Vienna-Paris Postal Chess
The following game is one of two annotated by Wilhelm Steinitz in the January 1886 issue of the International Chess Magazine. Here we can see Steinitz at work as a chess journalist, facing deadlines and other pressures - yet observe the care and thoroughness taken with his analysis. Both games are given in ChessBase format for download on the web page given in The Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz CD, for which complete details may be found there. Hundreds of games were annotated by Steinitz in this manner, which together form the basis of modern chess.
This game was thoroughly annotated by Steinitz in his International Chess Magazine, and shows a working chess journalist plying his craft. The two games of this match form the center of January's ICM for 1886, and Steinitz clearly put extraordinary effort into them as seen by the depth of his commentary. Even borrowing from Rosenthal as he did, one feels that Steinitz himself always maintains the larger view and keeps the overall scheme of the game more clearly in view - not losing himself in tactical squabbles at every turn. In any case, his analysis of these two games is worthy of the best chess magazine of any age.