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Lajos Portisch vs Mark Orr
Thessaloniki Olympiad (1988), Thessaloniki GRE, rd 1, Nov-13
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange. Positional Variation (D35)  ·  1-0

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Mar-09-09  A.G. Argent: What, what, what??!! 41.Rg7+??!! You rarely see a blunder like that; putting a Rook en prise from three different pieces?? How do you do that? Especially if you are someone who is the likes of Lajos Portisch? And then why trade Rooks at 45.Rxd7+ when you're now a Rook down? Why even keep playing? Even Orr seemed a bit thrown by what he'd just seen, he passed up pawns twice, coulda done 42...Nxg5 and coulda done 46...Nxc5. And yet Portisch finished with the third best rating performance at the Olympiad behind Kasparov and Karpov.
Mar-09-09  ughaibu: Chessbase give the same score and the same result.
Jun-22-16  KingG: The score is wrong (obviously). Black played 34...Rg7 (which explains the apparent 'blunder' by White later on).

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