"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 5 Mar 1896"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail  5 Mar 1896} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5.
d4 exd4 6. O-O Be7 7. e5 Ne4 8. Nxd4 O-O 9. Nf5 d5 10. Nxe7+ Nxe7 11. c3 Ng6
12. f3 Nc5 13. Bc2 Nxe5 14. f4 Ng4 15. f5 Nf6 16. Qf3 b5 17. b3 Bb7 18. Ba3 d4
{From this point, the game is of exceptional interest} 19. Qf2 d3 20. Bxc5 Ne4
21. Qe3 dxc2 22. Na3 Nxc5 23. Qxc5 Qd2 24. Qf2 Qxc3 25. Nxc2 Rfd8 26. Rae1 Rd2
27. Re2 Rad8 28. Rfe1 h6 29. Rxd2 Rxd2 {Diagram #} 30. Re2 Qxc2 $1 31. Rxd2
Qc1+ 32. Qf1 Qxd2 33. Qf2 {'and Black forced a win in a few moves'} 33... Qd1+
34. Qf1 Qxf1+ 35. Kxf1 Be4 {winning the advanced P, caused White to resign.}
0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1894.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Erskine, Henry (ENG)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C84"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 13 Feb 1896"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{
Dublin Evening Mail 13 Feb 1896 An interesting game played in our corr. tourney
} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. O-O b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. a4
b4 9. Nd5 Nxe4 10. Nxe7 Nxe7 11. d4 O-O 12. Qe1 d5 13. Nxe5 a5 14. f3 Nf6 15.
c3 Ba6 16. Rf2 Rb8 17. Bc2 Re8 18. Qd1 Qd6 19. g4 Nd7 20. Bf4 Nxe5 21. dxe5 Qc5
22. Bg3 Nc6 23. f4 bxc3 24. bxc3 Qxc3 25. Bxh7+ Kxh7 26. Rc1 Qd3 27. Qxd3+ Bxd3
28. Rxc6 Rb1+ 29. Kg2 Be4+ 30. Kh3 Rh8 31. g5 g6 32. Kg4 Rb3 33. f5 Bxf5+ 34.
Rxf5 gxf5+ 35. Kxf5 Rc8 36. g6+ fxg6+ 37. Ke6 Rb6 38. Kxd5 Rd8+ 39. Kc5 Rxc6+
40. Kxc6 Kg7 41. e6 Kf6 42. Kxc7 {Diagram #} 42... Rd4 $4 {Falls into the trap}
(42... Rd5 $19) 43. Be5+ $1 Kxe5 44. e7 Rc4+ 45. Kb7 Rb4+ 46. Ka7 {and wins}
1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1896.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Johnson, Richard Wright (ENG"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C77"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 28/5/1896"]
[PlyCount "109"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 28 May 1896.'A well-contested game played in our present
Correspondence Tourney.'} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6.
c3 Be7 7. Nbd2 O-O 8. Nf1 Ne8 {This eventually loses two moves.} 9. Ng3 Be6 10.
Bb3 Qd7 11. Ng5 Bxb3 12. Qxb3 Nf6 13. Nf5 d5 14. Nxe7+ Nxe7 15. exd5 Qxd5 16.
Qxd5 Nfxd5 17. O-O Ng6 18. Nh3 {Not a good post for the Kt} 18... f5 19. f3
Rae8 20. Bd2 Rf6 21. Rae1 Rb6 22. Bc1 Rbe6 23. Bd2 h6 24. c4 {
This leaves the QP weak, and Black soon commences an attack.} 24... Nf6 25. Bc3
Nf8 26. Re2 N6d7 27. b3 c5 28. Rfe1 g5 29. g3 Kf7 30. Bd2 {Preparatory to the
exchange which follows, but White's B is well posted at QB3, and the two
Knights eventually outplay the Rook and two Pawns,} 30... Ng6 31. Bxg5 hxg5 32.
Nxg5+ Kf6 33. Nxe6 Rxe6 {Mail has KxN but this must be right,} 34. h4 Rd6 35.
Rd1 Nh8 36. g4 Nf7 37. Kf2 Nf8 38. Ke3 Ne6 39. Rg2 {White has relapsed into a
purely defensive game, which gives Black time to work out his plans.} 39... Nf4
40. Rgg1 Nh3 41. Rh1 Nf4 42. Rhg1 a5 43. Rd2 b6 44. a4 Nd8 45. Rgd1 Nc6 46. Rc1
Nb4 47. Rcd1 Ne6 48. h5 f4+ 49. Kf2 Ng5 50. Ke2 {A fatal error.} (50. Kg2 {
would have given fair drawing chances, though Black gets back the R and two
pawns for his two Knights with a good position, After this move I believe the
game cannot be saved.}) 50... Nc6 51. h6 Nd4+ 52. Kf2 Kg6 53. Rh1 Kh7 54. Kf1
Nxb3 {White sent} 55. Ke2 {
probably by a sip of the pen, but resigned without playing farther,} 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1894.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Bowley, AA (ENG)."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C62"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 24 Oct 1895"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 24 Oct 1895} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. d4 Bd7 5.
Nc3 exd4 6. Nxd4 Nf6 7. Be3 g6 8. Qd2 Nxd4 9. Bxd4 Bxb5 10. Nxb5 Bg7 11. O-O
O-O 12. h3 h6 13. Rad1 c6 14. Nc3 Ne8 15. Bxg7 Kxg7 16. f4 Qb6+ 17. Qd4+ Qxd4+
18. Rxd4 f5 19. g3 fxe4 20. Nxe4 d5 21. Nc5 Rf7 22. Re1 Nd6 23. Re6 Nf5 24. Rb4
b6 25. Nd3 c5 26. Ra4 Rf6 27. Rxf6 Kxf6 28. Ra6 Nd6 29. Nxc5 Rc8 30. Nd7+ Kf5
31. c3 Rc7 32. Ne5 Nc4 33. Nxc4 dxc4 34. Kf2 g5 35. fxg5 hxg5 36. a4 Rh7 37. h4
gxh4 38. gxh4 Ke4 39. a5 Rxh4 40. axb6 axb6 41. Rxb6 Kd3 42. Kg3 Re4 43. Kf3
Rh4 44. Rg6 Rh2 45. Rb6 Rh4 {TB Rowland: Both players were, perhaps, anxious
to keep a draw on hand, though about move 25 White went in for a somewhat
risky combination to win a pawn. It succeeded, but the extra pawn proved
insufficient to win the game.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1895.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Briggs, Hugh Currer rev"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 28 Nov 1895"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 28 Nov 1895} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5.
c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O dxc3 8. Qb3 Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Nxc3 Nge7 11. Ba3 O-O
12. Rad1 b5 13. Bd3 Qh5 14. Ne2 Bb6 15. Nf4 Qg4 16. Bc1 d5 17. e6 fxe6 18. h3
Qg3 19. Kh1 Bxf2 20. Ne2 Qd6 21. Rxf2 b4 22. Qc2 Bb7 23. Bxh7+ Kh8 24. Rdf1 Nf5
25. Bxf5 exf5 26. Nh4 Ne7 27. Nxf5 Nxf5 28. Rxf5 Rxf5 29. Qxf5 Qe7 30. Nf4 {
Resigns, White threatens Ng6+ but the danger might apparently be warded off by
,,,Kg8. In this case, however, White could play 31 Nxd5 with advantage,} 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1894.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Brunton, William (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C62"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 21/3/1895"]
[PlyCount "103"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{From Purser scrapbook p11. Brunton from Marton (where's that?)} 1. e4 e5 2.
Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. d4 Bd7 5. Nc3 Nge7 6. Bg5 f6 7. Be3 a6 8. Bc4 b5 9. Be2
Na5 10. Nd2 g6 11. dxe5 dxe5 12. O-O Bg7 13. b4 Nb7 14. a4 c6 15. Nb3 {
Cutting has "Kt to QK3" but evidently "t" is missing} 15... Be6 16. axb5 axb5
17. Na5 Nxa5 18. Qxd8+ Kxd8 19. bxa5 Nc8 20. Rfb1 Kc7 21. f3 Bf8 22. Nd1 Nd6
23. Nb2 Be7 24. Bb6+ Kb7 25. Bc5 Nc8 26. Bxe7 Nxe7 27. c4 bxc4 28. Na4+ Kc7 29.
Nc5 Bc8 30. Bxc4 Ra7 31. a6 Kd6 32. Ra5 Kc7 33. Kf2 Kd6 34. Ke3 Kc7 35. Rb2 Kd6
36. Kd3 Kc7 37. Kc3 Kd6 38. Rd2+ Kc7 39. Ra1 Rd8 40. Rxd8 Kxd8 41. Kb4 Kc7 42.
Ka5 f5 43. Ne6+ Bxe6 44. Bxe6 Kd6 45. Kb6 Rxa6+ 46. Rxa6 Kxe6 47. Kc5 fxe4 48.
fxe4 h5 49. h4 Kd7 50. Ra7+ Ke6 51. Rc7 Kf6 52. Kd6 (52. Kd6 {Resigns. If}
52... Ng8 53. Rxc6 {
and the e-pawn also falls by 54 Kd5 or 54 Rc5 according to Black's play.}) 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1894.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Chatto, James TC rev"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C46"]
[Annotator "Bristol Mercury 27/7/1895"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Bristol Mercury 27/7/1895} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Bxf2+ 5.
Kxf2 Nxe5 6. d4 Qf6+ 7. Ke1 Ng6 8. Bc4 d6 9. Rf1 Qh4+ 10. g3 Qxh2 11. Bxf7+ Kd8
12. Qf3 N8e7 13. Rh1 Qxc2 $2 14. Bb3 $1 Bg4 15. Qf1 Be2 16. Qxe2 Qxe2+ 17. Kxe2
h6 18. Be3 Rf8 19. Raf1 Kd7 20. Bf7 c6 21. Rh2 Nh8 22. Bh5 Rxf1 23. Kxf1 Rf8+
24. Rf2 Rxf2+ 25. Kxf2 b6 26. d5 cxd5 27. exd5 Ng8 28. Bd4 Nf6 29. Bxf6 gxf6
30. Kf3 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1894.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Fisher, WR (ENG)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C44"]
[Annotator "TBR, Dublin Evening Mail, 7 Feb 1895"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail, 7 Feb 1895} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 Nxd4 4. Nxe5 Ne6 5.
Bc4 c6 6. Nc3 Qa5 7. Nd3 Nf6 8. O-O Qh5 9. Qxh5 Nxh5 10. e5 d5 11. Bxd5 $2 cxd5
12. g4 Nc7 13. gxh5 Bg4 14. Nf4 Bf3 15. Be3 Rg8 16. Rfe1 g6 17. hxg6 b6 $2 18.
Kf1 hxg6 19. Nfe2 Bb4 20. a3 Bxc3 21. bxc3 Ne6 22. Nd4 Be4 23. Rac1 Rc8 24. Nb5
Ke7 25. Nxa7 Rxc3 26. Nb5 Rxc2 27. Rxc2 Bxc2 28. Nd4 Nxd4 29. Bxd4 Bd3+ 30. Kg2
b5 31. Re3 Bc4 32. Rf3 Rc8 33. Rf6 Bd3 34. Rd6 Rd8 35. Rc6 Rd7 36. Be3 Ke8 37.
Bg5 Rb7 38. Rd6 Rd7 39. Ra6 Rc7 40. Kf3 Bc4 41. Ke3 Kd7 42. Kd4 Bb3 43. Rd6+
Kc8 44. Rf6 Rc4+ 45. Kd3 Rc7 46. h4 Kb7 47. Be3 Re7 48. f4 Rc7 49. Bd4 Ba2 50.
Ke3 Kc8 51. Rb6 {Diagram #} 51... Rb7 52. Rxb7 Kxb7 53. f5 $1 Bb1 {
If at move 53 Black plays} (53... gxf5 {the reply} 54. Kf4 {
secures the queening of the KRP} (54. h5 $145 $4 f4+ 55. Kxf4 Bb1)) 54. e6 $1
1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1895.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "MacGrath, Thomas (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C67"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 13 June 1895"]
[PlyCount "31"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 13 June 1895. Macgrath from Liverpool.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3
Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bxc6 bxc6 7. dxe5 Nb7 8. Be3 Be7 9. Nc3
O-O 10. Nd4 Na5 $2 11. Nf5 Nc4 $2 12. Qg4 g6 13. Nxe7+ Qxe7 14. Qxc4 Qxe5 15.
Rfe1 Re8 $2 16. Bd2 {
'A serious illness in Mr Macgrath's family was the cause of his resignation.'}
1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1894.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Trenchard, Herbert William (EN"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C67"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 22/11/1894 "]
[PlyCount "99"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 22/11/1894 found in Purser scrapbook in NLI, n} 1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Be7 6. Qe2 Nd6 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8. dxe5 Nb7
9. Nc3 Nc5 10. Rd1 O-O 11. Nd4 Qe8 12. Nf5 Kh8 13. Be3 g6 14. Ng3 d5 15. exd6
Bxd6 16. Bd4+ Kg8 17. Qf3 f5 18. Nb5 Ne4 19. Nxd6 cxd6 20. b3 c5 21. Bb2 Bb7
22. Nxe4 Qxe4 23. Qxe4 Bxe4 24. f3 $1 Bb7 {If} (24... Bxc2 {the reply} 25. Rd2
{wins the B for another P}) 25. Rxd6 Rad8 26. Rad1 Rxd6 27. Rxd6 c4 28. b4 {
The doubled c-pawns would hardly win against bishops of opposite colours.}
28... Rf7 29. Rd8+ Rf8 30. Rd4 Bc6 {
It will be found that the P could not be saved we believe.} 31. Rxc4 Bd5 32.
Rc7 Rf7 33. Rc8+ Rf8 34. Rxf8+ Kxf8 35. a3 Kf7 36. Kf2 f4 37. Be5 g5 38. b5 Bc4
39. a4 Ke6 40. Bb8 a6 41. b6 Bd5 {
White threatens Bxf4 if the square b7 is not covered.} 42. Ke2 h5 43. h4 Kf5
44. hxg5 Kxg5 45. Kd3 h4 (45... Kf5 {
followed by ...h4 would have proved more troublesome.}) 46. Kd4 Bb7 47. Ke5 h3
48. gxh3 Bxf3 49. h4+ Kg4 50. Ke6 {Resigns; White wins by (with a possible
change in the order of his moves) 51 Bxf4, 52 c4, 53 c5, 54 Kd6 and 55 c6.
Perhaps, however 50 Kc6 would have on more speedily.} 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-4 1894-6"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1894.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Winn, RM dr (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C60"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 25 July 1895"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "1894.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 25 July 1895} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 {Played under
the impression that his second move was Nf3. The game becomes like a Ruy Lopez,
but not a favourable one for White.} 3... g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. d3 Nge7 6. Bg5 h6 7.
Be3 a6 8. Ba4 b5 9. Bb3 Na5 10. Qd2 Nxb3 11. axb3 Bb7 12. Ne2 f5 $1 13. exf5
Nxf5 14. Ng3 Bxf3 15. Nxf5 gxf5 16. gxf3 f4 17. Bc5 d6 18. Bb4 c5 19. Ba5 {
Not so bad a osition for the B as it looks. Black cannot castle on the
queenside.} 19... Qd7 20. b4 O-O {
But castling on the kingside in the face of the open g-file is risky,} 21. Qe2
Qb7 22. bxc5 dxc5 23. Qe4 Qd7 24. Rg1 Kh8 25. Bc3 Rfe8 26. b3 b4 27. Bb2 a5 28.
Kd2 a4 {A miscalculation. He evidently meant to retake with the R, but in that
event RxB wins for White,} 29. bxa4 Ra7 (29... Rxa4 $145 30. Rxa4 Qxa4 31. Rxg7
{is presumably what Rowland meant by his last note?}) 30. Rg4 Qf7 31. Rag1 Qe6
32. Rg6 Qc8 33. Rxg7 {
White exchanges off all the pieces, and then queens the a-pawn.} 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-5 1896-8"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1896.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Biggs, JH (ENG)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C27"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 28/12/1896"]
[PlyCount "34"]
[EventDate "1896.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 28/12/1896: 'A bright little gem played in our
correspondence tourney'. White from Birmingham.} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 Bc5 3. Nc3 d6
4. Bc4 Nf6 5. d3 {Inviting Black's attack in the expectation of 6 ...Nf2 when
White obtains a powerful attack by 7 Qh5.} 5... Ng4 6. f5 Qh4+ {This ought not,
I believe, to have turned out much better than 6...Nf2. Black's best move is 6.
.. h5} (6... Nf2 7. Qh5) 7. g3 Bf2+ 8. Kf1 {Here White goes wrong, which it is
easy to do in this position. He should have played} (8. Ke2 Bxg3 9. Nf3 Qh3 10.
Qf1 {
Black must exchange Queens and Bishops, and will speedily lose his extra pawn.}
) 8... Bxg3 9. Kg2 Be1 (9... Bxh2 {might have been ventured,}) 10. Nf3 Qf2+ 11.
Kh3 Bxc3 12. bxc3 g6 $1 13. Bxf7+ Kxf7 14. Ng5+ Ke7 {White resigns. He cannot
escape further loss.  The following continuation is worth noticing:} 15. Ne6 ({
If} 15. Qxg4 {the Q is lost by the reply} 15... gxf5) ({If} 15. Kxg4 {
mate follows in a few moves.}) 15... gxf5 16. Bg5+ Kxe6 17. exf5+ Kxf5 $1 {
and it will be found that White loses by either 18 Qxg4+ or 18 Rf1. The
psoition is singular, pinning the Q being useless so long as the Kt remains at
his present square.} 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-5 1896-8"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1896.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Crutwell, Walter HW (ENG)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C25"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 13/5/1897"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "1896.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 13/5/1897} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. Nf3 Be7 5. d4
Bh4+ 6. Ke2 d6 7. Bxf4 Bg4 8. g3 Bf6 9. Be3 a6 10. Kf2 Bxf3 11. Kxf3 Qd7 12.
Be2 h5 13. Kg2 g6 14. Nd5 Bg7 15. Rf1 b5 16. c3 Nge7 17. Nf6+ Bxf6 18. Rxf6 Rh7
19. b4 Nd8 20. a4 Ng8 21. Rf2 Rb8 22. axb5 axb5 23. Ra5 Nh6 24. h3 d5 25. Qc1
Ng8 26. Qf1 dxe4 27. Bxb5 c6 28. Bc4 Ne7 29. Re5 Qb7 30. Bg5 f5 31. Bg8 Rg7 32.
Bf6 Kf8 33. Bxg7+ Kxg8 34. Rxe7 Qxe7 35. Be5 Ra8 36. Qc1 Nf7 37. Bf4 Qe6 38. c4
1/2-1/2

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-5 1896-8"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1896.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Platt, Charles (ENG)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B01"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 5 Aug 1897"]
[PlyCount "35"]
[EventDate "1896.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 5 Aug 1897} 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd8 4. d4 Nf6 5.
Be3 g6 6. Nf3 Bg7 7. Bc4 Bf5 8. Qd2 Nbd7 9. Nh4 Be4 10. f3 Bc6 11. d5 Nb6 $2 (
11... Ne5 $8) 12. Bxb6 Bxd5 13. Nxd5 axb6 14. Nc3 Nd7 15. f4 e5 16. Nf3 exf4 $2
17. O-O-O Qe7 $2 18. Rhe1 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-5 1896-8"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1896.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Sandford, Philip G prof (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C39"]
[Annotator "Evening Mail 11 Nov 1897"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "1896.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ng5 h6 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. d4 d5 8. Bxf4
dxe4 9. Bc4+ Kg7 10. Nc3 {All "book" so far.White's move is given as best in
the "Chess Openings". It ,may lead to the Hampe variation.} 10... Nf6 11. Qd2
Bd6 12. Bg5 Be7 {He dare not capture the hostile B.} 13. Rf1 Nc6 14. O-O-O Qxd4
{probably best. White's bishop miht be taken after both queens were gone.} 15.
Qe2 Qe5 16. Bf4 Qc5 17. Nxe4 Nxe4 {Mr Sandford afterwards pointed out that ...
Nd4 is much better. His next move is also questionable.} 18. Qxe4 Bf5 19. Bxh6+
Rxh6 20. Rxf5 Qb4 (20... Qb6 {The Q should have retired to b6, so as to be
ready to give check at e3 in certain variations.}) 21. Qxg4+ Kh8 22. Rdf1 Bxh4
{The B must get out of the way of the Queen to prevent the mate commencing
Rf8+, but} (22... Bf6 {looks better than taking the P.}) (22... Rxh4 23. Rh5+ {
mate in 3}) 23. Rf7 {Resigns. If Black now plays} 23... Bf6 24. R7xf6 {and if}
24... Rxf6 25. Rh1+ {brings about the mate.} 0-1

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-5 1896-8"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1896.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Thomas, George Alan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B01"]
[Annotator "Dublin Mail 19/8/1897"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "1896.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Mail 19/8/1897} 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd8 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Bc4 e6
6. h3 Bh5 7. d3 Nf6 8. Bg5 Be7 9. Qe2 Nbd7 10. Qe3 h6 11. Bf4 c6 12. g4 Bg6 13.
Ne5 Nxe5 14. Bxe5 Bd6 15. f4 Qe7 16. Bxd6 Qxd6 17. f5 Bh7 18. fxe6 O-O 19.
exf7+ Kh8 20. O-O-O Bg6 21. g5 hxg5 22. Qxg5 Bxf7 23. Rhg1 Ne8 24. Ne4 Qh6 25.
Qxh6+ gxh6 26. Rdf1 {The paper has a few notes by the winner.} 1-0

[Event "Dublin Evening Mail tourney-5 1896-8"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1896.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Nolan, DJ (IRL)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C01"]
[Annotator "Dublin Evening Mail 7 Jan 1897"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "1896.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Dublin Evening Mail 7 Jan 1897} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Nf3 Bd6 5.
Bd3 Nf6 6. O-O O-O 7. c4 dxc4 8. Bxc4 Bg4 9. Qb3 Nc6 10. Nbd2 Na5 11. Qc3 c6 (
11... Nxc4 $142) 12. Bd3 Rc8 13. Ne4 Nd5 14. Qe1 Re8 (14... Bxf3 $142) 15. Ne5
Bxe5 16. dxe5 Rxe5 17. b4 {Sets a trap} 17... f5 (17... Nxb4 $2 18. Qxb4 Qxd3
19. Nf6+ $18) 18. bxa5 fxe4 19. Bxe4 Bf5 20. f3 Bxe4 21. Bb2 Re6 22. fxe4 Rxe4
$4 {At move 20, Monck had sent 'if PxB Q-K2' and neglected to return his Q to
d8 when the conditional was not accepted. So he analysed the wrong position
here (i.e. with the Q on e7)} 23. Qxe4 Qd7 24. Rf3 1-0

[Event "Fraser CC tourneys"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1898.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Biggs, JH (ENG)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C59"]
[Annotator "Ipswich Journal 18 Feb 1899; Harding"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Ipswich Journal 18 Feb 1899; game sent in by Fraser from one of his tourneys.
The same players had met previously (see #16 in Fraser's book)} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3
Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 h6 9. Nf3
e4 10. Ne5 Bd6 11. f4 O-O 12. O-O Bxe5 13. fxe5 Qd4+ 14. Kh1 Qxe5 15. a4 c5 16.
Ra3 Bb7 17. Rg3 Kh7 18. d3 Rad8 19. Qe1 Nc6 20. c3 Ne7 21. Qf2 Ng6 22. Bxh6 $2
(22. Nd2) 22... exd3 23. Bxd3 Rxd3 24. Rxd3 Ng4 25. Qg1 gxh6 26. Rg3 Qe2 27. h3
N4e5 28. Rf2 Qh5 29. Rf6 Ng4 $1 $19 30. Rd6 (30. Rxg4 $145 Qxh3+) 30... Nf4 31.
Qf1 Bxg2+ 32. Rxg2 Nxh3 0-1

[Event "Fraser tourney"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1898.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Andrews, RH (Jersey)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C84"]
[Annotator "Fraser, Hobbies vii p456 (18/2/1899)"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "1898.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Hobbies vii p456 (18/2/1899) 'We are indebted to Mr G. B. Fraser for this
beautiful game, in illustration of the Ruy Lopez Opening, won by Mr W. S.
Monck, of Dublin, against Mr R. H. Andrews of Jersey. The notes are by Mr
Fraser, of Dundee.'} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. O-O
b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. a4 Rb8 9. axb5 axb5 10. Qe2 d6 (10... b4 {
seems the obvious move here to retain the P safely.}) 11. Nxb5 Bg4 12. Qc4 Bxf3
13. gxf3 Qd7 14. Ba4 {A fine move, not easily parried.} 14... d5 15. exd5 Nxd5
16. Nxc7 Rb4 17. Qxd5 Qh3 {Some exciting play follows.} 18. Bxc6 Rh4 19. Qxe5
Rh6 20. Qg3 {White can well afford to give up the Q for the adverse R.} 20...
Rg6 21. Nd5 Bd6 22. f4 h5 23. b4 h4 24. Qxg6 fxg6 25. Ra3 Qc8 26. Rc3 {
It would have been better to go to KB4 (sic)} (26. Rf3) 26... Qf5 27. d4 Qg4+
28. Kh1 Qe2 29. Rg1 Qxf2 30. Be3 Qe2 {It would be useless to check here at} (
30... Qf3+ 31. Rg2 {followed by} 31... h3 {
as this involves loss of Q for R and Kt.} 32. Ne7+ $145 Bxe7 33. Bxf3 hxg2+ 34.
Kxg2) 31. Rxg6 Bxb4 32. Rd3 Be1 33. Ne7+ Kf7 34. Rg2 Qf1+ 35. Rg1 Qe2 36. Ng6
Bg3 37. Ne5+ Kf6 38. Rd2 Qa6 {Of course} (38... Qxe3 {would be fatal} 39. Ng4+
$145) 39. hxg3 Rh8 40. g4 Qa3 41. g5+ Kf5 42. Bd7+ Ke4 43. f5 Qb4 44. Rg4+ {
'Mr Monck conducts the end with skill and accuracy.' (Actually he msised the
speediest mate - TH)} (44. Bc6+ $145 $1) 44... Kxe3 {White mates in five moves.
} 1-0

[Event "Kingstown Society v Hobbies 1901-2"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1901.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Uber, HB (ENG)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Monck, Kingstown Society, Sept 1902 p11"]
[PlyCount "125"]
[EventDate "1901.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Kingstown Society, Sept 1902 p11 'Played in the British Chess Co. Prize
Correspondence Match' - Readers of K.S. v Readers of "Hobbies", London'. Notes
by Monck.  NB 'The Field' of 27 Jan 1906 shows that Uber was quite a strong
OTB player; he lost on bd2 for Croydon in their annual match v Rest of Surrey
(20/1/1906), when Tattersall was bd1.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4
Bc5 5. Be3 Qf6 6. c3 Nge7 7. Bb5 O-O 8. O-O Bxd4 9. cxd4 d5 10. exd5 Nxd5 11.
Nc3 Nde7 12. d5 Rd8 13. Qh5 Ne5 14. Bd4 Nf3+ 15. Qxf3 Qxd4 16. Rad1 Qb4 17.
Rfe1 $2 {A gross blunder. White had at first read his opponent's move [as] 16
Q-K Kt3, but saw the mistake before posting his card.} (17. Qe2 {would have
en him the superior game. The subsequent exchanges are necessary in order to
obtain a P for the exchange,}) 17... Bg4 18. Qe4 Qxe4 19. Rxe4 Bxd1 20. Rxe7
Bg4 21. f3 Bc8 22. Rxc7 a6 23. Ba4 b5 24. Bb3 Rd7 25. Rc5 Bb7 26. a3 Re8 27.
Kf2 Re5 28. a4 $1 {A strong move. As the game is played it wins a second P,
leaving White with rather the best of the game. But (28...ba line)} 28... b4 (
28... bxa4 {would lead to an embarrassing attack}) 29. Na2 Rde7 30. Bc4 b3 31.
Nc3 Kf8 32. Bxb3 Ke8 33. Bc4 Kd7 34. Ra5 Rh5 $1 {
Very well played, as is also the next move.} 35. Bxa6 Kc8 $1 36. h3 $2 {
Overlooking the danger to his valuable QP. He should have allowed this pawn to
go and played} (36. Bc4) 36... Bxa6 37. Rxa6 Rb7 38. Nb5 {White relied on this
move to save his QP, and now finds it useless... [note to next move]} 38...
Rxd5 39. Rc6+ {For after} (39. Nd6+ $2 Kb8 40. Nxb7 Kxb7 {the R would be lost.
He has accordingly to retire with a bad game. (Soon after this Black refused a
draw.)}) 39... Kd7 40. Rc2 Rd3 41. Na3 Rdb3 42. Nc4 Ke6 $2 {A blunder which
enables White to equalise pieces and remain with an extra P for the ending. He
soon afterwards refused a draw.} 43. Re2+ Kd5 44. Na5 Rxb2 45. Nxb7 Rxb7 {
Diagram #} 46. Ra2 Ra7 47. a5 Kc6 48. Ke3 Re7+ 49. Kd4 Rd7+ 50. Ke5 Re7+ 51.
Kf5 Ra7 52. g4 Ra6 53. g5 Kd7 54. h4 f6 55. gxf6 Rxf6+ 56. Ke4 Ra6 57. Rg2 g6
58. Rg5 Kc6 59. Re5 Ra7 60. a6 Kd6 61. Ra5 Ke6 62. f4 Kd6 63. h5 {Black did not
reply, and White scored the game, but we think in this position White must win.
} (63. h5 {A prize was offered for the best demonstration of how White wins.
Uber himself sent in the following variation:} 63... gxh5 64. Rxh5 Re7+ 65. Kf5
Rf7+ 66. Kg5 Kc7 67. f5 Kb6 68. Rh6+ Ka7 69. Re6 Ka8 70. f6 Kb8 71. Re7 $18 {
(KS Oct 1902 p11)}) 1-0

[Event "Fraser tourney?"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1902.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Fraser, George Brunton(SCO)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C00"]
[Annotator "Hobbies xv (25 Oct 1902)"]
[PlyCount "127"]
[EventDate "1902.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Hobbies xv (25 Oct 1902) p69; camera image DSCN 5732 'Here is an interesting
game played between two veteran champions representing Scotland and Ireland'. 
 (Not stated explicitly what event this was. Since there was no IRL-SCO match
then, this was probably in a late Fraser tourney.)} 1. e4 e6 2. d3 c5 3. f4 {
This opening is conducted on lines invariably adopted by the player of White
Men against a French Defence.} 3... Nc6 4. Be3 d5 5. Nd2 d4 6. Bf2 Nf6 7. Nh3
e5 8. f5 Qb6 9. b3 Qa5 10. Be2 Qc3 11. O-O b5 12. Bg3 Bd6 13. a3 Bb7 14. Qc1 {
With the object of entrapping the adverse Queen.} 14... h6 {Diagram #} 15. Nc4
bxc4 16. Be1 Qxa1 17. Qxa1 c3 {Black, although he has got only Rook and Knight
for Queen, has still a strong position, not easily assailable.} 18. Bh4 a5 19.
Bxf6 gxf6 20. Bh5 Ke7 21. Nf2 Na7 22. Qc1 Rag8 23. h4 Rg7 24. Bf3 h5 25. Nh1 c4
26. bxc4 Bc6 27. Kh2 Rgh7 28. Ng3 Ba4 29. Rf2 Nc6 30. Qd1 Nb8 31. Nxh5 Nd7 32.
g4 Bc6 33. Qc1 Kd8 34. Kg1 Be7 35. Rh2 Kc7 36. g5 fxg5 37. hxg5 Rg8 38. Rg2 Nb8
39. Nf6 Bxf6 40. gxf6 Rxg2+ 41. Kxg2 Ba4 42. Be2 Nd7 43. Qg5 Rh8 44. Qg7 Rf8
45. Bd1 Kd8 46. Kf2 Ke8 47. Ke1 Nc5 48. Bh5 $1 Nd7 (48... Bxc2 49. Bxf7+ {
and wins}) 49. Kd1 Bc6 50. a4 Ba8 51. Kc1 Bb7 52. Kb1 Bc6 53. Ka2 {Diagram #}
53... Bxa4 54. Ka3 $1 Bxc2 55. c5 Ba4 $8 (55... Nxc5 $145 56. Bxf7+ Rxf7 57.
Qg8+ Rf8 58. Qc4) 56. Kxa4 c2 57. Qg1 Nxc5+ 58. Kb5 Kd7 59. Bxf7 Rb8+ (59...
Rxf7 {He cannot take the bishop except at a distinct disadvantage.}) 60. Kxc5
Rb1 {He might, however, have adopted another line of defence:} (60... c1=Q+ 61.
Qxc1 Rc8+ 62. Kd5 Rxc1 63. Kxe5 Rc6 64. Kxd4 a4 (64... Rxf6 65. Be6+) 65. e5 {
White should, we think, win without difficulty.}) 61. Qg7 {
Curiously enough, this wins whatever Black plays.} 61... c1=Q+ 62. Bc4+ Kc8 63.
Kc6 Kb8 64. f7 1-0

[Event "Kingstown Society tourney 1902-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1902.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Grantham, Herbert G"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A00"]
[Annotator "Monck, Kingstown Society April 1903 p11"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "1902.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Kingstown Society April 1903 p11; notes Monck} 1. a3 g6 2. e4 e5 3. d4 exd4 4.
Nf3 c5 5. Bc4 Nc6 6. O-O Bg7 7. Ng5 Nh6 8. f4 d6 9. h3 Qe7 10. Nf3 Be6 11. Bd5
Nd8 {Black's extra P seems a good equivalent for his cramped position.} 12. c4
O-O 13. Nbd2 Bxd5 14. cxd5 f6 15. Nh2 $2 {A bad move, as the reply proves.}
15... f5 16. Re1 Qd7 17. Ndf3 $2 {This does not improve matters. White loses a
second P, and the game should follow.} 17... fxe4 18. Rxe4 Qf5 19. Qe1 Qxd5 20.
Re8 Nc6 21. Qe6+ Qxe6 22. Rxe6 Rad8 23. Bd2 d5 24. Rae1 Nf5 25. Ng4 d3 26. Bc3
{Foreseeing the reply, but meaning to prevent the black B or Kt occupying the
square.} 26... d4 27. Bd2 c4 28. Rxc6 $5 {Black's centre pawns are so strong
that it is doubtful if White has anything better than this sacrifice, which,
at all events, delays the end.} 28... bxc6 29. Nge5 c5 30. Nxc4 Ne3 {
This loooks like losing another P, but will, I think, be found sound.} 31. Nfe5
Rxf4 32. Nxd3 Rf5 33. b3 Rb8 34. Nxe3 {
Bad. But has he any good move at this stage?} 34... dxe3 35. Bxe3 Rxb3 (35...
Rxb3 {White resigns} 36. Nxc5 (36. Bxc5 Rxc5 (36... Rxd3) 37. Nxc5 Bd4+) (36.
Nf2 Rxa3) 36... Rxe3 37. Rxe3 Bd4) 0-1

[Event "Kingstown Society tourney 1902-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1902.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Healy, John canon (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C27"]
[Annotator "Monck, Cork Weekly News 7 May 1904 "]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "1902.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Cork Weekly News 7 May 1904, from the Visitor of May 1904 p75 (have photocopy
with some notes by Monck). Says from the 1904 tourney must have been the one
1902-4 won by Monck} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 c6 {
To avoid the line O'Hanlon played against Monck} (4... d6 5. f4 Ng4 6. f5 {
an opening which is at all events deserving of careful analysis.}) 5. Nf3 b5 6.
Bb3 d6 7. Ne2 Qb6 8. O-O Be6 {Not a good move I think in this position.White
obtained a troublesome attack on the doubled e-pawn.} 9. Bxe6 fxe6 10. c3 Qc7
11. d4 exd4 12. cxd4 Bb6 13. Ng3 O-O 14. Ng5 Qe7 15. Qb3 d5 16. e5 Ne8 17. Qd3
g6 18. Be3 Ng7 19. Rac1 Nf5 20. Nxf5 Rxf5 21. f4 Na6 {If White had played 17
Qc2 this mode of extricating the Kt would have failed, but with his Q at d3 he
dare not capture the c-pawn.} 22. a3 Rc8 23. b4 Kg7 $2 {An error of which
White at once avails himself. The K has speedily to retreat with the loss of
two moves, which greatly assists White's attack.} 24. g4 $1 {
Quite safe in this position.} 24... Rff8 25. f5 exf5 26. gxf5 Kh8 27. f6 Qb7
28. e6 Bd8 29. Nf7+ {
White can, of course, win the B for 2 pawns, but this gives a stronger attack.}
29... Rxf7 30. exf7 Qxf7 31. Bf4 Nb8 32. Bxb8 Rxb8 33. Rxc6 Bb6 34. Kh1 {
Black has lost the exchange, and the attack still remains with White, whose
f-pawn is bound to prove troublesome.} 1-0

[Event "Ireland-England 1903-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1903.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Brooke, WM (IRL)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D53"]
[Annotator "Kingstown Society June 1903 p12"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "1903.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Kingstown Society June 1903 p12. Brooke represented England in this match. 
 Notes in KS are by Blanshard} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3
Nbd7 6. Nf3 Ne4 7. Bxe7 Qxe7 8. Nxe4 $2 dxe4 9. Nd2 f5 10. h4 $6 Nf6 11. f3 Qd6
$1 12. f4 c5 (12... Ng4 $142) 13. Qa4+ Bd7 14. Qa3 b6 15. Nb3 Ng4 16. dxc5 (16.
O-O-O $142) 16... Qe7 17. Rh3 (17. cxb6 $2 Qxa3 18. bxa3 axb6 {and ...Rxa3})
17... e5 18. Be2 O-O $19 19. Rd1 Rf7 20. Rd6 Nxe3 $1 21. Rxe3 exf4 22. Rh3 f3
23. c6 Bc8 24. c7 Rf8 25. Bf1 f4 26. Rh2 fxg2 27. Bxg2 f3 28. Bh1 f2+ $1 (28...
Bg4 29. Nd2) 29. Kf1 e3 30. Bd5+ Kh8 31. Bf3 $1 e2+ 32. Bxe2 (32. Kxf2 e1=Q+)
32... Qxe2+ $1 33. Kxe2 f1=Q+ 34. Kd2 Qf4+ 35. Kc3 Qxh2 36. Rd8 Qe5+ 37. Kb4
a5+ 0-1

[Event "Ireland-England 1903-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1903.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Grey, Captain"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B30"]
[Annotator "WIT 1/8/1903; Harding"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "1903.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Weekly Irish Times, 1 August 1903, Monck v Captain Grey RN} 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3
Nc6 3. Nf3 e5 4. Bc4 Nd4 5. Nxe5 {
Given ? in the paper; probably not best, but not obviously losing.} 5... Qg5 6.
Bxf7+ Kd8 7. Ng4 Nh6 $1 8. h3 $2 {TH: Just gives away a piece} (8. Nxh6 Qxg2 9.
Rf1 Nf3+ 10. Ke2 {no doubt looked unattractive but may be equal/drawing}) 8...
Nxf7 9. d3 Qg6 $6 {Now White gets compensation} (9... Qh5) 10. Nd5 $13 h5 $2
11. Nge3 Bd6 12. c3 Ne6 13. Qe2 Nf4 14. Qf1 Nxd5 15. Nxd5 Qe6 16. Be3 b6 17. c4
Be5 18. Qe2 g5 19. Qd2 Rg8 20. g3 g4 21. O-O-O Bb7 22. hxg4 hxg4 23. Nf4 Bxf4
24. gxf4 Nd6 25. f5 Qf7 26. Rh5 Nxe4 27. dxe4 {
Here Black accepted White's offer to draw} 1/2-1/2

[Event "North v South of Ireland 1903-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1903.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "O'Hanlon, John J (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C67"]
[Annotator "O'Hanlon; Monck"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "1903.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{"We are gratified in having to record a victory at board No. 1 by Mr. J. J.
O'Hanlon, captain of the Northern team, over Mr. W. H. S. Monck, who leads the
Southern host." (Belfast News-Letter 28 i 1904)  Start list of event in
'Kingstown Society' Nov 1903; final scores in KS Nov 1904 and also in Weekly
Irish Times.  This game also appeared in the Weekly Irish Times of 3 December
1904 with light notes by Monck.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5.
d4 Be7 6. Qe2 Nd6 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8. dxe5 Nb7 9. Nd4 O-O 10. Rd1 Qe8 11. Nc3 Nc5
12. Nf5 f6 13. Bh6 Ne6 14. Qg4 Rf7 15. Bd2 {Threatening to win the exchange
and initiating a very strong attack involving the sacrifice of a pawn.  WHSM:
Up to the present White plays Winawer-Zukertort in 1883, which ended in a draw.
Here, however, White plays Be3. The present move was tried with a view to the
pawn sacrifice which follows, but does not prove successful.} 15... Kh8 16.
Nxe7 Qxe7 17. exf6 Qxf6 18. Ne4 Qxb2 ({Black risks the capture, but} 18... Qe7
{was safer.}) 19. Bc3 Qa3 {WHSM: Capturing the second P would lose the game,
but Black gets his Q back in two moves to an excellent square at f8.} ({If} 
19... Qxc2 20. Qxe6 dxe6 21. Rd8+ Rf8 22. Rxf8# {(O'Hanlon)}) 20. Rd3 d5 21.
Ng5 $1 ({White could not play 21.Qxe6 or Bxg7+ here, but he might have played
21.Rh3 or Qh5, to either of which Qf8 is the best reply. If in reply to} 21.
Rh3 dxe4 22. Qh5 {wins.}) 21... Nxg5 22. Qxg5 Qf8 23. Re1 Bf5 {
Black intended here 23...Kg8 followed by Bf5.} 24. Rf3 Kg8 25. Re5 $2 {
JJOH: White could regain a pawn now by 25.Bxg7 and the game would probably be
drawn.  WHSM: This looks a strong move at first sight, but proves a bad one.
White should have recovered the pawnby} (25. Bxg7 {with a probable draw. He
hoped, however,to draw against the extra P in any case, even by means of
Bishops on opposite colours.}) 25... Rb8 ({If} 25... Bxc2 26. Rxf7 Kxf7 ({if} 
26... Qxf7 27. Re7) 27. Qh5+ Kg8 28. Qe2 Bg6 29. Re7 {with the better game.})
26. h3 h6 {WHSM: Black commences an attack with this move which proves fatal.}
27. Qh4 Qd6 28. Qf4 {Again if 28.Rxf5 Black wins the exchange.} 28... Bg6 29.
Qd4 Rb1+ ({If} 29... Rxf3 30. Re8+ Kf7 $1 31. Rxb8 {
and White recovers the pawn with a good game.}) 30. Be1 Re7 $1 31. Rfe3 c5 32.
Qf4 d4 $1 33. Re2 Rxe5 34. Qxe5 Qxe5 35. Rxe5 Bxc2 36. Kh2 {Diagram #} 36...
Rxe1 $1 {WHSM: This sacrifice leaves White's game hopeless. The two passed
pawns supported by the B must win.} 37. Rxe1 d3 38. Re8+ Kf7 39. Rd8 Ke7 40.
Rd5 c6 41. Rxc5 Kd6 42. Rc3 d2 {O'Hanlon notes found by David McAlister; he
also supplied a friendly game played at the same time, he says.  But BCM 1904
p169-70 also has these games and says they were both in the match. NOtes by O;
Hanlon from BCM not yet copied.} 0-1

[Event "North v South of Ireland 1903-4"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1903.??.??"]
[Round "2"]
[White "O'Hanlon, John J (IRL)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C27"]
[Annotator "O'Hanlon"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "1903.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{"We also give a friendly game played by correspondence at the same time
between the same players and won by Mr. O'Hanlon." (Belfast News-Letter 28 i
1904) - but actually in team match says BCM} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4.
d3 d6 5. f4 Ng4 6. f5 $1 {The only move.} 6... h5 ({If} 6... Nf2 7. Qh5 O-O ({
if} 7... Qd7 8. Be6) 8. Nf3 Nxh1 9. Ng5 {winning.}) 7. Nh3 $1 c6 {
This move is bad. black should check at once.} 8. Qf3 Qh4+ 9. Ke2 Qe7 {
To save the Queen which is threatened by10.Bg5 but Nh6 would be better.} 10.
Ng5 Rf8 11. Nh7 Rh8 12. h3 {Diagram #} 12... Rxh7 ({
Black did not foresee the sacrifice of the second Rook, or he would have played
} 12... Nf6 {but White would still get the best of it by} 13. Ng5 Rf8 14. g4)
13. hxg4 hxg4 14. Qxg4 Rxh1 15. Bg5 f6 $2 16. Rxh1 Nd7 ({If} 16... fxg5 17.
Rh8+ Kd7 18. f6+ Kc7 19. Rxc8+ {wins.}) 17. Rh8+ Nf8 18. Bd2 g5 19. Qh5+ Kd8
20. Qh6 d5 ({If} 20... Ke8 21. Bxg5 fxg5 22. f6 {wins.}) 21. Bxd5 cxd5 22. Nxd5
Qf7 23. b4 Bd6 24. Nxf6 Bxf5 25. exf5 Kc7 $2 26. Ne4 Be7 27. f6 Bd6 28. Qg7 Qd7
29. Nxd6 {BCM 1904 p170 also has this game} 1-0

[Event "Kingstown Soc play-off"]
[Site "corr Ireland"]
[Date "1903.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Archer, Richard (IRL)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C27"]
[Annotator "Cork Weekly News 21 Mar 1903"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "1904.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nc6 4. d3 Bb4 5. Nge2 d6 6. f4 Bg4 7. a3 Bc5 8. h3
Bd7 9. Na4 Bb6 10. Nxb6 axb6 11. Ng3 Na5 12. Ba2 Be6 13. fxe5 dxe5 14. Bg5 Bxa2
15. Rxa2 h6 16. Be3 g6 17. Qf3 Qe7 18. O-O Nd7 19. Qd1 Nc6 20. c3 Qe6 21. b3 h5
22. d4 exd4 23. cxd4 Qd6 24. e5 Qe7 25. Ne4 Nb4 26. Raf2 Rxa3 27. Bg5 Qe6 28.
Rxf7 Nd5 29. Qc1 Ra2 30. Qc4 c6 31. Nd6+ 1-0

[Event "Plunkett Trophy 1904-6"]
[Site "corr Ireland"]
[Date "1905.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Archer, Richard (IRL)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Annotator "4LS #7p1"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "1904.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nc6 4. d3 Be7 5. Nc3 d6 6. Ng5 O-O 7. f4 Bg4 8. Qd2
h6 9. Nf3 Bxf3 10. gxf3 Nd4 11. Qg2 Nd7 12. Rg1 Bf6 13. f5 Kh7 14. Be3 c6 15.
O-O-O Qe7 16. Qh3 b5 17. Bb3 b4 18. Bxd4 exd4 19. Ne2 Nc5 20. Rg3 Nxb3+ 21.
cxb3 d5 22. Rdg1 dxe4 23. fxe4 Rg8 24. Qh5 Be5 25. Rg4 Rad8 26. R1g2 Rd6 {
This looks strong after the harmless R1g2 but the veteran must have overlooked
the subtle move of Ng1 followed by Nf3 which really won the game in theend} 27.
Ng1 g5 28. h4 Rdg6 {One of Monck's pretty moves} 29. Nf3 Bf6 30. e5 $18 Qc5+ (
30... Bxe5 31. fxg6+ fxg6 (31... Rxg6 32. Nxg5+) 32. Nxg5+ Kg7 33. Ne6+) 31.
Kb1 Qd5 32. Rxd4 1-0

[Event "Rowland Crown tourney-1 1904-5"]
[Site "corr Ireland"]
[Date "1904.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Hamilton, T rev"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B01"]
[Annotator "Monck, 4LS #2"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[EventDate "1904.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qe5+ {
I have often played this move over the board with varying fortune.} 4. Be2 Bg4
5. d4 Bxe2 6. Ngxe2 Qh5 7. Qd3 Nc6 8. Nf4 Qa5 9. a3 O-O-O 10. b4 {
The sacrifice here is intentional, and I am not sure it is unsound.} 10... Nxb4
11. axb4 Qxa1 12. O-O e6 13. Qc4 Bd6 (13... Nf6 14. Nxe6 fxe6 15. Bf4) 14. Nd3
Nf6 15. Bb2 $2 {An oversight. Either the f-pawn or g-pawn should have been
advanced or else this B played to f4.} 15... Bxh2+ 16. Kxh2 Qxf1 17. Nb5 Rd7
18. Nxa7+ Kd8 19. Qa2 Rd5 {Completely turning the tables} 20. Bc1 Rh5+ 21. Kg3
Ne4+ 22. Kf3 Nc3 23. Qa1 {and Black announced mate in 3 moves} 23... Qe2+ $145
0-1

[Event "FLS tourney division 8"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1905.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Patterson, T (IRL)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Annotator "Weekly Irish Times 1/7/1905"]
[PlyCount "31"]
[EventDate "1905.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Weekly Irish Times, 1 July 1905} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nc6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5.
Bxf7+ Kxf7 6. Nxe4 h6 $2 7. d4 d6 $2 8. dxe5 Nxe5 9. Nxe5+ dxe5 10. Qxd8 Bb4+
11. Qd2 Bxd2+ 12. Bxd2 Bf5 13. Ng3 g6 14. Nxf5 gxf5 15. Bc3 f4 16. O-O-O 1-0

[Event "FLS tourney division 8"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1905.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Robinson, Samuel (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B30"]
[Annotator "Weekly Irish Times 29/7/1905"]
[PlyCount "31"]
[EventDate "1905.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Weekly Irish Times, 29 July 1905 event not stated but probably same as
Patterson game published a few weeks earlier.} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 e6 4.
O-O d5 5. exd5 exd5 6. Bb5 Bd7 7. Re1+ Be7 8. d4 cxd4 9. Bxc6 bxc6 10. Qxd4 Nf6
11. Qe5 h6 12. Nc3 Kf8 13. Bf4 Bb4 14. Rad1 Bxc3 15. Qxc3 Ne4 $2 16. Rxe4 (16.
Rxe4 {1-0} 16... dxe4 17. Ne5) 1-0

[Event "Ireland"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1905.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Robinson, Samuel (IRL)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C28"]
[Annotator "Robinson; WIT 3 Feb 1906"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "1905.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bb4 5. Bg5 {To prevent ...d5} 5... d6 6.
Nge2 Be6 7. O-O Bxc4 {
Since the Bishop has to lsoe a move it would be better to play} (7... Bxc3 8.
Nxc3 h6 9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10. Nd5 Bxd5 11. Bxd5 g5) 8. dxc4 h6 $2 9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10.
Nd5 Qd8 11. Ng3 g6 (11... O-O 12. Nf5 {
followed by Qg4 and f4 with a strong attack}) 12. f4 Bc5+ 13. Kh1 exf4 14. Rxf4
Ne5 15. Qe2 {Threatening 16 b4 Bb6 17 c5 dxc5 18 bxc5 Bxc5 19 Qb5+ Nd7 21 Nf6+
winning a piece} 15... Qg5 {Risky} 16. Nf6+ {The pawn could be safely captured}
(16. Nxc7+ {followed by Nd5}) 16... Ke7 17. Raf1 c6 18. Ng4 Raf8 19. Nxe5 Qxe5
20. Qf3 Rh7 21. c3 Bb6 22. Rf6 Bc7 {This loses a pawn} (22... Rg7 {
would have been better}) 23. Rxg6 Kd8 24. Qf6+ $1 Qxf6 25. Rgxf6 Ke7 {
Losing another Pawn;} (25... Ke8 {would be no better}) 26. Rxh6 Rxh6 27. Nf5+
Ke6 28. Nxh6 f6 29. g4 $1 Ke5 30. g5 $1 {
Resigns, As the K-KtP will cost Black his Rook, or else become a Queen.} 1-0

[Event "Plunkett Trophy 1905-6"]
[Site "Ireland corr"]
[Date "1905.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Beamish, FU (IRL)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "Monck, WIT 1 June 1905"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "1905.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 {Get notes later if required} 1... e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5.
c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O dxc3 8. Qb3 Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Nxc3 Nge7 11. Ba3 Bxc3
12. Qxc3 b6 13. Rfe1 Bb7 14. Bd3 Qh6 15. Be4 O-O-O 16. Rac1 Ng6 17. Bd5 Nf4 18.
Bxf7 Ne6 19. Re4 Ng5 20. Nxg5 Qxg5 21. Re3 Kb8 22. e6 dxe6 23. Rxe6 Nd4 24.
Qxc7+ Ka8 25. Qg3 Ne2+ 26. Rxe2 {Black announces mate in 3} 0-1

[Event "FLS Crown tourney-2"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1906.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Achard, AL dr"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C51"]
[Annotator "WIT 15/9/1906"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "1906.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{WIT 15 Sept 1906. An Evans Gambit played in "F-L-S" Crown Tourney} 1. e4 e5 2.
Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. O-O d6 7. d4 exd4 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. Nc3
Bg4 10. Bb5 Kf8 11. Be3 Nge7 12. Ne2 Bxf3 13. gxf3 Na5 14. f4 c5 15. f5 a6 16.
Bd3 Nec6 17. dxc5 Bxc5 18. Bf4 Ne5 19. Bxe5 dxe5 20. Qd2 Nc6 21. Kh1 a5 22. f4
Qf6 23. Qb2 b6 24. Bb5 Nd4 25. Bc4 Qc6 $2 26. Bd5 1-0

[Event "FLS Crown tourney-2"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1906.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Cole, Harold Godfrey (ENG"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C63"]
[Annotator "4LS #13"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "1906.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 f5 4. d3 d6 5. a3 Nf6 6. Nc3 fxe4 7. dxe4 Bg4 8. h3
Bxf3 9. Qxf3 Be7 10. Bc4 Qd7 11. Be3 Rf8 12. Qe2 Nd8 13. O-O-O Ne6 14. Nb5 a6
15. Nc3 b5 16. Bb3 O-O-O 17. a4 c6 18. g3 Ne8 19. axb5 axb5 20. Na4 $1 bxa4 21.
Qa6+ Qb7 22. Bxe6+ Kb8 23. Qxa4 Rf3 24. Rd3 Rxe3 25. fxe3 Kc7 26. Rb3 Qa8 27.
Qb4 Rb8 28. Qxb8+ Qxb8 29. Rxb8 Kxb8 30. Bd7 Nf6 {
Black might have resigned but continued to move 56; the rest not published} 1-0

[Event "FLS v Year-Book of Chess"]
[Site "corr 1906-7"]
[Date "1906.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Lorch, CH."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C84"]
[Annotator "Monck, 4LS #15 p4"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[EventDate "1906.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. e5 Ne4 7. O-O Be7 8.
Nxd4 Nc5 9. Bxc6 dxc6 10. Nc3 O-O 11. f4 Ne6 12. Nce2 Nxd4 13. Nxd4 c5 14. Nf3
Qxd1 15. Rxd1 Bg4 16. Kf2 $6 f6 17. h3 Bf5 18. g4 Bxc2 19. Rd7 Rae8 20. exf6
Rxf6 21. Rxc7 Bd6 22. Rd7 Bxf4 23. Bxf4 Rxf4 24. Rc1 Be4 {More notes in 4LS}
0-1

[Event "FLS Crown Tourney-5 1907-8"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1907.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Millar, Clara miss"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C49"]
[Annotator "Weekly Irish Times 4/4/1908"]
[PlyCount "141"]
[EventDate "1907.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Weekly Irish Times 4 April 1908; Crown Tourney V of the FLS. Clara Millar of
Manchester Ladies Chess Club, see Nowell (ed) 'Chess in Manchester' pp161-2
for info on her and the club (and her 1908 simul win against Em. Lasker).  
 Clara Miller was involved in the BCCA too. She also had a chess-playing
sister.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Ne2
Ne7 8. Bg5 Ng6 9. c3 Ba5 10. Nh4 c6 (10... h6 {King-Parks}) 11. Bc4 Kh8 12. d4
d5 13. exd5 cxd5 14. Nxg6+ fxg6 15. dxe5 dxc4 16. exf6 gxf6 17. Qxd8 Bxd8 18.
Be3 b5 19. Nd4 a6 20. a4 Rb8 21. axb5 axb5 22. Nc6 Rb7 23. Ra8 Bc7 (23... Bb6
24. Bxb6 Rxb6 25. Ne7) 24. Na7 Bb8 25. Nxc8 Rxc8 26. Rd1 $2 {
Monck observed that after this blunder Miss Millar ought to have won.} (26. Bf4
$14 {King-Parks}) 26... Bxh2+ 27. Kxh2 Rxa8 28. Bd4 Kg7 29. Rb1 Rc8 30. Ra1 Kf7
31. g4 Re8 32. Be3 Rxe3 $6 {
'I think she was unwise in giving up the exchange and relying on her extra P'}
33. fxe3 Rd7 34. Kg3 Rd2 35. Rb1 Ke6 $2 (35... Rc2 {Monck}) 36. Kf4 Kd6 $2 37.
Ke4 Kc5 38. b4+ cxb3 39. Rxb3 Rf2 40. Rb4 f5+ 41. Kd3 fxg4 42. Rxg4 Rf5 43. c4
b4 44. Rg1 Rf7 45. Rg5+ Rf5 46. Rg1 Rf7 (46... g5 {
King-Parks thinks this ought to winn}) 47. Rg5+ Kc6 48. Kc2 Re7 49. Kb3 Rxe3+
50. Kxb4 Re7 51. Rc5+ Kb7 52. Rb5+ Kc8 53. Rg5 Rg7 54. Kc3 h6 55. Ra5 Kb7 56.
Kd3 Rf7 57. Ke3 Rf6 58. Re5 Rf1 59. Re7+ Kc8 60. Rh7 h5 61. c5 Rh1 62. Rg7 Rg1
{Play was interrupted here due to Monck';s serious illness but was resumed
after his recovery and completed on 21/2/1908.} 63. Kf2 Rg4 64. Kf3 g5 65. c6
Rf4+ 66. Kg2 Rf5 67. Rh7 g4 68. Kg3 Rf3+ 69. Kg2 Rh3 70. Rg7 Kd8 71. Rd7+ {
Monck: 'The endgame is worth playing over, and the final position in which
Black's pawns are brought to a standstill is peculiar.'} 1/2-1/2

[Event "FLS Crown tourney IV"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1908.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "King Parks, Thomas (IRL)"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B57"]
[Annotator "WIT 27/6/1908"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "1908.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Weekly Irish Times 27 June 1908. Played in Crown Tourney no IV of FLS} 1. e4
c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bc4 Nxd4 7. Qxd4 e5 8. Qd3
Be7 9. h4 Bd7 10. h5 h6 11. Qg3 Bf8 12. f4 Qc7 13. b3 b5 $2 {Monck had set up
position wrongly, thinking his pawn was on a6, but the blunder gave rise to an
interesting game.} 14. fxe5 dxe5 15. Nxb5 Qa5+ 16. c3 Ng4 17. Rh4 Bxb5 18.
Bxb5+ Qxb5 19. Rxg4 Rd8 20. a4 Qb8 21. Ke2 Qd6 22. Kf2 Qf6+ 23. Kg1 Bc5+ 24.
Kh2 Rd1 25. Bg5 $4 {Monck was unsure who stood better until his opponent
played this move to to win the exchange but overlooking the loss of his queen.}
25... hxg5 {White resigned on receiving conditional continuation} 26. Rxd1
Rxh5+ 27. Qh3 {forced} 27... Rxh3+ {etc.} 0-1

[Event "FLS Crown tourney?"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1908.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Heaviside, Charles"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Annotator "Weekly Irish Times 20/6/1908"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "1908.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Weekly Irish Times 20/6/1908; 'played in one of Mrs Rowland's tourneys'} 1. e4
e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 h6 $2 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Qf6 $6 6. Be3 a6 7. Nc3 Bb4 8.
O-O Bxc3 9. bxc3 Qe5 $2 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. Bd4 Qd6 12. Bxg7 Rh7 13. Qg4 Ne7 14.
Rfd1 Qc5 15. Bd3 d6 16. Qg3 Qg5 17. Qxg5 hxg5 18. Bf6 g4 19. e5 Bf5 20. exd6
Bxd3 21. Re1 Bf5 22. Rxe7+ Kf8 23. Rxc7 Rh6 24. Be7+ Ke8 25. Rxc6 f6 26. Re1
Kf7 27. Rc7 Rah8 28. Bf8+ $1 Kxf8 29. d7 Bxd7 30. Rxd7 Rxh2 31. Rd8+ Kf7 32.
Rxh8 1-0

[Event "Silver Queen Irish ch-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1909.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Brooke, WM (IRL)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C29"]
[Annotator "Monck, Weekly Irish Times 31 July 1909"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "1908.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Weekly Irish Times 31 July 1909 'The following is the second game won by Mr
Monck'. Notes by the winner.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5. Qf3
Nc6 6. Bb5 Nxc3 7. dxc3 Qh4+ 8. g3 Qe4+ 9. Qxe4 dxe4 10. Bxc6+ bxc6 11. Be3 g6
12. O-O-O Bg7 13. Bg5 O-O 14. Bf6 Re8 15. h3 Ba6 16. g4 Bxf6 17. exf6 Rad8 18.
Rh2 Rd5 19. Re1 h6 20. h4 Bc8 21. Rg2 Red8 22. b3 Re5 23. g5 Rd6 24. Rge2 Bg4
25. Rg2 Bd7 26. Ne2 c5 27. c4 e3 28. Nf4 Bc6 29. Rg3 Re4 30. Nd3 {Many of Black
's moves here are little better than bluffs, but White should, I think, have
played} (30. Ng2 {
instead of 30 Kt to Q3, which is the origin of his misfortunes.}) 30... Rxh4
31. Rexe3 hxg5 32. Rxg5 Rxf6 33. Rxc5 Kg7 34. Re7 Be4 35. Nb4 Rf2 36. Kb2 Bxc2
$1 37. Rcxc7 {
Taking with the other Rook would have prevented Black's 38th move.} 37... Bb1+
$1 38. Kc3 a5 39. Nd5 $2 (39. Nc6 {is a better resource, although it does not
afford much prospect of the win which White required.}) 39... Rc2+ $1 {
Resigns, for White must play} 40. Kd3 {when Black proceeds with} 40... Rcxc4+ {
41...Rxc7 and 42...Bxa2 with two pawns ahead in an ending which Black has only
to draw in order to be the winner of the contest. The change in the aspect of
the game is rather a rapid one. Mrs Rowland adds that 27 players entered. 'The
following survivors are now playing for the trophy:- Devine v Berryman, Monck
v Beamish, Eycott v Patterson, Prentice v Parks, MacLoughlin v MacMahon. Mr
Hugh Twomey is waiting, having won one and drawn the second game versus Mr
Hugh Doyle.'} 0-1

[Event "Silver Queen Irish ch-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1908.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Brooke, WM (IRL)."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C80"]
[Annotator "Weekly Irish Times 3 Ap 1909; FLS 23"]
[PlyCount "25"]
[EventDate "1908.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Weekly Irish Times 3 April 1909; FLS 23 (Summer 1909)} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.
Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 exd4 7. Re1 d5 8. Nxd4 Bd6 9. Nxc6 Bxh2+
10. Kh1 Qh4 11. Bg5 Qxg5 12. Qxd5 {King-Parks, in FLS note, says he analysed
this line with C. S. Howell (now resident in USA and an America player in last
cable match).} 12... Kf8 $4 (12... Qxd5 13. Nb4+ Kd8 $8 14. Nxd5 Nc5 {
Howell found this line where Black is a pawn ahead and there is no forced win
for White, but Monck has won some games from this position. K-P says it is
strange Black should have adopted the Riga Defence when unacquainted with an
importnat variation.} (14... Be5 $145)) 13. Qxe4 1-0

[Event "FLS-Cornwall 1909-10"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1909.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Williams, SY (ENG)."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Monck, FLS 27-8"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[EventDate "1909.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{FLS #27-8 '...a specimen of the Scotch Gambit played between two of the
strongest correspondence players of the day at No 1 Board.'} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3
Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Be3 Qf6 6. Nb5 Bxe3 7. fxe3 Qh4+ 8. g3 Qxe4 9.
Nxc7+ Kd8 10. Nxa8 Qxh1 11. Qd6 Nf6 {Monck: 'The opening in Blackburne v Ward,
which created a sensation two or three years ago, but it was afterwards shown
that Ward ought to have got the best of it by playing ...Qf3 in time to
prevent White from castling I played Nd2 to prevent this move, but in the end
I found myself with a P to the bad, but a seomewhat better position.'} 12. Nd2
Qd5 13. Qc7+ Ke7 14. Nc4 (14. O-O-O $5) 14... Rd8 15. Rd1 Qc5 16. Qd6+ Qxd6 17.
Nxd6 Ng4 18. Bh3 Nce5 19. Nc7 Nxe3 20. Nd5+ Kxd6 21. Nxe3+ Kc7 22. Nd5+ Kb8 23.
Ne7 g6 24. Kf2 Re8 25. Nd5 f5 26. Nf6 Re7 27. Rd5 b6 28. Bf1 Kc7 29. Rd4 Bb7
30. h3 Nf3 31. Rc4+ Kd6 32. Bg2 Ne5 33. Rd4+ Kc5 34. c3 Bxg2 35. Kxg2 d6 36.
Nd5 Rd7 37. Nf6 Rf7 {'The interesting part of the game, however, was when
Black gave back the P for an attack that looked formidable, but I managed to
get through.'} 38. Ne8 a5 39. Nxd6 Rd7 40. Nc8 Rxd4 41. cxd4+ Kxd4 42. Nxb6 Nc4
43. Na4 Ke3 44. b3 Nd2 45. h4 h6 46. Nc5 g5 47. hxg5 hxg5 48. Ne6 Ne4 49. Ng7
f4 50. Nf5+ Ke2 51. gxf4 gxf4 52. Nd4+ Kd3 53. Nf5 Nd2 54. Kf2 1/2-1/2

[Event "Silver Queen Irish ch-1"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1909.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Beamish, FU (IRL)."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C54"]
[Annotator "WIT 12 Feb 1910"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "1909.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{Weekly Irish Times 12 Feb 1910} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4
exd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Bxd2+ 8. Nbxd2 O-O 9. d5 Ne7 10. e5 Nfxd5 11. Ne4 c6
12. Qd2 b5 13. Bb3 a5 14. O-O a4 15. Bc2 f6 16. Rad1 fxe5 17. Nxe5 Qc7 18. Nf3
Qf4 19. Qe2 Ng6 20. Rd4 Qh6 21. Re1 Ndf4 22. Qe3 d5 23. Ng3 Bd7 24. Qa3 Rae8
25. Rdd1 Bg4 26. Rxe8 Rxe8 27. Re1 Rf8 28. Re3 Bxf3 29. Bxg6 Qxg6 30. gxf3 Qh6
0-1

[Event "FLS-BCCA rematch"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1909.??.??"]
[Round "12"]
[White "Whitmarsh, HJE."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "FLS 22 (April 1909) p2; WIT 24/4/1909"]
[PlyCount "38"]
[EventDate "1909.01.08"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{FLS 22 (April 1909) p2; WIT 24/4/1909} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4
Nf6 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. e5 Qe7 7. Qe2 Nd5 8. c4 Qb4+ 9. Nd2 Nf4 10. Qe4 Ne6 11. f4
Bc5 12. Bd3 a5 13. a3 Qb6 14. Nf3 Bf2+ 15. Ke2 Nc5 16. Qf5 d5 17. Qg5 Nxd3 18.
Kxd3 dxc4+ 19. Ke2 c3 0-1

[Event "SIlver Queen Irish ch-1 playoff"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1910.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Beamish, FU (IRL)."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C49"]
[Annotator "FLS 29 (Autumn 1910) p2; WIT 24/9/1910"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "1910.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{FLS 29 (Autumn 1910) p2. The deciding game after the players had finished 1.
5-1.5 in original pairing according to WIT of 24 Sept 1910 which also printed
the game.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Bg5
Ne7 8. Nh4 c6 9. Bc4 d5 10. exd5 cxd5 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. Bb3 Be6 13. Ne2 Ng6 14.
Nxg6 hxg6 15. c3 Ba5 16. f4 Kg7 17. Ng3 exf4 18. Rxf4 Rh8 19. Qe1 Bc7 20. Rf1
Rh6 21. Qf2 Bb6 22. d4 Bc7 23. Rad1 f5 24. a3 Qg5 25. Rd3 Rah8 26. Qf3 f4 27.
Ne2 Rxh2 28. g3 fxg3 29. Rdd1 {Black announced mate in five moves} 0-1

[Event "corr"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1910.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Wykeham"]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C32"]
[Annotator "SOURCE???"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "1910.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5 e4 4. d3 Nf6 5. dxe4 Nxe4 6. Qe2 Qxd5 7. Nd2 f5 8. g4
Nc6 9. c3 Be7 10. Bg2 Be6 11. gxf5 Bh4+ 12. Kf1 Nxd2+ 13. Bxd2 O-O-O 14. Bxd5
Bxd5 15. Nf3 Bxf3 16. Qxf3 Rxd2 17. Qg4 Bf6 18. Rb1 Na5 19. Qh3 Nc4 20. Rg1
Rhd8 21. Rxg7 R2d3 22. Rg3 Nd2+ 23. Ke1 Re8+ 24. Kf2 Ne4+ 25. Kg2 Nxg3 26. hxg3
Rg8 27. Kf2 h5 28. Qxh5 Rh8 29. Qg6 Rh2+ 30. Kg1 Rdd2 31. Qe8+ Bd8 32. Qe6+ Kb8
33. Qe4 c6 34. Qe5+ Kc8 35. Qe6+ Kc7 36. Rd1 Rdg2+ 37. Kf1 Kb6 38. Qe3+ Kc7 39.
Qe5+ Kb6 40. Qd4+ Ka6 41. Qc4+ Kb6 42. Rxd8 1-0

[Event "South v North of Ireland"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1911.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Black "Johnston, Charles (IRL)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Annotator "Four-Leaved Shamrock #36-7 p5"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "1911.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{FLS #36-37 (Autumn 1911) p. 5; also in Weekly Irish Times 22 July 1911} 1. e4
e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Be3 Qf6 6. Nb5 Bxe3 7. fxe3 Qh4+ 8. g3
Qxe4 9. Nxc7+ Kd8 10. Nxa8 Qxh1 11. Qd6 Nf6 12. Nd2 Qd5 13. Qc7+ Ke7 14. O-O-O
(14. Nc4 {Monck-Williams, corr 1909-10}) 14... Qe6 15. Qf4 Ne8 16. Bc4 Qf6 17.
Nc7 Nxc7 18. Qxc7 Qe5 19. Qxe5+ Nxe5 20. Bd5 b6 21. Nc4 Nxc4 22. Bxc4 d6 23.
Bd5 Bd7 24. Rd4 Bc8 25. Rf4 Be6 1/2-1/2

[Event "FLS v Chess Amateur re-match 1912-3"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1913.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Marriott, CH."]
[Black "Monck, WH Stanley (IRL)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D40"]
[Annotator "Cork Weekly News 19/4/1913"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "1912.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2005.08.26"]

{WIT and CWN 19/4/1913} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. e3 c5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Nf3 a6 6. Bd3
dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 c4 9. Bc2 Bd6 10. O-O Bb7 11. e4 Be7 12. Re1 h6 13. e5
Nh7 14. Ne4 Qc7 15. Bd2 Nd7 16. Rc1 Qb6 17. Be3 Bd5 18. Nfd2 Qb7 19. Qg4 Ng5
20. Nxg5 hxg5 21. Bxg5 Nb6 22. Ne4 Bxe4 23. Bxe4 Nd5 24. b3 Ba3 25. Rc2 Rc8 26.
Bd2 Kf8 27. Qf3 Be7 28. Rec1 Ba3 29. Rb1 c3 30. Rxc3 Rxc3 31. Bxc3 Rh4 32. g3
Rh3 33. Bd2 Be7 34. Rc1 Qd7 35. Qg4 Rh8 36. Bxd5 Qxd5 37. Rc8+ Bd8 38. Ba5 1-0

[Event "simul"]
[Site "Dublin"]
[Date "1879.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Monck, William Henry S."]
[Black "Zukertort, Johannes Hermann"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C52"]
[Annotator "WIT 18/10/1879"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "1879.??.??"]
[Source "Tim Harding"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.25"]

{Weekly Irish Times 18 Oct 1879 'Between Mr W. H. S. Monck, of Dublin, and Dr
Zukertort, the latter playing a number of other games simultaneously.'} 1. e4
e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O dxc3 8. Qb3 Qf6
9. e5 Qg6 10. Nxc3 Nge7 11. Ba3 O-O 12. Ne2 {
Mr M adds a note that in a second game he played} (12. Nd5 {with continuation}
12... Nxd5 13. Bxf8 Nf4 14. Bxf7+ Qxf7 15. Qxf7+ Kxf7 {
and Dr Z soon afterwards obtained a winning position.}) 12... b5 13. Bd3 Qg4
14. h3 Qa4 {Hoping to keep a pawn ahead after the exchange of queens.} 15. Bxb5
{Well played, winnng a piece.} 15... Qxb3 16. axb3 Re8 17. Bxe7 Bb6 18. Bxc6
dxc6 19. Bh4 f6 20. Bg3 a5 21. Nc3 {Losing the piece again} 21... fxe5 22. Nxe5
Bd4 23. Nxc6 Bxc3 24. Rac1 Bf6 25. Bxc7 a4 26. bxa4 Rxa4 27. Be5 {
Pretty play, but by it Black wins a pawn.} 27... Bxe5 28. Nxe5 Ba6 29. Ra1 Bxf1
30. Rxa4 Bxg2 31. Kxg2 Rxe5 {'and after a few more moves the game was drawn'}
1/2-1/2

[Event "Dublin"]
[Site "simultaneous"]
[Date "1881.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Steinitz, William"]
[Black "Monck, William Henry S."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Annotator "Monck, Harding"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "1881.01.14"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1998.09.30"]

{Our School Times, 13 June 1881, notes by Monck. The score in the column was
garbled but is reconstructed by Tim Harding} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4.
O-O Nf6 5. d4 Bxd4 {This is now considered the best way of taking the pawn.} 6.
Nxd4 Nxd4 7. f4 d6 8. Nc3 {Monck has a note "Not the usual move but good
enough apparently." It is not attached to any move in the score but seems to
belong here, becaue White almost invariably played 8 fxe5 now.} 8... c6 9. Be3
b5 10. Bd3 Ng4 11. Bxd4 {Herr Steinitz would have got a bad position by
retaining his B and prefers giving up the exchange to abandoning the attack.}
11... exd4 12. Ne2 Ne3 (12... Qh4 {looks tempting, but White could reply} 13.
h3 {and reply to} 13... Ne3 {by} 14. Qe1 {Still, Black would have obtained an
attack by the move which might have proved formidable.}) 13. Qd2 Nxf1 14. Rxf1
{TH: From this point, the score of the game in the column is garbled. "P. to
QB4" is printed as both Black's 14th and 16th move but cannot have been played
here because Steinitz would have replied BxP+. In order for the subsequent
score and notes to make sense, he must have played 14...Qb6 and met 15 f5 by
15...f6 (to rule out f5-f6).} 14... Qb6 15. f5 f6 16. Qf4 c5 17. Qg4 c4 {
The capture of the B is tempting, but perhaps Black should rather have
advanced his g-pawn, which cannot be taken in reply without sacrificing
White's queen.} (17... g6) 18. Qxg7 Rf8 19. Nf4 cxd3 $2 {This move loses the
game. Black would, I believe, have retained the advantage by} (19... Qb7 {or})
(19... Bb7 {The latter would probably lead to} 20. Nd5 Bxd5 21. exd5 O-O-O 22.
Be4 d3+ 23. Kh1 Qe3 24. cxd3 cxd3 25. Bf3 (25. Bxd3 {saves White for if} 25...
Qxd3 26. Rc1+ Kb8 27. Qc7+ Ka8 28. Qc6+ {with a draw by perpetual check, but
Black has improvements earlier in the sequence. Monck's other suggestions 19...
Qb7 and 17...g6 also look strong. (TH).}) 25... d2 {Threatening ....Qe1 with a
winning position.  The present move leads to a very pretty finish. Black
overlooked his opponent's move 22.}) 20. Nd5 Qb7 (20... Rf7 {returning the
rook to f8 if the queen checks is better but would probably not save the game.
He would at all events have enabled White to draw. TH: The accuracy of the
reconstruction is proved because ...Rf7 would otherwise be impossible. Also
White's next move would just lose the knight if ...f6 had not been played.})
21. Nc7+ Kd8 22. Ne6+ Bxe6 {Hardly an oversight, for} (22... Ke8 {
loses the game equally, e.g.} 23. Qxf8+ Kd7 24. Qd8+ Kc6 25. Nxd4+ Kc5 26. Nb3+
{and wins the queen next move, unless} 26... Kb4 {
in which case White mates in two moves with the queen.}) 23. Qxb7 Rc8 24. fxe6
Rc7 25. Qb8+ 1-0

