Game of the week September 20, 2020 by Robert Huntington [Event "New York 1976"] [White "Ken Regan"] [Black "Thomas Costigan"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B22"] [Annotator "ATH"] [PlyCount "45"] [EventDate "1976.??.??"] [EventType "swiss"] [EventCountry "USA"] [SourceTitle "StarBase 4.56"] [SourceDate "2004.11.04"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2004.11.04"] [SourceQuality "2"] 1. e4 c5 2. c3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. cxd4 d5 5. exd5 Nf6 6. Bb5+ Bd7 (6... Nbd7 $1 7. d6 e6 (7... exd6 8. Nf3 Bg7 9. Qe2+ Qe7 10. O-O Qxe2 11. Bxe2 O-O $11) 8. Nf3 a6 $11 {Lessing-Drill, Limburg 1994}) 7. Bc4 b5 8. Bb3 Bc8 $6 (8... Bg7 9. Nf3 Bf5 $1 10. Qe2 $14) 9. Qe2 a6 $6 (9... Bg7 10. Qxb5+ Nbd7 11. Nc3 $14) 10. Nc3 Bb7 11. Nf3 Bg7 12. O-O Nxd5 $2 (12... b4 13. Na4 $14) 13. Qe4 $1 {Somehow Black overlooked this?} e6 14. Bg5 {Or did he overlook this?} Qd6 15. Bxd5 Bxd5 16. Nxd5 Qxd5 17. Qxd5 exd5 18. Rfe1+ Kf8 19. Rac1 f6 $2 (19... Nd7 20. Rc7 $18 ) 20. Rc8+ Kf7 21. Rc7+ Kf8 ({Black is so hopelessly lost that dumping a piece with} 21... Nd7 {is his best move}) 22. Bf4 $2 {I hate to give this move a queston mark but there's a big difference between being up seven pawn-equivalancies and 50+ with} (22. Ree7 $1) 22... h5 $2 ({Again, your position has to be pretty hopeless when Stockfish recommends dumping a piece with} 22... Nc6 {and taking it is only the third best move behind} 23. Re6 {and } (23. Bd6+)) 23. Nh4 (23. Bd6+ {is even stronger but Black has had enough and throws in the towel.}) 1-0 your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts Views: 39