Working hard or hardly working

I am a little bit reticent about showing this game. While it has some historical interest, in that Ian Hosking and myself have been playing against each other for 30 years, the quality of the play isn't that great.
For the last few times we have played, I have used the Closed Sicilian, but for old times sake I went back to the Grand Prix Attack, which I used a lot 20 years ago. The only problem with it is that it no longer works as well as it did, as most Sicilian players have worked out what to do against it. And so it was in this game, where my bold pawn sacrifice just left me down a pawn. Then to compound matters I got my bishop trapped and all I had were some cheap tricks based on hitting the Black queen. However Ian miscalculated a combi starting with Nxg4 and I suddenly had some chances to salvage something from the wreckage. Nonetheless it still took some bad moves from both sides to end up in a drawn position. Along the way we both missed wins (29 .. Kg8, 31.Kf2) so a draw might have been a fair result, although 0-0 (the score, not the move) would have been more accurate.


Press,Shaun - Hosking,Ian [B23]
University Cup, 17.03.2015

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 g6 3. f4 Bg7 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bc4 Nc6 6. d3 d6 7. O-O O-O 8. f5 gxf5 9. Qe1 fxe4 10. dxe4 Bg4 11. Qg3 Qd7 12. h3 Bxf3 13. Rxf3 Kh8 14. Bf4 Nh5 15. Qh4 Nxf4 16. Rxf4 Ne5 17. Bb5 Qe6 18. Qe1 c4 19. Nd5 Rac8 20. Rf5 a6 21. Nf4 Qh6 22. Qf2 e6 23. Rh5 Qf6 24. g4 Nxg4 25. hxg4 Qxb2 26. Rd1 Rc5 27. g5 Qxb5 28. Qh4 h6 29. Rxh6+ Bxh6 30. Qxh6+ Kg8 31. Nxe6 fxe6 32. Qg6+ Kh8 33. Qh6+ Kg8 1/2-1/2