George Alan Thomas vs Mario Monticelli (1933)

George Alan Thomas vs Mario Monticelli
Folkestone ol 1933 · Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Modern Steinitz Defense (C73) · 1-0

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Dec-12-04		Chessical: Thomas plays very dynamically as White to destroy his opponent's K-side in the supposedly fortess-like Spanish, Deferred Steinitz defence. Monticelli never gets his counterplay going with <h5> or <Bg4>, and is overwhelmed with <19.h6> He obviously did not believe in the threats, but <19... Nxh6?> is too dangerous, he had to play <19...g5> Thomas loses no time and with <20.Nxg7!!> demolishes the Black K-side. After the attractive <26.e5!>, Black runs out of options.

Jan-15-13		estrick: This game is featured with lots of annotations in the January 2013 edition of Chess Life magazine, in Bruce Pandolfini's column, Solitaire" Chess." He titled this month's column, "Getting There 'Firstest' With The 'Mostest'" - with a subtitle, "Did your opponent just castle on the opposite side of the board? It's on!"

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