My Most Unusual Game
The reason I call this my most unusual game is because the moves were identical to those of a game I had played some five years previously.
Both of my opponents were graded in the high 130s. The first game was played in the Stevenson against Chislehurst in 1984 and the second in the London Business House League in 1989.
Both of my opponents made the same bad moves and ended up being mated on move 12. When the team captain checked my clock in the second game he found that I had used less than 2 minutes of my time to my opponent’s 24 minutes.
I was playing the White pieces and the game went as follows, the opening was a variation of the two knights defence known as the Fegatello or more commonly the Fried Liver!
For two experiences club players to make exactly the same mistakes in a competition game is very unusual and I doubt it will ever happen to me again.
Jack Hollands