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Jesper Hall vs Adam R Collinson
Oakham Young Masters (1992), Oakham ENG, rd 8, Mar-31
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Archangelsk Variation (C78)  ·  1-0

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Dec-05-22
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: If sound, White's sacrifice of an entire Rook with 14.Bg5 would mark the launch one of the most spectacular King hunts of the modern era, looking almost like a 19th Century game. Of course 23.Bc1X is unstoppable, but might Black have survived with 21...Ka5; 22.Nc4+,bxc4; 23.Bd2,Bb4? Or does 21...Ka5; 22.Bxc7+ improve for White?

Rather hoping White's attack proves sound. Would feel nice to have rescued a masterpiece from obscurity.

Dec-06-22
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  fredthebear: Great entertainment AE!
Dec-06-22
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  0ZeR0: <An Englishman>

After a preliminary analysis it seemed to me that 14.Bg5 was correct, and after coming home and double checking with Stockfish it is indeed the first choice of the engine. If 21...Ka5, than 22.Bxc7+ Ka4 23.Nc3+ Kxa3 24.Bf4 and black again has no way of stopping Bc1#.

I also discovered something else which I think is quite amazing. According to the engine the one place where black could improve his play (after the sacrifice) is after 15.Re1+: 15...Be4! 16.Nxe4 (not 16.Rxe4 Kd6 etc. where white's attack fizzles out with rough equality) 16...Ke6 17.Ng3+ Kd5 and although black is obviously still worse, at least he's not getting immediately mated.

All in all, a wonderful game discovery!

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