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Arthur Garwood Ashbrook vs Edward LaCroix
54th US Open (1953), Milwaukee, WI USA, Aug-??
King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation. Classical System Misc. Lines (E98)  ·  0-1

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Sep-17-14
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  Phony Benoni: Having annotated quite a few games for publication, I well know the feeling when a reader points out a Blunder in the Notes. And not just buried eight moves deep in sub-sub-sub-sub variation 13(k) of line XIV. No, it usually happens on the simples, most obvious comment of the entire game.

John W. Collins provides an example here (Chess Life, January 20, 1954, p.8). After <14....c6>:


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He wrote: "<Threatening to win the queen with 15...Qb6+ 16.Kh1 Nf2+>">

Maybe I'm wrong, but that doesn't look like Black's threat to me.

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