[Event "Biel (open)"] [Site "?"] [Date "1986.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Summermatter, Daniel"] [Black "Kaenel, Hansjuerg"] [Result "0-1"] [BlackElo "2230"] [Annotator "Rogers,Ian"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "5rk1/pp4pn/2p3r1/3p2Pp/3PpP1q/4P2P/PPR1QN1K/4R3 b - - 0 23"] [PlyCount "21"] [EventDate "1986.??.??"] [SourceTitle "148 Article by Rogers"] [Source "Chess Informant"] [SourceDate "2021.06.19"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2021.06.19"] [SourceQuality "2"] {[%evp 0,9,-192,-284,-313,-326,-538,-569,-569,-557,-557,-557] Diagram [#]} { [%tqu "En","","","","g6g5","",10]} 23... Rxg5 $1 {[%mdl 2752]} 24. fxg5 Nxg5 { [%CAl Rg5f3,Rh4h3]} 25. Rh1 {[%tqu "En","","","","f8f2","",10]} Rxf2+ $1 { [%CAl Rh4h3,Rg5f3][%mdl 704]} 26. Qxf2 Qxh3+ 27. Kg1 Nf3+ 28. Qxf3 Qxf3 29. Rf2 {[%tqu "En","","","","f3e3","",10]} Qxe3 {[%mdl 704]} 30. Rxh5 Qe1+ 31. Kg2 { [%tqu "En","","","","e4e3","",10]} e3 {[%mdl 128]} 32. Rf3 Qd2+ 33. Kg3 e2 0-1 [Event "Biel"] [Site "?"] [Date "1986.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Rogers, Ian"] [Black "Kortschnoj, Viktor"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2515"] [BlackElo "2650"] [Annotator "Rogers,Ian"] [SetUp "1"] [FEN "3Q4/5p2/4p3/4k3/5p1P/P1P1qP2/3p2PK/8 w - - 0 82"] [PlyCount "7"] [EventDate "1986.??.??"] [SourceTitle "148 Article by Rogers"] [Source "Chess Informant"] [SourceDate "2021.06.19"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2021.06.19"] [SourceQuality "2"] {[%evp 0,7,-72,-49,-82,-44,0,0,29999,-30000] Having been invited to the Grandmaster group, and keen to avoid a repeat of my poor performance in 1984, my thoughts were far away from the Torero that year. In a field with Polugaevsky, Korchnoi, Huebner, Miles, Hort and Nunn - an average pre-inflation rating over 2530! - I was just hoping to achieve a 50% score. That task became immeasurably easier thanks to the following infamous game. In this position the game was adjourned for the third time. (For younger readers, in the era before computers, players were given a break for food and/or sleep after a certain number of hours and resumed the game at a later time.) During overnight analysis I came to the tentative conclusion that, thanks to an improbable, one piece counter-attack over the past dozen moves, White probably had enough counterplay to draw. Korchnoi, however, was sure he was winning. (He had beaten me in our two previous meetings.) The game was resumed at 9am on a Friday morning, the two of us arriving to conduct the game's last rites in a near-empty Biel Kongresshaus. I had raced away from breakfast with Cathy and Darryl Johansen at the Hotel Posta, my final comment being: "If I can keep checking, I'll draw. If he escapes the checks, he wins." My sealed move emerged from the adjournment envelope as} {[%tqu "En","","","","d8a5","and within a minute we had bashed out the moves",10]} 82. Qa5+ {and within a minute we had bashed out the moves} Kd6 {[%tqu "En","","","","c3c4","",10]} 83. c4 $1 {[%CAl Ra5d8,Gd8d1][%mdl 192]} Qd4 {(played with a confident air)} 84. Qd8+ {Diagram [#]} Kc5 $4 (84... Ke5 85. Qa5+ Kd6 (85... Kf6 86. Qg5#) 86. c5+ (86. Qb4+) 86... Qxc5 87. Qxd2+ $11) {[%tqu "En","","","","d8c7","# Korchnoi smiled at his own stupidity and confounded his reputation as a poor loser by acting as the perfect gentleman and analysing the adjourned position with me, soon concluding that it had, after all, been just a draw as 83...Ke7 can be answered by 84.Qc7 Kf6 85.Qa5! Less than 15 minutes after I had left, I returned to the Hotel Posta to find Cathy and Johansen still at breakfast. 'He avoided the checks,' I said mournfully, pulling the longest face I could manage in the circumstances. However the truth soon came out. The Hotel Posta's bread roll and jam breakfast - which on alternate days would change to jam and bread roll - never tasted so sweet.",10]} 85. Qc7# {[%csl Rb6,Rc4,Rc6, Rd6][%CAl Ra3b4,Rc7c5,Rc4b5,Rc4d5] # Korchnoi smiled at his own stupidity and confounded his reputation as a poor loser by acting as the perfect gentleman and analysing the adjourned position with me, soon concluding that it had, after all, been just a draw as 83...Ke7 can be answered by 84.Qc7 Kf6 85.Qa5! Less than 15 minutes after I had left, I returned to the Hotel Posta to find Cathy and Johansen still at breakfast. "He avoided the checks," I said mournfully, pulling the longest face I could manage in the circumstances. However the truth soon came out. The Hotel Posta's bread roll and jam breakfast - which on alternate days would change to jam and bread roll - never tasted so sweet.} 1-0
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