Game of the week November 5, 2023 by Robert Huntington [Event "Romania vs. Hungary"] [Date "Bucharest 1963"] [White "Florin Gheorghiu"] [Black "Lajos Portisch"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B33"] [Annotator "ATH"] [PlyCount "55"] [EventDate "1963.??.??"] [SourceTitle "StarBase 2.88"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.01.15"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2003.01.15"] [SourceQuality "2"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Qb6 5. Nb3 (5. c3 $5) 5... Nf6 6. Nc3 e6 7. Be3 Qc7 (7... Qd8 8. a3 d5 9. exd5 exd5 10. Qd2 $16 {Rozo-Hjorth, ICCF email 2018}) 8. a3 a6 9. f4 d6 10. Bd3 (10. g4 $1 d5 11. Bg2 $14) 10... b5 11. Qf3 Bb7 (11... Be7 $5) 12. O-O Nd7 $2 (12... Be7 $11) 13. Rad1 (13. Qh3 $1 $16) 13... Be7 14. Qg3 O-O 15. Qh3 Nc5 (15... b4 $1 16. Nd5 $1 exd5 17. exd5 Nf6 18. dxc6 Bc8 $11) 16. Nxc5 dxc5 17. e5 h6 18. f5 (18. Rf3 $1 Nxe5 19. Rg3 Nxd3 20. Qxh6 Bg5 21. Qxg5 f6 22. Qg4 Nxb2 23. Qxe6+ Rf7 24. Nd5 $16) 18... Qxe5 19. f6 (19. Bf4 $1 Qf6 20. fxe6 $16) 19... Bxf6 20. Bf4 Qd4+ 21. Kh1 (21. Rf2 Be7 $11) 21... c4 $2 (21... Rad8 22. Be2 b4 $1 23. Rxd4 Nxd4 $11) 22. Be4 Qb6 ({ Stockfish suggests dumping the queen with} 22... Qxd1 23. Nxd1 $18 {as Black's best course. In other words, time to resign}) 23. Bxh6 Rfd8 24. Be3 (24. Bg5 $1 {is the quick method}) 24... Nd4 $2 ({Not that it matters but} 24... Rxd1 25. Rxd1 {would prolong the game}) 25. Qh7+ Kf8 26. Bxb7 Qxb7 27. Rxf6 (27. Ne4 { is even stronger, according to Stockfish}) 27... gxf6 28. Bxd4 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: 20