Thursday, 22 February 2024

Lost scoresheets

 The flipside to yesterday's post on Found Scoresheets, are lost scoresheets. Sometimes they legitimately disappear, but in some case, they are "lost" because looking at them is somewhat painful. 

As an example, the scoresheet for the game below was "lost" for a number of days. Having collected an undeserved point*, and generally unhappy with the course of the game, I couldn't locate the scoresheet the next day. To be honest, I didn't look terribly hard for it either, and assumed it had gone out with the rubbish. In fact it was where I normally put my scoresheets after a game (in my bag), but it took me a week to realise this. So here is a "lost scoresheet" game, with apologies to my opponent.

*My opponent left a knight fork on at the end, and resigned due to not realising he was still winning.



Knight,Will - Press,Shaun [C27]
Rama Memorial --- (3), 13.02.2024

Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nxe4 4. Bxf7+ Kxf7 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Qf3+ Kg8 7. Ng5 Qd7 8. d3 h6 9. N5h3 Bc5 10. Be3 Bb6 11. Ne2 Nc6 12. a3 Qd6 13. c4 Be6 14. Rc1 e4 15. Qg3 Qxg3 16. hxg3 Bxe3 17. fxe3 dxc4 18. Nef4 Bxh3 19. Nxh3 cxd3 20. Nf2 Kh7 21. Rh4 Rhe8 22. Kd2 Nd4 23. Rxc7 Ne6 24. Rxb7 Nc5 25. Rc7 Rab8 26. b4 Ne6 27. Rc4 a5 28. Rcxe4 axb4 29. Rxb4 Ra8 30. a4 Nc5 31. Rhc4 Rac8 32. Nxd3 Red8 33. Rd4 Rxd4 34. exd4 Ne4+ 35. Ke3 Nxg3 36. a5 Nf5+ 37. Kf4 Ne7 38. a6 Nd5+ 0-1

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