Chess At Odds of Pawn and Move compiled by Baxter-Ray (1891)
Considering the large number of works published for the purpose of teaching a knowledge of the game of Chess, it must appear strange to the ordinary student to find so little information available in regard to Openings at Odds. Odds-giving has never received the attention it deserves from the analysts of the game. Yet it is very popular, and is rapidly growing in practice ; indeed, it is absolutely necessary for every Club, and a very large number of private players, to regularly introduce odds into their games, with, at present, little or nothing to guide them as to the best means of commencing play.A Popular Introduction to the Study and Practice of Chess. Forming A Compendium of the Science of the Game by Samuel Boden (1851)
One may often hear persons declare that they think it cowardly to take odds, that they had rather be beaten on even terms ; or that the removing of a piece, in odds, must spoil the game. All this is sheer nonsense, and only bespeaks utter ignorance of Chess. A game played even, where one party should be rendering the odds of a piece in order to give the other a chance, will have no interest for the one, and little pleasure for the other. If the weaker player has no chance, of course the stronger player can have no sport.The Australian Chess Annual Edited by H. B. Bignold (1896)
If the handicap given is a fair measure of the difference in skill of the respective players, the odds giver can only hope to neutralise his deficiency in material by superiority of development. Assuming he has the move, it immediately becomes a matter of the utmost importance to adopt a suitable opening. But what is a suitable opening ? The answer to this will vary with circumstances, and on the player's ability to gauge them will to a great extent depend his success as an odds-giver. It is very certain that every player has some particular style of opening, which is in consonance with his turn of thought, and in which he will appear to the best advantage. If you can form some idea of your adversary's penchant, and avoiding it, lead him on to less familiar ways, your chances are, perforce, improved. Assuming you are the better player, if it should seem to you that you have both the same cast of mind, it is a matter of very nice consideration whether it will pay you better to meet him on his own ground, which is also yours, or lead him on to ways strange to both of you, trusting to your greater skill to gain an advantage on the spur of the moment. In choosing a gambit it should be borne in mind that if the one adopted is familiar to the adversary, the game is almost hopelessly compromised, since the initial difference force is already increased without any positional recompense. The writer has a lively recollection of giving a 5th class player a Rook and Knight, himself being in the 1st class, and receiving 14 moves of book defence to the Allgaier he ventured on ! In this dilemma, though it may appear fanciful, perhaps your adversary may himself give you the least hint. If he is a careful, cautious man, square-jawed, deliberate of manner, apt to weigh his words — perhaps even attach too much weight to them — given to loading his pipe with the utmost deliberation, and lighting it as if it were a solemn function, is it too much to premise that he belongs to the class that loves to castle early and oppose a solid phalanx to the advancing foe ? Perchance an Allgaier, or a Kieseritzky, whereby his cherished scheme of castling is rendered impracticable, may utterly rout him ! If he is of the opposite temperament — nervous, painfully excitable, given to squirming with impatience should you appear unduly slow to move — a Giuoco, with its orderly development, may entice him from his entrenchments to be more easily dispatched. In general, of course, he will belong to neither extreme, and classifying him will be a work of some difficulty, but to one who cares to succeed, a knowledge of his rivals can never be without advantage, in chess or the sterner warfare that it dimly shadows forth.
Time to insert some relevant discussion from a forum at ChessGames from 6 years ago:
4...Kxf7 5.Nxe5+ Ke8 
6.Qh5+ g6
8.Qxh8 
21.Re7+ Kb6 22.Bd4+ c5 23.Bc3 a5 24.Rd7 Rc8 25.Ree7 Rc6 26.Rxb7+ Ka6 27.Ra7+ Kb6 28.Reb7 checkmate
