Chess Openings, Queen's pawn, Mason variation, Steinitz counter-gambit (D00)

CHESS OPENINGS

Annotated chess games with this chess opening:

chess opening #36413

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Livers in Mason Jars
-nosferatu- (1819) vs. jstevens1 (1773)

Annotated by -nosferatu- (1200): In this tournament game, I'm paired up against jstevens, a well-known and popular annotator/player here on Gameknot. I had no doubt if Nosferatu choked this opening round the evidence would be immortalized in writing. This is a theme tournament, using this as the starting position. This is the "Mason Opening," named after Irish chessmaster James Mason who often employed 2. Bf4 in symmetrical…