[Event ""] [Site "An asylum"] [Date "1922-49"] [Round "?"] [White "Mr Murphy"] [Black "Mr Endon"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C00"] [Annotator "Microsoft"] [PlyCount "86"] 1. e4 {The primary cause of all White's subsequent difficulties.} Nh6 2. Nh3 Rg8 3. Rg1 Nc6 4. Nc3 Ne5 5. Nd5 {Apparently nothing better, bad as this is.} Rh8 6. Rh1 Nc6 7. Nc3 Ng8 8. Nb1 Nb8 {An ingenious and beautiful début, sometimes called the Pipe-opener.} 9. Ng1 e6 10. g3 {Ill-judged.} Ne7 11. Ne2 Ng6 12. g4 Be7 13. Ng3 d6 14. Be2 Qd7 15. d3 Kd8 {Never seen in the Café de la Régence, seldom in Simpson's Divan} 16. Qd2 Qe8 17. Kd1 Nd7 18. Nc3 {The flag of distress.} Rb8 19. Rb1 Nb6 20. Na4 Bd7 21. b3 Rg8 22. Rg1 Kc8 {Exquisitely played.} 23. Bb2 Qf8 24. Kc1 Be8 25. Bc3 {It is difficult to imagine a more deplorable situation than poor White's at this point.} Nh8 26. b4 Bd8 27. Qh6 {The ingenuity of despair.} Na8 {Black has now an irresistible game.} 28. Qf6 Ng6 29. Be5 Be7 30. Nc5 {High praise is due to White for the pertinacity with which he struggles to lose a piece.} Kd8 {At this point Mr. Endon, without as much as "j'adoube" turned his King and Queen's Rook upside down, in which position they remained for the rest of the game.} 31. Nh1 {A "coup de repos" long overdue.} Bd7 32. Kb2 $3 Rh8 33. Kb3 Bc8 34. Ka4 Qe8+ {Mr. Endon not crying "Check!", nor otherwise giving the slightest indication that he was alive to having attacked the King of his opponent, or rather vis-à-vis, Murphy was absolved, in accordance with Law 18, from attending to it. But this would have been to admit that the salute was adventitious.} 35. Ka5 Nb6 36. Bf4 Nd7 37. Qc3 Ra8 38. Na6 {No words can express the torment of mind that goaded White to this abject offensive.} Bf8 39. Kb5 Ne7 40. Ka5 Nb8 41. Qc6 Ng8 42. Kb5 Ke7 {[Did he really play the illegal move Kd7?] The termination of this solitaire is very beautifully played by Mr. Endon.} 43. Ka5 Qd8 {Further solicitation would be frivolous and vexatious, and Murphy, with fool's mate in his soul, retires.} 0-1