1979-10-01 - Hooker, S 0-1 Mordue, Tyson
Coffee-house chess. White blunders in a King's Gambit and his King takes a long walk unaided.
[Event "BRISTOL LEAGUE DIV 1"] [Site "?"] [Date "1979.10.01"] [Round "?"] [White "Hooker, S"] [Black "Mordue, Tyson"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "C34"] [Annotator "Doe,John"] [PlyCount "42"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d6 4. Bc4 Nc6 5. d4 g5 {(which I gave an ?! to but Deep Rybka thinks that it is okay)} 6. h4 Be7 $6 {The engine gives 6...Na5 and 6...g4 which I didn't like after 7 Ng5 although 7...Nh6 8 Bxf4 Bg7 is playable albeit with advantage to White.} 7. hxg5 Bxg5 8. g3 $2 {Remarkably Deep Rybka doesn't like this move, preferring 8 Nc3 and 8 Qd3. At the time it looked like a good move and I thought that I was lucky to have a resource. The engine goes from +0.4 to -0.26 .Black's next is definitely okay. In fact he now has a lead in development!} Bg4 9. gxf4 {It turns out that what I thought was a better move 9 Bxf4 is poor after 9...Bxf4 10 gxf4 Qf6 simply winning the d4 or f4 Pawn. If 11 f5 then 11...Nxd4 12 Qxd4 Bxf3. This actually looks like a hypermodern success!} Bh4+ 10. Rxh4 $4 {An extraordinary blunder from someone graded 180+. I can only assume he was expecting 10...Qxh4+ 11 Nxh4 Bxd1 12 Kxd1 Nxd4 with two pieces for a Rook and Pawn with a messy position. Deep Rybka says after 13 Be3 White is better to the tune of 1.77. The engine also says that 10 Kf1 is about level but that 10 Ke2, which Steinitz may have chosen, is nearly -1. It goes on with the odd variation 10...f5!? 11 exf5 d5 12 Bb5 Qf6. Interesting at least.} Bxf3 {One very shocked University board 1 and Mordue an Exchange and a Pawn up after just 12 moves.} 11. Qxf3 Qxh4+ 12. Kd1 Nxd4 13. Qe3 $2 {The engine says that 13 Qg2 was better but after 13...Nf6 Black is +3 and it feels like much more after ....Rg8 arrives.} Qh1+ 14. Kd2 Qh2+ 15. Kc3 {After 15 Be2 Black is happy to take once on e2 with 15...Nxd4 and then play 16...Qxf4+ and White has lost a second Pawn. After the text Deep Rybka says it is mate in 12 after 16 Kb4 and mate in 10 in the game continuation.} Qxc2+ 16. Kxd4 c5+ {And now it says mate in six! I wonder what it missed.} 17. Kd5 Ne7+ {Apparently Deep Rybka found 17...Nf6+ 18.Kxd6 Qxc4 19.Qb3 Qd4+ 20.Qd5 0-0-0+ 21.Ke7 Nxd5+ 22.exd5 Rd7 mate instead, which is not quite as much fun as chasing the King to the back rank and trying to play ... 0-0 mate.} (17... Nf6+ 18. Kxd6 Qxc4 19. Qb3 Qd4+ 20. Qd5 O-O-O+ 21. Ke7 Nxd5+ 22. exd5 Rd7#) 18. Kxd6 Qxc4 19. f5 f6 {Cutting out the flight square on e5. Obviously 19 Ke5 Qe6 was immediate mate. Now White makes a sensible developing move but it does nothing for the hilarious position of his King.} 20. Nc3 Rd8+ 21. Kc7 Rd7+ {White now resigned because of 22 Kb8 0-0+(!) 23 Kxa7 Qa6 mate." There is also 22 Kb8 Qa6 threatening 23...0-0 mate, but after 23 Qh6 I'm going to have to play 23...Kf7+ 24 Qf8 Rxf8 mate.} 0-1
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