I'm Curious....

...about what folks think of both Black's and White's play in this game where Black conceded Pawn & 2 moves to White....

I was surprised to see all those moves. King safety was not an issue. Just like development. Attack seemed to be the only thing that is on their mind. It is a very tactical play.

Was this played by humans or computers?

The combination 34.a4 next a5 and Rc1 surprised me totally. It is a beauty.

Later would I have played Bxh3 instead of Bb7 and Ba6. It saves a move and with that move could one play a4. That is the only chance on a draw.

I could not detect any strategy with fields. That can be due to my lack of chess skill, but as far as I can tell it is completely missing. Is it really played in 1854 or was the rating of the computers on average 1854? I would say the last.

It sure seems like an epic battle with so much happening in just one game.

The game was played in 1854. Black was a renowned master, Black is relatively unknown.

"The combination 34.a4 next a5 and Rc1 surprised me totally. It is a beauty."
That was exactly my thought! The cleverest moves of the game. 

Now I'm curious whether a 19th century game could be mistaken for a computer game?

So who was a renowned master? Black or black? 

You believe Morphy received odds of Pawn & 2 ??

Black, btw, was János Jakab Löwenthal.

it does look like Morphy play, however, It is not one of his from a cursory search of chessgames.com, If I were to take a guess, Bird, maybe, Staunton, or possibly Anderssen or Kiesertsky. 

None of those players would have accepted P&2 from Löwenthal.

White was, in fact, a promising player but one who never made anything of himself. He was Joseph Murphy.  Jeremy Spinrad had brought this game to my attention since this game had been published at least thrice as a Morphy-Löwenthal game played in 1850 with the added claim that Max Lange had authenticated it as such in 1882.   Prof. Spinrad suggested the true opponent and I found this and a few other games between the two men in my database.  White's play is indeed quite dynamic and Romantic. It equally curious that several people saw White's play as Morphy-ish. Maybe that was part of the cause for the mis-representation.

Here is another Murphy-Löwenthal game:

the fact I've heard of Murphy surpises me. maybe someone with Bad Penmenship listed it as Murphy Loewenthal. and someone misread it as Morphy.