zanzibar: From the article <RedShield> ref'ed:<26.Bxe7
But now the time has come for the breakthrough.
26…Rxe7
A study of Chigorin’s games had convinced me that knights were superior to bishops!>
comments by J.B. Adams.
He also has this to say (remember, <CG> originally published this game with Mike Adams as White):
<Then, on 27 April 2008, there suddenly came a reaction from Ray Keene: <“This game is suspicious – Michael Adams would have been just nine years old in 1981 – I think this game was by Jimmy Adams the well known chess writer and editor – who works for Chess magazine – needs checking anyway!!”> However… though I am indeed grateful to Raymondo for referring the matter to chessgames.com, he seems to have forgotten that it was I myself who pointed out this error to him in the first place!! I guess I didn’t sound too convincing…This was followed on 16 May 2008 by a further posting from LutherBlisset: <“I have checked with Jimmy Adams, the editor of Chess magazine in the UK. It was played by him. Not Michael Adams. It is a very good game.”>
Never in my life have I received such praise and, indeed, I would have thought these words would have settled the matter once and for all. However, this was not the case and no correction was made by chessgames.com. Clearly they were still not satisfied and needed further proof.
Finally, on 20 August 2010, Inman made one last observation: <“It’s interesting that the two Adams (definitely not related) have such similar styles. Interesting, too, that after two years the database has not been corrected…”><<>>>
Which suggest <CG> didn't correct the game until some time after 2010.
J.B. Adams humorously makes available the original scoresheet though:
http://www.kingpinchess.net/wp-cont...
Kibitzing
