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Patrice Danzanvilliers vs Michael John Read
3rd North Atlantic C.C. Team Tournament (1992) (correspondence), corr
Italian Game: Scotch Gambit. Max Lange Attack Long Variation (C55)  ·  0-1

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  Sally Simpson: From Mike Read's; 'My 120 Selected Correspondence Games.' you can the page from the book view this here It is MR057 at https://mikereadsim.weebly.com/anno....

This game is also annotated in 'Memorable Games of British Chess' (No.75) by Neil Hickman.

The argument was about Black's 14th move...Bb6 instead of the standard 14...g6. Black thought he would like to keep his dark square Bishop.

Here (Black is about to play 40...Qxd1)


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Neil writes; "Stockfish insists that the prosaic 40...Qf2 is better. No chessplayer with a soul is going to agree."

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