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Leonard Barden vs Jan Hein Donner
Hastings (1951/52), Hastings ENG, rd 9, Jan-05
Vienna Game: General (C27)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Jan-01-06
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  Chessical: "...at the Hastings Premier where play began at a spartan 9am.... I was due to meet the late Dutch grandmaster Hein Donner, who arrived, clearly just out of his slumbers, at 10.30. It was 40 moves in two hours and the one-hour forfeit rule had not yet been introduced.

Donner spent the next half-hour looking zonked, playing a terrible opening and downing a series of black coffees. At 11 his eyes and his play suddenly focused, he found a brilliant fortress defence to stop my attack on his king, and I was glad to settle for a draw".

Leonard Barden (Guardian Unlimited - 30 Dec 2005)

Apr-22-07  CaptainEvans: Fair play to Leonard - he loved a good attack.
Apr-26-07  CaptainEvans: I wouldn't've thought 3...Bc5 was the greatest move of all time cos it allows 4.Qg4 - thus allowing White to exploit Black's kingside dark squares. Judging from the anecdote above though this could well hve been a consequence of Donner's fragile state of health at the time...
May-01-07  CaptainEvans: White's sequential knight manoeuvre on moves 19, 20 and 21 looks natural enough - but I reckon Barden missed 21. Bc3 (rather than the immediate 21.Nf5)cos then 21...f6 22.Bxe6 Qxe6 THEN 23.Nf5+ and after 23...Kh8 White plays 24.Kb1 to stop the Black Queen taking his a-pawn after which he has the Black h-pawn at his mercy. A good game from White all the same which he should've won I feel.

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