IMJohnCox wrote on 11/10/06 at 21:21:38:
After that I'm doing a book for Quality Chess on the Berlin Wall, which I'm looking forward to, and then one for Everyman called Gambiteers, covering five players of that ilk (probably Morphy, Tchigorin, Marshall, Bronstein and Morozevich, IIRC, although that's not set in stone - in fact any other candidates gratefully received).
A few more obscure names, which might deserve a mention:
Tassilo Von Heydebrand und der Lasa was according to some people even stronger than Staunton and played quite some gambits.
The Swede HAW Lindehn is the inventor of the Danish Gambit and beat Steinitz with it. I have only four games of him, so some research will be necessary.
And what about Dragoljub Velimirovic? The man of the sacs Nxb5, Nd5, Nxe6 and Nf5 against the Sicilian also has played several Göring Gambits. What do we really know of him? The man has grown older, but has not changed that much:
Velimirovic,D (2535) - Pavlovic,M (2505) [B40]
Panormo zt (4), 27.10.1998
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qb6 5.Nb3 Qc7 6.Nc3 a6 7.Bd3 b5 8.Be3 Bb7 9.f4 Nf6 10.0–0 d6 11.e5 dxe5 12.fxe5 Nfd7 13.Rxf7 Kxf7 14.Qh5+ g6 17.Qh7+ Bg7 18.Bh6 Qb6+ 19.Kh1 Bxg2+ 20.Kxg2 Qc6+ 21.Kg1 Nf3+ 22.Kf2 1–0
Of course the position after 13.Rxf7 pleases the eye in a diagram.