Handicap Tournament
London's active chess scene in the 1870s offered plenty of material for The Field's chess column, a magazine which styled itself "The Country Gentleman's Newspaper." Steinitz edited the chess column, presenting a steady stream of chess problems, news and games with first class annotations.
The following game is from the final section of the London Chess Club Handicap Tournament of 1874. Depending on the difference in strength between the two opponents, the better player might have to start the chess game (for example) without his Queen's Knight - see the second game here. In the game below the only "odds" involved are that Zukertort had to play Black, but that was enough for De Vere to take down his famous opponent. Note the excellent concluding combination!
The largest assembly of the first World Chess Champion's games is available at ChessCentral, along with his own notes and much more. Click here to see The Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz.