Back-rank mate
A bizarre game:
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.Bc4 g4 5.Bxf7+ Kxf7 6.Ne5+ Ke6 7.Qxg4+ Kxe5 8.d4+ Kxd4 9.b4 Bxb4+ 10.c3+ Bxc3+ 11.Nxc3 Kxc3 12.Bb2+ Kxb2 13.Qe2+ Kxa1 14.Kf2 mate.
Seven [sic] consecutive captures by the black king and the option of giving mate by castling at move 14. Indeed, page 120 of Robert Timmer's Startling Castling! stated that White played 14.0-0 mate. That source gives White's name as F.C. Spencer, with no other details. When the game appeared on page 158 of the May 1894 Deutsche Schachzeitung White was identified as J. Spenser of Minnesota. Giving the score (also with 14.Kf2) on page 200 of its July 1917 issue, the BCM offered no players' names or occasion, but the score was said to be derived from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 1894. It appeared in the 1895 book of Chess Sparks by J.H. Ellis, headed only 'Played at Mineapolis [sic] Chess Club about 1894'
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