1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. e3 Bb7 5. Bd3 Bb4+ 6. Nbd2 O-O 7. O-O d5 8. a3 Bd6 9. b4 c5 10. bxc5 bxc5 11. cxd5 exd5 12. dxc5 Bxc5 13. Bb2 Nbd7 14. Nb3 Bb6 15. Nbd4 Nc5 16. Nf5 a5 17. Bc2 Re8 18. N3d4 Nce4 19. Qf3 Qd7 20. Nxg7 Kxg7 21. Bxe4 Rxe4 22. Nf5+ Kg6 23. Nh4+ Rxh4 24. Qxf6+ Kh5 25. Qxb6 Rg8 26. Be5 d4 27. Bg3 Bxg2! 28. Qf6?

“After 28. Kxg2 Qh3+ 29. Kf3 Qg4+ 30. Kg2 has Black anything better than a perpetual? [RR No.] Possibly White considered that he was still winning and overlooked Black's clever reply.”

28... Rxh2!! 29. Bxh2

[RR Here 29. Rfc1 leads back to a perpetual after 29... Rh1+ 30. Kxg2 Qh3+ 31. Kf3 Qg4+. It follows that 28. Qf6 is not a mistake, and the losing move is 29. Bxh2??.]

29... Bd5+ 30. Bg3 Qh3 31. e4 Rxg3+

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Annotator(s): J. J. Walsh, Fiacla Fichille, vol. 2, no. 18 (July 1985), p. 14.

Source(s): Tom Clarke scoresheet (via David McAlister); J. J. Walsh, Fiacla Fichille, vol. 2, no. 18 (July 1985), p. 14 (20W onwards).

Event information: Tournament report.

Note: “Source: Tom Clarke scoresheet. It appears that at moves 18 or 19 Clarke had wrongly written down his moves and had subsequently tried to make a correction, which however later on means that the scoresheet no longer makes sense. Clarke had originally written down 18...Qd7 (but that was later crossed out and replaced by 18. Nce4) and 19...Bc7. However instead replacing 19...Bc7 with 19...Qd7 seems to get the game-score back on track.”—David McAlister.