Game of the week December 28, 2025 by Robert Huntington [Event "Birmingham 1976"] [White "Eugene Meyer"] [Black "Michael Stean"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "D91"] [Annotator "ATH"] [PlyCount "50"] [EventDate "1976.??.??"] [SourceTitle "StarBase 2.88"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.01.15"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2003.01.15"] [SourceQuality "2"] 1. Nf3 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. c4 Nf6 4. Nc3 d5 5. Bg5 dxc4 (5... Ne4 {is the main line }) 6. e3 (6. e4 $5) 6... Be6 7. Ne5 $6 (7. e4) 7... Nd5 8. Nxc4 c5 9. Ne4 $6 ( 9. Nb5 f6 10. e4 fxg5 11. exd5 Bd7 $17 {Piesik-Gazik, Skopje 2019}) 9... cxd4 10. Qa4+ $6 (10. exd4 O-O 11. Nc5 Qc8 $17) 10... Nd7 (10... Bd7 $1 11. Ncd6+ Kf8 12. Qa3 Bc6 13. Bc4 (13. Nc4 h6 14. Bh4 a5 15. Rc1 Nb4 $19) 13... f5 $19) 11. Ned6+ $2 (11. exd4 O-O $17) 11... Kf8 12. Nxb7 (12. e4 $5) 12... Qc7 13. Nba5 dxe3 (13... h6 $1 {is even stronger}) 14. fxe3 (14. Bxe3 {puts up stiffer resistance, e.g.} Nxe3 15. fxe3 Nb6 $19) 14... h6 15. Bh4 Bxb2 16. Rb1 $2 (16. Nxb2 $4 Qc3+ $19) (16. Rd1 Nc5 17. Qc2 Bc3+ 18. Kf2 Bxa5 $19) 16... Nc5 17. Qc6 $6 ({White is deader than Doug Jones's senatorial career. Still, I have to note that} 17. Qd1 {is better}) 17... Bc3+ 18. Kf2 Bxa5 19. Nxa5 Qxa5 20. Qxa8+ (20. Qb5 {is irrelevantly better}) 20... Kg7 21. Qc6 Qxa2+ (21... a6 {is irrelevantly stronger}) 22. Be2 $2 (22. Kg1 Qxb1 23. Qxc5 Rc8 24. Qb5 Qxb5 25. Bxb5 {allows White to survive into a hopeless ending}) 22... Ne4+ 23. Kf3 Nd2+ (23... Bg4+ $1 {and mate in 15 according to Stockfish}) 24. Kg3 Nxb1 25. Bc4 Qd2 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: 0