Game of the week May 9, 2021 by Robert Huntington [Event "1986 World Open"] [White "Tim Taylor"] [Black "Joel Benjamin"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B12"] [Annotator "ATH"] [PlyCount "52"] [EventDate "1986.07.??"] [EventType "swiss"] [EventRounds "9"] [EventCountry "USA"] [SourceTitle "CL, Oct 1986"] [SourceDate "2019.05.21"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2019.05.21"] [SourceQuality "1"] 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. f3 e6 4. Nc3 Bb4 (4... Nf6 $5 $11) 5. Nge2 dxe4 6. fxe4 ( 6. a3 $5 Bxc3+ 7. Nxc3 exf3 8. Qxf3 Qxd4 9. Be3 Qf6 10. Qg3 $44) 6... Qh4+ 7. Ng3 Nf6 8. Qd3 e5 (8... c5 $5) 9. dxe5 $6 (9. Be3) 9... Ng4 10. Bd2 $6 (10. Be2 O-O $11) 10... Bc5 11. Nd1 Na6 $6 (11... O-O $17) 12. a3 $2 (12. Qf3 O-O $11) 12... O-O 13. Qc3 Rd8 14. Bxa6 Bd4 15. Qa5 $2 (15. Qf3 bxa6 16. h3 Nxe5 $17) 15... b6 16. Qa4 Bxa6 (16... Nxh2 $1 17. Qb3 Bxa6 $19 {is even more crushing}) 17. Qxa6 Nxh2 18. Qe2 (18. Qd3 Bxb2 $1 19. Qe3 Bxe5 $19 {is slightly (but irrelevantly) better}) 18... Qxg3+ 19. Nf2 Bxb2 (19... Ng4 $1 {is stronger still}) 20. Ra2 $2 ({White could prolong his suffering with} 20. Rd1) 20... Qxg2 ({And} 20... Bc3 {would put White out of his misery a lot quicker}) 21. Rxh2 Qxh2 22. Qf3 ({If White didn't want to be put out of his misery quickly, he would play} 22. Rxb2) 22... Qg1+ 23. Ke2 Rxd2+ 24. Kxd2 Qc1+ 25. Ke2 Qxc2+ 26. Ke1 Qb1+ 0-1 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: 42