[Event "Simul, 25b"] [Site "Manhattan CC, New York, NY USA"] [Date "1885.11.26"] [White "Wilhelm Steinitz"] [Black "John Lindsay McCutcheon"] [Result "0-1"] [Variant "Standard"] [ECO "C12"] [Opening "French Defense: MacCutcheon Variation, Advance Variation"] [Annotator "https://lichess.org/@/chessentialsBLOG"] [Source "https://lichess.org/study/ZkaQEUd4/OqFFjAmX"] [Orientation "white"] { According to some sources, it was named after a relatively unknown American player John Lindsay McCutcheon, who used it to defeat the World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz in the Simultaneous Exhibition in 1885: } 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e5 h6 6. Bxf6 gxf6 7. Nf3 f5 8. Bd3 c5 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. O-O Nc6 11. Qd2 Qe7 12. Qf4 Bd7 13. Nb5 O-O-O 14. c4 Be8 15. Rfc1 Kb8 16. a3 a6 17. Nc3 dxc4 18. Bxc4 Nd4 19. Ne2 Nxf3+ 20. Qxf3 Bc6 21. Qh3 Ka7 22. b4 Bb6 23. Nc3 Rhg8 24. Bf1 Rd2 25. Nd1 Qg5 26. Rxc6 bxc6 27. Qc3 Qf4 28. Qxc6 Rxd1 { 0-1 Black wins. } 0-1