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Tonight I finished a long day of teaching chess by presenting an absolutely superb mating combination played by the first World Chess Champion. A brilliant positional player, particularly in his later years, Wilhelm Steinitz rose to prominence in the mid-nineteenth century as a dangerous attacker in the romantic style of chess that had been popularised by Paul Morphy. Below we see a position from an early attacking masterpiece in the career of Wilhelm Steinitz in which he manages to pull off a beautiful Epaulette Mate in just four moves.
