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George MacDonnell vs Cecil De Vere
10th BCA Congress, 4th Challenge Cup, London (1872), London ENG, Jun-18
Italian Game: Italian Variation (C50)  ·  0-1

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Dec-27-12
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  Honza Cervenka: Lucky win for black as white missed a few forced wins in the course of this epic battle. 41...Kh5 was a mistake (41...Kf5! was better) which could have cost black the game after 42.Ne4! Kh6 (42...Qxd4 43.Ng3+, 44.Nf5+ and 45.Rg5#) 43.Ng3! Qd3 44.Rg4! and black has no satisfactory defense against threatening 45.Bg7#. Another beautiful winning shot was 46.f5+! Kh5 (46...Kxg5 47.h4+! Kxh4 48.Bf6+ Kh5 49.Rh7#; 46...Kh6 47.h4 ) 47.Ne6 Qd2+ 48.Kh3 etc. Then white let black slip off the hook but he got another chance to win the game after careless 57....Qd2+?? (57...Ke7! was correct) when after text continuation he could have played 59.Bc3! instead of 59.Kg4(?) with threats like 60.Rf8+ Ke7 61.Bf6+ Kd7 62.Rd8# or 60.Ng5+ Ke7 61.f6+ Kd7 62.Rd8+ Kxd8 63.Nf7+ (or 62.f7). Another missed chance to win for white was 61.Ng5 with unstoppable march of f-Pawn. Of course, white could still make easy draw after that with 65.Bg7+ Ke7 66.Bf8+ etc. and he could also put up much tougher resistance with 66.Ng5! Ke7! 67.Rc8 b5 68.Ne4 etc.
Feb-06-24
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  MissScarlett: Have added the <Field> of July 13th 1872 as the Source, albeit the score there terminates at move 67 with <And after a few more moves White resigned.> The move repetition <51.Rf6+ Kh7 52.Rf7+ Kh6> is also omitted.

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