whatteaux wrote on 04/11/12 at 01:07:29:

Thanks, he was the first of two world champions to play it, so even though chesslive.de shows Alekhine played it a number of times, as you say, Lasker gets first dibs.

Rubenstein and Spielmann played it a number of times, and Spielmann, known for his love of sacrifice, seems to recommend it on the grounds of it being "safe and sound, and avoiding many book variations."  Of course he then goes on to sacrifice a piece in the middlegame to prevent his opponent from castling.

Is there a name for the variation in the Scotch that goes:

1. e4 e5  2. Nf3 Nc6  3. d4 exd4  4. Nxd4 Bc5  5. Be3 Bb6

In chesslive.de the first win by Black was by the famous problem composer Loyd in the 1850's in Paris.  Though his opponent was not terribly strong, hanging a couple of pawns, Loyd finishes him off with a very pretty combination of a double-check, smothered-attack and finally "Anastasia's Mate"; at least that's what it's referred to in chapter 5 of The Art of Checkmate -- also see http://www.chess.com/article/view/mating-patterns-5-anastasias-mate

Between 1905 and 1925 the 5...Bb6 variation was used by World Champions (Lasker and Alekhine), other world class players (Tarrasch and Rubenstein), not to mention Rudolf Spielmann; a game of the latter's featuring the variation is #18 in his Art of Sacrifice book.  Considering all of the above, if there is a name for the variation, might it refer to one of the above players?  If there is no name, maybe I'll start a poll.