However I am not going to show either of those games. Instead I'm going to dig into the archives and present a similarly wild game from 1904. It was from the Cambridge Spring tournament, and was played between Lasker and Napier. In one of my early chess books, this was given as an example of creative, and yet, slightly unsound chess. Lasker took more than a few liberties in the opening, while Napier missed a couple of opportunities to finish him off. Apparently after the game Lasker described it as "Napier's brilliancy, which I happened to win"
Lasker,Emanuel - Napier,William Ewart [B34]
Cambridge Springs Cambridge Springs (3), 1904
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