Phony Benoni: After <23.exd5>: click for larger viewBlack appears to miss a strong resource with <23...Re2>. Now, if for instane, <24.Bc3 Rxg2+ 25.Kxg2 Qd6> and Black's attack along his diagonal comes first. Black may have missed this because it's a bit of a computer resource. But it's also possible he missed it because it never occurred. I know of two sources for this game:
<American Chess Bulletin>, February 1925, p. 29 <Broolyn Daily Eagle>, March 5, 1925, p. A4. Both these, bac at Black's 20th move:
 click for larger viewGive <20...Rab8> (<20...QR-Kt1>), which would mean Black never had a rook on the e-file. tSo I think we have ascore error here, but I'm not sure enough to insist on it. |