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Dennis Morton Horne vs Fridrik Olafsson
"Horne to be Wild" (game of the day Sep-10-2015)
Hastings (1953/54), Hastings ENG, rd 4, Jan-02
King's Gambit: Accepted. Cunningham Defense McCormick Defense (C35)  ·  1-0

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White to move.
ANALYSIS [x]
1-0

rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
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  FSR: Dennis the Menace.
Sep-10-15  Moszkowski012273: Hey anything wrong with 28...Bc4 ?
Sep-10-15  erixn: Moszkowski: The problem seems to be 29.b5! - the black Q being overloaded. 29.-, Qxb5 30.Re7!, and if Qc6 to stop both mates, the B is lost: 31.Rxc4
Sep-10-15  kevin86: The Horne blows at midnight!
Sep-10-15  thegoodanarchist: not many posts for GOTD. Must be a busy Thursday for most folks.
Sep-10-15  Howard: Yeah, I was gonna say !
Sep-10-15  Infohunter: I couldn't get the site to load last night. Maybe it wasn't just me after all.
Sep-10-15  thegoodanarchist: < Infohunter: I couldn't get the site to load last night. Maybe it wasn't just me after all.>

I was having all kinds of slow internet issues last night. I think maybe Netflix dropped a new episode of something, but that is just a guess.

Sep-10-15  celtrusco: The GOTD Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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