This game was played a long time ago and I was in an extremely manic mood at the time. After the game I tried running it through two chess engines I had and they gave completely different opinions. More recently I tried again with several free engines plugged into Fritz and again, they were coming up with different opinions on the sac and the subsequent moves. It isn't a particularly good game, but maybe that is why the engines are puzzled 😀
Header
EVENT
Glasgow Congress
SITE
?
DATE
1993.11.07
ROUND
4
WHITE
Davies
BLACK
Little
RESULT
1-0
WHITEELO
1465
BLACKELO
1580
ECO
A01
EVENTDATE
1993.??.??
PGN
[Event "Glasgow Congress"] [Site "?"] [Date "1993.11.07"] [Round "4"] [White "Davies"] [Black "Little"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A01"] [WhiteElo "1465"] [BlackElo "1580"] [PlyCount "107"] [EventDate "1993.??.??"] 1. b3 {I spent 5 minutes trying to decide to play e4 or d4. Then I looked down and did a double-take. "Who the hell moved my b-pawn?!" Oh, it was me. Damn.} e5 2. Bb2 Nc6 3. e3 d6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Bb5 Bd7 6. Nf3 a6 7. Be2 Bf5 8. O-O Qd7 9. d3 O-O-O 10. e4 Be6 11. d4 exd4 12. Nxd4 {Somehow I've gotten a decent position out of that. I was feeling quite chuffed. And my friends also told me around this point I seemed to start going crazy, pacing up and down at very high speed and only sitting down for about 5-10 seconds to play my moves} Rg8 13. Re1 Kb8 14. Nxe6 fxe6 15. a3 e5 16. b4 Nd4 17. Bc4 Rh8 18. a4 g5 19. b5 a5 20. Nd5 Nxd5 21. Bxd5 Bg7 22. Qd2 g4 23. Re3 {Here I came up with a mad idea for a sacrifice, but didn't think it would work.... unless my opponent played a specific move. How could I determine if he would play the move I wanted? By testing him! And this was the bizarre test my demented mind came up with. Offer the exchange out of nowhere and see if he takes it. If he doesn't then my sac will work!} h5 {My opponent looked really puzzled. He looked at me and I was told afterwards I was grinning madly and my eyes were bulging. So he played a safe move and I knew I could win!} 24. Qxa5 Nxc2 25. Rc3 Nxa1 26. Rxc7 Qxc7 {I was absolutely convinced at the time that Nb3 refuted the combination, but I'm now not so sure. And this is the bit where the chess engines really diverge, so I really don't know.} 27. b6 Qe7 28. Qa7+ Kc8 29. Bc6 bxc6 30. Qxe7 Rd7 31. Qe6 Rhd8 32. a5 Nc2 33. Qb3 Nd4 34. Bxd4 exd4 35. a6 Kb8 36. Qc4 d3 {This was the first move since move 23 which I hadn't expected. I have never calculated anything so long in my life before or since, although to be fair it is mostly a straight line with very few alternatives. d3 is losing. His position wasn't great, but a long way from lost until he played this.} 37. Qxc6 d2 38. a7+ Rxa7 39. bxa7+ Kxa7 40. Qa4+ Kb7 41. Qb4+ Kc7 42. Qxd2 Rb8 43. g3 {And at this point all the energy drained out of me and I ended up making a meal of finishing the game} Kd7 44. Qd5 Ke7 45. Qg5+ Bf6 46. Qxh5 Rb4 47. Qxg4 d5 48. Qe2 Rxe4 49. Qd3 Rd4 50. Qf5 Rd1+ 51. Kg2 d4 52. h4 d3 53. h5 d2 54. Qc2 1-0
