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Missed Brilliancy

Sznapik – Bhend

Bath 1973

White to play

The game continued 19 Bh4 g5 20 Bxg5 fxg5 21 Rh3 and White won in a few moves.

Can you do better?

Aleksander Sznapik

[Event "EU-chT (Men) 05th"]  [Site "Bath"]  [Date "1973.07.09"]  [Round "4.7"]  [White "Sznapik, Aleksander"]  [Black "Bhend, Edwin"]  [Result "1-0"]  [ECO "B53"]  [WhiteElo "2345"]  [BlackElo "2315"]  [PlyCount "51"]  [EventDate "1973.07.06"]  [EventType "team"]  [EventRounds "7"]  [EventCountry "ENG"]  [Source "ChessBase"]  [SourceDate "1999.07.01"]  [WhiteTeam "Poland"]  [BlackTeam "Switzerland"]  [WhiteTeamCountry "POL"]  [BlackTeamCountry "SUI"]   1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Qxd4 Bd7 6. Bxc6 Bxc6 7. Nc3 e6 8.  Bg5 Nf6 9. O-O-O Be7 10. Rhe1 O-O 11. e5 dxe5 12. Qh4 (12. Nxe5 Qa5 13. Qh4  Rad8 14. Ng4 Rxd1+ 15. Rxd1 Nxg4 16. Bxe7 Re8 17. Qxg4 Rxe7 18. f3 h6 19. Qf4  Re8 20. a3 Rd8 21. Rxd8+ Qxd8 22. b4 a6 23. a4 Qb6 24. Kb2 e5 25. Qc4 Bd7 26.  a5 Qd6 27. Ne4 Qg6 28. g4 Bc6 29. h3 h5 30. Qd3 f6 31. c4 hxg4 32. hxg4 Qf7 33.  b5 axb5 34. cxb5 Bd5 35. Nc3 Be6 36. Qd6 Kh7 37. b6 {1-0 (37) Ghaem Maghami,E  (2556)-Sasikiran,K (2680) Sharjah 2014}) 12... Qc7 13. Nxe5 Rfe8 14. Rd3 Nd5  15. Rg3 Rac8 16. Nxd5 Bxd5 17. Re2 Qd8 18. Qh6 f6 19. Bh4 g5 20. Bxg5 fxg5 21. Rh3  Rxc2+ 22. Rxc2 Be4 23. Qxe6+ Kg7 24. Qf7+ Kh8 25. Ng6+ Bxg6 26. Qxg6 1-0

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