The "Sea-Cadet" Mate. and here is my game it was against Stephen Ritchie we were playing on gamesknot.
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A version of Légal's Mate occurred after 7...Ne5 in a casual game won by
Falkbeer at Vienna in 1847. The game was arranged as a display of living chess in Act II of
Der Seekadet, a 1876 operetta by Genée and Zell:
[6]- 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3 (the Göring Gambit) dxc3 5.Nxc3 d6 6.Bc4 Bg4 7.0-0 Ne5 8.Nxe5 Bxd1 9.Bxf7+ Ke7 10.Nd5# 1–0